Changes

• The Gastronomicon now saves the page that was last open when closed

Bug Fixes

• The Gastronomicon model is broken in 1.21.5

Additions (SPOILERS)

• 20+ new fish!
• The Gastronomicon, a mysterious book containing forgotten knowledge about aquatic life
  • Pages for undiscovered fish will display only their family and primary environment
  • Pages for discovered fish will display their appearance and essence
• Oases are a new structure found in deserts providing an accessible spot for catching desert fish
  • Messages in bottles from Rocky Waters may contain a Reservoir Nautical Map, which will lead to an oasis
  • Oases are also the only place which the new Lobsters can be caught
  • Occasionally, an ancient primordiol rumble can be heard from the oasis... Probably nothing to worry about!
• Bamboo fishing rods can be crafted using bamboo instead of sticks
  • The more elastic material makes these twice as durable as regular fishing rods!
• Tarnished and Caliginous Coffers replace lockboxes as placeable treasure boxes
  • They are opened using the same keys as before
  • The loot is mostly unchanged
• Mossy ponds can be found in cherry groves as a new fishing spot

Changes

• Solstice/Eclipse families are now only affected by the Moon phase, no longer based on east/west of the origin
• Rituals have been made substantially more forgiving
  • Performing invalid rituals will now return a Tell-Tale Heart
  • Extremely basic rituals (Rite of Fortune and Charm of Butchery) now no longer require a specific fish family
• Aberrations of vanilla fish and shrimp now display their Aberration status in tooltip
• Tweaks to various textures and models
  • Ornate Keys have been redesigned and renamed to Sunken Keys
  • Anglure shading have been slightly tweaked
  • Trout models have had their fins moved back
  • Pike, Red Snapper, Bream and its Aberration, as well as the Aberrations for Cod, Salmon, and Pufferfish have all had touch-ups
• Slightly decreased the chance of getting Sunken Keys from fish
• Tweaked the rarity of fish, junk, and treasure fishing loot tables
• Sugar Bait consumption chance has been nerfed to 100% from 40%
• Moondials now explain Solstice/Eclipse mechanics in their tooltip
• Chopping blocks can now be waxed with honeycomb to prevent chopping and removing fish

Removals

• Fish fillet variants are gone
  • These were bloat and the large fish fillets were blatantly overpowered
• Lockboxes are removed since they were replaced with Coffers

Bug Fixes

• Important ones.

Bug Fixes

• Crafted Sacrificial Knives do not work as intended
• Dredging Apparatus behaves strangely after reeling an item
• Fishing Rods are consumed when bait is used in the offhand

Bug Fixes

• Dredging Apparatus broke again. Oops!

Bug Fixes

• Dredging Apparatus tooltip does not display when crafted

• Updated the textures of Charm of Butchery and Divine Gift Sunken Scrawls
• Made Dredging Apparatus functionality more clear
  • Added a tooltip that explains the item in decent detail
  • The advancement has been made more descriptive to make it more clear how to use it
  • Added a junk loot set for when the apparatus is not in an ocean biome
  • The claw will now emit bubble particles while under the water
• Removed some unused translation strings

Additions (Spoilers!)

• 31 new fish found in a variety of biomes and conditions
• Complete overhaul of the fishing loot table
• A bait system to customize your fishing capabilities
• Chopping Blocks, used to cut fish to collect Fish Fillets and other items
• Nautilus Siphons, blocks placed underwater to harvest fish automatically over time
• Rocky Waters, a thunderous new ocean mini biome complete with new monsters and traps
• Dredging Apparatus, a block used to reel heavy treasures from the deep sea
• A diagetic ritual system revolving around fishing and the mysterious new Aberration Idol block
• Ornate Tools, an stylish seaborn alternative to diamond which can be upgraded to Netherite as well
• Ornate Moondials which show the current phase of the Moon... wait, haven't we seen this before?
• Tons more to discover, which we do not have time to get into here