Smoochh's Serenity

Smoochh's Serenity — 0.9.0 RC1

This is the first public release candidate for Smoochh’s Serenity. RC1 focuses on getting the pack into a stable, clean state for public testing while keeping the survival loop centered around settling down, exploring, building, cooking, automation, and long-term Create progression.

Added

• Added Immersive Aircraft and Man of Many Planes for more air transportation options other than Aeronautics.
• Added Etched for in-world music/media support.

Progression & Balance

• Reworked Enchanting Infuser progression:
  • The standard infuser is no longer craftable.
  • The Advanced Enchanting Infuser is now the main late-game infuser.
  • Its recipe uses a vanilla Enchanting Table, Netherite Ingots, Crying Obsidian, and a Book.
• Reduced overlap in Create Crafts & Additions so it acts more as a utility addon instead of competing with the pack’s main power systems.
• Kept Create Diesel Generators as the main fuel/combustion power option.
• Kept Create: New Age as the main advanced electrical progression.
• Removed several redundant electric components, generators, connectors, and wireless-redstone options from progression.
• Reworked the economy around Create: Numismatics, Villager Currency, Trading Post, and Create: Villager Commerce.
• Removed regular Create: Commerce.

World Generation

• Removed Repurposed Structures and its compatibility addons.
• Structure generation has been simplified so each major structure type has a clearer owner.
• Kept Sparse Structures to reduce structure spam and make exploration feel more natural.
• YUNG’s structures, Dungeons & Taverns, Explorify, Create Rustic Structures, Better Archeology, and the existing biome/environment mods remain part of the worldgen stack.

Visuals & Atmosphere

• Removed overlapping particle mods including:
  • Visuality Reforged
  • Question Duck Ambient Fireflies
• Rebalanced particle ownership between Particular, Subtle Effects, Cave Dust Rethinking, and other visual mods.
• Kept the existing animation, sound, weather, season, cloud, footprint, wake, and entity-model improvements.
• MakeUp Ultra Fast is included as the recommended shader pack but starts disabled by default.

Villages, Mobs & Exploration

• Removed the Friends & Foes Beekeeper Hut to reduce village clutter.
• Kept expanded villager professions, guards, smarter farmers, villager comfort, villager names, and village improvements.
• Kept the pack’s animal and ambient mob additions including Birds, Boids, Ecologics, Critters & Companions, Sea Life, Upgrade Aquatic, Doggy Talents Next, and others.

QoL & Cleanup

• Removed:
  • Inventory Totem
  • Smaller Nether Portals
  • Tools of Obsidian
  • Mooshroom Spawn
  • Overgrowth
• Cleaned up redundant recipes and duplicate progression paths.
• Kept the main inventory, storage, building, placement, movement, mapping, and multiplayer QoL features.
• Removed old test-world data, caches, logs, local paths, and other development leftovers from the public export.

Performance

• Kept the current tested performance stack, including:
  • C2ME
  • Lithium
  • FerriteCore
  • ModernFix
  • Fast Async World Save
  • ImmediatelyFast
  • Sodium
  • Sodium Extra
  • More Culling
  • Entity Culling
  • CreateBetterFps
  • Fast Item Frames
• Continued trimming dynamic compatibility generation to reduce unnecessary block bloat.
• Recommended memory allocation remains around 8 GB.

Multiplayer

• The pack is intended for both singleplayer and multiplayer.
• Lootr, storage systems, Create logistics, village systems, transport, and progression choices are all kept with shared worlds in mind.
• This RC1 is also the baseline that will be used for dedicated-server testing.

Notes

• This is an RC1 / Beta build, so some non-critical log warnings may still exist.
• Existing worlds should always be backed up before updating.
• Older worlds that previously used removed compatibility-generated chest variants should migrate those chests before updating.
• Recommended Java version: Java 21
  
  

  Optional tested JVM arguments:

   

  -XX:+UseZGC -XX:+ZGenerational