Added/Tweaked:

• New tainted blocks

  • Stairs, slabs, fences, logs, and so much more!

  • Mob statues are now their own block

  • Huge thanks to Naza!

• Wither Storm head revamps

  • Heads now have "hit counts." Hitting a head will increase this count until it becomes injured

    • The required hits can range between 3-5 and is rerolled every time a head is healed

  • Heads will now turn red when hit, like any typical mob

  • Heads will shake when hit, and when healed a sound will play to indicate the tractor beam reactivating

• Amulet

  • The amulet has been completely revamped and given a new use

  • The amulet will track the nearest Wither Storm, and will pulse blue when held if your facing the general direction of the Storm

  • The amulet can also track up to four extra mobs (and players!), which can be set by right clicking a mob. These colors will also pulse when facing the general direction of the tracked mob. Shift-right click the amulet while held to swap colors. Each color can track one mob

  • A variation of the amulet can be crafted that will track all entities of the bounded type

  • The amulet can be locked as well to prevent players from changing bounded entities

  • Added a config option to disable the Wither Storm force tracking the nearest player with an amulet

• Withered Beacon

  • Crafted using a withered nether star, the withered beacon is a much more powerful variant of the normal beacon being able to apply various effects in a much larger radius

  • Support beacons can be connected nearby that can apply more effects in an infinite distance in the angle their connection makes with the main beacon

  • The withered beacon can be used to resummon the Wither Storm by right clicking it with three wither skulls

  • The beacons beams can be seen from any distance

  • More info in the beacons GUI when placed!

• Sickened Villager

  • A withered sickened variant of the villager, texture by McFella

  • Villagers and zombie villagers will convert to this sickened variant and can be healed via golden apple stew, retaining all their trades, gossips, and trading experience

• Performance Improvements

  • Introducing vertex buffers, which store vertices and uploads them right to the GPU instead of going through all them each frame, improving performance astronomically

    • This system is used for the Wither Storm's mass and block clusters

  • Removed the "Block Cluster Coloring" config, as these new improvements fixed shader incompatibilities with block clusters

  • Bowels Reworks

    • The bowels have been completely overhauled, featuring more structures, caves, loot, tunnels, and so much more!

    • When entering the bowels, you'll also now be transported somewhere random, with a bias towards the dark-lit cave systems. Configurable, of course

  • The Wither Storm's bossbar will now disappear when underground, or in a location where the Storm is not an immediate threat

    • Configurable via "Smart Bossbar" in the server config

  • Added client configuration options to change the Wither Storm's tractor beam color

  • The Wither Storm will now "shine" purple at night, to make it easier to distinguish between the sky

    • Configurable

  • Block clusters will now shake angularly

  • Block clusters will now play a shake sound when being picked up

  • The play dead corpse structure has been touched up with new blocks

  • Added a tool action for items that can damage the Command Block during the final battle, "command_block_damage"

  • Lowered tractor beam cluster pick up time

  • The Wither Storm can no longer be formidibombed during phase 4

  • Increased target invulnerability time when escaping a head

    • The time can now be configured via the server config

  • The Wither Storm will no longer pull in mobs via it's tractor beam when distracted

  • Wither Sickness will now pulse, with the frequency increasing the lower the mob's health is

  • Added commands to get and set server config options, "/witherstormmod config"

  • Added a config option to change the maximum amount of chunks wither storms can load

  • Translations

    • Updated Spanish translations (pox1016)

    • de_de by MoRoN222

    • pt_br by Luisinhi010

    • nl_nl by LucasDotje

  Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed the Wither Storm not picking up formidibombs

  • Wither Storm bites will now bypass armor to prevent shields from blocking damage

  • Fixed players receiving the spyglass advancement when the Wither Storm was not summoned

  • Fixed Spanish translations having incorrect character encoding

  • Mobs will no longer target the Wither Storm when it's playing dead

  • Fixed block states not appearing properly in block clusters

  • Fixed heads be able to be spam-injured after already being hurt

  • Fixed incompatibility with newer forge version

  • The Wither Sickness layer will no longer render on transparent pixels

  • Fixed Vivecraft incompatibility