This mod adjusts various Minecraft mechanics to better suit my vision for exploration. Check out my video on it for more information!

Features:

• Ancient Explorer map, obtained from cartographers after defeating the ender dragon. Leads to an ancient city.
• Sculk Vial, crafted with 5 echo shards, stores up to 30 levels.
• Ancient cities are twice as rare, in exchange woodland mansions are made 3x more common.
• Ancient city loot table now contains diamond armor and tools.
• The recovery compass is no longer craftable and can now be found in the woodland mansions (with a new texture).
• Biomes now have a variated ore distribution, and affect the growth rates of different crops. See the Biome Diversification Catalog for more information.
• Default powered rails are now crafted with copper ingots instead of gold.
• Minecarts now travel at 12 m/s when a passenger is onboard (default was 8 m/s).
• Super powered rails are crafted with gold ingots and increase the minecarts speed up to 16 m/s.
• Increases frequency of biome dependent villager trades appearing, instead of outright overriding the pre-trade rebalance mechanic.
• Horse armor has durability.
• Horse armor can be enchanted (unbreaking, mending, protection(s), respiration, frost walker, depth strider, feather falling, soul speed).
• Horses can sprint 120% faster than their base speed.
• Horses now have a stamina bar that slowly drains the longer it sprints.
• When the stamina bar is fully drained, the horse moves 30% slower until fully recharged.
• Ice evaporates in the nether.
• Striders no longer get cold when out of lava in the nether, only when out of lava in the overworld will they get cold.
• Striders can now spawn on the nether terrain, and will not mind walking on it over lava.
• Boats no longer move quickly with ice. This can be changed with the game rule allowIceBoatSpeed.

Minecart logic adapted from Audaki's Cart Engine. Please check out their work as well!