Vast Ocean

1.6.2 Changelog

We now have a Discord and a partner! View the top of the modpack description for more information about the Vast open discord and our partnership with Kinetic Hosting!

With the introduction of the partner, the modpack has been spruced up, adding a link to the full mod list in the description and removing mods that cannot be used with modpacks that include an affiliate link.

Ganeral Tweaks

- Allowed smelting of tools and gear into resources returning about half of the resources used to make them (rounded down)

- Added recipes for smelting diamond gear into diamonds
- Fixed mottled Abaia achievement
- Rotten flesh can now be turned into leather
- Removed Aether Legacy mod's loading screen tips
- Changed damage for squid hook and neptunium sword to rebalance
- Added recipe for ring of the elves and goblins
- Changed neptunium recipe to include 1 serpent scale where every block of scales is and to replace glowing gem with glowing ingot (now any scales can be used, not just teal)
- Changed neptunium axe to 15 damage (fits pattern of other axes vs swords)
- Put teal tide guardian gear on the same level as everything else
- Changed diamond chest recipe to use diamond block instead of diamonds

Richard's Coffee and Tea
- Changed unfinished cup recipe to require 3 bone meal in addition to clay (bone china)
- Removed recipe to craft richards mortar and pestle
- Added recipe for grinding coffee beans using botania mortar and pestle
- Added recipe for grinding tea leaves using botania mortar and pestle

Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod
- Enabled hardmode config
- Replaced existing prepared flesh recipe with a 3x3 of rotten flesh

Added loading screen tips
"Manuscripts can be crafted into custom books with special knowledge."
"The influence of neptunium is powerful enough to break some nether blocks."
"Libertalia portals are lit using water blessed by a skyroot bucket."
"Tea is great for recovering your strength after a tough battle."
"More steam engines means more speed, but also more fuel."
"A siren's song is strong enough to rip you from your ship if you forget your earplugs."
"Are those sky islands made of gold?"
"Ghost woods is impossibly light, so what does that mean about their ships?"
"A secured bed is the best way to make sure you and your ship stay together."
"An existing atlas can be copied over to blank ones for backing up or multiplayer."

"You'll need a lockpick if you want to unlock those locked chests inside some sunken ships."
"You need to unlock locked chests if you want keys to unlock more chests... that's confusing."

Modlist Changes

- Added chunk-pregenerator by Speiger

- Added Tips by DarkhaxDev

- Added Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod by alexdaum1

Removed Better Title Screen by Girafi