Variants & More

Paintings

• Reworked wooden painting variants.
• Painting artwork now remains rendered normally while the wooden frame is rendered as a separate layer.
• Improved frame depth to prevent texture flickering and Z-fighting.
• Wooden frames now correctly cover the back and sides of paintings.
• Added support for external/modded wood types detected by Variants & More.
• Improved compatibility with resource packs and entity texture/model mods.

Jukeboxes & Note Blocks

• Fixed variant jukeboxes not accepting music discs.
• Fixed crashes when inserting or playing records.
• Music discs are now properly removed from the player's held stack when inserted.
• Fixed jukebox block entity compatibility.
• Restored proper disc playback, ejection, comparator behavior, redstone behavior, and block events.
• Variant note blocks now correctly retain vanilla note block behavior.

Stone Variants

• Added randomized stone-material variants to generated loot.
• Stone tools found in loot can now use materials such as:
  • Granite
  • Andesite
  • Diorite
  • Deepslate
  • Tuff
  • Calcite
  • Basalt
  • Blackstone
• Blackstone variants are restricted to Nether generation.
• Stone equipment used by generated mobs can also receive stone variants.
• Existing wood-handle variation is preserved instead of being replaced by the stone system.
• Added stone variation support to compatible generated workstation and utility blocks.

World Generation

• Restored the original Variants & More wood-generation system completely.
• Stone generation now works as an additional layer instead of replacing existing wood transformations.
• Added an additional world-generation guard for structures that bypass standard Minecraft structure hooks.
• Improved conversion of vanilla blocks generated by structures into their VAM variants.
• Improved coverage for generated:
  • Chests
  • Campfires
  • Grindstones
  • Stonecutters
  • Smokers
  • Furnaces
  • Blast Furnaces
  • Dispensers
  • Droppers
  • Observers
  • Crafting Tables
  • Barrels
  • Jukeboxes
  • Composters
  • Pistons
  • Rails
  • Torches
  • And other supported VAM blocks
• Reduced cases where vanilla chests could appear inside structures when a VAM replacement was available.

Performance & Stability

• Fixed severe world-generation stalls introduced during stone-generation development.
• Fixed world creation becoming stuck at 0%.
• Fixed teleportation and chunk-loading stalls related to structure generation.
• Fixed worlds taking an extremely long time to close.
• Removed broken block-state property copying from the stone structure transformer.
• Added caching for stone variant lookups to reduce repeated registry work.
• Reduced unnecessary work during structure generation.
• Fixed multiple NoSuchMethodError and incorrect bytecode descriptor issues.
• Improved compatibility with NeoForge 1.21.1 world-generation threads.

Compatibility

• Improved compatibility with modded wood types.
• Improved compatibility with modded structures that place blocks through custom generation paths.
• Improved compatibility with ETF/EMF-style rendering setups.
• Existing VAM wood replacement systems are preserved and continue to work alongside the new stone system.

General

• Multiple visual fixes.
• Multiple crash fixes.
• Improved structure replacement reliability.
• Improved variant consistency across loot, mobs, blocks, and world generation.
• General cleanup and stability improvements for the 1.21.1 NeoForge release.