Mystic's Biomes

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// Friday, December 26th, 2025 // 4:00PM EST // v3.5
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   1.21.1 support.
   refreshed & improved every texture, block, & model.
   refreshed & improved all animal textures, models, animations, & behavior.
   readded caterpillars.
   readded chrysalis.
   renamed cherry wood to dark cherry
   renamed jacaranda wood to lavender
   added lavender buds
   added tall lavender
   added tall desert grass
   added beach grass
   added tall beach grass
   added spring wood type
   added vanilla wood type
   added vanilla trees
   added variants to vanilla & chocolate cows.
   cow variants are now properly factored in when producing offspring.
   cherry blossoms can now drop cherries. (similarly to apples)
   peach leaves can now drop peaches.
   cakes & pies are now able to be placed directionally.
   cakes & pies will now drop itself if no slices were taken.
   pies now have 4 slices instead of 6 like cakes.
   fixed crash when candles are placed on pies.
   fixed glass jars from not picking up butterflies.
   fixed tree leaves from causing lag spikes and decaying.
   completely overhauled tree shapes.
   tweaked biome features and placements.
   tweaked some animal attributes.
   tweaked flower & grass voxel shapes.
   lavender can now be bonemealed into tall lavender.
   lavender can be made into lavender buds in a furnace.
   added crafting recipe for butterfly nests.
   tweaked saguaro cactus vertical & curved models.
   improved saguaro cactus placement conditions.
   vanilla orchids now have 3 proper growth stages.
   fixed vanilla orchids floating when the block it's on is broken.
   added new default textures to cocoa block.
   added texture to spring bamboo sapling.
   added proper textures & models for potted plants.
   added more config options for animal biome spawns and spawn chance.
   added advancement for obtaining cherries.
   improved recipe advancements.
   advancements for cakes actually trigger when the player crafts them themselves, rather than having them all in the inventory.
   adjusted biome grass, foliage, water, & fog colors.
   adjusted strawberry bush growth; should actually grow now.
   strawberry bushes are now xy offset.
   removed fruit jam.
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// Friday, September 6th, 2024 // 9:00AM EST // v3.4.2
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   updated tropical wood textures.
   updated vanilla orchid model & textures.
   vanilla orchids now grow vertically, and can be harvested for vanilla beans.
   vanilla orchids will now generate on tropical trees properly.
   reverted back to vanilla's method of leaves calculating distance; should reduce cpu usage.
   added some new achievements.
   added parrot spawns to tropics biome.
   added new default vanilla parrot textures.
   added language support for spanish, korean, japanese, chinese & french.
   fixed peach and cherry pie models.
   fixed pie voxel shape.
   red pandas can now pick up items.
   red pandas can now eat bamboo they pick up.
   cherries are now obtained from red pandas.
   removed cherry plants tree decorator.
   updated uk_ua language file.
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// Friday, August 30th, 2024 // 11:30PM EST // v3.4.1
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   tweaked saguaro cactus model and block.
   added saguaro blossoms.
   improved how saguaro cactus autonomously grow branches & blossoms.
   improved lush oasis biome features.
   added peaches.
   added peach plants.
   added peach pies.
   added peach jam.
   peach plants now spawn underneath peach trees.
   tweaked peach tree foliage shape & decorators.
   refreshed peach wood textures.
   can now spread grassy lush sand, similarly to the moss block.
   added cherries.
   added cherry plants.
   added cherry pies.
   added cherry jam.
   added placeable jars.
   fixed vanilla orchids transparency.
   fixed tropical doors & trapdoor transparency.
   fixed tropical trees growing into jacaranda trees.
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// Friday, July 12th, 2024 // 7:00PM EST // v3.4
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   added tropics biome.
   added tropical trees.
   added tropical wood type.
   added hydrangea bushes.
   added vanilla beans.
   added vanilla orchids.
   added vanilla cakes & milk.
   added vanilla cows.
   added chocolate cakes & milk.
   added chocolate cows.
   fixed missing red panda sleeping texture.
   fixed red pandas moving while sleeping.
   removed some left over debug code for red pandas.
   improved the order of red pandas goals.
   improved frosted cake item & block textures.
   renamed sea foam shrubs to sea shrubs.
   renamed sea foam leaves to sea shrub leaves.
   modified foliage shape for sea shrubs.
   lush sandstone blocks will now break and drop properly.
   added tags for mineable blocks; blocks will break faster based on the tool used.
   improved saguaro cactus; will now break when block below it is broken, & cannot place another block next to them.
   saguaro cactus will now grow properly, as well as grow branches on their own.
   saguaro cactus can now be cropped with shears to prevent growth.
   improved voxel shape for saguaro cactus branches.
   smelting saguaro cactus now results in lime dye.
   removed wilted grass.
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// Tuesday, May 21st, 2024 // 8:52PM EST // v3.3.1
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   fixed some missing textures.
   butterflies will now spawn in all 6 colors from spawn eggs & in butterfly nests.
   sea otters will now move to water when on land for too long.
   improved sea otters movement and look controls.
   improved sea otter model and texture.
   refreshed sea otter animations.
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// Friday, May 17th, 2024 // 4:40PM EST // v3.3
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*requires terrablender 1.20.1-3.0.1.6.
   added lagoon biome.
   added sea foam shrubs.
   added sea foam wood type.
   added milkweed.
   added wilted grass.
   added sea oats.
   added sea otters.
   increased frosted cake compost chance to 2.
   added white strawberry cow variant.
   fixed strawberry bushes from crashing game when grown in frozen biomes.
   reworked the way strawberry bushes calculate their growth condition and speed.
   tweaked sweet strawberry drop chance from 1/82 to 1/64.
   tweaked strawberry fields water, grass & foliage colors.
   sweet strawberries now have a glowing tint.
   removed pink lush sand.
   renamed citrus wood to peach wood.
   renamed prickly pears to saguaro cactus.
   saguaro cactus will now properly generate with a random amount of branches.
   tweaked cherry blossom tree foliage.
   added new spring bamboo block model & textures.
   added bundled spring bamboo.
   added pink & white cherry blossom particles.
   added particle names to lang files.
   tweaked falling leaf particle speed, rotate speed & lifetime.
   falling leaf particles now fade out instead of just disappearing.
   improved spring bamboo & cherry blossom tree placements.
   tweaked maple tree foliage.
   maple leaf piles now generate under maple trees.
   fixed texture stretching on sides of maple leaf piles.
   added allium flowers to autumnal grove.
   maple leaves will now very rarely drop an acorn particle.
   added acorn particle.
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// Friday, March 22nd, 2024 // 11:00AM EST // v3.2
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   added lush oasis biome.
   added lush & pink lush sand block families.
   added wildflowers.
   added desert grass.
   added prickly pears.
   added citrus tree & wood type.
   fixed a few block advancements.
   fixed rainbow chickens from crashing certain servers.
   fixed rainbow chicken biome spawns config from resetting when modified.
   added config for rainbow chicken spawn chances.
   added ability to bonemeal strawberry bushes.
   adjusted the way biome temperature affects strawberry bush growth.
   cake loot tables are now generated through data gen.
   fixed renders for spring bamboo leaves & sapling, and butterfly nests.
   removed white butterfly variant.
   removed ice cream flavors.
   removed pumpkin cookie.
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// Friday, February 9th, 2024 // 11:00AM EST // v3.1.6
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*requires terrablender 3.0.1.4
   updated mods.toml terrablender dependency version.
   fixed server crash when rainbow chickens breed.
   added config for rainbow chicken biome spawns.
   added spring bamboo.
   added four butterfly variants.
   refreshed, refined and cleaned up nearly all textures.
   refreshed red pandas' model and animations.
   refreshed bamboo blossom forest biome feature placements.
   changed pink & white cherry tree trunk and foliage.
   tweaked the y height a butterfly can fly off the ground.
   butterfly nests now spawn butterflies with random variants.
   butterflies now show visible nectar on their body when they have nectar. (again)
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// Friday, December 29th, 2023 // 4:55PM EST // v3.1.5
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*requires terrablender 3.0.0.169
   fixed leaves not decaying properly.
   axes now lose durability from stripping mb wood.
   refreshed butterfly model & textures.
   re-added rainbow chickens, eggs, and cakes.
   re-added common configs; can now toggle biomes and change region weight.
   added 'colorful bakery' achievement.
   added pumpkin cookies.
   added pumpkin ice cream.
   added strawberry ice cream.
   added strawberry cake with candle names in lang file.
   fixed strawberry cakes with a brown candle not appearing.
   fixed recipe advancements not appearing.
   removed some achievements.
   tweaked biome generation.
   tweaked butterfly nest decorator on jacaranda trees. (they actually generate properly now)
   separated glass jar and butterfly jar items.
   removed sweet strawberry cow variant.
   removed strawberry jam.
   removed caterpillars.
   tweaked requirements for a butterfly to grow flowers.
   removed butterflies' ability to breed.
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// Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 // 11:56AM EST // v3.1.4
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   fixed strawberry bushes not growing properly.
   strawberry bushes now grow 25% faster when planted on farmland.
   strawberry bush growth can be stunted using shears.
   improved strawberry bush voxel shape.
   patches of strawberry bushes now generate in at random stages.
   added strawberry jam.
   tweaked some advancements & recipes.
   maple leaf piles can now accumulate layers.
   ACTUALLY fixed potted plants not going in pots.
   candles are now placeable on strawberry cakes.
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// Friday, October 20th, 2023 // 3:56PM EST // v3.1.3
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   added butterflies.
   added autumnal grove biome.
   added maple wood type.
   added misc. blocks i.e. leaf piles.
   added butterfly nest & chrysalis.
   added glass jars.
   fixed saplings not going in flower pots.
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// Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 // 9:22PM EST // v3.1.2
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   fixed "lavender" missing its name in lang file.
   fixed red panda spawn egg spawning fox offspring.
   fixed strawberry sapling transparency.
   added ukrainian language support. (thank you unroman!!)
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// Friday, July 21st, 2023 // 9:00PM EST // v3.1.1
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   1.20.1 (forge 47.1.0) support.
   biomes now generate and terrablender 3.0.0.167 or newer is required.
   added a new advancement.
   added forge tags.
   tweaked some block textures.
   tweaked bamboo blossom forest biome features and placements.
   tweaked strawberry bushes and their growth patterns.
   (attempted) to tweak some biome placements.
   fixed strawberry saplings growing jacaranda trees.
   fixed missing texture for sleeping red pandas.
   fixed lavender xy offset.
   fixed a few block advancements.
   fixed boat and sign entities missing a name.
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// Friday, June 9th, 2023 // 3:00:PM EST // v3.1.0.0
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*biomes do not yet generate in the overworld!
   1.20 port
   added hanging signs
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