Preserved: Inferno

Gameplay Changes

• Increased chainmail helmet armor points from 9 -> 10
• Increased chainmail helmet armor toughness from 0 -> 1
• Decreased chainmail chestplate armor points from 20 -> 16
• Decreased chainmail chestplate armor toughness from 2 -> 1
• Increased chainmail boots armor points from 6 -> 9
• Increased chainmail boots armor toughness from 0 -> 1

Chainmail armor has been modified to act as an median stage between copper and iron and will now be used as early game loot similarly to how gold armor is used in the mid-game.

Minor Changes

• Updated underwater ruin chest loot table
  • Coal has been replaced with charcoal
  • Golden helmet has been replaced with chainmail helmet
• Changed "Monumental Mystery" advancement icon
• Crying obsidian can now be used to create nether portals

Bug Fixes

• Fixed piglins not being distracted and picking up gold items
• Fixed max speed requirement for "Speed Demon" advancement so it is completable
• Fixed brown and blue eggs not stacking to 64
• Fixed heat damage crediting the player as the damage source

Mining Speed Changes

• Reduced wooden tool speed from 1 -> 1.5
• Reduced stone tool speed from 2 -> 3
• Increased copper tool speed from 2 -> 4.5
• Reduced diamond tool speed from 10 -> 9
• Increased netherite tool speed from 15 -> 18
• Reduced efficiency tool speed bonus from 8 -> 6

Tool speed values have been altered as some of them did not make any sense. Others were changed for balancing purposes.

Quartzite and Tool Variants

• Quartz has a 10% chance to drop from granite and diorite
• Quartz can be used to craft quartzite tools
  • Quartzite tools have a tool speed of 6
  • Quartzite tools have the same breaking power as wooden tools
• Replaced nether quartz in most recipes with quartzite
• Quartzite can be used to trim armor pieces
• Golden tools now have the same breaking power as stone tools. (previously copper)
• Reduced gold tool speed from 12 -> 9
• Reduced the stats of golden tools to match copper tools
• Nether alloy tools can now be created via smithing
  • Upgrade a golden pickaxe using a nether alloy ingot and its matching upgrade template
  • Nether alloy tools have a tool speed of 12
• Added 3 new advancements related to these new tool sets

Gathering resources or clearing land in the early game always felt sluggish so a new line of tools has been added to alleviate that. Quartzite tools are an early game harvesting tool set that should help the player easily gather low grade materials. Golden and nether alloy tools also serve that purpose but in a later state of the game. ‏‎

Ore Block Hardness Changes

• Reduced deepslate copper ore block hardness from 8 -> 6
• Reduced deepslate lapis and coal ore block hardness from 10 -> 7.5
• Reduced deepslate iron ore block hardness from 12 -> 8
• Reduced deepslate gold and redstone ore block hardness from 14 -> 10.5
• Reduced deepslate diamond and emerald ore block hardness from 15 -> 12
• Increased diamond and emerald ore block hardness from 7.5 -> 8

Mining large ore veins always felt more tedious than necessary, so all deepslate ores have had their hardness values lowered while still making the mining experience feel tactile.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Modified piglin bartering trades to increase the chance for nether alloy upgrade templates
• Wool now drops string when broken without shears or silk touch
• Tool speed is now displayed in the item tooltip on all tools
• Added advancements related to the fletching table and tipped arrows
• Weapon enchantments can now be applied to pickaxes and shovels through the enchanting table

Bug Fixes

• Fixed advancement recipes for raw ore items being incorrect
• Fixed channeling triggering the "Striking Distance" advancement on lightning rods
• Fixed Well Rested not being applied after a player sleeps

Enchanting Table Changes

• Enchanting tables will now detect all bookshelves in a 7x7x7 area around it when searching for bookshelf power
• The amount of lapis lazuli required now scales with the cost of the enchantment selected
• Bookshelf power now requires 1, 4, and 10 bookshelves respectively

Shield Enchantments

• Shields now have 5 exclusive enchantments that can be applied to them, 4 of which can be obtained from the enchanting table
  • Buckler: Reduces the amount of time it takes to fully deploy a shield
  • Respite: Regenerates stamina upon killing a mob
  • Endurance: Increases the max stamina of a shield
  • Vigor: Increases the stamina recovery of a shield
  • Bashful: Adds a new shield bash mechanic to the shield
• Replaced trident enchanted books from trial chambers vaults with shield enchanted books

Minor Changes

• Piglin bartering has been adjusted to include the dried ghast
• Nether fog has been pushed out allowing the player to see much more of the Nether
• Added modded shields into trial chamber vault loot
• Updated item tooltip text on all shields

Bug Fixes

• Fixed shield model not working properly if the player's main hand is left (#3)
• Fixed scythes not using durability when breaking grass

Now on 1.21.11

• Lunge has been added to the custom enchanting table
• Added Mob Kabob

Mastery is Here!

Mastery is a new system that is being added to the current advancements system. Players will gain mastery points from completing advancements scaling with how difficult the advancement is. Mastery ranks are milestone rewards that grant the players shiny new nameplates that can be seen in chat and the player list!

• Progressing advancements have replaced the basic advancements and provide 1 mastery point for each one completed
• Task advancements are advancements that are slightly tougher than the progressing ones and provide 2 mastery points for each one completed
• Goal advancements provide 4 mastery points for each one completed
• Challenge advancements provide 7 mastery points for each one completed

Advancement Menu Changes

• All advancements can now be seen by the player once they have unlocked the page for it, but they will appear as "hidden"
  • Hidden advancements will still show their name and icon but will not show their description
  • Hidden advancements can still be completed without having completed its parent
• Renamed "Combat" advancement tab to "Adventure"
• Rearranged a lot of advancements to be more sensible
• Added and removed multiple advancements

Monster Trials

• Added a new structure that can generate underground
• Monster trials can spawn with three different kinds of spawners:
  • Skeleton
  • Spider
  • Zombie
• Monster trials will provide trial keys when completed and has custom vaults with unique loot
• Trial keys obtained from monster trials can only be used on the vaults found in these structures

Shipwreck Loot Changes

• Supply chests have had coal loot spawns be replaced with charcoal
• Map chests have had book loot spawns be replaced with ink sacs
• Treasure chests have had iron nugget and ingots loot spawns be replaced with their copper counterparts
• Treasure chests have had gold ingot loot spawns be replaced with coal

Flare Gun Changes

• Increased flare gun base damage from 2 -> 3
• Increased flare gun critical damage from 6 -> 9
• Increased flare gun durability from 128 -> 256

Grass Changes

• Short and tall grass now require a scythe as a harvesting requirement
• Short and tall grass will now drop wheat seeds when broken with a scythe

Miscellaneous Changes

• Mobs will no longer drop loot unless they are killed by a player
• Critical hits only apply to weapon attacks
• Only one player is required to sleep for skipping the night

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "Chill Out" advancement triggering when standing on snow type blocks
• Fixed torch from charcoal recipe not having an advancement trigger
• Fixed different torch recipes not grouping together properly

Improved Smithing Templates

• New: Smithing templates now become exhausted rather than being destroyed when used in a smithing table
• Smithing templates can be unexhausted by using the old smithing template duplication recipe
• Smithing template repair recipe has been changed to require only 1 diamond and 7 of the variable resource

Hindered Status Effect

Players who are hindered will receive the following debuffs:

• Reduce player speed by (10 * effect level)% (max 100%)
• Reduce player attack speed by (10 * effect level)%
• Reduce player mining speed to (0.5 ^ effect level) * 100%)
• Reduce player jump height to (0.3 ^ effect level) * 100%)
• Disabled sprinting

Hindered is a new status effect that is unique to powder snow as of now but will likely see more implementation in the future.

Powder Snow Changes

• Increased block hardness from 0.25 -> 1
• Reduced time to freeze from 140 -> 60 ticks
• Powder snow can no longer be destroyed by liquids
• Powder snow will no longer melt upon extinguishing an entity
• Whenever the player takes freezing damage, hindered (level 1) will be applied to them for 8 seconds
  • This timer will refresh if the player takes another tick of freezing damage.
• Reduced nether melting time from 60 -> 20 ticks

We have increased the threat of powder snow not only to increase the threat level of mountains but also to be used as a deadlier tool to use in future structure projects.

Zombified Piglin Changes

• Reduced zombified piglin health from 20 -> 12
• Increased zombified piglin move speed from 0.23 -> 0.3

While zombified piglins have shown to be a formidable threat, we think that they have been too bulky for a mob which can swarm and deal immense damage. We are leaning more into the zombified piglin being a glass cannon threat which can be easy to deal with individually but can become much more deadly in a group.

Heat Changes

• Increased heat gain interval from 4.8 -> 6.0 seconds
• Decreased heat gain interval increased granted by fire protection from 0.45 -> 0.4 seconds
• New: Taking fire damage in the nether will now increase the player's total heat by 1
• New: Taking freezing damage will now decrease the player's total heat by 10
• Added a new heat related advancement

We are giving the player more time to roam around the Nether dimension and cutting away time if they player encounters mobs that can deal fire damage or walk into fire on their own volition.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed mob griefing not being turned off in new worlds
• Fixed fletching table shift right click interaction
• Fixed a crash when killing a blaze with a flare gun