Bestiary O’ Beasts

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Bestiary O’ Beasts, part of the Almanac O’ Adventures modpack utility series.

Bestiary O’ Beasts gives every creature in your game a page, brought to life, from any mod. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is tied to any one mod: add or remove mods and the book changes with them.

Open it from the book button on the pause menu, next to Back to Game. You can also type /catalog, or bind a key under Controls.

What it does

• See them alive: each creature stands, walks and runs as it does in the world.
• Meet them up close: orbit, pan and zoom round any creature in 3D.
• They watch you back: heads follow your cursor until you take the view.
• Know the beast: health, attack, size, drops, what it is fed with, where it lives and what summons it.
• Forms share a page: colours, breeds and states of one creature are stepped through, not listed one by one.
• Switch a creature off from its page, so it no longer spawns (needs You Shall Not Spawn).

How it changes your game

It adds no blocks, items or creatures of its own. It adds a book button to the pause menu and the book behind it. Spawning changes only if you switch a creature off yourself.

Also in the book

• Journal O’ Journeys: your screenshots as polaroids, a scrapbook, and stickers you win by playing.
• Manual O’ Mods: a page for every mod you have installed.
• Search by what a thing is, a page slider with every mod marked by its icon, and survival mode, where a page stays hidden until you have found the thing yourself.
• Profiles: everything you have switched off, as one code you can paste into another pack.

Requirements

• Lore O’ Libs: required. It is the book itself, shared by every O’ series mod.
• You Shall Not Spawn: needed only for the on/off switches. Without it the book is a field guide.
• Currently for Minecraft 1.20.1 on Forge. 1.21.1 is planned next, with Fabric on the way.

Part of the O’ series

Install this book alone or alongside the other O’ series books. All five come in one file as Almanac O’ Adventures. Do not install the Almanac and this file together.

Found a problem? Report it from the book

Open the close-up of anything that looks wrong and press the ! button. Pick what the problem is, and the book takes a screenshot of the page and opens our GitHub page with the report already written for you. The screenshot is waiting on your clipboard: click the box, press Ctrl+V, then Submit. You need a free GitHub account, and nothing is sent until you press Submit yourself.

Reports turn into fixes for everyone. When you join a world the book reads one small public list of fixes, so a creature, structure or item that was reported gets put right without waiting for a new download. Nothing about you is sent, and it can be switched off in the config.

See what has been reported, or tell us about anything else: GitHub issues for the Almanac and every O’ series mod.

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-Shrine.