Nether Update Backport

All of 1.16 Nether Update, on Minecraft 1.12.2. It needs Backport Core on the client and the server.

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Biomes

The nether gets 1.16's four new biomes: the crimson forest, the warped forest, the soul sand valley and the basalt deltas. The old nether becomes the nether wastes. Each biome has its own fog, particles, music and ambient sounds.

Biomes only appear in nether chunks you haven't explored yet.

Mobs

Piglins love gold. Throw them a gold ingot and they barter it for something. They attack you if you wear no gold armor, open their chests or break gold nearby.

Piglin brutes guard bastions and attack everyone. Hoglins charge and toss you into the air. Taken out of the nether, piglins and hoglins turn into zombified piglins and zoglins.

Striders walk on lava. Saddle one and steer it with a warped fungus on a stick.

Zombie pigmen are now zombified piglins, with 1.16's look and anger rules. Existing farms keep working.

Structures

Bastion remnants come in all four kinds, built from Mojang's own files, with their loot and guards. Bastions and fortresses share their spots as in 1.16. Ruined portals show up in the overworld and the nether, and nether fossils in soul sand valleys.

/locate structure finds all of them.

Netherite

Ancient debris hides deep in the nether. Smelt it into scrap, combine 4 scrap with 4 gold for an ingot, and upgrade your diamond gear at the smithing table. Netherite never burns and floats up out of lava.

Without Village & Pillage Backport, this mod brings its own smithing table.

Blocks

Blackstone and its polished and brick forms, basalt, crimson and warped wood in every shape, nylium, fungi, roots, vines, shroomlight, soul soil, soul fire, soul torches, lanterns and campfires, chain, crying obsidian, the respawn anchor, the lodestone, the target block, nether gold ore and quartz bricks.

The rest of 1.16

You also get Pigstep, Soul Speed, hoes that mine faster, clearer lava with Fire Resistance, music that finishes instead of cutting off, and 1.16's title screen and menus.

Every feature can be turned off in Backport Core's settings screen, under Mod Options.

Works with

With Village & Pillage Backport, netherite uses its smithing table, piglins carry its crossbow, and its composter takes the new plants.

Worlds that had another mod's 1.16 blocks keep them, converted to this mod's.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.12.2 with Forge 14.23.5.2847 or newer, and Backport Core 1.1.0 or newer. The CurseForge app installs Backport Core and Fluidlogged API with it.

Also by me: Update Aquatic Backport, all of 1.13 on 1.12.2, Village & Pillage Backport, all of 1.14 on 1.12.2, Buzzy Bees Backport, all of 1.15 on 1.12.2.

Not affiliated with Mojang. Source: github.com/ExiledRadio/NetherUpdateBackport