Desolate Planet - A Crash Landing Remake

1.8.0 is a fairly large update bringing the new Foundry structure, structure maps, sieving and hunger reworks, and a significant number of recipe changes. Thanks to ULSTICK for the incredible work on the structures and a variety of other improvements.

Highlights

• New Foundry City structure
• Structure maps can now be found in city loot tables, and lead you to the nearest structure of a given type
• Reworked sieving to give each sieved block a distinct niche and spread ores across different block types
• Adjusted hunger drain rate to make walking drain nearly as much hunger as sprinting
• Adjusted regen rates and allowed passive regen at lower hunger levels
• Added custom Tinkers’ Crook and Hammer tools
• Disabled zombie villager curing
• Nerfed Mob Grinding Utils recipes
• Nerfed torch mining

Full Changelog

World Changes:

• Added new Foundry City structure, a large Piglin city that has a chance to replace normal city generation. It contains a variety of foundry-related loot and is the new way to get scorched bricks. With the sieve rework (see below), it is now one of the only sources of ancient debris/netherite. (ULSTICK)
• Cities can now spawn with billboards and bus stops on the roads (ULSTICK)
  • Chests in these locations can spawn with maps to nearby structures, to help players find them more easily
• Changed which mobs spawn in which structures. This change is the first step towards some more significant biome changes that are in development.
  • The Oil Rig spawns mostly zombies, with moderate spawn rates of piglins, spiders, and skeletons
  • The Foundry spawns mostly piglins and some blazes, with smaller chances of skeletons, wither skeletons, and magma cubes
  • The Matter-Energy Research Lab spawns mostly zombies (mad scientist, villager, brute, and plague zombies), with moderate chance of witches, and tiny chances of lightning creepers, ninja skeletons, endermen, jolt blazes, and corrupted lunarians
  • The Nuclear Plant spawns mostly zombies (mad scientist, plague, villager, and giant zombies), with moderate chances of creepers, wither skeletons, and unholy ghasts
• Added randomly spawning ruins (ULSTICK)
• Added new city building (ULSTICK)
• Increase chance of presses spawning in AE2 structure
• Added Mutagenic/Tainted fertilizer to Nuclear Plant chests, see the Mob Grinding Utils section below for more information
• Adjusted drop rates in city smeltery chests

Survival Changes:

There are enough important changes in this area that I’m putting them in their own category.

• Adjusted rate of hunger loss from different actions. This new system makes it less punishing on sprinting and regen, but more punishing on normal movement. Players will have to eat more food on average but will need to worry less about sprinting to travel places. Regeneration is also tweaked to make high hunger values less necessary for regeneration.
  • Movement:
    • Sprinting hunger exhaustion per block left alone at 0.1
    • Swimming and walking in water hunger exhaustion exhaustion per block increased from 0.01 to 0.075
    • Walking, crouching, and climbing hunger exhaustion per block increased from 0 to 0.05
    • Flying and falling hunger exhaustion per block left alone at 0.0
    • Jumping:
      • Sprint jumping hunger exhaustion left alone at 0.2
      • Normal jumping hunger exhaustion increased from 0.05 to 0.1
  • Regeneration:
    • Halved hunger drain from regenerating health
    • Slow regen (when hunger bar is slightly drained)
      • Slow regen now requires a minimum of 7 hunger instead of a minimum of 18, meaning you will regenerate for much longer
      • Doubled rate of slow regen (now occurs every two seconds instead of every four seconds)
    • Fast regen (when hunger bar is completely full)
      • Halved rate of fast regen (now occurs once every second instead of twice every second)
• Water containers without purity tags will now have the default purity NBT added while in-inventory
  • This will fix most cases where the game crashes due to smelting untagged water buckets while I wait for Thirst to fix that bug (it seems like the authors are inactive so it may be a while)
  • This will fix some cases of infinite water exploits while I wait for my pull request on Ex Deorum to get approved
  • This fixes some cases of water bottles taken out of Thermal machines appearing with pink textures
  • As a side effect, water bottles without purity NBT will no longer stack with the ones already in-inventory when picked up and must be arranged after the pickup ends
• Falling blocks that land on partial blocks (like torches or slabs) now have a chance to break the block they land on. The chance is based on the partial block’s hardness, where blocks like torches will break instantly, but something harder like stone will have a reduced chance. This functionally disables torch-mining of dust and other falling blocks.
• Copied Ex Deorum config to default configs folder, allowing configured changes to properly show up in worlds. The following changes will only be present in newly created worlds; copy the file at /defaultconfigs/exdeorum-server.toml into your world’s serverconfig folder.
  • Ex Deorum sieving can now be performed by Create’s deployers and other fake players
  • Simultaneous sieving now only affects a 3x3 instead of a 5x5
  • Fake players are limited to sieving a 1x1
• It is now possible to pick up water with a glass bottle if you have four or more glass bottles in your hand. It will consume the water block and convert all four bottles into water bottles. With less than four in your hand, pickup is cancelled because it would waste water.
• Disabled Zombie Villager curing
  • Added tooltip to weakness potions and golden apples warning that zombie villager curing is disabled

Custom Items: (ULSTICK)

• Custom Tinker’s Crook Tool
  • Made from an adze head and two handles
  • Old crook recipes now create the Tinkers version with the appropriate materials
• Custom Tinker’s Crushing Hammer Tool
  • Made from a hammer head, tool binding, and handle
  • Old hammer recipes now create the Tinkers version with the appropriate materials
  • Compressed hammers have a new recipe
• Crumbling Scorched Bricks for Foundry buildings

Recipe Changes:

• Sieving has been thoroughly reworked, simplifying the rewards from each sifted block and requiring a greater variety of blocks to be sifted to get all materials. You will now need to sift most block types in order to get all materials.
  • Ore Categories
    • Metals
      • Very common:
        • Iron (from sifting all stone-based blocks)
      • Common:
        • Copper (from sifting all stone-based blocks but sand)
        • Gold (from sifting all stone-based blocks but sand)
      • Uncommon:
        • Tin (from sifting sand or gravel)
        • Zinc (from sifting sand or gravel)
        • Nickel (from sifting sand or gravel)
      • Rare:
        • Silver (from sifting gravel or crushed deepslate)
        • Lead (from sifting gravel or crushed deepslate)
      • Very rare:
        • Osmium (from sifting crushed deepslate, though the method may change when endgame changes come out)
        • Uranium (from sifting crushed deepslate, though the method may change when biome changes come out)
        • Cobalt (from sifting nether blocks, with a higher chance from crushed blackstone)
    • Gems/Nonmetals
      • Common:
        • Redstone (from sifting all stone-based blocks but sand)
      • Uncommon:
        • Coal (from sifting gravel)
        • Certus quartz (from sifting sand)
        • Quartz (from sifting sand or nether blocks)
      • Rare:
        • Lapis lazuli (from sifting crushed deepslate)
        • Diamond (from sifting crushed deepslate)
        • Emerald (from sifting crushed deepslate)
        • Amethyst (from sifting crushed deepslate)
        • Apatite (from sifting crushed deepslate)
  • Siftable Block Categories:
    • Stone-based: Stone-based blocks primarily drop ore chunks, some gems, and some misc ingredients based on their type.
      • Dust
      • Sand
      • Gravel
      • Crushed Deepslate
      • Red Sand
    • Dirt-based: Dirt-based blocks drop natural materials like seeds.
      • Dirt
      • Moss
      • Podzol
    • Nether: Nether blocks drop nether resources.
      • Crushed Netherrack
      • Crushed Blackstone
      • Soul Sand
    • End: End blocks drop end resources.
      • Crushed End Stone
  • Other sieving changes
    • Sifting dirt and podzol no longer drop saplings, instead dropping seeds for the plant that they become. These seeds turn into the corresponding plants when placed, so this change is mostly for cosmetics/immersion.
    • Ancient debris is now only found in loot chests and does not appear when sifting
    • Tooltips have been added to each siftable block clarifying what they can be sifted into and how they are made
    • Podzol and moss are part of the main sieving script and have slightly adjusted drop rates
    • Pebbles have been removed from all sieve results because each stone type is now craftable in other ways (see below)
    • Stone pebbles and flint become less common with higher mesh tiers instead of more common
    • Uranium chunks now craft into uranium clumps instead of ore, requiring Mekanism processing to refine
• Updated some recipes to balance sieving changes:
  • Sync cores are now crafted from lapis, diamonds, certus quartz, and an ender pearl
  • The Mob Imprisonment tool now costs an ender eye instead of a ghast tear
  • Building Gadgets recipes now require invar, ender pearls, and PCB segments
  • 16k and 64k AE2 storage components now cost redstone instead of glowstone
  • AE2 blank patterns now cost redstone instead of glowstone
• Many more stone types can be crafted, and some stone recipes have been updated for slightly more realism. If any geologists have suggestions for better recipes, feel free to let me know in the Discord.
  • Crafting:
    • Calcite from stone and bone meal
    • Tuff from stone and charcoal
    • Limestone is now made from calcite and stone (instead of extruding from honey)
    • Dripstone from calcite, stone, and clay
  • Extruding:
    • Scoria is now made from packed ice extruding over soul soil (instead of chocolate)
    • Limestone is now crafted, not extruded
  • Casting: (ULSTICK)
    • Asurine from casting water over prismarine
    • Veridium from casting earth slime over mossy cobblestone
    • Crimsite from casting redstone over tuff
    • Ochrum from casting honey over dripstone
• Mob Grinding Utils recipes have been rebalanced to make them less overpowered. More Mob Grinding Utils balancing is likely on the way and some items may eventually be fully removed for being too strong. Let me know your balancing opinions on the Discord.
  • Nutritious/Cursed Chicken feed are no longer craftable meaning golden/rotten eggs and delightful/dreadful dirt are not craftable either. Instead, you must find Mutagenic/Tainted Fertilizer in nuclear plant chests to make delightful/dreadful dirt.
  • Fans now require propellers, iron blocks, stone, and a redstone servo (ULSTICK)
  • Mob grinders now require a saw blade, machine frame, diamonds, and iron gears (ULSTICK)
  • Spikes now require iron and a compressed iron block (ULSTICK)
  • The absorption hopper now requires an extra ender eye and obsidian
  • The tank now requires compressed iron and iron bars
  • The jumbo tank now requires other modded tanks as well as atomic alloy and a PCB (ULSTICK)
  • The entity conveyer now requires a belt and some plastic
  • The entity spawner now requires an empty spawner, a machine frame, and ender eyes
  • Tinted glass now requires refined obsidian due to its explosion resistance
  • All upgrades require a redstone servo, some type of relevant alloy, and certain items relevant to the upgrade type
• Added some small Create/Ex Deorum compatibility recipes:
  • Most compressed blocks can now be crushed in a crushing wheel to make 9 of the crushed versions
  • Water can be haunted into witch water
  • Sand can be filled with witch water to make soul sand
  • Dust can be filled with water to make clay
• Ex Deorum hammer and crook recipes now create the new custom Tinkers variants
• Ex Deorum compressed hammers are now crafted from material storage blocks instead of nine hammers
• Ex Deorum hammering recipes now target block tags, allowing them to function with a wider range of blocks
• Added some Create mixing support for Thermal alloys
• Added some Thermal pressing support for Create and Create Deco sheets
• Flowers in a centrifuge now produce dye as well as water, fixing a recipe conflict that existed previously
• Updated some Industrial Foregoing recipes to avoid using vanilla tools
• Added advanced recipe for the nutrient brick in a dissolution chamber
• Removed a few soul fire blocks from haunting recipes
• Fixed conflicting Create belt recipes (ULSTICK)
• Fixed duplicate recipe for puncturing enchantment

Added Mods:

• Added Scarcity, a mod created for this modpack that allows tweaking of some survival-related options (see the Survival Changes section above for the changes this makes)
• Added Project Red (specifically core, transmission, and integration), allowing more complex redstone devices
• Another Furniture, for use in structures (ULSTICK)
• Updated Tinkers Construct; for more information, see the Tinkers’ 3.11.0 and 3.11.1 patch notes
• Updated 26 additional mods

Removed Mods:

• Removed Thirsty Bottles, Scarcity includes its functionality (see the Survival changes section above for the changes this makes)
• Removed Pehkui, it has not been in use for a long time
• Removed Polylib, it has also not been in use

Quest Changes:

• Reordered starting quests and added more quest information about where to get each type of ore
• The Crook and Hammer quests now require the new Tinkers variants (the old recipe create the Tinkers variants now)
• Added crashed controller requirement to the AE2 Salvage Operation quest
• Stillsuit quest now requires plastic quest to be complete
• Machine frame quest now allows other alloying quests to unlock it in cases where users make invar through the smeltery before opening the Create quest line
• Clarified wording in Salvage Operation quests
• Replaced Functional Storage quest rewards with Sophisticated Storage ones
• The Compressed Iron quest’s TNT task now allows other types of explosives as well as vanilla one

Visual Changes:

• Redesigned Sync textures and models (ULSTICK)
• Changed Golden/Rotten Eggs into Mutagenic/Tainted fertilizer, now found in Nuclear plants instead of crafted
• Changed delightful and dreadful dirt to have the correct dirt textures instead of large single-colored blocks underneath the grass layer (ULSTICK)
• Fixed world creation menu having a dirt background near the buttons (ULSTICK)
• Added some more information to item tooltips for clarity
• Set the Mob Grinding Utils Vanillafied resource pack to be enabled by default (only affects new installs though I recommend everyone enable it, it’s a major improvement)
• Improvements and more color variations for the upcoming ship chair block

Background Structure Changes:

• Changed License to CC BY-NC-SA, meaning you can copy, modify, and distribute any of the content in the modpack, as long as it’s credited and not for commercial use
• Moved to a new GitHub repo URL (pawjwp/Desolate-Planet) since MarkSDR has been inactive in the modpack’s development for almost a year.
• Removed some old data files that no longer did anything
• Changed namespace on some recipe IDs (ULSTICK)