🎯 Border Expansion Quest (Nether)
Our top priority this patch is the new Border Expansion Quest, designed to bring everyone together in the Nether. This quest will gradually extend the Nether’s playable area, and your contributions matter!
- First Task: Oak Log Collection
• Objective: Gather 25 000 oak logs.
• Delivery Location: Place all logs in a chest at /spawn in the Overworld.
• Progress Tracking: As soon as 25 000 logs are deposited, the next quest stage will unlock.
• Why It Matters: Each log you bring helps fortify the perimeter of our Nether fortress. Work together with friends and guildmates to meet the target swiftly!
Keep an eye on the official server announcements for updates on reward tiers and subsequent tasks once this milestone is reached. Good luck, and let’s expand that Nether border!
🌟 BlazeandCave’s Advancements Pack
We’ve also integrated BlazeandCave’s Advancements Pack to offer fresh challenges once you’ve completed the quest. This pack adds over 1 000 new advancements (bringing the total to 1 153) organised into 16 distinct tabs. Below is a concise overview—explore in-game to view every new advancement!
- BlazeandCave’s Advancements
- Kickstarts your journey with basic tasks and “milestone” trackers that count how many advancements you’ve earned across all categories.
- Mining
- Expands on the vanilla “Minecraft” tab, covering each ore and its many applications.
- Building
- A brand-new tab dedicated to crafting structures with diverse blocks.
- Farming
- Split from “Husbandry”; focuses on crops, plants, and agricultural mechanics.
- Animals
- Revolves around breeding, taming, slaughtering and fishing—formerly part of “Husbandry.”
- Monsters
- Introduces unique challenges for every hostile mob in the game.
- Weaponry
- Covers crafting and using conventional and unconventional weapons.
- Biomes
- Contains tasks related to exploring and completing objectives in each biome, including ocean-specific goals.
- Adventure
- Greatly expands the vanilla “Adventure” tab with exploration, village trading, raids and structure-based tasks (e.g., ocean monuments, woodland mansions).
- Redstone
- A new tab fully devoted to redstone circuitry—build and automate like never before.
- Enchanting
- Focuses on enchanting items, combining enchantments and mastering enchantment mechanics.
- Statistics
- Tracks a wide variety of in-game statistics for those who strive for complete mastery.
- Nether
- Expands the vanilla Nether tab with more tasks relating to Nether biomes, structures and mobs.
- Potions
- Split from the Nether tab; centres on brewing potions, experimenting with effects, and mastering alchemy.
- The End
- Expands the vanilla “The End” tab, adding challenges centred on End-dimension structures and creatures.
- Super Challenges
- Unlocked only after defeating the Ender Dragon. Contains the most difficult feats—test the very limits of Minecraft.
Whether you’re completing the Border Expansion Quest or seeking new long-term goals, these advancements will keep you busy for months to come.
🐞 Other Fixes & Improvements
- Damage Issues: Fixed so that entities now receive the correct amount of damage.
- Lag Prevention: Implemented optimisations to reduce server lag during high-traffic events.
- Spawn Rate Adjustments:
- Animals: Increased spawn rates for a richer, more vibrant world.
- Hostile Mobs: Toned down spawn rates slightly to balance difficulty.
- Projectile Corrections: Wind charges, bottles of enchanting, tridents (and some other projectiles) now behave correctly in flight and upon impact.
- Fallback Server: Fixed the fallback server connection so it now routes players correctly when the primary server is unavailable.
- Community Chest Message: Corrected a capitalisation error in the community chest contributions notification.
- Spawn Relocation: Moved the main spawn point to a new, central location for easier access.
- On-Death Wild Teleport: Players will now receive an additional
/wildcommand upon death to facilitate world navigation.
Thank you for joining us on this adventure. Dive into the Border Expansion Quest, tackle those new advancements, and enjoy a more balanced, performant world. Happy crafting!
Credits:
BlazeandCave’s Advancements Pack – Minecraft Data Pack. (2021). Modrinth. https://modrinth.com/datapack/blazeandcaves-advancements-pack