Havokmin

It's been a little bit hasn't it? It's definitely been the longest time between Slime Variants updates, but it's for good reasons. This post is mainly about clarifying what's going on with Slime Variants and why the new update is taking so long.

It started when Mojang had announced the split of the Caves and Cliffs update into two separate updates. I had originally planned to go along with the one version update and release everything in the update all at once, but obviously this isn't happening. This has also impacted things like Optifine, which the resource pack depends on to function. Currently, there's no support for random entity textures under y=0 in the preview versions of Optifine. I had planned to add a Variant that only spawns under y=0 to the bottom of the world, but it's slowly looking like this won't be the case. The update will have to be planned around the vanilla version of 1.17 and without support for the Caves and Cliffs Preview datapack that Mojang has provided.

Another major wrench in my plans was my fault. As I was working on the pack, the development folder was deleted. I was able to recover most things, but there were a good amount of things that weren't recovered and have to be recreated. Always make backups of your projects, kids! I learned what happens if you don't the hard way.

So, TL;DR: 1.17 support for Slime Variants is coming, but it's going to be a little while longer. It will only support the vanilla 1.17 world generation. Although I'm looking into trying to add support, it's currently not planned to be in the first release of the update.

And to prove that I haven't been sitting around and doing nothing, have a development screenshot of what's coming. The model is a little buggy in the screenshot, but it's been fixed since. I'll see you all soon!