Ninjacat Skies Core 0.5.12

Your things wait in a basket, Thread comes in skeins and bolts, and Steward Caches are worth opening. Existing saves load as they are; no ids change. This replaces 0.5.8 to 0.5.11, which never shipped in a pack.

Ready to translate

• Every line a player reads is in a lang file now: chat and action-bar messages, tooltips, boss bars, the hub signs and books, and the whole Whisker Codex (about 1,500 keys across the six mods). The English is unchanged. If you would like the pack in your language, the files are on GitHub and translations are welcome.

A Dismount key

• Sneak no longer gets you off what you ride. It was doing two jobs at once: steering your mount (a chocobo descends on sneak) and throwing you out of the saddle. Now sneak only steers.
• Press Dismount to get off — Caps Lock by default, under Ninjacat Skies in Controls. It works for everything you ride: chocobos, horses, boats, minecarts.
• A chocobo still will not drop you in mid-air or onto water, and a race still holds you in the saddle.
• Server owners who want the old behaviour back can set controls.sneakDismounts = true in ninjacatskies-common.toml.

The Yarn Basket

• When you die, everything you drop goes into a Yarn Basket where you fell: a wicker basket of yarn balls, not a scatter of items. That includes your Curios slots. If you fell into the void, it waits where you last stood. You get a chat line saying where it is.
• Right-click it to take everything back into your inventory, or break it to spill it on the ground. Right-click works even where breaking is protected, like the Dock and the Hall.
• It is yours and your Clowder's. Anyone else gets a polite no, and can neither open it nor break it. It shrugs off explosions and pistons, and never despawns.
• Deaths on a Guardians stage or in a rift are handled as before: those drops still come home with you.
• Server owners can switch it off with hardcore.yarnBasket in ninjacatskies-common.toml.

Thread Skeins and Thread Bolts

• A Thread Skein is nine Frayed Thread wound together, and a Thread Bolt is nine skeins (81 Thread). Both craft in a full grid and unwind back into nine of the smaller piece at any time.
• They exist because a trade slot holds one stack. A stall price above 64 used to be cut to 64 without saying so, so the big Spark stall prices are now paid in skeins and bolts.

Steward Caches

• Twice the parcels, and more of them worth having. A small cache is now 4 parcels, a medium 8 and a large 17. Supplies lean better: copper, iron and Thread in smalls; ingots, gold, redstone, lapis and experience in mediums; diamonds, emeralds, ender pearls, obsidian or a Thread Skein in larges.
• The garden. Every cache rolls saplings of every vanilla tree, seeds, crops, plants and flowers, and sometimes a spawn egg — chicken, cow, pig and sheep most often, since a pad has no other way to get them. Medium and large caches add rabbits, bees, goats, turtles, frogs, cats, wolves, horses, donkeys, llamas, mooshrooms, parrots, foxes, pandas, axolotls and armadillos.
• Decor. Candles, lanterns, frames, paintings, carpets, banners, glass, terracotta, sea lanterns, dyes and more.
• A piece of a life. Every cache also makes one rare draw: a Thread Shard at 1.5% / 4% / 12% (small / medium / large), or a whole Thread of Return at 0.2% / 0.5% / 1.5%. Bigger caches always have better odds.
• Still no machines, progression tokens, caches or hostile eggs inside a cache.

1.21.1 / NeoForge 21.1.249.