Extended Vanilla Endgame

# Extended Vanilla Endgame (EVE) **[EVE] Extended Vanilla Endgame aims to keep Minecraft close to vanilla. It adds features to keep you ocupated in the endgame.** Once you reach the endgame you can upgrade every netherite tool and armor piece **+1 → +10** (each level roughly doubling in cost), fuse your chestplate with an elytra for armored flight, turn a sponge into a lava-drinking **Absorbing Sponge**, and craft an **Upgraded Shulker Box** that can store other shulker boxes. All of that using the smithing table. ## Upgrade Cores The **Upgrade Core +1** is crafted from one each of diamond, iron, gold and emerald block in the corners, crying obsidian on the edges, and a netherite ingot in the center.  Every higher core is simply **two cores of the previous tier combined** (shapeless, no extra items). The cost doubles every level — a +10 core is worth 512 +1 cores. That's the grind.  ## Upgrading In the **smithing table**: `Upgrade Core +N` + `your +(N-1) item` + a per-level catalyst: | Level | Catalyst | Level | Catalyst | |-------|----------|-------|----------| | +1 | Iron Block | +6 | Netherite Ingot | | +2 | Emerald Block | +7 | Netherite Block | | +3 | Gold Block | +8 | Enchanted Golden Apple | | +4 | Diamond | +9 | Nether Star | | +5 | Diamond Block | +10 | Heavy Core | Each level grants (cumulative): **+1 attack damage · +1 armor · +0.5 armor toughness · +20% mining speed · +25% durability**. Enchantments and damage are preserved.   Upgradable: all netherite tools and armor, the Winged Netherite Chestplate, a plain sponge, and any shulker box (plus netherite spears on 26.x). Item tag `eve:upgradable`, extendable by datapacks. ## The Chestplate Gate A plain netherite chestplate **cannot** be upgraded. First craft a **Wing Smithing Template** (nether star + 4 netherite ingots + 4 phantom membranes), then smith it with your chestplate and an elytra into the **Winged Netherite Chestplate**: full netherite protection *and* elytra flight, and the only chestplate that accepts +N upgrades.   ## The Absorbing Sponge Upgrade a plain **sponge** (Core +1 + sponge + iron block) into an **Absorbing Sponge** — a sponge that drinks **lava** as well as water, upgradable up to **+7**.  It behaves like a vanilla sponge, with two twists: - **Reusable.** It sits dry until liquid first touches it, absorbs once, and turns wet. Breaking it always drops the **dry** sponge back — with its tier — so you can place it again and again. To absorb a second time, just break and re-place it. - **Lava and water radii grow on alternating levels** (lava always reaches a smaller radius than water): from water 6 / lava 3 at +1 up to water 12 / lava 9 at +7. The Absorbing Sponge item is fireproof, so it survives a swim in the lava it's meant to drink, and it's mined fastest with a hoe like a vanilla sponge. ## The Upgraded Shulker Box Upgrade any **shulker box** (Core +1 + shulker box + iron block) into an **Upgraded Shulker Box** — the one container that can hold *other* shulker boxes.  It's a real shulker box in every way — animated lid, keeps its contents when broken, previews them in the item tooltip (so shulker-preview mods work on it too), mined with a pickaxe, and dropped by pistons. The differences: - **It stores normal shulker boxes** (and anything else). It won't accept another upgraded box, so there's no infinite nesting. - Comes in all **16 colours plus the default**, and is **dyeable** like a vanilla box (combine with a dye — contents preserved) or **washed** in a water cauldron to reset the colour. - A small **gold emblem on the lid** sets it apart from a normal box, on both the item and the placed block. ## Requirements - Minecraft **26.1.x, 26.2, or 1.21.11**, on **Fabric** (Loader ≥ 0.19.3) with **Fabric API** - Java **25** for 26.x, Java **21** for 1.21.11 - Required on **both client and server** - **JEI** optional — adds a "Gear Upgrade" category showing every tier ## Known limitations - Elytra wings don't render on your back while gliding with the winged chestplate — flight itself works fine Source & full changelog: [github.com/MrCloudy2/extended-vanilla-endgame](https://github.com/MrCloudy2/extended-vanilla-endgame)