Chinese Festivals

Want to celebrate a Chinese Festival in Hytale? This mod brings you 41 Chinese festival decorations for the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) and the Spring Festival (春节): paper lanterns that glow and sway, a moon-worship altar laid with mooncakes, door gods and spring couplets for your doorway, a lion dance head and much more (more festivals coming soon).

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Features:

• 41 decorations — 18 for the Mid-Autumn Festival, 22 for the Spring Festival, plus the original Chinese Lantern.
• Everything is crafted at the Furniture Bench. The two festival sets are under the Seasonal tab, and the Chinese Lantern is under Lighting.
• Every lantern, lamp and candle turns on and off with the Use key.
• Place the Palace, Starfruit, Carp, Sky, Trotting Horse or Chinese Lantern against a ceiling and it hangs instead.
• Animated pieces: hanging lanterns sway, the carp flicks its tail, the Jade Rabbit pounds its mortar, the Trotting Horse Lantern's paper horsemen turn, and the lion dance head nods and blinks.
• Real flickering candle flames on the Moon Offering Table, the Lotus Lantern and the Red Candle Stand.
• Real Chinese calligraphy on the couplets, the fortune sign and the sky lantern.
• and more festivals coming soon!

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🌕 Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节):

Everything for moon-viewing night: lanterns, the moon rabbit, mooncakes and golden osmanthus.

Lanterns and lights:

• Rabbit Lantern — a white paper rabbit on a little wheeled cart, lit from inside.
• Palace Lantern — a hexagonal rosewood lantern with painted red silk panels and gold tassels.
• Starfruit Lantern — the golden five-finned carambola lantern, hung from a bamboo crook.
• Carp Lantern — a red-and-gold koi leaping over carved waves.
• Sky Lantern — a tall paper lantern with a red 福, waiting for launch.
• Lotus Lantern — a pink paper lotus with a candle at its heart.
• Moon Lamp — a glowing full moon in a rosewood cloud stand, the Jade Rabbit hidden in its shadows.
• Moon Offering Table — a red lacquer altar laid for the moon, with incense, candles, mooncakes and a pomelo.

Figures:

• Tu'er Ye, Lord Rabbit — Beijing's Lord Rabbit, armored and flag-backed, riding his tiger.
• Jade Rabbit — the moon rabbit, pounding the elixir of immortality in its mortar.
• Chang'e Rising to the Moon — a porcelain figurine of the moon goddess rising on a cloud, cradling her rabbit.

Feast and table:

• Mooncake Platter — stacked mooncakes, one cut open to show lotus paste and a salted egg yolk.
• Mooncake Gift Box — four mooncakes in a red-and-gold box.
• Fruit Offering — pomelos, persimmons, a split pomegranate and grapes on a porcelain dish.
• Osmanthus Tea Set — a clay teapot and cups on a lacquer tray.
• Osmanthus Wine Jar — a cloth-sealed jar of osmanthus wine with a dipper and cup.

Garden and walls:

• Osmanthus Bonsai — a little osmanthus tree in golden bloom.
• Moon-Viewing Scroll — a two-block hanging scroll of the full moon, osmanthus and a white rabbit.

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🧧 Spring Festival (春节):

Everything for Chinese New Year: red lanterns, the lion dance, lucky signs for the door and a full New Year table.

Lights:

• Chinese Lantern — the mod's original lantern, for floor or ceiling.
• Trotting Horse Lantern — a hexagonal red-and-gold lantern whose inner drum of paper horsemen turns while it's lit.
• Lantern Garland — three little red lanterns on a red cord across the wall, swaying gently.
• Red Candle Stand — a pair of tall red candles with a gold dragon and phoenix.

Celebration:

• Lion Dance Head — a big southern lion head on its stand, nodding and blinking.
• New Year Drum — a red lacquered drum with brass studs on a carved stand, sticks crossed on top.
• Firecracker String — a two-block braid of red firecrackers hanging from a knot, swaying.

Figures and plants:

• God of Wealth — a jolly seated Caishen holding a gold ingot.
• Year of the Goat — a golden goat on a red cushion.
• Kumquat Tree — a potted kumquat heavy with fruit and hung with red envelopes.
• Plum Blossom Vase — a celadon vase of dark plum branches in pink and white bloom.

For the walls and doors:

• Spring Couplets — a left and a right red strip (春回大地 / 福满人间) and the banner that goes over the door (新春大吉).
• Upside-Down Fortune Sign — the red diamond 福, hung upside down so "fortune arrives".
• Door Gods — the facing guardian pair, Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong.
• Paper-Cut Window — a carved window with a red paper-cut carp among lotus; the cut-outs really are see-through.
• Chinese Knot — a big red endless knot with a gold coin and three tassels.

The New Year table:

• Gold Ingot Tray — gold yuanbao, copper coins and red envelopes on a lacquer tray.
• Mandarin Orange Bowl — a porcelain bowl of mandarins, one peeled beside it.
• Dumpling Steamer — bamboo steamers of pleated dumplings, with vinegar and chopsticks.
• Tray of Togetherness — the octagonal red candy box, eight compartments of sweets and treats.

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Requirements:

• Hytale Update 7 (server 0.7.0+, pre-release included). Drop the jar in /mods and restart.
• Still on Update 6? Use v0.1.4, which has the Chinese Lantern only.

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Support the Creator of Chinese Festivals:

You can support me by using my creator code SIREN at checkout.

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