🎉 Connected 2.0.3 Pre-Alpha: The "Structural Symphony" Edition 🏗️

We're back with another pre-alpha update, bringing you a symphony of structures and a medley of modifications. Ready to build your dreams? Let's dive into what's new!

🗣️ Community Spotlight: We Want Your Thoughts! We're considering some additions and we'd love your input:

• ☁️ Simple Clouds - Just look up. You'll see whats different :)

• 🏆 Advancement Plaques - Adds the big banners at the top of your screen for every achievement.

🌟 What's New in the Cube

🏗️ New Additions

• 🗼 Structory: Towers - Reach for the sky with epic new towers!

• 🏰 Structory - Discover a variety of new structures scattered across the world.

• 🌈 Subtle Effects - Small enhancements that elevate the experience.

• 📚 Fzzy Library - Just a library mod

• 🌫️ Blur+ - Blurs backgrounds, remove distractions.

• 🌙 Midnight Lib - Just a library mod

• 🏛️ YUNG's Better Dungeons - Experience enhanced dungeon crawling!

• 🌴 YUNG's Better Jungle Temples - Explore revamped jungle temples.

• ⛏️ YUNG's Better Mineshafts - More exciting underground explorations await.

• 🔥 YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses - The Nether just got more dangerous.

• 🏝️ YUNG's Better End Islands - Discover captivating new End content.

• 🧙‍♀️ YUNG's Better Witch Huts - Witch huts have been redesigned for more intrigue.

• 📜 YUNG's API - Powers the magic behind YUNG's improvements.

• 🍽️ YUNG's Menu Tweaks - Smoother menu experience for a better UI.

👋 Things We Waved Goodbye To

• Simple splashscreen - Removed for a cleaner interface.

📊 The Numbers Game

• Updated/Added Mods: 56
• Removed Mods: 1 (Goodbye, simple splashscreen)

🔮 Crystal Ball: What's Next?

• 🦋 Naturalist - Add more life to your world with dynamic wildlife.
• 🚫🎇 No Elytra Firework Boost - Fly with skill, not fireworks!
• 🔥 Molten Metals - Craft items from molten metals, adding a new challenge.
• 💰 Create: Numismatics - Economy and coinage come to life.
• 🛒 AstikorCarts Redux - Bring back horse-drawn carts for a rustic touch.
• 🌳 Dynamic Trees - Trees that grow and change over time.
• 🏕️ Let's do Camping - Experience the great outdoors, complete with s'mores.
• ⚙️ Create - Dive into engineering with new mechanics.
• 🧺 Quark - Tons of quality-of-life improvements.
• 🧺 Supplementaries - More decor and utility blocks to enhance your builds.
• 🗡️ Tetra - Customize your tools and weapons like never before.
• 🍕 Create Slice & Dice - Use Create's mechanics to cook food.
• 🏛️ YUNG's mods - Making structures great again
• 🗑️ Delete Worlds To Trash - Save your mistakes for later
• 🧰 Let's do API - For all your doing needs

🆘 Need Help?

Join our Discord for support and share your feedback!

🎉 Connected 2.0.2 Pre-Alpha: The "Vine Time" Edition 🌿

Adventurers, assemble! 🛠️ We're back with another pre-alpha update, packed with fresh features and fixes to keep your Minecraft journey exciting. Ready to dive in? Let's check out what's new!

🌟 What's New in the Cube

🏗️ New Additions

• 🍇 [Let's do] Vinery - Bring some rustic charm with vineyards and winemaking!
• ⚙️ [Let's do] API - The core that powers all the "Let's do" magic!
• 💡 RyoamicLights - Let there be light! Dynamic lighting is here to brighten your path.
• 🖥️ ObsidianUI - The engine behind RyoamicLights, keeping things smooth.
• 🍂 Falling Leaves - More particles, more immersion! Watch the leaves gently fall around you.
• 🔧 Amendments - Extra features to enhance your gameplay experience!

🔧 Tweaks and Changes

• ⚙️ 51 Mod Updates - We've polished up a ton of mods to make everything run smoother than ever!

👋 Things We Waved Goodbye To

• Remove Loading Screen - It was crashing at startup, so we had to let it go.
• Fusion Connected Textures - Removed for better performance and fewer conflicts.

📊 The Numbers Game

• Updated Mods: 51 (Devs have been busy!)
• Removed Mods: 2 (Goodbye, loading screen and Fusion Connected Textures)
• New Mods: 6 (Vinery, API, RyoamicLights, ObsidianUI, Falling Leaves, Amendments)

🔮 Crystal Ball: What's Next?

1. 🦋 Naturalist - For the David Attenborough in you
2. 🚫🎇 No Elytra Firework Boost - Wings only, no cheating!
3. 🔥 Molten Metals - Hot stuff coming through, cast ingots from molten metals
4. 💰 Create: Numismatics - Mo' money, mo' problems
5. 🛒 AstikorCarts Redux - Horse-drawn shopping carts, anyone?
6. 🌳 Dynamic Trees - They grow up so fast
7. 🏕️ Let's do Camping - S'mores included
8. 🧰 Let's do API - For all your doing needs
9. 🏛️ YUNG's mods - Making structures great again
10. 🗡️ Tetra - Customization nation
11. 🗑️ Delete Worlds To Trash - Save your mistakes for later
12. 🍕 Create Slice & Dice - Make food with create
13. 🧺 Quark - Many nice additions
14. 🧺 Supplimentaries - Many more nice additions
15. ⚙️ Create - Let's get engineering!

🆘 Need Help?

Join our Discord for support and to share your feedback!

As always, remember this pack is still in pre-alpha - it's like a work in progress, so your feedback helps shape its future!

🎉 Connected 2.0.1 Pre-Alpha: The "Struttin' and Survivin'" Edition 🚀

Heads up, adventurers! 🧭 We're back with another pre-alpha release, tweaking and tuning to make your Minecraft experience even more epic. Strap in for some changes that'll make you say, "Now that's cool!"

🌟 What's New in the Cube

🏗️ New Additions

• 🏰 Katters Structures - New eye-candy buildings to discover and explore!
• 🧮 Structurify - Because we like our world generation just right

🔧 Tweaks and Changes

• 🥶 Cold Sweat - We've tuned it to be balanced and fair. Check the mod description for customization tips!
• ⚙️ Config Options - We've been tinkering under the hood for optimal performance
• 🏗️ Neoforge - Updated to the latest version for that cutting-edge goodness

👋 Things We Waved Goodbye To

• Terralith - It was causing some terrain tantrums with Cliff under Tree. Plus, we're mixing things up!

🛑 Temporarily Disabled

• ModernFix - It was being a bit crashy in the menu. We'll bring it back when it behaves!

📊 The Numbers Game

• Updated Mods: 31 (They grow up so fast!)
• Removed Mods: 1 (Pour one out for Terralith)
• Disabled Mods: 1 (ModernFix is in time-out)
• New Mods: 2 (Welcome to the family, Katters Structures and Structurify!)

🔮 Crystal Ball: What's Next?

1. 🦋 Naturalist - For the David Attenborough in you
2. 🚫🎇 No Elytra Firework Boost - Wings only, no cheating!
3. 🔥 Molten Metals - Hot stuff coming through, cast ingots from molten metals
4. 💰 Create: Numismatics - Mo' money, mo' problems
5. 🛒 AstikorCarts Redux - Horse-drawn shopping carts, anyone?
6. 🌳 Dynamic Trees - They grow up so fast
7. 🏕️ Let's do Camping - S'mores included
8. 🧰 Let's do API - For all your doing needs
9. 🏛️ YUNG's mods - Making structures great again
10. 🗡️ Tetra - Customization nation
11. 🗑️ Delete Worlds To Trash - Save your mistakes for later
12. 🍕 Create Slice & Dice - Make food with create
13. 🧺 Quark - Many nice additions
14. 🧺 Supplimentaries - Many more nice additions
15. ⚙️ Create - Let's get engineering!

🆘 Need Help?

Join our Discord for support :)

Remember, this pack is still in pre-alpha. It's like a cake that's still baking - lots of potential, but might have a few raw spots. Your feedback helps us make it delicious!

🎉 Connected 1.21.1+ Pre-Alpha: The "We're Getting There!" Edition 🚀

This is not at all compatible with pre 2.0 versions. Treat this as a seperate Pack!

Heads up, adventurers! 🧭 This pre-alpha is like a cake that's still baking - lots of yummy ingredients, but not quite ready for the feast. We're giving you a sneak peek so you can drool over what's cooking and maybe suggest some extra sprinkles!

🌟 New Shiny Things We've Tossed In

World Enhancement

• 🌌 Celestria - Shootin' stars and insomnia
• 🌍 Biome Replacer (Neoforge) - Playing mix-and-match with your world, ported by me :)
• ❄️ Snow Under Trees - Because realism is cool, literally
• 🏔️ Cliff under a Tree (CliffTree) - A nice datapack mod for new world gen

Gameplay Additions

• 🎣 Fishermens Trap - Fish, meet your new nemesis
• 👥 Friends&Foes (+ Beekeeper Hut) - New buddies and... frenemies?
• 🐴🚤 HorseInBoat - For those horseback sailing adventures
• 🧠 Big Brain - Mobs are smarter now
• ⚔️ YDM's Weapon Master - Show off your weapons!
• 🛏️ Comforts - This may be replaced by Let's do Camping
• 🔨 Awesome 3D Mace - Bonk your enemies in style

Building & Decoration

• 🏰 Medieval Buildings (+ End Edition) - Bringing ye olde style to the modern cube
• 🚪🚪 Double Doors - Because one door is never enough
• 🪟 Macaw's Windows - Let the light in!
• 🪑 Macaw's Furniture - Pimp your cube
• 🧱 Chipped - Block variety is the spice of life - over 11,000 new blocks!

Performance & Graphics

• ⚡ Sodium - Replacing Embeddium, now with multiloader support
• 🔋 Sodium Extra - Because regular Sodium wasn't extra enough
• 🔍 Zume - Replaces Zoomify, now with 100% more Zume
• 🌈 Iris - Replaces Oculus, for that extra eye candy

Quality of Life

• 🎵 Now Playing - Curious what song was just playing? Now you know!
• 💤 Unloaded Activity - What happens in unloaded chunks, stays working
• 🏃‍♂️ Remove Reloading Screen - Ain't nobody got time for that
• 💬 Chat Heads - Put a face to the trash talk
• 💂 Guard Villagers - Village safety is no joke
• 🎵 Extra Sounds - For your listening pleasure
• 📝 Notes - Never forget to feed your cat again
• 📦 Functional Storage - Organization is key to world domination

Libraries & APIs

• 🕺 GroovyModLoader - Just a library mod

👋 Things We Waved Goodbye To

• William Wythers Overhauled Overworld - It was overworld-ing
• William Wythers Expanded Ecosphere - It expanded a bit too much
• TerraBlender - We're going full datapack, baby!

🔮 Crystal Ball: Things We're Planning to Add

1. 🦋 Naturalist - For the David Attenborough in you
2. 🚫🎇 No Elytra Firework Boost - Wings only, no cheating!
3. 🔥 Molten Metals - Hot stuff coming through, cast ingots from molten metals
4. 💰 Create: Numismatics - Mo' money, mo' problems
5. 🛒 AstikorCarts Redux - Horse-drawn shopping carts, anyone?
6. 🌳 Dynamic Trees - They grow up so fast
7. 🏕️ Let's do Camping - S'mores included
8. 🧰 Let's do API - For all your doing needs
9. 🏛️ YUNG's mods - Making structures great again
10. 🗡️ Tetra - Customization nation
11. 🗑️ Delete Worlds To Trash - Save your mistakes for later
12. 🍕 Create Slice & Dice - Make food with create
13. 🧺 Quark - Many nice additions
14. 🧺 Supplimentaries - Many more nice additions
15. ⚙️ Create - Let's get engineering!

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Remember, folks: this pack is like a fine wine or a good cheese - it gets better with time. Stay tuned for more updates, and don't forget to report any weird and wacky bugs you find. Happy crafting! 🛠️🎮

🆘 Need Help?

Join our Discord for support. I typically respond pretty fast.

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Lastly, thank you to AI for cleaning up my update notes. Don't know what'd I'd do without ya

Removed some unneeded recipes now that world gen is better.

Updated all mods

Testing experimental performance increases

Elytras may still not work as expected :(

This is a beta because the Elytra slot is currently causing crashes, so it is disabled for now. This shouldnt break anything.

Added Chunk Loaders

Updated all of the mods that could be.

Cleaned Up Configs

Updated Mods

Fixed a very specifc Mac Crash

Add Lucky's Spelunkers Charm 2 - Makes caves more spooky

Updated all mods

Fixed Cristel Lib Crash Updated Mods

Fixed terrain glitches Cleaned up the configs

Updated all mods. Fixed alot of wierd crashes and issues.

(Sorry for the lack of updates, modrinth's API was very broken)

Join the discord: https://discord.gg/KTCPJma3

Added:

• Comforts
• Tetra Extras

Changes:

Added Recipies for dripstone, kind of broken sometimes for world gen so might as well ad a balanced recipe.

Fixed somethings

Added:

• CC:Tweaked
• Tom's peripherals
• cut through - cut through grass

Updated all da mods, fixed somethings

Prolly broke somethings

Added

• Quark

Notes

• Fixed a couple of crashes and other things. Updated mods.
• Removed Unneeded duplicate mods
• Currently there is still one noticable annoying bug, caused by Beans Backpacks - If you join a server you will get an error, just join again and it will work :)

Fixed several bugs, Backpacks crashing, Goggles crashing, etc

temporarily removed No Telemetry

Added Backpacks

Overhauled Structures

Very Close to release!

Optimized & downsized the mods - got rid of unneeded ones

Fixed Euphorium

Added Better F3

Removed the zombie related mods added previously

Removed enhanced Celetials

Updated mods :) Swapped some mods for better efficency

Create Missions and Create Additions have been removed, before updating break any create additions blocks or liquid blaze burners (the ones with straws) Create Missions has been removed because the developer kinda keeps breaking it and its also no longer needed :)