The Neverhoods of Thaumcraft

Patch Notes 3.0.0 - Beta: Huge family update! Now with garlic! This new family series introduces a bajillion changes (I counted), with bugfixes, biome alternations, Thaumcraft addons, engine component updates, new content, new dimensions, new decorations and much, much more! Because of this, the **patch notes will be significantly less useful than normal, as the changes are so sweeping it's almost safe to call it a new pack entirely. For the pack's new contents, I will summarize with only the major highlights. Very little has been removed from prior versions, so check in with the modlist in the Curseforge page for additional details. And now, to the main changes: Significant addition: lwjgl3ify. For those not in the know, lwjgl3ify is probably the biggest thing that's happened to Minecraft's modscene in decades. Simply put: it migrates Minecraft from its old super crusty Java version 8 to the newest version, Java 21. There are a billion and a half benefits this gives, but the biggest highlight is Multithreading, something modded Minecraft has done without effective support since day one. I'll spare excessive technical details, but world/pack/engine speeds are somewhere around 3-16 TIMES faster than previous versions, if nothing else by nature of simply being able to use your whole processor instead of a single thread with all the urgency of a lethargic Disneyland ticket line and their operator. Numerous security and engine enhancements in regards to lighting and server chunk spawning have also been included. There is a cost: Your old worlds will most definitely not work in the new version. <time datetime="2025-12-17T05:40:05.208Z"></time>

 

Significant addition: Angelica support. Angelica has been updated to its latest version instead of the prior older clunky version, which is noteworthy because of proper Shader Support. Ever look at a minecraft video online showing off some jaw-dropping graphical engine improvements like cell shading or ray tracing? This is now possible! A small handful of shaderpacks have been included (but are off by default). Simply enable them in the video settings and enjoy your modern era graphics. Feel free to add additional packs as you see fit, they're littered throughout the modding community. Unfortunately, this latest version of Angelica does not yet have a fix for the occasional white-box-inventory bug, but their developers are hard at work rectifying it actively. Simply wait for the vertex textures to update on its own ingame and the white boxes should go away on their own. As of this version, we are at nearly 400 different biomes in this pack, nearly double what it had before! Passes have been made for fluidity and realism, though if you spot any biome that shouldn't belong together (such as a desert and a polar ice cap biome), please put it in the suggestions channel and I'll see to correcting it later. The biggest bug has been resolved that was plaguing the previous version family, that of the dreaded black void fog bug which would create your world and immediately throw you into an eternal abyss of nothing forever.

 

Lastly, the community and modpack have had a minor facelift: We are now the Neverhoods of Thaumcraft, a neighborhood of Thaumaturgists working together to create magic. As I continue to perform minor bugfixes and engine updates over the next period, I am continuing development for a different project: Rewriting the entirety of the Thaumonomicon and all its addons with a functional lore-polished viewpoint of iivaknii, one of the first thaumaturgists known to history. Many of his works have been littered throughout worlds and are frequently cited as one of the initial pioneers of the craft. This guided story will be written from this perspective with care, and eventually as time permits I will update some of it for future versions as well. The new version will be available as soon as Curseforge approves the project, where I will then upload it also to other plaforms. The effort and energy spent on this last modpack have easily marked it as a labor of love, and one that I will continue to monitor as my mortal time permits. I'll see you all in the Gardens thaumaturges. May your vision be a lantern, and your stomach a graveyard.

 

This is a beta deployment, with the release version of 3.0.0 having numerous changes.