Mine Mine no Mi: Sky Island 0.2.0 (beta)

Skypiea comes alive: its first animals. Giant South Birds that always face south, two birds you can tame, saddle and fly, the Cloud Fox and the huge Giant Dog as companions - the dog a mount too. And a round of fixes: every village island gets its Heaven's Gate, geysers keep their vent, and exploring Skypiea no longer floods the log.

Requires Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47+, Mine Mine no Mi 0.11.5 and AkumaLib 2.6.1 or newer (was 2.5.0). Client and server.

⚠️ Still a beta: worlds are generated from this version's rules. Chunks already explored keep what they have; islands you have not reached yet may get a Heaven's Gate they would not have had in 0.1.0 (see Fixes).

New: the birds of Skypiea

• The giant South Bird (Upper Yards): the Jaya bird, grown huge on Skypiea and friendly. A living compass - once it stops, it turns to face south, beak and all.
• The Sky Dot Bird (Pierre's kind) - pink and dotted, rare on the Angel Islands and in the Upper Yards - and the Three-Jo Bird (Fuza's kind) - a great lilac vulture, rarer still, in the Upper Yards only. Both are flying mounts:
  • tame them with seeds (like a parrot), then put a vanilla saddle on them;
  • only their owner rides and steers them;
  • fly like a horse that flies: the movement keys go the way you look, Jump climbs, Sneak descends, with neither they hover;
  • in the air, Sneak never drops you off - land first, then Sneak to get down;
  • fall out of Skypiea on one and you both go home, still in the saddle.
• Their wings fold on the ground, beat fast when hovering or climbing, slow when cruising, and hold still in a dive; they bank into turns - with a rider too.
• Drops: feathers and meat (cooked if they burned), more with Looting; a mount's saddle drops too.

New: companions

• The Cloud Fox (Su's kind), on the Angel Islands: tame it with fish. It follows you, and lies down on the cloud when told to sit.
• The Giant Dog (Holy's kind), very rare in the Upper Yards, huge: tame it with raw meat.
  • A guard, like a wolf: it goes for whatever strikes you and whatever you strike (never creepers, ghasts or your other animals), and catches up with you when it gets stuck in the trees.
  • A mount: saddle it and ride it like a horse - Jump leaps about three blocks. No fall damage under ten blocks.
  • 80 health, 8 attack damage.
• Five coats each, the first the manga's own: fox cloud, sky, dawn, mint, dusk; dog cream, russet, silver, chocolate, charcoal.

Fixes

• Geysers keep their vent: an amethyst geode next to a geyser could crush it. A geyser now repairs its crater by itself.
• Heaven's Gate on every village island: about half of them had none. Where the gate needs the room, the beach's deck chairs, castle or workshop are left out.
• You always arrive in front of the gate, never on its roof, even on a sloping coast.
• Valkyrien Skies: a ship arriving by geyser no longer lands on Heaven's Gate; it looks further out for open cloud sea where the sea is shallow.
• Exploring Skypiea is smoother: the game no longer fills its log with warnings each time new land appears, which slowed it down. The islands themselves are unchanged.

Known issues

• Some Angel Islands have no White Beret lookout, or one oddly placed.
• The Shandias' hidden village sometimes sits partly on an island instead of on the sea.
• Some small Upper Yards have a single Shandia camp.
• In a few worlds, leaves block the Giant Jack's ramp.