Beyond and More

Beyond & More 4.0.9 — Changelog Version 4.0.9 focuses heavily on polish, visual fixes, consistency, and improving the overall quality of Beyond & More after the large amount of content added in previous updates. Main changes

• Fixed many visual issues affecting blocks and their variants, including:
  • incorrect or rotated textures;
  • incorrect block faces;
  • stretched or compressed textures;
  • transparency issues;
  • inventory model issues;
  • orientation inconsistencies;
  • various rendering problems.
• Improved many block families, including slabs, vertical slabs, stairs, doors, trapdoors, fences, fence gates, walls, and other variants.
• Additional fixes for blocks requiring special texture handling, including logs, pillars, carved pumpkins, grass blocks, leaves, glass, cactus, and several other materials.
• Improved consistency between Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.
• Removed manual right-click/sneak rotation from some vertical slabs. More advanced block-state manipulation may return later through dedicated building tools. New material shields Beyond & More now adds several new shield tiers:
• Gold Shield
• Copper Shield
• Steel Shield
• Emerald Shield
• Diamond Shield
• Netherite Shield These shields are designed to remain close to the vanilla Minecraft style while providing natural progression between materials. Each shield has its own durability, and the Netherite Shield is upgraded from the Diamond Shield using the Netherite upgrade system. Support for banner decoration has also been integrated, while keeping the appearance of each shield material. Languages and fonts Language support has received another major expansion. Beyond & More now includes 320 supported languages/locales. The language selection interface has also received improvements, including a search system to make navigating such a large language list much easier. The custom font system has also continued to receive improvements and fixes. About AI development and previous releases Beyond & More is currently developed to a very large extent with the help of artificial intelligence. AI has handled most of the technical work on recent versions, including code implementation, resource creation and modification, translations, audits, compatibility work, and many of the fixes included in this update. On my side, I decide what features should be added, how they should work, what direction the mod should take, and I review the final result. However, I also want to be transparent about something: on some previous releases, I did not perform enough visual testing before publishing the update. A very large number of blocks and variants were added in a relatively short amount of time, and I sometimes moved too quickly toward publication instead of spending enough time manually checking everything in-game. Because of this, several visual problems made it into previous releases. Version 4.0.9 is part of an effort to improve that process. From now on, we want to spend more time performing visual and functional checks before publishing each Minecraft version. This also means future Beyond & More updates will not necessarily release for every supported Minecraft version at the same time. For example, Minecraft 1.21.1 may receive an update first, while another version is released later once its own testing and visual verification have been completed. This should make it easier to properly verify each Minecraft version and each loader instead of rushing every build out at once. What comes next? We still have many ideas planned for Beyond & More. The goal remains the same: add features and block variants that feel like they could naturally belong in vanilla Minecraft. The new material shields are one example of this direction. For future updates, we are already considering things such as:
• further improvements and customization for shields;
• chests matching different wood types;
• additional building-oriented features;
• new tools aimed at giving builders more control over block states;
• and many other vanilla-friendly additions. Some of these ideas are already being planned, but they will be introduced gradually so they can receive proper testing. Feedback is welcome With the amount of content now included in Beyond & More, it is becoming increasingly difficult to catch every issue ourselves. If you notice visual bugs, incorrect textures, translation issues, rendering problems, broken recipes, strange block behavior, or anything else that does not look right, please let us know. Player feedback is extremely useful and will help us continue improving the mod. Thank you to everyone who uses Beyond & More, tests new versions, and takes the time to report issues.