Mesozoic

## Mesozoic — Pre-Beta 2

### New Features

- Added six music discs featuring original Mesozoic soundtracks, playable in the jukebox.
- Each disc has its own crafting recipe and is available in the mod's creative tab.
- Expanded ambient, damage, and death sound coverage for all 38 creature types.
- Added 114 short audio clips. Extinct animal vocalizations are artistic recreations.

### Audio Improvements

- Added 45–100 second pauses between ambient vocalizations.
- Implemented a vocalization limit per area to reduce noise from animal groups.
- Reduced roar repetition during behaviors and attacks.
- Animal silence duration is preserved when saving and loading the world.
- Added settings to adjust intervals and volume, and to disable ambient or behavioral vocalizations.
- Mesozoic ambient music now yields priority to discs played in the jukebox.
- Fixed two silent cut-offs in the giant ground sloth sounds.

### Interface and Compatibility

- Updated main menu identification to Pre-Beta 2.
- Retained the initial delivery of the Mesozoic Encyclopedia.
- Single JAR for both client and server; no new dependencies.
- Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47.4.23, and Java 17.

### Validation

- Build completed; eight automated server tests passed.
- All six discs tested in the jukebox in singleplayer mode.
- Credits and information regarding new CC0 audio sources included in the JAR.