Better Than Wolves

Version 4.A2 Timing Rodent

November 25th, 2016

• Added Hardcore Stumping in honor of the electoral process.
• Added Stump Remover for when you're sick of the electoral process. It is made with creeper oysters, red mushrooms, and rotten flesh in the crafting grid.
• Added Hardcore Grass. This changes grass so that it can only grow in natural light. Torches will no longer work, nor will Light Blocks.
• Added a conversion recipe for nether brick slabs into full blocks to match those added for other slabs a couple of releases ago.
• Changed (decreased) the attack rate on slimes and magma cubes to better match other mobs.
• Changed sugar cane so that it can be burned directly in a furnace instead of having to be converted to paper first.
• Changed axes so that iron and better aren't damaged when splitting logs in the crafting grid. Previously, there was no benefit to use better axes than stone to do so, which would create busy-work for the player in crafting and using stone axes just for that purpose.
• Changed chickens so that they'll reliably lay eggs the next morning after they are fed, instead of at a fairly random time. This both slows down the rate of egg production, and makes collecting eggs manually less of an annoyance as you can now make it part of your daily routine. Note that chickens must be fed at least 10 minutes before morning (the full night), or egg laying will be delayed a full day until the following morning.
• Changed piles of soul sand so that the cloud will only make whining noises if moving towards a target, but will stay silent if it doesn't detect anything. This should make it a tad easier to use.
• Changed piles of soul sand to have a more evident visual effect when used.
• Changed gold and iron items so that they return only roughly two thirds of the original metal when melted in the Crucible. This is intended to further incentivize mob traps and the use of higher tier tools, as both diamond and soulforged steel still have a 100% return.
• Changed villager trading so that trades aren't replaced by ones for the same or similar items as other unrelated trades are completed. This created some rather sploity behavior with items like skulls, where the player could avoid particularly difficult trades by completing others, and was more confusing than anything else.
• Changed the install directions in this readme to work with the new Minecraft launcher. If experienced mod users can review these and let me know if there are any issues with them, I'd be much obliged.
• Fixed problem where slimes and magma cubes would still deal damage to the player after they were dead.
• Removed wither skeleton skull trade from priests as it was disproportionately difficult to fill relative to other trades.