Welcome to Survivor's Elegy, an extensive datapack designed to add cohesiveness and interesting features to the game!

Some of the features added are the following:

Game Mechanics

Withering

Overworld creatures staying in the nether for a long time will be affected the wither effect every ~1 minute! The withering can be mitigated by by staying on other dimensions, which will gradually cure withered entities, or by eating warped wart food, which will extend the time of invulnerability. But beware! Eating too much of said food is not good, and you'll start experimenting side effects if consumed recklessly.

Zombifying

Creatures can be infected with the Phage effect, which will turn them into zombified versions of said creature or die if there's no zombified equivalent. Players can be affected by this too, so watch out if you're playing on multiplayer.

Rotting

Considering Zombified creatures as well-functioning organisms isn't exactly correct, hence why with this datapack they'll rot until they're just a sack of bones. By extension, this also adds new skeleton variants: Piglin Skeletons and Illager Skeletons!

Worldgen

Updated Swamp Hut

Swamp Huts have been boring since they were added. This pack changes them so it's a full-fledged house with multiple enemies and a vast amount of loot and information!

New Nether Biome: Withered Grounds

Dark desolated biome with vast amounts of undead withered corpses. Be prepared if you plan on adventuring here, the wither is watching closely!

New Nether Biome: Metamorphic Caves

Why do blazes only spawn on nether fortresses? In this datapack blazes expand out of their traps and to this extra hot biome, where fire springs are common and lava rivers flood the ground.

Entities

Illagers now equip torches on their offhand if they're on dark places

Endermen can spawn holding a wide range of blocks from all dimensions

Breeding Pigs now gives birth to 1-4 piglets

Zombies, Drowneds, Husks, Skeletons, Wither Skeletons, Piglins and Zombified Piglins now spawn with new equipment

Players, Piglins, Hoglins and Zoglins now drop their heads if killed by a charged creeper

Items

Enchanter's Guide: This special book now replaces the regular book on the Enchanting Table recipe, making enchanted gear a more difficult feature to access.

Battle Staff: With 7 dps, this is an early game weapon that'll require some skill to use properly. It comes with a bamboo variant as well!

Outpost Compass: Dropped by pillager patrol leaders on duty, they point to the nearest pillager outpost.

And way more! Check the spoiler for a list of all the features:

Gameplay Mechanics

- Withering: Overworld creatures staying in the nether for a long time will be granted the wither effect every ~1 minute

- The effect grows stronger with the passing of time

- Creatures can be cured gradually by staying on other dimensions

- The nether exposure time can be extended by eating warped wart food

- Withered skeletons will eventually become wither skeletons

- Warped Wart Poisoning: Eating too much warped wart will grant negative effects to the player

- Can be gradually cured by drinking milk
- Zombifying: Creatures effected with the new "Phage" effect will become the zombified versions of the mob. If such mob doesn't exist, it'll die

- Zombified players will burn under sunlight. Dying will return players to normal

- Rotting: Zombified creatures will eventually rot and become skeletons

- Rotten zombified piglins will turn into skeletons with piglin-shaped skulls

- Rotten zombie villagers will turn into skeletons with villager-shaped skulls

- Zombie Horses will be protected from rotting if they're zombified while having a waxed horse armor equipped

- Holding daylight sensors will tell the light level on the player's position

- Looking through spyglasses will show the player's view angle

- Broken Tridents will turn into lightning rods with all the traits of said broken trident

- Beacons can be powered with all copper block variants

- Chains and cobwebs can be climbed

- Fishing: Reeling fish loot is biome-dependant

- Cod: Ocean, Lukewarm Ocean, Warm Ocean, Beach, Swamp

- Salmon: Frozen Ocean, Cold Ocean, River, Beach, Forest, Plains, Taiga, Snowy Taiga, Old Growth Taiga

- Tropical Fish: Warm Ocean, Lukewarm Ocean, Lush Caves

- Pufferfish: Warm Ocean, Lukewarm Ocean

- Frog: Swamp

Worldgen
- Upgraded Swamp Hut

- Nether Wart now generates naturally near lava lakes on the nether

- Withered Grounds

- Wither Skeletons and regular Skeletons can spawn here

- The withering is twice as fast in this biome

- Metamorphic caves

- Blazes can spawn here

- Fire springs can spawn on top of netherrack and magma blocks

- Emits smoke columns

- Mining the block below it will cause the spring to explode

- After some time has passed the spring will be extinguished by blasting a few small fire charges upwards. There's a chance of a blaze being spawned in the process

Gameplay Entity Changes
- Players will drop player heads if killed by a charged creeper

- Piglins, Piglin Brutes, Hoglins and Zoglins drop their heads if killed by a charged creeper

- Creepers no longer drop records

- Piglins & Zoglins are immune to overworld zombification

- Piglins & zombified piglins spawn with new equipment

- Wither Skeletons spawn with new equipment

- Zombies spawn with new equipment

- Husks spawn with new equipment

- Skeletons spawn with new equipment

- Breeding Pigs gives birth to 1-4 piglets

- Endermen can spawn holding random blocks

- Illagers can hold torches when they're in dark areas

- Iron Golems are faster in water

- Trader Llamas can spawn already chested & with different carpets

Items

- Battle Staff: 4 attack damage, 1.75 attack speed: 7 dps

- Bamboo Battle Staff: 4 attack damage, 1.75 attack speed: 7 dps

- Copper Tools & Helmet: Equivalent to iron. They oxidise over time

- Drowned Rotten Flesh: Dropped by Drowneds, has a 30% chance of granting the player Mining Fatigue

- Enchanted Saddle: Makes the horse present the effects worn by the player's boot enchantments

- Enchanter's Guide: Required to craft an enchanting table. Found on pillager outposts and traded by Wandering Traders

- Frog: Can be fished on swamps. Used to brew leaping potions

- Husk Rotten Flesh: Dropped by Husks, has a 30% chance of granting the player Slowness

- Nether Food:

- Crimson Stew

- Warped stew

- Warped Wart: Used to reduce the withering effects

- Warped Wart Stew: Used to strongly reduce the withering effects

- Netherite Horse Armor

- Outpost Compass: Points to the nearest pillager outpost. Dropped by pillager patrol leaders on duty

- Piglin, Piglin Brute, Hoglin and Zoglin heads: Decorative, can be hung on item frames to display them

- Piglin Brute Shield

- Waxed Horse Armor

- Witch Books:

- Potion Book: Contains basic information about the brewing system

- Stew Book: Contains basic information about the suspicious stew system

- Withered Bone: Regular bone dropped by Wither Skeletons

Recipes

- Crafting

- Bamboo is now equivalent to sticks and can be used in every recipe that requires sticks

- Stone tools can be crafted from a wider list of stone-like materials

- The Enchantment Table recipe now requires an Enchanter's Guide instead of a regular book

- Added flexible recipes for Chest/Furnace/Hopper_Minecarts and Dispensers

- Smelting

- Raw <Mineral> Block -> <Mineral> Block

- Red Sand -> Orange Stained Glass

- Soul Sand -> Brown Stained Glass- Blasting

- Raw <Mineral> Block -> <Mineral> Block

- Red Sand -> Glass

- Smithing:

- Trident -> Lightning rod + Heart of the Sea

- Enchanted Saddle: -> Saddle + Enchanter's Guide

- Netherite Horse Armor: -> Diamond Horse Armor + Netherite Ingot

- Waxed Horse Armor: -> Gold Horse Armor + Honeycomb

- Stonecutting:

- Note Blocks -> 1 Redstone Dust

- Jukebox -> 1 Diamond

- Trapped Chest -> 1 Redstone

- Brewing Stand -> 2 Blaze Powder

- Shulker Box(any color) -> 2 Shulker Shell

- Scaffolding -> 6 Bamboo

- Melon -> 9 Melon Slice

- Leather Horse Armor -> 6 Leather