CliffTree 3.2.0 for 26.1

After quite a while, CliffTree is finally out for Tiny Takeover! Due to the removal of the "random patch" feature type, this release has been delayed for some time. But it's not just a hotfix either, several new features are coming, from pale caves below to the starry skies above!

New biomes: Skies

• Added 10 sky biomes that generate above the cloud level
• All sky biomes have slightly darker sky colors, closer fog and some stars visible
• Rain and snow will not fall in sky biomes
• Unless otherwise specified, hostile mob spawning works as normal, given spawning conditions are met
• Sky biomes are not required for the "Adventuring Time" advancement

List of Sky Biomes

• Azure Skies spawn above most biomes (e.g. plains, forests)
• Celadon Skies spawn above arid biomes (e.g. deserts, badlands)
• Indigo Skies spawn above frigid biomes (e.g. snowy biomes, tundra)
• Viridian Skies spawn above Swamps, Kelp Forests, and Jungles
• Cerulean Skies spawn above most rivers. These can also spawn Drowned, allowing farms to still be built
• Frozen Summit spawns above Frozen Peaks
• Jagged Summit spawns above Jagged Peaks
• Stony Summit spawns above Stony Peaks
• Atmospore spawns above Mushroom Fields. Like its land counterpart, no mobs spawn here
• The Frontier spawns above all sky biomes when it nears the build limit. No mobs spawn here
  • Star particles occasionally spawn, representing baby stars that are born in the Overworld's atmosphere, where they're safer from celestial predators

New biome: Pale Grotto

• A symptom of the Pale Garden's spread, covered in hanging moss and pale moss patches
• Generates below Pale Gardens, killing off Lush Cave ecosystems that would have been there
• Hostile mobs spawn as normal, but Spiders are more common, while Creepers are less common

Changes to moss spreading

• Moss blocks and pale moss blocks will try to overtake one another when growing
  • They will also try to supplant certain moss-related vegetation with the opposite type
  • Pale moss will also kill azalea bushes when spreading, turning them into dead bushes. They cannot be revived by spreading moss
• In order to allow moss to be used outside of the Lush Cave context in the future, the vegetation produced by moss will now be dependent on certain environmental factors:
  • By default, only moss carpets, grasses, and classic vines will spread
  • Azalea bushes, cave vines, and spore blossoms can also spread if a spore blossom is present up to 5 blocks above nearby
  • Azalea bushes and cave vines can also spread if others of its kind are present nearby

Other biome-specific changes

• Oak trees will now only generate in Pale Gardens when bordering other forest biomes
• Flower Forests can rarely generate Golden Dandelions in Dandelion patches
• Dark Forests now have darker grass and foliage colors
• Forest biome has more defined noise-based clearings
• Fixed stone sometimes taking over Granite and Diorite shore biomes
• Rocks in Old Growth Taigas can occasionally spawn with moss blocks around it
• Taigas and Old Growth Taigas now generate Azure Bluet patches
• Reduced amount of mud in Jungles
• Dry Grass in Beaches mostly no longer expands into non-beach biomes

Miscellaneous changes

• Bonemealing flowers may be better in some biomes
  • Has a chance of generating most flowers the biome can spawn with, independent of noise patterns
  • Flowers that match the noise patterns are still favored
• Block light has special tints in some biomes, most noticeably in cave biomes like Frozen Caves, Inferno, and Deep Dark
• By default, block light is now less warm and more neutral
• Some biomes have different dripstone dripping particles
  • Arid biomes like badlands and deserts have none
  • The Inferno biome has lava

Note on Tectonic compatibility:

The mod version of both CliffTree and Tectonic are compatible with each other, but currently sky biomes will not generate when Tectonic is installed. A fix is planned in the future.

Special Thanks

• Evergreene, for coming up with the hilarious name "Atmospore" and the lore of baby stars
• Hiro (from Penumbra Discord), for coming up with the cool name "The Frontier"
• Sierra (and probably several others), for suggesting a "Pale Lush Cave" type biome which became the Pale Grotto
• The No Man's Land team, who shared an image of their skydogs and starry skies, which was partial inspiration for the sky biomes
• Zeean, for taking me to the local library where I'm able to lock in on finishing this update
• Apollo, for helping me write this changelog while I was burnt out
• NovaWostra and notNoita, for playtesting and finding a bunch of bugs I would have never caught myself

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