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# Rivencraft
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Write a book. Name an Age. Step into a world that did not exist before.
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Rivencraft brings the books, writing stations, symbols, and unpredictable Ages
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of [Mystcraft Legacy](https://github.com/Mystcraft/Mystcraft-Legacy) to
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Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge. Mystcraft veterans will recognize the writing
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flow, D'ni-inspired glyphs, libraries, crystals, and instability. Rivencraft
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also lets you author modern terrain, biomes, structures, seasons, and celestial
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bodies. It is an independently developed project, not a byte-for-byte copy of
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the 1.12.2 mod.
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The gameplay guide below describes the **Minecraft 1.21.1 release**. A separate,
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incomplete **Minecraft 26.3 beta** is available: Java 25, NeoForge 26.3.0.99,
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and a first-party Age backend (no Dynamic Dimensions or Bad Packets). It now
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supports authored terrain/biomes, structure and vegetation pages, independent
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Age weather/lighting, seeded and colorable Overworld/Nether/End/Static skies,
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independent Sun/Moon controls, multiple bodies and eclipses, seeded biome and
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feature completion, and random structure selection. Nether/End noise-biome
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materials now follow their native rules. The beta does not yet provide full
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1.21.1 gameplay or optional-integration parity.
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See the [26.3 beta guide](ports/mc263/README.md) and
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[latest beta release notes](ports/mc263/RELEASE_NOTES_1.0.1.98-beta.1.md).
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Keep the builds and their saves separate, and back up worlds before updating.
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## Getting started
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1. Make an Ink Vial from two black dyes, a glass bottle, and a water bucket.
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Craft an Ink Mixer, Writing Desk, and Book Binder.
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2. Put paper and an Ink Vial in the Ink Mixer and take a Link Panel Page. Add
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ingredients to the basin first if you want a chance of link modifiers.
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3. Put leather or an empty Notebook and the Link Panel in the Book Binder.
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Name the Age and take the Descriptive Book. A book with only a Link Panel
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creates a seeded random Age; add Symbol Pages to author its features.
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4. Open the book to create its Age, then click the destination preview to
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travel. Bring a bound Linking Book for the return trip: automatic Return
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Links are off by default.
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Find new Symbol Pages in Age libraries, or copy pages you already own with
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paper and ink at the Writing Desk. The Notebook stores ordered pages, including
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intentional gaps. Written pages can control terrain, biome distribution,
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weather, lighting, seasons, sky color, suns and moons, decorations, structures,
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and more. Incorrect or excessive writing can make an Age unstable; instability
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may bring decay, lightning, explosions, meteors, burning, erosion, and other
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hazards. Some combinations are still unsupported and the Binder reports them
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before consuming ingredients.
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Place a Rivencraft book or page on a vanilla Lectern to convert it to a Book
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Stand. Crystal formations yield shards for Crystal Blocks. A connected crystal
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frame with a Book Receptacle and a bound book forms a portal; frames can stand
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upright or lie flat. Libraries, Book Stands, and portals use Legacy-inspired
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assets and sounds. Handheld travel drops the used book at the departure point,
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so plan how you will retrieve it.
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## Requirements and optional integrations
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Install the same gameplay mods on the client and server:
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- Minecraft **1.21.1**, NeoForge **21.1.264 or newer in the 21.1 line**, and
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Java 21.
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- **Dynamic Dimensions AR Edition 0.9.1** and its **Bad Packets 0.8.2**
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dependency. These are required for Age dimensions.
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Rivencraft works without any of these optional integrations:
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| Mod | What it adds |
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| JEI | Searchable Pages and guides for the Ink Mixer, Writing Desk, Book Binder, and Linking Book crafting. |
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| Create (bundles Ponder) | Ponder book snapshots and a crystal-portal construction guide. |
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| Immersive Portals | Live destination views in book previews and crystal portals. In `AUTO` preview mode it takes priority over Ponder. |
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| TerraBlender | Eligible biomes from mods using its Overworld/Nether regions become Age biome candidates and Pages. Biomes O' Plenty is one example; it is not hard-coded or required. |
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| Serene Seasons (with GlitchCore) | Independent per-Age seasons, including normal seasons, no seasons, and four eternal-season modes. |
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| Ruins | Authorable Ruins-template Pages and Ruins structures in Ages. |
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The optional builds used in the latest development checks are JEI
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19.69.0.457, Create 6.0.10, Immersive Portals 6.0.7, TerraBlender 4.1.0.8,
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Serene Seasons 10.1.0.9, and Ruins 1.21.1.2NF. See the
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[compatibility review](docs/MILESTONE_7_COMPATIBILITY_REVIEW.md) for the
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evidence and limits of those combinations.
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Without Create or Immersive Portals, book previews use Rivencraft's built-in
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Legacy-style animation. Ecliptic Seasons is **not supported**: its 1.21.1 API
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does not offer the live dimension/season control Rivencraft needs.
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## Saves, settings, and current limits
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Ages and bound books use persistent UUIDs. Back up the **entire world folder**
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before changing mod versions, data packs, or optional biome mods: the Age
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registry and dimension data must be restored together. Rivencraft preserves
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known older save formats where possible, but pre-public-release worlds are not
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promised universal compatibility. Missing custom symbols retain their IDs in
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books; missing registry entries or dimension providers can still prevent an
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Age from loading. See [current implementation](docs/CURRENT_IMPLEMENTATION.md)
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for supported behavior and deliberate limits.
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Server settings include `descriptive_books.return_link_mode` (default
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`DISABLED`), `libraries.loot_mode` (`LEGACY` or `AGE_ONLY`), writing ink costs,
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season enrollment, and instability controls. The client setting
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`book_preview.mode` chooses `AUTO`, `IMMERSIVE_PORTALS`, `PONDER`, or `LEGACY`.
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An operator can inspect Ages and instability with `/rivencraft age` and find
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libraries with `/rivencraft library nearest`. The creative-only Link Modifier
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can edit link properties and retire an Age; use it carefully and keep backups.
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Binder status messages are off by default. An OP can run
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`/rivencraft binder messages enable` or `/rivencraft binder messages disable`
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to control them; only OPs see the diagnostics even when enabled.
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## Project and development
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This repository is the development source. See the [current implementation](docs/CURRENT_IMPLEMENTATION.md),
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[milestone summaries](docs/MILESTONES.md), [technical document index](docs/README.md),
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and [issues](https://git.paddedcell.org/dnorberg/rivencraft/issues).
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Help build the [Rivencraft wiki](https://git.paddedcell.org/dnorberg/rivencraft/wiki)
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with guides for Ages, pages, and crafting, or open an issue with documentation
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suggestions and corrections.
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Milestone 7 is complete in 1.0.0.2. Its [acceptance record](docs/MILESTONE_7_ACCEPTANCE.md)
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and [regression matrix](docs/MILESTONE_7_REGRESSION.md) distinguish automated
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checks from manual evidence and known limitations.
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```sh
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./gradlew build
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./gradlew runGameTestServer
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```
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The JAR is written to `build/libs/`. Development runs need the required mods;
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see [GameTest guidance](docs/GAMETESTS.md) for focused archived suites.
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Versions use `x.y.z.b`: major release, completed milestone, release slice,
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then fixes/additional work within that slice.
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Rivencraft is licensed under LGPL-3.0-or-later. Legacy-derived material is
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credited in [NOTICE](NOTICE) and [asset provenance](docs/ASSET_PROVENANCE.md).
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