The Abyssal Ascent (End Update)

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Abyssal Ascent has so many new content starting off with the 3 base layers of the End

Void Layer: Void Layer is at the bottom of the dimension, it has several dangerous threats inside it, but also has some amazing rewards
(Note: due to a minecraft bug with fog, the area in the image isnt fully accurate)

Clouded Layer: this is the highest layer and has the least amount of content, its the main source of Sapphire Ore and has a bunch of cloud related plants and blocks

BIOMES:

Endra Forest: Endra forest is a giant wooden mushroom biome

Distorted Forest: Distorted forest is a giant biome filled with flower trees

Chorus Grove: has a bunch of shulker themed mobs and edible trees

Arkose Peaks: Arkose Peaks are mountain ranges made up of mostly Arkose Blocks, which is the Ends version of stone, only 2 mobs spawn here, Evupuls and Final Skeletons:

Lavender Fields: This Biome is similar to the normal end, except instead of normal end stone, its cobbled end stone, which acts similar to farmland and is used to grow End Crops (note you need the crops to be in the End for them to grow)

End Wilds: The End Wilds are a biome consisting of several Golden Plants and End Sand (used to get glass in the End)

Abyssal Swamp: Abyssal Swamp is filled with water and fish, a great place for you to go to fish

Cosmic Frontier: the Cosmic Frontier is a Cosmic/star-themed biome thats filled with a bunch of Cosmic mobs, Cosmonium, and more

Dragonspire Wield: this biome has 3 different dangerous dragon mobs, as well as tall dragon shale spires

Blushie Swamp: Blushie Swamp is a dense biome, filled with plants and has pockets of water in it

Portal Plague: Portal Plague has a ton of eyeballs and fossils, the landscape is covered in glowing Portal Mold Blocks

STRUCTURES:

Ender Chamber: The Ender Chambers are a varient of the trial chambers with its own unique gimmicks

Ruined End Portal: this place contains a quick exit to the overworld

Dragon Bastion: this structure has different variations depending on the biome

Voided Soul Blacksmith: this structure contains the Soul Forge, which is used for a lot of the crafting in this addon

Void Pope Church: this structure contains the spawn block for the Void Pope (place an ascendant block on top of the spawn block to summon Void pope)

Shrine of the Forgotten Eye: this structure serves to be the spawn location and arena for Sightfull Obelisk of Ender

End Ruins: Ruins are randomly scattered across the End, theyre similar to ocean ruins, you dig around them and find the treasure, they also have a Crystal which is used for potion brewing and throwing knives:

Dragonbird Meeting Zone: these structures are similar to Dragonfolk Bastions, but Elyrae mobs spawn in them, they have several varients depending on the biome

Misc Structures:

MOBS:

Elyrae: allies with Dragonfolk, they can spawn with either an enchanted sword or jade caltrops, theyre passive unless provoked, stolen from, or if you anger a dragonfolk

Evupul: This mob comes in 3 different colors, theyre a passive mob that you can ride, you cannot control this mob, they just fly around randomly, they drop Evupul Wings

(the golden one spawns in the Clouded Layer and the other one spawns in the Normal End Layer)

(Dark one is hostile and spawns in the Void Layer)

(Credit to DeadVoxels End Update Mod, on Modrinth for permission to add this mob)

Bijaws: Bijaws are flying teeth creatures that attack you for 8 damage

Blastling: Blastlings launch purple pulses at you

Snareling: fires a Web at you that locks you into place, then the Snareling runs up to you and starts doing melee damage to you

Watchling: The Watchling is a melee mob who has extreme speed and damage

Endersent: deals splash damage to nearby mobs and players, whenever the mob cannot hit you, it will start smashing the ground, releasing a powerful shockwave

Endeetle: Flying and ground mob that spawns in the cloud layer, it normally stays on the ground, on its target being aquired, it flys towards you, it drops Endeetle Wings

Blushie Blaze: deals high melee damage when close, when far, it fires out rapid blushie flames

Dragonfolk: Dragonfolk can be bartered with, they barter with Larimar, its found all throughout the middle part of the End, they get mad at you when you dont have a piece of either End Leather Armor or Molybdenum Armor, they do have a brute version that spawns exclusively in structures
(Second Image is the Zombified Version)

Guritavoid: these jellyfish like mobs are neutral and when provoked launch powerful explosives at the thing that hit them

Shulk: Shulk is similar to a golem except hostile and inflicts levitation

Flying Shulker: Flying Shulkers shoot shulker bullets and fly, nothing else to say really 

Cosmic Assassin:  Cosmic Assassins are very fast humanoid like mobs that do rapid slashes on nearby players

Cosmic Orbiter: Cosmic Orbiters are flying melee mobs that teleport you on hit:

Eye Mobs:
Blighted Eye: attacks you once, then turns invisible and creates a trail to its location
Inviseer: Shoots a projectile, if it hits near you or you directly, itll teleport you to the nearest Inviseer
Torpendo: Dashes at you, dealing armor piercing damage
Eternal Iris: Shoots projectiles, each shot teleports it to a random direction

Dragon Mobs:
Baby Dragon: Found in the dragonbird meeting zone inside Dragonspire Wield, tamable with Ender Dragon Fruit
Ender Basilisk: Charges at you and knocks you extremely far
Ender Wyevrn: Flies and shoots dragon fireballs
Ender Grendle: shoots large dragon fireballs then runs away

Miniboss: Cosmic Golem, the Astral Golem has several attacks that summon monolith-like projectiles out of the ground to attack you, he drops a staff that allows you to do his same attacks

BOSSES:

Sightfull Obelisk of Ender: Spawns via using a Supreme Eye of Ender on the Obelisk Frame inside of the Obelisk Shrine Structure

Void Pope: Spawned Via placing an Ascendant Block on top of the Void Ressurection Generator inside of his Church (there is 2 of this block on each side of the building)

Mob Varients: 

Ender Creeper: Same as the normal Creeper but can teleport and has a shorter fuse

Ender Slime: Higher HP and Damage, splits instantly

Final Skeleton: Shoots Ender Pearl Throwing Knives instead of arrows through a bow

Blushie Blaze: shoots powerful magic at the player

Endra and Distorted Creakings: Killable creakings that teleport and have a more strict looking range

Ender Chicken and Cow: lifestock

ITEMS:

Note every set of items shown has 2 new weapon types

Longswords: Longswords when you interact with them they have a spin attack that damages anything in a 3.5 block radius, they do 3 less damage than a sword, they have longer reach than a sword and have area attack, with the cost of having no crits

War Hammers: War Hammers release a shockwave on hit

Sapphire items: Same stats as diamond except for 2 pieces of armor (helmet and boots)

Molybdenum items: slightly stronger than iron

Nether Quarts Items: Same stats as Diamond but slightly worse durability

Jade Items: Jade items are slightly stronger than iron, but have extreme durability, template is found inside of End Ruins

Enduranium Items: Enduranium items are the upgrade to diamond items and the alternative to Netherite, the forging template is found in End Cities and the Debris is found in the middle layer of the End, its immune to explosions so you can bed mine for it

Dragonite Items: Dragonite is the Upgrade to Sapphire items, the Forging template is rarely dropped by Dragonfolk Brutes, the Dragonscale items are found in structures and dropped by the ender dragon when you attack the dragon corpse it drops when it dies

Amethyst Items: Amethyst Items are the upgrade to Nether Quartz Items, the Forging template can be found in any structure in the End except End Cities and the End Trial Chamber

Ascendant Items: Ascendant is an ore found rarely inside of the Void Layer, Dropped by Endersent mobs or found in structures, the Forging Template is dropped by the Broken Heart of Ender Boss on Death

Arkose Items: Arkose has the same durability as stone but same damage and mining time as iron, the Arkose block itself can be used as Stone and can make items such as Furnaces 

Blushie Items: Blushie has the same stats as Iron, except with one twist, theyre all 5x more effective against modded blocks:

Cosmonium Items: Cosmonium items have the same stats as Dragonite items, except have far less durability than them:

End Leather Armor: End Leather has the exact same stats as iron armor and is dyable just like normal leather armor (middle set is undyed)

Calibrated Ender Pearls: you can upgrade your ender pearls with crystals found in the end dimension, each one gives it a unique upgrade
Amethyst: Makes the pearl do 6 damage whenever you hit an entity with it
Cloud Crystal: Makes the pearl not affected by gravity, which makes it travel to wherever your curser is aiming      Ender Crystal: Makes it so the pearls stack to 32 instead of 16

Void Crystal: makes it so the pearl has 300% faster speed

Evupul Gliders: these items make it so you can fly upwards when you look directly up, your also given perminant slowfalling whenever these are on:

MISC FEATURES AND CHANGES TO VANILLA GAME:

Elytra Darts - Mounts the Player on the dart and you fly on it in whereever direction you threw said dart

End Crystal Spears - Throwable spears that deal splash and pierce damage

Jade and Blushie Caltrops - Throwable spikes

More Ender Crystal Varients 

Chrono Bomb - Throw a black hole (literally)

Void Pendant - makes void fog less obstructive

Wand of Dimensional Rest - allows you to set and remove your spawn at will and in any dimension

Ascendant Mirror - remote access to the End Dimension (overworld if your already in the End) 

Rework to the Ender Dragon Bossfight

Changed the Eye of Ender recipe to require Echo Shards and Wind charges

Reverted some changes to potion colors made in the 1.20 update

POTION INGREDENTS: 

Shulker Shells make Launch potions when brewed

Eyes of Ender make Return potions (teleports you to your spawn) when brewed

Dabloons make haste potions when brewed

Blushie bark makes Healthboost Potions when brewed

Dragonscales make Resistance potions when brewed

Elytra Feathers make Potions of Acceleration 

Glistening Ender Melons make Potions of Rejuvenation 

Blushie Powder make Potions of Leverage

Glimmerstone Dust upgrades gimmicky potions AKA potions that dont give potion effects and instead do an action (Example: Potion of Launch)

Horizon Fish makes Potions of Neptune

Void Crystals make Event Horizon Potions

Ender Crystals make Pulsar Potions

Cloud Crystals make Worm Hole Potions

Primevel Crystals upgrade potions that are upgraded via glowstone or redstone (note the ones that upgrade depend on the color of the potion and crystal, EX: you need an Orange Primevel Crystal to upgrade a health boost potion because the potion is orange 

Credits:

DeadVoxel for permission to add Evupuls from their java mod "Dead Voxels End Update"

SorYPMod for permission to add Blushie wood from their "Enderite Add-on"

Calamity Team for Astral Infection concept and asset for Astral Staff and Astral Golems projectiles