Gloambound

0.5.0-beta (November 5, 2026)

Quality-of-life release: elevators, item collectors, ore-height charts for every mod's ores, two Create add-ons requested by players, and a round of crash and security fixes.

New mods

• OpenBlocks Elevator: elevator blocks from wool and an Ender Pearl. Jump to go up a floor, sneak to go down.
• Item Collectors: a block that picks up dropped items in a set range. Handy at farms and mob grinders.
• Just Enough Resources (JER): JEI shows where ores generate (heights) and what mobs drop. Client only. Out of the box, JER only knows vanilla ores, and its world scanner isn't available in this version yet. So we built Gloambound's ore data from each mod's own ore settings and ship it with the pack: about 100 ores across the Overworld, Nether and End, including Mekanism (tin, osmium, lead, uranium, fluorite), Immersive Engineering, Oritech, Powah, Occultism, Ice and Fire, Silent Gear and Silent Gems. Height ranges match each mod's settings; how common each ore is, is a close estimate. Charts top out at Y 255, so ores that also generate higher in mountains (like iron and osmium) show up to that height.
• Durability Tooltip: shows tool and armor durability numbers. Client only.
• JourneyMap Integration: shows extra mod information on the JourneyMap map. Client only.
• Bad Wither No Cookie - Reloaded: keeps Wither and Ender Dragon sounds local instead of server-wide. Client only.
• TrashSlot: adds a trash slot to the inventory screen.
• NetherPortalFix: keeps paired Nether portals linked correctly in multiplayer. Server side.
• Create: Connected (1.3.3): extra Create blocks such as clutches, gearboxes, redstone diodes and transmitters, sideways vaults and tanks, and a Kinetic Battery that stores rotation. Every feature can be turned off in its config. Requested by MachaiA.
• Create: Dragons Plus (1.11.9): new Encased Fan processing: bulk dyeing with dye fluids, bulk freezing with powder snow, and bulk "Ending" with a dragon head or Dragon's Breath; plus a Fluid Hatch for tanks. Requested by MachaiA.

Mod updates

Updated for crash, bug and security fixes:

• Ars Nouveau 5.13.3 → 5.13.4: fixes a crash when opening a spell book, lecterns causing heavy server lag when inserting into storage, and item loss when inserting into a full lectern.
• FTB Quests (NeoForge) 2101.1.37 → 2101.1.38: fixes a client crash when the quest book reloads and a crash when opening loot crates.
• Sophisticated Storage 1.6.10 → 1.6.16, Sophisticated Core 1.5.19 → 1.5.28 and Sophisticated Backpacks 3.26.17 → 3.26.20: security fix for forged requests that could bypass inventory access restrictions; fixes an intermittent crash in Compacting Upgrades, compression barrels refusing overflow items, the Ender Linker on remotely linked storage, and upgrade settings lost after dimension changes. Updated together.
• KubeJS build 377 → 381: fixes a crash in its Architectury integration and resources not loading from mod files.
• FTB Teams (NeoForge) 2101.1.11 → 2101.1.12: fixes team stages leaking between teams.

Smaller updates:

• Balm 21.0.66 → 21.0.67 (library), Moonlight Lib 3.7.2 → 3.8.1 (library; config fixes), SuperMartijn642's Core Lib 1.1.26 → 1.1.26a (library; adds a loaded-block check), Aquaculture 2 2.7.21 → 2.7.22 (adds missing item tags).

Held back on purpose:

• Occultism and Modonomicon: a bigger version jump, and our Foliot Crusher gate and Occultism miner recipes depend on them. To be tested on their own.
• Create Crafts & Additions 1.6.0 → 1.7.2: reworks its wire Connectors, which could change existing builds. To be tested on its own.
• MezzConfig: the newer version is a beta release.

Removed before release

• Mekanism Covers was tested and left out: it crashes with the current Sodium. Use Cable Facades (already in the pack) to hide Mekanism cables and pipes instead.

Server settings

• The server pack's server.properties now sets difficulty to Easy. Change it there if your server wants a different difficulty.