Legacies and Legends

Made as a part of Legacies, aiming to completely reimagine modded Minecraft while upholding these same unique, vanilla-style design principles. If you like Legacies and Legends, I highly recommend you check it out!

My design process, as an example, wasn't to show you what's on the other side of the Ancient City portal, or what else is out there in the End, or even to explain the past - it's to make you wonder what could be, such as vanilla's open-ended lore, only expanded.

Legacies and Legends is, finally, a soundtrack expansion, the first of its kind in this sense. It also adds new items, structures and lore - and ultimately will enrich your playthroughs or even modpacks without changing the core experience.

Atmospheric Soundtrack Overhaul

Legacies and Legends introduces several new tracks to the game, all thematic to their locations and carefully selected to ensure they blend perfectly with vanilla.

For a standalone, vanilla-friendly resource pack, check out Music and Melody

Several new songs (including some left-out ones from the official soundtracks) are added to the game's base soundtrack for various biomes, as well as a bonus track for when you light the end portal. These tracks are considerately weighted to ensure vanilla and C418 music still get their chances to shine. Special thanks to Firel for composing Only the Beginning as a new end track for this mod!

Click here to view the complete Legacies OST as a youtube playlist!

Loot Table Reworks

Summary

expanded fishing loot
structure-specific enchant loot (eg Feather Falling from End Cities)
vanilla discs previously only obtainable from creepers now have their own structures (vanilla or new) which they may rarely spawn in
rebalanced loot tables
2 new enchantments
enchanted beetroot
6 new discs and 4 new sherds
hooks, knives and armor
much, much more - it's best you play Legacies and Legends for yourself in order to truly experience the breadth of improvements made

Most structures have seen their loot tables reworked or rebalanced in a vanilla-like fashion - for example, End Cities are mostly untouched, but a Jungle Temple has a few additional items in addition to the chests containing more overall items on average than vanilla. In other cases, you may find entirely new items to the loot tables, such as the enchanted stone tools that can be found rarely in underwater ruins. Regardless the structure, there's a good chance it's seen some changes, anywhere from a slight tweak to a complete overhaul.

I haven't just used existing loot in these updated loot tables, however. I've taken some inspiration from Minecraft's early days - filled with random new features and items that often had no reason to exist, but did anyway. There are a few other small items that provide an enriched loot experience. Firstly is Enchanted Beetroot - a new enchanted food found in End and Stronghold-related structures! It's quite rare, and grants useful effects when eaten - and can even be crafted into a more powerful Enchanted Beetroot Soup.

We've also got some new ocean-themed loot... because fishing is boring, and, after all this new content, I thought the ocean needed some love - I want to ensure everything is treated equally. Presenting Wooden Buckets - not so helpful on their own, but they can be a great source of early-game furnace fuel (especially when crafted into Coal/Charcoal Buckets)... but don't worry, fishing can now provide Metal Chunks, hard metal scrap that can be smelted into iron nuggets, as an insignificant bonus source of materials while fishing. Most importantly, however, is the new Hook item (repaired with the aforementioned Metal Chunks), a fishing-inspired weapon, which even has its own unique enchantment, Chilled.

Thirdly, we've got the Ancient Knife (repaired using spare pottery sherds). Much like the Hook, it can't quite compete directly with a netherite sword - but is fun and effective nonetheless. It can be found rarely in suspicious gravel at the Trail Ruins.

Finally, a few new, rare items are added to further expand on the atmospheric and lore side of structure loot. 3 new, extremely (trust me, super hard to find) rare armor sets (don't worry, they're perfectly balanced against vanilla and won't stuff with balance or progression) provide additional worldbuilding - namely the Ward (Deep Ruins, Sculk Ruins, Ancient Cities), Fortress (Nether Fortress) and Dungeon (Dungeons) armor sets. Again, while they can spawn in these structures, they are very rare and make great bonus loot without messing up the core game's functions, thanks to their careful balancing and inherent rarity. They can be repaired using echo shards, netherite scrap and iron ingots respectively.

Music Discs

Svall (Mineshafts)
Taswell (Deep Ruins)
Tundra (Igloos)
Infinite Spooky Amethyst (Pale Cabins)
Shulker (End Cities)
Far Lands (crafted from disc fragments scattered throughout select overworld structures)

Pottery Sherds

Dusk and Harvest - found from Obelisks
Forager and Verdant - found from Ruins

Enchantments

Chilled - applies slow to targets, and deals increased damage. Substantially boosted effectiveness while in rain. Non-treasure, Hook exclusive
Tangled - allows you to traverse blocks and similar items which would otherwise slow you down at a faster speed. Treasure (found in Jungle Temples), Leggings exclusive (incompatible with Swift Sneak)

Structures

Legacies and Legends includes quite a few new structures, all small and carefully balanced to keep them nice, rare and unobtrusive - perfect for vanilla integration... and expanding on the lore.

While there are quite a few new structures, spawning has been-fine tuned to ensure the structure-clutter problems faced by other structure projects are avoided.

You can view the gallery for examples

Ruins - archaeological site with variant types, found in Taigas and Jungles

Forest Ruins - 2 variant types for each biome they can spawn in, which are Birch Forests, Cherry Groves and Maple Forests (the latter requires Wilder Wild)

Obelisks - archaeological sites found in Dark Forests (Obelisk) or Pale Gardens (Shattered Obelisk)

Deep Ruins - found at y -52, 2 variant types

Sculk Ruins - replaces the Deep Ruins in the Deep Dark biome, 2 variant types

Ruined Libraries - found in Plains and Forests, 2 variant types

Underground Remains - structure found in the stone layers of caves, 3 variant types

Pale Cabin - found in the Pale Garden, 2 variant types

Buried Treasure Rework (configurable) - replaces vanilla buried treasure with a custom surface-visible structure, 3 variant types

Ruined Aether Portals - found in the Nether, 4 variant types

End Remnants - often-buried ruin found in the outer End, 3 variant types

End Ruins - surface structure found in the outer End, 3 variant types

Misc Additions

Echo Shards can now be used as a Trim Material

Improved Wandering Trader trades when used with VillagerConfig

Lore Expansion

Finally, the piece that brings it all together. Lore. The lore expansion is closely linked with many new structures, items and even music, but there's an added component - many structures now have a very low chance to contain a lore book, a written book with a short excerpt of lore embedded. There are quite a few, and are designed to complement the very minimalistic and open-ended lore and story of the base game in similar ways.

There are a total of 22 unique written lore books to discover.

They've all been carefully written, and are fully vanilla-compliant and not immersion breaking (they are quite open-ended and aren't throwing made-up lore at you) whatsoever, even if you dislike the idea of them. Trust me, find one and you'll get what I mean.

For obvious reasons, I can't say more about this, but I hope you have a blast uncovering all the new lore over your playthroughs.

Mod Integration

Progression Reborn integration

custom loot table changes and armor trim material compat

Wilder Wild integration

adds Maple Ruin variants of Forest Ruins, for Wilder Wild's Maple Forest biome

Villager Config integration

custom wandering trader improvements, based on those found in the villager trade rebalance experiment

Music Notification integration

adds support for Music Notification's toasts

Nature's Melody addon

adds extra music for Nature's Spirit's biomes, much like Legacies and Legends does for vanilla

Config

music_and_melody (default true) - toggle Legacies and Legends' custom soundtrack expansion

buried_treasure_rework (default true) - toggle between the Legacies and Legends or vanilla Buried Treasure structure

mod_integration_datapacks (default true) - toggle mod integration datapacks. It is not recommended to change this unless you are a modpack developer and know what you're doing

Mod Showcase thanks to Soul_

Credits

Credit to Blockus for the cracked end stone bricks texture, which was used instead of making my own for consistency in modpack projects. Note that this texture is licensed under LGPL. You can check out Blockus here.

Special thanks to Firel for making an amazing end track, Only the Beginning, just for this mod - listen to it here!

Special thanks to Soul_ for all the support (including taking the time to create an awesome mod showcase)!

Special thanks to King (from the Nature's Spirit Discord) for providing the texture for the [REDACTED]!

Here is a link to all composers for their music.

Firel - https://www.youtube.com/@FirelMusic/featured

Soul_ - https://www.youtube.com/@soulwynmc

C418 - https://c418.bandcamp.com

BouncyTorch - https://bouncytorch.xyz

Terraainn - https://www.youtube.com/@Thaetaa-Terraainn

qwaston - https://www.youtube.com/@qwaston

Firch - https://www.youtube.com/@Firchex

bhuv_ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhV2mtaM8wQ

Technotech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVA7RKZ2XM

T_en_M - https://www.youtube.com/@TenM

Steelman - https://www.youtube.com/@steelmanmusic

Talon Trueblood - https://www.youtube.com/@TalonTrueblood

AFRH Music - https://www.youtube.com/@AFRHmusic

b. enjae - https://www.youtube.com/@inkyoggy/featured

Naps the Block Music - https://www.youtube.com/@napstheblockmusic5807

solunary - https://www.youtube.com/@solunary

Oh Eight - https://www.youtube.com/@oheight

Freja Nelson - https://www.youtube.com/@frejanelson/featured

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