Sinborn Odyssey 2 — v2.8

📸 New Content

Exposure: Polaroid — instant-camera addon for Exposure. Gated behind the Artisan's Ledger scroll. Wither Storm Delight — Farmer's Delight–style food and tools themed around Cracker's Wither Storm. Gated behind the On the Wither scroll (Cursed Age). Entropic Weapons — netherite-tier Command Block tools for late-game Wither Storm progression. Gated behind the On the Wither scroll.

🔄 Mod Swaps & Updates

Spice of Life: Apple Pie Edition → Spice of Life: Onion Edition. Same "eat diverse foods → gain max hearts" mechanic, actively maintained, no more dedicated-server crash. Starter Food Book auto-upgraded. Exposure 1.9.13 → 1.9.20 (required for Polaroid). Desertification → 0.41.2 — resolves Missing layer definitions crash on startup.

🐍 Wither Storm Drop Migration

The On the Wither scroll now drops from the Withered Symbiont mob instead of Nether chests. Killing the Wither Storm's final form now guarantees both scroll_end_passage and the_wither scrolls. Previous chest drops removed from nether_bridge and bastion_hoglin_stable.

🧹 Scroll Gate Cleanup

Base Create and basic workstations (crafting table, furnace, smoker, blast furnace, anvil, etc.) removed from scroll gating — available from first spawn. Base Farmer's Delight removed from scroll gating — core food content available from the start. Create addons (TFMG, New Age, Oppenheimered, Teleporters, Interiors) and FD addons (Ender's Delight, Nether's Delight, Cultural Delights, Youkai's Feasts) still properly gated behind their themed scrolls.

🔧 Shader Fix

Complementary Reimagined r5.7.1 volumetric clouds crash fixed. GetVolumetricClouds undefined error in deferred1.fsh resolved via CLOUD_STYLE_DEFINE=0.

🛠️ Major Fixes

Better Clouds sky fix — clouds now actually stay on. Previous config wrote renderClouds:"false" to every player's options.txt at startup. Flipped cloudOverride off; Better Clouds now rides the vanilla toggle. Set once, stays forever. Server compatibility overhauled — dedicated server pack rebuilt (339 server-side mods, 65 client-only excluded). Scroll loot pools repaired — 16 stale scroll IDs in scroll_loot_tables.js were silently rolling dead NBT in chests. Remapped to canonical IDs. Village houses, shipwrecks, igloos, mineshafts, dungeons, pyramids, jungle temples, pillager outposts, buried treasure, stronghold libraries, and ancient city pools all hand out scrolls that actually exist again. Warden fight quest fixed — ch08_r_warden_fight.json pointed at the nonexistent sinborn:scrolls/sculk_warning advancement. Restored to sculk_warding. Sculk scroll naming converged — now consistently sculk_warding across all five layers (config, advancement, KubeJS, loot table, quest). Starter items — Food Book item ID updated to match the new Spice of Life mod.

🍽️ Food Cravings — Expanded Coverage

55 new food items added to the Food Memory pool:

Mod Items Witherstorm Delight 22 Compat Delight 14 Vintage Delight 7 Miner's Delight 5 Delightful Creators 3 Nether Vinery 2 These mods were previously invisible to the craving rotation.

📖 Behind the Scenes

Scroll system fully audited and consolidated — 8 canonical scrolls, 16 gate quests redirected. 414 mods now have internal wiki pages with icons, links, and category color-coding. Scroll Wiki authored — hub doc covering the three-layer architecture, drop sources, research process, and authoring guide. Known Issues: Critters and Companions ferrets can crash the game when attacking. Avoid ferrets or check for a mod update.