[5.0 Battles & Biomes] - 9/15/26

New Features

Player-Tailored World Generation

• Added the Tailored World Generation system
• During world creation, a "Default" world type can now be customized
• Choosing the "Customize" option allows the player to modify sliders corresponding to world generation factors
  • Current customizable options:
  • Continent Scale
  • Biome Scale
  • Erosion Scale
  • Master World Generation Scale

Cauldron Stews

• Stews can now be made in cauldrons using their crafting ingredients
• Once an ingredient is added, the cauldron's stew becomes a Light Stew
  • These can also be eaten, though have half the nutrition as a full crafted stew
• One cauldron can hold 3 bowls of stew
• Light Stews made with flowers that would be used to make a suspicious stew do not grant status effects

Items

• Added Light Stew
• Added Daggers
  • Deals 4 attack damage by default
  • Can deal up to an extra 4 damage depending on how discrete the user is being
  • Can be crafted with one stick and one tool material
  • Can be found as loot in any chest that may give a sword and in most chests that can give spears
• Added Quiver
  • Can hold up to 4 stacks of arrows
  • Automatically cycles through each arrow stack
• Added Dyed Quivers
  • Can be crafted by combining a quiver with any dye
• Added Heavy Shield
  • Has a Shield Strength of 10
  • Has a blocking delay of 5 ticks
  • Can become disabled for 1.6 seconds, instead of 5 seconds

Combat

• Added Blade Clash
  • When two attackers attack each other simultaneously (within 10 ticks), their weapons may clash, and do no damage to either of them
  • This currently only applies to swords and daggers
• Added Shield Strength
• Changed Iron Grates to have the dragon_immune block tag
  • Determines how much damage and knockback a shield can absorb
  • By default, Shields have a Shield Strength of 5
• Changed Shields to no longer have a blocking delay

Enchantments

• Added Enervation enchantment
  • Can be applied to daggers
  • Applies up to 4 seconds of Weakness to victims at Level III
• Added Cleaving enchantment
  • This is to match the Combat Test Snapshots

Blocks

• Added Perse Wildflowers

  • Can be crafted into Purple Dye
  • Can be found in Birch Forests, Meadows, Swamps, and the Dappled Forest

  Developer Notes:

  • These are inspired by Forget-Me-Not flowers
  • "Perse" is an archaic term for "blue-ish"

• Added Wood Stairs

• Added Wood Slabs

• Added Stripped Wood Stairs

• Added Stripped Wood Slabs

• Added Terracotta Stairs

• Added Terracotta Slabs

• Added Dyed Terracotta Stairs

• Added Dyed Terracotta Slabs

• Added snowlogging, like on Bedrock Edition

  • Only some blocks are now snow loggable:
  • Plants
  • Fences
  • Fence gates
  • Walls
  • Metal bars
  • Glass panes
  • Snowlogged blocks may generate during world generation
  • Blocks may become snowlogged during snowfall
  • Some snowlogged blocks have snowy texture variants

• Changed Powder Snow to decrease mining speed on Hard difficulty

Biomes

• Added Gravel Beach biome
• Added Warm River biome

Recipes

• Adding Block of Raw Copper Blasting recipe
• Adding Block of Raw Iron Blasting recipe
• Adding Block of Raw Gold Blasting recipe

Sounds

• Added ambient Leaves block sounds
• Added ambient Tall Grass block sounds
• Added ambient Red Shrub sounds
• Added Guardian Beam attack sounds

Music

• Added Door by C418
  • Plays on the main menu
• Added Equinoxe by C418
  • Plays on the main menu and in Creative Mode
• Added Chris by C418
  • Plays in Creative Mode

Settings

• Added Fancy Entities Video Settings option
  • Toggles advanced entity animations (e.g. Arthropods moving horizontally up walls)
• Added Shield Animation Accessibility Settings option
  • Toggles a blocking shield's visibility
• Added Entity Culling option
  • Determines the entity culling method
  • Frustum
  • The default culling method. Hides entities that are outside the player's FOV
  • Occlusion
  • Hides entities that are behind blocks or fog
  • Performs after frustum culling

Game Rules

• Added Advanced Mobs game rule
  • Toggles advanced mob behavior (e.g. flock panicking, shelter seeking)
  • Does not include wall climbing hitbox adjustments
• Added Blade Clash Window game rule
  • Sets the window of time (in ticks) that two entities must attack each other within, to trigger a blade clash
  • A value of 0 disables this feature

Advancements

• Added Marking Territory advancement
  • Is granted by using a map on a banner, to create a banner marker
• Added Gather 'Round advancement
  • Is granted by to light a campfire with a stick
• Added Soup-er! advancement
  • Is granted by adding stew ingredients to a cauldron
• Added Maelstrom Advancement
  • Granted by activating a Conduit
• Added Moskstraumen
  • Granted by bringing a Conduit to full power

Changes

Combat

• Changed natural regeneration to be twice as fast
• Changed starvation to be twice as fast
• Changed natural regeneration to continue to 7 food points
• Changed natural regeneration to be a 1:1 transaction with food points
• Changed Arrows to not trigger invincibility frames
• Changed Arrows to not inherit the Y-axis inertia of their shooter
• Changed Tipped Arrows to scale consistently with their potion effect
• Changed fast weapons to trigger less invincibility frame time
• Changed saturation to no longer be related to fast healing
• Changed saturation to drain before hunger
• Changed consuming to be interrupted by attacks
• Changed Bow and Crossbow uncertainty to be lower
• Changed critical hits to be possible while sprinting
• Changed critical hits to be impossible for arrows that have been notched for longer than 3 seconds
• Changed Axes to accept Sweeping Edge, Looting, and Fire Aspect
• Changed Mace to accept Sweeping Edge, Knockback, and Looting
• Changed Swords to require Sweeping Edge for sweeping attacks
• Changed Axes to no longer take increased durability damage when attacking
• Changed attacking with weapons to prioritize entities over blocks, such as grass

Discrete Actions

• Discrete actions, like sneaking, crawling, being invisible, or hiding in foliage, now conceal a player's location better
  • Being discrete now allows you to get close behind creatures without them detecting you, so long as you are not within their line of sight
• Having the glowing effect negates discrete actions
• Attacking a creature triggers a 5-second cooldown, in which you are no longer considered discrete
• Crawling now also affects the Locator Bar waypoint transmit range, like crouching

Command Macros

• Added Command Macros
• Can be accessed from the Key Binds options screen
• Up to 10 commands can be saved (with a maximum of 1024 characters each) and activated by pressing Left Alt + A Number Key from 0-9
• The secondary key can be re-bound

World Generation

• Changed all biomes to be larger
• Changed all continents to be larger
• Changed Oak Tree height
• Changed Birch Tree height
• Changed Short Grass placement chance
• Changed Bush placement chance
• Changed Snow to generate under trees in snowy biomes
• Changed Super Birch Trees to have Shelf Mushrooms generate on their trunks

Oceans

• Changed oceans to be potentially up to 50% deeper
• Changed oceans to become darker depending on depth

Forest

• Changed understory to have sparse rocks

• Changed understory to have more grass

• Changed mob spawning to include rabbits

• Changed fallen logs to potentially have moss carpet generate on top

• Changed mushroom generation rate

  Developer's Note: I didn't even know that mushroom patches could spawn

Birch Forest

• Changed fallen logs to potentially have moss carpet generate on top

Dark Forest

• Changed understory to have sparse rocks
• Changed canopies to be larger
• Changed dark oak trees to be taller
• Changed the sky to be darker
• Changed the ratio of Dark Oak trees to other vegetation and huge mushrooms
• Changed red mushroom caps to sometimes be slightly shorter
• Added small mushroom rings around huge mushrooms
• Changed mushroom generation rate
• Changed ambient fog distance in Dark Forest biomes

Pale Garden

• Changed ambient fog distance in Pale Garden biomes

Dappled Forest

• Changed understory to have Perse Wildflowers

Bamboo Forest

• Changed ambient fog distance in Bamboo Jungle biomes

Jungle

• Changed ambient fog distance in Jungle biomes

Swamp

• Added Perse Wildflowers
• Changed frog spawn rates in Swamp biomes to be higher
• Changed mushroom generation rate
• Changed ambient fog distance in Swamp biomes

Mangrove Swamp

• Changed ambient fog distance in Mangrove Swamp biomes

Taiga

• Changed vegetation to be more common

Savanna

• Added Baobab trees
  • Similarly to Pine trees, these trees do not have a unique wood type, but are a special type of Acacia tree
  • Can be grown from a 2x2 of Acacia saplings

Plains

• Changed mushroom generation rate

The End

• Changed Chorus Flowers to have an 85% chance of being alive
• Increased Chorus Flower growth sound effect volume
• Increased Chorus Flower death sound effect volume

Structures

End Spikes

• Changed End Spikes to be more triangular

Mobs

• Added wall climbing to Silverfish AI
• Added wall climbing to Endermite AI

Items

• Changed Pottage to accept any type of edible mushroom

Blocks

• Changed doors to be water loggable
• Changed Brown Mushroom Blocks to have a light level of 1, to match the small brown mushroom
• Changed Shelf Mushroom to be edible
• Changed Powder Snow to decrease mining speed
• Changed Iron Grates to have the dragon_immune block tag

Tents

• Tents now continuously check to see if there are sturdy blocks below it
  • The check for this includes the 4 corners of the hitbox.

Wither

• Wither Skull explosions can now only convert dirt block tag blocks to Soul Soil

Recipes

• Changed map crafting recipe
  • Changed map crafting recipe to be a 9x9 of paper
  • This matches Bedrock Edition

Settings

• Changed "Advanced Entity Animations" to "Fancy Entities"
• Changed custom options ordering

Loot

• Changed Swamp Hut cauldron potions to be a data-driven loot table
• Changed Tannery Chests to possibly generate Quivers
• Changed Pillager Outpost Chests to possibly generate Heavy Shields and Quivers
• Changed Weaponsmith House Chests to possibly generate Heavy Shields
• Changed Woodland Mansion Chests to possibly generate Heavy Shields
• Changed Leatherworkers to gift Bundles and Quivers

Textures

• Changed spherical potion texture
• Changed the Leaf Litter texture to have fewer leaves and (hopefully) appear more natural
• Changed Illusioner texture to match Minecraft Dungeons
• Changed Map texture to match the base game
• Changed the Adventure Mode texture to use the Buried Treasure Map texture

Particles

• Changed Guardian Beams to be emissive
• Changed Conduit particles to match Bedrock Edition

Sounds

• Changed Bush ambient sound to be louder
• Changed Sand ambient sound to be louder
• Changed dry vegetation ambient sound to be louder
• Changed ambient leaves block ambient sounds to be louder
• Changed Dead Bush ambient sound to be louder
• Changed Bush ambient sound subtitle to match the vanilla dry grass subtitle
• Changed ambient cold wind sounds to be less common
• Changed Guardian Beam charge sounds
• Changed Guardian Beam spike sounds
• Changed Large Ferns to have ambient sounds

Advancements

• Changed "Traveler" advancement name to "Tentative Accommodations"
• Changed the Adventure root advancement to use the Buried Treasure Map texture
• Changed Subspace Bubble advancement to use the Filled Map texture
• Changed the Voluntary Exile advancement to use the Ominous Bottle texture
• Changed the Voluntary Exile advancement description, criteria, and parent

Splash Text

• Added "Bigger! Better!" splash text
• Added "Perse!" splash text
• Added "Any shape and size!" splash text
• Added "Read the books!" splash text
• Added "More music by C418!" splash text

Credits

• Added Zeit
  • We'd like to thank Zeit for modeling the quiver and assisting with the texture

Technical Changes

Mobs

• Refactored advanced mob AI

Camera Shake Events

• Changed range field to accept an integer value

Particles

• Added blade_clash particle

Statistics

• Added damage_blocked_by_weapon statistic

Attributes

• Added shield_strength attribute

Data Components

• Added tent/color data component

Data Tags

• Added is_foggy biome tag
• Added is_slightly_foggy biome tag
• Added is_very_foggy biome tag
• Added has_cespitose biome tag
• Added triggers_ambient_bush_block_sounds block tag
• Added huge_glowshroom_can_place_on block tag
• Added stew_ingredient block tag
• Added tall_plants block tag
• Added silent_foliage block tag
• Added arrow_flammable block tag
• Added triggers_ambient_grass_block_sounds block tag
• Added daggers item tag
• Added can_parry_swords item tag
• Added can_parry_daggers item tag
• Added sweeping_weapon item tag
• Added quivers item tag
• Added shields item tag
• Added scansorial entity type tag
• Added causes_flock_panic damage type tag
• Changed can_be_full to be named predator
• Changed can_be_scared to panics_with_flock
• Changed can_seek_shade to seeks_shade
• Changed can_seek_warmth to seeks_warmth
• Removed can_break_tents damage type tag
• Removed always_kills_tent damage type tag
• Removed ignites_tents damage type tag
• Removed burns_tents damage type tag
• Removed has_ambient_block_sounds block tag
• Removed skull_block block tag

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug causing a client/server de-sync when lighting a campfire with sticks
• Fixed bug where unknown_server.png (commonly known as pack.png) was stretched when there's an issue with a world thumbnail
• Fixed bug causing Tents to display the wrong error when trying to sleep during the day
• Fixed bug preventing Redstone comparisons to work with Potion Cauldrons
• Fixed bug that caused Water Bottles to completely fill Cauldrons
• Fixed bug causing spider jockeys to suffocate if their spider reaches a ceiling
• Fixed [BUG #76] Tents Z-Fight with their pegs
• Fixed missing Blast Fungus entity translation
• Fixed bug causing Tentative Accommodations to be granted to those who have yet to sleep in beds
• Fixed bug allowing Withers to set fire when Destructive Mob Actions is set to "Off"
• Fixed bug preventing some settings from being saved
• Fixed MC-57057 - Guardian laser attack sound ignores distance
• Fixed a memory leak relating to the Select World screen
• Fixed a bug relating to Multiplayer Server icons