Clark's Tweaks

Summary:

Clark's Tweaks is a data-driven patch aimed to be used on Vanilla SMP servers as an all-in-one overhaul to improve many aspects of the base game.

This project started as a way for me to have a list of settings I can easily upload to a server, as I find myself often tweaking these settings on every SMP server I host. I figured that others may enjoy the same list of changes for their own servers. I aim to eventually make this pack modular so users can select which Tweaks they want to enable.

Note that this datapack is specifically aimed at the multiplayer experience. It can be used in singleplayer but will have some redundant features.

If you have any feedback please let me know over at my Discord Server, or in the comments of this project listing!

No money is made directly from this project, but if you wish to donate and support my endeavours and more projects like this one, you can do so on my Ko-Fi page.

Full List of Features:

All changes can be viewed in-game with a new Advancement Menu tab called "Clark's Tweaks". I recommend pairing this with a client-side Advancement mod such as Advancements Reloaded by 42atomys to view these menus in a more organised fashion, though this isn't required.

Crafting Changes:

• Stone Tools can now be crafted with more variants of natural stone.
• Slabs can now be crafted into their original block by stacking them on a crafting grid.
• Honeycomb can be used as a substitute for Slimeballs when crafting Sticky Pistons.
• Tuff can be crafted using Stone and Cobblestone.
• Calcite can be crafted using Stone and White Dye.
• Rooted Dirt can be crafted using Dirt and Bone Meal.
• Bells can be crafted using a Stick, Gold Nugget, and Gold Block.
• Cobwebs can be crafted using String.
• Dyes can now be crafted from a wide variety of materials, such as using Saplings to make Green Dye, and Charcoal to make Black Dye.
• Glow Lichen can now be crafted using Vines and Glow Berries.
• Nether Quartz can now be crafted using Flint and Netherrack.

Advancement Changes:

• A new tab, "Legacy", has been added to add removed Advancements back to Java Edition, as well as adding some new Advancements that are in-character for Minecraft:
   
  • [Getting Wood] - Punch a tree until a block of wood pops out.
  • [Benchmarking] - Craft a Crafting Table with four blocks of wooden planks.
  • [Time to Mine] - Use planks and sticks to make a pickaxe.
  • [Time to Strike] - Use planks and sticks to make a sword.
  • [Time to Farm] - Use planks and sticks to make a hoe.
  • [Hot Topic] - Construct a furnace out of eight cobblestone blocks.
  • [MOAR Tools] - Have one of each tool in your inventory at once.
  • [Cow Tipper] - Harvest some leather.
  • [Saddle Up!] - Tame a Horse.
  • [When Pigs Fly] - Use a saddle to ride a pig, then fall from a height while riding it.
  • [Have a Shearful Day] - Use shears to obtain some wool from a sheep.
  • [Rainbow Collection] - Gather all 16 colors of wool.
  • [Bake Bread] - Turn wheat into bread.
  • [The Lie] - Bake a cake using wheat, sugar, eggs, & milk.
  • [Pot Planter] - Craft and place a flower pot.
  • [Artificial Selection] - Breed a mule from a horse and a donkey.
  • [Overkill] - Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.
  • [Hidden Riches] - Use the Silk Touch enchantment to obtain the rarest block, Deepslate Emerald Ore.
  • [Cloud Storage] - Open an Ender Chest in all three dimensions.
  • [Atlantis?] - Find an underwater Ocean Ruin.
  • [Iron Belly] - Stop starvation using rotten flesh.
  • [A Monumental Discovery] - Find an Ocean Monument.
  • [The Deep End] - Kill an Elder Guardian.
  • [Wrung Out] - Dry a Wet Sponge by placing it in the Nether.
  • [Uneasy Betrayal] - Bring a Happy Ghast into the Nether... and then kill it.
  • [Shock Therapy] - Get struck by lightning.
  • [The Art of the Deal] - Trade with a Master-level Villager.
  • [Jack of all Trades] - Trade with every Villager profession, including the Wandering Trader.
  • [Breaking and Entering] - Enter a Woodland Mansion.
  • [Feeling Ill] - Kill an Evoker.
  • [Sail the 7 Seas] - Visit all Ocean Biomes.
  • [Heartbreaker] - Kill a Creaking by destroying their heart at night.
  • [Ahoy!] - Find a Shipwreck.
  • [Echoes of an Empire] - Set foot in an Ancient City.
  • [Stealth is a Suggestion] - Kill a Warden.
• A new tab, "Collection", has been added to help players track which rare item collections they have made progress towards finding (including Music Discs, Pottery Sherds, Armor Trims, & Goat Horns). These nodes do not flag up in chat like regular advancements until you collect the full set of items:
  
  
  • [Audiophile] - Collect all Music Discs.
  • [It Belongs in a Museum!] - Collect all Pottery Sherds.
  • [Bleat the Odds] - Collect all Goat Horn variants.
  • [Trim Reaper] - Collect all Armor Trims.

Smelting & Cooking Changes:

• Raw Ore Blocks can now be blasted into their Metal Block counterparts, allowing for bulk smelting. This applies to Redstone Ore obtained through Silk Touch, which now can be directly blasted into Redstone Blocks.
• Recycling Armor and Tools through Blast Furnaces has been overhaulled to provide a better yield of materials regained, as well as adding more items and tools that can be recycled.
• Rotten Flesh can now be dried into Leather on a lit Campfire.

Entity Changes:

• Wandering Traders now have an overhaulled inventory, selling a revised common stock line as well as some rare items such as Music Discs and Armor Trims for a greater cost.
• Echo Shards can now be used to silence mobs. You can use an Echo Shard on a silenced mob to then unsilence it.
• Happy Ghasts have been overhaulled to have a slightly faster base movement speed, which increases even more when they hover above the clouds.
• Sniffer Eggs can now be found from any Suspicious Sand block, and will dig from more types of block.
• Guardians now drop Wet Sponges.
• Shulkers have a chance to drop a second Shulker Shell.
• Endermen can no longer pick up or place blocks.
• Creepers now have per-player griefing rules, which can be toggled using the /trigger anti_creeper command. This works by disabling mob griefing temporarily when a player with this rule is being actively targeted by a Creeper.
• Creepers can now be charged using the Strength potion effect. If a Charged Creeper kills a player, that player will drop their own head as a block.

Block Changes:

• Reinforced Deepslate can now be obtained by mining it with a pickaxe.
• All blocks that previously did not have an effective tool to mine them with now have one.
• Dirt Paths will increase the movement speed of players walking over them.
• Beacons now accept more types of rare block as a base, including Copper, Raw Metals, Obsidian, Lapis Lazuli, & Redstone. They also now accept Copper Ingots as payment.
• The oxidation state of Copper Blocks can now be advanced by using Splash Water Bottles on them.

Stonecutter Changes:

• Lanterns, Chains, and Bars can now be made on a Stonecutter using their respective ingots.
• Logs and Wood can be stripped in bulk using a Stonecutter.
• Wool and Carpet can be broken down into string using a Stonecutter.

Other Changes:

• All Recipes in the crafting recipe book are unlocked by default.
• Players are flagged as AFK in chat after not interacting with the game for 3 minutes, or by using the /trigger afk command.
• Item Frames can now be made invisible by placing a Glass Pane inside them. You can break the Item Frame to revert this.
• Players who are sleeping will announce that they are sleeping in chat.
• Players can use /trigger respawn to manually respawn. Comes with some ridiculous death messages.
• A unique Dragon Egg will spawn for each player when they make the [Free the End] advancement, meaning there is more than one Dragon Egg per-world.
• Banners can now be equipped on your head by right-clicking with one in your mainhand, similar to equipping a helmet.
• Players can now sit anywhere with the /trigger sit command.
• Inspired off Terraria, a chat announcement will be made for the following events:
  • The Ender Dragon is slain.
  • The Ender Dragon is respawned.
  • The Wither is summoned.
  • The Wither is slain.
  • A Raid begins in a village.
  • A Wandering Trader spawns.

Planned Features:

• Modular tweak selection.
• Stonecutter overhaul, allowing for recycling/conversion of many stone and wood types.
• More advancements, and possibly reworking basegame advancement progression.
• Archaeology overhaul to make it feel more rewarding.
• Bulk composting.
• ...and more!