Brutally Realistic 1.3.0

Minecraft 26.2, NeoForge and Fabric. Existing worlds are fine, no new world needed.

Butchering with a real goal

Butchering used to mean holding right-click for a minute and a half. Now it is a short skill game, and how well you do it decides what you get.

• Right-click a carcass with a knife to open the butchering board. Each step is a gesture:
  • stick the throat when the circle closes on the target;
  • follow the skinning line with the blade without leaving it;
  • open the belly around the guts without piercing them;
  • cut through each joint;
  • strike the bones;
  • take the fat, the tendons and the brain.
• Better knives and the Hunter skill give you more room for error. A crude flint flake drags; a metal knife glides.
• What your precision decides:
  • Torn hide: half of it is lost. Flawless hide: one more piece to tan.
  • Pierced guts: no offal, and the meat spoils sooner.
  • More or less meat, bones, fat and sinew: from ×0.6 to ×1.2.
• New products:
  • Offal: liver, heart and kidneys. Rich in vitamins, they spoil in a day. Cook them on a campfire.
  • Brain: rubbed into a scraped hide, it replaces the bark and halves the tanning time.
  • Hunting trophies: antlers, horns, boar tusks, bear skull and predator pelts, only from a flawless job (80 % clean). Hang them in item frames at your camp to lift morale.
• The old hold-to-butcher mode is still available in the config (food.butchering.minigame).

Protected camps

• Inside a tribe's camp, outsiders can't break, place or open anything, can't use buckets or flint and steel, and can't touch item frames, armor stands or livestock. Explosions don't destroy blocks in a camp.
• Benches and trading posts stay open to everyone.
• Camps can no longer overlap, so no tribe can claim another's camp.
• Option tribe.camp_protection: always (default), only while no member is online, or off.

Trading posts

• Set up to four offers ("this for that") on a trading post, stock it, and others trade with it even while you are offline. Payments land in the till.
• Only the owner and their tribe see the stock and the till, and only they can break the post.

Husbandry

• Farm animals start wild and flee from you. Feed one by hand, once a minute, to win its trust. At 100 % it joins your herd and your tribe's, and stops fleeing from you.
• Domestic animals get hungry:
  • they graze on grass outside winter;
  • in winter, or away from grass, they eat at a feeding trough filled with hay, grain or roots;
  • rain and winter nights outside wear them down, except sheep in their wool;
  • starving animals weaken and die.
• Spring births: healthy domestic animals give birth once a year in spring. This replaces breeding by hand.
• Wild cows won't let you milk them.
• Crouch and right-click an animal with an empty hand to check on it.

Winter food: fermentation

• Fermentation crock (fired clay):

  • 4 cabbages and salt: sauerkraut;
  • 4 turnips, onions, carrots or beetroots and salt: pickled vegetables;
  • a bucket of milk and salt: cheese.

  Fermented food keeps for months.

• Beer: 6 wheat and water in the salting barrel, alongside mead and cider.

Travel for each age

• Travois (stone age): drag 18 slots of goods behind you anywhere, at a cost (−25 % speed).
• Sled: glides on snow and helps on ice, but drags hard anywhere else.

After iron: steel

• Pack wrought iron and charcoal into a clay cementation box and keep it above 900 °C in a forge hearth for 10 minutes. Break it open once cool: two steel ingots.
• Forge steel tool heads on the iron anvil, then quench them hot, or the tool stays soft (−40 % durability).
• Steel tools last 900 uses (iron: 250) and mine everything diamond mines.

Mills

• Water wheels turn in moving water: flowing water or a river current. Windmills turn with the local wind, and their sails are furled in storms.
• Axles carry the power up to 16 blocks.
• Driven machines:
  • millstone: wheat to flour, bones to bone meal, cane to sugar;
  • sawmill: one log to 6 planks;
  • bellows: pump by themselves;
  • loom: weaves three times faster.
• Hoppers can feed and empty the millstone and the sawmill.

Workshops

• Potter's wheel: pots, jugs, crocks and cementation boxes thrown on the wheel never crack in the kiln.
• Blowpipe: on a forge hearth at 1000 °C, one glass block makes 3 bottles, or 4 panes when sneaking.

Also

• New advancements:
  • Clean Kill (trophy);
  • Fair Exchange (trade);
  • Herdsman (tame);
  • Spring Births;
  • Sour and Sound (crock);
  • Beast of Burden (travois or sled);
  • Steel;
  • The Mill Turns.
• The Survival Journal now ends with steel.