The New Horizons

Version 0.7 focuses on polishing the adventure, ensuring a smoother, more immersive, and more rewarding experience.
We've introduced key utility features and expanded content related to exploration and decoration.

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✨ Quality of Life & Immersion (QoL)

🕯️ Dynamic Lighting Integration (New!)

RyoamicLights — Added dynamic lighting!
Held light sources (torches, glowing blocks) now illuminate the area around the player, drastically improving visibility in caves and at night.

⚔️ Enhanced Combat Camera

Shoulder Surfing — Introduced a configurable third-person “over-the-shoulder” camera view, perfectly complementing the Better Combat and Weapon Master mods for more dynamic fighting.

👤 Player & Mob Visuals

• Better Animations Collection & Not Enough Animations — Continued integration and updates for smoother player and mob movement and interactions.
• Skin Layers 3D — Adds visual depth to custom player skins.
• Visuality — Minor ambient particles and effects added to enhance the world’s atmosphere.

🏆 Advancement Overhaul

• Better Advancements & Advancement Plaques — Redesigned the advancements UI and notification system, making progression more rewarding and visually appealing.

🎒 Inventory & UI Utility

• Held Item Tooltips — Displays key information for held items directly, reducing the need to open menus.
• Visual Workbench — See the crafted item displayed directly on top of the Crafting Table.
• Better Mods Button — Added for easier access to the mod list and configuration.

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🗺️ Exploration & Discovery

World interaction and exploration are now deeper and more rewarding.

🏺 Village & Archaeology Rework (New!)

• Better Archaeology — Adds new artifacts, tools, and discoveries to the archaeology system.
• Better Village — Improves generation, size, and layout of villages, making exploration more engaging.
• Guard Villagers — Villagers can now defend themselves! Iron Golems patrol alongside armed Villager Guards.
• Villager Names — Every villager now has a name, making trade and protection more personal.

🪓 Tool & Utility Enhancements

• Falling Trees — Break one log, fell the whole tree (with proper tools). Huge time-saver for builders.
• Better Tridents — Expands trident mechanics and usefulness.
• Better Than Mending — Rebalances the Mending enchantment for a fairer progression in a modded environment.
• Curios API Integration — Enables accessory slots (rings, necklaces, etc.) used by other mods.

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🔨 Building & Decoration

The creative suite for builders has been substantially expanded.

🏰 Valoria & Variants and Ventures (New!)

Introduces a vast array of decorative blocks, furniture, and unique variants for detailed and diverse building projects.

• Handcrafted — Updated and integrated to complement new styles.
• Chipped — Continues to offer thousands of block variants for texture richness.

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⚙️ Optimization & System Updates

🧠 Memory Leak Fix (New!)

Added a specialized mod to prevent memory leaks during long sessions, ensuring stable performance over time.

🔧 Essential Updates

Updated and integrated several core libraries for compatibility and performance:

Architectury, Flerovium, FDLib, Pandalib, Konkrete, and Iceberg —
ensuring stability across all major content mods (Aether, Ad Astra, Refined Storage, etc.).

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🌀 The journey continues — bigger, brighter, smoother.