This pack is designed to expand minecraft 1.12 in a way that is very different than newer versions of minecraft but still feel like minecraft. eg. more biomes, dimensions, blocks, items, tools, weapons, armor, plants etc. with a few backports to round things out

New biomes like maple forest, obsidian volcano (modified bop volcano biome)

New dimensions: Luna (the moon), Mars, Titan, Venus and several others. These worlds are inspired by a combination of real NASA photos (the soil and rock) and pulp scifi (Venus is basically a rainy jungle and swamp world with dangerous creatures and new plants)

New tools, armor and weapons: Copper, Tin, Bronze, Steel, Electrum, Silver, Iridium, Meteor Iron, end gems, netherite and emeralds

New potions, potion mugs (breaks potions into shorter duration effects) and honey potions (these can be reversibly stored as blocks like honey can be in later versions of minecraft)

New mobs eg. animals like elephants and pandas, vanilla style hostile mobs like the void eye

Quality of life improvements like automatic tool restocking, logs not being strippable unless the player is sneaking, stripped logs can be regrown, an improved enchanting command that can enchant any item with any level enchant, books are readable while moving, stone tools are craftable using any stone type

New redstone blocks and mechanics: block rotators, more slime blocks, crafting table automation, dyed redstone, vertical redstone wire, player specific obsidian pressure plates, dispensers place falling blocks

New smelting mechanics: The oven can make alloys, foods and drinks with 2 ingredients, furnaces do not accept items that are not part of recipes, furnaces can be loaded by gently hitting them with fuel

New storage: chest boats, tile entities can be locked and unlocked with lock and key, dye coded enderchests, nether chests store 8x a normal chest, dyed chests, craftable presents

New structures: nether fossils, pirate ships, new crop fields in villages, new structures ive added like watchtowers and geysers, biome specific villages

New tool types: chisels, dice, nature's compass (creative only), moon sensor, grappling hook, hammers, paintbrushes, slime bucket (shows where slime chunks are), trowel (random block palcement)

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