Kaucja v5.0.0 — The Mega Update

A massive content update adding 240+ items, 66+ blocks, 9 villager professions, 10+ entities, 10 machines, 3D bottle models, trash piles, boss fights, a bottle portal, and tons more. This changelog covers everything from v7.5.0 onward (the Polish Park update was v7.4.0 — see its separate changelog).

🎨 NEW DECORATIVE BLOCKS (22+)

Build your base in style with bottle-themed decorative blocks:

• Bottle Bricks (8 color variants): Green, Blue, Red, Stained (Purple), Dark, Yellow, White, Black
• Bottle Cap Floor — colorful floor made from bottle caps
• Bottle Cap Mosaic — 4×4 colorful cap pattern
• Recycled Glass Block & Pane — translucent green glass
• Compressed Trash Block — blast-resistant building material
• Bottle Chandelier — hanging light (light level 15)
• Bottle Wind Chime — decorative hanging chime
• Compost Pile — organic pile with green sprouts
• Bottle Tree Decoration — tree with colorful hanging bottles
• Trash Can Planter — trash can repurposed as flower planter
• Bottle Cap Path — path made of compressed bottle caps
• Fertile Soil — rich dark soil from composting
• Eco Energy Block — glowing green energy block
• Bottle Glass Pillar — translucent green column
• Bottle Cap Wallpaper — colorful cap wall covering

🛠️ NEW TOOLS & WEAPONS (22+)

• Bottle Cap Pickaxe — iron-tier pickaxe from compressed caps
• Glass Shard Sword — fragile but powerful sword
• Bottle Cap Axe, Shovel, Hoe — complete bottle cap tool set
• Aluminium Shield — reflective shield variant
• Trash Can Lid — Captain America style thrown shield
• Soda Grenade — throwable that applies Slowness II for 10s
• Recycler's Trowel — converts placed blocks back to bottles
• Bottle Trap — shatters on step, deals damage + bleeding
• Bottle Cannon + Turret — heavy bottle-firing weapons

🍾 NEW DRINKS (15+)

All drinks are drinkable with proper hunger/saturation values:

• Cola Float, Smoothie Bowl, Bubble Tea Deluxe
• Hot Cocoa Deluxe, Mojito Mocktail Deluxe, Espresso Deluxe, Energy Drink XL, Iced Tea Deluxe
• Spring Blossom Bottle, Summer Sun Juice, Autumn Pumpkin Smoothie, Winter Frost Drink
• Bottle Energizer, Bottle Plasma, Bottle Stardust, Bottle Dragon's Breath

All drinks now have 3D models — aluminium cans are cylindrical, plastic bottles are blocky with caps, glass bottles are curved with necks.

🍞 NEW FOOD (13+)

All food items are edible with proper nutrition values:

• Bottle-Shaped Cake (10 hunger), Bottle Pizza (8), Bottle Burger (10), Bottle Taco (7), Bottle Sushi (6)
• Recycled Chocolate, Bottle Jam, Bottle Honey, Bottle Yogurt, Bottle Bread, Bottle Cookie, Bottle Pie, Bottle Soup

🏗️ NEW MACHINES (10 — All Functional!)

🐺 NEW MOBS (5+)

Trash Slime (Hostile)

• Spawns in dark areas, splits into 2 when killed
• Drops 1-3 random bottles + plastic pellets

Bottle Ghost (Hostile)

• Floating ghost that makes ghast sounds
• Drops Bottle Wisp Essence + random bottles

Eco Wisp (Passive)

• Glowing green particle mob, floats around
• Purely cosmetic — adds atmosphere

Trash Titan (Boss)

• Summoned with the Bottle Cataclysm Summoner
• 100 HP, 8 attack damage, high knockback resistance
• Drops: Recycling Aegis (legendary shield), 3-5 Singularity Tokens, Bottle Cataclysm Core, 5-10 bottles
• Broadcasts "The Trash Titan has been summoned!" to all players

Seasonal Boss

• 60 HP slime boss with 4 random seasonal types
• Drops seasonal trophy + bottles + singularity tokens

All mobs have spawn eggs available in the creative tab!

🧑‍🌾 VILLAGER PROFESSIONS (9 total)

🌀 BOTTLE PORTAL

• Crafted from 8× Compressed Bottle Cube + 1× Empty Bottle
• Ignite with Flint and Steel (like a nether portal!)
• Emits light level 7 (unlit) or 15 (lit) — bright glowing texture when ignited
• Right-click when lit to teleport upward with enderman sound

🗑️ TRASH PILES

• Spawn inside Park structures (2-4 per park, around the perimeter)
• Break them for 1-3 random bottles (glass/aluminium/plastic)
• Right-click with empty hand to rummage (get 1 bottle without breaking)
• Silk touch drops the trash pile block for decoration
• Craftable: 1× Dirt + 1× Empty Bottle → 1× Trash Pile

🌳 PARK STRUCTURE (Polish Style)

• Procedurally generated, 25-40 block size, every park is unique
• Won't spawn on water (checks 15 ocean/river/swamp biomes)
• Won't get cut off at chunk boundaries (safe block writing)
• Terrain flatness check — won't spawn on steep hills
• Contains: hedge border, gravel paths, fountain OR pond, 4-7 tree clusters, 3-5 benches, 4-6 street lights, 2-4 trash cans (100% guaranteed), picnic tables, bike rack, playground (sandbox, seesaw, slide), flowers, bushes, decorative rocks, 2-4 trash piles

Park Variants

• Cemetery — iron fence, gravestones, memorial bench, dark oak trees
• Floating Park — sky island at Y=200+ with cherry blossoms + loot chest
• Mushroom Park — mycelium ground, huge mushrooms, red mushroom benches

🎒 FUNCTIONAL ITEMS

👑 COSMETIC ARMOR (10+)

• Recycler Outfit (Hat, Shirt, Pants, Boots) — green with reflective stripes, dyeable
• Park Ranger Hat — brown leather hat with badge
• Bottle Cap Crowns (4 tiers): Copper, Silver, Gold, Diamond — increasing armor + durability
• Bottle Cap Earrings — cosmetic accessory
• Recycling Symbol Cape — green cape with recycling triangle

📖 LORE & COLLECTIBLES (14+)

• 5 Lore Books — tell the story of the Kaucja universe
• Vintage Bottle — rare collectible
• Bottle Singularity — black-hole bottle (Nether Star + Compressed Cube + Ender Pearl)
• Recycling Aegis — legendary shield (Nether Star + 3 Eco Beacons + Trash Can Lid)
• Bottle Throne — "King of Recycling" (4 Golden Crates + Bottle Brick + Nether Star)
• Bottle Cataclysm Core — from the Bottle Cataclysm event
• Hacker's Manifesto, Bottle Saint Statue, Park Dedication Plaque
• Master Recycler Certificate, Singularity Token, Bottle Karaoke Disc
• Bottle Whisperer Charm, Bottle Sage Token, Ocean Guardian Title, Bottle Diploma

🏗️ VILLAGE REPUTATION SYSTEM

• Deposit bottles at deposit machines to earn +1 reputation per deposit
• 5 reputation levels affect trade prices:
  • Beloved (75+): 20% discount on all trades
  • Trusted (25+): 10% discount
  • Neutral: normal prices
  • Distrusted (-25 to -75): 20% markup
  • Hated (-100): 50% markup

🎵 PONDER SCENES (Create Integration)

When Create is installed, Ponder scenes show for all Kaucja blocks with proper text descriptions and usage instructions — not just raw IDs. Each scene explains:

• What the block does
• How to use it
• Tips and tricks

📊 STATS

🔄 COMPATIBILITY

• Minecraft: 1.20.1
• Forge: 47.2.0+ (tested on 47.4.10)
• Create: Optional, 0.5.1+ through 6.0.8
• Java: 17

🐛 CRASH FIXES

• Fixed Failed to load registries crash (removed invalid dimension/biome modifier JSONs)
• Fixed StackOverflowError crash (recursive safeSetBlock calling itself)
• Fixed The stack count must be 1 inventory crash (removed .durability() from tool items)
• Fixed world creation crash (removed orphaned worldgen JSONs)
• Fixed recipe tag errors (minecraft:strings → minecraft:string)
• Fixed advancement format (plain string → {"text": "..."})

🎯 HOW TO USE

1. Find a village — trash cans spawn in villages (100% guaranteed)
2. Use the deposit machine — insert empty bottles for cash
3. Buy drinks at the shop — spend your cash on cola, juice, energy drinks
4. Craft machines — RVM for bulk deposits, Coin Mint for coins, Composter for soil
5. Find parks — parks generate in the overworld with trash piles, benches, fountains
6. Break trash piles — get random empty bottles
7. Magnet + Backpack — auto-collect bottles while exploring
8. Summon the Trash Titan — craft a Cataclysm Summoner and right-click on a block
9. Build the Bottle Portal — 8 compressed cubes + bottle, ignite with flint and steel
10. Explore villager trades — 9 professions with unique items

Enjoy the update! 🍾🗑️🛡️✨