Another update for Conquest Reforged: this one brings a wide array of new basket models, "Brown Mortar Cobble" blocks, reworked mud textures, additional survival mechanics, and more!

Modpack:

- updated various mods
- update Fabric to 1.16.11
- add Distant Horizons to Fabric modpack. Performance hit seemed to severe in Forge modpack, but can be easily added by users.
- switch out JEI for REI

Additions:
- added down extension to planks

- Tall Woven Basket
- tall Woven hand Basket
- Unfinished Woven Basket
- Vintage Woven Hand Basket
- Woven Basket
- Woven Chest
- Woven Hand Basket
- Large Woven Basket
- Short Lidded Woven Basket
- Small Square Woven Basket
- Small Woven Basket
- Tall Lidded Woven Basket
- Empty Wicker Basket
- Wicker Basket of Firewood

- variants for vanilla Mud
- Dry Mud

- Worn Light Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Mossy Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Overgrown Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Heavily Overgrown Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Clay Brick Mixed Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles
- Clay Brick Banded Dark Brown Mortar Cobbles

- Pale Limestone
- Rough Carved Limestone

- Black Persian Pillow
- William Morris Pillow
- Linen Cushion

- Simple Tall, Worn, and Simple Wooden Doors

- Cooking Brazier
- Terracotta Cooking Pot
- Bronze Cooking Pot
- Cast Iron Cooking Pot
- Fancy Mortar and Pestle
- Mortar and Pestle

- Round Bronze Lantern
- Copper, Iron, Bronze, and Cast Iron Candle Lanterns

- Short Broom
- Wooden Cross Stool
- Fabric Folding Stool
- Bronze Chest
- Scroll Stand

- Added an effect that slows the player when walking through dense foliage

- Added mallet item: use this for toggling variation shapes in survival mode (eg: arch shapes)

- New gamerule to permit or prohibit Conquest plants from breaking without a supporting block

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Changes:
- update packed, thick mud, vanilla, and conquest mud textures
- White and Off-White Ashlars
- All cushions now have toggles and can be sat on
- Conquest Campfire has offset on layers now

- Brought back old feature where players and mobs can walk through leaf blocks
- Disable sometimes harsh ambient occlusion for leaf blocks

- Rocks reworked significantly. "Density" blockstate controls how dense and large the rocks are for greater control. "Edge" blockstate controls whether the rocks should be centered if there are surrounding air blocks below. North, South, East, and West states are removed.

- In survival, plants only have a hit-box when holding an axe
- implement various missing cem from conquest

Fixes:
- Improve mob pathing a bit on layers
- fix hanging moss, roots, spruce cones offset
- fix crash when using CR BlockPicker on entity or itemframe
- Addressed CR BlockPicker in Forge that was causing conflicts by not filtering out left and right-click when ctrl was held down
- fix skyboxes to work properly and have parity with Conquest  pack. Most importantly, duplicate suns and moons gone.
- Optimized various old models (many made before Blockbench existed)
- Update base leaf textures to hopefully improve Distant Horizons LODs
- Optimized dynamic offset mechanic
- Addressed lighting being slighly different on extensions for the "Down Extension" mechanic. Culling issues also addressed

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Conquest ReFabricated

Conquest Reforged is now available for the Fabric mod-loader and Minecraft 1.19.2, rendering a whole new suite of mods available to our community! From the once familiar Replay Mod (now a Fabric exclusive) to powerful new performance enhancing mods, these days Fabric can offer Reforged players quite a bit to heighten their experience. Greatest of all is that Optifine is not required for connected textures, shaders, and other aesthetic features, making installation for players easier and our work as developers simpler. As this is the first release ever for Fabric, it will be marked as Beta, so if you encounter issues be sure to report them here.

Worlds that are currently in Forge 1.18 seem to be fine when opened in Fabric 1.19 thus far. Still, always remember to backup your worlds before opening them in a new version!

We've also released ArdaGrass (created by JayemCeekay from Ardacraft). It's a Fabric alternative for Optifine's "Better Grass" feature that also extends to modded grass blocks and nether "grasses" such as crimson and warped nylium.

How do we install it?

Without Optifine, we can package together a completely functional mod-pack on Curseforge for easy and quick installation, with no manual installations involved. The mod-pack will also be available on Modrinth, and accessible through alternative launchers such as Prism or ATlauncher. Personally, I prefer Prism and ATlauncher to Curseforge as they're easier and faster to use. Just remember to set the game to use at least 8gb of RAM on these launchers!

Installation this simple was previously impossible since Optifine specifically prohibits its distribution on Curseforge and every other platform, forcing all players who depend on it to go to the Optifine website and risk installing a version that will cause crashes, break other mods, or just not even work with Forge. No longer does one have to go through this process or help their friends through it in order to play Conquest Reforged at its best.

What are the performance gains?

As you can see, performance gains can be substantial. With the mod-pack, my FPS has shot up from 55 FPS on Forge/Optifine to 145 FPS on Fabric (Chocapic shaders, middle of the forest, 16 chunk render distance).

Minecraft 1.19.2 also seems to improve loading times a bit. Optifine hasn’t delivered much performance enhancement for quite a while and doesn’t show prospects of improving, so being able to access latest and greatest new performance mods on the block should prove exciting.

The Future

Given all the benefits of using Fabric and its more open and effective Optifine alternatives, development will probably be targeting Fabric more than Forge from here on out. Conquest’s Medieval armor and weapons mod should be ported to Fabric in time as well.

Many thanks to JayemCeeKay from ArdaCraft for pioneering the port of Conquest Reforged to Fabric. Your work has been a boon to Conquest Reforged and we look forward to working with you in the future!

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