Aussie Mod - OPALS AND OCHRE UPDATE!
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What's new
Aussie Mod 1.0.2 Update
This update expands exploration, cooking, foraging, building, and world generation with new biomes, plants, blocks, advancements, and gameplay systems.
New Features
New Biomes
Stringy Bark Forest
A new forest biome featuring Stringy Bark trees and unique vegetation.
Open Plains
A new open grassland biome.
Clay Flats
A new biome inspired by the lunettes of inland Australia.
New Plants
Banksia
Banksia plants can now be found throughout the world.
- Drops Banksia Flowers and Banksia Saplings
- Banksia Flowers can be crafted into Orange Dye
Saltbush
A hardy desert shrub found in Clay Flats.
- Drops Saltbush Leaves
- Leaves can be eaten as an emergency food source
Organ Flower
A strange plant that likely shouldn’t be there.
- Emits dark particles at random whilst idle.
- Whatever you do, destroy these.
- Upon dying from the Vine illness, an Organ Flower will grow at the player's death location.
Corpse Flower
A smaller variant of the Organ Flower, does not harm the player on contact.
- Emits dark particles at random whilst idle.
- Whatever you do, destroy these.
- If you can survive the Vine illness, only a corpse flower will sprout.
Kangaroo Grass
Our first plant to have a fully custom model.
- Can be grown and harvested for its seeds.
- Can only be grown on red sand, windswept red sand, grass, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, and podzol.
Foraging Tree (Beta)
The first version of the Foraging Tree has been added.
Progress through the tree by discovering and foraging plants to unlock unique items, mechanics, and rewards.
New Cooking Content
Pan
A new cooking workstation.
- Can be placed above Campfires and Tuff Spouts
- Used to cook specialised foods and ingredients
- Acts as a progression step between the Campfire and Smoker
New Foods
- Raw Snag
- Cooked Snag
- Grilled Carrot
- Raw Kangaroo Meat
- Cooked Kangaroo Meat
- Raw Bird Meat
- Cooked Bird Meat
New Blocks
Building Blocks
Added:
- Lime Rendered Mud Brick Block Set
- Painted Rendered Mud Brick Block Set
- Complete Corner Double-Sided Painted Wooden Planks Block Set
- Secondary Corner Double-Sided Painted Wooden Planks Block Set
- Missing Burnt Log Block Set variants
- Stringy Bark Block Set
- Sandy Clay
- Windswept Sandy Clay
- Grassy Tuff
- Cinnabar Block
- Quartz Block
- Dolomite Block
- Shale Block
- Ancient Shale
- Muddy Shale
- Ochre Block
- Chicken Wire
- Asphalt Block Set
- Potch Mosaic Block Set
- Milky Potch Mosaic Block Set
- Claystone Blocks Set
- Polished Boulder Opal
Grassy Tuff
Grassy Tuff behaves similarly to grass blocks and can spread to nearby Tuff.
Opal Lamp
A new, expensive light source that you can use to show off your wealth!
Boulder Opal
A massive vein of colour that forms inside ironstone veins. Drops Boulder Opal Chunks and (Planned for 1.0.3+) can be turned into several building blocks.
New Resources
Added:
- Ochre Ore
- Ochre
- Sulfur Crystals
- Kangaroo Hide
- Oil
- Bitumen
- Quills
- Kookaburra Feather
- Spider Eye
- Kangaroo Grass Seed
- Flour
- Snake Skin
- Croc Skin
- Boulder Opal Chunk
- Shark Tooth
Mortar and Pestle
A new utility workstation used to grind materials into dyes.
Current dye recipes include:
- Spinifex Resin → Brown Dye
- Potch Dust → Black Dye
- Red Quandong Fruit → Red Dye
- Fern → Green Dye
- Blue Quandong Fruit → Blue Dye
- Thistle → Purple Dye
- Emu Egg → Cyan Dye
- Fat → Light Grey Dye
- Termite Paste → Grey Dye
- Gypsum Dust → Pink Dye
- Prickly Pear → Lime Dye
- Sulfur Dust → Yellow Dye
- Wild Berries → Light Blue Dye
- Organ Flower → Magenta Dye
- Banksia Flower → Orange Dye
- Bone → White Dye
New Advancements
Added:
- Wood You Believe It!
- Who Let The Dogs Out
- Gordon Ramsey
- Hop Around
- Now That's A Lot Of Wood VI
- Pack Up
- A Trinket Of Mine
New Equipment
Impact Grenade
A throwable explosive that detonates upon impact with a block.
Opal Ring
Held in the off hand to provide a boost to your mining speed.
Grants +0.4 mining speed when held in off hand.
Hobby Horse
Held in the off hand to grant a speed and jump boost.
Grants +30% Speed and +0.2 Jump Strength.
Croc Tooth Amulet
When in the off hand it will grant the player armour and swim speed.
Grants 50% swim speed and +8 armour points.
Shark Tooth Amulet
When in off hand the player gains oxygen bonus and submerged mining speed.
Grants +0.5 oxygen bonus and +0.3 submerged mining speed.
The Dawndancer’s Relic
An ancient helmet-like relic that imbues its wearer with extraordinary power.
When held in the off hand, grants:
- +4 Attack Damage
- +0.3 Attack Speed
- +4 Armour
- +2 Entity Interaction Range
- +20% Knockback Resistance
- +40% Movement Speed
- +1 Luck
- +0.3 Jump Strength
- +3 Safe Fall Distance
Tier 1 Backpack
A cheap and spacious way to carry extra items. Right click to open its inventory.
Wombat Fur Hat
A cute fur hat that provides a little bit of armour and high style points.
New Effects
Vine
A horrid disease that literally eats the player. Deals damage over time.
Changes
World Generation
Tuff Spouts
Tuff Spouts now require a lava source block within 7 blocks beneath them to function.
Cooking
- Several vanilla cooking recipes have been adjusted to better integrate with Aussie Mod's progression system.
- Damper can be cooked on a pan.
Advancements
The advancement tree has been reorganised to improve progression flow and consistency.
Naming Changes
The following blocks have been renamed:
- Double Sided Painted Gum Planks → Double Sided Painted Wooden Planks
- Corner Double Sided Painted Gum Planks → Corner Double Sided Painted Wooden Planks
- Ridge Clay → Claystone
- Rocky Ridge Clay → Claystone Pebbles
Mob Changes
Wombat
The Wombat has received:
- A new model
- A complete texture overhaul
- Updated related items and decorative blocks
Blowflies
Blowflies no longer spawn in rain or water.
Item Changes
Bushwalker Armour
- Each armour piece now grants +0.1 sneak speed, up to a maximum of +0.4.
Sulfur
- Sulfur Blocks now emit particles while underwater.
- Sulfur Blocks now require a Magma Block beneath them in order to emit particles.
- Sulfur can no longer float and will break if placed without solid support.
- Sulfur Crystals are now obtained from Sulfur Clusters and are used in all Sulfur-related recipes that once used Sulfur Clusters.
New Composting Options
All leaf blocks can now be composted.
Visual Updates
Texture Updates
The following blocks and items have received updated textures, models, or colour adjustments:
- Iron Stone Bricks
- Smooth Iron Stone
- Convict Bricks
- Burnt Logs
- Burnt Planks
- Sulfur Blocks
- Quandong Logs
- Witchetty Grub Farm
- Granite Block Set
- Dingo Fur Block
- Wombat Fur Block
- Limestone Block
- Cobbled Limestone Block
- Marine Meat
- Grilled Marine Meat
- Spinifex Thatch Block
- Potch Bricks
- Gypsum
- Opal Chunk
- Metal Scraps
- Saltbush Leaves
- Spinifex String
- Spinifex Fibres
- Mud Lump
- Wax
- Bone
- Spinifex
- Croc Tooth
- Pottery Fragment
- Mulga Log/Wood
- Mulga Sapling
- Mulga Sign
- Rich Claystone
- Polished Opal
These changes improve readability, consistency, and visual cohesion throughout the mod.
Iron Pick
New model and texture to better represent the new pick design.
Music
7 new tracks have been added!
Most of the old music has been removed.
Bug Fixes
Blocks
- Fixed Double Sided Painted Wooden Planks using incorrect particle textures.
- Reduced the number of particles produced by Smouldering Charcoal.
- Most block particles now spawn in their intended positions.
- Fixed Sulfur Crystal rotation.
- Sulfur Dust can now be crafted.
- Stringy Bark Logs can now be stripped in the Stonecutter.
- Paper Bark Logs can now be stripped in the Stonecutter.
Tuff Spouts
- Reduced particle output.
- Steam particles now correctly move upwards.
- Tuff Spouts no longer drop Ancient Skulls when right-clicked.
Farming & Plants
- Fertiliser particles now spawn correctly.
- Fertilised plants now spawn harvested items from the centre of the block.
Crafting
- The Detonator recipe is now available in the Crafting Table.
- Crafting Milky Potch Dust now yields two items instead of one.
- Crafting slabs in the stonecutter now grants 2 blocks instead of 1.
Advancements
- Fiery Depths is now included in As Far As The Eye Can See.
- Fixed several advancement ordering and progression issues.
Mobs
- Reduced Emu animation amplitude for smoother movement.
- Wombats can no longer spawn within 60 blocks of another Wombat.
Miscellaneous
- Corrected all remaining instances of "Sulfer" to "Sulfur".
- Updated the Wombat Plushie to reflect the new Wombat model.
Notes
- Oil and bitumen are not yet obtainable.
- Several mob drops are also not obtainable due to their addition being in preparation for future updates.
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