LighterEnd Beta 2 for Minecraft 26.1

This release reenables Terrablender integration now that the library mod is updated for Minecraft 26.1.

This could technically be considered a "release candidate" as this version of Lighter End should now have compatibility matching this page, but we'll wait until the 26.1 release of Nullscape before exiting beta.

Full Changelog: v1.0.6-beta1...v1.0.6-beta2

LighterEnd Beta for Minecraft 26.1

This is a preliminary port of LighterEnd to Minecraft 26.1. It is marked as beta because compatibility with TerraBlender and Nullscape is not guaranteed (given that neither project has been updated as of yet to 26.1). Once the mods listed here have been updated and compatibility verified, LighterEnd will get a "stable" release, and any additional features in this release will be backported to older Minecraft versions, as appropriate:

Those changes so far:

• #110 Integration with the Fox Nap mod is now implemented in LighterEnd (this change will not be backported)
• #107 The mod has been fully translated to Russian by @Yugeniele

Full Changelog: v1.0.5...v1.0.6-beta1

I Can See Clearly Now

This is a hotfix that fixes a crash when using LighterEnd with voxy. See: #108

As Voxy is only being maintained on the latest Minecraft version, this hotfix will not see any backports, and thus I decided to create this build using the "unobfuscated" version of the LighterEnd codebase (see: #102).

Full Changelog: v1.0.4...v1.0.5

Atlas Hotfix

This is a hotfix for the Minecraft 1.21.11 version which resolves the issue where armor items—all armor items—showed up as missing textures (end stone levers were suffering from a similar problem, FWIW).

Many thanks to @Levih2009 for reporting this bug.

Full Changelog: v1.0.3...v1.0.4

Mounts now, Mayhem later

This is a release for 1.21.11 (older versions will receive backports soon, but the changes are minimal)

What's Changed

• The default / working branch is now 1.21.11 (versions going back to 1.21.5 will continue to receive backports)
• The "downfall" parameter of umbrella jungles has been set to 0.5, so snow should no longer accumulate there, even in winter when playing with Serene Seasons
• Additional Ukrainian translation work by @StarmanMine142 in #104

Full Changelog: v1.0.2...v1.0.3

крила виглядають краще

What's Changed

• Silk Elytras now have a better, less amorphous texture (#100)
• The mod has been translated into Ukrainian by @StarmanMine142 in #101

Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2

Too Much Crab!

This release contains a few bugfixes and one major compatibility improvement:

• Aurous Ice (the gold kind) now correctly breaks and drops when mined with a pickaxe, resolving #96
• Pedestals no longer desync between server and client when playing on multiplayer, resolving #88
• Chorus Crabs now naturally despawn when far away, unless the player breeds them, feeds them or names them (resolves #78)
• Lighter End is now compatible with TerraBlender (#93) and mods such as Biomes O'Plenty, though you may want to adjust your TerraBlender settings to increase the size and abundance of vanilla biomes.
  

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

A Lighter End

This marks the first "stable" full release of Lighter End and fully realizes the vision of a rich, explorable End, even under vanilla world generation rules.

There is also now a Lighter End Wiki which, while still needing to be fully fleshed out, already contains a ton of helpful information about biomes, mobs and mod compatibility.

Changes Since Beta 3

• The primary development branch is now targeting 1.21.10, though 1.21.8 and 1.21.5 will continue receiving backports for now
• There are, however, some features exclusive to 1.21.10:
  • smelting emerald ice yields copper nuggets
  • all end woods now have shelf variants
  • you can now craft Copper Chandeliers, which can oxidize and can be waxed
    • you can enable an optional resource pack to give waxed chandeliers distinct item textures to their unwaxed counterparts, similar to the VanillaTweak
  • there is now an experimental game mode that will set the world spawn to a random position in The End. This means you can try your hand at going through the full game progression, culminating in beating The Ender Dragon, without ever having been to The Overworld. Not all seeds and world spawns are winnable—even though this game mode spawns you with a "starter kit" in a barrel—and it's quite possible that worlds generated with this option enabled will have unforeseen issues, so toggle it on at your own peril
• Under "vanilla" worldgen (default world type, no worldgen datapack like Nullscape), End biomes will now be 16x larger. This means jungles with more than two trees, Umbra Valleys large enough to spawn phantoms and megalakes large enough to actually hold water. Note that if you play with other End mods that use Fabric's End Biome provider, the biomes from those mods should be enlarged as well.
• Lighter End now has two more biomes from Better End:
  • Sulfur Springs, complete with massive Geysers and Sulfur Crystals which unlock gunpowder crafting (and thus rockets)
  • Shadow Forests, complete with Dragon Trees (and a new Dragon Wood woodset), Purple Polypores, prickly Needlegrass, tasty Shadowberries and blindness-inflicting Murkweed, which in Lighter End can be used to craft black dye (save your wither rose farming for wither roses!)
• Chorus Crabs will now pick up (and very rarely spawn carrying) swords. You mess with Crabo, you get a stabo.
• Umbrella Juice can now be crafted into sugar
• A simplified version of BetterEnd's Pedestals are now in the mod. They don't stack into columns, and Lighter End will never have infusion rituals, but you can still use them to display your pretties
  • Note that there is a known bug (#88) where pedestals can desync between the client and the server in multiplayer. This does not (as far as I know) allow for actual duplication.
• The wing layer of Silk Elytra will now show armor trim patterns (this is implemented as an optional resource pack and can thus be disabled if you don't like how they look). These patterns are lovingly stolen adapted from the Elytra Trims mod.
• Silk Elytra have a new texture
• Lighter End is now fully compatible with the Elytra Trims mod: #75
• It's now significantly cheaper to craft more Silk Moth Nests: #76

Bugfixes

• End levers now drop when mined (#71)
• End wood hanging signs (and shelves for folks playing on 1.21.10) can now be crafted from stripped logs or stripped wood, which was needed because tenanea logs don't generate naturally (#73)
• Silk Elytra can be un-dyed using a cauldron (#74)
• Fixes a hard incompatibility with Enderscape 847bbec
• Added some missing sound events and translations
• Lighter End's logos—including the one that appears in ModMenu—have been updated. Hope you like them!
• The README (which will also serve as the mod description on modrinth) has been rewritten to focus more on Lighter End as a standalone, as opposed to comparing it to Better End
• The end gravity settings on the client are now forcibly set to the server's values at the time of mod initialization. This is a fix for #89 though it sadly does mean players in single-player will no longer be able to change their gravity settings on-the-fly (🥁)

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v1.0.0

Supersize Me

Aside from some bugfixes, the main feature of this release is that LighterEnd biomes should now generate larger. This means jungles with more than two trees, Umbra Valleys large enough to spawn phantoms and megalakes large enough to actually hold water.

As for those bugfixes:

• End levers now drop when mined (#71)
• End wood hanging signs (and shelves for folks playing on 1.21.10) can now be crafted from stripped logs or stripped wood, which was needed because tenanea logs don't generate naturally (#73)

Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v0.3.2

Note that this release has builds for:

• 1.21.5
• 1.21.6-8 (labeled "1.21.8")
• 1.21.9-10 (labeled "1.21.9")

A New Age

This is a 1.21.10-only release that adds the following additional features:

• smelting emerald ice yields copper nuggets
• all end woods now have shelf variants
• you can now craft copper chandeliers, which can oxidize and can be waxed

Note that LighterEnd will continue updating for Minecraft 1.21.8 (and 1.21.5 for now), just without these Copper Age exclusive features

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.3.1