MyewCraft

Mob Crates are single use items that when used will spawn a baby mob depending on which mob is stored inside. They can only be obtained from wandering traders. They can also be used by dispensers.

This pseudo update serves as a replacement/overhaul of villagers. The primary goal is to make interacting with "villagers", known now as wildfolk, significantly less of a chore and hopefully more fun.

Wildfolk

Wildfolk are humanoid animals that completely replace villagers in the overworld. Wildfolk come in multiple different species depending on the biome their village generates in.

Blubberfolk - Cold non-mountainous biomes like snowy plains or taigas, based on walruses

Merfolk - Ocean or swamp biomes, based on fish

Featherfolk - Temperate biomes like forests and plains, based on birds

Slitherfolk - Hot biomes like deserts and badlands, based on snakes

Mountainfolk - Mountains, based on alpacas and rams

Cavefolk - Very rarely underground, based on beetles

Trading

Wildfolk trade by being thrown emeralds, like throwing gold to piglins, which they will exchange for items based on their job. For example a farmer would give the player a large bunch of crops when given an emerald.

Wildfolk do not accept anything other than emeralds, which means that emeralds are far more rare as they can't be obtained from trades like they can in vanilla.

Jobs

Wildfolk can have jobs just like vanilla villagers, with their job being determined by a job block. In the list below the job block is put in parenthesis next to the jobs name, and the bullet point below it is what a wildfolk can give in exchange for an emerald.

Farmer (Composter)

Crops; only way to obtain your first corn, which can then be planted and grown by the player.

Butcher (Smoker)

Raw and cooked meat, leather and feathers.

Cartographer (Cartography Table)

Maps to structures and biomes. Tries not to provide the same map twice.

Cleric (Brewing Stand)

Golden apples, or potions.

Fletcher (Fletching Table)

Tipped arrows or more rarely enchanted crossbows and bows.

Librarian (Lectern)

Enchanted books and bookshelves.

Mason (Stonecutter)

Stones; like normal stone, diorite, or terracotta.

Lumberjack (Woodcutter)

Logs. Usually of local types but more rarely of farther biomes.

Tailor (Loom)

Colored wool.

Blacksmith (Anvil)

Iron, coal, copper, and more rarely enchanted iron equipment.

Engineer (Autocrafter)

Redstone, redstone components, and mechanical brains.

The wandering trader is a unique wildfolk job that is not assigned by a job block. Instead there is a small chance each morning for a wandering trader to spawn, with its species being random instead of based on the biome they spawn in. At night, right around when the player is able to sleep, wandering traders will despawn.

Wandering traders provide items from their travels when given emeralds. These items include saplings and logs from biomes outside the current biome, mob crates of various mobs, flowers from other biomes, and some hard to get blocks like coral, sea lanterns, and froglights. They have a much wider trading pool than other jobs making trading with them much more random.

Zombiefication

The chance for wildfolk to become a zombie wildfolk when killed by a zombie can be modified using a gamerule. Whether or not wildfolk are even targeted by zombies can also be disabled or re-enabled with a gamerule.

When a zombified wildfolk is cured, they will show their appreciation by giving the player an emerald. They will not provide another emerald for being re-zombified and re-cured unless they have spent a minimum amount of time as a villager before becoming a zombie again.

Design Goals

Vanilla villagers have a problem in that they make getting certain resources much easier as long as you are willing to engage is lengthy and tedious trading processes, essentially encouraging boring gameplay. Needing to trade large amounts of sticks in order to get a mending book for instance just isn't really fun despite being the most efficient way to do so.

Wildfolk instead make trades less common due to emeralds being harder to get but more substantial as each emerald gives a large chunk of materials. In a sense each emerald is like a goodie bag with loot that can be influenced by choosing which wildfolk job you want to trade with.

Salt is a renewable resource which can be obtained from salt blocks inside mountains or farmed from salt crystals and takes inspiration from pink rock salt found in real life.

Salt blocks and salt crystals are pink and can be used for decorative purposes.

Salt can also be used to craft salt lanterns which can be used as decoration or as a way to clear nearby negative effects.

Obtaining

Salt blocks generate higher up in mountain biomes. When broken, they drop 3-4 salt. They can be crafted by combining 4 salt, similar to crafting clay blocks from clay.

Salt crystals can be formed by allowing water to drip from pointed dripstone onto a salt block. Salt crystals have 4 stages which they grow through much like amethyst crystals, as long as water continues to drip onto it. Salt crystals drop a number of salt equal to the stage the crystal has grown too. Using silk touch allows picking the block up to be used decoratively, also similar to amethyst crystals.

Usage

Salt can be used on any plant that can grow to "salt" it, halting its growth. This can be helpful for stopping saplings from growing into trees, stopping berry bushes from growing berries, or even halting the growth of vines. It cannot be used to halt the spread of grass or grass-like blocks.

Salt Lanterns

Salt lanterns are a dimmer, pink lantern variant that can be placed just like vanilla lanterns. They will periodically clear a single negative effect from nearby entities as well as clear out negative potion effect clouds, including dragons breath.

It's my belief that sticks can be replaced in most recipes by planks or similar items without much of a negative effect on game play. Consolidating sticks into planks and similar items also serves to remove a common piece of clutter from drops and storage, albeit it's positive effect is somewhat small.

Recipes

Tools - Sticks are replaced with planks in all tool recipes. In wooden tools, where planks were originally used is replaced with logs.

Ladders - The sticks one the sides are replaced with planks and the stick in the very center of the grid is replaced with a wooden slab. Crafts 7.

Signs - Planks in the original recipe are replaced with slabs and the stick in the original recipe is replaced with a plank. Crafts 7.

The following recipes all have any usage of sticks replaced with planks.

Armor Stand

Arrow

Banner

Campfires

Lever

Torches

The following recipes have any usage of sticks replaced with wooden slabs.

Rails

Fences - Crafts 6.

Grindstone

Item Frame

Painting

Tripwire Hook

Drops

Chest Loot - Removed from chest loot entirely.

Dead Bushes and Leaves - Has a chance to drop a plank instead of a stick.

Fishing - Removed from the junk loot pool entirely.

Its my belief that nuggets mostly just end up clogging inventory and storage space without really serving a unique purpose, so as part of my Inventory Update, I am removing them. This page will list out necessary changes that would need to be made to accommodate their absence.

Recipes

Smelting Iron or Gold Equipment - Will now result in a single ingot instead of a single nugget.

Chains - Made from two iron ingots placed in a vertical line, and will result in 2 chains.

Lanterns and Soul Lanterns - Made from 4 iron ingots in placed around a torch or soul torch. Will create 4 lanterns or soul lanterns if a soul torch was used.

Golden Carrots and Glistering Melon Slices - Both are removed as part of my Food Update and Potion Update.

Fireworks - The star firework shape will instead be provided by redstone dust instead of golden nuggets.

Loot

Chest Loot - Nuggets will be replaced with ingots in chests albeit at a lower quantity for balance.

Piglin Bartering - Iron nuggets will be replaced by iron ingots for piglin bartering. Honestly the fact you can get iron nuggets in exchange for an entire gold ingot is a bit lame as a concept to me.

Zombie Piglin Drops - Will drop a gold ingot instead of gold nuggets, with a base 1% chance of dropping a gold ingot. Levels of looting will increase this chance but will not increase the number of ingots dropped beyond one.

Nether Gold Ore - Mimics the behavior of normal gold ore. Nether gold ore may need to have its spawns be reduced for balance, however considering that nether gold ore blocks can be smelted into ingots in vanilla, there shouldn't be that big of a balance change.

The goal of this pseudo update is to make managing your inventory and storage as easy as possible.

Item Removals/Merges

Since different items will always need to occupy different slots, reducing the number of items will improve the inventory and storage experience.

Iron and Gold Nuggets - Exist only to provide iron and gold in smaller quantities than ingots, but unfortunately it just ends up clogging slots when you need to use it for crafting or found them in chests/mine them from blocks. A list of recipe changes to make up for the absence of iron and gold nuggets can be found here.

Leather and Rabbit Hide - Similar idea to nuggets, in that rabbit hide is pretty much just 1/4th of a piece of leather. They are instead merged into a new hide item which also serves to give rabbits a much needed if somewhat slight buff.

Sticks - These actually have a pretty good reason for existing thematically, however I do believe they can fairly painlessly be replaced in most recipes. These recipe replacements are listed here.

Offhand Bar

An extra row is added to the inventory displayed with a slight separation from the main inventory and right above the hotbar.

A replacement for leather and rabbit hide. Due to rabbit hide being very similar thematically to leather, and not having many unique uses, I felt it made more sense to combine the two into one.

This is a part of my attempt to overhaul inventory management.

Obtaining

Hide replaces any instance of leather or rabbit hide in loot tables. Mobs that originally dropped leather usually drop a bit more hide than they did leather as a small buff to hide drops. Mobs that dropped rabbit hide usually drop exactly the same amount of hide.

Uses

A passive cow variant found in temperate grassy biomes that can serve as a source of milk, hide, and beef. They are based on real world holstein cows.

These cows, alongside Woolly Cows, replace the vanilla minecraft cows.

Uses

Dairy cows are, as the name suggests, primarily a dairy cow and as such drop a limited number of beef, about 0-1 by default.

When killed, they also drop 1-3 hide by default.

They can be milked 3 times before needing to rest for 2 minutes (real time).

They can be bred with wheat.

Flavors

They come in 3 variants; Normal, Chocolate, and Sweet Berry.

Normal cows make up about 99.9% of natural dairy cow spawns and provide a milk bucket when milked.

Chocolate cows do not spawn naturally and instead have a 10% chance of being born when breeding two normal cows. They have a 50% chance of being born from a chocolate cow and a normal cow, and a 90% chance between two chocolate cows. They provide a chocolate milk bucket when milked.

Sweet berry cows have a 0.1% chance to spawn in the place of a normal dairy cow. However, when breeding a sweet berry cow with any other kind of dairy cow, their children will always be a sweet berry cow. They provide a sweet berry milk bucket when milked

Each kind of milk bucket can be transferred into bottles in a crafting table, with 4 empty bottles and 1 full bucket resulting in 4 full bottles and one empty bucket.

Normal milk bottles remove a single random effect. Technically this is weaker than using a milk bucket which can remove any number of effects, but it is unlikely a player will be under more than 4 effects that they would want to remove at a time, making milk bottles ideal for things like dealing with an elder guardians mining fatigue.

Chocolate milk bottles provide 30 seconds of speed, making them a decent source of speed as long as you don't mind needing to carry lots and having to refresh the effect often.

A passive cow variant found in cold highland biomes that can serve as a source of wool, milk, hide, and beef. They are based on real world highland cows.

These cows, alongside Dairy Cows, replace the vanilla minecraft cows.

Uses

Woolly cows are primarily a meat cow and as such can only be milked once per day.

They drop 1-3 beef and 1-3 hide by default when killed as well as one block of wool, with the wool's color being dependent on the color of the cow.

When sheared, they drop one wool of the cows color and change to a "naked" model variant. They can regrow their wool by eating a fully grown wheat crop. This is purposefully harder than regrowing sheep wool in order to not have woolly cows outright replace sheep.

They can be bred with wheat.

Wool Customization

Woolly cows naturally spawn in brown, grey, black, white and very rarely purple. They can be dyed any color to change the color of their wool, just like sheep. Additionally, their wool will regrow to the same color it was before they were sheared, making them a source for dyed wool.