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# [5.0 Battles & Biomes] - 9/15/26 ## New Features ### Player-Tailored World Generation - Added the Tailored World Generation system - During world creation, a "Default" world type can now be customized - Choosing the "Customize" option allows the player to modify sliders corresponding to world generation factors - Current customizable options: - Continent Scale - Biome Scale - Erosion Scale - Master World Generation Scale ### Cauldron Stews - Stews can now be made in cauldrons using their crafting ingredients - Once an ingredient is added, the cauldron's stew becomes a Light Stew - These can also be eaten, though have half the nutrition as a full crafted stew - One cauldron can hold 3 bowls of stew - Light Stews made with flowers that would be used to make a suspicious stew do not grant status effects ### Items - Added Light Stew - Added Daggers - Deals 4 attack damage by default - Can deal up to an extra 4 damage depending on how discrete the user is being - Can be crafted with one stick and one tool material - Can be found as loot in any chest that may give a sword and in most chests that can give spears - Added Quiver - Can hold up to 4 stacks of arrows - Automatically cycles through each arrow stack - Added Dyed Quivers - Can be crafted by combining a quiver with any dye - Added Heavy Shield - Has a Shield Strength of 10 - Has a blocking delay of 5 ticks - Can become disabled for 1.6 seconds, instead of 5 seconds ### Combat - Added Blade Clash - When two attackers attack each other simultaneously (within 10 ticks), their weapons may clash, and do no damage to either of them - This currently only applies to swords and daggers - Added Shield Strength - Changed Iron Grates to have the `dragon_immune` block tag - Determines how much damage and knockback a shield can absorb - By default, Shields have a Shield Strength of 5 - Changed Shields to no longer have a blocking delay ### Enchantments - Added Enervation enchantment - Can be applied to daggers - Applies up to 4 seconds of Weakness to victims at Level III - Added Cleaving enchantment - This is to match the Combat Test Snapshots ### Blocks - Added Perse Wildflowers - Can be crafted into Purple Dye - Can be found in Birch Forests, Meadows, Swamps, and the Dappled Forest Developer Notes: - These are inspired by Forget-Me-Not flowers - "Perse" is an archaic term for "blue-ish" - Added Wood Stairs - Added Wood Slabs - Added Stripped Wood Stairs - Added Stripped Wood Slabs - Added Terracotta Stairs - Added Terracotta Slabs - Added Dyed Terracotta Stairs - Added Dyed Terracotta Slabs - Added snowlogging, like on Bedrock Edition - Only some blocks are now snow loggable: - Plants - Fences - Fence gates - Walls - Metal bars - Glass panes - Snowlogged blocks may generate during world generation - Blocks may become snowlogged during snowfall - Some snowlogged blocks have snowy texture variants - Changed Powder Snow to decrease mining speed on Hard difficulty ### Biomes - Added Gravel Beach biome - Added Warm River biome ### Recipes - Adding Block of Raw Copper Blasting recipe - Adding Block of Raw Iron Blasting recipe - Adding Block of Raw Gold Blasting recipe ### Sounds - Added ambient Leaves block sounds - Added ambient Tall Grass block sounds - Added ambient Red Shrub sounds - Added Guardian Beam attack sounds ### Music - Added Door by C418 - Plays on the main menu - Added Equinoxe by C418 - Plays on the main menu and in Creative Mode - Added Chris by C418 - Plays in Creative Mode ### Settings - Added Fancy Entities Video Settings option - Toggles advanced entity animations (e.g. Arthropods moving horizontally up walls) - Added Shield Animation Accessibility Settings option - Toggles a blocking shield's visibility - Added Entity Culling option - Determines the entity culling method - Frustum - The default culling method. Hides entities that are outside the player's FOV - Recommended if other performance mods are installed - Occlusion - Hides entities that are behind blocks or fog - Performs after frustum culling ### Game Rules - Added Advanced Mobs game rule - Toggles advanced mob behavior (e.g. flock panicking, shelter seeking) - Does not include wall climbing hitbox adjustments - Added Blade Clash Window game rule - Sets the window of time (in ticks) that two entities must attack each other within, to trigger a blade clash - A value of 0 disables this feature ### Advancements - Added Marking Territory advancement - Is granted by using a map on a banner, to create a banner marker - Added Gather 'Round advancement - Is granted by to light a campfire with a stick - Added Soup-er! advancement - Is granted by adding stew ingredients to a cauldron - Added Maelstrom Advancement - Granted by activating a Conduit - Added Moskstraumen - Granted by bringing a Conduit to full power ## Changes ### Combat - Changed natural regeneration to be twice as fast - Changed starvation to be twice as fast - Changed natural regeneration to continue to 7 food points - Changed natural regeneration to be a 1:1 transaction with food points - Changed Arrows to not trigger invincibility frames - Changed Arrows to not inherit the Y-axis inertia of their shooter - Changed Tipped Arrows to scale consistently with their potion effect - Changed fast weapons to trigger less invincibility frame time - Changed saturation to no longer be related to fast healing - Changed saturation to drain before hunger - Changed consuming to be interrupted by attacks - Changed Bow and Crossbow uncertainty to be lower - Changed critical hits to be possible while sprinting - Changed critical hits to be impossible for arrows that have been notched for longer than 3 seconds - Changed Axes to accept Sweeping Edge, Looting, and Fire Aspect - Changed Mace to accept Sweeping Edge, Knockback, and Looting - Changed Swords to require Sweeping Edge for sweeping attacks - Changed Axes to no longer take increased durability damage when attacking - Changed attacking with weapons to prioritize entities over blocks, such as grass ### Discrete Actions - Discrete actions, like sneaking, crawling, being invisible, or hiding in foliage, now conceal a player's location better - Being discrete now allows you to get close behind creatures without them detecting you, so long as you are not within their line of sight - Having the glowing effect negates discrete actions - Attacking a creature triggers a 5-second cooldown, in which you are no longer considered discrete - Crawling now also affects the Locator Bar waypoint transmit range, like crouching ### Command Macros - Added Command Macros - Can be accessed from the Key Binds options screen - Up to 10 commands can be saved (with a maximum of 1024 characters each) and activated by pressing Left Alt + A Number Key from 0-9 - The secondary key can be re-bound ### World Generation - Changed all biomes to be larger - Changed all continents to be larger - Changed Oak Tree height - Changed Birch Tree height - Changed Short Grass placement chance - Changed Bush placement chance - Changed Snow to generate under trees in snowy biomes - Changed Super Birch Trees to have Shelf Mushrooms generate on their trunks #### Oceans - Changed oceans to be potentially up to 50% deeper - Changed oceans to become darker depending on depth #### Forest - Changed understory to have sparse rocks - Changed understory to have more grass - Changed mob spawning to include rabbits - Changed fallen logs to potentially have moss carpet generate on top - Changed mushroom generation rate Developer's Note: I didn't even know that mushroom patches could spawn #### Birch Forest - Changed fallen logs to potentially have moss carpet generate on top #### Dark Forest - Changed understory to have sparse rocks - Changed canopies to be larger - Changed dark oak trees to be taller - Changed the sky to be darker - Changed the ratio of Dark Oak trees to other vegetation and huge mushrooms - Changed red mushroom caps to sometimes be slightly shorter - Added small mushroom rings around huge mushrooms - Changed mushroom generation rate - Changed ambient fog distance in Dark Forest biomes #### Pale Garden - Changed ambient fog distance in Pale Garden biomes #### Dappled Forest - Changed understory to have Perse Wildflowers #### Bamboo Forest - Changed ambient fog distance in Bamboo Jungle biomes #### Jungle - Changed ambient fog distance in Jungle biomes #### Swamp - Added Perse Wildflowers - Changed frog spawn rates in Swamp biomes to be higher - Changed mushroom generation rate - Changed ambient fog distance in Swamp biomes #### Mangrove Swamp - Changed ambient fog distance in Mangrove Swamp biomes #### Taiga - Changed vegetation to be more common #### Savanna - Added Baobab trees - Similarly to Pine trees, these trees do not have a unique wood type, but are a special type of Acacia tree - Can be grown from a 2x2 of Acacia saplings #### Plains - Changed mushroom generation rate #### The End - Changed Chorus Flowers to have an 85% chance of being alive - Increased Chorus Flower growth sound effect volume - Increased Chorus Flower death sound effect volume ### Structures #### End Spikes - Changed End Spikes to be more triangular ### Mobs - Added wall climbing to Silverfish AI - Added wall climbing to Endermite AI ### Items - Changed Pottage to accept any type of edible mushroom ### Blocks - Changed doors to be water loggable - Changed Brown Mushroom Blocks to have a light level of 1, to match the small brown mushroom - Changed Shelf Mushroom to be edible - Changed Powder Snow to decrease mining speed - Changed Iron Grates to have the `dragon_immune` block tag ### Tents - Tents now continuously check to see if there are sturdy blocks below it - The check for this includes the 4 corners of the hitbox. ### Wither - Wither Skull explosions can now only convert `dirt` block tag blocks to Soul Soil ### Recipes - Changed map crafting recipe - Changed map crafting recipe to be a 9x9 of paper - This matches Bedrock Edition ### Settings - Changed "Advanced Entity Animations" to "Fancy Entities" - Changed custom options ordering ### Loot - Changed Swamp Hut cauldron potions to be a data-driven loot table - Changed Tannery Chests to possibly generate Quivers - Changed Pillager Outpost Chests to possibly generate Heavy Shields and Quivers - Changed Weaponsmith House Chests to possibly generate Heavy Shields - Changed Woodland Mansion Chests to possibly generate Heavy Shields - Changed Leatherworkers to gift Bundles and Quivers ### Textures - Changed spherical potion texture - Changed the Leaf Litter texture to have fewer leaves and (hopefully) appear more natural - Changed Illusioner texture to match Minecraft Dungeons - Changed Map texture to match the base game - Changed the Adventure Mode texture to use the Buried Treasure Map texture ### Particles - Changed Guardian Beams to be emissive - Changed Conduit particles to match Bedrock Edition ### Sounds - Changed Bush ambient sound to be louder - Changed Sand ambient sound to be louder - Changed dry vegetation ambient sound to be louder - Changed ambient leaves block ambient sounds to be louder - Changed Dead Bush ambient sound to be louder - Changed Bush ambient sound subtitle to match the vanilla dry grass subtitle - Changed ambient cold wind sounds to be less common - Changed Guardian Beam charge sounds - Changed Guardian Beam spike sounds - Changed Large Ferns to have ambient sounds ### Advancements - Changed "Traveler" advancement name to "Tentative Accommodations" - Changed the Adventure root advancement to use the Buried Treasure Map texture - Changed Subspace Bubble advancement to use the Filled Map texture - Changed the Voluntary Exile advancement to use the Ominous Bottle texture - Changed the Voluntary Exile advancement description, criteria, and parent ### Splash Text - Added "Bigger! Better!" splash text - Added "Perse!" splash text - Added "Any shape and size!" splash text - Added "Read the books!" splash text - Added "More music by C418!" splash text ### Credits - Added Zeit - We'd like to thank Zeit for modeling the quiver and assisting with the texture ## Technical Changes ### Mobs - Refactored advanced mob AI ### Camera Shake Events - Changed `range` field to accept an integer value ### Particles - Added `blade_clash` particle ### Statistics - Added `damage_blocked_by_weapon` statistic ### Attributes - Added `shield_strength` attribute ### Data Components - Added `tent/color` data component ### Data Tags - Added `is_foggy` biome tag - Added `is_slightly_foggy` biome tag - Added `is_very_foggy` biome tag - Added `has_cespitose` biome tag - Added `triggers_ambient_bush_block_sounds` block tag - Added `huge_glowshroom_can_place_on` block tag - Added `stew_ingredient` block tag - Added `tall_plants` block tag - Added `silent_foliage` block tag - Added `arrow_flammable` block tag - Added `triggers_ambient_grass_block_sounds` block tag - Added `daggers` item tag - Added `can_parry_swords` item tag - Added `can_parry_daggers` item tag - Added `sweeping_weapon` item tag - Added `quivers` item tag - Added `shields` item tag - Added `scansorial` entity type tag - Added `causes_flock_panic` damage type tag - Changed `can_be_full` to be named `predator` - Changed `can_be_scared` to `panics_with_flock` - Changed `can_seek_shade` to `seeks_shade` - Changed `can_seek_warmth` to `seeks_warmth` - Removed `can_break_tents` damage type tag - Removed `always_kills_tent` damage type tag - Removed `ignites_tents` damage type tag - Removed `burns_tents` damage type tag - Removed `has_ambient_block_sounds` block tag - Removed `skull_block` block tag ### Bug Fixes - Fixed bug causing a client/server de-sync when lighting a campfire with sticks - Fixed bug where unknown_server.png (commonly known as pack.png) was stretched when there's an issue with a world thumbnail - Fixed bug causing Tents to display the wrong error when trying to sleep during the day - Fixed bug preventing Redstone comparisons to work with Potion Cauldrons - Fixed bug that caused Water Bottles to completely fill Cauldrons - Fixed bug causing spider jockeys to suffocate if their spider reaches a ceiling - Fixed [BUG #76] Tents Z-Fight with their pegs - Fixed missing Blast Fungus entity translation - Fixed bug causing Tentative Accommodations to be granted to those who have yet to sleep in beds - Fixed bug allowing Withers to set fire when Destructive Mob Actions is set to "Off" - Fixed bug preventing some settings from being saved - Fixed [MC-57057](https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC/issues/MC-57057) - Guardian laser attack sound ignores distance - Fixed a memory leak relating to the Select World screen - Fixed a bug relating to Multiplayer Server icons