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Eastward Journeys is a Minecraft mod focused on adding new content and biomes based around east asian locales. Providing new variety to your Minecraft world. This is a full-featured mod including biomes, structures, trees, decorations, weapons and even armour skins!

This mod is a resurrection of Cherry Blossom Grotto, which was supported up till Minecraft 1.19.4. It removes some features that are now redundant, reworks others and adds new ones in there place and develops upon its experimental features.

Note: If upgrading your world from 1.20.1 to 1.20.2, you may encounter some issues with some of the blocks added by this mod. It would be recommended starting a fresh 1.20.2 world in this case

Setup & Dependencies

This is a Forge mod only. Currently there are no plans for a Fabric or Quilt version.

Currently supported for Minecarft 1.20

Requires Minecraft Forge

TerraBlender for biome generation!

Geckolib for new entities and armour skins!

Use of this mod requires both the server and clients have it installed.

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Features

Biomes

Stone Forest - A dense jungle biome set in a karst landscape where hills of stone jut from the ground
Cherry Blossom Slopes - Snowy mountaintops with cherry trees and hotsprings
Cherry Blossom Bamboo Jungle - Bamboo jungles peppered with cherry blossom trees
Eastern Forest - A flowering forest mixing oak, birch and cherry trees
Maple Woods - Woods of red maple trees whose leaves fall and gather into piles on the ground
Maple & Oak Forest - Oak forests peppered with red maple trees
Shrublands - A desert biome with small sparse trees and more cactii
Hinoki Woods - Dense woods of hinoki trees
Old Growth Fir Forest - Giant water fir (also known as dawn sequoia) trees grow in forests with many pools of water in which rice paddies sometimes grow

Wood Types

Hinoki
Maple
Water Fir (also known as dawn sequoia)
Saxaul
Black Pine

Structures

Gazebo - Small mysterious little refuges that spawn in many eastern region forests
Giant Buddha Statue - Large buddha statue said to house a secret
Terracotta Tomb - Ancient tombs protected by a maze of forbodding terracotta warriors
Great Wall - A long winding dungeon that resides in a giant wall filled with mobs and traps
Torii Gate
Cherry Blossom Village - New village variant with custom villager skins and new buildings found in eastern biomes
Fallen Ancient Tree - Remains of a giant tree that have since fallen

Entities

Koi - Fish that has a variety of skin patterns
Tanooki - Mischevious mammal that will steal any food item that drops to the ground near it
Terracotta Warrior - Warriors made of terracotta that are slow and clunky

Blocks

Red Fence - New fence model painted a bright red
Paper Lantern - Red lantern made of paper and a torch
Hidden Trapdoors - Trapdoors that match the skins of the block it was crafted with. Most vanilla planks and stone types support this feature
Zen Lantern - Stone lanterns for eastern inspired gardens
Shoji Screens - Paper screens that act as walls but do not block light. These are empty frames which can hold a sheet of shoji paper. Shoji screens have light and dark wood variants
Gridded Shoji Screens - Variant of the shoji screen with a wooden grid
Gridded Shoji Screens with Heavy Bottom - Variant of the shoji screen with a wooden grid and a bottom board
Small Shoji Screens - Half-size variant of the shoji Screen
Tatami Mats - New type of carpet blocks that can be crafted in two sizes and colours
Enoki Mushroom Block
Polished Gravel - Variant of the gravel block which can be raked with a hoe to display different patterns on the top layer

Plants

Enoki Mushroom - mushrooms that grow in small clusters from the ground or wood blocks
Shiitake Mushroom - mushrooms often found growing from the side of wood blocks
Flowering Cactus - Small succulents that are in bloom

Crops

Rice Paddy - A crop that grows only in dirt that is one block deep in water

Items

Shoji Paper - Sheets of paper painted with a pattern (determined by an item added to the crafting recipe) intended for placement within an empty shoji screen.

Shoji Paper Patterns

There are 6 shoji paper variants currently:

Base - No changes
Cherry Blossom - add pink petal to the recipe to get this pattern
Wave - add blue dye to the recipe to get this pattern
Red Sun - add red dye to the recipe to get this pattern
Moldy - add black dye to the recipe to get this pattern
Golden - add gold nugget to the recipe to get this pattern

Foods

Onigiri
Congee
Cooked Koi
Maple Syrup

Weapons

Katana
Kunai
Shuriken

Armour

Kabuto
Ninja

Additional compatibility

Compatible with Motschen's Better Leaves resourcepack in Minecraft 1.19+! Instructions and assets needed to improve cherry blossom trees can be found here.

To support waving leaves with BSL shaders, consult the README on the project source here.

Credits

Dekunutter for coding and art assets

junshengxie for simplified Chinese language translations

Eastward Journeys

[1.20.1] Eastward Journeys - v1.0.2

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