❄️ Just Winter - The Arctic Awakening Update

Welcome to the biggest update yet for Just Winter! This update introduces a complete progression questbook, major gameplay balance overhauls, a dynamic blizzard system, and massive new content mods.

📜 Questline & Progression

• Full FTB Quests System: Added a custom, 25-quest storyline guiding you through early-game frost survival, culinary warmth, Create trains, and epic mythical boss encounters.
• Balanced Progression: Rewards and milestones designed to help you survive without getting stuck in early-game death loops.

❄️ Climate & Survival Balance

• Reworked Hypothermia: Freezing to death has been disabled! Severe cold now inflicts heavy slowness and fatigue, making frostbite dangerous and frantic rather than frustrating.
• Dynamic Creeping Winter (Custom Datapack): Scheduled snowstorms now strike every 7 minutes, slowly burying the terrain in real snowdrifts over time.
• Permanent Winter Climate: Locked seasonal winter progression so you truly experience an endless ice age.
• Snow Real Magic Integration: Snow now accumulates in realistic layers across fences, slabs, trees, and buildings.

⚔️ New Adventures & World Generation

• Aquamirae Added: Explore cursed frozen oceans, discover deep-sea shipwrecks, brave the Ice Maze, and challenge Captain Cornelia!
• CTOV (ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village): Massive, breathtaking winter village variants designed to fit the arctic aesthetic.
• Fauna & Wildlife: Added Snow Leopards (Animal Garden), and expanded prehistoric tundra creatures.
• Culinary Arts: Added Let's Do: Bakery, Farm & Charm, and Festive Delight for hearty warm soups, wood-fired bread, and sweets.

🚂 Engineering & Travel

• Create: Steam 'n Rails: Build true industrial locomotives with custom smokeboxes, locometal boilers, and bogeys.
• Create: Aeronautics (Bundled): Build flying airships to soar over icy mountain peaks!
• Paxi Datapack Loader: Ensures all custom climate and weather datapacks load automatically on every new world generation.

⚡ Performance & Engine Overhaul

• Sodium & Iris Engine: Completely migrated from Embeddium/Rubidium to modern Sodium + Iris on NeoForge 1.21.1 for buttery-smooth FPS and shader support.
• Included Shaders: Shaderpacks are now bundled directly in the pack (disabled by default, toggleable in Video Settings).
• Updated Core Mods: Updated Create (6.0.10), Ice and Fire (2.1-beta.1), Supplementaries (4.0.2), Sophisticated Backpacks, ModernFix, and JEI to their latest stable releases.