## What's New in v4.3.0
Requires **Cobblemon 1.7.3+1.21.1** (updated from 1.7.0).
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### ✨ Fairy Village — New Village Type
A fully realized Fairy-type village has been added with a complete structure set:
- **The Petalwake Pavilion** — large center building
- **Sugarblossom Bakery** — mid-tier community building
- 11 residential structures (Blossomveil Manor, Charmglade House, Glimmerfern Lodge, Honeyblush Haven, Luminelle Cottage, Moonpetal Cottage, Pixie Lantern House, Rosequartz Retreat, Starbloom Residence, Sylveon's Ribbon Rest, Whisperwind House)
- Fairy-specific road paths (straight, curved, T-joint, crossroads)
- Biome tag support for automatic placement in Fairy-type biomes
### 🧊 Ice Village Overhaul
- Complete restructure of the ice village layout and jigsaw connections
- Ice structures reorganized into a proper `structures/` subdirectory
- Silverpine Lodge updated with NPC support (receptionists)
- Waystone data normalized across ice village structures
- New ice road path set
### 👥 NPC Expansion — Season 1 Players
A large cast of NPCs has been added, all with custom player skins and full Cobblemon dialogue trees:
**Season 1 Player NPCs** (15 players): broconutpie, darkwolverine, dragoon217, fishingninja25, indeanajowns, ironboundjam03, joltthewolf, kaydenbreak, kuyajaedan, sakuyahimevt, strikebyte, teddycheese, terrablast98, xxmoonflowerxx1, and more
**Receptionists**: Nurse Joy (Pokécenter), Silverpine Lodge receptionist (×2 variants), Wyrm's Rest receptionist — all with location-specific dialogue
**Staff NPCs**: fishingninja25, ironboundjam03, kaydenbreak, strikebyte, rhett (architect)
**Patreon NPCs**: dragoon217, kuyajaedan
### 🐴 Decorative Pokémon Spawners
New structure-placed spawners added for horse-type Pokémon:
- Ponyta, Rapidash, Alolan Ponyta, Alolan Rapidash
- Blitzle, Zebstrika
- Mudbray, Mudsdale
### 🔧 Structure Fixes
- Painting offsets corrected across multiple structures (dark, default, ice, fighting biomes)
- Waystone origin data normalized to `dungeon` across Pokécenter, Silverpine Lodge, and Wyrm's Rest
- Various minor structural fixes in the Dark Marshlight Tavern, The Crypt, Academy, Department Store, The Lodge, Pokémart, and fighting center
- Road extension improvements for default villages
### 🗑️ Removals
- **PokemonTrialSpawnerBlock and PokemonSpawnerBlock** removed — superseded by Cobblemon's native spawner system
- Legacy/unused code cleaned up (ChunkGeneratorMixin, ShopkeepBlock, LocateCommandMixin, and others)
### 🛠️ Developer / Infrastructure
- NBT Scanner and Painting Offset Fixer tools added for structure maintenance
- CI/CD: release workflow, PR checks, and build validation tasks added
- Unit test coverage added for config and structure layout validation
- License updated to All Rights Reserved (ARR)
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**Minecraft**: 1.21.1 | **Fabric Loader**: ≥ 0.16.14 | **Cobblemon**: 1.7.3+1.21.1
Optional dependencies
Terralith
Any compatible version
Just Enough Items (JEI)
Any compatible version
Bookshelf Inspector
Any compatible version
Cobblemon PokeNav
Any compatible version
Waystones
Any compatible version
Sophisticated Backpacks
Any compatible version
Traveler's Backpack
Any compatible version
Developer information
Projects on Modrinth are automatically available through a Maven repository for use with JVM build tools such as Gradle.
maven { name = "Modrinth"; url = "https://api.modrinth.com/maven" }