🌟 simpleqol Mod Changelog and Feature List

🛠️ A lightweight, server-side Minecraft mod focused on quality-of-life improvements.

🌐 Fully server-side: No client-side installation required.

Features

🪓 Stonecutter Enhancements

• Stonecutter can now cut normal deepslate ⛏️.
• Stonecutter supports cutting all (and wood/stripped) types 🌳.
• CRAFTING TABLE stair recipe now produces 6 stairs on the crafting table
  • Stairs can be created on the stonecutter for 1 of the base material e.g. 1 stone or 1 oak plank.

🌞🌙 Custom Day and Night Lengths

• Configure day and night lengths in real-life minutes ⏰.
  • Default: 30 minutes (day), 10 minutes (night).
  • Commands:
    • /simpleqol daylength get/set <minutes>: View or set day length ☀️.
    • /simpleqol nightlength get/set <minutes>: View or set night length 🌑.
  • Note: Disables daynightcycle gamerule, which may affect mods relying on it ⚠️.
    • Sleeping to skip nighttime and the playersleepingpercentage gamerule remain functional 😴.

🍂 Custom Leaf Decay Multiplier

• Leaves decay faster. This multiplier is adjustable in the config (1=vanilla).
• Jungle Saplings now drop at the same rate as all other saplings (vanilla behavior was 2.5% for jungle, 5% for all other saplings).

⚓ Respawn Anchor Overhaul

• Respawn anchors are usable in all dimensions and do not explode 🚫💥.
• Players can right click Respawn Anchors to set and unset their spawn points.
• Players respawn at their anchor regardless of the dimension they died in (e.g., die in The End, respawn at their anchor in The Nether) 🔄.
• Players with an active respawn anchor cannot set their spawn with a bed, but can still sleep to skip the night 🛏️.
• Multiple players can link to the same respawn anchor 👥.
• If a respawn anchor is destroyed, connected players’ spawns revert to the world spawn 🌍.
• Respawn anchors remain lit (charge level 4) as long as at least one player is linked 💡.
• No longer require glowstone to function 🚫✨.

🌍 Simple Biome Replacement

• Hate a certain biome? Want more of a specific biome? Simple!
• Adjust the simpleqol_config.json to replace biomes (BEFORE GENERATION) as you see fit, adding adjusting, or removing them from the config json.
• Default replacement examples include:
  • "minecraft:stony_shore", "minecraft:beach" (replaces stony_shore with beach)
  • "minecraft:windswept_gravelly_hills", "minecraft:windswept_hills" (replaces windswept_gravelly_hills with windswept_hills)

Set

    "biomeReplacements": {
    "minecraft:stony_shore": "minecraft:beach",
    "minecraft:windswept_gravelly_hills": "minecraft:windswept_hills"
  },

to

"biomeReplacements": {},

if you do not wish to replace any biomes.

🌱 Composting

• Poisonous potatoes are now compostable 🥔.

👁️‍🗨️ Enderman Behavior

• Enderman griefing is disabled by default 🚫.
  • Adjustable via config ⚙️.

🧳 Ender Chest

• Ender chests drop as themselves regardless of the tool used, no silk touch required 🔨.

🧶 Wool Crafting

• Wool can be crafted into 4 strings 🧵.

💡 Plant Lighting

• Torchflower, Pitcher Plant, and Eyeblossom emit light ✨.
  • Light levels adjustable via config ⚙️.
  • Note: Clients only see lighting changes after rejoining the server 🔄.

🍓 Sweet Berry Bushes

• Berry bushes no longer deal damage to players 🚫💥 (configurable).
• Allows for greater decorative possibilities.

👻 Phantom Spawning

• Phantoms spawn very rarely in the Overworld and specific End biomes (End Highlands, End Midlands) 🏞️.
  • Customizable spawn weight and pack sizes via config (set to 0 to disable and set doInsomnia to true for vanilla behavior) ⚙️.
  • Gamerule doInsomnia (spawns Phantoms when player has not slept) is set to False by default, adjustable in config 😴.

🖥️ Mod Characteristics

• Fully server-side: No client-side installation required 🌐.
• Configurable settings for:
  • Enderman griefing 👁️‍🗨️.
  • Leaf decay multiplier 🍂.
  • Berry bushes 🍓.
  • Night length 🌙.
  • Fully customizable biome replacements 🌍.
  • Plant lighting levels 💡.
  • Phantom spawn rates 👻.

Make sure to also check out my other mod 'simpleskills' on Modrinth or GitHub!