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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Welcome to the 1.15.2 Century

The moment we have all been anxiously waiting for is finally here.

We’re bringing Conquest Reforged 1.15.2 out of beta and into an official release! Fortunately, beta for Conquest Reforged has been rather stable, with the most troublesome issues being related to third-party mods conflicting with other third-party mods (eg: Journeymap vs Optifine chunk shenanigans). As such, all the bugs, mostly minor visual ones, that were reported on Github have been fixed, and a few additions have been made. Overall, not much has changed, and all the blocks from the beta remain intact.

There’s also an update for the Conquest Reforged 1.16.5 alpha. Additions and fixes from the 1.15 release have been merged into the 1.16 version, and the 1.16-specific  issues that have been reported thus far have been fixed and resolved. Generally, the alpha seems fairly stable, so I think it’s safe to say it’ll be coming out of alpha in time for or before SpongeForge’s much awaited 1.16 release. 

On the team, we’ve been pretty busy in real life, so that’s slowed down development and this release significantly. Most of us have been working, and I’ve been pretty sick for the last few months. Nevertheless, we’re getting back into the swing of things and making progress once again. Along with the 1.15 and 1.16 update, the converter has seen a few fixes for 1.12-1.15. Right now  we’re actively working on a major facelift for the website to hopefully make it a more useful place for the community. So far, we’ve scrapped the old media page and replaced it with a curated Showcases page, where we show off and save some of the best Conquest Reforged builds. The header and footer have been replaced as well to be more in line with the Conquest aesthetic. Elsewhere throughout the site, pages are being edited to be more clear and informative. As for 1.17 on the horizon, my brief foray into the new version shows that it could be tricky due to a few factors, such as ForgeGradle updating and most of all Mojang reshuffling or renaming almost all of their files (again). Even so, it should not be anywhere near as time-consuming as the 1.15 update. 

Note: If you’ve been using the launcher, you’ll need to go to the resourcepacks interface in-game and enable the latest resourcepack. We opted not to override the settings for which resourcepacks are loaded so that your own settings aren’t forcibly overridden. 

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1.15.2 Release Changelog:

Additions:

• Granite Embossment
• Fancy Granite Dwarven Column
• Fancy Granite Dwarven Design
• Granite Dwarven Column
• Granite Dwarven Design
• Dark Rough Marble Dwarven Column
• Dark Rough Marble Dwarven Design
• Dark Rough Marble Dwarven Pillar 1
• Dark Rough Marble Dwarven Pillar 2
• Dark Rough Marble Dwarven Runes
• Fancy Dark Rough Marble Dwarven Column
• ancy Dark Rough Marble Dwarven Design
• Fancy Dark Rough Marble Pillar
• Leaded Glass Window
• Gothic Sliding Window
• Brown Oven Tiles
• Green Oven Tiles
• Gray Gothic Arch Frieze
• Red Plaster with White Masonry Lines
• Red White Floral Frieze
• White Gray Floral Frieze
• Glass shape variants for Cloud, Thick Cloud, and Thin Cloud 
• Light Gray Screen & White Screen (for fancy screenshots and scenes)
• Command block textures added as Circuit boards and screen, Iron and wood gear box, and Metal Gear Box
• add granite wave stair and slab

Fixes:

• Proper mirroring for various variants when using structure files (eg: better support for Terraforged, or whatever mod or builder uses structure files)
• Fix Stump variant’s update method for Terraforged support
• 1.12 Glass culling for Cloud, Thick Cloud, and Thin Cloud readded (ie: for modern glass builds). Hitbox added to these three blocks so that their respective panes connect to them.
• Small gap between inner and outer metal stairs removed
• baotou block name typo
• fior di bosco name typo
• Get rid of unneeded waterColor() for empty barrels, fixing blue particle color
• Get rid of problematic Big Ladder culling
• More complex and accurate voxelshape for stone urns
• Vanilla farmland reverted to vanilla model to avoid culling issues
• Fixes for hand cart wheel uvmapping
• Fixed Vertical Corner Slab incorrect texture assignment on one side
• Add functionality for moving through Painting GUI via left and right keys rather than just the scroll-wheel (ie: for laptops)
• Dependency screen doesn't show up when there are no missing dependencies
• remove useless icons on block palette wheel texture
• fix nsew small branch model using wrong texture
• clean up cornice models a bit
• fix cabbage and common bean resolution
• Make curtain vines pass-thru, improved placement to not be restricted to full blocks
• window panes arch/slab/stair texture connection improved a bit

1.16.5 Alpha Changelog:

• Should include all 1.15.2 fixes and additions
• Fixed pillar, column, and log blocks using the wrong texture