🛠️ Update V0.8 Changelog

New Structures | A Lot of Bugfixes | Big Performance Upgrades | Modpack Downsized

🌟 Core Updates & Highlights

Massive Optimization: The modpack has been heavily downsized and optimized. I've cleared out old un-used mods to focus on a massive suite of performance updates that make the game run smoother than ever.

Built-in Shader Presets: Three shader profiles are now available on launch, tailored to your graphics card:

• • Low: GTX 1050 or better

  • Medium: RTX 2060 or better

  • High: RTX 3070 or better

Distant Horizons (Optional): To ensure baseline performance, Distant Horizons is now turned OFF by default. You can easily enable it by clicking the Earth symbol in the top left corner of the ESC menu.

Audio & Progression: We've improved the overall music quality and completely overhauled all Advancements!

🚀 Performance Optimization

AllTheLeaks: Implements crucial memory leak fixes for a more stable client and server.

Fast Noise: A modern optimization mod that significantly improves world generation times.

Portalium: Saves server resources by automatically unloading dimensions when no players are in them.

Too Many Entities: Reduces visual lag, especially around mob farms, by hiding extra entities without actually despawning them.

🌍 World Generation & Exploration

Illager Structures: Expands the world with 30+ hand-crafted structures built around illager factions—explore frozen naval bases, ocean pirate galleons, mountain monasteries, and crumbling ruins.

Underwater Village: The ocean is no longer empty! Dive down to find new village-type structures and aquatic dungeons.

Cult of Azazel: Introduces a massive, challenging new dungeon into the Nether.

Archeological: Expands vanilla archeology with new dynamic structures, decorative blocks, and a more rewarding exploration experience.

⚔️ Mobs, Bosses & Combat

Legendary Monsters: Face off against difficult bosses with their own lore, alongside smaller mini-bosses scattered across the world.

Undead Unleashed: Expands enemy variety with a dark/medieval fantasy style while perfectly matching the vanilla aesthetic.

Dynamic Difficulty + Health Bars: Mobs now have visible health bars and will level up (gaining better stats) the further away you travel from spawn.

Critical Strike: Adds chance-based critical hit mechanics for both melee and ranged combat, complete with flashy visual and audio feedback.

Dragonite Gear: An End-exclusive expansion! Mine "Dragonite" in the End to craft a full set of tools, armor, and weapons that surpass Netherite.

🎒 Gameplay & Quality of Life

ItemInsurance: Keep your items when you die to (or near) a boss. A single bad boss fight will no longer cost you your whole inventory.

GraveScrolls: Adds a magical scroll that allows you to instantly return to your previous death location.

Repeatable Trial Vaults: You can now reset trial vaults by consuming another key to keep claiming loot.

KMD Fast Travel: A fast-travel system featuring travel posts, discovery mechanics, and map-based travel with random events that can interrupt your journey.

Saro's Sticky Leaves: All leaf blocks now behave like cobwebs! Walk into a tree canopy and slowly sink through the leaves with slowed movement and zero fall damage.

Villagers Reborn: Replaces vanilla villagers with human models! They keep their usual jobs, but you can now build relationships, start dating, get married, and raise a family.

🖥️ User Interface & Visuals (Eye Candy)

Velorise Simple Map: A lightweight, vanilla-style world map and minimap without the bloated UIs or performance stutters.

Lucid Advancements: Replaces the cluttered vanilla advancement tree with a clean, modern, and highly responsive list-based interface.

ChatPlus: Quality of life upgrades for the chat, including a bigger history, cleaner visuals, and auto-translate capabilities.

Compact F3 Plus: A clean, minimal overhaul of the F3 debug screen.

Better MC Screenshots: Upgrades the screenshot system to be modern and fast. Easily view your screenshots in-game without tabbing out or digging through folders.

Midnight Thoughts: Enjoy a unique sleep statistic screen when waking up.

🏗️ Building, Decoration & Social

LiguriaColonies: Bring the warmth and charm of the Italian Riviera to your MineColonies settlements.

Lunara Colonies: A fantasy-style MineColonies pack focused on immersive architecture, tier-based progression, and cohesive design.

ColonyRank: Scans colony data to calculate a transparent prestige score, displaying rankings in-game (with Discord webhook support).

Leaderboards: Track and compare player statistics across the server! See who has died the most, traveled the farthest, or crafted the most items.

Carved Wood: Adds new sets of existing wood types—like pillars, mosaics, tiles, and lanterns—plus wood variations for crafting tables, ladders, chests, bookshelves, and beehives.