Darker Depths

Update 2.1

Molten Cavern:

World Gen

• Removed Ash Layer and Ash Block spawning
• Tweaked molten pools to have more padding of blocks around them
• Added Magma Pads to spawn on lava pools
• Added Scorched Remains
• Added big piles of Scorched Remains
• Added a Magma Block carver that places long stretches of Magma Blocks
• Added a similar carver for Tuff that places long stretches of Tuff
• Added large Darkslate spikes that generate from the floor and ceiling
• Added small Petrified Roots hanging from the ceiling
• Switched to surface rules for darkslate generation
• Should result in zero unintentional Stone or Deepslate inside the molten cavern biome
• Removed Amber Clusters from the biome

Darkslate

• Darkslate now can be ‘heated’
• Darkslate now has 5 stages of being heated (0-4).
• Darkslate can be heated by touching lava or magma blocks.
• Tags added for each level of heat so that any block can be added as a heat source

Scorched Remains

• Found randomly on the ground in the Molten Cavern
• Has a 50% chance to drop charcoal when broken without silk touch.
• Smelts 10 items.
• Crafted with Charcoal and Rotten Flesh.
• Can be made into a block.

Block of Scorched Remains

• Smelts 24 items
• Made with Rotten Flesh and Charcoal
• Found naturally under Geysers
• When placed under a Geyser, the Geysers will spread hot ash particles.

Geyser

• No longer boosts constantly
• Now bursts randomly that boosts the player upwards with a big particle burst.
• Particles change whether there is lava or water on top of the geyser, or whether the geyser has magma beneath it to boost the burst effect.
• Placing a Block of Scorched Remains beneath a Geyser will spawn glowing ash particles around the Geyser.
• Powering the Geyser with redstone will halt it from bursting until the power is taken away.
• When being unpowered, the geyser will instantly burst.

Scorcher Mob

• A large eye that does damage with its fiery stare.
• Can only spawn with world generation
• Does damage that ramps up the longer the eye maintains eye contact.
• Does 0 damage the first second, then does 1 more damage for every second the player is in view.
• Can spot and attack players up to 48 blocks away.
• The player will need to keep breaking line of sight to be effective against it.
• When a Scorcher kills a mob/player, it will place Scorched Remains where it was killed.
• If the player looks directly into the eye, it will flash the player and blind them.

Amber Clusters

• Removed from Molten Cavern
• Added to Sandy Catacombs

Ash & Ash Block

• Ash has been ‘removed’
• The blocks and items will still exist as they are now, but will no longer generate.
• Tooltip will now display a ‘press shift’ description explaining they are legacy blocks now.

Magma Pad

• ‘Lily Pad’ but for lava
• Burns the player if not crouching similar to magma blocks when stepped on

Dead Living Crystal

• Renamed to “Crystal Husk”
• Can now be heated
• When heated, living crystals will not grow

Living Crystal

• Can now be heated
• When heated, crystal melons cannot be grown

Crystal Melon

• Added passive particles when placed

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Sandy Catacombs:

World Gen

• Added surface rules such that Aridrock and mud will always be placed on the surface of the cave
• Added a Duskrock carver that places long stretches of Duskrock padded by mud
• Added small Petrified Roots hanging from the ceiling
• Added Amber Cluster spawning

Body Snatcher

• Now effects the player with Paranoia on attack

Paranoia Altar

• Now gives off particles when given a Void Soul Requiem

Arid Deepslate

• Removed rotations

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Glowshroom Cavern

Glowshroom Monster

• Now has passive regeneration (1hp/sec)
• Will allow it to continually patrol its area without getting picked off by other mobs
• Added running animation
• Previously, this looked very awkward when chasing targets
• Should no longer get stuck when traversing up blocks
• Now only attacks undead mobs
• Now uses the tag glowshroom_monster_target for entities it targets
• Has a 50% damage reduction against undead mobs
• Only drops glowshroom cap if killed by the player

Glowshroom Cap

• Reduced durability to 88
• Reduced armor from 1 to 0

Glimmering Vines

• Now has passive particles

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General:

Biolith / Terrablender

• Added as a dependency
• Biome parameters are now added back into the config
• When both Terrablender and Biolith are installed at the same time, DD will use Terrablender, but this can be changed in the config.

Fog

• Custom fog is added per biome to be much thicker and fits the biome much more correctly.
• Can be disabled/adjusted in the config.

Advancements

• Added 11 new advancements for Darker Depths progression

Pillars

• Added Darkslate, Duskrock, & Grimestone Pillars
• All Pillars are now rotatable on x and z axis

Petrified Mineshaft

• Petrified mineshaft variant can be found in the Molten Cavern and Sandy Catacombs biomes.

World Gen

• Fixed block tags for stone like blocks that would prevent ores from generating.
• Switched from feature placement to surface rules for biome block placement, should be a decent performance improvement. This also means that biomes will not have stone blocks that don’t belong in them.
• Many features have been tweaked and adjusted with all cave biomes.

Creative menu

• Added stiletto enchantments to Darker Depths creative tab

Chiseled Blocks

• New textures for Aridrock, Duskrock, and Darkslate Chiseled Bricks

Petrified Roots

• New textures