The Bracken Pack

FEBRUARY UPDATE

MOB CHANGES

-Gave netherite golem a custom face texture instead of a plain netherite block for a head.

-Fae guards summoned by the Fae Emperor boss now have a copper rapier weapon and copper armor. They have also been renamed to “Fae Royal Guard” just as a way to differentiate them from all the other, less special, guards.

-Implemented visual update for the Valkyrie minboss at the center of Glacium snowflakes. The mob should also be initially neutral unless you attack her first.

-Implemented visual update for middle-era watchman in Glacium watchtowers. They now wear cryolith armor.

-Added the Dweller mob. Can be summoned with /function under bracken:admin commands. There are also a few that can be found in the Fae castle structure.

-Several other, previously un-summonable, custom mobs can now be summoned with admin commands.

-Fae rangers no longer spawn in clandestine castlegrounds biome. Only rarely in the Faewild whenever spider jockeys spawn.

-Fae wolves now come with a custom entity texture. All wolves spawned with a spawn egg in the Faewild will also have this display.

-Dire wolves now spawn in Glacium. They are larger than normal wolves and have +30 natural armor. They also come with a custom entity texture. All wolves spawned with a spawn egg in Glacium will also have this display.

-Added Silurian wolves to Panacea. They are very large and have a tremendous bite force. They have 50 hp and increased oxygen bonus attribute.They also come with custom entity textures. Silurian wolves are normally green-colored but turn orange when angry and blue when tamed. All wolves spawned with a spawn egg in Panacea will also have this texture.

-Gave gothrum spiders and riders the weaving effect when it rains.

-Sniffers are larger in panacea and break mangrove roots.

BOSS CHANGES

-Added Kraken boss fight. The Kraken is a Brine boss kept in stasis in the center of the underwater deluge city. If a player gets within 16 blocks of the giant squid it will wake up from stasis.

The Kraken is a fairly easy boss with most of its abilities being defensive. It can briefly turn invisible, jet horizontally or vertically away from the player, shoot blinding ink jets at the player or leave expanding trails of ink in its wake. The trident is the best recommended weapon for fighting this boss.

Its most devastating attack occurs when it rapidly spins a whirlpool that draws in all nearby entities. The Kraken not only has a high-damage bite that poisons mobs, but while spinning can slap the player at an extended range with its tentacles.

The Kraken also has a very high degree of passive regeneration, so if it escapes the player for too long, it can recover significant health. Upon getting the Kraken below a certain hp threshold, the Kraken will start bleeding blue blood, the bossbar will disappear, and the Kraken will take small passive damage until it dies.

Upon death, the Kraken drops several squid ink sacs and essence of eternity items.

WORLDGEN CHANGES

-Reworked arctic knolls biome to have less similar features to other Glacium biomes. Hydrothermal magma blocks are now a part of the theme.

STRUCTURE CHANGES

-Added Glacium tunnel structure to enable better travel underneath Glacium mountains.

-Added Brine zeppelin structure to yonder salt breaker bione. Contains pillagers + pressure plates + dispensers holding tnt. If you decide to tower up to the flying zeppelin, avoid being directly underneath!

-Added Pax columns to the grand machair biome.

-Added Pax bothy to the petal grove biome.

-Added Pax bothy secret message.

-Added loot chest to Pax bothy.

ITEM CHANGES

-Retextured shepherdess cloak and gave it an equipment model texture.

-Swapped the function of eternity and infinity essences (because it makes more sense for eternity essence to be the one that makes potions last longer).

-Corrected mislabeled entity interaction range of spears. -Buffed spear entity interaction range by 0.5 blocks.

-Gothrum fang now has infused poison enchantment.

-The base item for spears is now a shovel instead of a sword.

-Sai weapon is now crafted with a blaze rod and netherite ingot. -Sai weapon no longer deals 30 damage and hurts the welder when used.

-Sai weapon now comes with infused fire aspect.

-Hypocrite mask now properly hides the player from endermen.

-Updated wearable species features. Still only accessible with commands.

ENCHANTMENT CHANGES

-Added infused fire aspect enchant. Lights mobs on fire for an hour unless put out. Items with this enchantment cannot be removed with a grindstone.

LOOT TABLE CHANGES

-Nerfed the overwhelming abundance of enchantment books found in the omnidrone library.

-Essence of eternity has been removed from Brine station so now slaying the Kraken is the only way to harvest the valuable item.

BUG FIXES AND TWEAKS

-Massive effort taken to migrate away from custom model data into entity models. Thank you so much Conure for recommending the process in the first place and guiding me through it. You made this possible!

-Fixed missing textures for spear items found in loot tables.

-Fixed nonfunctional netherite spear crafting recipe.

-Greatly improved the quality of custom sun shader activation. Sanctum had been the worst, with the custom sun formerly displaying at super-specific render distances. Also, getting the shader to even work at all in 1.21.4 was made possible by VonLeipenstein, creator of the Expansion data pack.

-Made slight changes to biome fog color of Sanctum, Omnidrome and Dormis.

-Fixed issue with all fae traders summoned with admin commands only buying/selling single items.

-Mining block speed reduction no longer occurs in Glacium.

-75% Mining block speed reduction added to the Brine.

-Nerfed wither rose crafting recipe.