Review Frostiful

Frostiful is a Vanilla+ combat and survival temperature mod that substantially reworks the Powder Snow freezing mechanics. It introduces more ways of freezing and being frozen, as well as new methods for warming up again.

Features

Freezing

There are now many more ways to freeze to death in addition to powder snow with Frositful installed. Passive freezing, icicles, and new enchantments are some of the exciting new ways the game will turn you into a popsicle!

There are also new ways of resisting the cold! Use Fur Tufts to craft fur armor, which provides Frost Resistance to help you keep warm and resist the creeping winter. When you get too cold, warm up by the light of a fire or by getting some heat from a Sun Lichen-covered rock, or even steal the heat from your enemies with Enervation!

Frostology and the Re-Branded Iceologer

Frostology is a new form of Illager magic that deals with all matters of cold and frost. Frostologers are a new take on the Iceologer from Minecraft Dungeons, and they the master of this magic. They reside in their snowy fortresses in the Snowy Plains biome, where they are surrounded by an army of Chillagers at their call. Chillagers wield Crossbows loaded with Frosty Arrows that are capable of long-distance freezing. Having mastered the magic of Frost, the Frostologer is not immune to freezing, but is instead strengthened by it. When they are cold, they gain tremendous power. However, that power is lost if they warm up again.

You can wield this magic, too. By defeating the Frostologer and relieving them of their Frost Wand, you can gain the ability to shoot balls of ice that freeze enemies in place when they are hit. If you can demonstrate your mastery over the Frost by keeping the Frostologer warm at death, it will additionally drop a Cloak of Frostology. The Cloak is an obtainable cape item that reverses the effects of freezing to make you become like the Frostologer yourself. Be careful though! With the Frostology Cloak on, you will begin to melt if you get too warm!

New Blocks and Items

Frostiful adds a variety of new blocks and items, including Ice Skates, a new Armor Trim, Packed Snow, and more!

Permissions

Frostiful is licensed under LGPLv3. You can use this mod in mod packs, youtube videos, or anything else. However, I do ask that you do not redistribute it without my explicit permission and a link back to the original CurseForge, Modrinth, and GitHub pages.

Future Plans

• Icicle Caves Biome: A new cave biome located near the surface in cold areas with lots of ice and icicles.
• Frosticle (name WIP): A mob that disguises itself as icicles and lives in Icicle Caves. Throws icicles at the player as its main form of attack.
• Generally more ways of interacting with frost. Either in combat or in regular survival.

Note: Frostiful is still in the early stages of development, and many more features are planned to be added, and existing mechanics and features are still subject to change. Feedback is welcome! If you encounter any bugs or issues, please report them on the issue tracker or in my Discord.

Configuration

Frostiful is extremely highly configurable. It has an extensive config that lets you play around with different settings, disable features, or tweak the values of various things to adjust the difficulty of the mod. For example, if you're not all that into survival or have another temperature mod like EnvironmentZ, but still wanna try out the Frost Wand, you can completely disable passive freezing! It also has a fair amount of datapack integration from tags, to the status effects from freezing, to the attributes of items! The wiki has all of the detail, so be sure to read that when delving into config for Frostiful: https://github.com/TheDeathlyCow/frostiful/wiki/Config

Frostiful also exposes a number of vanilla mechanics related to freezing to configuration or datapacks, such as what boots can be used to walk on powder snow, how much and how often freeze damage applies when fully frozen, and the effects you get from being cold.

Mod Integrations

Frostiful has built in integrations for many mods!

• Colorful Hearts & Overflowing Bars: Cold Hearts render on top of the new hearts from these mods
• Tips: Added some Frostiful-specific tips
• Enchantment Descriptions: Descriptions are provided for Frostiful's enchantments
• Trinkets: The Cloak of Frostology can be equipped in the Cape slot to not have any effect, and just be cosmetic item
• Farmer's Delight: Hot Cocoa provides the Warmth effect
• Farmer's Respite: Teas and warm foods provide the Warmth effect
• Festive Delight: Christmas Tea provides the Warmth effect
• Frozen Up: Truffle Hot Chocolate provides the Warmth effect
• Spectrum: Hot Chocolate, Demon Tea, Restoration Tea, and Glistering Jelly Tea provide the Warmth effect
• Fabric Seasons: Winters in snowy and freezing biomes are even colder than normal. Freezing biomes are slightly warmer in Summer.
  
  

Compatibility

While this mod is designed to be as compatible as possible with other mods, it is inevitable that sometimes issues will arise. Specific incompatibilities will be documented here and on the wiki as they become known.

• VanillaIcecreamFix -- Mixin error on start up causing crash.
• PyroFrost -- No crash, but PyroFrost has a temperature system different from Frostiful/Thermoo, so you will have 2 temperature bars.
• EnvironmentZ -- Same as PyroFrost.

Other Recommended Mods

These mods aren't made by me, but I think they're pretty neat and go well with Frostiful:

• Snow! Real Magic: Really helps the snowy ambience, and goes with icicles really well!
• Creatures from the Snow: Adds lots of really cute ambient creatures to snow biomes
• Immersive Weathering: Adds some neat features that go along with Frostiful well. You may want to disable their icicles, though.
• Trinkets: If you just want to have the Cloak of Frostology as a cosmetic item, equip it in the Trinkets cape slot!
• Disable Custom Worlds Advice: Disable the experimental settings warning (Frostiful uses such settings, and they are probably safe)
• Dehydration: Adds a thirst bar, for when you're really into the survival thing.

Requirements

This mod uses Fabric API, Mod Menu, and Cloth Config. For Quilt users: replace Fabric API with the Quilt Standard Libraries. As of Frostiful 0.5, Thermoo is also required.

Additional Credits

• NerjalNosk - Health Overlay compatibility.
• YeoXuHang - Assistance with the Frost Wand 3D model redesign

Questions?

Most everything in this mod is documented on the wiki, but feel free to join my Discord and ask any questions about the mod you might have!

Frostiful is a Fabric mod written for modern versions of Minecraft. It will not be ported to Forge or older versions of Minecraft. Only the latest version of the mod will be supported. Frostiful may work on Forge with Sinytra Connector, however this is not supported.

🔥Are you a fan of the heat and sun? Scorchful coming soon! ☀️

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