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.

The entirety of Legacies and Legends is configurable via in-game GUI or json5.

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
new enchantments
vanilla discs previously only obtainable from creepers now have their own structures (vanilla or new) which they may rarely spawn in
rebalanced loot tables
enchanted beetroot
7 new discs and 4 new sherds
hooks, knives... and boomerangs!
tablets and artifacts (more detail on these further below)
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.

Trident Shards | dropped from Elder Guardians, used to craft or repair Tridents
Metal Chunks | found from fishing and world loot, used to repair certain items or smelted into iron nuggets
Wooden Buckets | found from fishing and world loot, crafted into Coal or Charcoal buckets to make a great fuel source
Hooks | found from fishing and world loot, a slow but heavy-hitting melee weapon with the exclusive Shatter enchantment
Knives | found from Trail Ruins archaeology, Knives deal low damage but strike fast. They have Striking as an exclusive enchantment
Boomerangs | arguably the most unique new weapon, with 4 exclusive enchantments. Found in Dungeons, Boomerangs travel far and spin fast - the longer they fly, the more damage they do. Whilst you'll have to find most of their enchantments in the world, they can get Rebound from the enchanting table, and also work with Flame, Freeze, Decay, Rejuvenate and Featherweight

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)
Castles (found in the overhauled Dungeons - specifically the standard simple / cobblestone variant)

Pottery Sherds

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

Enchantments

Featherweight - Boomerangs fly further, faster and ramp up damage quicker. Found in Arid Dungeons, exclusive to Boomerangs
Decay - Boomerangs poison targets when thrown. Found in Deep Dungeons (or Verdant Dungeons when Variants & Ventures is installed), incompatible with Rejuvenate
Rejuvenate - Boomerangs give regeneration to targets when thrown. Found in Simple Dungeons, exclusive to Crossbows and Boomerangs, incompatible with Decay
Extraction - grants more experience from mined blocks. Exclusive to Helmets, incompatible with Aqua Affinity
Freeze - ranged attacks afflict targets with freeze for a short time. Found in Frozen Dungeons, incompatible with Flame
Striking - increases hit speed and damage against certain passive or neutral mobs, specifically animals with some sort of hide-like skin. Exclusive to Knives, incompatible with other damage enchantments
Shatter - hits apply Freezing for a short duration. Hitting frozen enemies causes them to shatter, dealing bonus damage. Exclusive to Hooks, incompatible with other damage enchantments
Tangled - allows you to traverse blocks and similar items which would otherwise slow you down at a faster speed. 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

Dungeon Overhaul - a comprehensive expansion on the vanilla Dungeon structure, filled with new rooms, loot, variants and more. The go-to structure to get Boomerangs and their exclusive enchantments. Comes in up to 6 variants - Simple, Deep, Arid, Frozen, Verdant (requires Variants & Ventures) or Infernal (requires Wilder Wild)

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)

Swamp Hut Variants - 3 new Swamp Hut variants, including a modified vanilla one

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

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

Buried Treasure Rework - 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

Artifacts

Artifacts are new, unique loot items, the idea of which is inspired by other games, like Terraria. They're unique, rare and fun to find - plus individually configurable, if you're not interested in any of them.

Armor and Weapons

Reinforced Chestplate | Massive boost to knockback resistance with a high durability. Found in Deep Ruins, Sculk Ruins or Ancient Cities
Travelling Strides | Increases movement speed with a low defense. Found in Arid Dungeons or crafted with Rabbit Hide
Wanderer Boots | Allows the wearer to sprint up blocks. Found in Simple Dungeons
Verdant Sword | Inflicts poison on hit. Found in Jungle Temples
Cleaving Battleaxe | Inflicts weakness on hit. Found in Dungeons
Molten Pickaxe | Smelts mined blocks. Found in Nether Fortresses
Prospector Shovel | Mining sand has a chance to provide iron nuggets, gold nuggets or emeralds. Mining red sand has a chance to provide golden nuggets only, bu in higher quantities. Found in Buried Treasure
Withered Hoe | Tills Nyllium --> Netherrack --> Soul Soil --> Soul Sand, rather than tilling Dirt. Also has the side effect of applying Wither on hit. Dropped rarely by Wither Skeletons

Amulets

Amulets provide passive benefits whilst held in the mainhand or offhand

Amulet of Allure | Increases mob attraction range whilst held. Breeding mobs grants regeneration. Found from Ruined Aether Portals.
Amulet of Evasion | Grants Invisibility, Darkness and Weakness whilst held. Found from Swamp Huts
Amulet of Synthesis | Killing entities grants a small boost to saturation and hunger. Found from Deep Dungeons

Totems

Totems save you from death and are consumed when doing so

Totem of Vengeance | Grants a high level of Regeneration alongside Strength and Resistance when triggered, making you incredibly powerful for a short burst before you wither away. Found from Deep Dungeons
Totem of Teleportation | Teleports you when triggered and grants Regeneration, Invisiblity and Speed for a short duration. Found from End Cities

Tablets

Tablets are single-use consumables with varying times to use. If you are hit while using a totem, the activation is cancelled and you must try again

Tablet of Recall | After a long use duration, you are teleported to your spawn point. Does not work between dimensions. Found from Dungeons, Strongholds, Forest Ruins, Deep Ruins, Abandoned Mineshafts, Ruined Portals and End Cities. May also be traded by Wandering Traders, if Villager Config is installed

Tablet of Revealing | After a short use duration, all nearby entities are revealed through the Glowing effect. Found in Mineshafts and traded by Wandering Traders, if Villager Config is installed

Tablet of Haste | After a short use duration, apples the haste effect. Found in Mineshafts and traded by Wandering Traders, if Villager Config is installed

Tablet of Levitation | After a short use duration, launches you into the sky. Found in End Cities

Tablet of Deafening | After a long use duration, lets out a shriek and gives all nearby entities Darkness, Weakness and Slowness for a short time. Found in Ancient Cities

Tablet of Channeling | After a long use duration, thunder roars and a storm appears. Found in Woodland Mansions

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.

Misc Additions

Echo Shards can now be used as a Trim Material

Improved Wandering Trader trades when used with VillagerConfig

Config

Legacies and Legends uses Cloth Config and Mod Menu for its config. Details on what certain config options do are provided in the in-game Mod Menu GUI via the tooltip shown when you hover over an option, so that is the intended way to view the configuration options. The default json5 config generated by the mod is also provided below for reference.

{
	"structures": {
		"dungeon_overhaul": true,
		"swamp_hut_variants": true,
		"buried_treasure_rework": true,
		"new_structures": true
	},
	"loot": {
		"enchanted_beetroot": true,
		"metal_chunk": true,
		"trident_shard": true,
		"wooden_buckets": true,
		"new_music_discs": true,
		"boomerang": true,
		"hook": true,
		"knife": true,
		"lore_books": true,
		"improved_loot": true
	},
	"artifacts": {
		"reinforced_chestplate": true,
		"travelling_strides": true,
		"wanderer_boots": true,
		"verdant_sword": true,
		"cleaving_battleaxe": true,
		"molten_pickaxe": true,
		"prospector_shovel": true,
		"withered_hoe": true,
		"totem_of_vengeance": true,
		"totem_of_teleportation": true,
		"tablet_of_recall": true,
		"tablet_of_haste": true,
		"tablet_of_levitation": true,
		"tablet_of_channeling": true,
		"tablet_of_deafening": true,
		"tablet_of_revealing": true,
		"amulet_of_allure": true,
		"amulet_of_synthesis": true,
		"amulet_of_evasion": true
	},
	"enchantments": {
		"tangled": true,
		"extraction": true,
		"freeze": true,
		"featherweight": true,
		"rejuvenate": true,
		"decay": true
	},
	"music": {
		"snowy_music": true,
		"savanna_music": true,
		"dark_forest_music": true,
		"main_end_island_music": true,
		"end_portal_music": true,
		"music_and_melody": true
	},
	"misc": {
		"new_trim_materials": true,
		"wandering_trader_trades": true,
		"no_creeper_discs": false
	},
	"integrations": {
		"wilder_wild": true,
		"trailier_tales": true,
		"variants_and_ventures": true
	}
}

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

Trailier Tales integration

Frozen Dungeons use calcite stairs
Deep Dungeons use mossy cobbled deepslate

Variants & Ventures integration

adds the Verdant Dungeon - a Jungle-specific Dungeon variant featuring the Thicket and Verdant
adds the Gelid to Frozen Dungeons

Villager Config integration

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

Enchancement integration

includes enchantment descriptions for LaL enchants

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

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