🛠️ Revision 1.4.0

✨ Major Features

• Introduced a new class system with multiple classes designed for different playstyles.

• Added new class equipment, bonuses and progression options.

• Added a dedicated magic progression path through Iron's Spells.

• Added a new skill system powered by Pufferfish's Skills.

• Players can now unlock and improve skills to further specialize their character.

• Skills provide an additional layer of long-term progression alongside equipment and classes.

• Began implementing a new quest system to help guide players through some of the modpack's features.

• The quest system is still in a very early stage and will be expanded considerably in future updates.

• Completely reworked the user interface and overall layout of the modpack.

🌎 World & Exploration

• Added a large amount of new world content.

• Added numerous new structures and points of interest.

• Added many new creatures and enemies.

• Added new mini-bosses and bosses.

• Added extensive new adventure and dungeon content.

• Added a new dimension: The Undergarden.

• Added many new weapons and expanded the variety of available combat equipment.

• Added numerous environmental and immersion improvements throughout the world.

• Improved vegetation, foliage and environmental details.

• Improved Dynamic Trees compatibility with several biomes.

• Dynamic Trees improvements only affect newly generated chunks.

⚔️ Combat & Difficulty

• Increased the overall difficulty of enemies.

• Added numerous new enemies, mini-bosses and bosses.

• Added a new damage display system for clearer combat feedback.

• Expanded combat variety through new weapons, classes, skills and equipment.

• Creatures can no longer be placed inside vehicles such as boats and wagons.

• Added additional countermeasures against excessive or unintended mob farms.

🧭 Progression & Game Systems

• Reworked the progression of the Seal of the Underworld.

• Obtaining the Seal of the Underworld now requires defeating powerful bosses as part of its progression.

• Reworked Waystone progression.

• Waystones must now be crafted using Create machinery.

• Waystones can no longer be recovered after being broken.

• Steel equipment can no longer be upgraded directly into Netherite equipment.

• Removed the previous restrictions applied to structures.

• Players can now freely break and place blocks inside structures.

🎣 Fishing, Food & Survival

• Completely reworked fishing with a more interactive system inspired by Stardew Valley.

• Catching fish now requires more active interaction instead of simply waiting for a bite.

• Fishing is now a more engaging activity during exploration and survival.

• Added Brewing and Chewing.

• Expanded food and drink gameplay with new recipes and consumables.

• Added additional brewing and fermentation mechanics.

• Added more variety to survival, cooking and resource management.

• Reworked the player revival system with a new solution for reviving fallen players.

🌊 World Simulation & Water

• Added Streams Reflowing, bringing major improvements to water and stream generation.

• Streams now follow the terrain more naturally.

• Waterways can flow downhill and form more natural connected water systems.

• Rivers can develop consistent currents towards larger bodies of water.

• Water now has more natural directional flow and movement.

• Boats and floating objects can be affected by currents.

• These world generation changes only affect newly generated chunks.

🎒 Storage & Inventory

• Reworked the backpack and storage systems.

• Introduced new storage solutions.

• Added new upgrades and improvements.

• Increased storage capacities.

• Expanded storage progression and customization options.

• Removed Storage Drawers.

👥 Multiplayer & Cooperative Gameplay

• Added and improved several systems designed for cooperative multiplayer.

• Better Party groups are now persistent.

• Parties remain intact after server restarts.

• Players remain in their party after disconnecting and reconnecting.

• Improved party-based cooperation through shared experience, party communication and easier teammate management.

🏘️ MineColonies

• Added new buildings for several MineColonies styles.

• Updated MineColonies and several of its addons.

• Added various fixes and compatibility improvements.

• Updated MineColonies entity animations.

• Removed the previous Epic Fight compatibility for MineColonies entities due to the numerous issues it caused.

✨ Visuals & Immersion

• Reintroduced dynamic lighting through LambDynamicLights.

• Added a new and more informative damage number display.

• Added improved item physics, giving dropped items more natural movement and behavior.

• Added numerous immersion improvements throughout the world.

• Added more dynamic foliage and environmental effects.

• Improved interactions between the player and the environment.

• Added more visual detail during exploration.

• Updated shader packs.

⚙️ Performance & Technical Improvements

• Improved AI performance.

• Reduced unnecessary processing from entity AI.

• Improved performance in areas with large numbers of creatures.

• Reduced the impact of complex entity behavior on server and client performance.

• Disabled Mojang telemetry.

• Added numerous configuration and compatibility improvements.

• Updated several systems to better integrate the new progression and gameplay mechanics.

🔄 Other Changes & Improvements

• Added, removed and replaced several mods as part of the 1.4.0 overhaul.

• Reworked multiple recipes and progression systems.

• Added numerous bug fixes and stability improvements.

• Added various balancing, configuration and compatibility changes across the modpack.

⚖️ Balance Notice

• The 1.4.0 balance is still a work in progress.

• This update introduces a large number of new systems, weapons, classes, skills, enemies, bosses, structures and progression mechanics.

• Some aspects of progression and difficulty may therefore still require adjustments.

• Further balance changes and refinements will be made in future updates.