Hauled to Hearth 1.4.0: The Wakewood Update

The forest has been watching over you for a while now. This update lets it leave a little something behind.

🌳 Wakewood: Optional Markers with a Forest Influence

Wherever you're hauled from, a Wakewood sapling can now take root. It glows softly in the dark and carries a short line from the forest, visible when you look at it. Dig it up and it keeps its words.

Markers are off by default. Turn them on under Markers → Wakewood Markers in the config.

• Saplings linger. They're markers first, so they take their time, usually a night or two, before they grow.
• Then the tree comes quickly. Once a sapling wakes, it grows into a weeping Wakewood in a single night. It bends around whatever's in its way, so every tree is shaped by where it stands.
• Blossoms, then fruit. Strands weep from its branches, flower, and ripen into glowing Lanternboughs that light the dark around them.
• The forest remembers. Visit often and its words will change. Stay safe for a while and it will forget you again.
• Small gifts. Sometimes you'll wake to find a little something beside you: a fern, a scrap of string, a bit of moss. The more familiar the forest is with you, the more likely it is to leave something.
• The forest notices when you take from it. Pluck a Lanternbough and see what happens.
• Felling. A whole Wakewood comes down at once. Its canopy lets go in a breath of smoke, and its logs land where you swung.

New Blocks and Items

• A full Wakewood wood set: logs, wood, stripped variants, planks, stairs, slabs, fences, gates, doors, trapdoors, buttons, pressure plates, signs, hanging signs, boats and chest boats
• Wakewood Leaves, Wakewood Strands and Wakewood Saplings
• Pomegranates and Pomegranate Juice

🍃 A Gentler Rescue

• You vanish in leaves. Anyone nearby now sees a swirl of Wakewood leaves rise where you were taken.
• You wake on your back, looking up, beneath a gentle fall of Wakewood leaves.
• The forest speaks in its own voice. Waking messages now come from the forest itself, and change once it starts to recognize you.
• Hardcore rescues speak in that same voice. (If you already have a config file, the old hardcore lines stay until you edit or reset them.)
• Quieter breathing, so it no longer drowns out everything else.

🛠️ Changes and Fixes

• keepInventory is no longer forced on. Rescues still keep your inventory, and true Hardcore deaths now follow your world's own rules.
• Curse of Vanishing items are taken on rescue, just as a true death would take them.
• A big tidy behind the scenes to keep things running smoothly as the mod grows.

⚠️ Please Note

• Server and clients must both run 1.4.0.
• Known issue: rescue announcements in chat may not appear for some players. A fix is on the way!

Thank you for letting the forest look after you. 💜