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.

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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.