Arky's Aesthetics - Vanilla-Style Minecraft Mod

Arky's Aesthetics offers numerous enhancements to vanilla Minecraft mechanics and new content that perfectly integrates with the original game's style while maintaining smooth gameplay.

Vanilla Mechanics Improvements

Enhanced Regular Mechanics

• Flower Pots can now hold more flowers
• Smart Composter allows loading all items at once with Shift + Right Click
• Experience Bottles can be thrown all at once
• Cake now drops pieces when broken, which can be eaten all together
• Plant Fertilization works with sugar cane, cacti, lily pads, vines, and nether warts

New Decorative Options

• Carved Wood created with shears from stripped wood with mob textures
• Wood Bark obtained when stripping logs
• Terracotta Blocks have additional texture variants

New Equipment and Weapons

Armor with Unique Properties

• Shulker Cap - crafted from diamond helmet and 5 shulker shells, grants levitation immunity
• Studded Armor - originally planned for Minecraft beta versions, enhanced at smithing table
• Plate Armor - returned classic with Minecraft Dungeons elements

Farlands Dagger

New weapon with fast attack speed and dash forward ability with Right Click. Features 4 unique enchantments:

• Dash - increases dash distance
• Time Vortex - reduces dash cooldown
• Cutting Wave - enables dashing in water
• Wind Swing - additional air dash after ground dash

New Materials and Items

Bismuth - New Valuable Material

Rare ore found only in The End within large amethyst clusters. Bismuth can create:

• Weapons and tools with enhanced durability
• Bismuth Greatsword - upgraded sword version
• Obsidian, copper, and netherite chains
• Lanterns with various fire types

Soul Dust

Crafted from soul soil and soul sand, instantly oxidizes copper blocks.

Sculkbones

New blocks generated in the deep dark.

Enhanced Mechanics

Crafting

• Basin - new station for removing armor trimming using crystallized honey
• Guardian Spikes - dropped from guardians, usable as weapons or for creating blocks
• Stardust Forge - removes repair cost when anvil cost is too high

Functional Blocks

• Mechanical Casings - 5 variants with different materials, emit redstone signal
• Scent Candles - create effects in 8-block radius
• Redstone Switch - turns off glowing blocks

Decorative Elements

New Plants

• Roses - returned to replace poppies
• Blue Flower - from old Minecraft PE versions
• Pink Daisy and Buttercup - from Minecraft Earth
• Glow Torchflower - created using glow ink sacs
• Moonflowers Vines - concept shown during Sniiffer development

Themed Lights

• Copper Blocks burn with green flame
• Redstone Blocks burn with red flame
• Bismuth Blocks burn with purple flame
• Lanterns from various materials with different fire types

New Effects

• Redstone Bugs - appear with "Bugging" effect from redstone fire, consume redstone wires
• Bug Armor Trim - rare drop from redstone bugs

Enhancement of Existing Mechanics

Additional Features

• Hidden Paintings now obtainable in game
• Cherry Groves actually grow cherries
• Mushroom Blocks can be stripped from all sides
• Fallen Leaves drop when breaking foliage
• Echo Shard can be used as trim material

New Advancements

• Bad Diet - eat an entire cake at once
• Oxidation On - oxidize copper block using soul dust
• As It Should Be - make torchflower glow
• Canceled Flight - obtain shulker cap
• Upgraded Gears - create studded armor

Arky's Aesthetics excellently enhances basic Minecraft gameplay by adding functional improvements and new content that looks like it always belonged in the game.