Echoes of the Wild (ETW)

v1.3 | World & Exploration Major Update

This is a major update focused on expanding world scale, improving immersion, and refining long-term exploration. A new world is strongly recommended.

🌍 World Generation

• Tectonic (Major Addition)
  Vastly increases terrain scale and verticality, creating larger continents, dramatic landscapes, and more meaningful exploration. Designed to work alongside Terralith.

🧭 Exploration & Travel

• Waystones
  Adds discoverable teleport points to support long-distance travel in large-scale worlds.

🧩 Gameplay & Immersion Additions

• Species
  Introduces new vanilla-friendly mobs that blend naturally into the world.
• Sleep Tight
  Reworks and enhances the sleep system, replacing the previous sleep-benefit mod with a more grounded and immersive approach.
• Show My Recipes!
  Unlocks all crafting recipes in the vanilla recipe book from the start, serving as an in-game guide without requiring external tools.

✨ Quality of Life Improvements

• Connected Glass
  Glass blocks now connect seamlessly for cleaner builds.
• Double Doors
  Double doors open together with a single interaction.

🌒 Atmosphere

• Minor environmental ambience refinements........

⚙️ Updated Mods

• Polytone
• Entity Culling
• Dynamic FPS
• Entity Model Features (EMF)
• Entity Texture Features (ETF)
• Balm
• SuperMartijn642’s Core Library
• Supplementaries
• Supplementaries Squared
• Takes a Pillage
• ClientSort

Updates focus on bug fixes, performance improvements, visual stability, and overall polish.

🧹 Removed Content

• Several unused or incompatible resource packs have been removed to improve stability and avoid visual conflicts.

⚠️ Important Notes

• This update significantly changes world generation.
  Starting a new world is strongly recommended.
• Existing worlds may experience terrain mismatches if updated.