🌙 PasterDream Changelog

v0.9.6 — August 13, 2026

🏰 New Dimension: Cold Domain

A brand-new frozen dimension has arrived! Explore the Cold Domain — a snow-covered world with its own unique biomes, terrain generation, and atmospheric visuals (icy-blue skies with deep-blue night fog).

New Blocks:

• ❄️ Cold Domain Log & Stripped Cold Domain Log — axial pillar blocks with proper bark/end textures
• 🌿 Cold Domain Leaves — decay naturally like vanilla leaves, drop sticks
• 🟫 Cold Domain Dirt — spreadable soil for the frozen world
• ⬜ Snowy Cold Domain Grass — snow-covered grass that spreads and switches snowy side textures
• 🪓 Axe Stripping — use an axe on Cold Domain Logs to get stripped variants

🌳 Better Biomes — 12 New Trees in Dyedream World

The Dyedream dimension now features 12 fully imported trees from the Better Biomes datapack, naturally generating across all biomes with realistic density variation!

Tree Types:

• 🌲 Bush & Cherry Bush — low ground cover for dense forests
• 🌳 Plain Tree — large oak-style canopy for open areas
• 🌸 Blossom — beautiful flowering trees, rare clusters
• 🌴 Palm — shoreline tropical trees
• 🌲 Tall Birch & Poplar — towering slender trees
• 🌲 Aspen (Big/Mid/Small) — golden deciduous trees
• ❄️ Snow Tree — spruce with preserved snow blocks
• 🌲 Giant Conifer — massive 22×40 landmark tree with full crown (no more flat tops!)

Generation:

• Trees use noise-driven placement for natural clustering — no more uniform grids!
• Each biome gets its own tree palette (forest, dense forest, plains, mushroom, snow, shore)
• Giant trees auto-align to chunk centers to prevent generation errors

🌾 Dyedream Farmland — Complete Farming System

Dyedream Farmland now works exactly like vanilla farmland with Dyedream-themed behavior:

• 🌱 Hoe tilling — use a hoe on Dyedream Grass or Dyedream Dirt to create farmland
• 💧 Moisture system — water within 4 blocks instantly moisturizes; dries out gradually without crops
• 👣 Trample protection — jumping on it turns into Dyedream Dirt (never vanilla dirt!)
• 🌿 2× crop growth speed — crops planted on Dyedream Farmland grow twice as fast
• 🏷️ Tagged as c:farmlands for mod compatibility

🏮 Dyedream Lantern — New Decorative Light

A beautiful new Dyedream Lantern block has been added!

• 💡 Emits light level 15 with animated flickering glow
• 🔗 Can be placed on the ground or hung from ceilings
• 💧 Waterloggable
• 🏷️ Tagged in c:lanterns for mod compatibility
• 🔨 Crafted similarly to Dyedream Crystal Lamps (yields 2)

🧩 Dyedream World Puzzles — Fully Ported

Three classic Dyedream puzzles are now fully functional:

• 🌸 Garden Decryption — arrange flowers correctly around a Dyedream Desk, then interact with Flower #11 to unlock Flower #12 (dual-block plants now properly replace both halves!)
• ⛄ Snow Golem Puzzle — gather a Snow Golem and Allay within 9 blocks of the correct flower formation, then sacrifice them to transform Flower #16 into Flower #17
• ❄️ Frozen Flower — Flower #17 randomly freezes nearby water into ice and accumulates snow on the ground

⚔️ Aaroncos Boss Battle — Major Overhaul

The twin-boss fight against Aaroncos has been completely reworked for a cinematic, fair, and epic experience!

🎭 Combat Rework:

• Skills now only trigger when targeting a living enemy — no more random skill spam in peaceful mode
• Distance-based skill selection — Left Hand (melee) uses close-range skills; Right Hand (ranged) uses magic from afar
• Skills pause auto-attacks — no more awkward skill/basic-attack overlap
• Right Hand now maintains preferred combat range (10 blocks) — no more getting stuck in melee spam

💥 Tune Totem Finale (Ultimate):

• Triggers when Right Hand is below 1/3 HP AND Left Hand is dead or below 1/5 HP
• 50-block radius for the explosion warning
• 2,500 magic damage — devastating but dodgeable
• Terrain destruction — 7.5-block explosion radius (half of original)
• Cinematic presentation — 3-stage darkening, black-white flash, 6-second intense screen shake, 5-second persistent particle ring
• Players can destroy the totem to cancel the explosion!

🎵 Arena BGM:

• Fixed boss music not playing — now uses per-player notification sound (no distance falloff!)
• Auto-loops every ~149 seconds for continuous atmosphere

🏆 Victory Flow:

• Defeating both hands enters Victory Phase — stay in the arena to loot!
• Loot chest spawns at ground level (y=42) for easy access
• Manual return — right-click the center summon block to teleport back to Overworld
• No more auto-kick on kill!

🎨 Full VFX Suite:

• Screen Shake System — camera shake on heavy impacts with 3-phase decay
• Impact Frames — full-screen monochrome flash on ultimate explosions
• Atmosphere Darkening — dynamic fog tinting (crimson during Blood Lock rage mode)
• Particle Emitters — charging light pillars, explosion rings, soul flame bursts
• Ghost Trails — removed from Shadow Hand dash (too short to be visible), kept for high-motion entities

🛡️ Player-Friendly Fixes:

• Creative mode players are completely ignored by all boss attacks, skills, and vortex effects
• Bosses properly face their target before firing skills (no more shooting backwards!)
• Skill state properly resets on world reload — no more "frozen" bosses after rejoining
• Post-summoning invincibility properly clears — bosses are vulnerable after the intro cutscene

🌊 Dyedream Rivers — Natural Waterways

Rivers in the Dyedream dimension have been completely redesigned:

• 🏞️ Narrow winding channels (~4-8 blocks wide) with sandy banks (~4-8 blocks each side)
• 🌊 Sea level raised to Y=60 (+5 from Y=55) — rivers now properly contain water
• 🐠 Tropical fish spawn rate drastically reduced — moved to correct water_ambient category, weight 10→4, count 2-6→1-2
• 🏝️ Rivers no longer generate in ocean/coastal areas — only on land
• 🏖️ Riverbeds properly covered in Dyedream Sand (with correct gravity physics!)

🎒 MeltDream Crystal Chest — Customizable Loot

The MeltDream Crystal Chest now supports player-customizable loot pools!

• Toggle custom loot in config (default: off, uses built-in pools)
• Edit Common / Rare / Legendary item pools via config file or in-game config screen
• Format: item_id [quantity] [weight]
• Opening chests now grants +2 MeltDream Energy (with configurable multiplier)
• MeltDream Energy now regenerates naturally over time (configurable interval & amount)

⚙️ Configuration Overhaul

• 🔧 Custom Spawn Dimension — choose which dimension & biome new players spawn in (default: disabled)
• 🚫 Dyedream Crack Generation — properly toggleable! Disabling it removes cracks from worldgen AND prevents /locate lag
• 🔥 Fire Necklace Ban — can now actually disable the Fire Necklace from functioning
• 💡 Loading Screen Tips — restored the 22 random tips during loading screens
• 🌍 Origin Crack at (0,0) — configurable whether a Dyedream Crack generates at world origin
• 🏝️ Dyedream Origin Spawnpoint — configurable island at Dyedream spawn
• 📝 Config descriptions now auto-wrap — no more text overflowing the screen!

🛠️ Equipment & Item Fixes

• 🛡️ Armor defense values fixed — slot order was swapped (boots/chest/leggings/helmet now correct)
• ⛏️ Tool stats fully aligned with original mod — durability, mining speed, damage, attack speed, enchantability, repair materials
• 📦 Stack sizes corrected for 10 items (elixirs, membranes, breath items, etc. now properly stack to 1)
• ✂️ Gardening Pliers now recognized by c:shears and forge:shears tags
• 🌿 Dyedream Seagrass now only drops when harvested with shears or Silk Touch

🧱 Block Fixes

• 🏜️ Dyedream Sand now has proper gravity physics — falls when unsupported
• 🪨 Dyedream Sandstone & Deepstone now drop themselves when mined
• 🧊 Calcite Spikes (grass_5/grass_6) reclassified as stone blocks — require pickaxe, no longer tagged as flowers
• 🪵 Cold Domain Log textures fixed — bark and end grain no longer swapped

🐛 Crash Fixes

• 👻 Spectator mode — opening container menus no longer crashes
• 🔄 Resource reload (F3+T) — no more crash when reloading shaders
• 🌍 World generation — fixed far-chunk spam and lighting engine crashes from floating islands/giant trees
• ⚙️ Config reset button — no longer crashes when clicked from mod list (before entering a world)
• 💾 Guide Book — no longer re-given on every death/respawn (marker now persists properly)

🌐 Localization

• ✅ All 431 items and 290 blocks now have complete English (en_us) and Chinese (zh_cn) translations
• 🧹 Removed all CJK characters from English language files
• 🔤 Added missing translation keys for Dyedream Deepstone & Dyedream Sandstone

🔧 Technical / Dev

• 📊 Added automated parity scanner for item stack sizes & buff attribute values vs. original mod
• 🔍 Added invalid config audit tool to catch "config UI only" settings with no gameplay effect
• 🧪 Debug structure wands for all 12 Better Biomes trees (centered placement)

v0.9.5 — August 7, 2026

✨ New VFX System (PasterDreamAPI)

A complete cinematic effects framework inspired by FDLib design, fully rewritten from scratch:

• 🎬 Post-Processing Pipeline — custom shader support (Impact Frame monochrome flash)
• 🎞️ Cutscene Camera — smooth Catmull-Rom spline paths with full player control takeover
• 🌈 Screen Effects — color overlays with fade in/stay/fade out lifecycle
• 💥 Impact Frames — full-screen black/white flash for dramatic moments
• ✨ Particle Emitters — server-driven particle bursts with spawn processors (circle, entity-bound)

🎭 Aaroncos Boss — Initial Implementation

• Twin boss fight (Left Hand melee + Right Hand ranged)
• 7 unique skills per hand with GeckoLib animations
• Arena system with summon sequence and phase management
• Shadow Tune Totem ultimate ability

🔭 Telescope Constellation Highlight

• Star crosshair now uses animated golden particle texture (3-frame loop) instead of drawn lines
• Smooth fade in/out with pulsing size

🧰 Other Changes

• 🌿 Calcite Spikes reclassified from vegetation to stone blocks
• ✂️ Shears tag (pasterdream:shears) added for Gardening Pliers compatibility
• 🌌 Aurora particles removed from coast/deep ocean (replaced with stardust)
• 🎵 Boss music now streams properly (stream: true)
• 🧊 Dyedream Seagrass now requires shears/Silk Touch to harvest
• 🎬 Cutscene camera entity fixed (now extends Entity instead of LivingEntity)

Happy dreaming! 🌙✨