Nature X

• Note: Customize the density of the new Pale Garden fog using the fog_radius & fog_fade properties located inside the pale_garden.json file that can be found in \Nature X - 12.0\assets\minecraft\polytone\biome_modifiers.
• Some mods [ex: Sodium Extra, Reeses Sodium Options] -if used- may affect it.
• Look up the Polytone Wiki for more info on the previous properties.

A tiny update:

• Updated to 1.21.3
• Dropped the Indium mod as a requirement
• Added missing birch log texture

revamped end:

• new end stars particles [replicating stars in space]
• new colored end grass:
• the end, end barrens, small end islands will have the regular yellow variant
• end highlands will have the purple-magenta variant
• end midlands will have the blue variant

enhanced crimson and warped forests:

• both will have a new glowing particles effect
• both have a new custom fog color
• more vibrant blue lava

revamped flower forest:

• new colormaps for grass, leaves, water, and fog
• new oak and birch sapling
• new flowers overlays for ground and leaves

enhanced old growth birch forest:

• new birch and oak leaves textures in the old growth birch forest
• new birch and oak sapling
• new ground overlays
• more reddish tone for the birch leaves

enhanced swamps:

• new glowing fireflies effect

revamped mushroom fields:

• new colormaps for water and fog
• new particles effect

added compatibility for the following mods:

• biomes o' plenty
• tectonic
• terralith
• report any issues if found please and suggest other mods that you wish adding compatibility for

check out the features reveal video on my YouTube channel

• Official Trailer 2 is out on my YouTube Channel

• Animated butterflies
• Animated Fireflies
• New models for the cactus
• New detailed models for the lily pad
• New colormap and textures for the birch leaves in the flower forest and dark oak forest
• New colormap for the oak leaves in the old growth birch forest
• New sapling textures for the oak sapling in the old growth birch forest
• New sapling textures for the birch sapling in the flower forest and dark oak forest
• Falling spruce leaves overlays will appear in the old growth pine and spruce taiga
• Increased the generation of the ground overlays in some biomes
• Poppies as a variant of the short grass were removed; now only short grass will be generating
• Brown mushrooms were added as a variant of the short grass along side red mushrooms in the dark oak forest
• New red birch leaves overlays for the dark oak forest

• Revamped Savanna Plateau biome:

• New dry grass block.
• New dry short grass.
• New dry tall grass.
• New dry oak leaves.
• New dry acacia leaves.
• New dry variants of the oak and acacia saplings.
• Few dead bushes will generate as a variant of the short grass.
• New color maps for leaves.
• Re-worked Meadow biome:
• flowery grass feature got replaced with new 3 types of large bushes, this will make the biome more harmonious and less noisy as before.
• New model of grass block:
• Allows moss-carpets to generate in the forest, birch forest, old growth birch forest, and dark forest.
• Re-worked short grass models:
• It's larger and has more volume, with all it's overlays being reworked to.
• Perforamnce enhcancments.

• Re-worked river biome:
• River plant was re-made with 3 new variants in different heights [short, medium, tall], and it's now tinted [has the same tint color of the grass block of rivers]
• Water holes was re-textured to blend more with the ground and the possible number of their generation was reduced as it was too much before which made the ground too busy.
• River Plant has a new snowy variants too:
• New tone maps feature for foliage!:
• So proud of this new feature, this feature has a significant impact on the scenery in general. It basically adds different tones to a specific block which make the scenery more detailed and realistic. This feature includes the following blocks [the following pics compares Nature X 10.0 that doesn't have this feature with the new version 10.1 in which it has been added in]:
• Grass block:
• Short grass:
• All types of leaves:
• Sand and red sand blocks:
• Falling leaves overlays were added to the snowy taiga, old growth pine and spruce taigas.
• Sand rocks that generates on a colored layer of the sand were fixed, with there proper textures added too.
• Short grass will generate more often in forests besides a couple variants of mushrooms [red, brown, and yellow].
• Snowy spruce leaves will generate more often.
• The 32x32 variant of the cherry flower was removed as it made the biome too busy.

Nature X - 10.0:

• 2 new revamped biomes:
• Old growth birch forest:
• custom colormap for grass block, foliage (short grass, tall grass, fern, large fern, .., etc), and birch leaves.
• a new type of flower (the golden flower) that will specifically generate in this biome, this flower uses the short grass model to generate (in addition to the golden flower, a couple types of mushrooms will be generated too).
• the ground will have a falling leaves overlays that match the birch leaves.
• River:
• a new river plant will be generated specifically in rivers (it uses the short grass model).
• a small water holes will generate as an overlay on grass blocks.
• frozen rivers will have these features too except that the river plant will have a cold-snowy texture to fit with the frozen river biome.
• Other biomes that got some new features:
• Regular birch forest:
• completely reworked colormaps for grass block, foliage, and birch leaves (keeps the default vanilla tones)
• Different types of poppies will generate as a variant of the short grass model to make the color palette of the biome stands out.
• falling leaves textures on the ground.
• Forest:
• a new colormap for the birch leaves
• poppies, dandelions, and mushrooms will generate as a variant of the shor grass model.
• falling leaves on the ground.
• Swamps (including the mangrove swamp):
• reworked colormaps for grass block, foliage, and leaves.
• generated mushrooms as a variant of the short grass model in the regular swamp biome.
• vines overlays on the ground in the regular swamp biome.
• Dark Forest:
• generated red mushrooms as a variant of the short grass model.
• falling leaves overlays on the ground.
• Flower forest:
• reworked colormap for the birch leaves.
• falling leaves overlays on the ground.
• Taiga:
• falling leaves and acons overlays on the ground
• Sunflower Plains:
• reworked colormaps for grass block and foliage.
• New variant of the end grass.
• New 32x32 variant of the cherry flower.

Nature X - 9.3.0:

• The main feature is enhanced ores! with each ore having a new 3d model for both the normal [stone] type and the deepslate type. This feature also includes the nether quartz and gold ores. The 3d model won't be the only generated one; the original "cube" model will still be generating with a slightly higher chance than the 3d one.
• Bushy models of both the nether and warped wart blocks -which previously did only generate on the top- are fixed and they will be generating correctly.
• Rotation of the cherry leaves bushy model is fixed to make it fit more with the rest of leaves.
• New variations of stone.
• Flowering birch leaves will only generate in the birch forests biomes [including the old growth one].
• Re-worked short grass, it's larger; giving more of a fuller look to the landscape. With it's snowy and flowery overlay textures being reworked too.

Nature X - Beta 9.3.0 is available now on Patreon

Nature X - 9.2.0 includes the following features:

• Butterflies on poppies and dandelions; those will generate on top of a poppy or dandelion and doesn't have a specific biome to generate only at. There are 5 variants [​Magenta, Blue, Yellow, Red, and White].
• Fireflies in swamps; those will generate on top of a blue orchid flower only in swamps and will also glow.
• Additional beach rocks variants [​2 new colors for the smaller and the larger beach rock]; those will only generate in the beach biome.
• Crimson and warped stems will glow; a small feature that i wanted to add.

• re-textured sand & red sand rocks.
• fixed moss carpet bugged invisible textures.
• fixed tall grass missing snowy overlay textures.
• fixed tall grass texture in sunflower plains biome not rendering correctly.
• the glowing variant of the end grass has more chance to generate now.

Update [9.1.2]: //MAIN FEATURES:

• new sand rocks & red sand rocks
• new variation of ice blocks in snowy rivers
• revamped beach biome

//Other FEATURES:

• Re-worked short grass; the small variant is now larger with its snowy and flowery overlays being re-worked too
• Re-worked birch forest; it's more warmer

• all previous dead corals models & textures are back!
• short grass will be generated with a small flowers on top with multiple colors in the meadow biome
• seagrass & tall seagrass will have new variants
• sand in deserts will have different layered colors
• reworked birch forests biomes, it's more like the vanilla color palette (+ birch leaves will have a regular texture and a flowery texture, and the old fully flowered birch leaves will now only generate in the flower forest biome)
• new side textures for grass block, snowy grass block, dirt path, podzol, mycelium, warped nylium & crimson nylium
• new 3d models for the brown mushrooms on top of the mycelium block
• new cross model for the red & brown mushrooms with new textures
• re-textured cattails
• snow on spruce leaves will be generated randomly rather than always be generated giving the scenery more natural look
• new better connected glass blocks & glass panes

- overworld features:

• revamped birch forest & old growth birch forest biomes [new textures for the birch leaves and birch sapling, new grass overlay, and new grass block & foliage colormap]
• cattails will generate when a seagrass is placed at y=62 in water, otherwise, a default seegrass model will be used
• a swamp variant of the cattails will be generated only in swamps
• algae will generate when a tall seagrass is placed at y=61 in water, otherwise, a default tall seegrass model will be used
• lily pad flower now has 3 variants
• new models for short grass, tall grass, fern, and large fern
• short grass, tall grass, fern, and large fern will have a snow overlay when they're placed/ generated in snowy biomes
• spruce leaves will have a snow overlay when they're placed/ generated in snowy biomes
• short & tall grass will have a new specific models & textures for the sunflower plains biome
• new models for the mycelium blocks that allows small 3d mushrooms to be generated on top

- nether features:

• new variants of the crimson and warped roots
• new variant of the nether sprouts
• new blue variant of the shroom light and magma block for the warped forest biome
• new red variant of the twisting vines for the crimson forest biome
• emmisive textures added for all of the overlays of the nether wart block, warped wart block, crimson nylium block, warped nylium block, twisting vines, crimson & warped fungus

- end fetures:

• end pillars will have random crying obsidian textures, some of which will glow
• new glowing version of the end grass
• emmisive textures added for the dead chorus flower

- Removed Features:

• all shortgrass variants that were a part of a block model got removed for better shaders compatibility
• sea plant which was a variant of the seagrass model got removed as cattails got implemented in a more better method than the sea plant
• all plants that replaced the dead corals got removed as most of them is now generating naturally in the world
• many of the unused files of textures and models got removed from the pack to reduce file size

• new pointy ice models for ice, blue ice, and packed ice blocks with an item models for each one of them too.
• new branches models for all log & stem types [doesn't include the stripped ones] with an item model for each one of them too.
• new bushy model of the hay block.
• new sea plant texture.
• fixed the issue of bushy leaves don't render properly when a snow layer is on top.
• fixed the issue of mangrove roots bushy model doesn't generate more often.
• fixed dark oak leaves bushy part doesn't have a tint value.

• a qucik update that includes:
• revamped cherry leaves [new models & textures]
• updated animations of sea plant

• new overlays for:

1. sand
2. red sand
3. jungle leaves
4. spruce leaves
5. nether wart
6. warped wart
7. crimson nylium
8. warped nylium
9. grass top
10. dirt
11. coarse dirt

• new models:

1. new model of the lily pad that allows swamp cattails to be generated naturally in the swamps
2. new model of the lily pad flower
3. new model of cactus that allows flowers to be generated on top with 3 different colors
4. new model of seagrass that allows sea cattails to be generated naturally

• new shaded textures for all logs
• fixed sugar cane missing tintindex

• Nature X - v8.0 is now compatible with Sodium. from now on, Nature X will be developed for Sodium only as most of the features of the latest previous Optifine version of Nature X have been converted to work with Sodium as well as many important performance fixes.

• any version of Nature X that is less than 8.0 is an Optifine version of the pack which as i said won't be continued so please make sure to update to the latest version which is 8.0