JMG's Better Than Ever (BTE)

**The Magical Year: The 7th major update for BTE is here, and it's my mod's first anniversary!** One year of development has turned it from a rough survival overhaul to a much bigger, more fun and challenging version of Minecraft. **Additions** - **Magic System:** Introducing the Arcane Table, 15 new spells and 6 new effects! - **New Mobs:** Quietling, Cyclops, and Plank Golem! - **Scrolls:** Discover Scroll Ruins, Unlit Scrolls, and Lumen Scrolls with the help of the Sniffer - **New Blocks:** Rope Hook, Warped Bar Block, Spiritum Block, Soulstone Tile Blockset, Mycelium Slabs, and Podzol Slabs. - **New Items:** Cyclops Eye, Crude Eye, Lensed Eye, Aluminum Knife, Bat Wing, and Toast. - **New Clothing:** Wizard Hat, Wizard Robe, and Musketeer Hat. - **Blood Particles:** Mobs (and you!) can now bleed when attacked! - **New Advancements:** 13 new advancements have been added. - **Cursed Pumpkin:** Used to summon golems.  **Changes** - Cats can now spawn at Pillager Outposts. - Zombified Piglins no longer attack players without provocation. - Redstone and Cobalt Martial Scrolls have been replaced into the Uplifting Scroll and Pushing Scroll, replacing the old meter mechanic with effects. - Blocks like machines and tables now display their name on the GUI - Players can wear banners in their head - Wardens spawn Quietlings instead of Wraiths - Changed cloud texture - The rope item is now a placeable block - Changed textures for raw iron, gold, copper and inferrite - The Wither must now be summoned using Spiritum Blocks instead of Soul Sand or Soul Soil. - Pelts can now be processed into leather using campfires. - Breaking wool with bare hands no longer drops string. -  Saddles and horse armor can now be crafted. - The Diamond Musket can now fire without being loaded in creative - Tiling Fertile Dirt and pathing Dirt slabs now produce sounds. - Placing ingredients into forging anvils now produces sounds. - Forging anvils have been tweaked. - The right amount of ingredients will render in the forging anvils - Tool textures have been changed. - The textures and recipes for Brushes, Shears, Spyglasses, and Bells have been changed. - Trial Chamber loot has been revamped. - Trial Chamber generation has been fixed. - Tamed and ridden mobs will no longer flee. - Fixed an issue where killing goats would grant the Skull Crusher advancement. This update marks one year of Better Than Ever! Thank you to everyone who has played the mod, shared feedback, reported bugs, and helped me make the mod truly _better than ever_! Have fun!

Hats & That: the 6th major update for BTE! -**Additions:** - Hats: Wolfskin Cap, Crown, Tassel Hat, Trapper Cap, Witch Hat, Top Hat, Wisdom Cap, Birthday Hat, Camel Wrap, Goat Helm, Chef's Hat, Plume Hat, Mounter's Hat, Tuque, Paper Bag, Enchanted Turban and Conical Hat. - Chiseled Glazed Terracotta - Drill Block - Drill Head - Redstone Component - Sugar Cube - Salt Cube - Compacted Redstone Dust - Redstone Crystal - Cast Iron Gear - Cardboard set - Paper Wall - Cooked Tropical Fish - Cooked Beetroot - Tropical Fish Dinner - Wolf Tail - Camel Pelt - Rotten Flesh Block  -**Changes:** - Placeable items have a chance to be placed once expired - Changed textures to: armors, molds, plates, stone, stone ores. - Changed recipes to: Piston, Lever, Repeater, Comparator, Tripwire Hook, Daylight Sensor, Observer, Dispenser, Dropper, Hopper, Deepslate Diamond Ore, Diamond Block and Glazed Terracotta - Redstone Block now crafts into 9 Redstone Alloys instead of 9 Redstone Dusts - Ghasts now drop Ghast Lungs properly - Mobs can spawn with hats - Revamped the Ender Dragon fight - The piglin brain now renders again in the Chunk Watcher (welcome back Elvis!) - Beetroot and Tropical Fish cause hunger when eaten unprepared - All armors have proper equipping sounds - Tweaked the player's inability to jump when low on thirst - Some changes to (hopefully) enhance performance -**Removed:** - Removed Serves and Pigstone equipment, as they were completely useless. Have fun!

The WORST update ever! Addition: - Block of Rose Quartz Changes: - Modified tons of recipes - Fixed bug where sharp sticks could mine coal and ground ore - Fixed thirts again - If the player doesn't have a bed, they'll respawn somewhere random within 5000 blocks, have their achievements taken, and the world time will be set to 0 (if they are the only players online) - Mobs can only breed at night and under a roof - Buffed mob stats - Mobs won't spawn with custom armor, only shields and weapons - Bowls, Wineskin and Thermal Bottles can't gather water in Swamps, Oceans, Lush & Dripstone Caves, or Frozen Rivers.  - Set durability of the Sharp stick to 2, and the durability of the fire starter to 4 - Players will have less block reach and mining speed when not holding a block or a tool - Changed the main menu panorama and title (that explains the extra 4 Mbs) - Changed textures and AI for Wraiths, Minions and Werewolves - Werewolves will show red eyes when aggressive - Block coordinates will be hidden if the player doesn't have a Compass in their inventory - Chunk coordinates will be hidden if the player doesn't have a non-empty map in their inventory - Nerfed maggot saturation and loot rate - Maggots will grant small hydration and water when eaten

Added: - Cotton Block - Sandstone Brick set  Changed: - Fixed sawmill consuming logs - Fixed GUIs - Some of the items added by the mod can be composted - Reduced Straw Hat defence - Only zombies, skeletons, piglins and such can wear gear provided by the armor system

Changes: - Block of Raw Tin can't be smelted, only blasted. - Fixed bugs regarding the Fire Starter

Added: - Chunk Watcher (AKA Elvis the Brain)  - Changed: - Fixed multiplayer bugs regarding firestarters and pebble chipping - Fixed MAJOR spelling mistakes - Changed drop rates of zombies and wraiths

Added: - Diamond Musket - Lead Powder - Lead Ingot - Lead Pellets - Lead Block  Changed: - Changed textures for planks, cobbled and loose tuff and andesite. - Slight changes for foliage and grass colormaps - Fixed campfire duping

Wonderful World, the fifth major update, is finally here!     Added: - Spice bushes (mint, garlic, ginger and peppercorn) - Fermented Bowl - Clay Filter - Ghast Lungs - Mercury Brain - Strider Scute - Strider Gum - Nether Processor - Crimson Grinder - Soul Enricher - Warped Mixer - Pigstone - Pigstone Armor, sword and axe - Troopling - Pale Pumpkin - Soulstone - Soulmite - Spiritum - Cheese - Butter - Salt Crystal - Salt - Salt Cane - Salt Ore - Sodium Ingot - Sodium Block and Reactive Sodium Block - Tin stairs - Tin grate - Tin bars - Ender Dust - Netherrack Dust - Warped Flux - Warped Bar - Cotton seeds - Cotton boll - Cotton fiber - Sewing Table - Hog Hide - Crimson Seal - Wool Tunic - Clad wool tunic - Thermal Paddings - Tables - Chairs - Gelatin - Jelly - Ivy - Puffy Grass - Thick Bush - Corn Kernels - Corn Cob and Baked Corn Cob - Sand Slab - Gravel Slab - Red Sand Slab - Arid Grass - Multi block furnaces for ingot smelting(tin furnace, copper furnace, bronze furnace, iron furnace) - Light Bulb - Cobbled granite, diorite, calcite, tuff, andesite - Loose versions of the rocks above + cobblestone and deepslate - Brick sets for calcite, diorite, andesite and granite - Brick items for the rocks above + deepslate and tuff - Rose quartz - Cog upgrade - Short Pine - Guitar - Flute - Sludge - Knife Changes: - Fixed thirst - Tartarium is now made from nickel + pigstone - Ground ores can generate on sand - Goats can spawn in badlands and Stony shores - Camels spawn in deserts - Machines have a sprite display for fuel and smoother progress arrow - Fixed crashes based on a render for anvils - Players only feel temperature when they reach 6 xp levels - Hide tunics can provide temperature protection for any extreme biome - Flax can spawn in rivers, badlands and deserts - Hide tunics, headbands and sandals can be crafted with rabbit hide - Headbands can protect the player from noon heat and rain - Buffed clots armor’s heat - Removed mountain poncho - Removed Tartarium Blend - Changed recipe for the rotten robe - Rocks drop their loose counterparts - Changed texture for broken rock and rubblestone - Redstone alloy requires salt on recipe - Nerfed leveling for wither and warden Note: this update will have a Part II Have fun!

Additions: - Tin Wheel  Changes: - Netherite Tools have new textures - Netherite tools deal 2+ damage - Diamond tools deal 1+ damage - Changed textures for Millstone and Hand Crank - Changed root of advancement "Mill House" - Changed recipes for Blast Furnace, Alloy Kiln, Millstone, Hand Crank, Smoker and Mixer Have fun!

**Fixed crash related issues** **Sorry.**