### 📜 **Changelog**
#### 🔧 **New Items and Alternative Recipes**
— **White Glue**: Obtained through trading with villagers. Used to craft slime, with a recipe inspired by real-life slime-making.
— **Crying Obsidian Tear**: Can be smelted in a furnace to dehydrate it. When mixed with **Glowstone Dust**, it turns into **Ender Pearl Powder**, which, when smelted, becomes an **Ender Pearl**.
— **Cave Roots**: Obtained by breaking **Rooted Stones** or **Rooted Deepslate**. Four roots can be crafted into **1 dark oak plank**.
#### 🌱 **New Ways to Obtain Resources**
— **Glowstone Dust**:
— Can be obtained by smelting **Glow Berries**.
— Can be acquired by breaking the **Glow Flower**, a new glowing plant naturally generated in the Overworld.
— **Flint**:
— **Gravel** can now be turned into **4 raw flint** in the crafting grid.
— Raw flint can be smelted into **regular flint** (smelts faster than most items).
— **String**: Can now be obtained by converting **wool** in the crafting grid.
— **Leather**: Can now be obtained by smelting **rotten flesh**.
— **Cow & Mooshroom Drops**: Now always drop leather and yield much more meat, proportional to their size, based on real-life values.
— **Sniffer Plants**:
— **Torchflower**: When smelted, provides **Blaze Powder**.
— **Pitcher Plant**: When smelted, provides **Glow Ink Sac**.
— Both can be converted into **3 seeds** by combining 2 of the same type in the crafting grid.
#### ⚒️ **Crafting Changes and Efficiency Improvements**
— **Smithing Template for Netherite Upgrade**: Can now be obtained using **8 diamonds + 1 netherrack**.
— **New Basic Smithing Template**: Crafted with **1 cobblestone + 8 copper ingots**, allowing upgrades of vanilla tools to the next rarest ore tier.
— **Powered Rail**: Can now be crafted using **copper** instead of gold (gold is still an option).
— **Black Dye**: Can now be obtained by converting **coal** or **charcoal** in the crafting grid.
— **Shapeless Recipe Changes**: Applied to **cookie, bread, paper, and shulker box** for convenience.
— **Chains**: Crafting now yields **8 chains instead of just 1**, saving iron.
— **Lodestone**: Updated to match the **snapshot 25w02a** recipe, where **1 iron ingot replaces the netherite ingot**.
#### 🌍 **Visual Improvements**
— **Greener Grass**: The grass is now greener, giving the world a more vibrant appearance.
— **More Transparent Water**: The water has been made more transparent, enhancing the overall visual experience of water bodies.
