THE SEQUEL UPDATE

• Added the Particle Rain mod for better looking weather
• Removed Debugify as it removes useful Minecraft bugs, but it may return in the future
• Removed the More Chat History mod since it's not very useful
• Added the Inventory Blur mod for a subtle blur when opening the inventory
• Replaced the Simple Music Control mod with the Music Delay Reducer mod
• Removed Configured since it seems to be a server side mod
• Removed Fancy Block Particles Renewed due to performance issues on lower end devices
• Removed the Sounds mod since the UI sounds were kinda annoying
• Added Controlling, which adds a search bar to the key binds menu
• Added the Highlight mod, which simply fixes issues with the block highlighting
• Added the Disable Custom Worlds Advice mod, which gets rid of the warning when opening a world with experiments enabled
• Added Status Effect Bars, which adds a progress bar to status effects
• Added the Backported Clouds resource pack, which adds the new clouds from the latest snapshot into 1.21.4
• Added FancyMenu to overhaul the game's menus, including the pause menu, options menu, pause menu, and a few more, with new tooltips and transitions
• Changed Miniature Shader's settings to look more vanilla, for like the billionth time now
• Replaced Complimentary Reimagined shaders with the Visual Vibrance shader, which is an awesome recreation of Bedrock Edition's new Vibrant Visuals

THE PARTICLE PATCH

• Added Particle Tweaks for even better looking vanilla particles, and tweaked to be compatible with Particular
• Added Particle Core, which makes it so particles that can't be seen aren't rendered, which can heavily improve performance with all the particle mods there are
• Tweaked the Miniature Shader slightly

THE EYE CANDY UPDATE

• Tweaked the VanillaTweaks pack ever-so-slightly
• Configured Exordium so the F3 screen doesn't appear as laggy
• Changed Miniature Shader's settings to make water more reflective and make the shadows pixel perfect
• Added ThreatenGL to make Minecraft run using OpenGL 4.6 instead of 3.2, which can sometimes boost performance for lower-end devices
• Added the Eating Animations resource pack for, well, eating animations
• Added Shaded Font for an overall nicer default font
• Added Enchantment Level Language Patch to make enchantments above supported levels display properly instead of "enchantment.level.XX"

THE EASE OF ACCESS UPDATE

• Removed Explosive Enhancement as it didn't fit with Fire Rekindled's explosion particles
• Tweaked the Miniature shader to make the lighting more blue during the night
• Added Exordium to make the GUI run at a lower framerate to allow for more performance in gameplay
• Added ModernFix for a few more performance upgrades, such as dynamic resource loading
• Added More Chat History to, well... add more chat history
• Updated the VanillaTweaks pack to slightly change a few things
• Added Configured for more options for worlds
• Added Better Advancements for improved UI/UX of the advancement screen, and holding shift while hovering over an advancement shows more info
• Added Better Statistics screen for a much cleaner statistics screen
• Added Dynamic Crosshair and tweaked it to be more subtle
• Added AmbientSounds so you aren't always sitting in silence

THE MASSIVE MINIATURE UPDATE

• Added a mod simply titled "Sounds" to add small sounds to the UI, but I've tweaked it so it isn't super annoying
• Replaced BVS with Miniature, a much better shader with tons more functionality and better performance in a way, I've configured it to look as vanilla as possible too
• Disabled dynamic handheld lighting for Sodium Dynamic Lights as Miniature provides better dynamic handheld lighting
• Removed Icons Advertisement Removal as it wasn't actually necessary lol
• Added Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (C2M) to improve world generation even further alongside Noisium
• Not sure if I mentioned this in the previous version when it was added, but added Polytone for better Optifine resource pack support
• Added Legendary Tooltips for much better looking tooltips, and configured it to be more subtle
• Tweaked BetterF3 to include GPU usage in the F3 menu
• Removed unecessary config files from the pack to hopefully lower the file size a bit
• I might've configured a few other settings or mods, but I forgot what I changed lmao

On an unrelated note, I've been playing around with Distant Horizons, and it MIGHT make a comeback if I manage to make it performant enough. AND, if all the mods in the pack are eventually updated to 1.21.5, I might be able to update the pack to 1.21.5.

THE LEGACY AND LIGHT UPDATE

• Removed Genesis shader as it wasn't compatible with Wakes and Particular
• Updated the VanillaTweaks pack with some slight new changes
• Removed the Basically Vanilla Logo resource pack since its pretty useless
• Added Faithful 32x as an optional resource pack for nostalgic purposes
• Added Programmer Art Continuation Project as an optional pack for people who like the old look of Minecraft
• Tweaked the Wakes mod to make wakes look better
• Changed Complimentary Reimagined's settings to enable integrated PBR and colored lighting (this may cause performance issues on lower end devices)
• Removed Distant Horizons as it caused performance issues

THE COLOR GRADING PATCH

• Fixed color grading for Complimentary Reimagined because I forgot to enable it lmao

THE VIBRANT VISUAL UPDATE

• Replaced BDS shader with BVS for a better look
• Tweaked Complimentary Reimagined to look more like Minecraft's new Vibrant Visuals
• Disabled Motschen's Better Leaves by default due to performance issues on lower end devices
• Added Angel's Weather as a default resource pack for much better weather sounds and visuals
• Added Better Clouds and tweaked them to look slightly more vanilla like
• Tweaked Wakes to look more consistent across different shaders
• Removed Simple Voice Chat
• Removed No Chat Reports due to issues with chatting in multiplayer

THE SUPER SHINE UPDATE

• (hopefully) Fixed issue with modpack being called "Basically Vanilla (dev)" lmao
• Added Lithium because it wasn't added before for some reason
• Disabled Distant Horizions by default to increase performance slightly
• Added Genesis shaders for people who want to re-create the alpha Minecraft look
• Added Better Default Shaders and enabled them by default, as they are almost identical to vanilla lighting
• Added Advancement Plaques so advancements feel more special
• Added Chat Heads
• Added Explosive Enhancement to make explosions feel more cinematic
• Added Particle Interactions for even more in game particles, because I guess there wasn't enough already
• Added Resourcify, which allows shaders and resource packs to be updated and installed in game
• Added Simple Voice Chat for voice chat functionality in multiplayer
• Tweaked other mods to make them look more visually appealing

THE FAR LANDS UPDATE

• Added Distant Horizons
• Tweaked settings slightly
• Removed Rethinking Voxels shader
• Removed Fresh Font from resource packs

THE UPDATE THAT TRANSFORMED EVERYTHING

• Updated many different outdated mods to fix various bugs and compatibility issues
• Added Better Third Person for a full 360 degree 3rd person camera
• Fixed issues with Essential settings and Controllify natives
• Added Fresh Animations and Fresh Moves as optional resource packs
• Added Debugified to fix miscellaneous Minecraft bugs
• Added a custom resource pack that replaces the main menu logo with the modpack's custom logo
• Updated the VanillaTweaks resource pack to change the menu panorama and to include the new unique spawn eggs from recent snapshots
• Enabled Motschen's Better Leaves by default
• Added Fresh Font as a new default resource pack
• Added Icons, Icons Advertisement Removal and Icons Additions as new default resource packs
• Added Rethinking Voxels and Vanilla Plus as new optional shaders
• Added Wakes to improve water wakes/ripples
• Added Smooth GUI, Smooth HUD, Smooth Scrolling and Immersive UI to significantly improve the game's overall GUI

THE ESSENTIAL PATCH

• Updated Essential
• If your keyboard has numpad, you can now use the numpad buttons to play different Essential emotes

THE SLEEK AND SEAMLESS UPDATE

• Added 3D Skin Layers to make skins look cooler 😎
• Added Essential Mod
• Added Superflat World No Slimes to remove those pesky slimes in superflat worlds
• Added Continuity for connected texture support

THE FOUNDATION UPDATE

• Modified the VanillaTweaks resource pack
• Added Complimentary Shaders Reimagined as an optional shader pack
• Fixed issues with Fancy Block Particles
• Added Controlify for controller support
• Added Noisium, FerriteCore, and Sodium Extra to improve optimisation further
• Changed other mod config

THE RELEASE UPDATE

• Modpack released