Floating Gardens is a skyblock pack based on Garden of Glass. It adds several small quality of life and building mods to flush out the experience. The pack aims to improve those parts of the game while still feeling like a "pure" Garden of Glass pack.
I've made quite a few small changes to the pack to make sure everything is obtainable. I've added recipes to everything from Rustic herbs to Quark cave crystals, so you should be able to obtain just about everything.
Building Mods:
The pack includes a handful of building mods. The big ones are:
- Natura
- Rustic
- Earthworks
- Quark
- Bibliocraft
- Corrial Pillar
- Chisels and Bits
- Barkifier
- Ranbow Oaks
- Colorful Water
- Charset Chests
- Sign Picture
Quality of Life Mods:
I also added a few quality of life mods. The big ones are:
- Better Builders Wands
- Simulsax Transtructors
- Super Sound Muffler
- Tape Mouse
- Simple Harvest
- Fast Leaf Decay
- Quark Oddities
- Forgiving Void
- Worse Barrels
- Impart
Custom Islands:
You can choose between five islands when you start a new world.
Shard:
A detailed lime green crystal is surrounded by a stone ring and four small islands. This island type gives you easy access to alfglass and four colors of Botania grass. These are aesthetically pleasing, but won't let you progress faster.
Two Stones:
This one gives easy access to dirt, stone, and a small amount of coal ore. Monsters can spawn on the lower island at night, so be careful.
Jungle Star:
This one is the most generous island. It's made of six islands connected by jungle bridges. It offers multiple colors of Botania grass, sugarcane, plenty of dirt and stone, a Rainbow Oak tree, and a single petal apothacary.
Classic Skyblock:
This is a replica of the classic skyblock map from many years ago. The chest contains leather armor, roots and a single piece of ice.
GoG:
This is the classic Garden of Glass island everyone knows is still available if you want the classic GoG experience.
All changes:
This is a more or less complete list of every change I made to the pack. Most of these are there to make sure you can obtain every item in the game without making a non-skyblock world.
-Barkifier: Improved the crafting recipe for the barkifier wand
-Better Builders Wands: Iron, diamond and unbreakable wands require Botania components
-Botania Tweaks: Players can till Botania grass
-Botania Tweaks: Sheep can eat Botania grass
-Botania Tweaks: Statistics keep track of all mana generated
-Botania Tweaks: Dispensers can fill empty bottles with ender air
-Earthworks: Added alchemy recipes to chalk
-Earthworks: Added crafting recipes for purple slate, green slate and blue slate
-Natura: Overhauled recipe for inactive respawn obelisk to use Botania items (including a wrath rune)
-Natura: Added alchemy recipes for turning apples into overworld berries
-Natura: Added crafting recipes to turn overworld berries and oak leaves into bushes
-Natura: Added a recipe for turning a cactus and a water rune into a saguaro cactus
-Natura: Added a recipe to flame string that uses mana string and 2 blaze powder
-Natura: All of the overworld saplings can be crafted in a petal apothacary using a sapling and petals
-Natura: Disabled wooden/quartz tools and wooden sticks (they were uncraftable anyway)
-Natura: Fixed recipes for bows
-Impart: Improved crafting recipe for the eye of tethering
-Quark: Added alchemy recipes for marble, pirate hats, crystals, glowcelium, glowshrooms, brimstone, and permafrost
-Quark: Disabled the enderman anti-cheese feature
-Quark: Disabled alternate animal skins
-Quark: Craft Quark chests from equivilant Charset chests
-Rainbow oaks: Added a petal apothacary recipe for the sapling using a sapling and petals
-Random Tweaks: Disabled crop trampling
-Random Tweaks: Disabled bats dropping leather
-Rustic: Both saplings can be crafted in a petal apothacary using a sapling and petals
-Rustic: Added an alchemy recipe for turning maloberries into wildberries
-Rustic: Added an alchemy recipe for turning wildberries and oak leaves into a wildberry plant
-Rustic: Slate generates in the nether instead of the overworld
-Rustic: Slate veins are rarer but larger
-Rustic: Seeds are 7 times rarer
-Rustic: Disabled smelting flesh into tallow to encourage use of Quark's tallow
-Rustic: Plants used in alchemy can be made in a petal apothacary
-Rustic: Painted wood is made from living wood planks instead of normal planks to fix recipe conflict
-Rustic: Changed wooden stake recipe to fix recipe conflict
-Vanilla: Added an alchemy recipe for turning feathers into eggs
-Vanilla: Added an alchemy recipe for turning cellular blocks into dirt
-Vanilla: Craft oak vanilla chests from oak Charset chests
-Vanilla: Cobblestone can be made from a single pebble and a bit of mana in a standard mana pool
-Void Island Control: Added Four custom islands: Classic, Two Stones, Jungle Star and Shard
-Void Island Control: Disabled the sand, snow and wood islands as they can't be played without Sky Resources
-Void Island Control: Increased island width to 2,000 x 2,000 blocks
-Void Island Control: Stopped the end and nether from generating as a void