The Valley - Sunlit Valley Expanded

The Valley — Sunlit Valley Expanded 1.2

**Updating from SVE 1.1 · Society: Sunlit Valley 4.0.6 → 4.1.5A**

More adventure, more risk, and more reasons to come home to the valley. This update brings repeatable dragon encounters, Adventurers Guild mastery bounties, expanded quests, and a substantial integration pass across SVE's machines, magic, food and resources.

Society: Sunlit Valley update

Updated the base pack from **4.0.6 to 4.1.5A**, incorporating the original team's intervening content updates and fixes. Highlights include expanded Cozy Cafe systems, village and building-shop improvements, butterfly and moth breeding, fish-pond management improvements, and Numismatics account and leaderboard fixes. 

These upstream features and fixes are the work of **Chakyl and the Society: Sunlit Valley contributors**. See the [original pack's release history](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/society-sunlit-valley/files) for the full upstream changelogs. SVE's intentional balance changes remain in place.

Dragons, adventure and recovery

- Added **Dragon's Den**, bringing a repeatable dragon encounter to the Overworld. The End remains closed.
- Added **Death's Due**, introducing the possibility of losing belongings during your recovery and buying them back through a Guild Agent.
- Added the Guild Agent profession for vanilla villagers using the Adventurers Guild desk.
[NOTE: The Guild Desk is currently only available in Creative or /give]

Quests and the Adventurers Guild

- Added SVE quest pages covering Butchery, Iron's Spells, Create Metallurgy and Dragon's Den.
- Added **The Less Peaceful Experience** beside the original welcome guidance, explaining SVE's approach to adventure, preparation and more punishing deaths.
- Added guidance for Death's Due and Guild recovery.
- Added **22 one-time Guild mastery bounties**, with substantial hunting goals and themed equipment rewards. Sign the mastery board to begin tracking your hunts.
- Removed selected bounty relics from Relic Troves and disabled crafting routes for bounty equipment. 
- Expanded **Collector's Caravan** quests, including a final objective to observe a creature brought back through DNA research.

Butchery, cooking and shipping

- Updated Butchery and integrated its dragon materials with the new Den encounter.
- Gave the two meat-processing machines clearer roles: the **Mincer** handles beef and lamb mince; the **Meat Grinder** handles scraps and produces sausages with its attachment.
- Updated sausage meals to use Butchery sausage.
- Consolidated overlapping minced-meat and cheese ingredients. New Bitterballen cheese production is disabled, with recipes accepting existing pack cheeses.
- Rebalanced selected prepared and fried foods around minimum ingredient costs, while retaining the intended Butchery shipping prices.
- Added a Botania mana-infusion route from **Butchery bottled blood to Iron's blood vials**.
- Removed the smithing template from Magic Wishbone rewards. Butcher's Coin rewards remain unchanged.

Metallurgy and Create

- Added **dirty and clean Bismuth and Lead dust**, processing chains and washing byproducts.
- Expanded casting and recycling support, including Void Steel ingots, sheets and casings.
- Standardized molten Lead on Create Metallurgy's fluid and removed the unwanted Lead multiplication route.
- Updated spotted Glance filling to use **250 mB** of molten Lead.
- Removed the unwanted gold-based Iridium recipe and unused molten-metal options.
- Standardized Iridium nuggets on Oreganized and removed Create Deco coin stacks from progression.
- Removed the redundant liquid Echo recipe and added Echo block melting for **810 mB**.
- Refined cross-mod machine recipes and removed the redundant aircraft propeller recipe.
- Recoloured selected Netherite tools and materials to match the pack's Iridium theme.

Magic, slimes and exploration

- Integrated Iron's ink progression with Society inks, Create mixing, liquid experience and Botania petals.
- Added an antique-ink conversion and a new common-ink recipe. Higher ink tiers require increasingly demanding processing; scroll-to-ink recycling remains available.
- Increased portal-frame investment with Echo Ingots and added a Prismatic Shard requirement to Divine Pearls.
- Added Slimes and Slimebooks and Deeper and Slimier, with integration into the pack's existing progression and Deep Dark resources.
- Ink plorts provide common ink, with a 5% chance for uncommon ink. Added acquisition guidance, Slime Ticket support and shipping values for the new slime content.
- Reduced fish-pond reward quantities and removed relic rewards from ponds.
- Corrected Collector's Caravan spawn rules and added acquisition trades through Society's shop systems.
- Hid Iron's scroll variants and Chisels & Bits block bits from JEI to reduce clutter.

Presentation and distribution

- New menu, loading-screen and pack-icon artwork by *spacelizards* and *Reevy*, Thank you both!

Updating

Back up your instance and world before updating.
The Dragon's Den do not yet generate naturally.  As an OP/Admin use '/dragonden place ~ ~ ~'
The Adventurer's Guild Desk does not yet have a naturally occuring generation. A desk will need to be placed by an OP/Admin. 

Server owners should update clients and the server together, preserve their world and host settings, and follow the included server setup instructions. Minecraft **1.20.1**, Forge **47.4.0** and **Java 17** are used for this release.

Thank you

The Valley is an independent adaptation of **[Society: Sunlit Valley](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/society-sunlit-valley)**. Its farming, fishing, community and economy exist because of Chakyl and the original team's work. Please visit and support their pack for the original cozy experience.

Thank you to our players for the suggestions, testing, builds and feedback that helped shape SVE 1.2. For SVE-specific questions and feedback, visit [The Valley's project page](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/the-valley-expanded).