Exnergy's Sift Version

The Sift 1.2.0

The biggest update yet: nine new biomes, mountains, a hidden endgame boss, a frozen cave world, enchantments, charms, gadgets and a long list of fixes.

🗺️ New Biomes

• The Carapace: a cracked land of giant chitin plates, home to armored Shellbacks
• Wild Sporefields: giant glowing sporecaps over spore soil, with Sporelings and slowing Puffcaps
• Choral Glen: singing chime spires and crystals, Choristers, Chimeflies and a very rare Allay
• Ichor Ponds: a full biome of glowing Ichor pools and islands
• Willow Highlands: tall willow-covered mountains with Sift Goats and Sift Mountain Lions
• Ichorfrost Peaks: snowy mountain tops in an endless blizzard of glowing Ichor snow, home to the Ichor Yeti
• Echo Den (underground): sculk-filled caverns of Echo Stone and Echo Clusters
• Frozen Soul Caverns (underground): icy caves full of Soul Ice, Soul Icicles and Soul Stalagmites
• The Silent Meridian (super rare): a silent field of Nebula Grass around an ancient monolith, home of the Veilkeeper

⛰️ World Generation

• Real mountains now rise across the Sift
• Willows now also grow on crimson, rosy and pale grass, and Singer’s Meadow has its own willows
• Rosy grass in the Huskland now grows as single plants on the sand
• Nebula Dirt under Nebula Grass
• No more sun and moon in the Sift sky
• Overworld sculk contamination is much rarer and smaller
• Biome colors for map mods such as Xaero’s

🐾 New Creatures (45 in total)

• Friendly: Sporeling, Frostling, Sift Goat
• Neutral: Bloomstag, Ichor Yeti, Sift Mountain Lion
• Hostile: Shellback, Rimewalker, Shiverback
• Gnashmaw: a roaring mini-boss, alpha of the Gnashers
• The Veilkeeper: a hidden boss at the Silent Meridian. Use an Echo Shard on the Meridian Core to wake it. It blinks around you and summons Gloomshades
• Allay: a very rare visitor in the Choral Glen
• New vanilla-style spawn eggs for every Sift creature
• Sift creatures now also spawn underground and in caves

👑 Bosses

• All bosses now show a boss bar
• Soul Storms can now bring a mini-boss
• New advancements: Alpha Down (Gnashmaw) and Beyond the Veil (Veilkeeper)

📖 Enchantments

Available from the enchanting table and as enchanted books:

• Frostbite (melee, I–II): slows your target
• Soul Harvest (melee, I–III): more souls from every kill
• Ichor Ward (armor, I–IV): extra protection from fire and Ichor
• Rift Stride (boots, I–III): faster movement

🧿 Charms (off-hand)

• Tidebound Charm: Speed on Flow, Regeneration on Thrive, Resistance on Endure
• Fang Charm: Strength
• Chitin Charm: Resistance, stronger below half health
• Tempest Charm: Resistance and 25% more XP during Soul Storms

🎒 New Items

• Waystone Shard: choose where portals into the Sift drop you and where your Rift Compass points
• Veil Shard (Veilkeeper drop): teleports you to your arrival point inside the Sift
• Soul Flask: stores up to 500 souls
• Soul Gummy: restores 12 souls
• Companion Whistle: call your companions, or tell them to stay or follow
• Storm Lure: summon a Soul Storm. It is crafted from Storm Shards, which drop during storms
• Ichor Bomb and Sticky Glob: a throwable explosive and a throwable slowing glob
• Frozen Soul Snowball, Frozen Soul Iceball and Glacial Soul Core: freeze your enemies
• New mob drops: Gnasher Fang, Burst Gland, Spit Sac, Sculk Jelly, Chitin Shard, Chime Shard and Spore Powder
• Spore Powder grows White Willow saplings and Sporecap Sprouts

🧱 New Blocks

• Carapace, Echo Stone, Froststone and Monolith stone sets
• Ichor Wool, Ichor Carpet, Ichor Bed and Ichor Glass
• Willow Table, Willow Stool and Willow Bookshelf
• Glowcap Lamp, Glowcap Lantern and Soulflame Brazier
• Sift Glass Pane, Soul Ice, Soul Icicles, Soul Stalagmites, Chime Crystals, Sporecap blocks, Nebula Grass and more

✨ Other Changes

• All Sift items are now in a single creative tab, sorted by category
• Siftite Bow and Siftite Crossbow now use their own purple textures
• Shader packs now get a real day and night in the Sift

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• Fixed the game freezing when entering the Sift
• Fixed the Sift staying dark all day with shader packs
• Fixed the portal not filling when built near an Ancient City
• Fixed the Echo Den being impossible to find with /locate
• Fixed broken textures on the Soulflame Brazier and Glowcap Lantern
• Fixed data pack errors when loading a world
• Fixed thrown frost and sticky items hitting your own pets
• Fixed data from one world carrying over into the next world in the same session
• Improved cave generation performance, plus many smaller fixes