Bits and Balance v2.0.0

Dyed Pale Oak is likely to be slowly phased out of the mod due to the original idea being rushed and difficult to maintain.

Major Additions

• Automatic Tool Restock

  • When a tool breaks in your selected hotbar slot, it's automatically restocked from your inventory
  • Smart enchantment matching: strongly prefers tools with similar enchantments
  • Prioritizes Silk Touch and Fortune matching
  • Also considers Mending, Unbreaking, and Efficiency when selecting replacements

• Automatic Block Restock

  • When you run out of blocks while building, they're automatically restocked from your inventory
  • Prefers exact matches (same custom data, custom names)
  • Perfect for uninterrupted building sessions

• Candle Bundles (Mixed Candles)

  • Allows bundling different candles into the same multi-candle block
  • Each candle in the bundle now keeps its own dye/tint visually (per-candle coloring)
  • Breaking a bundle now drops the correct candle items back (preserves per-candle item data)
  • Candle bundles now orient towards the placer so the smallest candle faces you

• Mixed Slabs

  • Placing a different slab type onto an existing bottom or top slab creates a Mixed Slab instead of a vanilla double slab
  • Each half independently keeps its own block type, textures, and sounds
  • Mining either half drops only that half's item; the remaining half stays in place as a normal slab
  • Per-half mining sounds play based on the targeted half's block material
  • Mixed slabs can be moved by pistons and correctly restore both halves at the destination

• Steps

  • Craft steps from 2 slabs in a horizontal row to output 4 steps
  • Matching step placements can merge into a quad-step block, allowing up to 4 quarter-block steps in one space
  • Convert 2 matching steps → 1 slab to recover the source slab type
  • Dyed/tinted variants preserve their color in drops and conversions

• Vertical Steps

  • Craft vertical steps from 2 vertical slabs in a vertical column to output 4 vertical steps
  • Matching vertical step placements can merge into a quad vertical-step block, allowing up to 4 quarter-block vertical steps in one space
  • Convert 2 matching vertical steps → 1 vertical slab to recover the source vertical slab type
  • Dyed/tinted variants preserve their color in drops and conversions...kinda. WIP.

Minor Additions

• Stonecutter Depth

  • The stonecutter now accepts all wood types (including modded wood), unlocking shortcuts for any loaded mod that follows standard naming conventions
  • Planks → 1 Stair, 2 Slabs, 2 Pressure Plates, or 4 Buttons
  • Logs / Wood → 1 Stripped variant, 4 Planks, 4 Stairs, 8 Slabs, 8 Pressure Plates, or 16 Buttons
  • Dyed Pale Oak wood set support is now disabled by default while it remains a major WIP; if you used the older implementation in existing worlds, back up those worlds before updating
  • When manually re-enabled, dyed pale oak stonecutter input/output still preserves the dye color (color is copied from the ingredient to the crafted result)
  • Recipes are generated dynamically at world load — new mods are picked up automatically without requiring a restart

• Enhanced Slab Behavior

  • Top-slab hanging support: top slabs and double slabs now provide a sturdy downward face, allowing lanterns, chains, hanging signs, and other hangable items to be placed beneath them
  • Hanging items beneath a slab snap to the correct visual position (render offset applied)
  • Knee Slab mining: each half of a vanilla double slab (or mixed slab) can be mined independently in survival mode; mining speed is determined by the targeted half and your tool

• Friendly Fire Friendlies (Tamed Pets)

  • Prevents accidentally melee-attacking your own tamed pets (default: enabled)

• Block of Raw Quartz

  • Adds bitsandbalance:raw_quartz_block, a compact decorative block crafted from Nether Quartz (analogous to Raw Iron Block / Raw Gold Block)
  • Generates as small ore pockets inside Nether Quartz veins
  • Can be fully disabled in the worldgen config

• Unbreakable Trial Spawners

  • When enabled, Trial Spawners become completely indestructible — immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources
  • Enabled by default; can be disabled in config

• Unbreakable Vaults

  • When enabled, Vaults become completely indestructible — immune to mining, explosions, and all other damage sources
  • Enabled by default; can be disabled in config

• Bottle o' Cloud

  • Obtain your first Bottle o' Cloud by right-clicking a Glass Bottle at cloud height (Y ≥ 192)
  • Cloud Blocks can be picked up again with a Glass Bottle
  • Placing the bottled cloud consumes it and leaves behind an empty Glass Bottle

Minor Changes

• Returning Potion Immersion

  • Returning Potion now applies 1 second of Blindness and Darkness after teleporting to your last death location

• Depth Scaling Enemies — Per-Tier Toggles

  • Each depth tier (surface, mid, deep) can now be individually disabled
  • Surface tier is now disabled by default — surface mobs are left vanilla unless opted in
  • Disabled tiers apply no armor or weapon changes to spawning mobs, leaving them fully vanilla

Config

• Tweaks

  • Added enableEnhancedSlabs (default: enabled): master toggle for all Enhanced Slab Behavior features (mixed slabs, hang-below support, KneeSlab mining)
  • Added enhancedSlabs.mixedDoubleSlabs (default: enabled): allow placing a different slab type on an existing slab to form a Mixed Slab instead of a vanilla double slab
  • Added enhancedSlabs.allowHangBelow (default: enabled): allow lanterns, chains, hanging signs, and other hangable items to be placed beneath top or double slabs
  • Added enhancedSlabs.kneeSlabMining (default: enabled): independently mine each half of a double slab in survival mode; speed is based on the targeted half
  • Added allowMixedCandlePlacement (default: enabled) to allow servers/players to disable mixing different candle items into a single bundle
  • Added enableAutomaticToolRestock (default: enabled): when a tool breaks in your selected hotbar slot, it will be restocked from your inventory (prefers similar enchantments like Silk Touch)
  • Added enableAutomaticBlockRestock (default: enabled): when you run out of blocks in your hotbar while building, restock from your inventory
  • Added enableUnbreakableTrialSpawners (default: enabled): make Trial Spawners completely unbreakable — they cannot be destroyed by mining, explosions, or any other means
  • Added enableUnbreakableVaults (default: enabled): make Vaults completely unbreakable — they cannot be destroyed by mining, explosions, or any other means

• Mechanics

  • Added depthScalingEnemies.enableSurfaceTier (default: disabled): surface-band mobs are unaffected by depth-scaling by default; set to true to enable
  • Added depthScalingEnemies.enableMidTier (default: enabled): set to false to fully disable depth-scaling changes for mid-depth spawns
  • Added depthScalingEnemies.enableDeepTier (default: enabled): set to false to fully disable depth-scaling changes for deep spawns
  • Added friendlyFireFriendlies.enabled (default: enabled): prevents accidentally melee-attacking your own tamed pets

• Colors

  • Added dyeSystem.dyedPaleOakWoodset.enabled (default: disabled): gates the dyed pale oak woodset recipes, stonecutting support, JEI previews, and dedicated creative tab while the feature remains a major WIP

• Worldgen

  • Added enableRawQuartzBlock (default: enabled): master toggle that completely disables Block of Raw Quartz worldgen; overrides enableRawQuartzBlockInQuartzVeins when set to false
  • Added enableRawQuartzBlockInQuartzVeins (default: enabled): controls whether nether quartz veins can place Block of Raw Quartz pockets