Spooky Adventures

A Purgatory update (now 45 mods less)

Oops, it seems the default gun pack from [TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero was accidentally disabled during debugging. As a temporary fix, open the config file ...\Spooky Adventures 1.20.1\config\tacz-common.toml and in the [other] section set DefaultPackDebug field to false, then restart the game.

➖ Removed:

• Abridged — Too insignificant. (Further, the absence of a explanation will mean the same thing)
• Air Hop (experiment failed)
• Anvil Restoration — Easy Anvils has such functionality.
• Axes Are Weapons
• Boat Item View
• Collision Fix — The original bug was fixed back in 1.19.3 Pre-release 3.
• Configurable Despawn Timer — Not really needed, since there is a graves mod.
• Crying Portals
• Custom LAN (replaced) — The file of the ngrok tunneling module, unused by anyone, attracts the attention of antiviruses, since theoretically it can be used by intruders.
• Cut Through — Not needed due to the presence of Better Combat.
• Easy Elytra Takeoff
• End Portal Recipe — It was a mistake.
• Enhanced Snowmen
• ForgeSkyboxes
• Forgotten Graves ⚠ (replaced) — The problem with FPS drops when looking at your own grave or if there is another player's grave in the field of view won't be solved either by the developer or by Sinytra Connector. (Please note that all the graves from this mod will disappear when updating!)
• Furnace Recycle — Moved to a custom datapack.
• Grind Enchantments — It was a mistake.
• Just Enough Professions (JEP) — The professions are displayed as untranslatable technical lines. The display of the villager model is completely broken with Fresh Animations.
• Keep Head Names
• Lava Clear View — Alex's Mobs has such functionality.
• More Zombie Villagers
• Naturally Charged Creepers — It was a mistake.
• Polytone
• Smaller Nether Portals
• Villager Leads — Not needed due to the presence of Smart Villagers Follow Emeralds.
• Whispering Spirits
• World Preview — It was a mistake.
• YUNG's Bridges
• Zombie Horse Spawn — Zombie riders are now exclusive to Friends & Foes and The Hordes.
• Zombie Villagers From Spawner
• All [PurpurPack] — Moved to a custom datapack.

➕ Added:

• Deeper and Darker Delight
• GraveStone Mod (replacement) — A less functional, but more stable graves mod. ⚠ Now only a vanilla amount of experience is saved in the grave, i.e. 7 levels.
• LAN World Plug-n-Play (mcwifipnp) — Replacement of Custom LAN with near the same functionality..

🔁 Updated:

• Deleted empty language files from Icons resource pack.
• Once again, the render distance Distant Horizons has been reduced by default to 32 chunks, and the quality to medium. (Huh, config?)
• Tweaked the spawn rate of some mobs again.

⚠ Notes and known issues:

• The Oculus update is still pending for compatibility with Distant Horizons v2.2. (Although, it's unlikely to happen at least in the near future, since the Oculus' author hasn't been active on GitHub since early April 2024)
• The starter kit isn't automatically given to new players joining the LAN world.
• The string +45% protection against infection is added to a huge variety of game tooltips. (Won't be fixed, as the The Hordes mod dev has already switched to support NeoForge 1.21+)

The Time update

➖ Removed:

• Fog (temporarily) — It's useless for now, as it doesn't work with Distant Horizons.
• Oxidized — Causes a crash due to internal refactoring of Friends & Foes (Forge/NeoForge). It won't be fixed, since this is a Fabric mod, and the authors of Sinytra Connector, unfortunately, are no longer fixing incompatibilities of mods on 1.20.1 (goodbye simple and convenient Copper Pulsar, as well as the Copper Rails).

➕ Added:

• Air Hop (experimental)
• CERBON's Better Beacons
• Just Enough Beacons Reforged
• Simple Magnets (experimental) — Provides an alternative to the copper pulsar from the Oxidized mod.
• Simple Voice Chat (experimental) — Requires opening port 24454 via the UDP protocol in your Wi-Fi router settings to work on a dedicated server.

🔁 Updated:

• The duration of the day and night is now 30 minutes each, instead of 20 and 40 minutes respectively.
• Fixed the default config Serene Seasons so that the seasons change according to the increased length of the day.
• Removed the names of mods (namespaces) from the Jade tooltips.
• Reduced the spawn rate of some mobs that appear too often to have time to breathe.

⚠ Notes and known issues:

• Some creative tabs may disappear randomly during the entire gaming session, which leads to the disappearance of all related items in the EMI menu, as well as related recipes.
• Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch. A Geckolib issue, hardly anything can be done.
• The Oculus update is still pending for compatibility with Distant Horizons v2.2. (Although, it's unlikely to happen at least in the near future, since the Oculus' author hasn't been active on GitHub since early April 2024)
• The starter kit isn't automatically given to new players joining the LAN world.
• The string +45% protection against infection is added to a huge variety of game tooltips. (Won't be fixed, as the The Hordes mod dev has already switched to support NeoForge 1.21+)
• When looking at a naturally created player's grave, a huge FPS drop occurs. All I can recommend for now is right-clicking on the grave instead of breaking it.

An update of tweaks and the 3rd attempt to improve performance

➖ Removed:

• Alex's Mobs Interaction (temporarily) — Update pending.
• Beautiful Enchanted Books (replaced)
• Connectored C2ME — Causes random crashes with multiple mods at once. The performance of Distant Horizons's LOD generation may change for the better or for the worse.
• Diagonal Fences, Diagonal Walls и Diagonal Windows — These mods (or the PuzzlesLib they depend on) have a serious problem with FerriteCore, which, although doesn't directly cause a crash, but leads to incredibly massive logspam instead. At the same time, chunks with these diagonal blocks can't be loaded in any way.
• EMI Enchants (replaced)
• Explosive Enhancement (replaced)
• MoreChatHistory Reforged (replaced)

➕ Added:

• Alex's Delight
• [TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero — Crafting a Gun Smith Workbench requires a Workbench from MrCrayfish's Gun Mod. The mod's balance will probably be tweaked later. To switch the first-person view, use the F6 key.
• Alex's Caves Delight
• Beautiful Enchanted Books [MOD EDITION] — Now there should be no problems with Forge CIT.
• Born in Configuration — For balance tweaks of mobs from Born in Chaos.
• EMI Enchanting
• Explosive Enhancement (Forge)
• Just Enough Breeding (JEBr)
• Just Enough Professions (JEP)
• Longer Chat History
• Tool Trims
• Visuality: Reforged

🔁 Updated:

• Custom datapack: fixed legacy bug with old advancements.
• Force-updated the The Hordes config, as it broke in one of the updates.
• Reassigned some default key binds to minimize conflicts.
• Reduced spawn chances and maximum heights of Ore Creepers, as well as reduced their explosion radii.
• Rolled back Danger Close to the penultimate version, which doesn't crash when interacting with The Hordes. Compatibility with Soul Fire'd will be lost. However, I think it's better this way.

⚠ Notes and known issues:

• Some creative tabs may disappear randomly during the entire gaming session, which leads to the disappearance of all related items in the EMI menu, as well as related recipes.
• Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch. A Geckolib issue, hardly anything can be done.
• The Oculus update is still pending for compatibility with Distant Horizons v2.2. (Although, it's unlikely to happen at least in the near future, since the Oculus' author hasn't been active on GitHub since early April 2024)
• The starter kit isn't automatically given to new players joining the LAN world.
• The string +45% protection against infection is added to a huge variety of game tooltips. (Won't be fixed, as the The Hordes mod dev has already switched to support NeoForge 1.21+)
• When looking at a naturally created player's grave, a huge FPS drop occurs. All I can recommend for now is right-clicking on the grave instead of breaking it.

A Farewell to Summer update, as well as a 2nd attempt to improve performance

➖ Removed:

• Bad Mobs (replaced)
• Beautified Chat [Client] and Beautified Chat [Server] — Break consistency.
• Better Command Block UI — It mainly served for testing in creative mode.
• Cave Dust — Doesn't work correctly in some biomes.
• CleanView — No longer needed.
• Disenchantment Edit Table (replaced) — No more OP combinations of enchantments. Lapis lazuli becomes useless again.
• Don't Clear Chat History — Same reason as BCBUI.
• NBT Autocomplete — Same reason as BCBUI.
• Presence Footsteps — Now overlaps with Sounds mod and is now redundant.
• SmoothMenu Refabricated — Too insignificant, also has many incompatibility warnings.
• TNT Breaks Bedrock — I have no idea when or how it got here or why it stayed here for so long.

➕ Added:

• Connectored C2ME — Experimental ⚠
• Crabber's Delight
• Default Dark Mode: Expansion
• Dis-Enchanting Table — Not such an OP replacement for Disenchantment Edit Table.
• Distant Horizons (readded) — Hooray! It's no longer the reason for the drop in performance. Oculus needs to be updated for compatibility with Distant Horizons v2.2.0-a. So far, the penultimate v2.1.2-a is being used.
• Faster Random
• Flow (readded)
• Ore Creeper — The OP experiment.
• Piglin Proliferation
• Reputation Viewer
• Whispering Spirits
• You Shall Not Spawn! — A more convenient replacement for Bad Mobs.
• A custom datapack in config/paxi with extra tags that integrates some structures into biomes and dimensions from Saturated. Also, supports The Bracken Pack, not included in this modpack.

🔁 Updated:

• Custom resourcepack: updated incorrect descriptions of some enchantments and effects; added missing effect descriptions (many of them are replaced with empty lines or obfuscated text due to lack of explanations from the mod or for reasons of secrecy); added new mob icons.
• Disabled colored lighting and aligned cloud height in all Complementary shaders presets.
• Outdated mods (Hopefully, fixed huge TPS drops in the Nether and in both dimensions from Saturated).
• Re-enabled the snow covering of non-solid blocks from the Snow! Real Magic! ⛄.

⚠ Notes and known issues:

• Forge CIT must have been partially broken with one of the Sinytra Connector updates. I have yet to figure out the reason.
• Some creative tabs may disappear randomly during the entire gaming session, which leads to the disappearance of all items from them in the EMI menu, as well as related recipes.
• Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch. A Geckolib issue, hardly anything can be done.
• The starter kit isn't automatically given to new players joining the LAN world.
• The string +45% protection against infection is added to a huge variety of game tooltips.
• When looking at a naturally created player's grave, a huge FPS drop occurs. All I can recommend is right-clicking on the grave instead of breaking it.

An update in an attempt to improve performance

➖ Removed:

• ❗ Distant Horizons — Yes, it's sad. So far, this is the main candidate when it comes to reducing perfomance.
• Sawblade Recipes from config/paxi/datapacks folder — It's outdated and does not support mods, which creates a distortion in recipes.
• A lot of unused configs (I'm sure there are still some left).

🚫 Temporarily removed:

• Flow — The latest mod, not yet updated after M.R.U v1.0.0, on which it depends. Now it's just crashing the game.

➕ Added:

• Autochef's Delight
• Enhanced Snowman

🔁 Updated:

• Custom resourcepack: fixed several mob icons.
• Some outdated mods.

⚠ Notes and known issues:

• Entity View Distance isn't configured yet, so the mobs see no changes at all.
• Forge CIT must have been broken with one of the Sinytra Connector updates. I have yet to figure out the reason.
• Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch. A Geckolib issue, hardly anything can be done.
• The starter kit is not automatically given to new players joining the LAN world.

A Comeback update

There still may be some changes that I don't remember, since 2 months have passed.

➖ Removed:

• Bad Horse Fix — Too insignificant effect.
• Bedrock Plus — Redundancy.
• Better Beacon Placement and Better Conduit Placement — Redundancy.
• Blur (replaced)
• Bobby Reforged — I was so dumb that I forgot to remove it when I added Acedium first and then Distant Horizons... Although, before everything worked fine somehow, if I left it now, pressing the Video Settings... button would always lead to a crash. I guess it's some sort of incompatability with current recent Embeddium version.
• Chunks fade in — Useless and buggy in the presence of Distant Horizons.
• e4mc (replaced)
• Ender Dragon Fight Remastered (replaced)
• Even Better Enchants (replaced)
• Farsighted Mobs (replaced)
• Fog Looks Modern Now (replaced)
• Head in the Clouds — It's difficult to coordinate with different shader settings, and its effect is too insignificant.
• Horror Elements Mod — It caused random crashes when placing some of its blocks. Again, inexplicably.
• Hourglass (replaced)
• Iris/Oculus & GeckoLib Compat — It doesn't seem necessary anymore.
• The Box Of Horrors — It caused a critical error when the player tried to join the world, which led to a instant kick. Hurtful.
• Custom panorama resourcepack — It doesn't reflect the concept of this modpack. Let the TMFTF's panorama take its place for now.

➕ Added:

• [ESF] Entity Sound Features
• Beautiful Enchanted Books — A more mod-compatible resource pack instead of Even Better Enchants. Not enabled by default¹.
• Bliss Shaders — Beta version with Distant Horizons support from their GitHub.
• Client Tweaks
• Crate Delight
• Diagonal Fences, Diagonal Walls and Diagonal Windows — Finally their textures don't become a stone block.
• Entity View Distance — An alternative to Farsighted Mobs. Does nothing for now².
• Farmer's Respite
• Flow — It contains the functionality of Blur.
• Fog — A successor of Fog Looks Modern Now.
• Hang Glider
• Make Bubbles Pop
• Nether Chested
• OpticManager — A simpler alternative to Hourglass, without the mechanics of accelerated night time. Now the mods Serene Seasons and The Hordes don't break (hopefully).
• Pigsteel
• Postmortal Particles
• Reactive Music
• Simple Discord RPC — Now Discord is able to detect the Forge version of Minecraft with the modpack name in the widget.
• SmoothMenu Refabricated
• Soul Fire'd
• Tiny Item Animations
• Torch Hit
• True Ending: Ender Dragon Overhaul — Replacement for the Ender Dragon Fight Remastered mod³. Maybe it will be better.
• Underground Villages
• Update Edition resourcepack.
• Useful Mobs
• Variants & Ventures
• Worldhost — An alternative to e4mc, which allows to connect directly without a huge 300+ ping.
• Yeehaw Towns!
• Description of the modpack in Russian.

🔁 Updated:

• A lot of outdated mods.
• Adjusted configs and the default shader presets.
• Changed the modpack name to Spooky Adventures.
• Custom datapack: removed all "reverse" smithing recipes of tools; added and reworked some recipes; added several new advancements; fixed some old ones.
• Custom resourcepack: added simple World Host instruction to Open to LAN button, added several new mob icons.
• Partially reworked the starter kit; reduced the number of some items.

⚠ Notes and known issues:

• ¹ Forge CIT must have been broken with one of the Sinytra Connector updates. I have yet to figure out the reason.
• ² In fact, Entity View Distance isn't configured yet, so the mobs see no changes at all.
• ³ I hope this doesn't break existing worlds where Ender Dragon has already been defeated.
• Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch. A Geckolib issue, hardly anything can be done.
• The starter kit is not automatically given to new players joining the LAN world.

Minor update

🔁 Updated:

• Outdated mods.

⚠ Known issues:

• ❗ A critical error kicking another player joining the world.
• ❕ Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch (caused by GeckoLib).

Minor update

🔁 Updated:

• Many outdated mods.
• More shaders for Distant Horizons support (still waiting for Bliss update).
• Recolored some datapack and resourcepacks.
• Reworked some translations.

⚠ Known issues:

• The game may crash randomly when disabling Distant Horizons' LODs rendering in-game.
• Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch.

Another big enough update.

➖ Removed:

• Lazurite — Now embedded in Embeddium.
• Fix Experience Bug (replaced)
• Better Third Person (replaced)
• Some unused files.

➕ Added:

• Shoulder Surfing Reloaded — A better and customizable alternative for Better Third Person.
• Let Me Despawn — Returned back.
• Continue Button — Doesn't work with incorrect folder names.
• Alex's Mobs Interaction
• Storage Delight
• More Delight
• Responsive Shields — Removes the 5 tick delay when blocking.
• Gigeresque — Hopefully that there will be no random crashes.
• ⚠ Distant Horizons — Lowest render distance of 32 chunks by default with medium quality and low CPU usage.

ℹ Note: currently only Complementary Shaders are supported, waiting for official releases from other shaders. There may be a major performance decrease when using shaders.

🔁 Updated:

• Most of the Physics Mod options are now disabled by default.
• Adjusted some default shader presets.
• Changed mob spawn options in Bad Mobs configs because some of them were reset after updating mods.
• Colored the names of some resource packs and shaders.
• Minor fixes for advancements and their translations.
• Minor config tweaks.

⚠ Known issues:

• The game may crash randomly when disabling Distant Horizons' LODs rendering in-game.
• Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch.

➖ Removed:

• Let Me Despawn (temporarily) — It has critical incompatibility with Neruina - Ticking Entity Fixer, waiting for a fix from LMD.
• Battle Towers — Unnecessary.
• VillagerLeads — Unnccessary.
• Unused config files.

➕ Added:

• Grind Enchantments
• Cut Throught — Returned as not all melee weapons use Better Combat mechanics.
• Custom Main Menu Panorama (in config/paxi/resourcepacks folder) — The same seed and place as in panorama 1.20, only at a higher altitude, with Terralith, Distant Horizons (dev build) and Bliss Shaders (also dev build). In the future, I will replace it with the same one, only with Tectonic (no clue how could I forget this).

🔁 Updated:

• Added a few more custom advancements for killing various mobs.
• Updated The Man From The Fog — The threat level is now much… much higher. Increased min and max chase duration by 50%.
• Minor config tweaks.

⚠ Known issues:

• Some custom advancements can be triggered by under insufficient circumstances (It seems that there are no more of them left).
• Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch (It really hasn't happened for quite a while).

➖ Removed:

• Nether's Delight (replaced)

➕ Added:

• My Nether's Delight — a reimagining of original Nether's Delight
• Miner's Delight
• Battle Towers — the most close version to a legacy mod
• Neruina - Ticking Entity Fixer — brought back and now works with the latest version of Forge
• VillagerLeads — it may be redundant with the presence of the Smart Villagers Follow Emeralds mod
• World Preview — a useful tool similar to the one available, for example, in 7D2D

🔁 Updated:

• slightly reduced the maximum size of zombie hordes and expanded the list of mobs infected by zombies (mainly illagers), added new textures for the illagers from Illager Invasion, the Iceologer from Friends&Foes and Hunter from Hunter's Return. Added phantoms to infection_entities.
• fixed the defaultconfigs of Hourglass and Serene Seasons — the number of days of the current season is now counted correctly and corresponds to the total number of days, according to the rule: 1 equals 10 days. These configs can be copied to serverconfig of a world folder.
• Tweaked some perfomance-related setting, so it's beta again.
• Outdated mods and translations.
• Nerfed some guns and reverted some ammo types.

⚠ Known issues:

• Lag spikes may occur from time to time. This may be due to some conflicts Embeddium with Sound Physics Remastered and Entity Culling. The first one will be fixed soon. The second one is questionable, but I'm afraid that the built-in Embeddium's useEntityCulling won't be able to fully cope with its task.
• Some custom advancements can be triggered by under insufficient circumstances — next time, the relevant advancements will be deleted if I can't fix them.
• Some mobs animations may occasionally glitch (it's especially common with Born in Chaos mobs) — I've only had this error once lately with some animations of running with a gun in hands.

➖ Removed:

• Dimensional Threads Reforked — the perfomance seems to be lower than without that mod

➕ Added:

• The Knocker — rare spawn rate

🔁 Updated:

• rebalanced all guns — mostly buffed
• reduced ore veins size again in Larger Ore Veins datapack
• outdated mods and translations

⚠ Known issues:

• some custom advancements can be triggered by under insufficient circumstances
• some mobs animations may occasionally glitch (it's especially common with Born in Chaos mobs)

Quite a big update.

➖ Removed:

• Canary — replaced
• Crying Ghasts (a small step towards balance)
• Cull Leaves — replaced
• Extra Sounds — now removed for sure; no idea why it wasn't deleted earlier
• Not Enough Crashes — cannot properly perform its task, MixinTrace must handle alone
• RyoamicLights — replaced
• Saturn — duplicate
• TexTrue's Embeddium Options — it is no longer needed, as it's now embedded into Embeddium

➕ Added:

• Bad Horse Fix
• Cave Dust
• Cave Spider Spawn
• Cull Less Leaves
• Dimensional Threads Reforked — a controversial mod, may conflict with Server Tab Info mod's dimensions TPS list; /gamerule dimthread_active <true/false> enables/disables the mod in-game
• EmbeddiumPlus — returned with fix, borderless screen mode is also back
• LambDynamicLights — to replace RyoamicLights
• NetherPortalFix — possible portal linking fix
• qraftyfied — a new structures pack with Terralith tags datapack in Paxi folder
• Radium — a better maintained Lithium fork to replace Canary
• Thorny Bush Protection — protects from berry bushes damage when wearing leggings

🔁 Updated:

• renamed all Added via overrides mods for clearer understanting
• completely removed The Man From The Fog main menu panorama from the mod file since it isn't the main feature in the modpack and causes issues with From The Fog; also, reduced his spawn tripled
• adjusted config files to respond to changes in Embeddium and EmbeddiumPlus
• halved the size of all ore veins in Larger Ore Veins datapack (another step towards balance)
• outdated mods — Physics Mod now doesn't crash the game with Oculus 1.7
• a few translations and recipes fixes, translations pack is now always on top of resourcepacks for proper necessary overrides

⚠ Known issues:

• some custom advancements can be triggered by under insufficient circumstances
• some mobs animations may occasionally glitch (it's especially common with Born in Chaos mobs)

⚠ Not updating Oculus to 1.7 yet, as the Physics Mod has not been updated yet.

Removed:

• Inventory Management

Added:

• Inventory Sorter (sort on middle click by default)

Updated:

• outdated mods (fixed YetAnotherConfigLib crash by opening config)
• minor changes in configs (made Weeping Angels spawn even rarer)

⚠ in-game configs provided by YetAnotherConfigLib are broken for now (lead to a game crash), mod developer has already been informed

Removed:

• Eating Animation (doesn't work anymore)

Added:

• Dynamic Trim
• Starlight (a huge number of mods sometimes cause lighting problems, maybe it will help)

Updated:

• moved Even Better Enchants from Paxi folder (doesn't work anymore, as doesn't Eating Animations)
• outdated mods
• recipes pack (added a few new and fixed some previous advancements, but not all, unfortunately)

Removed:

• ExtraSounds (replaced)

Added:

• Sounds
• Seamless Loading Screen (very immersive)
• Dungeon Now Loading
• Promenade (thanks to the Connector)
• No Night Vision Flickering
• Tax Free Levels (I don't know how I could have missed it)
• Don't Clear Chat History
• Just Enough Professions (readded due to the lack of such a page in EMI and EMI Trades)
• several custom advancements for killing various monsters via recipes pack (now it's tied with translations resourcepack pack to provide English translations too)

Updated:

• all outdated mods
• Russian translations (added custom advancements translations)
• recipes pack (regrouped some disparate advancements from several mods, made more complicated recipe for Ghast Spawn Egg)
• tweaked Bad Mobs config
• rolled back to the most of default Sanity mod settings

Removed:

• mcwifipnp (replaced)
• Lost Cities (worldgen problems)

Added:

• Custom LAN (thanks to the Connector update)
• Vein Mining (8 block max for better compat with Larger Ore Veins)
• Acedium — a Forge port of Nvidium made to work with Embeddium (doesn't work when shaders are enabled)

Updated:

• all outdated mods
• Russian translations
• recipes pack
• Hourglass & Serene Seasons default configs

Initial release