Beta Continued

Forge, Mods, Resources & Data:

• Revised & rebuilt modpack
• Overhauled custom resource system (compressed, optimized, and cached resources)
• Overhauled custom data system
• Overhault backend scripting system
• Added "Clay Soldiers" mod & customized accordingly
• Added "Secret Doors" mod & customized accordingly
• Added "Simplest Hammers" mod & customized accordingly
• Added "Simplest Excavators" mod & customized accordingly
• Added "Simplest Copper Gear" mod & customizer accordingly
• Added a few non content but helpful client and server mods
• Added a few backend mods for backend development
• Substituted a few mods with similar alternatives
• Updated outdated mods
• Many optimizations and performance improvements

Audio & Visual:

• Finalized world, biome, sky, and fog colors
• Adjusted fog density and distance for accuracy
• Adjusted visual attack speed for a handful of items
• Adjusted shaders for accuracy
• Changed textures for many blocks, items, and interfaces
• Changed a handful of items to have their beta orientations
• Changed a handful of items to have their beta world sizes
• Changed block outlines for a handful of blocks
• Revised sound and song pattern selection system
• Revised particle system and many particle textures
• Removed crouch transition animation
• Removed FML loading screen and indication
• More that I probably forgot to write down as I did them, but those are the most notable

Gameplay, Items & Logic:

The whole modpack was rebuilt, but in comparison here are the most notable changes to gameplay:

• Custom attributes for Aether and a handful of Twilight Forest content (please give feedback so I can properly balance these)
• Multiplayer land claiming! Press M to view the land claiming map and protect your area. View Cadmus mod page for more information
• Twilight Forest item enchantments removed (handled with custom attributes)
• Revamped and revised structure generation
• Revamped and revised loot table generation
• Adjusted sprinting system
• Adjusted implementation of "Waystones" mod
• Adjusted mob spawn group sizes and locations
• Immersive Aircraft vehicle no longer work in the Twilight Forest
• Changed crafting recipes for a large handful of items
• Attempted recreation of a few old glitches and bugs
• All wood slab types function as stone (minus flammability)
• Leather armor is now dyeable again
• Squids drop ink sacs again, and inc sacs make black dye
• Added copper armor, and a copper sword
• Added back a handful of misc items and integrated them into other content, most notably:
  • Cats! Find them in Jungles
  • Copper Furnace
  • "Weat on a Stick" to control pigs with saddles again
  • Ender Chest as "Personal Vault"
  • Totem of Undying (found in ancient cities)
  • Ender Pearls as "Teleport Orb" (found in ancient cities)
  • Some "Deep Dark" related content (NO WARDEN YET)
• Reduced kelp spawn density
• Removed seagrass, and a few other misc world decoration blocks
• Removed smooth stone blocks, stone now crafts smooth stone slabs
• Removed path type blocks, and the ability to right click grass blocks with a shovel
• Removed recipes for base mossy blocks (still obtainable naturally)
• Removed single petrified slab block entry
• Removed whole wood blocks
• Removed coral related items
• Removed powdered snow
• Removed Twilight Forest hollow logs
• Removed Trials Mod Backport due to game breaking issues with world generation and loot tables
• Removed creative mode, and all support for creative mode entirely (I mean... it wasnt in Beta)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed issues causing world and game load times to be slower than they should have been
• Fixed sunrise/set horizon rendering. Enjoy a sunrise/set at any render distance!
• Fixed item names for a handful of items
• Fixed leaves not dropping when harvested with shears
• Fixed an issue that caused a handful of structures to not spawn
• Fixed biome temperatures
• Fixed bow texture animating in skeleton hands
• Fixed sounds for Twilight Forest mobs
• Fixed strange culling behaviour affecting entity render distances
• Fixed a icons displaying removed content
• Fixed a handful of items not having crafting recipes
• Fixed a handful of recipes not yielding the correct output
• Fixed stack sizes for a handful of food items (melons, cookies, white apples, etc)
• Fixed health values for a handful of items (mostly modded)
• Fixed modded curios equips having an equip sound
• Fixed strider spawn rates
• Fixed world loading bar not updating sometimes
• Fixed Aether enchanting & repairing not working in all cases
• Fixed a bug causing skins to not work
• Fixed instances of soul fire appearing in structures
• More that I probably forgot to write down as I did them, but those are the most notable

Planned future updates:

• Balance Aether & Twilight Forest bosses and content (I need testers and feedback and opinions!!!) (Also fix boat drops)
• Unify and use only one source for particle and sound modification, currently multiple (packs & Nostalgic Tweaks)
• Proper support for worlds that are not the default preset (structures, colors, textures)
• Make modded stairs and chests in inventory face classic orientation
• Revise leather and dye system, improvements to be made?
• Recode stairs drop base block script
• Remove all achievements and recreate the beta 1.7.3 achievement web
• Port "breakfree" mod to neoforge
• Change hardness for functional blocks properly
• Make wooden slabs not flammable properly
• Classic model matching for MISC modded blocks and items (Aether, Twilight Forest)
• Go through all recipes and fix the ones that have random entries, for example CC: Turtles
• Find proper solution for Blazes and Wither Skeletons
• Deep Aether Mod? / Aether Lost Content Mod?
• The return of the Warden and Wither, integrated properly into the Nether

Known issues / things that bother me / things I do not have a solution for:

• Spawners containing removed entities still generate (How do I swap the NBT data for existing spawners in the world) (BIGGEST ISSUE CURRENTLY PLS HELP)
• A very small handful of obejcts have recipes that are just random assortments of dyes that make zero sense
• Ambrosium shards play the eating animation when consumed
• Heart icons for mountable entities sometimes appear in the wrong position
• Cats do not originally spawn as ocelots that can be tamed and converted into cats
• My method of removing statistics is just blanking out the entry in the lang files
• Swet Banner and Ominous Banner still appear in REI menu
• Spam crouching in third person bugs out the camera a little
• A very small handful of objects with NBT may spawn from structures even though they are removed
• Effects UI overlaps with Curios UI in the inventory
• Raw death message "death.fell.accident.water" when falling from too high and dying in water