#terralith

[gyroncraft]

Happened across a massive hollow terracotta mountain, felt too cool to not share :P

world gen mods used: Terralith, Terrablender, Not Just Biomes, Tectonic datapack

shaders: Complementary Unbound

[kestrelcrafting]

🌳 Forest Hills 🌳

Mods and Shaders

Version 1.19.4

Complementary Shaders

Terralith

Biomes O Plenty

[pumpkin-stem]

The world I was playing 1.19.2 (I think?) on. I was trying something new living in a mesa/outback :)

[pifaninjatmc]

terralith is so good

[aelianix]

a magical, moonlit tower in a forest - complete with a tree and pond

biome is either a Moonlight Grove or Moonlight Valley can't remember which from Terralith, the datapack

[yokaiza]

A floating sky island on Yokai SMP!

[sphinxwalker-when]

I’m not sure how many of my followers play or care about Minecraft, but as a data pack developer and someone who’s job is to create Minecraft content, I want to talk about something very concerning.

Today, Minecraft revealed that in an upcoming update, they will be adding Piglin Heads as a decorative block, and along with all the other heads that already exist in the game, it would be given the ability to, when placed on a Note Block, make the Note Block make the noises of the creature who’s head is on it.

If you’re not familiar with Minecraft, you might not really care, or maybe if you do play, you’re thinking “So what? We already have like, Zombie Heads? One more sounds cool enough.”

Except Piglins are very distinct from something like Zombies. Piglins are intelligent, and participate in an organized civilization.

In Minecraft, Piglins live in the Nether, which was recently updated to be much less like a direct Hell, and more like a complex superwarm underground ecosystem, with actual life outside of souls or undead in the form of Fungi, Striders that walk upon the lava, and Piglins: bipedal pig-people.

Piglins live in the ruins of Bastions, clearly ancestral homes of an aged mining empire. They are known for liking and hoarding Gold. However there’s a lot more to them than that: Piglins wear leather clothes that they craft by hunting Hoglins, which are like giant boars. They farm Nether Wart to brew Fire Resistance Potions. They dance, and have an understanding of value in commerce--they know that if the player gives them gold (even if they’re mad at the player) that they should offer something in return. They have a military hierarchy, with Brutes being classified as guardians that wear more significant armor, and are not forgiving of invaders, only being stationed to protect their treasure.

This is an intelligent civilization. Semi-primitive, sure, but they have society. That they are hostile if the player doesn’t wear gold doesn’t strip them of intelligence. They they are an opponent that can be fought, killed, and stolen from doesn’t diminish their intelligence, however even then there are clear mechanics at play that discourage killing them, such as their sense of community when attacked and the fact that they don’t drop any loot when killed. Adding a feature that allows the player to hunt them, and then to mount their heads as trophies? That is horrific. It degrades them as an intelligent people. If Villager Heads were added to the game, it would be disturbing and gross. Why not for Piglins, who exemplify many of the same traits as Villagers including commerce, farming, clothing, community, military, and construction?

Piglin Heads should not be a thing. At the very least, they should be obtained via loot chests, not from the usual manner as with Zombies or Skeletons, or worse, Wither Skeletons. However more seriously, I think they should explicitly not be real Piglin Heads at all, but rather a Piglin Mask, or Golden Piglin Head--something that they might make as part of their culture.

Minecraft 1.20 doesn’t yet have an Update Name, but it is explicitly focused on representation and inclusion--this comes in the form of adding more default player skins for different skin colors and nationalities, making bamboo ( a very versatile real-world resource) into a crafting ingredient with all the same uses as wood, and adding camels, just because people in the world live in places that have camels. But Minecraft is even more than that--they have shown repeatedly that they care about the impacts their game has on how we view the world, which is why Frogs do not eat fireflies as they were originally planned to.

Please Mojang, give Piglins respect as an intelligent civilization. Fight them, steal from them, but don’t glorify their deaths with stuffed heads as trophies.

[pomegranatecraft]

[usedtobekrampus]

A drawing I made of the scarlet mountains from the Terralith mod a few years ago

[photogracraft]

[longwayhome-laststop]

"YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED," THEY TOLD HIM. "NO ONE CAN."

TO WHICH THE THIEF REPLIED, "I HAVE A YEAR NOW THAT I DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE, AND A LOT OF THINGS CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. THE KING MIGHT DIE, THE HORSE MIGHT DIE, I MIGHT DIE... AND WHO KNOWS? MAYBE THE HORSE WILL SING."

[DAY 31]

Given how difficult it's been to find a librarian, I'm hard-pressed to believe that anyone on this planet is literate.

Luckily, I don't actually need the book I'm looking for, although it would be a massive boon to have. Mostly I just needed something to do that's not farming. Plants grow quickly in the outpost, I think that golden flower has something to do with it, so I'm not exactly strapped for food.

I am strapped for air, though—not an entirely unanticipated challenge, but I'm going through respirators much faster than I'd like. Safe places with altitudes low enough to breath comfortably are few and far between... another point deducted from the overworld, another point granted to the strange lush ruins I've made a home in.

The Freydis is still out of range; I've made my own company in the creatures that live up here, though I still don't know their proper names. Cod and Salmon remain, though Salmon now carries the feather of a very large, bright bird I've tamed. (They still have not eaten the fish I gave them.) The small bird does not have a name yet, nor does the large one. I have Bert and Ernie now, who are... clams... I think. They climb the walls and ceilings of the ruins and hide when I get close.

I should probably domesticate animals I can farm, but an underground outpost isn't very conductive toward that. The only creature of any real use at the moment is the large bird, who let me saddle her and takes directions well enough that I'm not afraid to fly with her. I still hate how vast the sky is here, but I have to admit it's a convenient way to travel. There's also no way I would have otherwise found the massive floating island I sit on now—let alone been able to get up to it.

There aren't any librarians up here either, at least not that I've seen, but I don't mind exploring. At least so long as my respirator holds. The whole reason I'm this far outside of the designated area if because I need to find a librarian that has some idea how to make this thing last longer.

Lack of contact from the Freydis has me a bit wired, too. Sent a message yesterday and it bounced. Trying not to think about it. May be that they've already started surveying at the other pole, they'll circle around soon enough.

[gyroncraft]

Misc Landscapes

shaders: Complementary Unbound

[glittermutt]

[nvoc]

U Know im on that modded minecraft shit again‼️

[tooies]

we really need a game that gives its caves as much geological and structural diversity as they have in real life. drg has gotten the closest but even then i feel like they still put a bit too much focus on the flora and fauna and not as much on the rocks themselves

[kihaku-gato]

Now this

This is beautiful