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, gloomwood 12 above, 2x2 willow, stalagnate reach, wart seed on soul sand)
• Wild Waystones now generate in BetterNether biomes
• Armor trims now show on the inventory icons of cincinnasite, nether ruby and flaming ruby armor (BetterNether#156)

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 26.1 data format
• Nether cities no longer generate where a bastion would overlap them
• 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• BetterNether item tags showed as untranslated, their names used the outdated tag.betternether.* key format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
• Chains in lava pyramids, and 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, blooming and gloomsculk 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)
• Agave rendered in the translucent layer, so leaves went missing from some angles (BetterNether#211)
• 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)
• Gloomwood transition planks dropped nothing when broken
• 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)
• Nether spears had no English names
• 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)
• Copper golems ignored BetterNether's wooden chests (BetterNether#311)
• Thin armor option broke player armor rendering with 3D Skin Layers (BetterNether#313)
• Biome ids broke on systems with a Turkish locale (BetterNether#285)

Validation

• ✅ Dedicated server (Minecraft 26.1.2) started (WorldWeaver 26.101.3, BCLib 26.101.3, BetterNether 26.101.3, BetterEnd 26.101.3, wunderreich 26.101.2)
• ✅ BiomesOPlenty + Terralith (BiomesOPlenty-fabric-26.1.2-26.1.2.0.22.jar, Terralith_26.1_v2.6.2_Fabric.jar, GlitchCore-fabric-26.1.2-26.1.2.0.2.jar, TerraBlender-fabric-26.1.2-26.1.2.0.3.jar, lithostitched-1.8.0-fabric-26.1.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ Incendium alone (Incendium_26.1_v5.4.12.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ Nullscape alone (Nullscape_26.1.2_v1.2.20.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)
• ✅ BOP + Terralith + Incendium + Nullscape (BiomesOPlenty-fabric-26.1.2-26.1.2.0.22.jar, Terralith_26.1_v2.6.2_Fabric.jar, GlitchCore-fabric-26.1.2-26.1.2.0.2.jar, TerraBlender-fabric-26.1.2-26.1.2.0.3.jar, lithostitched-1.8.0-fabric-26.1.jar, Incendium_26.1_v5.4.12.jar, Nullscape_26.1.2_v1.2.20.jar, tested: gametest+worldgen)