Better Tools and Armor

Version 13.1 (Update to Minecraft 1.21)

Highlights

• First version of Better Tools and Armor for Minecraft 1.21.1!
• Made various things in the mod more consistent with each other

Change Log

Crystallite

• Crystallite Block items are now immune to fire.
• Renamed Crystallite Sky elemental upgrade to Air
• Changed various full-set bonuses to require 3 pieces equipped instead of 4. Also charms are now included in this count.
• Tools (Redstone) - All 'progressive upgrading' tools receive a mining efficiency boost at each level. Also improved tooltips.
• Pickaxe (Emerald) - Can now be enchanted with Sword and Pickaxe enchantments.
• Pickaxe (Air) - Now removes underwater mining penalty
• Shovel (Emerald) - Effect is now disabled when sneaking.
• Hoe (Prismarine) - Can now moisturise existing farmland with no durability cost.
• Armor (Gold) - Piglins no longer get angry at the player when wearing this armor.
• Armor (Lapis) - Now gives +20% XP drops from mobs, for each piece worn.
• Chestplate (Sculk) - Nerfed range from 40 to 24 blocks and added durability cost of 3 when a sonic boom is launched.
• Leggings (Sculk) - Nows add +0.4 Sneaking Speed (including with Swift Sneak III)
• Chestplate (Amethyst) - Buffed damage reduction from 20% to 40%, when on full HP.
• Helmet (Prismarine) - Now grants immunity to Mining Fatigue.
• Chestplate (Prismarine) - No longer grants immunity to Mining Fatigue, instead giving the player Absorption HP when wet.
• Bow (Ruby) - Pull time is now 50% of the vanilla Bow, rather than 60%
• Bow (Honey) - Now fires continuously when right-click is held down (4 shots per second)
• Icy Bracelet now prevents sinking in Powder Snow.
• Increased accuracy of projectiles shot by the Reflect Charm, but also the damage dealt to the wearer now scales with projectile damage.
• Curing Charm now shortens all negative effects to 5s, rather than just some specific effects to 10s.

World-Gen

• Tweaked Fungal Caves generation
• Purple Mushrooms now generate underground in any mushroom-related biome.
• Made big Blue/Purple mushroom generation less janky
• Crystallite Blocks can no longer be overwritten by other structures in world-gen
• Topaz Ore can now generate inside cave biomes, as long as there is a desert-like biome on the surface
• Made Nether Diamond Ore slightly more common
• Made Blackstone Magma Blocks less common

Other Items

• Made recipe easier for Ender Goggles
• Added recipe for turning an Ender Titanium Block back into 9 ingots.
• Improved detection for when it is dark, so various tool and armor effects are applied more consistently.
• Wearing an Icy Bracelet or Leather/Sapphire Armor will now reduce Frozen time to 5s, and make the player immune to freezing in Powder Snow.
• Hearty Shirt and Crystallite Chestplate Honey both no longer require the player to have not taken damage for 10s. The effects always work now.
• Fire Staff explosions now cause mobs to properly drop XP.
• Being saved from the void by Ender Titanium Armor no longer sets the player's health to 2.

Misc.

• Made more tool effects useable from the off-hand
• Cleaned up all item and block tags in the mod.
• Improved tooltips for various tools and armor.
• Blackstone Magma Block items are now immune to burning
• Frozen mobs now show a shatter animation when the effect expires
• Double Jump strength now properly scales with the player's Jump Strength attribute.
• Winged Boots now give an additional jump when the Double Jump effect is applied.
• Increased drop rate of Guardian Spikes from Guardians
• Updated the additional loot available from Monster Boxes and Urns in the Quark and Supplementaries mods (respectively).
• Tweaked stats for various tools and armor which had incorrect/inconsistent values.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when two mobs wearing a Cactus Shirt attacked each other
• Fixed Purple Mushroom damage causing knockback
• Fixed a bug where only 1 item would be dropped from ores, when mined with a Magnetic Pickaxe, even if the loot table gave more than 1 item
• Fixed missing dyeable recipe for Dark Red Metal Hanging Sign
• Ice Staff no longer causes a freezing explosion without the Ensorcellation enchantment, when used in a cold biome.

Version 13.0

This is the LAST UPDATE for Minecraft 1.20.1. It focuses on polishing the mod and making many items more desirable to use.

Highlights

• Added various early-game items which have useful effects originally exclusive to Crystallite gear.
• Reworked the effects of many Crystallite items to be more useful.
• Buffed stats for all Crystallite and Ender Titanium tools and armor.
• Improved overall mod performance and polish.

New Items

• Amethyst Helmet - Same effect as Amethyst-Crystallite Helmet. Shows bright particles on all ores in a 24 block radius, if they are exposed to air.
• Ore Vision Potion - New potion effect which does the same thing as wearing an Amethyst Helmet. Brewed using an Awkward Potion and an Amethyst Shard.
• Dripstone Boots - Causes a damaging shockwave when landing from a fall. Works the same way as Amethyst-Crystallite Boots.
• Honeycomb Helmet - Can stick to ceilings, in the same way as the Honey-Crystallite Helmet.
• Redstone Sword and Dagger - Heals the user on every attack, in the same way as Redstone-Crystallite weapons.
• Lapis Lazuli Sword and Dagger - Deals damage through armor.
• Emerald Sword and Dagger - Causes the Pitfall effect for 3s, which is now a potion-style effect. This traps mobs in the ground for the effect duration.

Crystallite

General:

• Added a Smithing Table recipe to remove an upgrade from any piece of Crystallite gear
• Buffed Durability of all Crystallite equipment by around 33%
• Changed recipes of some Elemental Crystals

Bows:

• Nerfed base damage of all Crystallite Bows by 0.5 (except Honey upgrade)
• Prismarine upgrade - Arrows now travel at full speed in water. Nerfed damage boost while arrows are in water.
• Amethyst upgrade - Arrows now home into nearby mobs, rather than shooting directly at them. This effect stacks with the Amethyst-upgraded Helmet.

Armor:

• Honey Helmet - Can now stick to most transparent full blocks on the ceiling.
• Honey Chestplate - Increased absorption regeneration rate to 2HP every 10s
• Amethyst Chestplate - Changed effect. Now grants the effect Resistance I while at full HP.
• Amethyst Leggings - Reduced jank when climbing walls, and most transparent full blocks can now be climbed.
• Nether Diamond upgrade - Reworked armor effect. It now reduces burn time and gives Fire Resistance when you are set on fire.
• Sculk Leggings - Speed while crouching is now increased by a multiplier of 1.3x, rather than addition.
• Sky Chestplate - Now knocks back all mobs within 1 block when attacked.
• Netherite Chestplate - Buffed radius of Spin Thorns full-set bonus.
• Winged Boots - Changed to be a Smithing recipe

Charms:

• Magic Ring - Buffed to +20% XP drops and improved rounding of XP drop values.
• Flaming Circlet - Now has the old effect of Nether Diamond Armor. Sets attackers on fire for 3s.
• Earth Circlet - Acts the same as the new Ore Vision effect, rather than highlighting ores with dim lights.
• Reflect Charm - Buffed damage of reflected arrows
• Nature Ring - Reduced price from 128 to 69 Emeralds from Jeweller
• Added Ender Goggles and Withered Gauntlet as Jeweller trades

Tools: (any changes to Swords have also been done to the corresponding Daggers)

• Sculk Pickaxe - Greatly increased range in which ores can be mined all at once.
• Sculk/Emerald Axes - Multi-log mining effect is now disabled while crouching.
• Sculk Shovel and Hoe, and Prismarine Shovel - Now drops the correct blocks when enchanted with Silk Touch.
• Topaz Pickaxe - Buffed double drops chance to 20%
• Amethyst Pickaxe - Particles are now always shown regardless of client settings.
• Amethyst upgraded tools - Greatly reduced all durability costs and cooldown times. Durability is no longer used when no ores are found.
• Honey tools - All tools can now safely harvest honey from beehives
• Honey Pickaxe and Axe - Combo mining now only works for blocks for which the correct tool is being used, and works better on hard blocks such as Obsidian. Increased timeout to 2s.
• Honey Shovel and Hoe - Added a new effect. When many of the same plant is mined in a row, it has a 20% chance to drop Bone Meal.
• Emerald Sword - Pitfall effect is now less janky and works like a potion effect. Pitfall now removes the Levitation effect from the target.
• Emerald Chestplate and Nature Ring - Halved time for HP regeneration, and removed restriction on being out of combat
• Emerald Hoe - Changed effect. Plants now have a 10% chance to drop Bone Meal when mined.
• Redstone Sword - Now heals the user on every hit, with a 1s cooldown.
• Redstone Pickaxe and Axe - Changed effect. Mining speed now increases with long-term use, up to a high limit.
• Redstone Shovel and Hoe - Changed effect. Chance for plants to drop Bone Meal now increases with long-term use, up to 20%.
• Gold Sword - Increased spin attack radius and improved particle texture.
• Lapis Sword, Axe and Dagger - Buffed damage to be equal to other Crystallite weapons.
• Sapphire Pickaxe - Changed effect so that it is like Silk Touch but only ore blocks drop themselves.
• Sapphire Shovel and Hoe - Changed effect. Now mines all plants in a 5x5 area.
• Sapphire tools - Changed textures to differentiate more from Lapis tools.
• Nether Diamond Shovel and Hoe - Changed effect. Plants now have a 10% chance to drop Charcoal when mined.
• Nether Diamond Sword - Added new effect. Damage increases when in the Nether.

Other Tools and Armor

• Flint tools now have an increased Critical Hit Multiplier and improved textures.
• Changed texture of Sapphire Sword/Dagger, to differentiate from new Lapis Sword/Dagger.
• Sapphire tools - Now enchanted with Silk Touch by default.
• Sapphire and Topaz Armor - Adjusted effect chances
• Topaz Pickaxe - Ores drop double 10% of the time.
• Topaz Axe, Shovel and Hoe - Now enchanted with Fortune I by default.
• Reduced durability of Ruby and Topaz Daggers to match how Dagger durability scales in other tool sets.
• Nether Diamond Sword and Axe now always set the target on fire for 3s.
• Nether Diamond Pickaxe now smelts all raw ore drops.
• Nether Diamond Shovel and Hoe now give a 5% chance for plants to drop Charcoal.
• Nether Diamond Armor - reworked in the same way as Nether Diamond upgraded Crystallite Armor.
• Buffed durability of Ender Titanium Tools and Armor by around 20%
• Increased base mining speeds for late-game tools across the board (with Efficiency V this largely makes no difference, except that Ruby-Crystallite Pickaxes can now mine Stone instantly)

Misc.

Items and Effects:

• Tweaked many item tooltips throughout the mod, to improve readability.
• Simplified crafting recipes and display names for all Metal Blocks.
• Added item and block tags for Metal Blocks.
• All Effect Armor and Wooden Armor is now trimmable.
• Potion of Lost Souls and Recall Potion - improved detection for a safe place to teleport the user, if the death/spawn location is obstructed.
• Frozen players jumping reduces effect time faster than before.
• Gave Karma potion effect a proper GUI icon.
• Advancement 'Overkill' now only counts melee damage.
• Blackstone Magma Blocks can no longer damage mobs which are immune to fire.
• Ice Staff - Adjusted explosion radius values. Explosion is now 1 large particle, rather than many small ones.
• Ice Staff - Improved texture of explosions and added sound effect for them.
• Guardian Staff - Particles now explode outwards from the player
• Reduced jank when using Double Jump in a laggy server.
• Added 'coyote time' to Double Jump - a jump will not be used up if jumping immediately after falling off a ledge.
• Double Jump now increases jump height when the player also has Jump Boost.

General:

• Improved performance of many procedures in the mod's code.
• Removed Attribute Viewer screen, as it was hurting performance.
• Gamerule displayDamageValues now only displays damage dealt by players with OP permissions. Message is now only shown to the attacker.
• Added command /getworldsurface which outputs the surface height of the world to chat, for use by players with OP permissions only.
• Added game rule displayXpDropValues which outputs the amount of XP dropped by mobs killed by players with OP permissions. Message is only shown to the attacker
• Added more JEI Information for features in the mod
• Tweaked Creative tab order

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where Crystallite Cluster sparkle sound effects where based on world time, causing issues when doDaylightCycle was set to false
• Fixed speed boost effect jitter with Sculk-Crystallite Boots
• Fixed Crystallite Charms advancements being granted incorrectly
• Fixed exploit where Emerald-Crystallite Pickaxe could be used to obtain infinite Bark items from any log.
• Fixed issue where particles from some effects only appeared on client-side. e.g. Magic Staff projectile particles.
• Blackstone Magma Blocks no longer destroy items dropped on top of them.
• Setting a mob on fire now properly shatters them if they are Frozen.
• Fixed issue where a Smelting Touch pickaxe would sometimes not smelt items.
• Corrected Crit Multiplier amount shown in tooltip of Sky-Crystallite Sword, Dagger and Axe.
• Advancement 'Feel The Fizz' now only counts when drinks are consumed, not any foods.
• Fixed bottom of Winged Boots texture
• Fixed issue where if a creeper exploded while stuck in the mud (Pitfall effect), the mud block display would stay in the world forever.

Hotfix Version 12.0.2

• Fixed Diamond Hard Plate Crystallite Charm not being equippable
• Fixed pulling animations of Crystallite Bows not working

Version 12.0.1 [Energy Vial Hotfix]

• Added a display to the Energy Vial's tooltip showing which armor pieces are active.
• Added /energyvial command for updating the Energy Vial's active state. Can be used by players with any permission level.
• Just Enough Items is no longer strictly required to load the mod, although it is highly recommended.
• Fixed a client-server desync bug where the Energy Vial GUI would not modify the vial's active state on Multiplayer Servers.
• Fixed a bug where the Energy Vial would not lose Effect Energy while the GUI was open.
• Fixed a bug where some Crystallite Charms were not equippable.

Version 12.0 [The Effect Armor Rework]

(Major changes in bold)

Effect Armor changes:

• Reworked Effect Armor so that it no longer uses durability to give its effects.
• Added Energy Vial to store Effect Energy, which powers Effect Armor. This is a curios-equippable item which can be upgraded to increase capacity.
• Added Energy Vial GUI for fuelling the vial with Effect Energy, as well as toggling the effects of Effect Armor without needing to take any armor off.
• Added keybind for accessing the Energy Vial GUI. By default, this is set to V.
• Added Enriched Blaze Powder for fuelling Energy Vials with Effect Energy. It can be upgraded to increase its potency.
• Cactus Shirts and Crying Obsidian Helmets are no longer considered Effect Armor, as they do not use Effect Energy.
• Nerfed Diamond Encrusted Magma Chestplate from Strength level 2 to 1.
• Hearty Shirt now restores 1 Absorption HP every 5s, until a limit is reached. This uses Effect Energy and only happens if the player hasn't taken damage in the last 10s.
• Winged Boots now passively grant a Double Jump effect, where Effect Energy is used up per jump.
• Glass Armor can now be mixed-and-matched between the different upgrade sets.
• Effect Armor recipes no longer require another piece of armor, or any brewing ingredients.
• Reworked the item tagging system for Effect Armor.
• Replaced the advancements which required the player to collect all types of Effect Armor.
• Changed the creative tab icon for the Effect Armor tab, since the Cactus Shirt is no longer considered to be Effect Armor.

Other changes:

• Added Mystic Potion, brewed with Ultra Enriched Blaze Powder, which is used to brew more powerful potions in the mod. It applies a random effect to the player when consumed.
• Changed the recipes for Experience Potion and Potion of Lost Souls to use a Mystic Potion, rather than an Awkward Potion.
• Added key bindings category for Better Tools and Armor.
• Frozen creepers exploding no longer leave behind a floating Ice Block Display entity.
• Crying Obsidian Helmet no longer activates for deaths to the void.
• Crying Obsidian Helmet now has a dynamic tooltip, showing whether its durability threshold is reached.
• Added JEI information for Crying Obsidian Helmet
• Players can no longer Double Jump while in water.
• The 'extra jumps' counter for a player with Double Jump is now reset when they are in water.
• Players can now Double Jump while moving upwards, if it has been at least 0.2s since their last jump.
• Added Purple Metal Signs to the creative inventory.

Version 11.3 Patch Notes [The Signs Update]

• Added Metal Signs and Metal Hanging Signs for every colour of Metal Building Block
  • This is for parity with my other mod, Big Signs, which adds One-Line variants of these signs
  • Metal Signs can be crafted one-to-one with One-Line Metal Signs from Big Signs
  • Download Big Signs here: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/big-signs
• Added stonecutting recipes to change coloured Metal Walls back into their respective blocks.
• Changed some of the colour names of the Metallic blocks, to match Big Signs.
• Re-ordered Metallic blocks in the Creative inventory, to match Big Signs.
• Fixed a bug where the Prismarine-Crystallite Hoe could turn any block into Farmland, if Aquaculture was installed.
• Prismarine-Crystallite Hoe now tills fully-moisturised Farmland in a 3x3 area, and this still works if the right-clicked block is already Farmland.
• Mobs in their dying animation can no longer be frozen. This would previously cause ice blocks to linger in the world forever after the mob disappeared.

Version 11.2 Patch Notes [The Handy Update]

New Stuff:

• Added Bark item, which drops when stripping any log. Bark can be used to un-strip logs. This includes any logs from other mods.
• Added Wooden Armor, crafted using Bark.
• Added 2 new advancements relating to Bark and Wooden Armor.
• The player's hand now swings when using a Warden or Guardian Staff.
• The player's hand now swings when using various Crystallite tools' right-click effects.
• Added stonecutting recipes to turn Metallic Trapdoors back into full Blocks.
• Winged Boots now have a similar effect to Sky-Crystallite Boots, protecting from all falls less than 5 blocks.

Crystallite Changes:

• Various Crystallite tools' right-click effects can now be used while the tool is in the player's off-hand.
• Netherite- and Nether Diamond-Crystallite Shovels and Hoes no longer drain durability or go on cooldown when their effects are used in Creative Mode.
• Shortened the cooldown times and reduced durability costs of all Amethyst-Crystallite tool effects.
• Sky-Crystallite Boots now only prevent fall damage for falls up to 8 blocks, no matter what.
• Sky-Crystallite Boots now deal correct fall damage for falls above 8 blocks, instead of reduced damage.
• Winged Boots are now crafted exclusively using Sky-Crystallite Boots, rather than any upgrade.
• Winged Boots are now valid for the 'Low Gravity' advancement.
• Winged Boots now make the correct sound when equipped.
• Reverted Crystallite Cluster sparkling sound effect to how it was before, to display correct subtitles.
• Fixed a bug where the hitbox of Crystallite Cluster Air was visible.
• Fixed a bug where using Smelting Touch and a Magnetic Pickaxe could sometimes crash the world.

Changes to Freezing:

• Ice Staffs now correctly freeze mobs for a longer time in cold biomes, rather than when not in a cold biome. This change only applies to the radius caused by the Ensorcellation enchantment.
• Freezing a mob will now extinguish it.
• Frozen players in Creative mode are no longer slowed, or have an Ice Block display. They simply emit particles now.
• Endermen teleporting while frozen will delete the Ice Block display.
• Flying mobs, such as Phantoms, are now slowed while Frozen.
• Frozen mobs will now fall much slower.
• Fixed a bug with Ice Blocks shown on Frozen mobs, where the block would stay visible indefinitely.

Version 11.1.1 Patch Notes

• Ice Staffs now correctly freeze mobs for a longer time in cold biomes, rather than when not in a cold biome.
• Ice Staff dynamic tooltip now displays Freeze Time correctly.
• Icy Bracelet no longer counts damage from Thorns as a melee attack
• Changed the Crystallite Cluster sparkle sound effect. It is now more noticeable
• Fixed an issue with Crystallite Clusters where the sparkling sound would sometimes continue, even after a cluster had already been discovered.
• Fixed an issue where mobs Frozen by an attack would sometimes be instantly shattered.