Vanilla and Caramel

CHANGELOG FOR 1.12.2 BETA

Summary of Changes: This pack update focuses on revising elements of world generation, further improving compatibility between mods, tweaking and revising gameplay difficulty, and even making changes to recipes and loot gen to make gear progression more meaningful and streamlined.  

Added mods: 

-Blocks +

-Cave Tweaks

-Catalogue

-Compat O' Plenty

-Cooking for Blockheads

-CraftTweaker (replacement for KubeJS and KubeJS Create)

-Enhanced Visuals

-Equipment Compare

-Falling Leaves (Forge)

-FerriteCore (Forge)

-Ma Enchants (Tweaked Config)

-Memory Usage Screen

-MoreCraftingTables

-MoreDragonEggs

-MyServer is Compatible

-Paragliders (Tweaked Config)

-Seamless Loading Screen

-Sophisticated Backpacks (Tweaked Config and Loot Table)

-YDM's MobHealth

-Zombie Awareness

-All mods updated!

Removed mods:

-Big Brain

-Ore Decor

-Advanced Hooks

-Curios Quark Backpack

-Healing Campfires

-Zombie Horse Spawn

Gameplay/Difficulty Changes:

With Zombie Awareness, Enhanced Visuals, and tweaked configs for structure/loot generation and XP, combat is more brutal and fast-paced, and asks you to use more of your equipment to survive whatever dares challenge you. The mobs you fight are more relentless, faster, and react to what you break, place, shoot or loot with the help of Zombie Awareness. This "awareness" also extends to other mobs in the game, such as pillagers, so be sure to consider what your options are when engaging the enemy.

The pack also reigns in the acquisition of loot, making it so it takes a bit more effort to find gear that gives an upgrade or a new accessory (whether that's going deep underground or even raiding a world structure). Speaking of upgrades, the player now has more options to further empower their character. Whether that's by letting you draw your bow faster, allowing you to walk on lava, or even gaining health and positive potion effects from slaying an enemy, your armor and weapons have new enchantments for engaging your foes and traversing the terrain. As far as your inventory is concerned, you can also make yourself a rather "sophisticated" backpack to store any extra loot and supplies. The very same backpack can receive upgrades that better make the more tedious elements of inventory management more bearable. Wanted something to refill your ammo reserves straight from the backpack? There's an upgrade for that. Wanted to craft on the go without lugging a crafting table around, or even make space more space for yourself by condensing raw materials and metals into their blocky forms? There are also upgrades for that. As powerful as this sounds, the backpack isn't something you can craft straight away. You'll need to acquire a ravager hide from raids if you want a chance at this bag, or even be lucky enough to find it underground. Keep in mind that certain upgrades can't be crafted in this pack, whether it's for balancing reasons or giving other mods a chance to shine. You can still enable these recipes in the mod config. :)

World-Gen Changes:

Not only has there been a balancing and refinement pass on the gameplay side of this pack, but the world has also received an overhaul for cave generation. CaveTweaks comes into play for this update, with caverns becoming more expansive and varied than they were before! If you consider yourself a spelunker, this update is made for you!

Future plans for release:

The full release of this update will include YUNG's Better Dungeons and Better Mineshafts, something that I strongly recommend you play with yourself if you can get the latest downloads of these mods. These mods are out now, but are only available on YUNG's Patreon or given as a benefit when you boost the YUNG GANG discord server. I highly recommend doing so, the man and his team deserve every bit of your support.

LINKS:

https://www.patreon.com/yungnickyoung

YUNG GANG Discord

I also hope to add mods that better revise the End and Nether dimension of Minecraft. Whether that be through a datapack or a port of the Better End and Nether mods, that remains to be seen. It just depends on whether the Better Dimension mods come out for 1.18.1, or 1.18.2 releases and datapacks such as Incendium can be updated. Regardless, this pack is very much an ongoing project, and I hope you can tag along with me as new additions and revisions are made to this pack! Thanks again for your support. <3