The End Update

An End update has been one of Minecraft's most requested features for a long time now, so I decided to put my own spin on it. Before this project, I had no coding experience. I'm still learning as I go, and there's a long road ahead. This mod is **NOT** meant to be an expansive dimension overhaul. Instead, it focuses on: - Giving several under-utilized vanilla features a reason to exist. The Recovery Compass (especially for Hardcore players), Chorus Flowers, the End's sky flashes, and even the Creaking (to an extent) all get meaningful new roles. - Easing a few long-standing Minecraft annoyances: Phantoms constantly harassing you in the Overworld, the tedium of picking up large quantities of dropped items, the inability to insta-mine wood even with a Haste II beacon, and the need to build ugly temporary bridges just to cross void gaps. - Introducing vanilla-adjacent content designed to complement the base game. Showcase/Trailer with (almost) full feature breakdown: ## Full list of features: (Features are also showcased in the gallery page) ### The Mirelands Biome - Features *End Mire*, the Endstone equivalent of grass (similar to how nylium relates to netherrack). Inspired by mold. - Introduces a full green *Ethereal* wood set. - Decorative Mold Foliage. - Phantoms spawn here (highly recommended to disable insomnia — phantoms are far less annoying when confined to this biome). - *Stellarith Crystal* spikes that generate in Mirelands spawn herds of *Ethereal Orbs* near their tips. - Ethereal Trees sometimes grow *Mold Crawl* — horizontal vines that spread sideways (like twisted/weeping vines but lateral). Useful for bridging void gaps with bone meal. - All mold/mire-type blocks (including the wood family) are compostable. - *Tendril Saplings* (obtained from *Void Blooms*) grow through three stages before becoming full Ethereal Trees. ### Shadowlands Biome - A darkened land of shadows covered in *End Murk* (black Endstone "grass" equivalent). - Decorated with *Shadow Claws* — foliage that looks like hands and works great for builds. - Features enormous black *Shadow Trees* and a full black Shadow wood set. Farm new trees by planting a 3×3 of Shadow Claws. - Ash particles drift through the air. - Roughly 1 in every 256 Shadow Trees is hollow and contains a *Shadow Altar*. - Craft a *Shadow Hunter's Tracker* (Recovery Compass surrounded by 8 Shadow Claws). It points toward the nearest hollow tree. Shift + right-click when nearby for precise close-range altar tracking. - Light a Shadow Altar on fire to begin the Shadow Creaking boss fight. ### Shadow Creaking - 15 seconds after lighting the altar, a Shadow Creaking emerges and summons two Endermites. - Initially behaves like a normal Creaking (only moves when not being looked at). - At 50% health, it "wakes up" and can push through being looked at to attack. - Cannot be trapped or cheesed — it teleports if stuck or unable to reach the player for extended periods of time. - Landing too many ranged attacks causes it to fire a ranged attack back. - On defeat, it splits into two *Mini Shadow Creakings* (each also summoning two Endermites). Minis are smaller, faster, hit more often, do less damage, and are harder to hit. - Each Mini then splits into two *Tiny Shadow Creakings* (again with two Endermites each). Tinies have very low health, light damage, extreme speed, and are difficult to hit. - The four Tiny Shadow Creakings drop a total of four items: one *Enchanted Pages*, one *Enchanted Book Cover*, and two *Wood Chips*. - Craft two Wood Chips vertically into a *Wooden Cone*. Use it on a cow for an *Ice Cream Cone* or on a mooshroom for a *Strawberry Ice Cream Cone* (grants a 30-second sugar-rush-like effect). - Craft the Enchanted Book Cover with Enchanted Pages to create the *Chopping* enchantment book. Applied to an axe, it boosts the existing Efficiency level (does nothing on its own), enabling instant mining of wood blocks with Efficiency V + Chopping. ### Stellarith Crystals - Crystal spikes now generate throughout the End in varying sizes and angles. - Bases are made of pink *Astral Remnant* blocks; tips are blue Stellarith Crystals. - Mining Stellarith Crystals without Silk Touch drops 3-5 *Voidstar Shards*. - Crafting chain: 9 Shards -> 1 *Voidstar Nugget* -> 9 Nuggets -> 1 *Voidstar Ingot* -> 9 Ingots -> 1 *Voidstar Block*. - Voidstar Nuggets feed baby Ethereal Orbs. - Voidstar Blocks duplicate adult Ethereal Orbs. - Voidstar Ingots serve as an armor trim material. - Ethereal Orbs naturally orbit nearby Astral Remnant or Stellarith Crystal blocks. ### Ethereal Orbs - Spawn in groups at the tips of Stellarith Crystal spikes in Mirelands biomes. - Feed a Voidstar Nugget to light up an adult Ethereal Orb's bulb, then use a brush on the lit bulb to obtain *Spectral Debris*. - Craft Spectral Debris into *Spectral Clusters* (armor trim) and then into *Spectral Blocks* (light-emitting). - Feed a Voidstar Block to an adult Orb to materialize a baby Orb. Babies eat Voidstar Nuggets. - Shear a baby Orb's bulb to get an *Ethereal Bulb* — a glowing button that can be placed on any surface and stays pressed longer than vanilla buttons. - Spectral Debris or Spectral Clusters used as armor trims create glowing particles around the player. Debris takes up less visual space and produces fewer particles. - Tame an Ethereal Orb by killing a *Void Tardigrade* that is actively hunting it. Babies duplicated from a tamed Orb are automatically tamed to the same owner. - Tamed Orbs orbit their owner's head and follow them. Shift + right-click to make them stay and orbit in place. - Tamed Orbs detect nearby hostile Void Tardigrades and temporarily trap them in a particle cage (with a short cooldown), giving you time to take care of the threat before that threat takes care of your pet. ### Void Tardigrades - Mostly harmless creatures that float in the void between outer End islands. - When they sense an Ethereal Orb, they fly toward it and attempt to eat it. Successfully eating an Orb causes them to spit out a *Tardigrade Shell Bit*. - Craft 9 Tardigrade Shell Bits into a *Tardigrade Shell Brick*. - Use Tardigrade Shell Brick as an armor trim to increase the armor toughness of diamond or netherite pieces. - Kill a Void Tardigrade while it's hunting an Ethereal Orb to tame that Orb. ### Tetherlings - Purple/baby blue creatures that hover over the void between outer End islands. - Lock eyes with a Tetherling and hold contact for ~3 seconds. It will approach and latch on with a purple particle trail. - Once latched, you have ~5 seconds to move backward — the farther you move, the greater the launch distance. - Just before launch, the Tetherling rockets upward and flings you in the direction you're looking, making it handy for quickly crossing void gaps. ### Ash Stone Craters - Occasional *Ash Stone Craters* appear in the End — impact sites of varying size, each with a single *Nebula Vent* at the center. - Nebula Vents periodically erupt in a geyser of purple smoke that can propel elytra flight when you lack firework rockets (or want to fling your friends in the air). - Ash Stone is a new dark gray/black stone type that can be crafted into stairs, slabs, and walls, or polished into Smooth Ash Stone (with matching stairs, slabs, and walls). ### Ender Chrysanthemums - Generate mainly on the tiny islands between larger outer End islands, and occasionally along the edges of bigger islands. - Can be placed on any block in any orientation (including upside-down and sideways). - Close into *Closed Ender Chrysanthemums* during vanilla End flashes. - Spiders and Cave Spiders retreat from both open and closed Chrysanthemums, even when potted. - Brewable in the ingredient slot with Awkward Potions to create *Potions of Weaving*. ### Void Blooms - Fully matured Chorus Flowers have a chance to grow Void Blooms from any of their surfaces. - Craft a Void Bloom into *Void Sap* — a sticky, glow-lichen-style block. - Smelt Void Sap into Tendril Saplings to farm the green Ethereal wood set and encourage use of vanilla Chorus Flowers. ### Gravitite - *Gravitite Ore* is hidden inside the outer End islands. It is immune to explosions — the easiest way to find it is by blasting the island. - Smelt the ore into *Gravitite Essence*, then craft 9 Essence into *Pure Gravitite*. - Use Pure Gravitite as an armor trim to attract nearby items. Attraction range scales with the number of armor pieces trimmed with it. ### Quantum Gateways - Crafting recipe: 1 Netherite Ingot in the center, surrounded by 4 Beacons on the sides and 4 Voidstar Blocks in the corners. - Place the Quantum Gateway on top of an active beacon to activate it. A particle effect appears around the beacon beam (toggleable with a redstone signal). - Open the Gateway GUI and insert 1 Recovery Compass + 1 Diamond Block to receive a special compass that's now bound to this Gateway. - Hold the special compass and shift + right-click to teleport back to the Quantum Gateway from anywhere in the world (consumes the Recovery Compass). ### King Phantom - Craft 9 Phantom Membranes into *Membrane Blocks*. - Spawn the King Phantom by arranging Membrane Blocks in a 2×3 rectangle with a 2-block "tail" extending from the middle of one of the long sides, then lighting every block on fire. - The King Phantom orbits above players, occasionally swooping for melee damage or firing ranged attacks. It becomes more aggressive below 50% health. - Drops 12 *King Phantom's Essence* on defeat. - Brew the King Phantom's Essence with Awkward Potions to create *Potion of Phantom Ward*, which, well... wards off Phantoms (causes them to ignore you). Thanks, -Ritro