Conquest Reforged 1.20.1 Beta

The latest Conquest Reforged update is out and ready for 1.20.1 Fabric! If you thought that the last big update brought great performance, prepare yourself for even crazier improvements. To add to that, 1.20 brings powerful new tools along with more blocks for your building needs.

We're marking this initial release as a "Beta" in case unforeseen issues arise, but nevertheless the game plays smoothly. If nothing large comes up we'll mark this as a full release later on. In any case, as with any version upgrade, remember to back-up your worlds!

Performance Upgrades

Conquest Reforged over the years has become more and more demanding in terms of RAM usage, coming up to a daunting 6-8gb of RAM for Conquest Reforged alone. Thankfully, Minecraft has optimized its systems significantly, bringing this way down to 2gb for smooth FPS and gameplay. While loading times were also exhausting, they’re reduced to about 30 seconds. A big improvement from the 3-15 minute loading times that plagued us all. 

We also made some smaller quality of life improvements. With Optifine now an unpleasant thing confined to the past, the mod and resource-pack are now unified, so there’s no need to go into the resource-pack screen and activate anything. Additionally, we’ve optimized our textures and brought the total download size of Conquest Reforged down to 136mb.

TLDR:

- 2gb RAM minimum, 4gb recommended

- Approximately 30 seconds to load the game now.

- One download – no separate resource-pack and mod.

- Reduced file size. Total down from 209mb -> 136mb.

Axiom

Exclusive to Fabric and 1.20, there’s a new creative building tool on the block, and this one overshadows Worldedit. Axiom introduces an incredibly user-friendly way of editing and creating your builds in real time with its custom UI (no more typing in long commands!). 

Jayemceekay (one of the developers of Conquest Reforged) is also working on add-ons for Axiom to make building even easier. Do check out his twitter for a sneak peak!

New Blocks

- Old Bench

- Cast Iron Pot (2 Variants + Filled/Unfilled states)

- Cast Iron Pan (Filled/Unfilled states)

- Cast Iron Bowl (2 Variants + Filled/Unfilled states)

- Cast Iron Cauldron (Filled/Unfilled states)

- Hay Bundles (4 Variants)

- Burlap Sack (3 Variants)

- Wine Press

- Royal Chair

- Silver Arabian Ewer and Salver

- Copper Arabian Ewer and Salver

- Hanging Scroll

- Sealed Scroll (3 Variants)

- Open Scroll (3 Variants)

- Scroll Case

Fixes

- Rose plaster arch wasn't in block palette family

- Diagonal Beam proper culling

- Oak Log Step proper culling

- Deepslate (vanilla block) proper culling

- Modded grass block culling and uncontrollable spread fixed

Conquest ReFabricated

Conquest Reforged is now available for the Fabric mod-loader and Minecraft 1.19.2, rendering a whole new suite of mods available to our community! From the once familiar Replay Mod (now a Fabric exclusive) to powerful new performance enhancing mods, these days Fabric can offer Reforged players quite a bit to heighten their experience. Greatest of all is that Optifine is not required for connected textures, shaders, and other aesthetic features, making installation for players easier and our work as developers simpler. As this is the first release ever for Fabric, it will be marked as Beta, so if you encounter issues be sure to report them here.

Worlds that are currently in Forge 1.18 seem to be fine when opened in Fabric 1.19 thus far. Still, always remember to backup your worlds before opening them in a new version!

We've also released ArdaGrass (created by JayemCeekay from Ardacraft). It's a Fabric alternative for Optifine's "Better Grass" feature that also extends to modded grass blocks and nether "grasses" such as crimson and warped nylium.

How do we install it?

Without Optifine, we can package together a completely functional mod-pack on Curseforge for easy and quick installation, with no manual installations involved. The mod-pack will also be available on Modrinth, and accessible through alternative launchers such as Prism or ATlauncher. Personally, I prefer Prism and ATlauncher to Curseforge as they're easier and faster to use. Just remember to set the game to use at least 8gb of RAM on these launchers!

Installation this simple was previously impossible since Optifine specifically prohibits its distribution on Curseforge and every other platform, forcing all players who depend on it to go to the Optifine website and risk installing a version that will cause crashes, break other mods, or just not even work with Forge. No longer does one have to go through this process or help their friends through it in order to play Conquest Reforged at its best.

What are the performance gains?

As you can see, performance gains can be substantial. With the mod-pack, my FPS has shot up from 55 FPS on Forge/Optifine to 145 FPS on Fabric (Chocapic shaders, middle of the forest, 16 chunk render distance).

Minecraft 1.19.2 also seems to improve loading times a bit. Optifine hasn’t delivered much performance enhancement for quite a while and doesn’t show prospects of improving, so being able to access latest and greatest new performance mods on the block should prove exciting.

The Future

Given all the benefits of using Fabric and its more open and effective Optifine alternatives, development will probably be targeting Fabric more than Forge from here on out. Conquest’s Medieval armor and weapons mod should be ported to Fabric in time as well.

Many thanks to JayemCeeKay from ArdaCraft for pioneering the port of Conquest Reforged to Fabric. Your work has been a boon to Conquest Reforged and we look forward to working with you in the future!

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