The Ceilands

A big content update! This update features the first Ceilands mob as well as plethora of advancements!

• Added a new block set: Roofshale. Roofshale is found near the ceiling and can be made into polished and brick variant. Even chisellable too.
• Added a new mob: Castle Lord. The first miniboss of the Ceilands!
  • Has 100 Health, wears a full Castle Lord armour set, and wields an Iron Sword (for now.)
  • Can open doors so be careful!
  • Drops a piece of Castle Lord armour set. Renewability is planned.
• Added six new advancements, bringing the total number of advancements to 10.
  • Sleeping on Cloud Nine: Use a Bed in the Ceilands.
  • Top Trader: Make a trade in the Ceilands.
  • Daredeal: Make a trade in the Ceilands while standing at Y of 1 or below. Prepare for a lot of anxiety on this one.
  • Loot Cubed: Loot a chest in Ocean Cubes.
  • Usurper: Defeat the Castle Lord.
  • Fit for a Royalty: Obtain a full set of Castle Lord armour.
• Updated Hanging Castle:
  • Chains now extend all the way to the ceiling or strong supporting blocks.
  • Integrated Roofshale in structure.
  • Castle Lord now spawns within throne room.
• Updated Ceillages:
  • Added abandoned variant, which results in degraded appearance and missing villagers. Cobwebs will generate, and most doors will be missing. If the doors do generate, they will be open.
  • Ceiltrunk variant now has chains extending all the way to the ceiling.
• Added many new translation lines for future content.
• Added Ceiltrunk & Luzawood Ceillages to Village tags.
• Improved Dramatic Doors compat: short and tall Ceiltrunk and Luzawood doors should appear before and after the regular door in creative inventory.
• Made adjustments to reduce the likelihood of stray Ceiltrunk leaves seemingly generating without trunks randomly on mossy floor.
• Improved Ruined Ceilands Portals by adding structure void thus the air of the lower half of the structure won't overwrite terrain or structures.
• Buffed the spawn frequency of animal mobs in most Ceilands biomes. Finding animals should be much easier now. This makes Luzawood Forest a much more ideal biome to live in.
• Increased the frequency of Ruined Ceilands Portals, appearing 50% more often.
• Tweaked the generation of Colossal Ceilshrooms so a moss block should be generated at the base of the stem, and made it less likely to generate in illogical location.
• Fixed plank recipes unlocking early.
• Fixed some data pack errors.
• Fixed incorrect ore drops in 1.21.1.
• Refactored several code to make it less redundant and to make it easier to maintain:
  • Registration process is done on the common side.
  • A list of mod items for creative have been created and stored on common code, thus ensuring parity between mod loader systems.

The first release of Ceilands for Minecraft 1.21.1!

• Fixed some potential crash with boats.
• Fixed the portals activator so you don't have to face in the correct direction to activate the portal.
• Gamerule for Ceilands Void Teleport should be working.
• Some data pack fixes.
• Added Ukraine translations courtesy of a user over on GitHub.

0.6.2 Changes:

• Added game rule: ceilandsVoidTeleport. True by default. When false, the void will damage the entity instead of taking them back to Overworld.
• Properly added updated Ukraine translations.
• Tweaked Portal Activator item so you don't need to line up your direction with Ceilands Portal frame.
• Fixed potential crash with boats.
• Fixed various recipes, including Cracked Ceilingneous Bricks.
• Fixed some recipes not working on Fabric.

• Properly added updated Ukraine translations.
• Tweaked Portal Activator item so you don't need to line up your direction with Ceilands Portal frame.
• Fixed falling into void in live environment.
• Fixed potential crash with boats.
• Fixed various recipes, including Cracked Ceilingneous Bricks.
• Fixed some recipes not working on Fabric.

This is the final major content update for Ceilands on 1.19.2, backporting the improvements done and adding Fabric support.

There might be a possibility of bug fixes and language translations but no more content will be provided for 1.19.2.

Caution: The portal is rather wonky. Please step off the portal as soon as you can. The code works much better in 1.20.1.

• 0.4 backports:
  • Added Inverted Peaks biome.
  • Updated Luzawood door item texture.
• 0.5 backports:
  • Added the improved terrain generation.
  • Removed water from floating rocks.
  • Tweaked some biomes.
  • Updated Hanging Castles.
  • Added Ocean Cubes and the corresponding advancement.
  • Strays can now spawn in Snow Roof.
  • Phantoms can now spawn in Inverted Peaks.
  • Tweaked Luzawood door block texture.
  • Tweaked grass colour for Ocean Orbs to no longer be so blue.
  • Fixed the Ceilands Portal Activator recipe incorrectly grouped with wooden boat recipes.
• 0.6 backports:
  • Added Ceilands Pillager Outposts.
  • Piglins may rarely spawn in certain biomes in the Ceilands. They don't zombify.
  • Backported texture and graphical tweaks.
  • Tweaked generation of Luzawood trees.
  • Updated the categories for wood-based recipes so they're properly grouped together.
  • Added support for Farmer's Delight, Twilight Forest, Boatload, and Woodworks.
  • Ceiltrunk trees will no longer convert grass blocks to dirt due to growing from the underside.
  • Updated the mod logo.
  • Updated language support.
• New in 0.6.1:
  • Added game rule: ceilandsVoidTeleport. True by default. When false, the void will damage the entity instead of taking them back to Overworld.
  • Tweaked Colossal Ceiltrunk trees to be a bit more cylindrical.
  • Removed Polished Deepslate and Chiselled Deepslate from Ceilands portal frame block tags. Now only two blocks are used: Reinforced Deepslate and Polished Ceilingneous.
  • Fixed colour tinting for TF hollow logs with ladders.
• Other changes:
  • (Dev environment) Switched over to use Gradle.properties.

• Behold, Ceilands on Fabric! The mod is now truly cross-platform!
• Added support for four mods: (Currently only on Forge)
  • Twilight Forest: Banisters & Hollow Logs.
  • Farmer's Delight: Ceiltrunk & Luzawood Cabinets, various cutting recipes, and Loot table modification integration to include FD foods and even a knife.
  • Boatload: Ceiltrunk & Luzawood Boats with Furnace and Large Boats.
  • Woodworks: Many sorts of cool wood-based products made from Ceiltrunk and Luzawood as well as sawmill integration.
• New structure: Ceilands Pillager Outpost. Those outposts will spawn some distance away from Ceillages. They can appear in any Ceilands biome as long as the conditions are met.
• Improved Ocean Orbs biome:
  • Ocean Orbs now have glass orbs filled with water, replacing 10% of the bowls.
  • Added sand pools. Some dripstone may appear.
  • Changed the foliage colour to be not too blue.
• Improved Luzawood Forest biome:
  • Luzawood trees now have a chance to naturally spawn as double-forked, that is, generates with four branches instead of two.
  • Froglights of each colour may rarely spawn in Luzawood Forests in small clusters.
  • Torchflowers and Pitcher Plants may occasionally appear.
  • Rarely, Sniffers may spawn within Luzawood Forest.
• Ocean Cube changes and fixes:
  • Tweaked the placement salt of Ocean Cube to make it extremely unlikely to intersect with Ruined Ceilands Portals.
  • Ceilingneous from bowls of Ocean Orbs should no longer occupy the inside of Ocean Cubes.
  • 1 Elder Guardian will now spawn inside Ocean Cube.
  • Removed one spawner from Ocean Cube. Changed the blocks surrounding Magma Blocks to stairs.
• Reorganized some structure generation, especially Hanging Castle. This is done under the hood, should make it a bit easier to add more parts to Hanging Castles.
• Changed animal spawn rules within Ceilands so they no longer account for light level. They still rarely spawn though.
• Piglins may now spawn in Inverted Peaks and Luzawood Forests rarely. They don't zombify.
• Graphical tweaks:
  • Tweaked Luzawood door item textures to have some details.
  • Tweaked the textures of Ceiltrunk Saplings.
  • Ceiltrunk leaves are now locked to a specific colour just like Luzawood leaves.
• Updated the categories for wood-based recipes so they're properly grouped together.
• Tweaked the placement logic of Colossal Ceilshrooms. They can now only spawn attached to blocks categorized as Dirt tags. Buffed the placement chance to compensate.
• Ceiltrunk trees will no longer convert grass blocks to dirt due to growing from the underside.
• Improved the logic of falling into the void of Ceilands.
• Added uk_ua translation of base Ceilands content courtesy of a GitHub user.

• The first iteration of the terrain generation revamp is here to make it more interesting and fun to traverse.
  • Now worm-like and weird. There are big lands occasionally.
  • Caves can now generate in the ceiling layer of the Ceilands.
  • Removed water from floating rocks. It didn't make sense. They had copy-pasted iceberg code but the water generation wasn't removed back then.
  • Snow Roof:
    • Now has ice and snow patches on ground.
    • Huge Icicles can generate at a much more varied altitude.
  • Inverted Peaks:
    • Now has gravel layer.
    • Added more sizes of stalactites. The smaller stalactites can generate at lower heights.
  • Topsy Forest:
    • Colossal Ceilshroom can generate in more varying altitudes.
    • Tweaks to Colossal Ceiltrunk generation to make it less likely for weirdly-placed logs to happen on the floor.
• Changes to Hanging Castles:
  • Tweaks to the details of Hanging Castle Keep. There are also now decorated pots.
  • Cobweb placement in the keep basement is now more randomized.
  • Added barracks and latrine to the basement to make it not feel empty. They both contain chests.
• New structures: Ocean Cubes
  • Appear in Ocean Orbs biome.
  • Guardians can spawn. Currently, Elder Guardians don't spawn.
  • Has some nice loot.
• New advancement: Ocean... Tesseract?
• Falling out of the Ceilands now put you into Overworld.
  • Known caveats: If you fall out of the Ceilands and if you're close to the portal in Overworld, you may be put into the portal instead of falling from the sky. I may look into this issue.
  • There are plans for Aether integration where falling out of Ceilands would put you into the Aether.
• Strays can now spawn in Snow Roof.
• Phantoms can now spawn in Inverted Peaks.
• Tweaked Luzawood door block texture.
• Tweaked grass colour for Ocean Orbs to no longer be so blue.
• Fixed the Ceilands Portal Activator recipe incorrectly grouped with wooden boat recipes.
• (Dev environment) Switched over to use Gradle.properties. This will pave the way for potential development on Fabric.

• Ported to Minecraft 1.20.1
• Added Inverted Peaks biome.
• Added hanging signs for Ceiltrunk and Luzawood.
• Updated Luzawood door item texture.

• Now updated for 1.19.2. Should hopefully be backwards compatible with 1.19.0 though.
• Added all-new Ceillages. Villages but in the Ceilands! Ceillages can appear in Topsy Forest and Luzawood Forest, each with their own style: Ceiltrunk and Luzawood respectively.
• Decreased the frequency of Ruined Ceilands Portals.
• You now need to stand inside Ceilands portal for 4 seconds to be taken to the Ceilands, similar to Nether Portals.
• Being in the Ceilands portal now plays the effect similar to being inside Nether Portal.
• Sleeping in the Ceilands should now properly skip to morning.
• Ceiltrunk and Luzawood blocks are now properly flammable. This includes logs, stripped logs, leaves, planks, stairs, slabs, fences, and fence gates.
• Ceiltrunk and Luzawood Fences, Fence Gates, and Boats can be used as furnace fuel now. This includes the chest boat variant.
• Somewhat fixed odd placement of Ceiltrunk leaves which were very noticeable around Colossal Ceilshrooms. It doesn't apply to every case, but most of them should be gone now. I will continue to fix this.

This update adds a lot of new features to the Ceilands, parts of the efforts to make the dimension more interesting.

• Now built on Forge 41.1.0 and as such, is the minimum version.
• New structure: Ruined Ceilands Portal. That means escaping the Ceilands from start will be possible.
• Improvements to Hanging Castle Structure:
  • Hanging Castles now have 5% of brick blocks replaced with cracked variant.
  • Hanging Castle dungeon chest may have Echo Shards and Blaze Rods. This provides a possibility of escaping the Ceilands if you ever lose the activator, by crafting another activator
• Improvements to Luzawood Forest Biome:
  • Luzawood Forest floating islands should now properly have ponds. The ponds also may have seagrass.
  • Luzawood Forest Biome now has flowers and vegetation to make it less boring.
• Improvements to Topsy Forest Biome:
  • Add Huge Ceiltrunk Tree for Topsy Forest to improve traversability.
  • Adjusted the amount of trees that can generate in Luzawood Forest biome, to try to make it more frequent.
• Improvements to Snow Roof Biome:
  • Changed the foliage colour in Snow Roof.
  • Snow Roof biome now has snow patches on the ceiling, true to the name.
  • There are huge icicles hanging from the ceiling now. The icicles can be either of Packed Ice or rarely, Blue Ice.
• Improvements to Ocean Orbs Biome:
  • Ocean Orbs should now have kelp and seagrass growing.
  • Added Ceilingneous ore blocks, replacing the default ores for Ceilands generation. The new ores work just like the vanilla ores.
• Revamped many textures. Particularly, the portal, Ceilingneous, and Ceiltrunk & Luzawood logs, saplings, doors, and trapdoors.
• Sky improvements: Clouds now appear at the bottom, and the positions of the sun and moon have changed.

Initial alpha release. The Ceilands is accessible.

Features the following biomes:

• Topsy Forest
• Luzawood Forest
• Ocean Orbs
• Snow Roof

Features the following wood types:

• Ceiltrunk
• Luzawood

Features the following structure:

• Hanging Castle