Christmas Hearthlight 2.0.0 (Forge 1.20.1)

Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge 47+ · Client and server must both run 2.0.

The biggest Christmas Hearthlight update yet: the whole world dresses up for Christmas. It adds new creatures, Santa's Workshop and a sleigh that flies by night to leave presents. You also get 3D Santa and elf outfits, mail with Secret Santa, and much more.

🎅 Christmas comes to the whole world

• Every vanilla mob wears a 3D Santa hat, from chickens to iron golems and ghasts, babies included. The hat follows every animation. Villagers, witches, illusioners and wandering traders swap their hats and hoods for it.
• Christmas sweaters come in red, green, or burgundy with gold. On four-legged animals the sweater covers the whole body. Mobs with no arms or legs (fish, slimes, guardians…) wear just the hat.
• A snowy landscape: grass turns white on top, and leaves get a blanket of snow with a few fairy lights. Grass and ferns have frosted tips.
• Vines become pine garlands with coloured bulbs that glow at night.
• Hand-drawn Christmas flowers:
  • poppy → poinsettia and dandelion → golden star;
  • daisy → Christmas rose and rose bush → holly;
  • the other flowers change too.
• All of it is painted at start-up from your own textures, so it works with any resource pack. You can turn it off in christmas_hearthlight-client.toml, section christmasLook (mobs and plants).

🦌 Creatures

• Reindeer:
  • they spawn in snowy taigas and plains, and you tame, saddle and breed them like horses;
  • 5% are born as Rudolph, with a glowing nose;
  • with a Sleigh Bell in your inventory, your reindeer flies;
  • new animations: trot, gallop, rearing, grazing and galloping through the air.
• Elves:
  • they live in Santa's Workshop, sell toys and give quests for materials;
  • they hop around and work with their little hammers;
  • they fight back, and they hunt the Yeti and Evil Snowmen.
• Snowmen:
  • give wool to a snow golem to make a Festive Snowman with a top hat and scarf that never melts;
  • at night the Evil Snowman appears and throws ice shards.
• Yeti: a rare boss of the frozen peaks, with a health bar.
  • It roars, punches, beats its chest, smashes the ground and hurls ice.
  • It drops Yeti fur and the Frozen Heart.
• Toymaker: a new villager profession that works at the Toymaker's Workbench.

🏠 Santa's Workshop

• A new structure in snowy biomes: a two-storey half-timbered house. It has a snow-covered red roof, a smoking chimney and a lantern-lit porch.
• Inside you'll find toy workbenches, a lit Christmas tree, a fireplace hung with stockings and long tables.
• The attic has beds, Santa's desk with The List and a reading nook.
• Elves work inside.
• Loot: chests hold presents, diamonds, golden apples, enchanted books and food. Barrels hold workshop supplies and food.

🛷 Santa, the tree and the sleigh

• Decorate your Christmas tree with up to 12 baubles in 16 colours, a star on top, and string lights that twinkle around the branches. Sneak with an empty hand to take the decorations off.
• Santa's sleigh: on a random night, Santa crosses the sky with two reindeer. He leaves presents under every tree with a star on top. The sleigh is gilded and lacquered, with lanterns, bells and a sack full of presents. Listen for "Ho ho ho!" and the sleigh's church-bell peal.
• The Nice/Naughty list:
  • you earn points by breeding and taming animals, trading, sending letters and presents, and doing elf quests;
  • you lose points by killing villagers, golems or pets;
  • naughty players get coal and a warning letter;
  • /xmas nice shows your score.
• Santa's presents can optionally reset every N days (santaReset).

🎁 3D Santa and elf outfits

• All 8 pieces, in iron and diamond, have their own 3D models:
  • hats: a floppy Santa hat whose pompom flops to the side, and a cone-shaped elf hat with a bell;
  • Santa: a velvet coat with belt and buckle, trousers with a fur waistband, and boots;
  • elf: a tunic with a zigzag collar, striped stockings and green boots.
• Iron has silver buckles and bells; diamond has gold set with diamond.

✉️ Mail

• Secret Santa:
  • an admin opens sign-ups and players join from the mailbox;
  • the draw never gives you yourself;
  • presents can stay anonymous until the reveal.
• On-screen mail icon showing your unread letters.
• Unclaimed mail returns to the sender after N days. Santa's and Secret Santa mail never expires.
• More privacy: the recipient list no longer shows who is online.

🍪 Food and winter fun

• Hot Chocolate: warms you up and removes powder-snow freezing.
• 6 iced cookies, each with its own effect.
• Christmas Feast: 6 servings, blesses everyone at the table, and is eaten down bit by bit.
• Winter fun:
  • ice skates (+60% speed on ice);
  • a 2-seat sled for sliding downhill;
  • packed snowballs;
  • snow bricks (block, stairs, slab and wall).
• Automatic free-for-all snowball fights every 20 minutes when 2+ players are online. The winner gets a present. Configure it in winterFun.
• Optional snow accumulation (snowCover.accumulateEverywhere).

🎨 Art and sound

• Items redrawn as Minecraft-style pixel art, plus the author's new 32×32 textures with in-hand animation.
• The mailbox is repainted, with lights that blink in sequence.
• The Toymaker's Workbench and the Christmas Feast are redesigned.
• The sleigh bells now ring like church bells.

⌨️ Commands

• /xmas shows help with clickable commands. /christmashearthlight still works.
• /xmas nice, /xmas sleigh, /xmas snowballwar, /xmas secretsanta, /xmas santa reset, …

🔧 Fixes

• Eating the mod's foods no longer shows purple-and-black particles.
• The tall Christmas tree always drops itself when broken.
• Feeding a reindeer now feeds it instead of mounting it.

⚠️ Upgrade notes

• The new Workshop only generates in parts of the world you haven't explored yet.
• Client and server must both run 2.0.