Oh The Biomes You'll Go

2.0.1.0

• New Dependencies

  • CorgiLib is now required for forge & fabric. You can get it here:
    • https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/corgilib
    • https://modrinth.com/mod/corgilib
  • Geckolib is now required for forge & fabric. You can get it here:
    • https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/geckolib
    • https://modrinth.com/mod/geckolib

• New Content

  • Mobs

    • Man O War!

      • These glowing aquatic mob spawns in the Lush Stacks!
      • Comes in the following colors:
        • Rainbow
        • Blue
        • Purple
        • Magenta
      • Gameplay? These are ambient creatures and will poison the injurer.

    • Pumpkin Ward!

      • Pumpkin Wards can be exclusively found in Pumpkin Patches, a unique village found in all autumnal biomes & Cika Woods.
      • Pumpkin Wards will harvest pumpkins & melons and will drop it in front of a carved pumpkin (auto pumpkin & melon farming!).
      • Pumpkin Wards will stay within a 35 block radius of a Bell or wander till they find one
      • Pumpkin Wards don't sleep
      • Pumpkin Wards can be lured with Pumpkin Pie (They do not eat it!)
      • Pumpkin Wards Cannot be bred. So take special care of your pumpkin friends!
      • Playing a music disc within a 10 block radius will cause them to rave into a dance party!
      • When threatened, the Pumpkin Ward will drop any items it's carrying and pretend to be a pumpkin.

  • New Blocks!

    • Flowering & Ripe leave blocks. Flowering leaves have a rare chance of turning into their ripe counterpart. Ripe leaves have a rare chance of spawning a fruit block. The following species have flowering/ripe leaves:
      • Skyris
      • Orchard
      • Baobab
      • Joshua
    • Apple fruit blocks - Can be found at the nearest Orchard biome growing/hanging from ripe orchard leaves!
    • Joshua fruit blocks - Can found at the nearest Mojave Desert growing/hanging from ripe Joshua fruit leaves!
    • Green Apple fruit blocks - Can found at the nearest Skyris Vale growing/hanging from green apple skyris leaves!
    • Blue rose bush.
    • Imbued green & blue enchanted logs.

  • New Points of Interests!

    • Pumpkin Patches - Home to the Pumpkin ward. Found in all autumnal biomes & Cika Woods.

  • New Advancements!

    • Rose Collector
      • Can be achieved when collecting the following items:
        • Blue Rose Bush
        • Black Rose
        • Winter Rose
        • Cyan Rose
        • Osiria Rose
        • Rose
        • Rose Bush
        • Wither rose

• Reworks

  • New Textures

    • New Green Enchanted textures.
    • New Maple textures.
    • New Cherry leave textures.
    • New Ametrine Block & Armor textures.
    • New Therium textures.
    • New Arisian Textures.

  • Therium Rework

    • Therium Deposits can now be found once again throughout BYG End Biomes.
    • Therium now functions exactly like Amethyst.
    • Therium is now very common and deposits are very large, the goal of this is to make Therium a more viable resource for decorations & lanterns (which still moisturize lush farmland!).
    • Therium has also received texture overhauls.
    • Therium Lanterns now have an animation.
    • With this revamp, old therium blocks have been removed. This includes 'Therium Crystal' & 'Therium Block' and Therium Shard have been renamed to 'Therium Crystal Shard'.
    • Therium Buds & Clusters, etc. are mineable at Iron Tier and higher.

  • Biome reworks

    • Araucaria Savanna

      • Generation Tweaks
        • Remove Firecracker Shrub
        • Add Shrubs

    • Forgotten Forest

      • Generation overhaul.
        • New vegetation.
        • New Imbued green & blue enchanted logs spawn in the trunks of the enchanted trees.

    • Imparius Grove

      • Generation overhaul.
        • Deltas now spawn in place of the lakes which would cause eyesore cuts in the terrain.
        • Denser Vegetation.
        • No more floating tree trunks

    • Jacaranda Forest

      • Generation Overhauls.
        • New Trees & Vegetation.

    • Maple Taiga

      • Maple Taiga now has proper Mob Spawning parity to that of Taigas.
      • Generation Overhauls.
        • Add sparse spruce trees.
        • New vegetation.
        • New block textures.

    • Mojave Desert

      • Joshua trees now provide joshua fruit.

    • Orchard

      • Orchard trees now provide apples.

    • Rose fields

      • Lower flower spawn rates to reduce performance impact.
      • Add Blue Rose Bushes to world gen.
      • Add a mix of blue & red spruce trees.

    • Tropical Rainforest

      • Generation Tweaks
        • Vines are far denser & Cocoa beans now spawn on trees (thanks tree decorators). Should feel much more like a jungle.
      • Temporarily remove Tropical Village spawning.

    • Skyris Vale

      • Generation overhaul.
        • New Trees & Vegetation.
      • Skyris trees provide green apples.

    • Windswept Dunes

      • Generation Tweaks
        • Remove windswept lake. These need redesigning.

    • Weeping Witch Forest

      • New POI: Salem Village can be found here.

    • Swamp Biomes

      • Spawn delta features to flood the biomes more. This also means water will appear at elevations not at sea level.
      • Should now spawn swamp huts.

    • All Overworld & End Biomes

      • Floating tree/fungi/mushroom trunks should no longer occur.
        • All trunks verify they are not on a cliff prior to placing blocks.
        • All trunks now fill to the ground and (random) tick their ground block.

    • Some Overworld biomes

      • More vanilla logs can be found in many of our biomes mixed with the other vegetation.
      • Increase grass spawns.
      • Add blueberry spawns to following biomes:
        • Autumnal Taiga
        • Black Forest
        • Canadian Shield
        • Cika Woods
        • Coconino Meadows
        • Coniferous Forest
        • Dacite Ridges
        • Howling Peaks
        • Maple Taiga
        • Rose Fields
        • Weeping Witch Forest
        • Zelkova Forest
      • Misc tweaks.

  • Biomepedia

    • New biome descriptions(not all complete yet).
    • Biomepedia text now supports chat component formatting (internal change).
      • Bold biome names & information categories
      • Fix sky color using fog color.
      • Biome colors(sky, water, water fog, grass color, foliage color) will now have their text colored based off the color of the field.
    • Item page items are now alphabetically sorted.

• Removed content

  • Remove Windswept lakes until they're redesigned/improved.
  • Temporarily remove Tropical Village spawning(it still exists in the registry to not break worlds) due to a broken NBT.

• Technical Changes

  • Datapacks

    • Any datapacks modifying trees are broken.
    • Trees now use CorgiLib's tree_from_nbt feature.
      • Allows to build trees with a trunk & canopy structure NBT parts.
      • Allows the use of vanilla & modded tree decorators. These include but are not limited to:
        • Vines
        • Cocoa Beans
        • Attached To Leaves blocks such as vanilla's propagules.
      • Calculates leave distance and avoids placing leaves that are too far away.
      • Much better control over tree height.
      • The ability to place other blocks found in the trunk & canopy NBTs.
      • The ability to filter what blocks may be replaced by leaves w/ vanilla & modded BlockPredicates.
      • The ability to filter what blocks the tree feature considers ground w/ vanilla & modded BlockPredicates.
    • Removed Biomepedia item advancement gift. Switched to config option.
    • Remove numerous configured features and features from the registry.

  • Configs

    • It is advised to delete your config directory and let your game regenerate them fresh.
    • Overworld Biomes - <gamedir>/config/byg-overworld-biomes.json5
      • Added a global biome swapper which allows you to swap a biome of your choice to another for ALL Overworld regions. This is for those of you who don't want to edit numerous files.
      • The ability to disable Overworld biomes should now function.
        • Disable it by setting "overworld_enabled": true.
    • Biomepedia - <gamedir>/config/biomepedia.json5
      • Added the ability to disable the biomepedia item, it will no longer be gifted with an advancement.
        • Disable it by setting "give_item": true
    • Settings - <gamedir>/config/settings.json5
      • Logger settings
        • Added the ability to disable certain types of logging such as warnings, info, & debug. Errors cannot be hidden.
          • Warnings & info are disabled by default.
        • Added the ability to filter out specific terms, characters or phrases from logging in your latest.log
      • World Generation
        • The ability to disable BYG world gen altogether should now function.
          • Disable it by setting "world_generation": true.
    • Villager Trades - <gamedir>/config/trades.json5
      • Villager Trades config will no longer crash when a villager not existent in your game's registry is in the config. A warning will be logged instead.

• Bug Fixes

  • Fix floating trees in Overworld & End Dimensions. Trees will now check they're not on a cliff first & build logs until they hit the ground. Tree trunks will now always be in contact with the ground.
  • Add Bastion Remnants to BYG biomes. Fixes #1096
  • Villagers can now use Foragers table.
  • Fix Flat Vegetation Voxel Shapes. Don't random offset Ether Foliage texture.
  • Only create LevelBiomeTracker with BYG name space biomes. Fixes oversized packets when users have lots of biome mods.
  • Fix BYG Config world gen check.
  • Fixed Flower Patches not spawning.
  • Fixed Leaf Pile block.
  • Fixed Embur Gel Vines not being climbable.
  • Fix brimstone ore textures (#1076).
  • Fix Blueberry bush spawns, blueberries will now spawn in the following biomes:
    • Autumnal Taiga
    • Black Forest
    • Canadian Shield
    • Cika Woods
    • Coconino Meadows
    • Coniferous Forest
    • Dacite Ridges
    • Howling Peaks
    • Maple Taiga
    • Rose Fields
    • Weeping Witch Forest
    • Zelkova Forest

• Don't crash if the villager key doesn't exist in the Villager Trade's config, log a warning instead.

• Embur Lily now can be placed on lava.

• Fix Composting Items on Quilt. Fixes #987.

• BYG Sandstone Recipe Fixes (#1016).

• Fix lily pad placement bug (#1010).

• Fix Peat turning into farmland. Fixes #1051, Fixes #1045, Fixes #797.

• Add dependency for GeckoLib. Fixes issue #1053 (#1060)

• Remove tall flowers in small_flowers tag.

• Fix Lush Dirt & Lush Grass turning into Lush Farmland.

• Fix broken recipes.

• Fix witch hazel saplings.

• Fixed flower patch rendering issues.

• Removed large flowers and pollen block from small flowers tag.

• Fixed puffball stew stacking to 64.

• Flowering lilly's will now place with their item.

• Add Blue & Yellow Nether brick stairs/slabs to pickaxe mineable tag. Fixes #1057.

• Fix Upper and bottom layer swapping in NetherBiomesConfig, Fixes #1024.

• Allow invalid Villager Professions in the config and log each invalid Villager Profession. Addresses #1027.

• Fixed some Nether Biomes not spawning Ancient Debris..

• Swamps can now spawn Witch huts.

• Added chest recipe for conflicts and crafting table conversion.

• Fix sythian wart blocks not having a wart block loot table. Also fix flat vegetation having y height variation (#1040).

• Fix Blue Sage spawning.

• Fix sky color using fog color in the biomepedia.

• Set material color for numerous blocks to better match their textures.

• Other bugs probably.