This is a checklist of planned features for v2.0, and will be updated as I finish things / find new ones.

General/Large scale changes:

• Remove unnecessary built-in packs
• Biome tints
• Look over feature placement and distribution in all biomes, tweak it as necessary - seems to be reasonable
• Consider a pre-release?
• Trailer for update (release when update is out, but complete before)
• Trailer description
• When all else is done, backport to 1.19.2 for one final release (maybe bugfixes later as well, may also port v2.1 possibly)

Config:

• Configuration option for Bronze Dungeon structure upgrades
• Disable mining speed changes by default
• Configuration option to disable Gilded/Golden vines
• Config to disable the cloud layer datapack

Resources / Built-in Packs:

• Remove many of the existing built-in packs, they can be moved to the Reforged II resource pack
• Consider moving mob sound changes to built-in packs
• Modify classic cockatrices pack, so that_instead_ there is a 'purple cockatrices' or 'blighted cockatrices' pack that is enabled by default (should also affect the default model cockatrices)
• Alter Aechor Plant design
• Veridium pack variants for veridium dart shooter
• Update Jappified pack, add new rings

Reworks:

• Rework Subzero Crossbow, new particles, splash effect?
• Phoenix Ring -> Phoenix Emblem
• Valkyrie Ring -> Grand Victory Medal (gives health regen that scales as health decreases, along with removing the need to collect more medals for every valk queen fight)
• Enchanted ring should be a base to craft other ring accessories
• Sentry Ring rework - will be a variant of the enchanted ring; hitting enemies while wearing will cause electric embers to spark off of them, damaging other mobs they hit and creating nice spark particles
• Change the method of obtaining the Slider Music disc

Additions:

• Airbound Cape (replaces previous sentry ring, gives double jump)
• Raw Gravitite
• Raw Gravitite Block
• Gravitite Ingot (implement fully in future update)
• Ring of Wisdom (grants additional xp drops)
• Shroom ring (Gives an adrenaline ability)
• Veridium arrows (more damage and more accuracy than normal arrows
• Nerf veridium arrow damage and make them a tiny bit faster if possible
• Replace Veridium Arrows with Veridium Dart Shooters
• Redux Menu screen
• (MAYBE, may save for a future update) implement a Paradise Lost-like swet behavior

Tweaks:

• Increase number of maximum layers in leaf piles, allow stacking of leaf piles on top of eachother
• Add biome colors for aether biomes that match their climates
• Add the same but for aether grass in vanilla biomes
• Increase spawnrate of veridium
• Make golden clover item use top texture
• Holysilt + Aether dirt to make Coarse Aether Dirt
• Potentially rename Aether Grass’s id from aether_short_grass to short_aether_grass
• Suffix for Redux advancements
• Jade overrides to indicate things like mob model changes
• Change grass patch feature to not place on coarse dirt
• Improve Gravitite Ingot texture
• Fully implement Gravitite Ingot config (config enables datapack, maybe adds lore overrides? Not sure)
• Improve Veridium Ore texture (make it fit better with the base mod holystone)
• Nerf Veridium sword
• Further nerf the snailshell shield
• Decrease size of mossy holystone and aerogel blobs
• Redo menu panorama
• Rename Phoenix emblem to Solar Emblem
• - Modified by the Aether: Redux - suffix for the gravitite advancement when the ingot config is enabled
• Fix Infused dart shooter chute (shoot?) pallete
• Raw Gravitite blocks should not use the rare color
• Alter Cloudcap spawnrate
• Switch Solar Emblem to use vanilla item cooldown system

Code refactors:

• Use mixins rather than renderer overrides for mob model changes
• Remove biome placement patches, as the new biome tints along with block-below-predicate patches render them completely useless
• Fade effect for fallen leaves rather than instantaneous disappearance
• Redo vanilla block tint system for the aether

Things to investigate:

• Figure out how to use biome modifiers to add a grass color variable seperate from vanilla’s
• Mixin to make mobs avoid quicksoil? But this time for QuicksoilBlock itself to prevent compat issues
• Potentially mixin to fix a neoforge bug related to biome modifiers and grass color, also report to neoforge issue tracker (mixin bc they’re unlikely to fix it for 1.20.1)

Removals:

• Remove Bundle of Aether Grass
• Remove oat muffins ):
• Remove depth parameter from the blight / cloudcaps
• Remove Double Cloudcap plants
• Remove Quickroots

Fixes:

• Fix weird behavior from the getCandidatePacks method in the ReduxOverridesPackResources class
• Fix incorrect buff of uninfused veridium sword rather than infused one
• Make Zanberry bushes spawn properly
• Log error for dark swet loot modifier

Wyndsprouts and other sprouts rework:

• Remove Oats
• Remove Luxbuds and their purified variant
• Move Luxbud advancement to cockatrice feather
• Add bundles of wyndsprouts
• Wyndsprout seeds
• Wyndsprout Bagel (may alter name in future)
• Other variants of the bagel, like blueberry (could also mix the three sprout seeds with it for an everything bagel lol)
• Oatmeal
• Wyndsprout Crop

Gilded Groves rework:

• Remove Aevyrn Bushes
• Add config to switch between normal/enchanted grass
• Implement enchanted blockstates for plants in the biome (or for white flowers, implement a seperate block)
• Make Golden Oaks more common than Gilded ones
• Secondary, potentially more open biome variant, maybe with more Gilded trees and no stone ‘cracks’ on ground (Gilded Grasslands?)
• Consider bringing back the Zyatrix for the grasslands
• Config to use skyroot-like gilded oak shapes

Blight rework:

• Remove Blighted Fungi
• Implement Corrupted Vines
• Try to make cockatrices spawn here at daytime
• Blightbunny
• Blightbunny tooth
• Spear of the Blight
• Increase chance to blight mobs when hit with a thrown spear of the blight
• Make the spear enchantable
• Inebriation Potion from Blighted spores (Potion of Intoxication?)
• Redo Blightwillow Tree shape
• Give blightwillows more height variation
• Feather of Endurance accessory
• Make Blighted Caves even rarer outside the blight, perhaps more common in it
• Blightwillow Leaf Piles
• Blighted Aerclouds (will heal blight mobs such as cockatrices and blightbunnies and will harm others)

Highfields (Skyfields) rework:

• Remove Chromatic Bushes (More specifically, rename them, retexture them, and move them to the unnamed Shrublands biome)
• Increase chance of spawning Skyroot trees
• Remove Firecaps
• Add white/purple flowers
• Implement Xaelia flowers
• Fix Xaelia worldgen
• Crystal tree spawns?
• Rename to skyfields
• Rename fieldsprout to fieldsproot
• Fix missing item model stuff for fieldsproot leaves and fieldsproot petals
• Fix language name thing for fieldsproot leaves

Cloudcaps rework:

• Redo mushroom shape
• Redesign Springshrooms
• Implement Shimmerstools
• Spore particles from Cloudcap Spores
• Large patches of coarse dirt
• Springshroom Jelly block
• Retexture Avelium
• Maybe turn Lightroots into a vine-like block similar to glow lichen?
• Rocks
• Implement Shimmercow
• Fungal Caves
• Consider using randomized textures for cloudcap cap blocks
• Mykapod (funny mushroom snail thing)
• Mykapod Shell chunk
• Snailshell Shield (cancels knockback, may nerf to a ~75% or so knockback resistance)
• Shell Shingles block (blast-resistant, placeable by dispensers, breakable by pistons, enchantable into hardened variant which does not have the dispenser and piston behavior, maybe has some alternative behavior)
• Mykapod sounds
• Figure out what on earth is happening with the mykapod shedding animation???
• Related - Figure out why mykapod animation is wonky when pausing the game
• Make mykapods spawn in the biome properly
• Make lightroots spawn on avelium
• Make shimmercow have glowing back mushrooms (use entity emissive translucent rendertype)

Frosted Forests rework:

• Add snow layers
• Purple variant of Glacia trees
• Two sub-biomes, frosted tundra and glacial taiga
• Aerogel patches in stone?
• Increased spawnrate of Icestone
• Remove Frosted Holystone
• Rework Frosted Fern texture
• Snow side texture for glacia leaves
• Decrease density of trees in frosted tundra

New biome: Skyroot Shrublands:

• Rename Chromaberries, give them a new dark green bush/shrub to grow on
• Implement biome
• Trees (less dense than other biomes)
• Bushes
• Rework Frosted Ferns to no longer be just cold biome plants and put them here
• Slightly more tan/yellowish grass color
• Genesis pine shaped trees
• Denser grass
• Denser bushes
• Coarse dirt patches

Mod Compatibility:

• Aether: Genesis falling leaves
• Bring changes from base mod biomes to Genesis vibrant biomes
• Galosphere Glow/Spectral flare support for Subzero Crossbow
• Make Coarse Aether Dirt interchangeable with Deep Aether’s Aether Coarse Dirt
• Ancient Aether grass compatibility
• Deep Aether plant tints
• Ancient Aether plant tints
• Investigate gravitation for compat features
• Ancient Aether Sky grass feature compat
• Ancient Aether falling leaves

Other things to do:

• Update screenshots on all three mod pages (curseforge, modrinth, planetminecraft)
• Redo mod description
• Update GitHub description
• Finish GitHub credits section

pre-release is out!
https://github.com/Zepalesque/The-Aether-Redux/releases

IT’S DOOOOOOOONE!!!

Hmm, I should probably convert this to a github project
Edit: nah

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa this update is going to take forever

hmm, I think I’m going to split this into three seperate issues:
2.0 features, 2.1 plans and future plans
That way I’m not tracking things I need to do for this update in the same place as future features

Hey 😄 , when are you planning next release so that #52 will be included?

Likely in the near future, the update isn’t quite done yet but I’d like to get it finished relatively soon