2.4.0-BETA.1 - [EARLY ACCESS VERSION OF THE 1.21.1 PORT]

Major Changes

-Updated to NeoForge 1.21.1

-Now requires Elysium API 1.2.0+ to run this mod

-JNE codebase was rewritten from the ground-up for this port. expect many performance improvements and bug fixes!

Changes

-The Nether world generation has been entirely overhauled from the ground up

-Speleothems can now generate in the nether to make it look more cavernous

-The Nether is now 192 blocks tall, with an additional -32 blocks for the future underlava expansion

-The dimension is also much more multilayered and less floaty overall

-Removed emissive built-in resource pack. all emissives are now part of the mod resources and always active

-Entirely Overhauled the mod's configurations, JNE has never been this customizable before!

-Soul Magma Block texture has received a glow-up, it now tiles much better with its surroundings

-Soul Magma also emits new particles if you sprint on it to better convey what's damaging you

-Ancient Wax Block texture has received a glow-up, no longer looks like bricks

-Shotgun-Fist now no longer uses wraithing flesh as ammo but rather the new Shotgun-Shells instead

-Shotgun Shells are crafted with wraithing flesh, iron nuggets and any coal-like item. It is the new ammunition for shotguns

-Slug Shotgun Shells are a variant of shotgun-shells crafted with blaze powder. It can destroy blocks and easily create new openings; deals knockback to entities

-Phasmo Shotgun Shells are another variant of shotgun-shells crafted with phasmo shards. It can phase through blocks

-Thin Black Ice can now shatter in a chain reaction if one breaks

-Certain mobs (usually light ones) can now stand on thin black ice without shattering it

-Banshees now produce smoke particles behind their orbit

-Will O' Wisps seeking logic has been overhauled, it now gradually gets faster overtime and less accurate with sharp turns

-Will O' Wisps now also have a 3D model with new and improved particles!

-Apparitions, Wisps, Banshees and Blazes no longer have shade and look similar to bedrock edition emissive mobs

-Banshees now get stunned upon getting hit with their own projectiles to make encounters with them more stragetic

-Several new visual effects have been added to the nether to make it more atmospheric, alongside changes to their fog colors to further add to their etheral look

-Soul Swirls no longer drop themselves if sheared when activated

-Bone Rod has been renamed to "Bone Pike"

-Bone Corticals have been removed. all instances of this block from older worlds will automatically convert to regular vanilla bone blocks

-New Advancement "Guns for Hands" duel a vessel with your very own shotgun

-New Advancement "Involuntary Eviction" forcefully remove a wisp out of ecto soul sand by brushing it

-Soul Sand Valleys and their sub-biomes now spawn cold frog variants opposed to warm ones

-Snow Golems no longer melt in the Soul Sand Valley or its sub-biomes either

-2 New Immunities were added, Slow Falling Immunity and Infesting Immunity, currently unbrewable due to antidotes not being implemented

-Sorrowsquash stem hitboxes now extend to encompasses the entire thing when attached

-Beacon glass texture has been updated to incorporate better shading

-Breeze Rod texture has been redesigned to be consistent with the new blaze rod and banshee rod

-Apparitions can now also turn into a banshee if they happen to possess a breeze

-Apparition Aggressions is a new data-driven registry which allows you to define custom hostility towards certain mobs depending on the apparition's personality

-The Apparition Aggression system also allows you to specify custom possessions when an apparition kills a certain mob

-Apparition Gargoyle Statues is also a new data-driven registry which allows you to define custom gargoyle statue-like possessions for apparitions

-Apparition now has a new attack animation and particles for when it possesses a mob

-Apparitions can now be waxed to prevent it from possessing mobs or gargoyle statues

-Possessed mobs made from an apparition possessing an entity now retain the information of what EntityType they use to be for reverting in exorcisms

-To make it easier for people to make possessions, apparitions can be "transported" with leashes. although unless it's docile it'll still fight back

-Discernment Glass now emits a comparator output if it has a filter item

-Weeping and Twisting Blackstone Bricks were missing slabs, stairs and wall variants due to an oversight. these have now been implemented

-Warped Forests and Basalt Deltas now have slightly denser fog

-Soul Glass & Discernment Glass have received new sounds

-Netherite Grate and Rusty Netherite Grate have received new sounds

-Ancient Wax Block has received new sounds

-Ancient Candle has received new sounds

-Wither Bone Blocks have received new sounds

-Bone Pike and Bone Fence have received new sounds

-Immunity Effects now have a distinct new sound effect for when they run out

-Geysers have received new sounds and shoot out particles at high velocity when stepped on

-Apparitions now have new possession sounds

-Lava now has a perlin noise gradient applied to it, making it look less mentonious

-New windy dust particles have been added to the soul sand valley which replace the usual static ash particles now

-Fire has received new particles and their each indevidual colors can be edited through a Resource Pack, allowing for mod-compat

-Vessel's AI has been overhauled, their aim is now more perfect the closer they are to the target; as indicated by a yellow flash before firing

-To accomdiate for the above change, their aim is also now worse at medium-to-far ranges, they now also become stationary upon firing to allow for easier hits

-Many new particles such as a cooldown smoke, shotgun shoot flash, pellet impacts, trails and more have been given to both the Vessel and Shotgun-Fist

-Updated German Translation

-AND PROBABLY MORE STUFF I'M STRAIGHT UP FORGETTING !!!

Mod Compatibility

-Possessed and Ghost mobs now take 1.5x damage modifier if hurt with any modded silver weapon

-To further convey that possessions and ghost mobs are weak to silver, new particles show up when they are damaged with it

-Item Tags defining Silver Armors and Weapons are now located under the c: common tags namespace shared across NeoForge and Fabric for better compatibility

-Galosphere's Sterling armor pieces are now counted as silver armor and thus effective against ghosts and possessions

Fixes

-Treacherous Candle spawn and round sounds didn't have subtitles, this has now been fixed

-Claret was missing from the #minecraft:log and #minecraft:non_flammable_wood tags, this has now been fixed

-Sporeshrooms were unable to be duplicated with bone meal when hanging upside-down, this has now been fixed

-Suspicious Soul Sand had a chance to immediately decay upon being created, now there is an actual decay counter for tracking and preventing immediate decay

-Immunity Effect particles now show up on other entities inflicted with immunities and not just yourself

-Items cooking on an ancient campfire now display properly

-Banshees now instantly die if they are hit with their own will o wisp

2.3.5

Fixes

-Fixed Shotgun Pellets depleating unusual amount of durability from armor

-Fixed Roots not being plantable on wart blocks

-Fixed Soul Fire being lightable on faces of certain blocks which shouldn't support it

-Fixed nether fog overriding all other fog changes such as soul glass or ectoplasm

-Piglins are now properly afraid of and run from Vessels and Banshees as intended

2.3.5

Fixes

-Fixed Shotgun Pellets depleating unusual amount of durability from armor

-Fixed Roots not being plantable on wart blocks

-Fixed Soul Fire being lightable on faces of certain blocks which shouldn't support it

-Fixed nether fog overriding all other fog changes such as soul glass or ectoplasm

-Piglins are now properly afraid of and run from Vessels and Banshees as intended

2.3.4

Fixes

-Reverted Simplified Chinese Translation. there were too many mistakes

2.3.3

Fixes

-Fixed netherexp=null crash if used with Terrablender

-Fixed Chiseled Soul Slate Tiles having incorrect top textures when lit with emissives turned on

-Fixed Argentine Spanish Translation not loading in-game

Changes

-JNE now requires Elysium API 1.1.3+ to run

-Updated Simplified Chinese Translation

2.3.2

Fixes

-Fixed a critical bug where the game crashes when trying to place blocks with certain mods

-Twisting Ivy and Helixes are now properly orientated

-Actually fixed "shotgun jet propulsion" bug this time

Changes

-Carcasses can no longer be leashed

-Recoil from a Pump-Charge Shotgun now decreases depending on how many levels of Quick Charge you have

2.3.1

Fixes

-Stampede's movement speed was extremly fast after the previous update, this has now been fixed

-Stampede no longer consumes food with right-clicks while it's chewing

-Previously it was possible to fly with the pump-charge shotgun's recoil with quick charge, it has now been fixed

-Discernment Glass is now obtainable in survival, previously had a broken recipe

-Ancient Candle is now obtainable in survival, previously had a broken recipe

-Ancient Campfire and Candle no longer emit light when turned off

-Immortal Carcasses can now be killed by bypassing invulnerable damages (i.e /kill and void damage)

-Discernment Glass now no longer get destroyed by flowing liquids

Changes

-Immortal Carcasses now have a 30 minute time limit, after it elapses the carcass will turn back to normal

-due to the above change you can no longer retreive treacherous flames from a carcass

-helixes now naturally generate on ivy patches

-Added Polish Translation

-Updated Italian Translation

-Updated Russian Translation

-Updated Argentinian Spanish Translation

-Updated Brazilian Spanish Translation

-Updated Simplified Chinese Translation

2.3.0 - Cherry on Top Drop

Changes

-JNE now requires Elysium API 1.1.0+ to run

-Added Emissive Built-in Resource Pack which makes certain blocks glow in the dark, it is configurable and works with shaders

-Completely Redesigned Black Ice Glaciers to feel like an actual cold biome and generally make it look better

-Also made black ice glaciers much larger and more common

-Placing Blocks is now possible during betrayed effect but all placed blocks become Haze Blocks

-Haze Blocks are temporary blocks that break after a while and only solid to players meaning other entities can still pass through them

-Treacherous Candle now spawns mobs in a Torus radius around the candle

-Wisps now cannot drop from apparitions spawned in through a treacherous candle

-Apparitions now drop chains upon death

-Treacherous Candle has received several new sounds and visual effects

-The screen turns red when betrayed effect is active

-Next wave's number is now displayed on the treacheous candle health bar

-Treacherous Fire can be used on carcasses to make them forever immortal, right-click with an empty hand to get the flame back

-Ancient Wax a new item found only in brazier chests, makes false carcasses and decorative ancient fire blocks

-Ancient Fire, a new red fireset that comes in torches, lanterns, campfires and all other Vanilla and JNE fire block variants

-False Carcasses can be made when ancient wax is laddered on a skeleton, it has similar properties to the ones in sanctums but look different

-Unlike real carcasses the false ones can be killed in survival if their ancient wax is removed with shears

-Discernment Glass, lets you place an item into it and allows only that item to filter through it. powering inverts this behavior

-Pump-Charge Shotgun has been significantly buffed shooting 10, 20 and 30 pellets per pump respectively, it can now only be pumped 3 to parity with ULTRAKILL

-Pump-Charge Shotgun now beeps when it's overpumped

-Overcharged Explosions are now red

-Barrage and Quick-Charge now work on Pump-Charge Shotguns

-Soul Bullets were renamed to Shotgun Pellets

-Shotgun Pellets now have a straight trejectory with no dropoff while disappearing faster

-Shotgun Pellets now cannot hurt entities with phantasm hull nor apparitions/wisps

-Added Weeping Helix and Twisting Helix, grows on ivy and can be crafted into red and cyan dyes

-Carcasses have been given sounds and an attack animation

-Ecto Slabs can now be forced out early by striking underground ectoslabs with certain projectiles and explosions

-Ecto Slabs now have sound cues before pouncing

-Nerfed Ecto Slabs' movement speed when underground and increased pause duration before pouncing to be far more lenient

-Black Ice and Soul Permafrost textures have been slightly tweaked to be more bluish while the latter is now a dark brown

-Shotgun Core can be grinded down in sculk grinders for experience

-When an apparition possesses a mob or statue it'll create blue smoke particles around itself

-Exorcising mobs also produces blue smoke particles

-Sorrowsquash Stems now have a randomized age meaning they'll stop growing at random heights rather than the fixed 25 height

-Sorrowsquash can also grow out of these vines at any age and doesn't require them to be fully mature

-Wart Beards now connect when placed next to each other

-Sorrowsquash now falls if the vine connected to it is destroyed

-Mounds are made rarer, meaning the soul sand valley is now relatively flat again with the occasional height variation

-Sanctum Locator Compass makes ticking sounds when held and active

-Wisp-made Suspicious Soul Sand loot tables are now data-driven

-Boats now float on ectoplasm

-Black Icicles now shatter upon landing on them with segnificant force whilst also dealing damage

-Soul Permafrost now drops soul soil or black icicles depending on weather it was mined with a shovel or pickaxe

-Soul Magma Block now no longer emits light

-Increased Ectoplasm light level from 7 to 12

-Ectoplasm Ray particle y-axis rotation has been locked making it look good from all prespectives, tysm Glytch10!

-Mushroom and Fungus item textures were moved to conflicting retextures

-Bullets shot from a Shotgun-Fist and Pump Charge Shotgun can be configured

-Potion Stack Size change can now be force disabled in the configs so comparators can start working like normal again

-Black Icicles growing chance underwater is now configurable

-Frogmist has been given unique sounds

-Cerebrage & Cerebrage Claret Stem have been given unique sounds

-Removed Black Strays, being moved to Hominid

-Removed Soul Jack O'Lantern and Ghoul O'Lantern, the latter is now soul fire by default

-Removed Bloodshed Enchantment

-Added 2 new advancements for making false carcasses and making a carcass immortal

-Shotguns are now repairable with stridite

Mod-Compat Changes

-Phantasm Hull now works against all modded projectiles unless specified in the #netherexp:phantasm_hull_protects_blacklist tag

-Most mods' warped fungus textures have been given shroomnight palettes

==Oreganized==

-Added Grooved Black Ice

-Jackhammer-Fist has been given unique sounds

-Jackhammer-Fist now also has a new blast particle after striking

-the target of the jackhammer-fist now recieves knockback proportional to the speed at which you were moving

-Jackhammer's damage buildup and recoil has also been buffed

-it now also goes into cooldown if too much damage was inflicted at once

==Alex's Caves==

-Added Carmine Frogmist, dropped by primordial frogs eating ecto slabs

==Alex's Mobs==

-Warptoad now drops shroomnight upon death

==Species==

-Wraptors can now be bred with shroomnight and shroomblight

==Rubinated Nether==

-Soul Ruby Ore is now more common and weighted towards the top of the nether much like soul magma blocks

Fixes

-Fixed sky not matching fog color when submerged in ectoplasm, soul glass or during treacherous candles

-Removed "I'm Alright Lads" advancement as it was broken and impossible to obtain

-Soul Fire now only be placed on full solid surfaces

-Treacherous Candle use to count waves inproperly leading to Wave 1 being skipped and an additional extra wave at the end, both issues have now been fixed

-Mehcanical Saw from Create can now cut down Shroomnights and other mod compat shroomlights

-Ectoplasm now shouldn't render upside-down inside of things like Create fluid containers

-Fixed Pump-Charge shotgun firing pellets when overpumped

-Pump-Charge shotgun now pumps again

-Black Ice Particles config now functions again

-Black Icicles now properly grow when submerged underwater

-Polished Blackstone Bricks sounds now play properly

-Rusty Netherite Stairs now correctly play ancient debris sounds rather than regular netherite

-You can now sprint while using the Jackhammer-Fist

-Jackhammer-Fist animations are no longer jittery

-Wart Beard bone mealing now displays particles

-Black Ice Glacier placement is now affected by world seed

-Tamed Stampedes no longer despawn

-Stampedes now produce smoke particles if the taming attempt failed to better communicate it to the user

-Warped Warts no longer break upon block updating

-Mending is no longer extremely common in the loot table of Brazier Chests

-Black Icicles use to make a breaking sound at x0 z0 when hitting a block rather than the location of impact, it has been fixed

-Fixed Soul Ruby Ore dropping regular molten ruby ore upon breaking with silk touch

-Fixed improper casing in the Rodeo Stampede advancement description

-Removed Fishstacks