Changelog — Civilization v1.4

2026-10-22 · Minecraft 1.21.1 / NeoForge 21.1.259 · TerraFirmaCraft 4.2.12

Adds Better Combat and hides the Improved Mobs difficulty counter. No datapacks changed. Previous release: CHANGELOG-v1.3.md.

Mods added

Better Combat uses its default settings (config/bettercombat/), with two changes listed under Config. Its fallback compatibility gives swing animations and attack ranges to weapons by item name, so TFC swords, axes, maces, scythes, knives, javelins and hammers get them too, as do Farmer's Delight knives.

Better Combat must be installed on the server as well. A client that has it cannot join a server that doesn't.

Config

config/improvedmobs/client.toml

The Improved Mobs difficulty counter is no longer shown in the corner of the screen. Mob difficulty still increases over time as before; this only hides the number.

config/bettercombat/server.json5

The server now checks that each melee hit is within the weapon's reach and rejects hits that aren't, so a modified client can't hit from too far away.

config/bettercombat/fallback_compatibility.json

Better Combat picks weapons by words in the item name, which also caught items that aren't weapons. These are now left out:

• Tool heads and blades (axe_head, sword_blade, knife_blade, javelin_head, hammer_head, mace_head, scythe_blade, saw_blade)
• Ceramic tool moulds, fired and unfired
• Metal rods, from TFC and TFC More Items
• Fishing rods
• Windmill blades
• Create's Wand of Symmetry

Finished weapons and tools are unaffected.

The Paxi datapacks (civilization_firearms_tfc, civilization_firstaid_tfc, civilization_lunar_tfc) are unchanged from v1.3.

Known issues

• Some Cold Sweat items can't be made: goat fur, chameleon and hoglin armour, and the Soulspring Lamp.
• TFC Ore Washing logs harmless recipe parse errors at startup.
• Blue moon anvil and enchanting discounts do nothing in TFC.
• Cold Sweat is held at 2.4.3.1 until TFC Cold Sweat supports 2.4.4 (see v1.3).