Beyond and More

Visual variants

• Added clearer visual differentiation for several vanilla items whose internal variant data was previously difficult to identify at a glance.

• Axolotl buckets: five adult and five baby item sprites in crisp 64x64 pixel art. The vanilla bucket silhouette, metal shading and blue water droplets stay identical; each axolotl retains its variant colors, while babies are visibly smaller.

• Salmon buckets can now visually indicate salmon size.

• Enchanted books: only their colors have been changed for now to help distinguish enchantment types and levels. These are temporary color variants; dedicated textures will be added in a future update.

• Goat horns: the eight existing vanilla instrument variants now use distinct user-supplied 64x64 transparent sprites and individual silhouettes. No additional goat-horn instruments are added.

• The vanilla axolotl bucket in creative inventory now defaults to the pink adult texture and has the matching localized name. Existing variant- and age-specific buckets still retain their individual artwork and names.

Crafting

• Added the classic Notch Apple recipe: one apple surrounded by eight gold blocks yields one enchanted golden apple.

• Renamed the enchanted golden apple to Pomme de Notch (French) / Notch Apple (English); the regular golden apple is unchanged.

• Added craftable cobwebs (5 string), bells (4 gold ingots + 1 iron block), and calcite (2 quartz + 2 diorite -> 4).

• Added leather alternatives for iron, golden and diamond horse armor, preserving existing recipes using wool.

• Completed recycling for copper-block slabs and jungle-framed glass vertical slabs (2 of the same type -> 1 original block); previously existing stair/slab recycling remains unchanged.

• Existing vanilla saddle and name-tag recipes were not duplicated.

Localization

• Expanded Beyond & More to 163 language locales.
• Added complete Beyond & More coverage for all 143 Minecraft 26.1.2 official locales.
• Added 20 additional locales: Bengali, Urdu, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Swahili, Javanese, Gujarati, Nepali, Amharic, Hausa, Burmese, Sinhala, Khmer, Pashto, Malayalam, Odia, Assamese, Sindhi and Kurdish (Kurmanji).
• Every Beyond & More locale contains the same 7,958 mod translation keys on NeoForge, Forge and Fabric.
• The 20 additional locales also include a Minecraft base-game language layer containing all 7,886 vanilla Minecraft 26.1.2 translation keys, so both Beyond & More and vanilla Minecraft can be displayed in those languages.
• Right-to-left metadata is enabled for Urdu, Pashto and Sindhi.
• Additional translations use Minecraft terminology where available and were completed with cloud-assisted translation plus automated key, placeholder and cross-loader validation.
• A second cloud quality pass reduced residual English fallback text in the additional locales while preserving technical names and placeholders.
• The additional non-vanilla locales are accessibility-first translations; corrections from native speakers can still be incorporated in future maintenance updates.

Loader parity and maintenance

• Kept localization resources synchronized across NeoForge, Forge and Fabric.
• Fixed Fabric creative-tab ordering so the custom block, redstone and weapons/tools tabs match NeoForge and Forge.
• Added stronger automated validation for language key parity, placeholders, RTL metadata, cross-loader file hashes and published registry compatibility.
• Documented the intentional historical removal of the obsolete steel-ore block family so registry compatibility checks continue to protect every other published ID.
• Final audits validate 163 mod locales × 3 loaders, the 20 vanilla language layers, recipes, registry compatibility and resource parity.
• Final server smoke tests pass on NeoForge, Forge and Fabric with zero critical errors.