Beyond and More

## Visual variants

- Added clearer visual differentiation for several vanilla items whose internal variant data was previously difficult to identify at a glance.

- Axolotl buckets: five adult and five baby item sprites in crisp 64x64 pixel art. The vanilla bucket silhouette, metal shading and blue water droplets stay identical; each axolotl retains its variant colors, while babies are visibly smaller.

- Salmon buckets can now visually indicate salmon size.

- Enchanted books: only their colors have been changed for now to help distinguish enchantment types and levels. These are temporary color variants; dedicated textures will be added in a future update.

- Goat horns: the eight existing vanilla instrument variants now use distinct user-supplied 64x64 transparent sprites and individual silhouettes. No additional goat-horn instruments are added.

- The vanilla axolotl bucket in creative inventory now defaults to the pink adult texture and has the matching localized name. Existing variant- and age-specific buckets still retain their individual artwork and names.

## Crafting

- Added the classic Notch Apple recipe: one apple surrounded by eight gold blocks yields one enchanted golden apple.

- Renamed the enchanted golden apple to Pomme de Notch (French) / Notch Apple (English); the regular golden apple is unchanged.

- Added craftable cobwebs (5 string), bells (4 gold ingots + 1 iron block), and calcite (2 quartz + 2 diorite -> 4).

- Added leather alternatives for iron, golden and diamond horse armor, preserving existing recipes using wool.

- Completed recycling for copper-block slabs and jungle-framed glass vertical slabs (2 of the same type -> 1 original block); previously existing stair/slab recycling remains unchanged.

- Existing vanilla saddle and name-tag recipes were not duplicated.

## Localization

- Expanded Beyond & More to **163 language locales**.

- Added complete Beyond & More coverage for all **143 Minecraft 26.1.2 official locales**.

- Added **20 additional locales**: Bengali, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Swahili, Javanese, Gujarati, Nepali, Amharic, Hausa, Burmese, Sinhala, Khmer, Pashto, Malayalam, Odia, Assamese, Sindhi and Kurdish (Kurmanji).

- Every Beyond & More locale contains the same **7,958 mod translation keys** on NeoForge, Forge and Fabric.

- The 20 additional locales also include a Minecraft base-game language layer containing all **7,886 vanilla Minecraft 26.1.2 translation keys**, so both Beyond & More and vanilla Minecraft can be displayed in those languages.

- Right-to-left metadata is enabled for Urdu, Pashto and Sindhi.

- Additional translations use Minecraft terminology where available and were completed with cloud-assisted translation plus automated key, placeholder and cross-loader validation.

- A second cloud quality pass reduced residual English fallback text in the additional locales while preserving technical names and placeholders.

- The additional non-vanilla locales are accessibility-first translations; corrections from native speakers can still be incorporated in future maintenance updates.

## Loader parity and maintenance

- Kept localization resources synchronized across NeoForge, Forge and Fabric.

- Fixed Fabric creative-tab ordering so the custom block, redstone and weapons/tools tabs match NeoForge and Forge.

- Added stronger automated validation for language key parity, placeholders, RTL metadata, cross-loader file hashes and published registry compatibility.

- Documented the intentional historical removal of the obsolete steel-ore block family so registry compatibility checks continue to protect every other published ID.

- Final audits validate **163 mod locales × 3 loaders**, the 20 vanilla language layers, recipes, registry compatibility and resource parity.

- Final server smoke tests pass on NeoForge, Forge and Fabric with zero critical errors.