BetterNether

Features

• Tooltips on saplings and seeds with unusual growing rules (nether sakura and anchor tree hang from a ceiling, sakura needs ~30 blocks below, 2x2 willow, stalagnate reach, wart seed on soul sand)
• Wild Waystones now generate in BetterNether biomes

Changes

• BetterNether saplings take bone meal like vanilla (45% per use, about 4-5 per tree instead of ~32; giant mold and jellyfish mushroom saplings 40% like mushrooms); natural growth is unchanged
• Every block of a felled mushroom fir drops a mushroom fir stem, caps drop a sapling by chance (20%)
• BetterNether biomes are slightly more common (x1.25) than vanilla Nether biomes and biomes of other mods
• Nether cities no longer write their bounding box to the log
• Nether city caves only keep fortresses and bastions intact again; small structures in a city cave are carved instead of floating in the air
• Block models are bound through WorldWeaver model keys instead of client-only lambdas
• Upgrade bundled structure templates to the 1.21.6 data format
• Warn at startup when old blocks/items/mobs config files try to disable entries, which is no longer supported (BetterNether#254, BetterNether#104, BetterNether#171)
• Remove unused texture references from block models
• A Fireruby pickaxe with Silk Touch no longer smelts ores; it drops the ore block like any Silk Touch pickaxe (BetterNether#168)

Fixes

• The pig statue showed its spawn point messages twice
• Willow, mushroom fir and stalagnate trunks are logs now, so tree-felling mods (FallingTree) find them and leaves next to them do not decay
• Anchor trees no longer grow into Nether city buildings
• Nether city caves hollowed out BetterNether portals and other structures they overlapped
• The pig statue's "hold 4 glowstone" hint could not be shown on a dedicated server and showed the raw item id
• Stalagnate seeds and wart seeds had no cutout render layer (opaque background on 1.21.x)
• Fireflies created with /summon were always white
• Re-running the 5.3.5 world patch made naturally generated willow, rubeus, anchor tree and nether sakura leaves persistent, so felled trees no longer decayed (BetterNether#97)
• BetterNether item tags showed as untranslated, their names used the outdated tag.betternether.* key format
• Light Blue Framed Quartz Glass and Pane had garbled names
• Dedicated servers no longer crash at startup
• Blocks in room_01 were placed as air
• Cincinnasite and bone buttons were missing from #minecraft:buttons
• Pots were missing from #minecraft:flower_pots
• Black and blooming vines dropped two of themselves with shears or silk touch
• Nether city caves hollowed out bastions and fortresses they overlapped
• Blocks can be placed on, and mobs can stand on, plants in BetterNether pots, like on leaves (BetterNether#85)
• Removed the empty placeholder Patchouli book that caused "Failed to load book" errors (BetterNether#286, BetterNether#198, BetterNether#164)
• A giant anchor tree grown from saplings below Y 3 used up the saplings and placed nothing (BetterNether#294)
• Willow torches gave no light and didn't break when water flowed into them (BetterNether#55)
• Vanilla seeds could not be planted on Nether farmland (BetterNether#38)
• Rubeus trees almost never grew cones, and their leaves never decayed when the tree was felled (BetterNether#97)
• Jellyfish mushroom saplings could be planted on BetterEnd terrain (BetterNether#118)
• Anchor trees grew through the buildings of nether cities (BetterNether#142)
• BetterNether grasses could not be replaced by placing a block into them like vanilla grass (BetterNether#166)
• Cincinnasite shears cut leaves, wool, vines and cobwebs no faster than a hand, so Efficiency did nothing (BetterNether#181)
• BetterNether pickaxes, swords, axes and spears were missing tags their vanilla counterparts have (BetterNether#197)
• Molds, moss cover and hook mushrooms spread without limit because their neighbour count never increased
• Hook mushrooms never spread on their own (BetterNether#54)
• BetterNether bookshelves didn't count as enchanting power for other mods or through replaceable blocks (BetterNether#216)
• Removed broken quartz glass pane models whose parent models did not exist (BetterNether#204)
• Feather fern growth stages showed the full-grown leaf textures
• Cincinnasite bars were treated as translucent and caused sorting issues (BetterNether#218)
• The fog density option had no effect and is now hidden (BetterNether#175, BetterNether#131)
• Cincinnasite chairs, taburets and bar stools dropped nothing when mined with a pickaxe, but dropped with an axe
• Mining nether gold ore with a Fireruby pickaxe gave nuggets instead of a gold ingot (BetterNether#248)
• Fireruby auto-smelting dropped no XP for ores with fractional smelting XP, like quartz and iron (BetterNether#167)
• Shearing whispering gourd vines didn't wear the shears or keep the vine's shape, and broken vines dropped the wrong things (BetterNether#84)
• Whispering gourd lanterns dropped nothing when broken (BetterNether#84)
• Eye plant stalk stayed behind as a bare vine after its eyeball was gone (BetterNether#153, BetterNether#159, BetterNether#179)
• Bone reed and bone cincinnasite doors dropped nothing when broken
• Soul lily saplings dropped nothing when broken
• Moss cover dropped nothing when broken
• Hook mushrooms dropped nothing with any tool (BetterNether#227)
• Giant Lucis mined with a silk-touch axe dropped two instead of one (BetterNether#226)
• Mob spawners set with a BetterNether spawn egg spawned nothing when other entities were nearby (BetterNether#281)
• Weeping Obsidian's name started with a space (BetterNether#180)
• Japanese and Polish translations failed to load because of JSON syntax errors (BetterNether#283, BetterNether#207)
• Biome ids broke on systems with a Turkish locale (BetterNether#285)
• Fortresses and basalt columns cut through nether cities
• Spawners in already-generated worlds kept their unreadable gear
• City guards spawned without their gear
• Stalagnate wart bowl rendered as a missing-texture full block
• Flaming ruby tools rendered flat instead of handheld (BetterNether#310)
• Nether saplings never grew on their own, and were planks
• Saplings could not be composted by a hopper

Validation

• ✅ Dedicated server (Minecraft 1.21.8) started (WorldWeaver 21.800.2, BCLib 21.800.2, BetterNether 21.800.2, BetterEnd 21.800.2, wunderreich 21.800.2)
• ✅ BiomesOPlenty + Terralith (BiomesOPlenty-fabric-1.21.8-21.8.0.18.jar, Terralith_1.21.x_v2.5.13.jar, GlitchCore-fabric-1.21.8-21.8.0.0.jar, TerraBlender-fabric-1.21.8-6.0.0.3.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ Incendium alone (Incendium_1.21.x_v5.4.9.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ Nullscape alone (Nullscape_1.21.x_v1.2.14.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ BOP + Terralith + Incendium + Nullscape (BiomesOPlenty-fabric-1.21.8-21.8.0.18.jar, Terralith_1.21.x_v2.5.13.jar, GlitchCore-fabric-1.21.8-21.8.0.0.jar, TerraBlender-fabric-1.21.8-6.0.0.3.jar, Incendium_1.21.x_v5.4.9.jar, Nullscape_1.21.x_v1.2.14.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)