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I just recently finished reading Peter V. Brett's "The Demon Cycle" book series, and I thought that a lot of the content would make a great Minecraft mod. New weapons, mobs, structures, ores, even defense! I'd love to make it myself, but I have no coding know-how whatsoever.

This being one of my favorite mods I've ever played, I'm incredibly excited to hear that they're getting close to updating. Hoping for more models!!

Not sure what's going on, but MC will never start when I download codechickencore.

More times than I can count I have accidentally crafted too many of the same item, and come to regret it later. I think it would be incredibly helpful to have a feature of the [crafting table or anvil or new item] to reduce an unwanted item back to its basic materials, which you then receive. Of course, you'd need all 4 of the torches or whatever it is in order to get the full refund.

If you're looking for downloads only, then this might be what you're looking for:

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Gun Customization Mod

Warfield 3 Mod

Future Warfield 3 Mod

GunCus Addon Downloads

Wholy's Pack

ROTFLOL MCWeapons Pack

Blackguard Gun Pack

Simple CoD

Riowind's World War II Gun Pack

Xentonic's GunCus Halo Pack

The Mighty Waffles Pack

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Table of Contents:

Overview
Changes in how things work
Frequently Asked Questions
[WIP] The Cubic Chunks Mod!
Gallery
Supporting this suggestion
Special thanks

[spoiler=Tl:dr]Q: Won't this increase lag?
A: Absolutely not. The title of this suggestion and big red letters at the top of this post aren't lying. If you want to know how, then I suggest you actually read this post.

Q: Will this change terrain? Will this break existing worlds?
A: No. Terrain change is not necessary. Existing worlds can be converted fairly easily with a process described later in this post.

Q: How can sunlight or rain work with infinite vertical space?
A: I suggest you read Coping with sunlight, because it's too complex for a tl;dr.

Q: I have a different question but still don't feel like reading this post. What do I do?
A: Too bad, read the FAQ. I put way too much work into this for the entirety of it to be ignored.[/spoiler]

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Overview:

In Minecraft, the sky is the limit - literally. It doesn't matter how many thousands of blocks a player has traveled, or what dimension they're in, or even if they're playing in creative or survival, the highest they can ever build is up to a height of 256. Why is that? If Minecraft can have a world that's infinite in the north, in the south, in the east, and in the west, why can't that world be infinite up and down too?

In Minecraft's earliest days, in Classic and Indev, the world was not infinite in any direction. This was because the entire world needed to be generated at the same time, and the entire world needed to be simulated at the same time as well. This led to a conundrum - the bigger the world, the more it lagged.
Notch didn't like this. He knew his players liked to explore and build large creations, so he found a way to make the world truly infinite. When the Minecraft '' class='bbc'>Infdev came out, it brought with it truly infinite worlds. Suddenly, players could travel hundreds of thousands of blocks in any direction, and never encounter a barrier, or become too laggy.
The Infdev update brought about a very large change to Minecraft worlds to accomplish this feat. For the first time, instead every world being just a single huge piece, they were broken up into a two-dimensional grid of pieces, called chunks. Through breaking the world up into pieces, this 'chunk system' enabled infinite worlds by letting Minecraft create new pieces and simulate them only when it needs to.

Why does that not apply to the vertical axis? Because the type of 'chunk system' Minecraft uses right now is a linear one, which, by using only a two-dimensional grid to map out chunks, means that it is impossible for chunks to stack on top of one another, and by extension, meaning that a single chunk must cover the entire vertical space. This brings back the problem that the Infdev update was supposed to eradicate, now only with chunks, instead of an entire world; the bigger a chunk is, the more laggy it is. You can't just increase the height limit and make chunks taller, because it will become laggier, and laggier, and laggier to do it.
That's why, to fix this, Minecraft must change over to a cubic chunk system. Under this system, 16³ block chunks are aligned on a three-dimensional grid, completely eliminating maximum height as an aspect of lag.

The immediate benefits:
•Minecraft worlds become as virtually infinite vertically as they are horizontally: The absolute limit being Y = ±30,000,000.
•A large FPS increase: Alpha testers report an FPS increase of 100~200%.
•Increase in running capability: Computers running Minecraft on Tiny render distance will handle only 30% the blocks they do now.

The possible features:
•Spherical render/load distance: Reduce handled blocks by up to 30% by cutting corners made of unneeded chunks.
•Server chunk occlusion/exclusion: Reduce bandwidth usage and defeat hackers by only sending data for visible chunks.
•Three-dimensional biomes: Save biome data per chunk rather than per block column, create volcanoes with magma chambers, underground rivers, tropical skylands floating over icy taigas, and more.

The disadvantages:
•Unloaded gravity-pause: Falling non-player entities and fluids will be forced to pause their fall if they reach unloaded chunks, but will resume falling when those chunks are loaded.
•Slow falling-pause: Players with slower computers and smaller render distances will have falling occasionally paused as they fall into unloaded chunks, until new chunks can be loaded.

The problems:
•Current sunlight and rain calculation methods cannot work with infinite vertical space: The solution to this is described here.
•Current BiomeDecorator cannot work with multiple vertical chunks simultaneously: The BiomeDecorator code must be altered to function correctly with this, or removed.
•Current cave generation method is executed an extra time for each vertical chunk created simultaneously, leading to lag spikes on world generation: Cave generation's method must be altered to suit this system more.
•Current grass/dirt generation algorithm forces additional chunk requests when chunks are loaded, causing chunks to load slower than they should: This algorithm must be replaced with something else.

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Changes in how things work:

Obviously, the implementation of this new chunk system will change quite a few things. These changes are mostly either necessary or in the interest of increased efficiency. Such changes are categorized and explained below.

How worlds will be stored:
[spoiler]How the current storage works, and what changes:
Interestingly enough, the current method of storage, the Anvil format, is derived from the storage method that the original Cubic Chunks mod used. The Anvil format stores individual chunk as a series of 16³ quasi-cubic chunks. These 'fake' cubic chunks allow for easier reference of specific data, but they still can't be separated from each other, meaning that it fails to reap the full benefits of this system. Even so, the change allowed Mojang to double the maximum height with no performance hit. Chunks are stored in groups of 32², inside 'MCRegion' files, for a total of 1024 chunks.
By nature, cubic chunks does away with the 'quasi-cubic' nonsense. In terms of chunk grouping, instead of using groups of 32³ chunks, new "3DRegion" files would contain groups of 16³. This means each 3DRegion file contains 4096 chunks, four times as many as MCRegion files. However, each 3DRegion contains only one fourth the amount of blocks. For per-chunk positional metadata, 3DRegion files would use the same number of bits as MCRegion files, after compression. Calculations show that the same area encompassed by a single MCRegion file would consume 64 kilobytes of extra space with 4 3DRegion files, which is nothing.

Converting existing worlds:
Most people are probably wondering something like "But won't this totally destroy all existing worlds?". Absolutely not; conversion could not be simpler. When a non-cubic world is loaded after the implementation of this system, a conversion process will begin and convert the entire world at once(To avoid making chunk loading take longer during play). First, all existing MCRegion files will be divided into quarters to create 3DRegion files. Then, all existing chunks are divided into sixteenths using the quasi-cubic properties to identify boundaries. After that, conversion is done.

The "isEmpty" flag optimization:
A 1-bit flag is added to each chunk, named "isEmpty". If the chunk consists of 100% air blocks, this bit is 1, any other case makes it 0. When the bit is 1, all data for the chunk besides the isEmpty flag is deleted and ignored, which reduces filesize. Empty chunks are never loaded, and locations where they occur are merely simulated as entities reside in them. The chunk will only load when something requires saving inside it.[/spoiler]

Changes to terrain, ores, etcetera:
[spoiler]Terrain:
By default, nothing will change. Small bits of terrain generation code need to be reconfigured to work properly with Cubic Chunks.

Biomes:
By default, nothing will change.

Ore generation:
By default, nothing will change.

Structures:
By default, nothing will change.

The Void:
After conversion to Cubic Chunks, the void and bedrock layer will still exist and generate as they always have. However, the void(Not the bedrock layer!) will not exist as a hard limit and is able to be moved, but not removed, by editing an associated NBT data tag inside a world's level.dat. This feature, that allows for increasing the maximum depth, is intentionally disabled without external programs, to prevent terrain change of any sort. It is intended to be used by experienced mapmakers and world generation mods only.

Superflat settings:
Existing superflat worlds will not change. However, new superflat worlds will gain a new decoration parameter, 'void'. Inclusion of this parameter will cause the void to form below the lowest defined layer. Exclusion of it will cause all layers below the lowest defined layer to copy the settings of that layer.[/spoiler]

Coping with sunlight:
[spoiler]There used to be a solution here, but it wasn't deemed good enough by Jeb. Suggest solutions in this thread.[/spoiler]

Changes to servers:
[spoiler]Settings:
There's a setting inside the Server.properties file called 'max-build-height'. The setting makes it impossible for any player to place or remove blocks above that height.
With the implementation of Cubic Chunks, a new setting named "maximum-generation-depth" would be added. The void, bedrock layers, and magma layers will generate normally at and above the Y level designated by the value of this setting.

Chunk occlusion/exclusion:
Using the raytracing methods already available in the code and used for explosion calculations, servers can identify which chunks are visible to a player, within safe assumptions, and only send the data for those chunks. This both reduces bandwidth usage, and cripples the usefulness of X-Ray cheats.[/spoiler]

Render/Load distance alterations:
[spoiler]After the implementation of Cubic Chunks, view distances' radii will apply to the vertical axis too. This reduces handled blocks in the cases of tiny and short render distances, and increases them in the cases of normal and far render distances. This can be optimized by utilizing a spherical render distance instead of a cubic one, which would reduce handled blocks in all distances except Far.[/spoiler]

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Frequently Asked Questions:

[spoiler=FAQ]Q: This is impossible.
A: No it's not. See below.

Q: Is this available as a mod?
A: Not yet! But it will be!

Q: I like X-ray! What if I don't want it to be broken?
A: First of all, breaking X-ray hacks will only be possible to do in multiplayer. That said, the system that would break X-ray would be possible to disable by the server owner. If the owner doesn't disable the system, then they don't want you using X-ray, and you should not be doing what the server owner doesn't want in the first place.

Q: I play on a PvP/Anarchy/Raid/Faction server. Won't this system let people pillar up into the sky and create a base thousands of blocks in the air and never be found?
A: No.

Q: I like Minecraft's current height limits. What if I don't want to have an infinite sky or infinite underground?
A: If this system is added, all worlds will not automatically gain an infinite underground. As stated below, the Void will remain in all worlds, even after the conversion to Cubic Chunks. The ability to remove the Void will simply be there. As for infinite space in the sky, the current build limit is over one hundred blocks above any terrain that vanilla Minecraft can possibly generate. It is ENTIRELY your decision on whether or not you take advantage of this height. If you play on a server, like stated above, the server owner can set a maximum build height. If s/he doesn't, then don't play on their server - you don't play on servers where the server owners allow things you don't like. Why would you play on an anarchy server if you hate being stolen from and killed?

Q: Will this affect Redstone at all?
A: No. This system will simply make it possible to make larger redstone circuitry than before.

Q: Won't this break existing worlds?
A: No. Existing worlds can be easily converted by dividing each MCRegion file into 4 pieces, then slicing the existing 256 block-high chunks inside them into 16 individual chunks.

Q: Won't this affect mods? Won't mod authors have a hard time updating their mods?
A: The answer to this question depends solely on the answer to the following two questions: Do parts of the modification code rely on chunk data/metadata? Does the mod author want to take advantage of the features of the new chunk system? If the answers to the first and second question are both "No", then updating a mod to this system should be very easy and quick. If the answer to the first question is "Yes", then those parts of the code will need to be rewritten somewhat, but in most cases, the changes should be fairly quick and easy. The only time that it should be hard to update a mod to this system, is if the answer to the second question is "Yes".

Q: Won't this require a total rewrite of the mod API if that's released first?
A: No. Whether or not even a small part of the mod API needs to be rewritten depends on the way that it is implemented and whether or not there are API inclusions for chunk handling and other chunk-related behavior.

Q: Could a player fall into unloaded chunks if chunks aren't loaded fast enough?
A: No, they could not, and for several reasons. Minecraft has a terminal velocity, though it might not seem like it. This velocity is slower than it should take to load new chunks below the player. In cases with exceptionally slow computers, even if the player did manage to reach an unloaded chunk, their fall would be paused until that chunk can be loaded.

Q: What would happen when water, sand, or a mob falls into an unloaded chunk?
A: Nothing. The water/sand/mob would freeze in place until the chunk is loaded and it can continue moving. You can already see this same thing happening on the horizontal axis.

Q: What will happen to the Void?
A: It will still exist, along with all its effects. The only difference is that the Void is no longer a hard limit and it can be moved. After the conversion to Cubic Chunks, the Void's location will be stored in a world's ' class='bbc'>level.dat, and this location can be changed with NBT editing tools. When and where the Void exists, chunks will cease to generate.

Q: Will this affect terrain?
A: No. However, terrain generators will gain the ability to use infinite height.

Q: Will this affect ore generation?
A: No. Ore is a part of terrain generation. As stated above, terrain will not be changed.

Q: Won't all current terrain generators be incompatible with this system and need to be rewritten?
A: No. Terrain generators work independently of chunks. When a chunk is generated for the first time, it calls the terrain generator and receives a specific section of the resultant terrain to save inside itself. Because of this, some custom terrain generators can generate steep terrain all the way to Y256, where you can experience a large, flat cut-off. Since there are no chunks above Y256 to call the terrain generator for terrain, no terrain exists there.

Q: What would happen if there's a huge solid ceiling so far above you that it is unloaded? Wouldn't you just see the sky, just with everything being completely dark?
A: Yes. This already happens on the horizontal axis, and it is an issue with sky rendering, not this chunk system. As such, this has nothing to do with this suggestion. Please do not post about this.

Q: If you go deep underground, will your plants grow/ores smelt/animals grow?
A: No, because those chunks would be unloaded, just as if you had walked far away. This is a flaw with any chunk system, regardless of shape. It is a necessary evil that allows Minecraft to have infinite worlds. The only way to fix this would be to introduce a separate new system that works with chunks as they are loaded and unloaded. This suggestion deals with the chunk system itself, and not sister processes. Because of that, that is outside of the scope of this suggestion. Please do not post about this.[/spoiler]

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[WIP] The Cubic Chunks Mod! (Tall Worlds Mod):

Cuchaz has taken it upon himself to bring us the glorious Cubic Chunks, since Mojang refuses to do so.

Cuchaz is using a API of his own creation to help assist in the making of this mod, and he's quite far along, as seen in these two tech demo videos:
[spoiler=T-Demo 1: Vertical chunk loading][/spoiler]
[spoiler=T-Demo 2: Broken height cap and no lag!][/spoiler]
With the basic functionality in place - a complete overhaul of the basic chunk system, and height limit removed - this whole concept can already be considered proven. What remains is making sure everything else functions correctly under the new chunk system. In any case, stay tuned for future updates if it interests you(If it doesn't, then you are the weakest link - goodbye!).

You can follow the mod's development in much more depth in its very own topic!

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Gallery:

[spoiler=A mountainside with an experimental engine using Cubic Chunks designed by Nocte. 960 block view radius, and 30 FPS.][/spoiler]
[spoiler=A different view of the mountainside with the same engine by Nocte. This time, with 1600 block view radius and 15 FPS.][/spoiler]
[spoiler="A video demonstrating Nocte's engine."]

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Support & Submission to Mojang:

If you support this, hit the rep button in the bottom-left corner of this post. It is the only good way of accurately measuring support here.

If you wish, you can put the following banner, courtesy of laz2727, into your signature. It helps to attract support from all parts of the forum!

 [url=http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1707097-cubic-chunks-infinite-height-elimination-of-x-ray-and-more-60-supporters/page__st__0][img]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/443/hov.png[/img][/url]

Please help us get word out of this suggestion! Share this with your friends, with Minecraft celebrities if you're familiar with them, or even with Mojangsters like Jeb or Dinnerbone! (Do not share this with Notch. Notch doesn't work with Minecraft anymore.)

The purpose of this suggestion is to have Cubic Chunks implemented in Vanilla. Being available as a modification does not fulfill that purpose. The modification featured in this suggestion is to act as a proof-of-concept only(Note: Its being featured here is to act as a proof-of-concept. The modification itself is on its way to becoming a fully fledged modification).

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Special thanks:
Cuchaz, for taking Barteks' proof and running with it, to give us a truly functional Cubic Chunks mod.
Barteks2x, for updating the Cubic Chunks mod to 1.6.2, proving that it is possible.
Azraile, for posting the original suggestion and allowing me to take ownership of it.
Nocte, for helping resolve flaws and designing Hexahedra.
MineCrak, for a large amount of valuable insight and enthusiasm into the topic of Cubic Chunks.
aaronfranke, for helping resolve flaws.
PanJouda, for creating the original banner.
Flexico, for creating the predecessor to the current banner.
laz2727, for creating the current banner.
Robinton, for creating the original Cubic Chunks mod.
The_Watchman13, for answering all those stupid questions so I don't have to.

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Note: Many calculations and information can be found among the many posts of this topic. There are too many for me to cite here, but if you wish, you can search for them yourself.

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30/11/2013
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29/11/2013
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Screenshot(s) (there may be screens of not-yet-published versions, too)






General Information
This mod will add:
- Lot of abilities
- An huge amount of items
- Active and passive effects
- New player HP system
- Mana and other stats

This mod wont add:
- Creeps/minions, towers, radiants/nexuses etc..
- Money to buy items (you have to find them in chests or you get them by trading)
- An exact copy of the item XXX from the game YYY (If you want this instead, check out this mod)



Player Stats
All base stats a player has at the beginning. Each stat is improvable by having items.

HP (Base: 300)
Max HP (Base: 300 HP | + 20 HP / Level)
HP Regeneration (Base: +3 HP / 5 Seconds)
Mana (Base: 0)
Max Mana (Base: 100)
Mana Regeneration (Base: 0 HP / 5 Seconds)
Armor (Base: 0)
Magic Resistance (Base: 0)
Tenacity (Base: 0)
Attack Damage (Base: 15 | + 2 Attack Damage / Level)
Attack Speed (Base: 0.5 Attacks / Second)
Critical Strike Chance (Base: 0%)
Knowledge (Base: 0)
Armor Penetration (Base: 0)
Magic Penetration (Base: 0)

As you can see, you only start with a few stats. And only 2 increase per level. There are some other special stats but I dont need to list them up here. Theyre explained in the items' descriptions.



true/false Stats
Stats also have some true or false statements wich can affect a player everytime:

Bleeding (true/false) - Disables your passive Mana and HP Regeneration. Buffs still work.
Invulnerable (true/false) - I dont have to explain more here
Magic Immune (true/false) - Every type of magic effect cant be used on you. Wether buffs or just magic damage. But care: Positive effects cant be used on you, too!
Silenced (true/false) - You cant use any magic item anymore. No active effects.
Blinded (true/false) - Your normal damage is disabled. Wether using a sword or a bow, youll miss the target.
Invisible (true/false) - No player can see you! But mobs still smell you...

Without any item affecting these stats, every stats is set on "false".


Abilities
Well... actually abilities are just items with active effects. Thats basically an ability. So an item can improve specific stats AND can have active and/or passive effects at a time. So lets call the abilities "items" now.

You can split all items into 2 parts. Magic and non-magic. There are some differences:

Non-magic can be bought from villagers.

Magic items can only be found in naturally generated chests (dungeon chests). Sometimes you can also buy them at a village.

And nearly all magic items have active effects (except Tier 1 and Tier 2 Items). Also, most of active effects deal magic damage. You can only improve magic damage by getting some knowledge. And only magic items give you knowledge. Same with magic reststance, mana and mana regeneration.

Items can also be compined. For example a "Sharp Edge" gives you bonus attack damage. If you combine it with "Dead Toad" ("Dead Toad" doesnt give you any stats or effects) you get a poisined edge with the following effect that poisions you target for a couple of seconds.



Help Me!
You dont need to code/texture to help a mod growing up. Your doing a lot by sharing this with your friends or other people, by making video showcases and - of course - by playing it! Also, giving feedback is really important. So please help me making this mod popular!



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Items List Spells!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!111111!1



Buffs List



About Mobs
Nearly every Item and Spell can be used against mobs, too. Except Attack Damage: U still have to use a vanilla sword to deal more damage. Otherwise those would be useless. Mobs deal True Damage and can be really effective!



Damage Calculation



Download (requires Minecraftforge) Dont forget to
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"Fan API"?
Actually the full name of this mod is "Fantasy API". Its really easy to create new things and stuff. Im trying to keep the code as easy as possible so java newbies can also easily code new things and stuff.
View The Source Code Here



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Item Suggestions / General Suggestions
Give me your suggestions! If I like it, I will add it (maybe modified).









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Contents
Introduction
Download
Installation
FAQ
Information
Recipes
Media
Credits
Known Bugs
Compatibility
Changelog
The Future
Support the Mod
Copyright



Introduction

Hello! Welcome to The Percy Jackson Mod thread. This mod aims to bring the world of Percy Jackson and the Greek and Roman Mythology in Minecraft. This expansion to Minecraft brings new challenging mobs, some new bosses which include some of the famous Gods, magical weapons and items which gives you the ability to cope up with the Greek and Roman Mythology world, random structures generation, new ores, quests, new armors, and what all of you players want these times, dimensions! Yes, this mod will have 2 Dimensions, the Underworld and Olympus.

This mod is ambitious, so expect a few dependencies on some mods, like the Forge API, the Dimension API, and the Quest API. And sooner in time, I may add SMP support as well.

To know more of this mod, read on!


Download

Download for V.1.1 is now up! It needs ModLoader. It has quests, but I have included the QuestAPI in the mod already.

The Percy Jackson Mod V.1.1
Dropbox: [url="http://bit.ly/Ll4YRB"]Here.[/url] (removed)



Installation

1. Download ModLoader by Risugami. [url="http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/75440-v125-risugamis-mods-everything-updated/"]Here.[/url]
2. Open your minecraft.jar found in: C:\Users\yournamehere\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin\minecraft.jar
3. Drag all the ModLoader files into the .jar and delete the META-INF file.
4. Download The Percy Jackson Mod.
5. Drag the resources folder in the download into the .minecraft folder.
6. Copy all the contents of ThePercyJackson(V.1.1).zip to your minecraft.jar
7. Close everything and enjoy!


FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Q: Minecraft crashed when I started it up!
A: Did you install the mod and ModLoader correctly? You may have forgotten to delete the META-INF folder in the minecraft.jar

Q: I’m getting an error code!
A: Post an error log please by copy pasting the error you are getting into a [code] tag in a spoiler.

Q: The ID’s are clashing with "insert mod here"
A: Unless it is a popular mod, I will not be changing the ID’s to be compatible or, some time I'll be adding a configuration file for changing the IDs.

Q: The game gets stuck when I come across some mobs!
A: Install the mod correctly. Make sure you installed the sounds correctly. The reason why this is happening is because the mod can't find the sound files to play when the mobs are near.

Q: It doesn't need AudioMod?
A: Yes! It doesn't.


Information

Because of the long list, I decided to put it in a spoiler.


Recipes


Media