Vanillume

Vanillume

A vanilla-style expansion for Minecraft

Vanillume expands Minecraft with new wildlife, crops, foods, potions, building blocks, tools, and useful crafting recipes while preserving the familiar atmosphere of the original game.

Every addition is designed to fit naturally into survival gameplay, giving players more to explore, grow, build, and discover without introducing complicated systems.

❄️ Version 1.6.0 — Winter Update

Venture beneath snowy landscapes to discover Ice Caves, encounter the frozen Frostbite zombie, and collect new icy blocks and throwable Ice Balls.

Ice Caves

Ice Caves generate underground beneath snowy biomes, at Y=0 and above. Their floors, walls, and ceilings are covered in ice, with naturally generated icicles and softly glowing ice crystals decorating the frozen passages.

Frostbite

Frostbite is a snow-covered zombie that fights and behaves like a regular zombie, with one chilling difference: successful attacks apply Weakness.

It features a snowy outer layer and classic zombie animations. When defeated, it drops standard zombie loot and has an additional 20% chance to drop an Ice Ball.

Ice Balls

Ice Balls can be thrown like snowballs, dealing 2–3 damage on impact. They can also be launched from dispensers.

Icicles

Icicles grow naturally inside Ice Caves and can be placed on top of blocks or suspended beneath them. Stack them to create longer formations.

Unsupported hanging icicles fall, damage creatures they hit, and shatter on impact.

Ice Crystals

Ice Crystals give frozen caves a soft glow and provide a new decorative option for builds. They support waterlogging and can be placed on floors, walls, and ceilings.

Both Icicles and Ice Crystals are available in the InteractiveUP creative tab.

The Winter Update also improves cave generation and reduces unnecessary world-generation calculations.

🐻 Wildlife

Bears

Bears are powerful neutral animals found individually in Forests and Dark Forests. They remain peaceful until attacked, then become aggressive, display red eyes, and chase the player who provoked them.

They have 40 health, deal damage comparable to Polar Bears, and move faster while attacking.

Bears can eat dropped Sweet Berries, Sour Berries, and Blackberries. While eating, they hold the berries in their paws and play a custom animation. They can also walk safely through berry bushes.

After eating a berry, a Bear has:

• A 10% chance to drop Honeycomb.
• A 0.3% chance to drop a Golden Fish.

When defeated, a Bear drops exactly one item:

• Raw Cod — 45%
• Raw Salmon — 45%
• Honeycomb — 10%

Bears also feature custom ambient, hurt, and death sounds.

Raccoons

Raccoons are cautious, nocturnal animals found in temperate Overworld biomes. They spawn in groups of 2–5, avoiding cold, snowy, desert, and savanna environments.

Wild Raccoons usually flee from players. Sneaking while holding a Spider Eye allows you to approach more closely and gain their trust.

Raccoons can be tamed with Spider Eyes. Tamed Raccoons follow their owner, teleport when left behind, and can be told to sit or stand. Their collars default to red and can be dyed in every vanilla color.

During the day, wild Raccoons lie down to sleep, using a custom animation and sleeping texture. Nearby players wake them, though sneaking lets you get closer before being noticed.

Zombies are afraid of Raccoons and try to avoid them.

Cluckshrooms

Cluckshrooms are mushroom-covered Chickens found exclusively in Mushroom Fields, where they spawn in groups of 4–8.

They behave like vanilla Chickens: they can breed, flap their wings while falling, descend slowly, and take no fall damage. Two Cluckshrooms always produce a baby Cluckshroom.

Shearing a Cluckshroom drops Red Mushrooms and transforms it into a regular Chicken.

Their drops include Chicken, Feathers, and Red Mushrooms. Chicken drops are cooked if the Cluckshroom dies while burning.

Mushroom Eggs

Cluckshrooms lay Mushroom Eggs instead of regular Eggs.

Throwing one can hatch a baby Cluckshroom, with a rare chance to hatch four at once. The chicks grow naturally into adults.

Each Mushroom Egg also has a 1-in-500 chance to produce a random survival-obtainable Overworld item. Nether- and End-exclusive items, technical blocks, and unobtainable items are excluded.

🎣 Fishing and Brewing

Golden Fish

The Golden Fish is a rare catch with a base fishing chance of 0.2%.

Eating one:

• Restores 4 hunger points.
• Provides saturation comparable to a Golden Apple.
• Grants Regeneration II for 10 seconds.
• Grants Water Breathing for 5 minutes.
• Provides two temporary golden hearts.

Obtaining your first Golden Fish unlocks the Golden Catch! advancement.

Golden Fishing Potion

Golden Fish can be used to brew a Golden Fishing Potion. While its effect is active, the chance of catching a Golden Fish increases from 0.2% to 20%.

🌱 Farming and Food

Tomatoes

Tomatoes grow from Tomato Seeds and can be harvested by right-clicking mature plants. Harvested plants return to an earlier growth stage and continue growing.

A regular tomato harvest can produce:

• Regular Tomatoes — 96.5%
• Rotten Tomato — 3%
• Yellow Tomato — 0.5%

Yellow Tomatoes restore 6 hunger points and have the same saturation modifier as Golden Carrots. Craft one into Yellow Tomato Seeds to grow a dedicated yellow tomato crop.

Mature yellow tomato plants usually produce 2–3 Yellow Tomatoes, with a 10% chance to produce a Rotten Tomato instead.

Rotten Tomatoes can be thrown like snowballs.

Berries and Jams

Sour Berries and Blackberries grow on bushes with four growth stages. Like Sweet Berry Bushes, they slow entities, deal contact damage, and can be harvested and replanted.

All three berry varieties can be made into bottled jams:

• Sweet Berry Jam: Regeneration for 5 seconds.
• Sour Berry Jam: Speed for 10 seconds.
• Blackberry Jam: Temporary Cold Resistance, protecting against freezing in Powder Snow.

Jams use a drinking animation, stack up to 16, and return an empty Glass Bottle after consumption.

Fried Eggs

Cook regular Eggs into Fried Eggs for an additional survival food source.

🧱 Building and Equipment

Colored Bricks

Expand your builds with colored brick variants that preserve the familiar brick pattern. Their colors follow Minecraft’s standard palette, making them easy to combine with wool, concrete, terracotta, and other decorative blocks.

Copper Buckets

Copper Buckets provide an early-game alternative to Iron Buckets.

• Collect and place water.
• Cannot collect lava.
• Empty buckets stack up to 16.
• Filled Copper Water Buckets do not stack.

Copper Shears

Copper Shears work similarly to regular Shears on sheep, leaves, vines, and other compatible blocks, giving copper another practical survival use.

Additional Crafting Recipes

Vanillume adds crafting recipes for Saddles and Name Tags, making them renewable through crafting.

Compatibility

• Mod version: 1.6.0 — Winter Update
• Minecraft: 1.21.1
• Mod loader: NeoForge 21.1.232 or newer for Minecraft 1.21.1

Vanillume is made for players who enjoy Minecraft’s familiar survival experience and want more wildlife, farming, exploration, decoration, and practical uses for everyday resources.