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Nether Archives

Nether Archives

Fun and unique expansions to the Nether!

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Adventure
Equipment
World Generation

Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21.x
1.20.1–1.20.4

Platforms

Fabric
Quilt

Supported environments

Client and server

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Licensed MIT
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Nether Archives 0.5.0

by ThePotatoArchivist on Jul 8, 2025
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The Spectral Drop

Updated to 1.21.1

Additions

  • Soul Glass
    • Reveals invisible entities behind it
    • Obtained by smelting shattered soul glass
    • Can withstand one explosion but shatters
    • Drops shattered soul glass when mined without silk touch
    • Turns into shattered soul glass when exploded or hit by projectile
  • Shattered Soul Glass
    • Created when soul glass is exploded or hit with a projectile
    • Does not reveal invisible entities
    • Craftable from 9 soul glass shards
  • Soul Glass Shard
    • Crafting ingredient
    • Obtained by smelting soul sand
  • Adjustable Basalt Geyser
    • Redstone compatible version of basalt geyser
    • Signal strength affects push distance
      • 0 power = 15 block range
      • 14 power = 1 block range
      • 15 power = off

Changes

  • Basalt Geysers
    • Can now be rotated in all 6 directions
    • The pushing effect is stopped by full square blocks
    • Generate less frequently in basalt delta lava pools for performance reasons
  • Saddles can be sheared off of striders
  • Netherite blocks suspend magnetite in addition to lodestones
  • Removed burned lodestones dropping netherite ingot
  • Lodestone can be crafted with magnetite in place of netherite ingot
  • Dropped beacon items drop a nether star if exploded
  • Config temporarily removed, will be re-added in a future patch

Nether Archives 0.4.0

by ThePotatoArchivist on Jan 24, 2025
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Big Update!

Additions

  • Basalt Skis & Oar
    • An easy travel method across the basalt deltas
    • Wearing skis lets you stand on fluids without taking damage
    • You cannot move manually when on fluid but you can use the oar to push yourself
      • Using the oar while on lava will damage you a bit
    • Crafted from polished basalt
  • Basalt Geysers
    • Launches entities into the air
    • Entities wearing skis will fall slowly and not take fall damage
    • Generates naturally in the basalt deltas, especially in lava pools
    • Can be obtained with silk touch

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Visuals

  • Update many textures
    • fermenting rotten flesh
    • blaze fire
    • blaze torch
    • magnetite & smoldering magnetite
    • blaze dust block textures
  • Add blaze fire particles
  • Add soul particles when rotten flesh ferments
  • Update blaze lantern item model to be 2D

Other

  • Temporarily disable blaze torch threading
  • Remove burning lodestone to get netherite ingot
  • Add recipe to craft lodestone from magnetite
  • Change rotten flesh to have 4 fermenting stages instead of 8
  • Make fermented rotten flesh a valid soul fire base
  • Add Create compat recipes for rotten flesh fermenting
  • Make rotten flesh blocks flammable

Nether Archives 0.3.6 for 1.20.1-1.20.2

by ThePotatoArchivist on Jul 6, 2024
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  • EMI Compatability: added World Interaction recipes for lodestone burning, rotten flesh fermenting, and smoldering magnetite

Also, support will be dropped for other 1.20.x versions going forward.

Nether Archives 0.3.5 for 1.20.3-1.20.4

by ThePotatoArchivist on Feb 16, 2024
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Nether Archives 0.3.5 for 1.20.1-1.20.2

by ThePotatoArchivist on Feb 16, 2024
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  • Make rendering features toggleable via config

Nether Archives 0.3.4 for 1.20.3-1.20.4

by ThePotatoArchivist on Jan 2, 2024
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Nether Archives 0.3.4 for 1.20.1-1.20.2

by ThePotatoArchivist on Jan 2, 2024
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  • Fix a crash using the blaze lantern on a server

Nether Archives 0.3.3

by ThePotatoArchivist on Dec 21, 2023
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  • Backport to 1.20.1

Nether Archives 0.3.2

by ThePotatoArchivist on Dec 17, 2023
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  • Update to 1.20.3+

Nether Archives 0.3.1

by ThePotatoArchivist on Dec 16, 2023
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  • Fixed a badly written mixin preventing mod from loading outside of dev environment
  • 1.20.4 will be out soon

Nether Archives 0.3.0

by ThePotatoArchivist on Dec 15, 2023
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  • Blaze lantern impacts can now replace flammable and replaceable blocks with blaze fire
  • Rotten flesh blocks can have air and other rotten flesh blocks between it and the campfire

Nether Archives 0.2.0

by ThePotatoArchivist on Dec 14, 2023
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  • Added Blaze Torch to the piglin bartering loot table

Nether Archives 0.1.0

by ThePotatoArchivist on Dec 13, 2023
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Initial release! Documentation coming soon.

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