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Generic Garden of Glass pack #401

Kidding, kind of? This small pack aims to make GoG gameplay a bit smoother through QoL changes, optimisation and some opinionated balance/progression adjustments. I've tried to keep the Vanilla + Botania vibe by keeping the recipe book (with some tweaks), adding a couple of advancements and documenting most changes in the Lexica Botania.

There have been a lot of changes since the last release, I haven't yet gotten round to updating this description.

The pack runs comfortably on a 512MB heap :)

There's also a custom Superflat preset, as pictured in the banner. Enable the Bonus Chest setting if using this mode.

Note! You'll need to switch language to UK English for the relevant Lexicon changes to show up.

Notable changes:

• Kekimurus (Kekimuri?), Spectrolus and Thermalilies have been buffed, the latter at last automatable
• Orechid Ignem is far cheaper to craft and run, in exchange for no longer producing Netherite. Orechid weights have been adjusted
• Flint drops from Gravel have been bumped up to encourage cobbleworks-powered Entropinnyums
• Mobs killed by the Rod of the Unstable Reservoir (missile rod) have a chance to drop rare loot
• Clayconia now accelerate the conversion of Mud to Clay
• Loot tables have been subjectively improved. Entities drop a little more, fishing junk and treasure is better (and the open water requirement relaxed)
• The Loonium has a few new goodies in exchange for a bit more Mana (chiefly Amethyst Shards and Smithing Templates)
• Sniffers can now dig up Sus Sand and Gravel
• Regular brewing no longer exists, use the Botanical Brewery instead
• Emeralds, Copper, Netherite, Lapis Lazuli, Villagers and Nether/End structures have been crobbed. Botania Quartzes and Manasteel replace their trim functionality
• Wither Skeletons spawn rarely in Soul Sand Valleys
• Rebalanced runic altar and petal apothecary recipes. For example, Runes of Earth now require a Clay Block (for balance™), so a Clayconia is necessary
• End Portal Frames are gated behind the Alfheim Portal, so Corporea and Red String are accessible earlier. You might even be able to acquire Ender Air without entering the End, with a little trickery :)
• Half of all enchants have been removed (usually those with bauble/potion equivalents), and the Enchanting Table is now decorative. Books can be obtained via fishing or the Loonium
• Miscellaneous stuff like health regen being reverted to pre-1.9, the Vitreous Pickaxe working on more blocks and other things I can't remember off the top of my head. The Fabrication menu has a summary of all enabled tweaks, but notable ones are Hunger being set to Hard and Firework Boosting being disabled (in favour of the Rod of the Skies)

I had fun making this pack, even if it ate up a bunch of time which could have been better spent on university coursework. I've learnt how to use Pixelorama, Git and patch workflow in the process. I hope you have fun playing through it. My Discord tag is @makesbadlattes if you really want to get in touch, but I'm not expecting any comments/feedback since it's mainly a personal project.

Wanted to give thanks to the following people:

• Embeddedt, malte0811 and jellysquid3 for making modern Minecraft playable on potato PCs. My laptop can't thank you enough.
• Vazkii, williewillus, artemisSystem and the rest of the Botania team for making and updating Botania. It's been my favourite mod since I started playing modded Minecraft almost a decade ago.
• SFort, Partonetrain, Snownee, Konsola5 and the many other mod authors/contributors who I've pestered with bug reports, feature requests and sometimes silly questions. Thank you for all your work.
• Misode and destruc7i0n for their super useful datapack and recipe generators.
• Lucidobservor for the fabulous Floramancer pack from which this one takes inspiration. You could probably get somewhat close to that experience in this pack by tinkering with the BotaniaConfigurator config.