This is very minimal expansion of the nothing skyblock challenge.
The mod tries to make minimal changes to vanilla minecraft while also providing the player with a world where every single block is placed by/generated by the player.
Worldgen Features
- Completely void worldgen. You still get biomes and structures.
- Stronghold portal rooms don't spawn. You get a starting portal.
- Ender dragon doesn't spawn by default, neither the exit portal. You have to respawn the dragon yourself.
- Beware hardcore players would be trapped if they go through the portal.
- Chunk regen exploits won't work.
Datapack features
- The "zenxarch:skyblock" chunk generator has the same codec as noise chunk generator with optional "spawnHeight" for spawn platform.
- The spawn platform spawns at y=0 (defined in world preset) and is defined by a single file 'data/zenxarch/structure/spawn_platform.nbt'
- The "zenxarch:flatblock" chunk generator has the same codec as noise chunk generator with list of "layers" with blocks and height for flatblock layers.
Example flatblock entry
{
"type": "zenxarch:flatblock",
"biome_source": {
"type": "minecraft:multi_noise",
"preset": "minecraft:overworld"
},
"layers": [
{
"block": "minecraft:bedrock",
"height": 1
},
{
"block": "minecraft:dirt",
"height": 2
},
{
"block": "minecraft:grass_block",
"height": 1
}
],
"settings": "minecraft:overworld"
}
Extra Features
- Fixes wandering traders not being able to spawn on snow layers
- Following are all enabled by default and controlled by gamerules
- Magma blocks (just like mud) drip lava
- Magma drips lava first, then converts to netherrack
- Falling dripstone crushes stone into sand
- Pigs spawn on mud
- Adds gamerules to control wandering trader spawn rates.
How to start a new world
Just select the Skyblock world preset in create world menu
OR select the Flatblock world preset and customize it
(currently reuses superflat customization screen)
How to progress
- Bridge 24 blocks with the dirt
- Kill skeletons
- Bonemeal nylium
- expand/go down
- kill zombies for iron
- Get water with cauldrons/rain
- Sell items to wandering trader
- Get oak sapling from wandering trader
- Kill drowned for copper
- Breed lots of pigs
- Get them hit by lightning
- Kill em for gold
- With apple from oak tree, make golden apple
- Heal zombie villager with golden apple and weakness potion thrown by witch
- Get diamond pickaxe from villager
- Build large platform just below height limit (maxY - 3)
- Wait for end stone shower (Happens every 100_000-150_000 ticks)
- Make end portal using end bricks frame and light it using thunder
- Go to end and farm obsidian
- Go to nether
- enjoy the game
Getting lava (requires lava gamerule turned on)
- Go to nether and kill magma cubes or slimes+blazes for magma cream
- Get dripstone from wandering trader
- Get lava with cauldrons and magma blocks
- Enjoy cobblestone generator
How to get obsidian back from the end w/o keep Inventory
Ender pearls. Throw one in the sky and quick grab stuff in the end into your inventory.
How to spawn dragon in the end
Watch Kenedian's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxX76HMgx98 for most details. Basically place end crystals where the end fountain is supposed to be.For getting the end fountain's position go to a vanilla world with same seed as your skyblock/flatblock world.
Now place end crystals in same coordinates as that vanilla world.
The end fountain spawns at coordinates x: 0 z: 0 and somewhere around y:64. You can guess the position being at most a few blocks up or down from there.
Socials
Future plans
- Probably add a superflat world preset with all biomes/structures.
- Add a farming method for sand.
- Add netherrack/nylium to nether portal extension blocks.
- Add other renewable.
- Add option to use the bonus chest feature to get a bonus chest.
- Bonus chest spawn with different skyblock loot depending on game difficulty
- Different starting islands using datapacks
Credits
- FrozenLib for dripstone code
- Carpet sky additions reborn for worldgen code
- Protosky for worldgen code
- Kenedian. Their video inspired the idea of getting obsidian from the end. I did copy the empty end and the starting portal block from their video. Also a very good video that lists all the renewable stuff and how to get them in skyblock.
- JokeyPokey and others for taking skyblock to the extreme + videos,theory and other stuff
Btw there isn't code included from these projects. I just looked at these to figure out stuff like empty worldgen,fix end portal location,dripstone override.
