Bug Fixes/Other:

• Disabled shaders by default (whoops)
• Fixed unnecessary WWOO warning from Distant Horizons
  • W&W has a custom version of WWOO that fixes this issue
• Removed Experience Catalyst enchantment, which did nothing
• Added custom colors to most enchanted books

Gameplay:

• Updated ABCO to 2.4
  • More weapons have heavy attacks, some weapons now have parries instead.
  • This will receive more attention and rebalancing in the future.
• Added Step Smoothing
• Removed staves
  • These will be replaced in the future, but this update has been in development for so long I had to take a break from magic
• Changed default better combat config to feel nicer to play with ABCO
• Phantoms now spawn with a redone AI
  • This is likely a controversial change and may be reverted, but for now I have confidence that the redesigned AI will make Phantoms engaging to fight.
• Mob explosions will now drop all blocks destroyed
• Cartographers will now re-roll their maps once they’ve been bought
• Removed Limit Break and Reinforcement Smithing Templates, along with Enchanted Ghast Tears
  • Reinforcement will probably be added back in a new, unique form in the near future, but for now it is disabled.
• Added food groups to Baked Pitcher Pods and Desert Turnips
• Removed biome limitation on silver ore spawns, making it much more common
• Obsidian tool rework
  • Redesigned the Obsidian Knife weapon attributes
  • Obsidian tools now have 1024 durability, much higher than iron but lower than diamond
  • Obsidian tools now have an extra relic slot instead of increased damage
  • Obsidian tools now have 15 enchantability
• Fixed an issue where most Netherite weapons did not get the Smelting attribute
• Added Fortune attribute to Gold tools and weapons

Enchanting:

• New Relics system replaces most forms of stat enchantments
• Added Copper Enchanting Table, for early game enchanting
• Removed Limitite Altar, staves and all other forms of limitite
• Completely overhauled enchanting UI
  • Catalysts have been removed
  • Instead, enchantments are made with recipes in the enchanting table.
• New enchantments:
  • Soul Burst
  • Rejuvenating Shot
  • Ricochet
  • Debilitating Chain
  • Deflect
  • Hobbling Shot
  • Protective Echo
  • Lifetide
  • Cleanse
  • Pincushion
  • Sundering
  • Surefoot
  • Sonic Blast
  • Cross Counter
• Removed enchantments:
  • Gale
  • Protection
  • Sharpness
  • Power
  • Efficiency
  • Pain Cycle
  • Enigma Resonator
• Also added additional enchantments from Majrusz’s Enchantments

Content Additions:

• Additional music
• Additional copper decorative blocks

Bug Fixes/Other:

• Fixed several typos and updated pause tips
• Added new launcher and window icon
• Ghasts no longer passively cry tears.
  • Because of Amplified Nether, Ghasts actually spawn more frequently than normal so this made Ghast Tears an extremely abundant resource.
• General optimizations, updated many of the included mods.
• Removed Krypton
• Removed Ixeris
• Replaced custom version of Astro! Reforged with the public Modrinth version of Astro! Reforged
• Replaced Lamb Dynamic Lights with Sodium Dynamic Lights
• Replaced gravity-api with a custom fork.
  • Fixed an issue where the Wither would shoot at an arbitrary direction rather than the entity its targeting.
• Downgraded Particle Rain
• Removed Peeves Ore Compat resource pack

New Content:

• New Echo enchantment for bows

World Generation Changes:

• Reduced generation weight of Sakura Grove from 20 to 10
  • This biome spawned way too often for what it was, so in an effort to make it feel more exotic like it should be, it has been made more rare.
• Chests in the Nether now drop Hoglin Loin and Hoglin Sirloin instead of Porkchops or Cooked Porkchops.
• Woodland Mansion spacing reduced from 80 to 62 (making them slightly more common, although the minimum distance between mansions remains unchanged)

Visual Changes:

• Added Fishing Rod Fix
• Replaced Tooltip Overhaul with Enhanced Tooltips
  • Ideally this should fix an uncommon crash experienced while moving items in the inventory.
• Tweaked default settings for built-in shaderpack

Balance Changes:

• Fixed an issue where Fortune was incorrectly applying a much larger bonus to diamond and iron drops than intended.
• Crossbows can now obtain the Infinity enchantment.
• Ceramine armor no longer increases the duration of negative status effects.
  • Ceramine was the only armor set that could actively be used against you.
• Disabled Recall enchantment
  • Bottles of Dimensional Tears are the intended route to return home.
• Horseshoes are now a little slower overall, around 25%, except for Diamond Horseshoes which received a less severe nerf.
• Bows and Crossbows are now considered Two-Handed weapons

Quality of Life Changes:

• Two players can now ride the same horse.
• Bows and Crossbows with Infinity no longer require an arrow.
• Alchemist’s Heart now applies to status effects with an infinite duration.
• New Withering potion and antidote
• Added item description to Horseshoes.
• Updated most weapon descriptions to be more accurate as to their capabilities.
• Updated some other inaccurate item descriptions, like Flint and Steel.
• Added Unloaded Activity, to simulate some blocks while not in range.
  • This will get some tweaks as time goes on, to update more blocks
• Horseshoes and Horse Armor now display their stats on the tooltip
• Fixed an issue where Burning Thorns could set you on fire if you damaged yourself.

Bug Fixes/Other:

• Fixed an issue where the Damage Taken attribute (obtained from Heart of the Turtle and the Glass effect) had no translation key.
• Added dietary categories to several items from Naturalist that were missing them.
• Rolling Pin and Platinum Infused Hatchet now have proper weapon attributes and animations
• Knives are now considered melee weapons and will show up when you search #weapons.
• Added Prickly Peach to the Fruits food group.
• Removed unnecessary and unhelpful warning from the Full-Auto Retrofit enchantment description.
• Updated several mods
• Fixed default config settings for Distant Horizons, so it now behaves as expected.
• Most uncommon Illager variants now have a high chance to drop platinum chunks.
• Removed Backported Wolves
  • More Mob Variants already added several wolf variants, more than this mod includes
  • Some wolves would spawn with no textures.
  • Unfortunately, some already spawned wolves will change textures from this.
• Fixed an issue where Burning Thorns, Freezing Thorns, and Electrified would activate on yourself.
• Fixed an issue where Hellwalker and Curse of Slowness were incompatible with Horseshoes.
• Fixed an issue where several disabled enchantments were erroneously displaying in EMI while on a server.
• Small stability improvements

• Fixed an issue where you could use a Composter with an empty hand to get infinite bone meal.
• Updated several mods.
• Fixed an issue where several curses were mistakenly available from the Enchanting Table.
• Fixed an issue where the Gale enchantment, which did not work on horses, could be applied to Horseshoes.

• Removed the Lost Libraries mod and structures.
  • These would sometimes spawn with command blocks. Uhhh. No.
  • The previous update added several other, similar underground structures that should spawn without command blocks, so this structure shouldn’t be missed.
• Copper and Rose Gold knives are actually considered knives now.
• Fixed an issue where dyed bundles would sometimes give you the wrong item from their inventory when you tried to remove an item from them.
• Fixed an issue where Copper and Rose Gold staves had the incorrect damage
• Stuffed Sniffer Egg is no longer considered a sugar food (Oops)
• Removed automatic camera turning while mounted
  • This would be super jittery when on servers and be painful to look at
• Fixed a randomly occurring crash.
• Iron ore (and variants) will now properly drop Raw Magnetite Nuggets (50% chance for stone variants, 66% chance for deepslate, with a 33% to give 2 instead) like they should have all along
• Added Horseshoes
• Added Stack Refill
• Disabled invasive watut GUI displays. Open GUIs are now placeholders.
• Added Packet Fixer
• Fixed an issue where Deepslate and Tuff Diamond Ore had a 50% chance to drop a singular Rough Diamond Shard instead of 8-11, which was intended.
• Removed disabled items from chest loot pools.
• Removed unused trinket slots.
• Fixed default shader settings not applying

This version is a departure from most other major versions, and focuses primarily on filling gaps and fixing issues. Whittled & Wistful is starting to get to a point I would consider stable, though still not anywhere near feature complete. The state of the game after this update should give you a general idea of how I want the game to feel and behave.

I might still walk some of these changes back or iterate upon them further, but overall I’m happy with the direction the pack is moving.

Anyways, back to your regularly scheduled 0.8.0 changelog:

• Overhauled cave generation
• Removed several unobtainable advancements, along with unhelpful advancement pages
• Compressed several advancement pages into more inclusive pages
• Added several new end-game progression-related advancements
  • More advancement tweaks to come (to act as your guide through the modpack)
• Added food groups to more items
• Updated Sortilege
• Added several new underground structures
• Disabled rough diamond block generation next to lava pools
  • Within certain cave biomes, these would generate far too often
• Reverted deeper oceans change
• Replaced Simply Swords with Basic Weapons
  • This is primarily to reduce the sheer amount of weapons, many of which were nearly identical, as well as reduce the amount of data clutter (there was a ton of stuff from Simply Swords I had to disable)
• Added missing crafting recipes for Copper and Rose Gold staves, as well as Electrum knives and machetes
• Made Limitite more common
• Retextured knives and machetes
• Copper and Rose Gold now have their own variants of knives, machetes, clubs, hammers, spears, glaives, and quarterstaves
• Added AutoTag
• Reworked most mobs, courtesy of Mob AI Tweaks.
  • Elder Guardians are now bosses
  • Ravagers are now minibosses
  • The Wither fight has been completely reworked again
  • Most other mobs got a buff or change
  • Generally the game is more difficult but hopefully more predictable/fair, sorry not sorry
• Added new tips
• Fixed a number of items missing dietary food groups
• Added item descriptions to most items and blocks in the modpack
• Enabled item descriptions by default.
• Removed Fog, which was unused by default, and Foggy Border.
  • Fog is likely to return if it adds Distant Horizons support.

• Removed multiple unused mods
• Oceans have been made much deeper
• Small improvements to Nether generation
• Updated various mods, fixing several issues
• Removed Charm Forked
  • This is because it caused a ton of issues with servers due to incompatibilities with other mods.
• Reverted Turn Table recipe.
• Performance improvements
• Replaced Azalea woodset
• Added Horseman
  • A ton of buffs and QoL tweaks to horses
  • Most notably, horses can now swim and ride boats.
• Replaced enchantment glint color system.
  • It now uses a forked version of Enchant the Rainbow.
  • The new template is now obtained from a crafting recipe, rather than the hidden library structure.
• Tooltip overhaul
• Food overhauled with Mindful Eating
  • This overhaul is incomplete and will get at least one new food category as well as some balance changes, but for now it's serviceable.
• Removed Item Borders
  • This is intended to be temporary, while the config bug remains present, but it doesn’t look like the developer intends to fix it.
  • This would also cause rare crashes.
• Removed Spanish Delight
  • Conflicts with Rustic Delight
  • This will be re-added soon.
• Added new tips

• Fixed an issue where Mauveine Sabre and bombs were not displaying correctly.
• Fixed a disconnect when trying to join a server, relating to the unused Recipe Book