Another update for Conquest Reforged: this one brings a wide array of new basket models, "Brown Mortar Cobble" blocks, reworked mud textures, additional survival mechanics, and more!

Modpack:

- updated various mods
- update Fabric to 1.16.11
- add Distant Horizons to Fabric modpack. Performance hit seemed to severe in Forge modpack, but can be easily added by users.
- switch out JEI for REI

Additions:
- added down extension to planks

- Tall Woven Basket
- tall Woven hand Basket
- Unfinished Woven Basket
- Vintage Woven Hand Basket
- Woven Basket
- Woven Chest
- Woven Hand Basket
- Large Woven Basket
- Short Lidded Woven Basket
- Small Square Woven Basket
- Small Woven Basket
- Tall Lidded Woven Basket
- Empty Wicker Basket
- Wicker Basket of Firewood

- variants for vanilla Mud
- Dry Mud

- Worn Light Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Mossy Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Overgrown Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Heavily Overgrown Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Clay Brick Mixed Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Clay Brick Banded Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles

- Pale Limestone
- Rough Carved Limestone

- Black Persian Pillow
- William Morris Pillow
- Linen Cushion

- Simple Tall, Worn, and Simple Wooden Doors

- Cooking Brazier
- Terracotta Cooking Pot
- Bronze Cooking Pot
- Cast Iron Cooking Pot
- Fancy Mortar and Pestle
- Mortar and Pestle

- Round Bronze Lantern
- Copper, Iron, Bronze, and Cast Iron Candle Lanterns

- Short Broom
- Wooden Cross Stool
- Fabric Folding Stool
- Bronze Chest
- Scroll Stand

- Added an effect that slows the player when walking through dense foliage

- Added mallet item: use this for toggling variation shapes in survival mode (eg: arch shapes)

- New gamerule to permit or prohibit Conquest plants from breaking without a supporting block

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Changes:
- update packed, thick mud, vanilla, and conquest mud textures
- White and Off-White Ashlars
- All cushions now have toggles and can be sat on
- Conquest Campfire has offset on layers now

- Brought back old feature where players and mobs can walk through leaf blocks
- Disable sometimes harsh ambient occlusion for leaf blocks

- Rocks reworked significantly. "Density" blockstate controls how dense and large the rocks are for greater control. "Edge" blockstate controls whether the rocks should be centered if there are surrounding air blocks below. North, South, East, and West states are removed.

- In survival, plants only have a hit-box when holding an axe
- implement various missing cem from conquest

Fixes:
- Improve mob pathing a bit on layers
- fix hanging moss, roots, spruce cones offset
- fix crash when using CR BlockPicker on entity or itemframe
- Addressed CR BlockPicker in Forge that was causing conflicts by not filtering out left and right-click when ctrl was held down
- fix skyboxes to work properly and have parity with Conquest  pack. Most importantly, duplicate suns and moons gone.
- Optimized various old models (many made before Blockbench existed)
- Update base leaf textures to hopefully improve Distant Horizons LODs
- Optimized dynamic offset mechanic
- Addressed lighting being slighly different on extensions for the "Down Extension" mechanic. Culling issues also addressed

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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