Golden Days 16.2 for 1.20+

New

• New textures for 26.3 Fall Drop Content:
• Cushions
• Poplar blockset
• Shelf Mushroom
• Red Shrub
• Straw Bed
• New texture for Cherry Sapling
• Bunch of fun post effect shader effects (26.3, /posteffect)

Changes

• Retexture Crimson and Warped Roots
• Recolor Dead Coral to be more like Vanilla
• Consistent sign and door textures
• Update shade in models for 26.3

Fixes

• Fix Wall Torches showing up as missing models on Forge ~1.20.2+
• Fix leaf textures not having dark_cutout mipmap strategies
• Fix missing translation on PolyTone config screen
• Clouds render strange with OIT enabled
• Fix Z-fighting with Scaffolding model

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/16.1...16.2

Golden Days 16.1 for 1.20+

Just a few fixes.

New

• Texture for small Sulfur Cubes

Fixes

• World is invisible with Sodium on 26.2

Golden Days 16.0 for 1.20+

A whole bunch of new textures! And a slightly new versioning scheme.

New

• Respawn Anchor texture inspired by Crying Obsidian and Lapis
• Sulfur & Cinnabar block sets
• Beta repeater block texture
• Gear easter egg

Changes

• New Andesite, Diorite, and Granite textures
• New Packed Mud & Mud Bricks
• Reshaded Coral Blocks, new Tube Coral textures
• New Lodestone textures
• Changes to Concrete and Concrete Powder for variation (lighter Powder, darker Concrete)
• Tuff block set tweaks to help resemble Stone Bricks more

Fixes

• Bed tops wrong texture orientation
• Bats having no hanging animation
• Shield texture not showing
• Potted Fern having different lighting
• Bed models missing texture (26.2)
• Decorated Pot invisible in inventory (<1.21.4)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.15.6...16.0

Major fixes to fog in this update. If you have had issues with it, please try this new version.

Changes

• Refactor Chest Styles to work with the standalone options
• Reimplement End Portal shaders

Fixes

• Fix issues with fog density in the Nether and End with Boss Fog
• Fix left-handed Bow holding
• Fix missing item texture issue on 1.21.4

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.15.5...1.15.6

• Change Stained Glass to have more contrast and more opacity
• Fix Leather Armor being invisible on ~1.21.4-1.21.11

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.15.4...1.15.5

New

• Added new option for Modern Bow Holding
• New looping Water, Lava, and Fire textures (made directly in Beta using looping random)
• First pass textures for Chaos Cubed snapshots

Changes

• Reworked shaders again, adding support for Sodium Core Shader Support (needs testing)

Fixes

• Fix an issue with PolyTone on Forge when installed with content mods

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/commits/1.15.4

New

• New textures for the baby mobs in 26.1
• Retextured the new Rabbit model with the old design
• New easter eggs

Changes

• The textures of Nylium/Nethergrass have been edited to make them more unique

Fix

• Fix Dragon Heads having black eyes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.15.2...1.15.3

New

• Froglights have been retextured and renamed to Magmalights
• Raw Ore Blocks and Items have been fully redesigned
• Copper Grates have been given new grid-like textures
• Retextured Bamboo Planks to resemble early Classic planks

Options

• Added two options for Bamboo Planks: consistent and smooth

Changes

• Wildflowers are now Yellow and White instead of Yellow and Red
• Flowerbed blocks no longer have UV rotation (Pink Petals, Leaf Litter, etc.)
• Leaf Litter now resemble Birch Leaves in color

Fix

• Use Forge OBJ loader on 1.20.1 and NeoForge on 1.20.2+
• Fix translucency on Cherry, Mangrove, and Azalea leaves showing in 26.1a
• Fix Chiseled Tuff tops not matching the sides

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.15.1...1.15.2

The Customization Update - Patch 1

New

• Wind Charges are now 2D like snowballs (EMF)
• Ghasts ignore lighting and are always glowing (EMF)
• Boats now emit water particles when moving (PolyTone)
• OBJ paralleliped Torch models for NeoForge
• Item rename easter egg for Torches
• Texture and rename Golden Flowers (26.1)

Changes

• Hoes now make the dirt break sound like in old versions
• Birch log tops now use the oak bark rim
• Leaf Litter is now hidden from maps

Options

• New option for 2D cross candles like in old versions of Golden Days
• Auto-generated versions of the PolyTone options are now available as standalone packs on GitHub in the actions tab for versions without PolyTone configs (not fully supported)

Fixes

• Fix Fire model backfaces being visible
• Hide the outer hat layer of Baby Zombie Pigmen
• Fix bat wings being invisible from the back
• Added missing Oak translations

The Customization Update

New:

• Bamboo Sapling texture
• Player-style Armor Stand
• White Eyes Creaking Heart
• New unique Charcoal texture (with new option to make coals match)
• Customizer via PolyTone (1.21.11+)
• Four option presets built-in (Early Beta, Late Beta, Early Release, Late Release)
• Player CEM to flatten the second layer (PolyTone & EMF)
• Sky Dimension/Aether inspired End option (PolyTone)
• Built-in Bushy Leaves option (PolyTone)
• Overlay CTM option (PolyTone)
• more below...
• Started on 26.1 baby mobs (not done)

All New Options:

• Bushy Leaves: true, false
• Overlay CTM: disabled, normal, no_tint
• Beta Lighting: true, false
• Disable Flat Items: true, false
• Use Core Shaders: true, false
• Cloud Height: -64, 320
• Bricks: alpha, modern
• Cobblestone: classic, hybrid, modern
• Cuboid Bamboo: true, false
• Fast Grass: true, false
• Flatten Skins: true, false
• Matching Coals: true, false
• Oak Log Tops: true, false
• Shadowed Leaves: true, false
• Silent Chests: true, false
• Solid Items: true, false
• Chest Style: beta, hybrid, modern
• End Style: custom, early_release, modern
• XP Bar Style: hidden, custom, modern
• [WIP] Picture Perfect: true, false

Changes:

• Oak Log Tops is now a PolyTone option and not the default
• Retextured Bamboo (and new 3D model option)
• Retextured the Deepslate set
• Retextured the Blackstone set
• Retextured the Tuff set
• Retextured Trapped Chest ring
• Make all PolyTone modifiers explicitly targeted
• Removed ResPackOpts support

Parity:

• Edited lighting on Repeaters and Comparators
• Force nearest neighbor sampling on 1.21.11+ (shader)
• Changed the breaking particles on Grass Blocks

Fixes:

• Fixed Boats bouncing on land
• Fixed White Eyes not spawning on 1.21.11+ (PolyTone)
• Fixed Crying Obsidian particles not matching the base texture

Golden Days Alpha:

• New option for Classic Dyes (includes dyed blocks excluding Terracotta) (PolyTone)
• New option for Classic Bricks (PolyTone)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.14.0...1.15.0

• Updated to 1.21.11 (Mounts of Mayhem)
• Add support for respackopts
• Indev Battleaxes, shows up with Sharpness or when renamed to Battleaxe
• New Observer texture
• Gave Polished Slabs a unique side texture
• Beta accurate Door, models
• Redone Fence, Trapdoor, Stair, and Pressure Plate models
• Noshaded Redstone Torches on Comparators and Repeaters
• New Wall inventory model inspired by the Fence inventory model
• Repositioned some item textures
• Fixes some inconsistencies
• Cleaned up files
• More that I don't feel like typing...

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.13.1...1.14.0

New

• Betafied Sculk (not fully done)

Changes

• Retextured Chiseled Deepslate to be better for building
• Make 2D Player Head model only show in GUI and first person for compatibility
• Change PolyTone grass colors to int colors

Bugs

• Fixed Stairs model
• Fix Player Heads
• Fix Sculk Shrieker culling

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.13.0...1.13.1

Parity:
- Rip Sky and Fog colors directly from Beta 1.7 (PolyTone)
- Use green grass color for Swamps like Beta 1.8 (PolyTone)
- Accurate beta fog color in all Nether biomes (PolyTone)
- Beta Fence Gate inventory model
- Almost-accurate Fishing Rod held position
- Old Fishing Rod sounds
- Removed Dead Bush ambient sounds
- Fix beta Door sound parity
- Fix Villager cloaks being longer than they used to be
- Remove random variants from Bedrock
- Alpha Addon: Remove sunset color (PolyTone)
- Alpha Addon: Universal Fog and Sky colors (PolyTone)
New:
- Update pack to work with 1.21.9 snapshots (Copper Age drop)
- Remove grass color modifiers in all biomes (PolyTone)
- Lighten the grass in the Pale Garden (PolyTone)
- Make the Pale Garden more creepy (PolyTone)
- New Candle textures
- Replace Elytra with Dragon Wings
- Make Magma Blocks glow
- Closed and Open Eyeblossoma
- Redstone Lamp
- Copper Golem, Chest
- Copper Tools and Armor
- Copper Lantern, Chain, Bars
- Honey Block
- Resin Clump, Bricks, and Block
- Red Nether Brick
- Recolored many blocks for GD Classic
- Added Herobrine
Changes:
- Moved vanilla shaders out of Base and into Shaders pack due to GPU issues
- Recolored Stained Glass and Stained Glass Panes (including CTM)
- Retextured Concrete and Concrete Powder
- Simplified the color palette of Stained Clay
- Overhauled Candle model
- Overhauled Bush and Firefly Bush
- Edit the side textures of the Cartography Table
- Simplify Cauldron models
- Change the top of unstable Scaffolding to have a hollow top
- Use Amethyst place sound for steps
- Replace other Amethyst sounds with Glass to match Glowstone
- Return Sculk to sounding like Sculk until reworked
- Removed Dead Bush ambient sounds
- Refactored parts of the pack to bring them up to quality
- Trim unused files
Bugs:
- Fixed random floating bits on boats
- Fix Purple Shulker inconsistency
- Fix Mangrove Propagule blockstate when using PolyTone
- Fix enchantment glint
- Fix hanging sign GUI texture not matching the block
- Fix trapdoor subtitles having the incorrect translation key
- Fixed Eyeblossoms making... door sounds...

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.12.3...1.13.0

New Additions

• Accurate and dyeable leather armor!
• Tilted fire from before Release 1.8!
• Change Dried Ghast to Dry Ghast Egg
• Retexture locator bar to match GD's XP bar

Bug Fixes and Issues

• Fix Boat paddle issues
• Fix shaders not compiling
• Fix a bunch of other issues

Misc Changes

• Add GitHub workflows for development builds

Full Changelog: 1.12.2...1.12.3

Changes

• Alpha Wildflowers texture
• Remove title screen shader as it caused crashes and didn't work on all GPUs
• Fix Beehive and Bee Nest on 1.21.2-

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.12.1...1.12.2

This patch fixes some critical issues with version 1.12.0 and retextures a bunch of things!

Changes

• New Better Foliage addon (goes on top of all packs, compatible with Base and Alpha)
• New Dyed Bundle textures
• New Lightning Rod texture
• New Pale Moss texture
• New Wildflowers texture
• New Breeze model and texture
• New Pillager texture
• New Wind Charge texture
• New Firefly Bush texture
• New Firefly particle
• Hide Falling Leaves particles
• Improve Leaves compatibility with mods
• Fix CEM models of Minecart Chests, Boats, Mooshrooms
• Fix skylight at night
• Fix PolyTone compat
• Fix Creaking Heart
• Removed Herobrine

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.12.0...1.12.1

Long time, no update!

Changes

• Update to 1.21.4 and beyond
• Full-Block Chests without CEM
• Dyeable Leather Armor
• Old-styled End Portal effect
• New Player Head model
• Lighting Overhaul (no longer additive!)
• Sound Overhaul
• Accurate Fire Models (Snapshot)
• Happy Ghast textures (Snapshot)
• Optimized all the images
• Fixed a bunch of issues
• More I didn't feel like mentioning...

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.11.0...1.12.0

First release for 1.21! Some textures not mentioned below were already included in the previous version due to experimental gameplay. :)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.10.1...1.11.0

New

• Newold Bat texture
• April Fools 2011 inspired Trial Keys
• Statistics screen Bundle
• Newold Paintings
• Newold Breeze Rod
• Newold flower stems
• Newold Hammer inspired Mace

Changes

• Newold Shield with Banner support
• Better looking cracking on sus blocks
• Edit Chiseled Bookshelf front face

Fixed support for Entity Model Features (EMF) 2.0

Welcome to Golden Days 1.10! This is a big one, lots of changes!
The following screenshot is using Golden Days Alpha on top of Base.

Golden Days 1.10.0
  Features
    New
    - Support for 1.20.3/4 (Short Grass rename)
    - Bunch of old sounds for new blocks
    - Old Vex model and old-new Allays
    - Edited deepslate suite of blocks
    - Blackstone has a rougher appearance
    New-old
    - Lanterns
    - Chains
    - Stripped Logs
    - Fox
    - Frog
    - Bamboo
    - Brown Mooshroom
    - Ender Chest
    - Sniffer Egg
    - Dirt Path
    - Pink Petals
    - Beetroot
    - Chorus Fruit
    - Potatoes
    - Carrots
    - Beetroot Soup
    - Suspicious Stew
    - Tuff Variants (1.21)
    - Copper Variants (1.21)
    - Trial Spawner (1.21)
    - Crafter (1.21)
    Revamped
    - Glow Berries
    - Honeycomb
    Beta Parity
    - Old Redstone model and color (Still blends smoothly)
    - Disabled modern ambient music in favor of C418 music
    - Non-shader grass color variation
    - Accurate dye colors (PolyTone)
    - Removed backface from Spawner when using Experimental datapack
    Alpha Addon
    - Bunch of new colors for different leaf types
    - Edited colors on a bunch of textures
    Mod Support
      Support for PolyTone (Custom Colors implementation with even more features)
      - Can now center Flowers in the middle of the block
      - Accurate Swamp water
      - Complete re-do of the lightmaps. Now 99% accurate*!
      - Dye colors (Banners, Sheep...)
      - Old Potion colors
      Continuity
      - Water in a Water Cauldron is now translucent
  Fixes
  - Fixed flipped faces on the Boat CEM UV
  - Fix #41 Fixed Colormaps appearing dull
  - Fix #19 Made Netherite Ore easier to see
  - Fixed missing subtitles for edited sounds
  - Fixed xray using stonecutters
  - Removed duplicate textures
  - Fix Chest CEM when using EMF in certain versions
  - Fix Player Head using new Steve skin due to using the slim model

* This is a false statement as modern Minecraft lighting is additive and therefore the interaction
between block light and sky light will never be accurate with a lightmap as far as I know.

This release adds compatibility for 1.20.2 and is backwards compatible with 1.20.x

Golden Days Base:
- Beta 1.8 style Glass Panes (Parity)
- Achievement-style Advancements (Parity)
- All Coral variations have new beta-inspired textures (New)
- Scaffolding now has a texture and model inspired by IC2 Scaffolding (New)
- The Recipe Book GUI is now inspired by Legacy Console Edition (New)
- Hoglins and Zoglins now have textures inspired by Zombie Pigmen and Pigs (New)
- End Portal Frames are now inspired by Beta 1.9 (New)
- Red Sand has the same pattern as Sand (New)
- Concrete and Concrete Powder now use the same color palette as wool (New)
- Gold Armor Trim uses a new color palette (New)
- Blue Ice inspired by normal Ice (New)
- Black dye now uses the same colors as Ink Sacs (New)
- Dirt Paths are now Gravel inspired (New)
- New Support for Beds in Enhanced Block Entities (EBE)
- Water and Lava Cauldrons now use the old model (Parity)
- Water color has been adjusted (Parity)
- And more I do not want to keep listing off...

Golden Days Alpha:
- Alpha style Emerald and Netherite Blocks (New)

Bug Fixes:
- Fix #14
- Fix #19
- Fix #20
- Fix #25
- Fix #34
- Fixed end textures for Cherry and Mangrove Logs

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.9.0-cowhotfix...1.9.1

https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/releases/tag/1.9.1

https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/releases/tag/1.8.2

See changes:
https://github.com/PoeticRainbow/golden-days/compare/1.8.1...1.8.2