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🧭 NovaHosting’s Exploration Pack — v1.1
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Release Type: Minor Update Minecraft Version: 1.20.1 (Forge) Date: (10/24/2025)
✨ Overview
This update focuses on stability, smoother rendering, and expanded exploration depth. Version 1.1 refines core systems introduced in v1.0, improves shader compatibility, and adds several backend optimizations for performance and weather visuals.
⚙️ Changes & Additions
🆕 New Additions
- Added Weather, Storms & Tornadoes (1.20.1-2.8.3) — dynamic storms, wind systems, and destructive tornado events for immersive survival realism.
- Added Async Particle & Performance Integration Fixes (custom configs added) — ensures Weather2 particles render correctly at distance.
- Added Create: Dimensions (1.0.4) — introduces dimension-based automation and multi-world Create expansion.
- Added Create: Applied Kinetics (1.5.1-1.20.1) — bridges Create automation with Applied Energistics 2 networks.
- Added Create: Nuclear (1.3.0) — adds advanced energy systems and late-game power generation for tech-based playstyles.
- Added Immersive Optimization (0.1.0+1.20.1) — extra performance tuning for rendering and entity handling.
- Added Super Duper Vanilla (1.3.8) — enhanced visual fidelity for vanilla environments.
- Added Diet (2.1.1+1.20.1) — introduces nutritional effects to survival balance.
- Added Bad Packets (forge-0.4.3) — internal library for mod compatibility and networking.
⚡ Performance Enhancements
- Introduced GPUBooster, Accelerated Rendering, and ImmediatelyFast for smoother frame pacing and chunk updates.
- Improved mod synergy between Embeddium, ModernFix, FerriteCore, and Noisium for lower memory usage.
- Added support for Sodium Dynamic Lights and Oculus shaders for improved visual smoothness.
- New async and particle config tuning prevents weather/particle lag spikes during exploration.
🧱 World & Gameplay Improvements
- Integrated Weather, Storms & Tornadoes into world generation (compatible with Regions Unexplored + Geophilic).
- Adjusted world progression pacing for early-mid game tech using Create’s nuclear and kinetic expansions.
- Expanded exploration variety through new ruins and atmospheric world effects.
🎮 Player Experience
- Polished sound design (AmbientSounds, ESF) and shader light blending (Aurora / Complementary / BSL).
- Reduced FPS stutter when moving through high-entity areas or large bases.
- Balanced mod dependencies for fewer startup warnings and improved memory footprint.
🧩 Removed or Replaced
- No major removals from 1.0.2. Minor redundant optimization entries were merged into unified configs.
- Backend dependency cleanup for consistency between Create submods.
💬 Summary
Version 1.0.2.1 marks the first stable, performance-tuned release of NovaHosting’s Exploration Pack. Weather realism, new Create expansions, and improved optimization make exploration smoother, faster, and more atmospheric than before.
Dependencies
ohmymeteors-1.0.0+1.20.1$structureplacerapi-1.1.6+1.20.1.jarAdded via overrides
ohmymeteors-1.0.0+1.20.1_mapped_srg_1.20.1.jarAdded via overrides
ohmymeteors-1.0.0+1.20.1$structureplacerapi-1.1.6+1.20.1_mapped_srg_1.20.1.jarAdded via overrides
ohmymeteors-1.0.0+1.20.1$particleanimationlib-0.1.2.jarAdded via overrides
ohmymeteors-1.0.0+1.20.1$particleanimationlib-0.1.2_mapped_srg_1.20.1.jarAdded via overrides
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October 24, 2025 at 10:49 PMPublisher

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