Progression Reborn

_Made as part of Legacies, with the aim of reimagining the core principles of vanilla Minecraft. Explore, adventure and survive in an all-new world. If you like Progression Reborn, I highly recommend you check out Legacies!_

Progression Reborn completely overhauls early and mid-game progression in a vanilla-like fashion, acting as a core mod that uses its dependencies to create a cohesive, fulfilling progression overhaul that doesn't stray too far from the concepts and design of the original game.

Mod Overview

Reimagined Progression

• gone is the iron-diamond progression, it has been reworked and expanded
• a new set of copper gear before iron
• upgrade copper to iron via the smithing table
• upgrade gold to rose via the smithing table, a new iron equivalent for gold, found exclusively in the nether
• rebalanced armor values
• improved tool durability
• cheaper trim duplication

Overhauled Ore Economy

• stone variants drop less than deepslate variants
• rebalanced ore drops
• new raw and smelted ore nuggets
• tweaked ore generation (see detailed rundown)
• to match the changes to ore drops, 2 new enchantments are added (see detailed rundown)

Extra Additions

• Rose Ingots work as a trim material
• complete new building block-set out of Rose
• copper rework
• smelt entire raw ore blocks
• and more!

Detailed Rundown

Ore Economy and Generation

• stone metals (iron, copper, gold, diamond) drop 3-9 nuggets, average 4.5 (1.21.5+) OR 3-6 nuggets, average 4.5 (older versions)
• deepslate metals drop 5-15 nuggets, average 7.5 (1.21.5+) OR 3-9 nuggets, average 6 (older versions)
• Fortune now caps out at the maximum nugget range (ie 15 for deepslate) on 1.21.5 and above
• Nether Rose Ore generates in the nether as a unique, nether-balanced alternative to iron
• tweaked generation of Copper Ore to start higher (configurable)
• tweaked generation of Iron Ore to be more common slightly lower than vanilla, alongside removing the small gap in vanilla during which iron cannot generate at all (configurable)
• reverted the 1.20.2 buff to Diamond Ore generation (configurable), this is balanced out by duplicating trims now only requiring 1 diamond, instead of 7
• Collection (Chestplate enchant, non-treasure) - all nuggets collected are sent into the void rather than your inventory, appearing as their full combined counterparts once you reach 9 nuggets, to de-clutter your inventory on long, late-game mining expeditions
• Reforge (Pickaxe enchant, treasure, found in Bastion Treasure, incompatible with Fortune and Silk Touch) - Reforge is a very unique enchant in the sense that it smelts certain blocks into their smelted counterparts when mined - but that it also gives a chance to give special bonus loot (eg scrap, ingots, alloy) when mining relevant blocks, making this enchant a rare, but viable alternative to the other pickaxe enchants. As an example, Reforge has a 1/4 chance to give you Iron Ingots or Iron Alloy (Deepslate only) when mining Iron Ore, or a 1/8 chance of getting a second item from non-ores (eg Scrap from Debris, Charcoal from logs etc). Reforge works on all ores which can be smelted, alongside Debris, logs, clay, sand, and even select blocks from other supported mods

A Short Note on 1.21.11 and Beyond

• 1.21.10 introduced Copper equipment to vanilla. As such, newer versions of Progression Reborn use vanilla Copper items in the same ways described below, and automatically convert old item ids to vanilla when updating to ensure a smooth transition between versions
• 1.21.11 introduced Netherite Horse Armor to vanilla. Similarly to with Copper, the old Progression Reborn horse armor is automatically converted to the new vanilla one when updating

Copper

• a new tier in gear progression
• better than stone, worse than iron
• a Copper Pickaxe is required to mine Iron Ore
• crafted with copper ingots
• Copper blocks have been reworked to ensure Trial Chambers don't mess with Progression Reborn balance, and Progression Reborn's new ore economy doesn't affect the ability for survival players to get enough Copper to build with
• craft a beacon-friendly Block of Copper out of 9 ingots, which then turns into Polished Copper (vanilla Copper has been renamed to Polished Copper)
• put the new Copper Block into the grindstone to get 4 Polished Copper, or even 16 Cut Copper! Using the grindstone to do this (like with vanilla Cut Copper) balances out the lower amount of Copper you get to mine, meaning building with Copper is almost as viable as it is in vanilla

Iron

• now crafted by upgrading Copper Equipment in a smithing table with an Iron Ingot and Iron Upgrade Smithing Template, so Copper --> Iron matches Gold --> Rose and Diamond --> Netherite
• retextured vanilla iron equipment textures (configurable)

Rose

• a gold-fueled iron alternative
• highly enchantable
• much lower durability
• faster tools
• armor is weaker overall than iron, but has a small amount of armor toughness
• crafted by upgrading gold gear in a smithing table with a Rose Ingot and Rose Upgrade Smithing Table (can also be crafted with ingots normally in 1.20+, though this way may be less resource-efficient)

Armor Rebalance and Tool Adjustments

• vanilla armor values (defence, toughness) have been completely rebalanced alongside the introduction of new Progression Reborn armor, in order to best differientiate the different sets. The values are listed below