Verdant Idea

Before you update While existing worlds should be compatible, please note that existing wildflowers will be removed from the world.

This version does not include most of the planned progression and some of the quest changes. The goal behind this build is to ensure stability and to find major issues early in the development cycle and to allow early feedback.

Compared to Alpha 1, this version brings the new quests layout along with the reworked The Secret of Life chapter. There are also many smaller changes and improvements, such as a lower Ecostabilizer cost, updated main manu and new crop requirements.

Main Additions

• Added Ecostabilizer, which is a new multiblock important to the progression; it tracks nearby blocks, animals and biomes and provides new bonuses for completing restoration milestones
• (WIP) The world is now split into 5 ecosystems; placed ecostabilizer adapts itself to the ecosystem found
• Added several other new machines and multiblocks, such as Bird Feeder, Aquarium (WIP) and Hydroponic Garden (WIP)
• Added The Path to Restoration chapter that shows the main milestones in the progression
• (WIP) Added Wildlife Conservation chapter that includes all of the (not fully just yet) obtainable animals
• Major quests now grant relevant animal plushies
• Reworked the quest progression, which is now split into 4 chapters that should be much more helpful
• Added new crop growth conditions: some of the crops may now require a specific ecosystem to grow; some crops may not be able to grow in ruined biomes

Mod changes

• Updated to Forge 47.4.22
• Added Critters and Companions, FallingTree, Fruits Delight, FTB Quests Entity Visualization, LDLib, Multiblocked2, Naturalist, Platform, Plushie Buddies, Rechiseled: Chipped, Upgrade Aquatic, Vanilla Backport, - Veggies Delight
• Updated BucketLib, Ceramic Bucket, Enchanted, Farmer’s Delight, FTB Chunks, FTB Library, Fusion (Connected Textures), GeckoLib, Jade, Mantle, Mystical Agriculture, Mystical Customization, OpenBlocks Elevator, - Rechiseled, SuperMartijn642's Core Lib, Tinkers’ Construct, Wasteland Things
• Removed Falling Leaves (now using Vanilla Backport’s falling leaves functionality)

Early Game changes

• Revamped The Secret of Life: reworked many quests and made quest progression easier to follow
• Vanilla tools and armors can be used again
• Runic Altar now uses a manasteel ingot in its recipe
• Manasteel is now created from amethyst bronze instead of iron
• Replaced Hydroangeas quest rewards with a choice reward of 4 Hydroangeas or 1 Endoflame
• Replaced the iron ingot with flint in chisel’s recipe
• Chipped blocks can now be crafted using the chisel instead of the workbenches
• Many crops can now be cut with clipper to create wild crops
• Inferium seeds are now crafted by throwing prosperity seed base into a mana pool (instead of wheat seeds)
• Improved fishing loot tables
• Prismarine can no longer be obtained from fishing
• Sheetmetal slabs can now be directly cut into scrap with a cutting board

Mid & Late Game changes

• Revamped the progression around metal press to make it use a heavy engineering block
• Removed Vazkii’s Head recipe
• Tier 4 and 5 resource crops can now only grow in recovering and verdant biomes

Worldgen changes

• Fallen trees can now generate with pale moss carpets

QOL changes

• Hidden many items (plates, ingots, dusts, nuggets) that were unobtainable but were parts of tags
• Dirt restoration now supports both short and tall mystical flowers
• IE, Mekanism and Thermal Sawmills now support all modded wood types @ADragonDreaming
• Increased the strength of bone meal and compost on crops
• Axes now cut whole trees and leaves disappear much quicker
• Endermen no longer pick up any blocks
• Added a soil enrichment EMI category that shows all stages of dirt restoration

Minor changes and fixes

• Removed soul sand nests as they’re not used
• Re-enabled pewter alloying recipe as it now has uses
• Fixed Empowered Flowers using Mystical Fertilizer as the quest reward
• Removed unused archaeology loot tables from EMI
• Removed hero of the village gifts to reduce EMI clutter (since villagers can only exist in the endgame, this nerf shouldn’t be impactful)
• Unified milk bottles, quartz dusts
• Added missing translation for depleted soil farmland when looking through magnifying glass
• Replaced Enchanted’s garlic with Veggies Delight’s garlic
• Fixed a very rare crash when generating structures with IE fluid pipes
• Apples can no longer be obtained from oak and dark oak
• Updated the compost texture
• Updated the main menu
• Added a custom window icon and name
• Fixed parrots not being tamable with AgriCraft seeds