# One and Only is a biome overhaul mod made to breathe new life into your deserts (and badlands mildly). ![Zaytun and Flamepalm trees](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/609de2fbfb2d3315c041e53e19625dd7ead50992_0.webp) ### The Trees This mod introduces two NEW wood sets to change up your building palette: * **Zaytun:** These are short, stubby trees featuring a wood color that sits somewhere between black and prismarine. They come with elegant door and trapdoor designs! * **Flamepalm:** A bright yellow wood set that stands out in the desert, complete with tropical doors and trapdoors. ### Foods and Drinks This mod adds a variety of food items: * **Olives:** Harvested from Zaytun leaves (roughly one per ten leaves). You can turn these into olive oil, which is then used to craft functional olive oil lamps. * **Maryam Dates:** A new fruit that grows on Flamepalm trees, and funfact! it's a real world fruit grown in Medina, Saudi Arabia! * **Ajwa Dates:** These are the rare, golden counterpart to Maryam dates. Eating one grants you the Poison Antidote effect that lasts for a full 20 minutes. * **Zamzam Water Bottles:** These are not your ordinary drink. When consumed, you can pick any combination of one positive and one negative effect. While standard potions are easier to obtain, Zamzam water is a powerful alternative for when you haven't traveled to the Nether to start brewing yet. BUT, they only spawn in desert temples. ### Blocks and Mechanics Beyond the foodie goodness, this mod adds many new decorative and functional blocks: * **Cactus:** You can now strip cactuses to collect Cactus Spines. These are a replacement for flint when crafting arrows. You can also place them down to create deadly traps or spikes for your palisades. If you use a bottle on a stripped cactus, you can dry it out to collect water. * **Illumina:** This is a new, crystalline ore found throughout the overworld, not just the desert. It functions similarly to quartz and provides a huge blockset and functional blocks. * **Gem Casing:** This utility block crafted from illumina can hold gem blocks like blocks of diamonds, which I designed to make museum displays of your riches. * **Weight Machines:** These are actually full block pressure plates again crafted with illumina, because we all know how annoying it is to see those plates bulging out of the ground. BUT weight machines only come in sandstone and red sandstone variants because it would be really overpowered if you could put it in grass, but you can carpet it! * **Marble:** This is a new igneous rock that features a new blockset, and a projectile, marble pellets. * **Henna Bushes:** A new crop that drops henna blossoms. These can be crafted into henna clumps, which can be turned into decorative blocks of henna or smelted into henna bricks. These bricks come with their own full sets of stairs, slabs, and chiseled variants. * **Tumbleweed:** A new block that can be placed on every block with a solid top, not just full blocks, but blocks like topside slabs and upside down stairs. * **Agave:** A new plant that can be right clicked with a bottle to get Agave Nectar, a sweeter version of honey! And you can harvest them with a hoe. * **Gossyp** The scientific name for cotton plants. They drop Cotton, which is an item that can be crafted into string. * **Ocotillo:** This plant functions just like sweet berry bushes, but are placeable in sand. ### Mobs and Creatures: This mod adds a new mob, with more mobs I might add in the future: * **Thorner:** It looks like a cactus with two small legs that currently do not move as it walks (trying to fix that) and a creeper face in the front. It can be bred with bone meal and hurts you when you collide with it. It drops cactus spines. ### Controversies and Plans.. I am aware that people don't like the mod for three reasons: 1. Religious References 2. Bamboo being a yellow wood type Against this, my response is that I actually did originally make the mod because I wanted to appeal to the muslim fanbase. And also, I don't make the islamic items and blocks actually have the same function as their real life counterparts. Zamzam water in real life isn't magical. Ajwa dates aren't golden, nor do they fall from palm trees. It's exxagerated. And, bamboo is a desaturated yellow. It also isn't an actual wood type. Bamboo isn't a tree, and Flamepalm is fully saturated. I have plans to add mats, a double block carpet crafted out of cotton that resembles islamic prayer mats.

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