Legacies and Legends

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 Legacies and Legends, I highly recommend you check out Legacies!

My design process, as an example, wasn't to show you what's on the other side of the Ancient City portal, or what else is out there in the End, or even to explain the past - it's to make you wonder what could be, such as vanilla's open-ended lore, only expanded.

Legacies and Legends is, finally, a soundtrack expansion, the first of its kind in this sense. It also adds new items, structures and lore - and ultimately will enrich your playthroughs or even modpacks without changing the core experience.

The entirety of Legacies and Legends is configurable via in-game GUI or json5.

Atmospheric Soundtrack Overhaul

Legacies and Legends introduces several new tracks to the game, all thematic to their locations and carefully selected to ensure they blend perfectly with vanilla.

Several new songs (including some left-out ones from the official soundtracks) are added to the game's base soundtrack for various biomes, as well as a bonus track for when you light the end portal. This includes new biome-specific music pools such as for Dark Forests, Savannas & snowy biomes. These tracks are considerately weighted to ensure vanilla and C418 music still get their chances to shine. Special thanks to Firel for composing Only the Beginning as a new end track for this mod!

Additionally, Legacies and Legends features configurable structure-specific music for Strongholds & Ancient Cities.

Click here to view the complete Legacies OST as a youtube playlist!

Loot Table Reworks

Summary

• expanded fishing loot
• new enchantments
• Sapphire & Wands
• vanilla discs previously only obtainable from creepers now have their own structures (vanilla or new) which they may rarely spawn in
• rebalanced loot tables
• enchanted beetroot
• 7 new discs and 4 new sherds
• hooks, knives… and boomerangs!
• tablets and artifacts (more detail on these further below)
• much, much more - it's best you play Legacies and Legends for yourself in order to truly experience the breadth of improvements made

Most structures have seen their loot tables reworked or rebalanced in a vanilla-like fashion - for example, End Cities are mostly untouched, but a Jungle Temple has a few additional items in addition to the chests containing more overall items on average than vanilla. In other cases, you may find entirely new items to the loot tables, such as the enchanted stone tools that can be found rarely in underwater ruins. Regardless the structure, there's a good chance it's seen some changes, anywhere from a slight tweak to a complete overhaul.

I haven't just used existing loot in these updated loot tables, however. I've taken some inspiration from Minecraft's early days - filled with random new features and items that often had no reason to exist, but did anyway. There are a few other small items that provide an enriched loot experience.

• Trident Shards | dropped from Elder Guardians, used to craft or repair Tridents
• Metal Chunks | found from fishing and world loot, used to repair certain items or smelted into iron nuggets
• Wooden Buckets | found from fishing and world loot, crafted into Coal or Charcoal buckets to make a great fuel source
• Hooks | found from fishing and world loot, a slow but heavy-hitting melee weapon with the exclusive Shatter enchantment
• Knives | found from Trail Ruins archaeology, Knives deal low damage but strike fast. They have Striking as an exclusive enchantment
• Boomerangs | arguably the most unique new weapon, with 4 exclusive enchantments. Found in Dungeons, Boomerangs travel far and spin fast - the longer they fly, the more damage they do. Whilst you'll have to find most of their enchantments in the world, they can get Rebound from the enchanting table, and also work with Flame, Freeze, Decay, Rejuvenate and Featherweight

Sapphire

Sapphire is a new, incredibly rare gem ore which is never exposed to air (though it may be exposed to water). It can be used to craft Wands & Tablets

• Sapphire
• Sapphire Ore
• Deepslate Sapphire Ore
• Sapphire Block
• Sapphire Lantern
• Wand (creates a temporary floating platform at will, which blocks fall damage & can be used for both effective traversal and building)
• used to craft tablets (more on them below)

Music Discs

• Svall (Mineshafts)
• Taswell (Deep Ruins)
• Tundra (Igloos)
• Infinite Spooky Amethyst (Pale Cabins)
• Shulker (End Cities)
• Far Lands (crafted from disc fragments scattered throughout select overworld structures)
• Castles (found in the overhauled Dungeons - specifically the standard simple / cobblestone variant)
• 113 (End Ruins)
• Gravel (Underground Cabins)

Pottery Sherds

• Dusk and Harvest - found from Obelisks
• Forager and Verdant - found from Ruins

Enchantments

• Rebound - allows Boomerangs to return to their owner. If you failed to hit an entity, the Boomerang will be placed on a temporary cooldown. Found at the Enchanting Table, incompatible with Shadowstep
• Shadowstep - teleports you to where your Boomerang lands, but reduces its total travel distance and has a cooldown after doing so. Found in Deep Dungeons, incompatible with Rebound
• Featherweight - Boomerangs fly further, faster and ramp up damage quicker. Found in Arid Dungeons
• Decay - Boomerangs poison targets when thrown. Found in Verdant Dungeons, incompatible with Rejuvenate
• Rejuvenate - Boomerangs give regeneration to targets when thrown. Found in Simple Dungeons, exclusive to Crossbows and Boomerangs, incompatible with Decay
• Freeze - ranged attacks afflict targets with freeze for a short time. Found in Frozen Dungeons, incompatible with Flame
• Striking - increases hit speed and damage against certain passive or neutral mobs, specifically animals with some sort of hide-like skin. Exclusive to Knives, incompatible with other damage enchantments
• Shatter - hits apply Freezing for a short duration. Hitting frozen enemies causes them to shatter, dealing bonus damage. Exclusive to Hooks, incompatible with other damage enchantments
• Tangled - allows you to traverse blocks and similar items which would otherwise slow you down at a faster speed. Found in Jungle Temples, Leggings exclusive, incompatible with Swift Sneak

For a full & compreshensive enchanting overhaul, check out Enchants and Expeditions

Structures

Legacies and Legends includes quite a few new structures, all small and carefully balanced to keep them nice, rare and unobtrusive - perfect for vanilla integration… and expanding on the lore.

While there are quite a few new structures, spawning has been-fine tuned to ensure the structure-clutter problems faced by other structure projects are avoided.

You can view the gallery for examples

Dungeon Overhaul - a comprehensive expansion on the vanilla Dungeon structure, filled with new rooms, loot, variants and more. The go-to structure to get Boomerangs and their exclusive enchantments. Comes in up to 6 variants - Simple, Deep, Arid, Frozen, Verdant or Infernal (requires Wilder Wild)

Ruins - archaeological site with variant types, found in Taigas and Jungles

Forest Ruins - 2 variant types for each biome they can spawn in, which are Birch Forests, Cherry Groves and Maple Forests (the latter requires Wilder Wild)

Obelisks - archaeological sites found in Dark Forests (Obelisk) or Pale Gardens (Shattered Obelisk)

Swamp Hut Variants - 3 new Swamp Hut variants, including a modified vanilla one

Deep Ruins - found at y -52, 2 variant types

Sculk Ruins - replaces the Deep Ruins in the Deep Dark biome, 2 variant types

Ruined Libraries - found in Plains and Forests, 2 variant types

Underground Cabins - has 3 different cabin layouts, 3 shaft layouts and multiple ore layouts, in both Underground (Stone) & Deep (Deepslate) variants

Pale Cabin - found in the Pale Garden, 2 variant types

Buried Treasure Rework - replaces vanilla buried treasure with a custom surface-visible structure, 3 variant types

Ruined Aether Portals - found in the Nether, 4 variant types

End Remnants - often-buried ruin found in the outer End, 3 variant types

End Ruins - surface structure found in the outer End, 3 variant types

Artifacts

Artifacts are new, unique loot items, the idea of which is inspired by other games, like Terraria. They're unique, rare and fun to find - plus individually configurable, if you're not interested in any of them.

Armor and Weapons

• Reinforced Chestplate | Massive boost to knockback resistance with a high durability. Found in Deep Ruins, Sculk Ruins or Ancient Cities
• Travelling Strides | Increases movement speed with a low defense. Found in Arid Dungeons or crafted with Rabbit Hide
• Wanderer Boots | Allows the wearer to sprint up blocks. Found in Simple Dungeons
• Verdant Sword | Inflicts poison on hit. Found in Jungle Temples
• Cleaving Battleaxe | Inflicts weakness on hit. Found in Dungeons
• Molten Pickaxe | Smelts mined blocks. Found in Nether Fortresses
• Prospector Shovel | Mining sand has a chance to provide iron nuggets, gold nuggets or emeralds. Mining red sand has a chance to provide golden nuggets only, bu in higher quantities. Found in Buried Treasure
• Withered Hoe | Tills Nyllium --> Netherrack --> Soul Soil --> Soul Sand, rather than tilling Dirt. Also has the side effect of applying Wither on hit. Dropped rarely by Wither Skeletons

Tablets

Tablets are single-use consumables with varying times to use. If you are hit while using a totem, the activation is cancelled and you must try again

Using a tablet has a chance to return a blank Tablet, which can be used with Sapphire in order to craft new tablets, as each has a specific recipe which can be viewed with JEI/REI or in the recipe book

The tablet recipes involve Sapphire, a blank Tablet & an ingredient specific to the tablet, which is disclosed in brackets below

Tablet of Recall | After a long use duration, you are teleported to your spawn point. Does not work between dimensions. Found from Dungeons, Strongholds, Forest Ruins, Deep Ruins, Abandoned Mineshafts, Ruined Portals and End Cities. May also be traded by Wandering Traders, if Villager Config is installed (Ingredient: Diamonds)

Tablet of Revealing | After a short use duration, all nearby entities are revealed through the Glowing effect. Found in Mineshafts and traded by Wandering Traders, if Villager Config is installed (Ingredient: Glow Berries)

Tablet of Haste | After a short use duration, apples the haste effect. Found in Mineshafts and traded by Wandering Traders, if Villager Config is installed (Ingredient: Gold Ingots)

Tablet of Deafening | After a long use duration, lets out a shriek and gives all nearby entities Darkness, Weakness and Slowness for a short time. Found in Ancient Cities (Ingredient: Echo Shards)

Tablet of Channeling | After a long use duration, thunder roars and a storm appears. Found in Woodland Mansions (Ingredient: Copper Ingot)

Tablet of Instability | Lowers gravity & makes you phase through entities and projectiles. Found in Deep Ruins, Sculk Ruins & Deep Dungeons (Ingredient: Phantom Membrane)

Tablet of Warping | You teleport a short distance whenever you take damage, or before a projectile would hit you. Found in End Cities (Ingredient: Chorus Fruit)

Accessories

Legacies and Legends features a singular new inventory slot, which allows you to equip a plethora of accessories, including Totems, Rings, Necklaces & Amulets. The entirety of the accessories system, alongside individual accessories, can be disabled in the config.

For descriptions on what these do, it is suggested to look in-game as they each have a custom explanatory item tooltip

To view where most accessories can be found, please refer to here

Totems

Totems save you from death and are consumed when doing so

• Totem of Undying | now equippable in the trinket slot
• Totem of Resurrection | Returns you to your spawn point when triggered, alongside granting a period of Regeneration upon doing so. Found from Deep Dungeons
• Totem of Teleportation | Teleports you when triggered and grants Regeneration, Invisiblity and Speed for a short duration. Found from End Cities

Amulets

Amulets use their durability as a charge meter that regenerates passively over time, and decreases when their effect is used. If the charge runs out, the amulet is destroyed

• Amulet of Absorption - decreases damage taken as health decreases
• Amulet of Obsidian - provides immunity to fire
• Amulet of Deflection - deflects incoming projectiles

Rings

Rings lose durability whenever their specific effect is used. They can each be repaired with the correct repair materials for the specific ring

• Ring of Evasion - turn invisible and move faster when crouched
• Ring of Striking - increases melee attack damage
• Ring of Hunting - restores hunger when killing entities
• Ring of Construction - increases block place speed and extends block place distance
• Ring of Archery - increases accuracy with Bows & Crossbows
• Ring of Excavation - reduces the delay between mining blocks
• Ring of Restoration - restores health when collecting experience orbs

Necklaces

_Necklaces lose durability in the same way as armor. They can each be repaired with the correct repair materials for the specific necklace

• Necklace of Purity - nullifies all potion effects
• Necklace of Leaping - increases jump height & minimum fall distance
• Necklace of Protection - increases armor defence
• Necklace of Regeneration - regenerate a small amount of health when hurt
• Necklace of Resilience - survive fatal blows on half a heart, if you were above 3 hearts when taking that instance of damage
• Necklace of Bartering - Piglins will treat you as if you are wearing gold armor
• Necklace of Isolation - Enderman will treat you as if you are wearing a Carved Pumpkin

Lore Expansion

Finally, the piece that brings it all together. Lore. The lore expansion is closely linked with many new structures, items and even music, but there's an added component - many structures now have a very low chance to contain a lore book, a written book with a short excerpt of lore embedded. There are quite a few, and are designed to complement the very minimalistic and open-ended lore and story of the base game in similar ways.

There are a total of 22 unique written lore books to discover.

They've all been carefully written, and are fully vanilla-compliant and not immersion breaking (they are quite open-ended and aren't throwing made-up lore at you) whatsoever, even if you dislike the idea of them. Trust me, find one and you'll get what I mean.

For obvious reasons, I can't say more about this, but I hope you have a blast uncovering all the new lore over your playthroughs.

Misc Additions

Echo Shards can now be used as a Trim Material

Improved Wandering Trader trades when used with VillagerConfig

Config

Legacies and Legends uses Cloth Config and Mod Menu for its config. Details on what certain config options do are provided in the in-game Mod Menu GUI via the tooltip shown when you hover over an option, so that is the intended way to view the configuration options. The default json5 config generated by the mod is also provided below for reference.

{
    "structures": {
        "dungeon_overhaul": true,
        "swamp_hut_variants": true,
        "buried_treasure_rework": true,
        "new_structures": true
    },
    "worldgen": {
        "sapphire": true
    },
    "loot": {
        "enchanted_beetroot": true,
        "metal_chunk": true,
        "trident_shard": true,
        "wooden_buckets": true,
        "new_music_discs": true,
        "boomerang": true,
        "hook": true,
        "knife": true,
        "lore_books": true,
        "improved_loot": true
    },
    "artifacts": {
        "reinforced_chestplate": true,
        "travelling_strides": true,
        "wanderer_boots": true,
        "verdant_sword": true,
        "cleaving_battleaxe": true,
        "molten_pickaxe": true,
        "prospector_shovel": true,
        "withered_hoe": true,
        "tablet_of_recall": true,
        "tablet_of_haste": true,
        "tablet_of_instability": true,
        "tablet_of_warping": true,
        "tablet_of_channeling": true,
        "tablet_of_deafening": true,
        "tablet_of_revealing": true
    },
    "accessories": {
        "amulet_of_absorption": true,
        "amulet_of_obsidian": true,
        "amulet_of_deflection": true,
        "ring_of_evasion": true,
        "ring_of_striking": true,
        "ring_of_hunting": true,
        "ring_of_construction": true,
        "ring_of_archery": true,
        "ring_of_excavation": true,
        "ring_of_restoration": true,
        "necklace_of_purity": true,
        "necklace_of_leaping": true,
        "necklace_of_protection": true,
        "necklace_of_regeneration": true,
        "necklace_of_resilience": true,
        "necklace_of_bartering": true,
        "necklace_of_isolation": true,
        "totem_of_resurrection": true,
        "totem_of_teleportation": true
    },
    "enchantments": {
        "tangled": true,
        "freeze": true,
        "featherweight": true,
        "shadowstep": true,
        "rejuvenate": true,
        "decay": true
    },
    "music": {
        "snowy_music": true,
        "savanna_music": true,
        "dark_forest_music": true,
        "stronghold_music": true,
        "ancient_city_music": true,
        "main_end_island_music": true,
        "end_portal_music": true,
        "music_and_melody": true
    },
    "misc": {
        "accessory_slot": true,
        "accessory_of_undying": true,
        "totem_use_equip": true,
        "new_trim_materials": true,
        "wandering_trader_trades": true,
        "save_vanilla_cooldowns": true,
        "no_creeper_discs": false
    },
    "integrations": {
        "wilder_wild": true,
        "trailier_tales": true,
        "farmers_delight": true,
        "enderscape": true,
        "variants_and_ventures": true
    }
}

Mod Integration

Progression Reborn integration

• custom loot table changes and armor trim material compat

Wilder Wild integration

• adds Maple Ruin variants of Forest Ruins, for Wilder Wild's Maple Forest biome

Trailier Tales integration

• Frozen Dungeons use calcite stairs

• Deep Dungeons use mossy cobbled deepslate

Variants & Ventures integration

• adds the Verdant Dungeon - a Jungle-specific Dungeon variant featuring the Thicket and Verdant

• adds the Gelid to Frozen Dungeons

Villager Config integration

• custom wandering trader improvements, based on those found in the villager trade rebalance experiment

Enchancement integration

• includes enchantment descriptions for LaL enchants

Music Notification integration

• adds support for Music Notification's toasts

Nature's Melody addon

• adds extra music for Nature's Spirit's biomes, much like Legacies and Legends does for vanilla

Credits

Special thanks to Firel for making an amazing end track, Only the Beginning, just for this mod - listen to it here!

Special thanks to Soul_ for all the support (including taking the time to create an awesome mod showcase)!

Here is a link to all composers for their music.

Firel - https://www.youtube.com/@FirelMusic/featured

Soul_ - https://www.youtube.com/@soulwynmc

C418 - https://c418.bandcamp.com

BouncyTorch - https://aurigrave.org/

qwaston - https://www.youtube.com/@qwaston

Firch - https://www.youtube.com/@Firchex

bhuv_ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhV2mtaM8wQ

Technotech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVA7RKZ2XM

T_en_M - https://www.youtube.com/@TenM

Steelman - https://www.youtube.com/@steelmanmusic

Talon Trueblood - https://www.youtube.com/@TalonTrueblood

ARKTNDR - https://www.youtube.com/@ARKTNDR

Naps the Block Music - https://www.youtube.com/@napstheblockmusic5807

solunary - https://www.youtube.com/@solunary

Oh Eight - https://www.youtube.com/@oheight

Freja Nelson - https://www.youtube.com/@frejanelson/featured

Louie Zong - https://louiezong.bandcamp.com

Judio Kallio - https://jukiokallio.com

far - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLElUj0U_iV0YLgY2bd9pYA

Amos Roddy - https://www.amosroddy.com/

F7c82 - https://www.youtube.com/@F7c82

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