BraveNewGlobe

Changelog

All notable changes to the Brave New Globe modpack are documented here. This file tracks mod additions/removals, mod version updates, and config/pack changes.

[0.9.23] — 2026-09-13

Added — CC:CBC + Advanced Peripherals (cannon fire-control + general CC automation)

Completes the ComputerCraft content pillar started in 0.9.21.

• CC:CBC 1.1.1 (Modrinth zA9Klldw, NeoForge 1.21.1, side = both) — the dedicated CC: Tweaked ↔ Create Big Cannons peripheral (cannon_mount). Proper programmable fire-control: setComputerControl (takes over from shaft-driven aiming), setTargetAngles(yaw,pitch) / setTargetYaw / setTargetPitch, assemble(), fire(), and full telemetry via getInfo() (assembled state, current vs target yaw/pitch, yaw/pitch shaft speeds, mount x/y/z). This is the reliable gunnery brain (NeoPeripherals 1.4.1ve ships mainly the Sable radar). Deps CC: Tweaked + CBC — both present.
• Advanced Peripherals 0.8.1a (Modrinth advancedperipherals, side = both) — general CC automation kit: Chat Box, Player Detector, Environment Detector, Geo Scanner, Block Reader, Inventory Manager, NBT Storage, Redstone Integrator, Energy Detector, AR Goggles/Controller (custom HUD overlays). Dep CC: Tweaked — present.

Notes

• No fresh world. Jar adds only — no worldgen/datapack/loot change. Applies on next launch. Quest book still 17 / 242.
• Pack is now 0.9.23 / 164 mods (adds cc-cbc.pw.toml, advancedperipherals.pw.toml).
• Advanced Peripherals’ ME Bridge / RS Bridge peripherals need Applied Energistics 2 / Refined Storage, which are not in the pack — those two peripherals are inert here; the rest are fully usable.
• With this, the CC line is: CC: Tweaked (core) + NeoPeripherals (Sable radar) + CC:CBC (cannon control) + Advanced Peripherals (world sensing/HUD). Create Big Cannons: Peripheral was dropped in favor of CC:CBC.

[0.9.22] — 2026-09-13

Added — Create: Radiologistics (tower-based wireless comms + node computer)

• Create: Radiologistics 1.1.1 (Modrinth mtA0MjEn, NeoForge 1.21.1, side = both) — a Create-native wireless communication + computation system. Fills the “radio tower / long-range comms” role: a Radio Transmitter plus vertically-stacking Antennas (each segment adds range, hard cap 3,000 blocks), a node-based Main Computer (visual math/logic/variable programming), Redstone Link Module, Memory Module, Gyroscope Sensor (pitch/yaw/world coords), Jammer (blocks channels/Redstone Links in 150-block radius), Audio Module, and a Pilot helmet.
• Every optional integration is already satisfied by this pack:
  • Create Big Cannons → Wired Inertia Fuze for remote-controlled cannon launcher rigs.
  • Create Radars → extract/track radar coordinates inside algorithms (pack has Create: Radars + Aero Radars).
  • Create Aeronautics → coordinate projection for moving Sable sub-level grids.
• Dependency: Create (mandatory) — already present. Nothing else needed.

Notes

• No fresh world. Jar add only — no worldgen/datapack/loot change. Applies on next launch. Quest book still 17 / 242.
• Pack is now 0.9.22 / 162 mods (create-radiologistics.pw.toml).
• Chosen over Create: Radionautics (simple infinite-range Create radio links) for its tower/antenna gameplay and native CBC/Radars/Aeronautics integration. Note it is a Create-native comms/compute layer (visual node programming), parallel to the CC: Tweaked (Lua) stack added in 0.9.21 — both coexist.
• The original “Wireless Radio Towers Addon” was not used: no verified CurseForge/Modrinth source (only a reposting site). Radiologistics fills the tower/comms role from a trusted source instead.

[0.9.21] — 2026-09-13

Added — ComputerCraft (CC: Tweaked) stack: programmable computers + Sable/CBC peripherals

Begins the “programmable warship” content pillar for the aeronautics/naval + Big Cannons stack.

• CC: Tweaked 1.120.2 (Modrinth cc-tweaked, NeoForge 1.21.1, side = both) — the ComputerCraft foundation: in-world Lua computers, turtles, monitors, modems, speakers. Complements KubeJS (author scripts) with player-built in-world automation. No dependencies.
• NeoPeripherals 1.4.1ve (Modrinth neoperipherals, side = both) — a CC: Tweaked ↔ Sable bridge. Adds a radar peripheral (neo_radar) that scans Sable physics SubLevels (other airships/ships) for position/pose — the basis for targeting and autopilot scripts. Requires Sable (already in pack, 2.0.5).

Notes

• No fresh world. Jar adds only — no worldgen/datapack/loot change. Applies on next launch. Quest book still 17 / 242.
• Pack is now 0.9.21 / 161 mods (adds cc-tweaked.pw.toml, neoperipherals.pw.toml).
• ⚠️ NeoPeripherals feature scope: the installed 1.4.1ve release exposes the Sable radar peripheral; the broader cannon-mount / NFC / entity-radar / Sable-engine suite described in some listings is not confirmed present in this build — verify in-game. Dedicated CBC cannon control is being evaluated separately (CC:CBC).
• Follow-ups: dedicated cannon peripheral CC:CBC and general-automation Advanced Peripherals were added in 0.9.23; the tower/comms role was filled by Create: Radiologistics in 0.9.22 (the CC-only “Wireless Radio Towers” addon had no verified source). Create Big Cannons: Peripheral was dropped from consideration in favor of CC:CBC.

[0.9.20] — 2026-09-13

Added — Create: AeroPortals (Sable airships travel through portals)

• Added Create: AeroPortals 1.3.3 (CurseForge create-aeroportals, project 1549100, NeoForge 1.21.1), a bridge between Create: Aeronautics airships (Sable physics SubLevels) and Minecraft’s portal system: when a ship’s bounding box overlaps a Nether/modded portal, the whole SubLevel — plus riding players, passengers, and decorations — is serialized and transferred to the destination dimension (respecting dimension coordinate scale), with a per-ship cooldown to prevent bounce-back. Installed side = "both".
• No missing dependencies. Requires Sable 1.0+ (pack has 2.0.5) and NeoForge 21.1.219+ (pack is 21.1.248); Create 6.0+ (optional, already present). Nothing else needed to be added.

Notes

• No fresh world. Jar add only — no worldgen, no datapack, no loot-script change. Applies on next launch. Quest book still 17 / 242.
• Pack is now 0.9.20 / 159 mods (create-aeroportals.pw.toml).
• Upstream flags the mod as a proof of concept (cross-dimension transfer + rider rebinding implemented, not yet fully battle-tested in multiplayer) — worth watching in playtests.

[0.9.19] — 2026-09-13

Removed — Sable: Destructive (reverted 0.9.18 addition)

• After discussion with the co-curator, the team decided against adding Sable: Destructive. Removed sabledestructive-2.2.0.jar via packwiz remove sable-destructive (sable-destructive.pw.toml deleted, index.toml + pack.toml [index] hash refreshed). Pack is back to 158 mods.
• Base Sable 2.0.5 stays — it is still required by Create: Aeronautics and is unaffected by this revert. Only the Destructive add-on jar is gone; airships and Create ships no longer break on heavy impact.

Notes

• No fresh world. Jar removal only — no worldgen, no datapack, no loot-script change. Applies on next launch. Quest book still 17 / 242.
• Pack is now 0.9.19 / 158 mods.

[0.9.18] — 2026-09-13

Added — Sable: Destructive (collision/explosion destruction for Sable physics)

• Added Sable: Destructive 2.2.0 (Modrinth s8kSCCgD, NeoForge 1.21.1), an add-on to the base Sable physics engine already in the pack (2.0.5). Sable simulates Create: Aeronautics physics structures; Destructive makes those physics blocks actually break on heavy impact — real kinetic-energy collision damage, inertial penetration, density-aware self-damage, flying debris, and radial shockwaves/ craters. Crashes now have consequences.
• Requirements satisfied: needs Sable 2.0.3+ (have 2.0.5) and NeoForge 21.1.235+ (pack is on 21.1.248). Installed side = "both".

Notes

• No fresh world. Jar add only — no worldgen, no datapack, no loot-script change. Applies on next launch. Quest book still 17 / 242.
• Pack is now 0.9.18 / 159 mods (sable-destructive.pw.toml).
• Sable: Destructive 2.2.0 (Modrinth s8kSCCgD / version OdjEhksA, side = both). Needs Sable 2.0.3+ (pack has 2.0.5) and NeoForge 21.1.235+ (pack is 21.1.248).
• Makes Sable physics blocks break on heavy impact (kinetic-energy collision damage, inertial penetration, density-aware self-damage, flying debris, radial shockwaves/craters). Distinct from Explosion Overhaul (world-block blasts). Covers Create Aeronautics airships and Create: Better High Seas ships.
• Do not drop Sable (required by Aeronautics + Destructive). Drive-By-Wire With Sable stays out. Valkyrien Skies stays out.
• Living docs: Notes.md, MODLIST.md, SPECTRUM.md. Folds the unmerged 0.9.17 living-docs run (cursor/docs-0.9.17-simply-swords-loot) plus #40 / #41 / #42.

[0.9.17] — 2026-09-14

Changed — Simply Swords loot in WDA-scope dungeons rebalanced

• wda_dungeon_loot.js’s comment claimed Simply Swords weapons were injected by “that mod’s own injector” — false. Checked every lootintegrations_*.jar in the pack; none targets Simply Swords. The mod’s own native injector (pack/config/simplyswords/loot.toml) is enabled and correctly keyed, but in practice its drops aren’t showing up in WDA-scope chests, so weapons are injected directly in this script instead.
• Extracted the mod’s real item registry from assets/simplyswords/lang/en_us.json to separate its 15 weapon types × 5 material tiers (<tier>_<type>, e.g. runic_warglaive) from its ~50 named/lore “Unique” weapons (Mjolnir, Stormbringer, The Devourer, Livyatan, Frostfall, etc.), which are gated behind the mod’s own Runic Tablet awakening minigame.
• Removed all named Unique weapons from the loot pools — they undercut that minigame as a shortcut.
• Expanded weapon-type coverage from 2 types to 13 of the mod’s 15 types across the Iron (Filler) and Gold (Treasure) tiers, all 13 at Diamond and a curated 7-type subset at Netherite (both enchanted, Treasure-Gear pool), and added a new JACKPOT_RUNIC pool with a curated, equal-weight 5-type Runic selection (strongly enchanted) on flagship/boss chests only.
• Fixed two tier-routing coverage gaps found while auditing all four combat-dungeon mods’ native loot tables: Aquamirae’s ship_1/ship_2/frozen_chest chests and Bosses’Rise’s dragon_tower boss chest contain no TREASURE-routing keyword in their ids, so they were falling through to Filler-only loot. Added exact-name alternations to the TREASURE regex so they now also get the Treasure + Treasure-Gear pools (dragon_tower already had Jackpot via the FLAGSHIP regex, so it now gets the full tier stack, matching its status as the mod’s boss chest).

Notes

• No fresh world. Script-only (wda_dungeon_loot.js). Already-opened chests keep their contents; unopened combat/boss dungeon chests roll the new pools on next launch. No new mods — pack stays 158. pack.toml is 0.9.17. Current pack is 0.9.19 / 158.
• Named Unique weapons stay out. They skip the mod’s Runic Tablet awakening minigame. The 0.9.15 denylist still holds (uniqueLootTableWeight = 0 + pity 100000 + empty lootable_uniques in bigglobe_simplyswords_nouniques.zip). Do not fold Uniques into LOOT.md or this script.
• LootJS now injects material-tier Simply Swords weapons into combat-dungeon chests. The native injector (enableLootDrops = true, global *:chests/*) is still on, but it does not reliably reach WDA / Cataclysm / Bosses’Rise / Aquamirae tables — that is why the script lists them. Native runicLootTableWeight = 0 still applies to the native injector; LootJS JACKPOT_RUNIC is a separate curated flagship path.
• Tiers: Iron × 13 types in FILLER (unenchanted); Gold × 13 in TREASURE (unenchanted); Diamond × 13 + Netherite × 7 in TREASURE_GEAR (enchant 5–15); Runic × 5 (katana / warglaive / glaive / greataxe / scythe) in JACKPOT_RUNIC (enchant 10–25, ~15%). Types omitted from the material ladder: chakram, scythe (scythe is Runic-only).
• Runic Tablet left TREASURE_GEAR (it was a 0.9.15 rare drop). Native tabletHardPity = 400 remains a far backstop; Runic weapons stay craftable at the Runic Forge. Do not re-add named Uniques as a “tablet shortcut.”
• Routing exceptions (no treasure-keyword in the chest id, so they used to miss TREASURE): aquamirae:chests/ship_1|ship_2|frozen_chest and block_factorys_bosses:chests/dragon_tower. NOTREASURE is unchanged, so those chests still roll FILLER as well. dragon_tower already had JACKPOT via FLAGSHIP — it now gets the full stack.
• Living menu: LOOT.md. Folds the unmerged 0.9.16 living-docs run (#42) plus #40 / #41.

[0.9.16] — 2026-09-13

Fixed — packwiz “hash invalid” on bigglobe_whendungeonsarise.zip

• The committed datapack zip and its index.toml hash had drifted apart in an earlier commit (the hash recorded did not match the zip actually committed), so any client validating the pack against the repo failed with a hash mismatch on this file. Committing the on-disk zip (already hash-verified against the current index.toml entry) resolves it. Verified all 379 files in index.toml against their actual sha256 – zero other mismatches.

Notes

• No fresh world. Hash-only / zip-resync. No gameplay change. After sync, the WDA compat zip validates again.
• Same class of failure as 0.8.6 (stale pack.toml [index] hash), but this time the zip was the stale file — index.toml already had the correct sha256. Always packwiz refresh after touching a datapack zip, and commit the zip + index.toml + pack.toml together. Do not assume a zip “looks current.”
• pack.toml was 0.9.16 at this commit. Current pack is 0.9.19 / 158 mods. Warnautics 1.0.8 and the LootJS oxygen-tank hotfix stay. 0.9.17 is script-only (Simply Swords WDA-scope rebalance).

[0.9.15] — 2026-09-13

Fixed — LootJS injection aborting on an invalid item id

• Removed aquamirae:oxygen_tank from wda_dungeon_loot.js — the item does not exist in Aquamirae 7.2.1, and one bad id makes LootJS abort the ENTIRE script, so all WDA/Cataclysm/ Aquamirae chests were silently falling back to vanilla loot. Modded loot should now inject.

Notes

• No fresh world. Script-only. Already-opened chests keep their contents; unopened combat/boss dungeon chests now roll the 0.9.15 pools.
• aquamirae:oxygen_tank is not a real id in Aquamirae 7.2.1 (the survey catalog listed “oxygen tank/oxyhelium”; the wired TREASURE drop was wrong). Echo compass stays. Do not re-add this id — one unknown item aborts the entire LootJS script (every combat-dungeon chest silently vanilla).
• This commit rolled the version string back to 0.9.15; the later hash-invalid fix re-bumped pack.toml to 0.9.16. The Create: Warnautics 1.0.8 jar from the earlier [0.9.16] stays. Pack still 158 mods. Living menu: LOOT.md.

[0.9.16] — 2026-09-13

Fixed — update Create: Warnautics 1.0.3 → 1.0.8 (cruise missile was missing)

• The 0.9.15 flagship loot pool references cbc_more_content:cruise_missile, but the installed Create: Warnautics 1.0.3 predates that item — it doesn’t exist in-game, so the loot entry was dead. Updated to 1.0.8 (latest), which registers the Cruise Missile (item + block + recipe), making the flagship drop resolve. Verified the item’s assets/recipe are present in the 1.0.8 jar.

Notes

• No new mods (count stays 158). No worldgen. Applies on next launch.
• cbc_more_content:cruise_missile is the Warnautics namespace. Do not roll Warnautics back to 1.0.3 or the JACKPOT cruise-missile drop dies again.
• The later [0.9.15] LootJS hotfix rolled pack.toml back to 0.9.15; the subsequent hash-invalid [0.9.16] re-bumped the version string. This jar bump remains.

[0.9.15] — 2026-09-13

Changed — combat-dungeon loot overhaul + Simply Swords native loot config

Two linked changes to how modded loot reaches dungeon chests.

Simply Swords loot (config/simplyswords/loot.toml + new datapacks/bigglobe_simplyswords_nouniques.zip):

• Re-enabled the mod’s native loot injector (enableLootDrops = true): material + rare weapon types now spawn in loot tables globally (all *:chests/* tables), pity-paced.
• Runic weapons never drop (runicLootTableWeight = 0); the Runic Tablet (“shard”) is instead a rare weighted drop in our combat-dungeon pool, with native tablet pity pushed to a far backstop (tabletHardPity = 400). Runic weapons stay craftable at the Runic Forge.
• Uniques fully disabled — weight 0 + soft/hard pity maxed (100000) + a datapack that empties the lootable_uniques tag (all 40 legendaries denylisted). Uniques are loot-only with no recipe, so this removes them from the pack entirely, as intended.

WDA LootJS loot rebuilt + broadened (kubejs/server_scripts/wda_dungeon_loot.js):

• Scope extended from WDA-only to the combat/boss dungeon mods: dungeons_arise, cataclysm, block_factorys_bosses (Bosses’Rise), aquamirae. Vanilla, villages, Towns&Towers, CTOV untouched.
• Removed Create: Metallurgy items entirely (per feedback) and andesite/zinc from filler; halved all Numismatics currency weights.
• Added a much wider curated menu across ~15 mods: Create: Gunsmithing guns/ammo/attachments (flintlock/revolver/shotgun in treasure, gatling/blazegun/ballistazooka in flagship), Creating Space
  • CBC alloys, Twilight Forest (ironwood/torchberries — no boss mats/charms), Born in Chaos mats+elixirs, Re:Animal foods, Reliable Backpacks, Dragons Plus smithing template, Aquamirae/Hybrid aquatic gear, medical consumables, and the Runic Tablet.
• Four pools: Filler (~28%), Treasure (~35%) + Treasure-Gear (enchanted 5–15, ~15%, revolver/shotgun/tablet live here), Jackpot (flagship, ~38%). No endgame armor anywhere (ingots only); enchants capped at 15; Sun a 1% capstone. Reviewed item-by-item before wiring.

Notes

• No fresh world. LootJS + the pinned loot.toml + bigglobe_simplyswords_nouniques.zip apply on next launch. Already-opened chests keep their contents; unopened chests roll the new pools.
• The native Simply Swords injector is global (*:chests/*). LootJS stays combat-dungeon only (dungeons_arise / cataclysm / block_factorys_bosses / aquamirae). Vanilla, villages, Towns&Towers, and CTOV are untouched.
• Pack is now 0.9.16 / 158 mods (Integrated Villages + Integrated API landed in 0.9.12; no new jars here). Uniques are gone (not craftable, not lootable). Remnants stay off. Runic weapons stay craftable at the Runic Forge. Do not re-add borninchaos_remnant_loot.js or fold uniques into LOOT.md. Living menu: LOOT.md.
• Follow-ups in the headings above: Warnautics 1.0.8 so cruise_missile resolves ([0.9.16]); aquamirae:oxygen_tank removed so the script actually loads (hotfix [0.9.15]); WDA compat zip re-synced to its index.toml hash (later [0.9.16]).
• Superseded in 0.9.17 for WDA-scope chests: LootJS now injects material-tier Simply Swords weapons directly (native injector does not reliably reach those tables); named Uniques stay out of the script; Runic Tablet left TREASURE_GEAR; curated JACKPOT_RUNIC on flagship; Aquamirae ship/frozen + Bosses’Rise dragon_tower now also match TREASURE.

[0.9.14] — 2026-09-13

Changed — airship villages now float 300 ABOVE the surface (was fixed Y=300)

• airship_village: restored project_start_to_heightmap: WORLD_SURFACE_WG with a constant offset of 300 -> generates at surface + 300, tracking terrain instead of a fixed absolute altitude. terrain_adaptation: none keeps it floating free. Via build_iv_compat.py.

Notes

• Datapack-only (bigglobe_integratedvillages.zip). Already-generated chunks keep the old fixed Y=300 airships; new land chunks get surface+300. No fresh overworld required.

[0.9.13] — 2026-09-13

Changed — airship villages a touch more frequent

• air_villages spacing 115/90 → 75/59 via bigGlobeAero/build_iv_compat.py: ~1,840 → ~1,200 blocks average between floating airship villages. salt and the air_village_avoid (8-chunk CTOV/vanilla-village) exclusion unchanged.

Notes

• Datapack-only. Spacing change is new chunks only. salt + 8-chunk CTOV avoid unchanged. No fresh overworld required.

[0.9.12] — 2026-09-13

Consolidated entry — collapses the prior 0.9.12–0.9.17 dungeon/loot iterations and adds Integrated Villages into one squashed release, to end the version sprawl.

Added — Integrated Villages (airship-only) + Big Globe compat

• Add Integrated Villages 1.3.3 + Integrated API 1.8.2 (Modrinth, NeoForge 1.21.1).
• bigglobe_integratedvillages.zip (from bigGlobeAero/build_iv_compat.py): only the airship village generates (regular_villages set emptied), placed at fixed sky Y=300 (terrain_adaptation: none, no heightmap projection), biomes re-keyed to #bigglobe:land.
• air_village_avoid tag merges bigglobe_ctov:villages so airships never generate over a CTOV town.
• Config disableVanillaVillages=false (keeps CTOV/vanilla villages) + activateCreateContraptions=true (airship Create propellers spin).

Changed — WDA dungeon spacing (patch_wda_compat.py)

• stattinkerer:large_dungeon 280→125 (~4,480 → ~2,000 blocks apart).
• stattinkerer:sky →25/22 (~400 blocks); mechanical_nest →41/36 (~656, frequency removed).

Changed — WDA modded loot via LootJS (wda_dungeon_loot.js)

• Additive tiered injection over dungeons_arise:chests/* — WDA-native empty-weight pools, 3 coherent tiers.
• Reward backbone = Numismatics coin ladder + Create/mod crafting materials; no endgame armor as loot (enchanted ignitium/gravitite sets stay boss-craft-locked; chests drop only the crafting ingots).
• Jackpot currency kept genuinely rare (Sun ~1%); create:netherite_backtank retained (enables Create air tech).

Notes

• Squashed onto the 0.9.10 baseline as one commit, consolidating the .meshclaw and .kiro/crew working copies. Kirocrew (~/.kiro/crew/workspace) is the canonical clone going forward.
• Adds Integrated Villages 1.3.3 + Integrated API 1.8.2 (side = both) → pack 158 mods. No fresh overworld. New airship villages and the tighter WDA spacings need unexplored chunks.
• 0.9.12 loot was WDA-only (superseded by the 0.9.15 combat-dungeon rebuild). 0.9.12 airships were fixed Y=300 (superseded by 0.9.14 surface+300).

[0.9.11] — 2026-09-01

Fixed — correct the Simply Swords “no unique drops” config

• Deep-dived Simply Swords’ own config descriptions: loot.enableLootDrops = false is the authoritative switch (“prevent Simply Swords from generating loot in chests”) and chest loot is the only way finished uniques enter the world (villages / ruined portal / ender-dragon table; pity-guarantee is downstream). With loot.enableContainedRemnants = false, the remnant→tablet path is off too. loot.toml fully covers it.
• Removed config/simplyswords/general.toml (nonPlayerWeaponAbilityChance = 0.0): per the mod it only controls whether a mob uses a held weapon’s ability — not spawning/dropping — so it was irrelevant to the goal and its comment was misleading. There is no “mobs spawn equipped with uniques” mechanic to disable.

[0.9.10] — 2026-09-01

Added — Bosses’Rise + boss quest lines (Cataclysm & Bosses’Rise)

• Bosses’Rise 2.1.2 (Modrinth, block_factorys_bosses) — 5 arena/structure bosses (Sirok the Sandworm, Skor the Yeti, Nerakyss the Kraken, Helvar the Underworld Knight, Ashlord the Infernal Dragon). Dep GeckoLib already in pack.
• New compat datapack datapacks/bigglobe_bossesrise.zip (Paxi) — its structures gate on bare vanilla biomes BG lacks; re-keyed to BG-populated tags (sandworm_nest→badlands/savanna/plains, dragon_tower→ plains/jungle/savanna/forest, yeti_hideout→mountain, kraken_ship→deep_ocean). underworld_arena (nether) needs none.
• Two FTB Quests chapters (generated, kill-gated, guidance-only — no self-attest):
  • L_Ender’s Cataclysm (7) — Wadjet → Maledictus / Leviathan → Netherite Monstrosity → Ignis / Harbinger → Ender Guardian. Each quest points at Create cannons / airships over 1v1 melee.
  • Bosses’ Rise (5) — Sandworm → Yeti / Kraken → Underworld Knight → Infernal Dragon capstone.
  • Rewards scale in Numismatics coin (cog → crown → sun) + boss materials; generated from bigGlobeAero/quest_lines/{cataclysm,bossesrise}.py. Pack now has 17 chapters / 242 quests.

[0.9.9] — 2026-09-01

Changed — widen Cataclysm Cursed Pyramid biomes

• bigglobe_cataclysm.zip: cursed_pyramid_biomes widened from #minecraft:is_badlands alone to #minecraft:is_badlands + #minecraft:is_savanna + #minecraft:is_plains (warm/dry open land) so the Pharaoh isn’t confined to rare BG badlands. (Biome tag values accept a list of tags.)

[0.9.8] — 2026-09-01

Added — L_Ender’s Cataclysm (arena/summon bosses) + BG compat

• L_Ender’s Cataclysm 3.33 (Modrinth) — ~8 big bosses that are summoned via items or fixed in structures (never random-spawn, never despawn), with high HP + anti-melee AOE → rewards tech/artillery/ airships over 1v1 gear. New dep Lionfish-API 3.1 (Curios already in pack).
• New datapack datapacks/bigglobe_cataclysm.zip (Paxi-loaded) — Cataclysm gates each structure via its own #cataclysm:has_structure/*_biomes tags, and the overworld ones point at bare vanilla biomes Big Globe never uses, so they’d never generate. This overrides those tags to BG-populated ones (bigglobe_tags.zip):
  • cursed_pyramid_biomes → #minecraft:is_badlands (Pharaoh)
  • acropolis_biomes → #minecraft:is_ocean
  • frosted_prison_biomes → #minecraft:is_mountain (Maledictus)
  • sunken_city_biomes → #minecraft:is_deep_ocean (Leviathan)
  • ancient_factory_biomes → #minecraft:is_overworld (Netherite Monstrosity; broad to guarantee gen)
  • Nether/End structures (burning_arena, soul_black_smith, ruined_citadel) need no override — BG doesn’t touch those dimensions. Biome picks are thematic and tunable.

[0.9.7] — 2026-09-01

Changed — Simply Swords: keep weapon variety, drop the unique/remnant loot layer

• Reverted the LootJS Simply Swords loot injection (the Born in Chaos remnant script + WDA chest materials from the previous attempt) — wda_dungeon_loot.js is back to its no-op scaffold.
• Shipped a pinned Simply Swords config (config/simplyswords/) that disables all “unique sword drops” so only the crafted weapon variety remains:
  • loot.toml: enableLootDrops = false, enableContainedRemnants = false
  • general.toml: nonPlayerWeaponAbilityChance = 0.0 Partial TOML overrides — Fzzy Config’s safe deserializer merges the rest. Consequence: with remnants off, uniques are also effectively uncraftable (no remnant source), leaving just the weapon-type flavor.
• Verify in-game (can’t launch from here): after sync, uniques/remnants should no longer drop from chests or mobs. If they still do, toggle the same fields via Mod Menu → Simply Swords and send me the generated .toml to bake in.

[0.9.6] — 2026-09-01

Fixed — Simply More crash on tooltip render

• Bumped Simply More 1.2.3 → 1.3.0_alpha5 (Modrinth). The 1.2.3 release (2026-06-10) was built against an older Simply Tooltips; its TooltipRendererMixin @ModifyReturnValue targets a method borderStyleFor that Simply Tooltips 0.1.5 (2026-08-23, pulled by Simply Swords 1.70.2) renamed, so a MixinApplyError crashed the client whenever a Simply Swords/Simply More item tooltip rendered (e.g. opening the Simply Swords creative tab). 1.3.0_alpha5 (2026-08-26) is the Simply More build compiled against the current Simply Tooltips/Simply Swords API. Alpha channel, but the only compatible pairing.

[0.9.5] — 2026-09-01

Added — Big Globe × Born in Chaos structure compat

• New datapack datapacks/bigglobe_borninchaos.zip (Paxi-loaded). Born in Chaos ships ~30 structures; its tag-gated ones (#is_forest/#is_taiga/#is_savanna) already generate because bigglobe_tags.zip populates those tags, but 6 gameplay structures were gated on bare vanilla biome IDs (plains, desert, …) that Big Globe never uses, so they never generated. This override re-keys their biomes to BG-populated #minecraft:is_* tags (all other fields — jigsaw pool, beard_thin, surface anchor — unchanged):
  • observation_tower_plains, dark_tower_plain, clown_caravan_plains, farm → #minecraft:is_plains
  • mound_of_hounds → #minecraft:is_badlands
  • infernal_pumpkin → #minecraft:is_forest
• The ~20 cosmetic grave_* memorial structures were intentionally left un-compatted (flavor only).

[0.9.4] — 2026-09-01

Added — Nether content (make it interesting & dangerous)

• Incendium 5.4.4 (Modrinth) — Nether biome/structure overhaul + the Nether Sovereign boss & mobs. Uses datapack biome modifiers; injects into the vanilla Nether biome source (no extra lib).
• YUNG’s Better Nether Fortresses 3.1.5 (Modrinth) — overhauls fortresses into large dangerous complexes. Dep YUNG’s API already in pack.
• Born in Chaos 1.7.6 (Modrinth) — nightmarish hostile mobs (undead + Nether). Dep GeckoLib already in pack.
• All sourced from Modrinth (auto-install); no new libraries. Nether is vanilla worldgen in this pack (Big Globe only overhauls the overworld), so these need no BG worldgen compat datapack. Born in Chaos’s overworld mob spawns are pending review against Big Globe’s biome tags (see below).

[0.9.3] — 2026-09-01

Fixed

• Simply More re-pointed from CurseForge → Modrinth (simplymore, version bVBS14OK). CF has allowModDistribution:false on this project, so the CurseForge API refuses to serve the download and clients can’t auto-install it. Modrinth serves the identical jar (simplymore-forge-1.2.3.jar, release channel) via a direct CDN URL, so auto-install works. No version change (still 1.2.3).

[0.9.2] — 2026-08-31

Added — Simply Swords + Simply More (combat loot)

• Simply Swords 1.70.2-1.21.1 (NeoForge, CurseForge) — runic/unique weapon set; integrates with the pack’s existing Better Combat (listed by Simply Swords as an optional dep).
• Simply More 1.2.3 (NeoForge, CurseForge, file 8228544 — release channel) — addon to Simply Swords adding more weapon types & unique weapons. Pinned to the release NeoForge build (newer 1.3.0_alphaN builds skipped).
• New required deps auto-pulled: Fzzy Config 0.7.6, Simply Tooltips 0.1.5 (Architectury, Kotlin for Forge, Better Combat already present).
• No BG compat datapack needed — item/weapon mods, no worldgen/biome-gated content. Candidates to fold into the LOOT.md Uncommon/Rare WDA dungeon tiers later.

[0.9.1] — 2026-08-31

Added — LootJS (dungeon-loot infrastructure)

• LootJS: KubeJS Addon 3.7.0 (NeoForge 1.21.1, CurseForge) — deps (KubeJS/Rhino/Architectury) already present.
• Scaffold kubejs/server_scripts/wda_dungeon_loot.js for injecting tiered modpack loot into When Dungeons Arise chest tables (dungeons_arise:chests/*), which are otherwise 100% vanilla. Loot content authored after a modpack-wide item survey.

[0.9.0] — 2026-08-31

Added

Complete FTB Quests book — 15 chapters, 230 quests (guidance-only; every gate is objective: item count, mod advancement, or kill/dimension/stat — no self-attest checkmarks). Three-phase arc per industry line (Awareness → Functional → late-stage Achievement); locate-and-progress for exploration.

• Create Core (15) — kinetics, stress, first automation; the shared substrate.
• Rails & Trains (15) — track → station → train → schedule → signals; long-train / mass-track / long-travel capstones.
• Aeronautics (15) — assemble & fly a real airship (envelope/burner/propeller, Sable physics); reach the sky structures.
• Cannons & Warfare (11) — gunpowder → CGS firearm → cast-iron → Steel cannon → autocannon → Nethersteel arsenal.
• Metalworking & Metallurgy (17) — foundry/melting/casting/alloys → Steel/Tungsten/Obdurium megafactory.
• Power & Fuel (23) — three parallel tracks: Diesel, Steam (base Create), and Power Grid electricity.
• Logistics & Storage (16) — base Create package-logistics spine (packager→stock→factory gauge) + Factory Logistics / FXNT / Aero.
• Industrial Enchanting (7) — Blaze Enchanter → liquid-XP loop → mass enchanted books.
• Commerce (14) — Create: Numismatics (coins/vendors/bank) + Bountiful bounties + villager commerce.
• Agriculture & Husbandry (16) — Farmer’s Delight / Brewin’ & Chewin’ / Ratatouille / Animal Weights.
• Naval & High Seas (17) — Create-ship building (Sable physics + buoyancy) + Aquamirae + Sea Myths + fishing.
• Astronautics (16) — Creating Space rocketry → reach_earth_orbit → foundry / propellant depot.
• The Twilight Forest (14) — portal → Naga → Lich → … → Final Castle boss ladder.
• The Aether (12) — glowstone portal → Bronze/Silver/Gold dungeon bosses → Phoenix armor.
• When Dungeons Arise (22) — structure-discovery ladder: common → sea → sky (Y700-750) → large dungeons → Coliseum.

Currency throughout is Create: Numismatics (Spur/Cog/Crown/Sun). Chapters are generated deterministically from bigGlobeAero/quest_lines/*.py via build_ftbquests.py (re-runs are byte-identical and progress-safe). Includes 3 hand-authored loot-crate reward tables.

[0.8.8] — 2026-08-30

Fixed

• Quest title formatting — titles with a bare & (“Sheets & Plating”, “Rotation & Ore Doubling”, “Belts & Logistics”) tripped FTB Quests’ “escape whitespace after & with a \&” error (& starts a format code). The generator now auto-escapes a bare & → \& (leaves intentional color codes like &a untouched), so titles render the literal “&”.

[0.8.7] — 2026-08-30

Changed — Create Core reworked to purpose-driven quests

• Rebuilt the Create Core chapter (15 → 12 quests) from a “craft the block” walk (Arcane Engineering style) to a purpose/automation model (CAB style): each quest has you use a machine to produce an output or do a task, with descriptions that explain what it’s for and what’s next.
  • Item tasks require signature outputs (crushed raw ore, iron sheets, brass, precision mechanism); ambiguous steps (fan, saw, deployer, belts, fluids, capstone automation) use player-attested checkmark tasks (“I did it / automated it”). All output IDs verified against Create 6.0.10.
  • Capstone: build a passive Andesite Alloy line — the real Create skill every specialization builds on.
  • Rewards: scaling XP + bootstrap-kit items that seed the next step (casings, sheets, brass, precision mechanisms). Guidance-only — outputs auto-detect, nothing consumed except the player’s choice.
• Generator (bigGlobeAero/build_ftbquests.py) gained checkmark tasks, item-count tasks, and item rewards.

[0.8.6] — 2026-08-30

Fixed

• pack.toml index hash — 0.8.5 was committed with a stale [index] hash (the PonderJS commit updated index.toml but not the hash in pack.toml), causing packwiz’s “index hash file invalid” error. Re-refreshed so pack.toml’s hash matches index.toml. No mod changes.

[0.8.5] — 2026-08-30

Fixed — PonderJS (was a missing REQUIRED dependency, would crash on load)

• Create Aeronautics: Delivery Required declares ponderjs as a required dependency ([1.21.1-2.4.0,)), so the pack couldn’t launch without it. PonderJS’s 1.21.1 line ships as the project “Ponder for KubeJS” under the slug ponder (modId still ponderjs) — the old ponderjs slug has no 1.21.1 build, which is why the first search missed it.
• Added (CurseForge): Ponder for KubeJS ponderjs-neoforge-1.21.1-2.4.0 (modId ponderjs, verified), plus its dependency chain that was also missing — KubeJS 2101.7.2, Rhino 2101.2.8, Better Advanced Tooltips 2101.1.0. Supersedes the 0.8.4 “PonderJS dropped” note.

[0.8.4] — 2026-08-30

Added / restored — missing libraries

• LDLib2 2.2.37 (CurseForge, NeoForge 1.21.1) — KilaBash rendering/GUI library (CF “LDLib” project ships the ldlib2-neoforge jar).
• oωo (owo-lib) 0.12.15.5-beta.1 restored (CurseForge) — was removed in 0.7.18 as a Numismatic Overhaul-only dep, but it’s still required by other mods.
• PonderJS — requested but has no 1.21.1 NeoForge build on CurseForge or Modrinth (upstream stalled ~1.20). Not added; pending an upstream release or a self-hosted jar.

[0.8.3] — 2026-08-30

Fixed

• Create: Villager Commerce self-hosted. CF distribution is disabled and it’s not on Modrinth, so the jar (createvillagercommerce-1.0.1.jar, sha1 verified against CF) is committed to bundled-jars/ and the metafile now points at its raw-GitHub URL (sha256) — anonymously downloadable by packwiz-installer, same pattern as the other bundled jars.

[0.8.2] — 2026-08-30

Fixed — CurseForge distribution-disabled mods

• Create: Linear Bearing re-pointed CurseForge → Modrinth (linear-bearing, NeoForge 1.21.1, 1.2.6 → 1.3.5). CF had allowModDistribution:false, so packwiz-installer couldn’t download it for clients; Modrinth CDN is anonymous-downloadable.
• Create: Villager Commerce — also CF-distribution-disabled, but not on Modrinth (All-Rights- Reserved, no source repo). Must be self-hosted in bundled-jars/ (jar obtained manually from CF); pending the jar.

[0.8.1] — 2026-08-30

Changed — deterministic quest IDs

• Quest generator now derives all FTB Quests IDs (chapter/quest/task/reward) from stable keys via SHA-1 instead of random hex. Regenerating a chapter yields identical IDs, so re-runs are progress-safe (FTB Quests keys player progress by ID) and cross-chapter reward references stay valid. Create Core’s IDs are regenerated once to their stable values.

[0.8.0] — 2026-08-30

Added — FTB Quests: Create Core line (guidance quest book begins)

• First quest chapter Create Core (config/ftbquests/quests/chapters/create_core.snbt) — 15 guidance quests: Andesite Alloy → kinetics/power → Andesite Casing & core machines (press, mixer, fan, deployer, saw, logistics) → Copper Casing & fluids → Brass → Precision Mechanism → Mechanical Mastery (capstone). Item-detection tasks (no consume), soft dependency ordering, XP + small item rewards. Nothing gated across lines.
• Quest-line roadmap recorded in QUESTS.md (15 flat, guidance-only lines). Structure inspired by public Create packs (Arcane Engineering / CAB) — original text + Create 6.0.10-verified item IDs, no copied content.
• Generated by bigGlobeAero/build_ftbquests.py; the committed .snbt is the source of truth — regenerate from the script rather than overwriting via in-game edit mode.

[0.7.19] — 2026-08-30

Added — FTB Quests (progression scaffolding)

• FTB Quests 2101.1.34, FTB Library 2101.1.35, FTB Teams 2101.1.11 (NeoForge 1.21.1, CurseForge — the official FTB mods aren’t on Modrinth). Architectury already present.
• Foundation for a guidance-only quest book: a Create core line + independent specialization lines (aero, economy, Aether, Twilight, WDA), none gated by each other. Quest content authored in a later pass under config/ftbquests/.

[0.7.18] — 2026-08-26

Added — Numismatics economy ecosystem

• Create Numismatics: Villager Currency 1.2.0 — starter coin faucet via in-person villager trades (emerald costs → Numismatics bevels; works with vanilla & modded villagers).
• Create: Numismatic Bounties 2.0 — Bountiful bounty payouts in Numismatics coins (pairs with Bountiful, already in pack).
• Create: Tradeworks 1.0.7 — physical barter stalls; integrates with Marketplace & Stock Market.
• Create: Marketplace 0.5.0 — server-wide shop directory (no remote purchasing; trade at the block). Optional Xaero’s waypoint integration — Xaero’s Minimap/World Map already in pack.
• Create: Stock Market 1.1.0 — Market Terminal for shop listings, 24h price history & top sellers.
• Create: Numismatics Utils 2.2 — Bank Meter HUD & account QoL.
• Numismatics Calculator 1.2.0 (client) — coin math helper.
• No new hard dependencies — Create, Create: Numismatics, Bountiful, and Villager API (MCA Reborn) were already present.

[0.7.17] — 2026-08-26

Changed — economy mod swap

• Removed Numismatic Overhaul: Neoforged and Numismatic Bounties — the pack’s previous coin/purse economy (Villager API trade integration via Numismatic Overhaul).
• Removed oωo (owo-lib) — was only required by Numismatic Overhaul.
• Added Create: Numismatics 1.0.20 (Modrinth) — Create-styled currency (coins, bank cards, vendors) required by the new delivery mod.
• Added Create Aeronautics: Delivery Required 1.0.2 (Modrinth) — contract-based delivery logistics for Aeronautics contraptions; payouts use Numismatics currency.
• Dropped shipped numismaticoverhaul-* configs; Numismatics generates its own on first launch.
• Villager API stays in the pack — still required by MCA Reborn.

[0.7.16] — 2026-08-25

Added — Better Combat

• Better Combat (ZsoltMolnarrr / “by Daedelus”), NeoForge 2.4.0+1.21.1. Player-side melee overhaul: attack animations, weapon-arc collision hits, combos, dual-wielding. It does not modify mob/villager AI, so it doesn’t affect MCA Reborn villager behavior or add per-entity tick cost.
• Both required libraries were already in the pack (playerAnimator, Cloth Config) — no new deps. packwiz re-pointed those two from CurseForge to Modrinth at the same versions (cloth-config 15.0.140, playerAnimator 2.0.4) — identical jars, just a more installer-friendly source.
• Gameplay note: arc-hits can strike multiple entities at once, which near a village could anger several MCA villagers with one swing (reputation). Tunable in Better Combat’s settings.

[0.7.15] — 2026-08-25

Fixed

• nest frequency corrected 0.0065 → 0.65 (65%, not 0.65%). 0.7.13 read the value too literally and made the nest ~19,000 blocks apart (locate-only). At 0.65 on the 96 grid it’s ~1,900 blocks apart — a modest ~24% rarer than the grid alone, findable as intended.

[0.7.14] — 2026-08-25

Changed

• common set: added exclusion_zone → bigglobe_ctov:villages (8 chunks) so the small POIs (camps, huts, wells, mines, etc.) don’t generate right on top of villages.

[0.7.13] — 2026-08-25

Changed — nest rarity + sky density

• nest (mechanical_nest): added frequency 0.0065 (0.65% roll per grid-selected chunk, stacked on the 96 spacing) → ultra-rare, ~19,000 blocks apart on average. Also added an exclusion_zone → stattinkerer:sky (12 chunks) so a nest won’t generate right next to other sky structures.
• sky spacing/separation 48/42 → 32/28 (now matches common) — airships/blimps notably more common. Sky keeps its existing exclusion vs large_dungeon.

[0.7.12] — 2026-08-25

Changed — mechanical_nest split into its own set

• mechanical_nest moved out of large_dungeon into a new stattinkerer:nest set (spacing/separation 96/80, ~1536 blk, salt sqrt(3)·1e8). It’s the aerial nest (flies Y700–750), so grouping it with ground dungeons was diluting them: large_dungeon now holds only the 3 ground dungeons (infested_temple, keep_kayra, kisegi_sanctuary), which tightens a specific one from ~9000 blk to ~7800 blk apart. mechanical_nest’s frequency is now its own independent knob (spacing = frequency, single member).

[0.7.11] — 2026-08-25

Changed — spawn frequency

• sky set spacing/separation 64/44 → 48/42 (now identical to sea) — airships slightly more common, on the same grid density as the sea structures.
• large_dungeon spacing/separation 64/56 → 280/250 — a 4000-block minimum separation (250 chunks) with a 280-chunk grid (~4480 blk average). Big land dungeons are now rare and guaranteed well spread out. Note: with 4 equal-weight members, a specific dungeon type averages ~9000 blocks apart. Salts and exclusion zones unchanged.

[0.7.10] — 2026-08-25

Changed — land dungeons use bury to kill steep-terrain gaps

• infested_temple, kisegi_sanctuary, keep_kayra: terrain_adaptation beard_box → bury. beard_box only reaches ~12 blocks below the footprint (fixed engine kernel), so on steep slopes the downhill side floated. bury fills all air inside the bounding box with terrain (structure carves its walls/rooms back out) → no gaps on any terrain, at the cost of a terrain embankment on steep downhill sides. bury is stock WDA’s own choice for infested_temple. Anchor unchanged (start 0 / #bigglobe:land).

[0.7.9] — 2026-08-25

Reverted — put the 3 land dungeons back on the proven start 0 anchor

• infested_temple, kisegi_sanctuary, keep_kayra: start_height → 0 (was −15 in 0.7.8), keeping WORLD_SURFACE_WG + beard_box + #bigglobe:land. start 0 is the config from 0.7.0/0.7.1 (and 0.7.7) under which the structures were set to generate — it puts the biome check right at the surface, a full 16-block margin above Big Globe’s surface−16 cave threshold, so #bigglobe:land reliably matches. 0.7.8’s −15 left only a 1-block margin (fragile).
• Root cause of the missing temples/sanctuaries: 0.7.2 sank infested/kisegi to −45/−25, pushing the biome check into BG’s underground zone where #bigglobe:land never matches → zero generation from 0.7.2 through 0.7.6. keep_kayra stayed at 0 the whole time, which is why keeps kept appearing.
• NOTE: structures only generate in newly-generated chunks — already-explored terrain will not gain them retroactively. Test in a new world or unexplored terrain.

[0.7.8] — 2026-08-25

Changed — seat the 3 land dungeons 15 blocks into the ground

• infested_temple, kisegi_sanctuary, keep_kayra: start_height surface offset → −15 (was 0), keeping WORLD_SURFACE_WG + #bigglobe:land. −15 sits just above Big Globe’s surface−16 cave threshold, so the biome check stays in a land biome and they keep generating (−16 or deeper would flip to an underground biome and stop them — the 0.7.2 failure mode).
• All three use beard_box terrain adaptation to build a foundation down to the ground and fill any exposed gap under the seated structure. (keep_kayra was beard_thin → now beard_box too.)

[0.7.7] — 2026-08-25

Fixed — infested_temple & kisegi_sanctuary weren’t generating (regression from 0.7.2)

• 0.7.2 lowered their anchors (infested −45, kisegi −25) to seat them, but Big Globe switches to cave/underground biomes below surface−16 (test_cave), and both are gated to #bigglobe:land (surface biomes) → biome mismatch → zero spawns. Reverted their anchors to surface (0) so #bigglobe:land matches again, and switched terrain_adaptation to beard_box (builds a solid foundation down to the ground to fill the float gap, instead of sinking the anchor). A structure can’t be both sunk and land-gated in BG — sinking moves the biome check underground.

Changed

• foundry −520 → −540.

[0.7.6] — 2026-08-25

Changed

• foundry −540 → −520 — more clearance (88 above the −608 floor, 56 above the lava sea at −576), still within the core/molten layer (−592..−496).

[0.7.5] — 2026-08-25

Changed

• foundry −560 → −540 (floor safety). The −608 world floor sat only 48 blocks below −560 (= foundry’s tallest piece), so a downward build could clip at the floor. −540 clears the floor by ~20 blocks even in the worst case, still within the core/molten layer (−592..−496).

[0.7.4] — 2026-08-25

Underground dungeon depths (all in common, all still #bigglobe:underground).

Changed — depths (bigGlobeAero/patch_wda_compat.py)

• scorched_mines −200 → −150 and plague_asylum −133 → −300 (both in the cave zone).
• foundry −100 → −560 — seated in the core/molten rock layer (core −592..−496; lava sea tops at −576, so the forge sits ~16 above the lava). #bigglobe:underground includes the_core and molten_cave, so the biome matches at that depth.

[0.7.3] — 2026-08-25

Structure spacing/exclusion tuning (from post-0.7.2 testing).

Changed — structure placement (bigGlobeAero/patch_wda_compat.py)

• Villages ↔ large dungeons: widened the buffer — large_dungeon’s exclusion_zone vs bigglobe_ctov:villages 6 → 12 chunks (~192 blocks).
• Sky ↔ large dungeons: air structures were spawning on/near large dungeons. Added a sky exclusion_zone vs stattinkerer:large_dungeon at 12 chunks (sky won’t place within 12 chunks of a large dungeon), and widened sky’s jitter (separation 56 → 44, spacing 64 unchanged) for placement variation. A set allows one exclusion_zone, so it lives on sky (sky → large_dungeon → villages, no cycle).

[0.7.2] — 2026-08-25

Structure placement tuning (from post-0.7.1 world testing).

Changed — WDA structure placement (bigGlobeAero/patch_wda_compat.py)

• infested_temple and kisegi_sanctuary generated floating above the ground — their jigsaw start-anchor sits above the build’s base, so surface-projecting start_height 0 left an air gap. Dropped the anchor to seat them: infested_temple 0 → −45, kisegi_sanctuary 0 → −25 (both still WORLD_SURFACE_WG + beard_thin). keep_kayra left at 0 (its anchor≈base, sat fine). (On steep slopes a residual gap can remain; beard_box is the stronger option if needed.)
• Moved heavenly_challenger from large_dungeon → sky, so all heavenly/aerial builds live in the sky set. sky now 5 (Σweight 7), large_dungeon now 4.

[0.7.1] — 2026-08-25

Hotfix: crash on “Create New World” — the BG×WDA compat pack (v1.1, built for an older WDA) ships a small_prairie_house structure def whose start_pool was removed/renamed in WDA 2.1.68. Even though it’s in none of our sets, MC loads every structure definition, hits the missing pool → Unbound values in registry template_pool → registry-load crash. Dropped the orphaned def + biome tag from the compat datapack via bigGlobeAero/patch_wda_compat.py.

Fixed

• bigglobe_whendungeonsarise.zip — remove dungeons_arise:small_prairie_house structure def and its biome tag (missing template_pool in WDA 2.1.68). Verified: no remaining structure def references a missing pool.

[0.7.0] — 2026-08-24

Sky content for airships: raised the world ceiling back to stock and added When Dungeons Arise with its aerial structures re-heighted for airship travel.

Changed — world height (patched Big Globe jar)

• Ceiling +896 → +1024 (stock); floor stays −608. New overworld bounds −608 → +1024 (height 1632). Restores full sky headroom for airship / skyland / aerial-structure content while keeping the deep-floor disk + chunk-loading savings intact. dimension_type, world_preset generator, and BG world-traits (max_y) all set in-jar so Distant Horizons tracks the new bounds: DH anchors to generator min_y = −608 (unchanged) and now renders LODs up to +1024 — no offset. Underground layers + ore curves unchanged (the floor didn’t move). cloud_height already 1024, so clouds sit at the ceiling.
• Rebuilt via bigGlobeAero/build_patched_jar.py; bundled-jars/bigglobe-5.3.2-mc1.21.1-shallow608.jar sha256 df683d31…; big-globe.pw.toml hash updated. (No filename change — “608” = the floor.)

Added (mods / datapacks)

• When Dungeons Arise 2.1.68 (Modrinth 8DfbfASn, NeoForge 1.21.1) — adventure structures including aerial airship targets. Only neoforge + minecraft deps (no libraries). side = both.
• Big Globe × When Dungeons Arise compatibility datapack 1.1 (Modrinth 5obAEsYh) — makes WDA generate in Big Globe terrain (biome has_structure tags + per-structure placement). Bundled at pack/datapacks/bigglobe_whendungeonsarise.zip, patched for airship-altitude aerial structures
  • a sky/sea/common/land structure-set split (see below).

Changed — aerial structure heights (in the compat datapack, via bigGlobeAero/patch_wda_compat.py)

• All aerial structures spawn at a fixed absolute altitude — start_height = uniform Y 700–750, with no heightmap projection — a terrain-independent open-sky layer that needs an airship to reach. Fixed-Y can’t clip the +1024 ceiling (tops out ~Y 878), and BG land rarely nears Y 700 so they won’t intersect terrain. Also forced terrain_adaptation: none (restoring WDA’s own setting) so these flying builds get no terrain base — the compat pack had set bury on the aerial structures, which at altitude would encase each in a stone blob. (Ground structures keep their own adaptation, e.g. coliseum → beard_box.)
• Aquatic ships (illager_galley, undead_pirate_ship, typhon, illager_corsair) left at sea level — they’re naval, not aerial.

Changed — WDA structures split into 4 custom sets (sky / sea / common / large_dungeon)

• WDA ships all structures in two sets (major/minor) with one shared spacing each, so rarity couldn’t be tuned per theme/size. Regrouped into four custom sets under the stattinkerer namespace — :sky (4), :sea (4), :common (11), :large_dungeon (5 — massive dungeons + the flying heavenly_challenger, grouped here for rarity but still airborne at Y 700–750) — each with its own placement (spacing/separation/salt), and emptied WDA’s own major/minor sets so nothing double-places. common vs large_dungeon was split by measured build size. 24 of the 38 WDA standalone structures generate; 14 removed (in no set): illager_windmill, mushroom_village, mushroom_mines, thornborn_towers, coliseum, jungle_tree_house, lighthouse, abandoned_temple, greenwood_pub, monastery, illager_fort, bathhouse, bandit_towers, shiraz_palace. Weights = WDA originals for now; spacings (sky 64/56, sea 48/42, common 32/28, large_dungeon 64/56) pending further tuning. Groupings in bigGlobeAero/patch_wda_compat.py.

Fixed — compat pack mismatches with WDA 2.1.68

• The BG×WDA compat (v1.1) targets an older WDA and assumes stock Big Globe. For the structures we use: foundry was placed at Y 900 in #bigglobe:nether (a floating nether forge) → rebuilt as an overworld underground forge (Y −100, #bigglobe:underground, bury); added the missing BG biome bridges for mining_complex (2.1.68 renamed the compat’s mining_system) and kisegi_sanctuary so they generate at all. plague_asylum, foundry + mining_complex moved to common (now 11; large_dungeon then 11, later trimmed to 5). All placed structures generate.
• scorched_mines re-gated from bigglobe:molten_cave (only exists ~Y −496+ in this shallow world, so it never matched at its Y) to #bigglobe:underground, and moved to Y −200 so it generates.
• bandit_village re-gated bigglobe:hot_wasteland (one biome) → #bigglobe:warm (whole warm band, far less rare). ceryneian_hind is a surface shrine (per videos), so moved from a buried sandy_cave @ Y −93 to on the surface (start_height 0, beard_thin), gated to #bigglobe:warm.
• large_dungeon placements: grounded the 3 giant towers (keep_kayra 250-tall, infested_temple 181, kisegi_sanctuary 215 — were floating/sunk → start_height 0 + projection + beard_thin); flew mechanical_nest (short 48-tall sprawl, was floating at fixed Y 190) to Y 700–750. All four re-gated to #bigglobe:land (spawn in all land biomes).
• Village buffers (exclusion zones): bigglobe_ctov:pillager_outposts and stattinkerer:large_dungeon each get an exclusion_zone vs bigglobe_ctov:villages at 6 chunks — outposts + big dungeons keep clear of villages (villages stay the priority; a set allows only one exclusion_zone, so it’s applied on the avoiders). Edits bigglobe_ctov_compat.zip (via bigGlobeAero/patch_ctov_compat.py).
• mining_complex is a ~197-tall tower → sunk so only ~10 blocks peek above the surface: surface-projected, start_height −187, terrain_adaptation none (embeds the buried ~187 in the ground). Now in common. Exact poke-out to be confirmed on a test world.

Notes

• The world-bounds change requires a fresh world (or regenerating the top) + a DH cache clear so the raised ceiling renders cleanly. The floor is unchanged, so existing deep terrain stays aligned.
• WDA’s neoforge.mods.toml declares minecraft [1.21,1.21.1) (its shipped 1.21.1 release) — loads on NeoForge 21.1.x.

[0.6.11] — 2026-08-24

Two mods added:

• Corpse (henkelmax) neoforge-1.21.1-1.1.13 (CurseForge 316582 / file 7018307) — on death, spawns a lootable model of your body at the death spot; right-click to recover items, with a death-history list + optional death waypoint. Standalone (Jade/OpenHUD deps optional; Jade already in pack). side = both.
• Create Aeronautics: Throwable Rope Connector 0.4.3 (CurseForge) — a Create Aeronautics add-on. Required deps already satisfied by the pack (Create 6.0.10, aeronautics_bundled 1.3.1). side = both.

[0.6.10] — 2026-08-24

Remove C2ME — it was causing chunk-loading bugs (the predicted C2ME × Vertigo lighting / chunk-system mixin overlap). Removing it eliminates the conflict.

Removed (mods)

• C2ME (c2me, NeoForge alpha, added in 0.5.7). Leaf mod — nothing depends on it. Vertigo remains (lower-risk on its own); if chunk-loading issues persist, Vertigo is the next suspect.

Config / pack

• Removed pack/mods/c2me.pw.toml; pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed. (Any runtime config/c2me.toml on a player’s machine becomes an inert orphan — harmless.)

[0.6.9] — 2026-08-24

Large Sea Myths creatures: deep-only + rarer. Extends 0.6.8’s Leviathan clamp to all three large seaeater mobs and halves their spawn weight.

Changed — In Control (config/incontrol/spawn.json)

• Clamp kraken, leviathan, sea_eater to Y ≤ −50 (deny at Y ≥ −49) — was Leviathan-only.

Changed — spawn weights (stattinkerer_bigglobe_compat)

• Halved natural spawn weight 4 → 2 for seaeater:kraken, seaeater:leviathan, seaeater:sea_eater (files renamed ..._4_1_1 → ..._2_1_1) — rarer big-creature spawns within the ocean mob pool.

Config / pack

• pack/config/incontrol/spawn.json + pack/datapacks/stattinkerer_bigglobe_compat.zip updated; pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed.

[0.6.8] — 2026-08-24

Deep-water Leviathan. Sea Myths’ Leviathan was spawning at the surface (Big Globe’s spawn format has no Y field, so biome was the only prior lever). Added In Control! to hard-clamp its spawn height.

Added (mods)

• In Control! 10.2.7 (CurseForge, NeoForge 1.21) — spawn-rule engine. No McJtyLib dependency in this build (only an optional Lost Cities dep, absent). Governs BG-world spawns because Big Globe uses vanilla SpawnHelper, so the NeoForge spawn events In Control hooks still fire.

Config / pack

• pack/config/incontrol/spawn.json — deny seaeater:leviathan at Y ≥ −49, so it only spawns at Y ≤ −50 (deep). Ocean floor is the natural lower bound; no hard −100 floor (that would exclude the deepest trenches). All other mobs unaffected.
• Added pack/mods/in-control.pw.toml; pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed.

[0.6.7] — 2026-08-24

Glaciers: nudge the temperature bar colder for a few fewer glacier oceans — unmixLinear(-0.35, -0.6) → unmixLinear(-0.4, -0.65) (glacier now only where temp < −0.40). Size (C=0.4) and the solid-sheet look unchanged.

[0.6.6] — 2026-08-24

Glaciers: fewer + smaller. Two independent dials, plus keeping the biome and ice footprints matched.

• Frequency (rarer glacier oceans) — glacier_crack_threshold.json temperature bar unmixLinear(-0.25, -0.5, temp) → unmixLinear(-0.35, -0.6, temp) (glacier only where colder).
• Size (smaller glaciers) — cutoff C = 0.4 applied to both:
  • feature glaciers.json: 1.4 × (crack_threshold − 0.4) (solid sheet, no cap)
  • biome shallow_ocean_test_glacier.json: hard_distance < 1.4 × (crack_threshold − 0.4) So the glacier biome and the ice shrink together — and since Aquamirae is keyed to the glacier biome, its cracked ice / arcs / spirals shrink to the same smaller footprint.
• Kept: de-grid (variation 40), solid-sheet look (0.6.5).

Tuning: temp bar colder → rarer; C higher → smaller (they compound, so nudge gently). ⚠️ The biome file is a decision-tree override — if the biome doesn’t shrink in-game (only the ice does), it needs to move into the patched jar; the temp bar + ice size will apply via datapack regardless.

[0.6.5] — 2026-08-24

Glacier: reverted to the solid-sheet look (v2). Dropped the 0.75 fill cap and the 0.6 footprint cutoff, back to 1.4 × (glacier_crack_threshold − 0.25) (no cap) so deep/cold cells merge into a continuous sheet again (preferred over the broken-floe look). Size to be reduced via the biome next, not the feature cap.

[0.6.4] — 2026-08-24

Glacier tuning: shrink the glacier’s footprint (v3’s cap broke it into floes but it still covered the whole cold ocean). Raised the coverage cutoff so BG ice only forms over the deep/cold core.

• glaciers.json: min(1.4×(crack_threshold − 0.25), 0.75) → min(1.4×(crack_threshold − 0.60), 0.75).
• The 0.60 cutoff is the glacier-size dial: higher → smaller footprint (deeper core only); lower (toward 0.25) → larger, back toward continent-sized; ~1.0+ → essentially off (like v1).
• Cap stays 0.75 (broken floes, not one seamless sheet).

[0.6.3] — 2026-08-24

Glacier tuning: shrink the main ice sheet. Capped the per-cell fill so cells can’t fully merge into one seamless mega-sheet — the big mass breaks into large floes while the small satellites (below the cap) are untouched.

• glaciers.json fill: 1.4 × (crack_threshold − 0.25) → min(1.4 × (crack_threshold − 0.25), 0.75).
• Knob: the 0.75 cap = max sheet size (lower → smaller / more-broken main sheet).

[0.6.2] — 2026-08-24

Glacier rework v2 — fixes 0.6.1 producing no ice at all. The v1 glacier_field noise loaded fine (no log error) but its value range never cleared the 0.5 cutoff, so the fill term was ≤ 0 everywhere → zero ice (biome still showed, since biome ≠ feature).

Changed — bigglobe_less_glacier

• Dropped the glacier_field noise and drive ice off the existing, proven glacier_crack_threshold (the field the pre-0.6 datapack already used to place ice — no unknown noise range, guaranteed to generate). New fill: hard_distance <= 1.4 × (glacier_crack_threshold − 0.25).
  • threshold ≤ 0.25 → open water · rising threshold → floes grow · deep/cold cores (threshold ≈ 1) → cells fully fill → sheet. Concentration + thinning + partial coverage come from crack_threshold’s natural cold/depth gradient (dense over deep cold water, fading toward shallows).
• Kept Voronoi variation 40 (de-grid).

Tunable

• Coverage: the 0.25 cutoff (raise → less ice).
• Sheet size: the 1.4 multiplier (raise → bigger sheets).

Datapack-only; affects newly generated cold-ocean chunks. Note: this is a “dense core → thinning to shallows” look rather than discrete islands; if you want discrete sheets we can re-introduce a peak-noise modulation now that we know the column value loads (v1 confirmed it registers).

[0.6.1] — 2026-08-24

Ocean-glacier rework (v1 — experimental, needs an in-game look). Replaces the uniform grid of identical ice floes with sparse ice sheets that thin out into satellite floes and fade to open water, so a glacier ocean covers only part of its surface.

Changed — bigglobe_less_glacier

• New glacier_field noise (bigglobe_column_value/overworld/glacier_field.json) — large-scale smooth field (scales 256 + 128) with sparse peaks. Drives where ice concentrates.
• glaciers.json dispatcher — ice now fills each Voronoi cell out to 2.0 × (glacier_field − 0.5) instead of 0.4 × glacier_crack_threshold. At a field peak cells fully fill and merge into one sheet; around it fill shrinks into satellite floes; past the peak (field ≤ 0.5) it’s open water. Still gated to cold, deep, non-river ocean.
• glacier_cell.json — Voronoi variation 24 → 40 to break the grid so floes scatter organically.

Tunable knobs (for iteration)

• Coverage: the 0.5 cutoff in glaciers.json (raise → less ice).
• Sheet size / falloff radius: glacier_field scales (smaller scale → tighter peaks / smaller radius) and the 2.0 fill multiplier (higher → bigger sheets).

⚠️ Caveats

• Unverified worldgen scripting — authored against BG’s script/noise DSL but not compile-tested. On first load, watch the log for bigglobe column-value/script errors; if the glacier feature errors or glacier_field doesn’t resolve, revert this datapack and ping for a fix.
• Only affects newly generated cold-ocean chunks. This is a datapack change (no jar/world reset needed) — but explore fresh ocean to see it.

[0.6] — 2026-08-24

Release — the performance + shallow-world overhaul the earlier 0.6-beta aimed at, now done properly. Consolidates the 0.5.6–0.5.9 work (detailed entries below). Highlights:

• Shallow overworld via a height-patched Big Globe jar — floor −1024 → −608, ceiling +896; core/molten 96-thick + a 32-block stone cap above the deep dark; full 128 deep dark; deep-ore curves rescaled to fit. DH-compatible (the earlier offset is gone — the height now lives inside BG’s own jar, the only place it reads it from). ~41% less underground storage/gen.
• Chunk-streaming performance — C2ME (parallel chunk gen/load/IO, native NeoForge) + Vertigo (vertical chunk-section sync). Jar/mixin deep-dive found no hard conflicts; watch the Vertigo↔C2ME lighting overlap on first run.
• Log-spam fixes — Project Atmosphere temperatures for all 52 Big Globe biomes; CTOV integration-pool fallbacks (Waystones/Vampirism/bounty).

⚠️ Fresh world required (Big Globe’s height changed). Verify F3 floor = −608 and DH LODs align. Big Globe jar modified for personal-server use (CC BY-NC 4.0); served via public raw-GitHub — move to a no-login host before making the repo private.

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[0.5.9] — 2026-08-24

Deeper, better-balanced shallow world. Moves the floor −464 → −608 (more room), restores the deep tiers toward full size, adds a stone buffer above the deep dark, and rescales the deep-ore curves so diamonds/gold/redstone actually reach their intended richness in the shallower stone. Supersedes the 0.5.8 −464 patch. Still a single height-patched Big Globe jar (the only mechanism BG respects — it reads its generator + terrain scripts from its own jar every load).

Changed — Big Globe patched jar (bigglobe-5.3.2-mc1.21.1-shallow608.jar)

New overworld layout (sea 0, ceiling +896, floor −608):

Layer	Y range	Thickness
Cave zone	surface → −320	(caves held 32 above the deep dark)
Stone cap	−352 → −320	32 (buffer, no caves/sculk)
Deep Dark	−480 → −352	128 (full)
Gap	−496 → −480	16
Core / Molten	−592 → −496	96 (75% of default 128)
Lava Sea	−592 → −576	~16
Base stone	−608 → −592	16

• Core/molten → 96-thick (75% of default); the freed 32 becomes a solid-stone cap between the deep dark and the cave zone (caves no longer open straight into the sculk). Implemented by holding cave depth 32 above deep_dark_max_y (easy/medium/hard_depth.json).
• Ore curves rescaled ~×0.63 (new core-top −496 vs default −784) so ores keep their distribution but fit the shorter stone column: diamond ramp 256→512 → 160→320, gold/redstone 128→256 → 80→160, iron/copper exp delay 512 → 320, emerald /−192 → /−128; lapis (surface→ sea-level) and coal (uniform) unchanged. Net: diamonds now reach ~full richness above the core on all terrain (previously the molten core cut off the deep, richest band).
• ~41% less underground storage/gen vs default (−608 keeps more than the −464 build’s ~55%, in exchange for full-thickness tiers + full diamonds).
• 14 files edited in-jar by build_patched_jar.py (5 layout + 3 cave-depth + 6 ore); metafile pinned (no [update]). Big Globe by builderb0y (CC BY-NC 4.0), modified for personal-server use.

Requirements / caveats

• Fresh world required (bounds changed again). Verify F3 floor = −608 and DH LODs align.
• Repo-privacy caveat still applies: jar served via public raw.githubusercontent.com; making the repo private breaks packwiz’s anonymous download — move to a no-login host first.
• Re-patch on any Big Globe update (build_patched_jar.py asserts all 14 strings still exist).

Config / pack

• Replaced bundled-jars/bigglobe-…-shallow464.jar → …-shallow608.jar; repointed pack/mods/big-globe.pw.toml (new filename/URL/sha256). pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed; version → 0.5.9.

[0.5.8] — 2026-08-24

Shallow overworld, done properly — via a height-patched Big Globe jar. This revives the parked shallow-world work in a way that’s actually Distant Horizons-compatible (no more vertical “wall of chunks” offset).

Why a patched jar (and not a datapack)

Big Globe reads its world-preset generator — including height — directly from its own jar on every load (the reload_dimension feature; it logs “Reading … chunk generator from mod jar”), ignoring both datapack overrides and the value baked into level.dat. Its DH LOD integration anchors to that same generator.height.min_y. So a datapack/companion mod cannot change the generator height — the only thing that works is editing the files inside BG’s jar. That’s why the earlier datapack approach produced DH LODs offset by exactly 560 blocks (−1024 vs −464).

Changed (mods)

• Big Globe → height-patched 5.3.2 jar (bigglobe-5.3.2-mc1.21.1-shallow464.jar, self-hosted in bundled-jars/). Overworld floor −1024 → −464, ceiling +1024 → +896; deep tiers compacted (core 80-thick, deep dark 64-thick, lava sea, base trimmed). ~55% less underground storage/gen. Built from the official jar by bigGlobeAero/build_patched_jar.py (5 files swapped: dimension_type, world_preset generator height, world_trait_impl tiers, the_core gradient, test_core threshold). Metafile pinned (no [update] block) so packwiz update can’t revert it to the unpatched Modrinth jar. The separate bigglobe_shallow_overworld datapack is now obsolete (the jar does everything natively).
  • Big Globe by builderb0y (CC BY-NC 4.0); modified for personal-server use.

Config / pack

• Added bundled-jars/bigglobe-5.3.2-mc1.21.1-shallow464.jar; repointed pack/mods/big-globe.pw.toml (Modrinth → raw-GitHub, sha256, no update block). pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed; version → 0.5.8.

[0.5.7] — 2026-08-24

Chunk-performance mods. Adds C2ME (parallel chunk gen/load/IO) and re-adds Vertigo (vertical chunk-section network sync), targeting the tall Big Globe world’s chunk-streaming cost. Both are performance-only and independently removable.

Added (mods)

• Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (C2ME) 0.4.0-alpha.0.120+1.21.1 (Modrinth COlSi5iR, native NeoForge, no deps). Multi-threads chunk generation/loading + optimizes chunk I/O. Modular (20 submodules incl. rewrites-chunk-system, threading-lighting, worldgen-threading). server: required, client: optional (shipped both). Alpha (C2ME’s normal state on 1.21.1).
• Vertigo 1.2.4 (Modrinth 4LzgJp1j, Fabric via Sinytra Connector + FFAPI). Strips empty vertical sections from the ChunkData packet. Was in the reverted 0.6-beta; re-added here without the shallow-world datapack (that datapack, not Vertigo, caused the 0.6-beta DH offset).

Compatibility — deep-dive (jar + mixin analysis)

• No hard/declared incompatibilities. Neither declares breaks/conflicts; C2ME only discourages dynview + betterchunkloading (both absent). C2ME bundles MixinSquared (mixin-coexistence lib); pack already runs Lithium/Sodium/ModernFix/FerriteCore, which C2ME coexists with by design.
• C2ME × Big Globe — low. C2ME’s worldgen opts target vanilla NoiseChunkGenerator/density functions, which BG’s custom bigglobe:scripted generator bypasses → those modules are largely inert (little benefit, little conflict). C2ME’s generic chunk-system rewrite still wraps BG’s generator with threaded scheduling; BG has its own thread pool, so watch for worldgen races/hangs. Lever: disable worldgen-threading / chunk-system in config/c2me.toml.
• Vertigo × C2ME — real overlaps, TEST before relying. Both mixin ChunkDataSender, ChunkHolder, WorldChunk. Highest-risk overlap is lighting: Vertigo syncs skylight (WorldChunk_SyncSkylight, ChunkSkyLight_Accessors) while C2ME’s threading-lighting threads ServerLightingProvider/ LightStorage → possible lighting glitches / races. First lever if it misbehaves: disable C2ME threading-lighting.
• × Distant Horizons. Both touch chunk gen / view distance; C2ME is Sodium/VD-aware. The earlier “600-block” DH glitch was the shallow-world floor mismatch, not these mods.

Config / pack

• Added pack/mods/c2me.pw.toml + pack/mods/vertigo.pw.toml. pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed; version → 0.5.7.

[0.5.6] — 2026-08-24

Log-noise / console-spam fixes. Two systems were flooding the server log every tick / during worldgen (wasting CPU + disk I/O and bloating latest.log): Project Atmosphere had no temperature data for Big Globe biomes, and CTOV referenced village integration pools for mods that aren’t installed.

Fixed

• Project Atmosphere biome temperatures — config/projectatmosphere/biome_temps.json only defined minecraft:plains, so PA’s per-tick WeatherMgr warned “No temperature range defined for biome bigglobe:…” for the entire (all-BG-biome) overworld, endlessly. Added Celsius ranges for all 52 BG biomes: seasonal (spring/summer/autumn/winter) for surface biomes by climate tier (hot/warm/temperate/cold/frozen/swamp), and stable all ranges for oceans, caves, nether, end, and special biomes.
• CTOV missing template-pool spam — CTOV 3.6.3 buildings reference optional cross-mod integration pools (Waystones, Vampirism, bounty board) that aren’t installed, so Lithostitched logged “Couldn’t find template pool reference” for every village piece during generation. Added pack/datapacks/ctov_integration_fallbacks.zip defining the 7 referenced pools (ctov:village/ waystone/{sand,normal,mossy}, vampirism/totem, bounty/{bounty_board,plains,swamp}) as empty pools so they resolve silently. Villages generate identically. Remove this datapack if Waystones/Vampirism/a bounty mod is ever added, or the empty pools would shadow theirs.

Known / open

• ItemStack: Tried to load invalid item: 'No key id in MapLike[{}]' (near 51, 228, -4860) — a malformed empty item during load; non-fatal (MC drops it and continues). Source not yet identified.

Config / pack

• Modified pack/config/projectatmosphere/biome_temps.json; added pack/datapacks/ctov_integration_fallbacks.zip. pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed; version → 0.5.6.

Note — changelog gap

• Versions 0.5.2–0.5.5 were never recorded here. Per commit history, main since 0.5.1 also received: MapStitch removed, Too Fast and Creating Space added, and the 0.6-beta work (Vertigo + shallow-overworld datapack) reverted and parked on the 0.6-beta branch.

[0.5.1] — 2026-08-23

Hotfix: restore Villager API. In 0.5 it was removed as an assumed Better-Village-only dependency, but Numismatic Overhaul (Numismatic Bounties) also requires it — its absence crashed mod loading (Mod numismaticoverhaul requires villagerapi 1.0 or above ... not installed). Better Village stays removed.

Added (mods)

• Villager API (villagerapi, CurseForge project 1396381 / file 7533486) — re-added; required by Numismatic Overhaul (and previously by the now-removed Better Village).

Config / pack

• Restored pack/mods/villagerapi.pw.toml. pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed.

[0.5] — 2026-08-23

Village overhaul + glacier tuning. CTOV becomes the sole village system (biased toward large walled villages, walls extended across more biomes; vanilla villages and Better Village removed), and glacier ice is made smaller and sparser.

Removed (mods)

• Better Villages + its dependency Villager API — Better Village only reskins vanilla village jigsaw pools, which are now disabled (below), so it produced nothing under Big Globe.

Changed — CTOV village generation (bigglobe_ctov_compat)

• Vanilla villages disabled — bigglobe:villages structure_set emptied (placement kept as an override so Big Globe’s built-in 5-village default doesn’t resurrect). CTOV is now the only village system, and denser since it no longer shares the placement grid with vanilla.
• Small villages removed — dropped the 21 small/* entries from bigglobe_ctov:villages.
• Size/style weight ladder — per-cell lottery weights: large-fortified 8, medium-fortified 5, large 3, medium 2. Large walled villages are the most common outcome (~72% of villages walled in fortified-capable biomes; large-walled the single likeliest result).
• Fortified (walled) villages extended to more biomes — each fortified structure given its own broadened biome list:
  • plains_fortified → + warm_plains, warm light/dense forest
  • mesa_fortified → + hot_plains, beaches (beach + overgrown_beach)
  • taiga_fortified → + glacier

Changed — Big Globe worldgen (glacier)

• Rivers no longer get glacier ice — added an !in_river guard to the glacier feature dispatcher (glaciers.json), aligning the feature with the biome (which already excludes rivers). Fixes the “mini glacier spots dotted through rivers.”
• Ocean glacier ice made small & sparse — feature-only 0.4× fill scale applied inside the dispatcher (so the glacier biome extent is untouched), plus glacier_cell Voronoi distance 32 → 48 (fewer, more-spaced patches).
• Glacier biome extent and Aquamirae’s Sea-of-Shivers are unaffected — the scale is feature-only; no glacier_crack_threshold override.

Config / pack

• Removed pack/mods/better-village.pw.toml, pack/mods/villagerapi.pw.toml; rebuilt pack/datapacks/bigglobe_ctov_compat.zip.
• Added pack/datapacks/bigglobe_less_glacier.zip.
• pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed.

[0.4] — 2026-08-23

Fix: 15 mods failed to auto-install (“excluded from the CurseForge API” — the authors’ allowModDistribution:false flag). Re-sourced them so packwiz auto-install works again.

Changed — source moved CurseForge → Modrinth (11)

• Better Villages, Burnt Basic, Create Aeronautics, Create Aeronautics: Gyroscope Stabilizers, Create: Cotton, Create Factory Logistics, Create: Storage [Neo/Forge], Create: Gears n’ Kinetics, Library Ferret, More Diseases & Treatments, Numismatic Bounties.

Changed — source moved CurseForge → self-hosted in-repo (4)

• No compatible Modrinth release exists, so these are bundled in bundled-jars/ and referenced by raw-GitHub URL (sha256-pinned) in packwiz: Create: Better High Seas, Food Spoilage, Realistic Farmland (NeoForge build), Sea Myths (seaeater jar).

Config / pack

• Added bundled-jars/ (4 jars). pack/index.toml + pack/pack.toml re-indexed.

[0.3] — 2026-08-23

Village overhaul, two new dimensions, new mobs, and Big Globe worldgen-compatibility datapacks.

Added (mods)

• ChoiceTheorem’s Overhauled Village (CTOV) 3.6.3 — village overhaul (23 village + 14 outpost variants)
• Lithostitched 1.8.0+beta4 (library — CTOV dependency)
• The Aether 1.5.10 — sky dimension
• Aquamirae 7.2.1 (+ Fragmentum 2.4.4 dependency) — frozen “Sea of Shivers” content
• Mowzie’s Mobs 1.8.2 — mini-bosses + structures (Frostmaw, Ferrous Wroughtnaut, Umvuthi)
• Mutant Monsters 21.1.1
• The Twilight Forest 4.8.3345 — dimension
• Xaero’s Minimap 26.4.2
• Xaero’s World Map 1.45.0

Added (datapacks — Big Globe compatibility)

• bigglobe_ctov_compat.zip — integrates CTOV villages/outposts into Big Globe terrain (based on Spooner’s Big Globe – CTOV Compat 1.1.1; verified against BG 5.3.2 + CTOV 3.6.3). All village/outpost structure_set spacings set to 30; bigglobe:villages and bigglobe_ctov:villages share salt + separation for coordinated placement. Underground village variant left disabled; stray .bak files removed.
• bigglobe_aquamirae.zip — (authored) adds bigglobe:glacier to #aquamirae:ice_maze, activating Aquamirae’s ice-maze mobs, structures, and the Shipbreaker under Big Globe.
• bigglobe_mowziesmobs.zip — (authored) adds 22 Big Globe land biomes to #mowziesmobs:has_structure/has_mowzie_structure so Mowzie’s structures (and their mobs) generate.
• bigglobe_remove_obelisk.zip — empties #bigglobe:has_structure/obelisk to stop Big Globe obelisks generating.

Reverted

• Big Globe 6.1.2 → 5.3.2 — the 6.1.2-MC26.1.2 entry was an erroneous version bump (not a valid MC 1.21.1 build); restored the correct 5.3.2 release.

Config / pack

• pack/index.toml and pack/pack.toml re-indexed (packwiz refresh).

[0.2] — 2026-08-22

Changes relative to the last commit (52d1af5, merge of Modpack-Recompile).

Added (mods)

• Aeronautics Camera Sync 1.3.6
• Azimuth API 1.4.7 (library)
• Create Aeronautics: Gyroscope Stabilizers
• Create: Bits ‘n’ Bobs 2.2.7
• Create Cardan Shafts 0.1.6
• Create: Tracks 1.0.1 (tracks-neoforge, project 1519765)
• Strut Your Stuff (Struts) 1.3.0

Removed (mods)

• Create:Tracks+ 1.0.6b (tracks_plus, project 1548863) — effectively replaced by the new Create: Tracks mod above (different project).

Updated (mods)

• Create: Copycats+ 3.0.4 → 3.0.7
• Create: Enchantment Industry 2.5.2 → 2.5.3
• Create: Power Chip 2.0.3 → 2.0.5
• Create: Warnautics 1.0.2 → 1.0.3
• Gabou’s Libs 1.8.2 → 1.8.3
• Social Player Mobs (Interactive Player Mobs) 0.86.0 → 0.89.0
• More Diseases & Treatments 1.0.0 → 1.0.1
• Moonlight Lib (Selene) 3.3.4 → 3.4.1
• Supplementaries 3.8.10 → 3.9.1
• YUNG’s API (NeoForge) 5.1.6 → 5.1.8

Config / pack

• pack/index.toml and pack/pack.toml re-indexed (packwiz refresh) to reflect the mod changes above.
• No pack/config/** files changed in this revision.

Documentation

• Split the README into dedicated docs: added ClientInstallationInstructions.md, MaintainerInstructions.md, and Notes.md; README.md trimmed to general pack info with links to those docs.
• Added rendering notes to Notes.md: the Iris / Iris Flywheel Compat / Distant Horizons all-on/all-off toggle rule, and the DH + Simple Clouds artifacting known issue and workarounds.

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