Vanilla Backport

CAVES AND CLIFFS BACKPORT

1.15.2 - RELEASE

ALSO KNOWN AS CAVES AND CLIFFS BACKPORT 5.0

We’ve been waiting for this update for a while now, I’m not going to lie... I’m as excited as some of you guys may be, and there’s reasons to be!

NEW FEATURES IN 5.0

• Lightning rods can now, for the very first time ever, be waterlogged
  • New functionality for applying and removing wax from Copper
• Bonemealing rooted dirt now grows hanging roots underneath
• Tweaked Lush Caves underground biome!
• The Tuff layer of amethyst geodes has been replaced with now a new type of stone called Smooth Basalt
• Smooth Basalt is now obtained from smelting Basalt (this feature hasn’t been implemented yet on Extended Nether Backport)
• Particles now appear in the air around spore blossoms
• Tweaked some more stuff related to world generation!

WAXED COPPER AND OXIDATION

• Right-click with Honeycomb on Copper Blocks to wax them
• Use honeycomb in a dispenser to wax Copper Blocks
• Axes can scrape off wax and oxidation of Copper Blocks

LUSH CAVES BIOME

• Moss covers the floors and ceilings
• Spore Blossoms grow from the ceiling and drip particles
• Contains clay pools with Dripleaf Plants grow out of them
• Contains Azalea Bushes and Flowering Azalea Bushes
• The Azalea Tree loves to have its roots in lush caves, so if you find an Azalea Tree (either overground or in a cave) you know there is a Lush Cave beneath you
• Cave Vines with Glow Berries grow from the ceiling and light up the caves

WORLD GENERATION TWEAKS

• Dripstone clusters, Small Dripstone and Large Dripstone spawning has been tweaked
• Amethyst Geodes Generation has been tweaked
• Added a Deepslate Layer setting in the config file so players can generate a layer of Deepslate with its ores at the height that they desire
• Added Noise Carvers:
  • These Caves spawn all around the world and are smaller versions of the 1.17 Noise Caves, they can be toggled on the BGCore configuration file in case that you don’t like them or if they don’t like you
  • Noise Carvers can spawn in different shapes and sizes, smaller ones being the most common and mega sized ones being the rarest ones
• Cave Biomes have been implemented into the BGCore Cave Biome API:
  • This means that now players can add use the Caves & Cliffs Backport cave biomes along with other mods that also add actual cave biomes, like Darker Depths (1.16.1 – 1.16.5)

CHANGES IN 5.0

• Dripstone clusters can now be found rarely in normal caves
• Added Copper Block recipes for the stonecutter
• Deepslate blobs can now be found between heights 0 and 16
• Glow squids now spawn in underground water sources
• Waxed Copper Blocks can be crafted into 4 Copper Ingots
• Hanging roots block now renders randomly offset
• Breaking a Big Dripleaf stem now drops a Big Dripleaf Block
• Moss Blocks can be crafted with cobblestone or stone bricks to make the mossy versions of those blocks
• The facing direction of Small Dripleaf Blocks is now determined by which direction the player is facing when placing it
• Copper Blocks have been internally renamed to match their current versions of 1.17, sadly this may vanish every copper block that you currently have in your Minecraft worlds but take it as a creative-recovery ticket