ONWARD: SECOND JOURNEY | v2.0b

welcome back. we ended on a rough one, didn't we? poor optimisation, WAY too many mods and overall a pretty poor modpack. up until now, with ONWARD built from the ground up and with way less bloat!

additions

• added progressive difficulty. the difficulty of your world will increase more over time
• enemies can appear in groups and will be much harder to defeat
• added the "Undead Army" raid
  • when you kill a certain amount of undead enemies (e.g. zombies), the Undead Army raid will begin
  • this has up to 5 waves and will reward the player(s) with a treasure bag after completing it
• added bleeding
  • the more armour you have equipped, the less likely you are to bleed
  • bleeding becomes more deadly with each stage
  • bandages are highly recommended, as they will stop you from bleeding out
• added spears and copper tools introduced in later versions of Minecraft
• added ore piles
• added aircrafts
  • take to the skies with a biplane, airship, whatever you desire!
• added item rarities
  • this applies explicitly to tools, weapons, etc
• there's much more, by all means go explore!

gameplay tweaks

• world generation has been changed
  • this does mean your legacy worlds won't work as intended with v2.0b and above unfortunately
• ONWARD is now primarily a progression based modpack
  • need not to worry! progression is simple and fairly quick
  • gradually, progressing does get harder however
• changed the way Level XP is gained to a much simpler system
  • instead of assigning yourself to a job, gaining XP can be as simple as chopping down trees
  • the amount of XP you gain varies on the task you are doing. for example, mining will gain you least XP. fighting will gain you most XP
• maximum level has been capped to 240
• player/mob footprints now show on the ground temporarily
• experience ores are slightly different
  • accepts stone pickaxes and up
  • has an extremely high chance to grant you Level XP.

visual & audio changes

not a lot to note here. shaders and visuals are the same.

• enhanced the shader look
  • shadows, reflections, etc. all customisable to look how you want!
  • you can download the shader standalone @ ONWARD Shader!

performance

this is by far the most important update.

• majorly cut down boot up time
• FPS is much more consistent; less intensive tasks happening
• chunks load much more quicker
• reduced mod count by 100+ mods
  • 336 mods (previous version) to 215 mods (new version)
• overall ONWARD is way less intensive and easier to run

other changes

• completely ditched Essential mod.
  • i haven't got anything much against Essential; i think it's a great mod! but it caused some problems with the new UI.
  • i also don't like the fact that you have microtransactions. sure, it's not for ONWARD but it's still a little annoying.
• as a result, we now use e4mc.
  • you may encounter connection issues. don't worry, you just need to rehost.

upcoming

• expect primarily game and shader fixes.
  • the overall state of ONWARD is looking very good. i just need to iron out some of the issues with it.