Excessive Building

Overhaul Patch || v4.0.1 MC-1.21.1

Additions

• Added the Magnet, a new tool which attracts items within a 16 block area to the user while sneaking
• Re-added 19 paintings from the "Excessive Building community painting thingy" back in 2024
• Added 1 painting by Brickerman, "Peace Sells But Who's Crafting?"

Changes

• Frosted Lanterns now have decreased radius that they spawn particles in and decreased max amount of particles
• Floral Clay Blocks for Clay Block recipe has been changed to Floral Clay Ball for Clay Ball

Translations

• Added zh_tw translations by @DEEMsss

Fixes

• Fixed Almentra Brick Walls incorrectly being named "Almentra Statue"
• Aridite no longer uses the #minecraft:has_ruined_portal_desert biome tag to generate and instead uses its own
• Fixed a duplicate recipe input for smelting Floral Clay Blocks

Overhaul Update || v4.0.0 MC-1.21.1

Important

• [WARNING] Excessive Building has been entirely overhauled both code, art, and also concept wise so [DO NOT UPDATE EXISTING WORLDS OTHERWISE THEY WILL BREAK !!!]
• I will be writing this changelog as if everything is the new for the sake of time, and any (Neo)Forge players who missed out on some content

Building Tools

• Gauntlet: Crafted from amethyst shards/blocks, copper ingots, and an ancient fruit
  • Decreases the delay between placing blocks
  • Allows the player to interact with blocks from up to 3 blocks further away
  • Has increased knockback and attack damage to allow pushing unwanted visitors away
• Mallet: Crafted from amethyst shards and copper ingots
  • Has increased destroy speed for any blocks that do not have an assigned tool including some extra blocks
  • Can be used on some blocks to change them into new blocks

Lavender, Sage, and Coralsoil

• Lavender and sage now generate throughout the world and can be used as crafting ingredients
• New clay blocks can be made from lavender, sage, and dead coral
• The new clay blocks can be turned into small bricks and hardened clay which hardened clay can create terracotta and clay bricks
• Added lavender and sage bales which work similarly to hay bales

Dyed Blocks

• Almentra: A stone that can be dyed any color, generates high up in Mountain biomes
  • Almentra can be interacted with a mallet to create an almentra statue, each dye color has a different statue design
• Corrugated Iron: Crafted from iron and dyes and rotates like a pillar block
  • Has stairs and slabs
• Frosted Glass: Crafted from smelting glass and can be dyed
  • Can change beacon light colors
  • Allows light to pass through despite being fully opaque
  • Can craft frosted lanterns which create particles based on the dye color, the particles will fall or rise based on if its hanging

Misc Blocks

• Wintergreen Wood Set: A mint wood that can be found in Taigas and Snowy Plains biomes
• Ancient Wood Set: A white wood which have a chance to drop when Sniffers sniff up items
• Aridite: An orange stone that can be found as clusters underground in Desert biomes
• Chloroslate: A green stone that can be found as clusters underground in Jungle biomes
• Hectalite: A blue stone that can be found as clusters around water underground
• Sitrite: A beige stone that can be found as clusters underground in Swamp biomes
• Malachite: A mint stone that can be found as clusters in Mountain biomes
• Conglomerate: A multicolored stone that can be crafted from cobblestone and gravel
• Brimstone: A red stone that can be found as clusters in the Nether

Vanilla Additions

• Added cobblestone bricks, can be cracked
• Added granite, diorite, and andesite bricks which all have different designs
• Added smooth bricks, crafted from smelting bricks
• Added gemstone blocks for Amethyst, Lapis, Diamond, and Emerald
  • Framed Glass: Crafted from iron and gems, requires a pickaxe to efficiently mine and has high blast resistance
  • Gemstone Lanterns: Crafted from iron and gems
  • Gemstone Bricks: Crafted from x1 gem and x8 copper ingots and outputs x24
• Added copper bricks

Version Release v3.2.13 Fabric - 1.20.1

Changes
• Moved knitted carpets to come after knitted wool in the creative inventory

Fixes
• Fixed a crash when opening the creative inventory
• Fixed various issues caused by some broken code

Version Release v3.2.12 Fabric - 1.20.1

Changes
• Gloom seeds are now disabled by default
• Updated the textures of ancient logs and all occurrences of it (saplings for example)
• Updated the texture of amethyst lamps
• Updated the texture of the original contributor capes
• Updated the name of "Potion of Hasty" to "Potion of Rapidity"

Fixes
• Fixed some paintings being broken
• Fixed signs having collisions
• Fixed missing wood recipes for ancient & gloom
• Fixed missing dyed blocks in creative inventory for the mod "Mint" also known as "Els n L's Dye Mod"
• Added ancient & gloom logs (+ stripped variants) to the "logs" and "logs_that_burn" tags

actually remove said paintings from last update,,,

Version Release v3.3.7 Fabric - 1.21.1

Wrench
• The wrench is a new tool created using copper and can be used to rotate some blocks when used
• If the player is sneaking and uses the wrench they can rotate blocks in a different direction
• This as most things in the mod are, is configurable and can be disabled or enabled to one's will

Misc Additions
• Glowstone, sea lanterns, redstone lamps, and amethyst lamps can now be broken faster with a hammer
• Added an advancement for using a wrench to rotate a block
• Added statistic for Blocks Wrenched, as the name suggests it increases when a block is rotated via a wrench

Changes
• The hammer's durability has been raised from 250 to 781
• The hammer can no longer be used if sneaking
• Certain items now take priority over hammers (and wrenches) when interacting
• Slightly tweaked the description of hammers

Fixes
• Fixed an issue that prevented the player from using a hammer till relogging if they used an item that wasn't a hammer on a hammerable block
• Changed the recipe of copper bricks as they conflicted with cut copper recipes

Technical
• Added the cannot_be_wrenched block tag, blocks in this tag cannot be interacted with by a wrench
• Added the takes_priority_over_tools item tag, items in this tag take interaction priority over hammers and wrenches
• Added the incorrect_for_hammer_tool block tag, this is the inverse of hammer_mineable (blocks in this tag will be blacklisted, useful for modpack creators)
• Added the wrench_repairable item tag, items in this tag can be used to repair the durability of wrenches
• Removed the eb_hammers and hammerable_blocks (block tag) tags as they weren't needed

Small hotfix to fix some issues (should be the last for a while if all goes well)

Version Release v3.3.3 Fabric - 1.21.1

Fixes
• Fixed an issue that caused crafting table and bookshelf variants to be uncraftable

 

Version Release v3.2.6 Fabric - 1.20.1

Changes
• Updated almentra statue models to match with the 1.21.1 statue models

Fixes
• Fixed an issue that caused crafting table and bookshelf variants to be uncraftable