Welcome to Rift Nations: Rebirth, the second season of Rift Nations. After a deadly virus wiped out the population of last season, Rift Nations: Ascension, Zorasare and Syprus only had two choices. Do, or Die. Either they warp into "The Rift", forgetting all their memories, but saving themselves, or stay back on Athena and succumb to the needs of the corruption virus. After a heavy decision, there was no turning back. Check out a brand new map, propeller hats, a replacement for the Deep Dark Pickaxe, gameplay changes, and tons more features found below.

🎯 MAJOR FEATURES

• All previous seasons lore have been reset, and this season marks the beginning of a brand new lore system. Lore will be revealed via trailers and teasers, and affect season themes, changes, and updates.

• With a full reset of lore, also comes a full reset of the map. The world of Rift Nations, Alteric II, is within a simulated universe. The Rift, an ominous crack in the sky, now rests above the map and is visible in-game.

  • The Rift is only visible using the now required Skyboxify mod.

• At random intervals, The Rift will "malfunction" and cause a Rift Surge. Rift Surges are powerful bursts of energy directed at one, random point on Alteric II. After a Rift Surge happens, it will leave behind Rift Shards at the Rift Surge location. These Rift Shards have supercharged attributes currently used for "energizing" tools. Other uses are possible, but currently unknown... 🤔

• Rift Nations now has a native built-in creative server. If you wish to build using our custom server resources and features, type /workshop in chat to access the Workshop. To return to Alteric II, simply type /nations. This creative server can be used as a means to build something using our textures, take a schematic, then build it on Alteric II without ever leaving the server.

🎮 GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• Crawling can now be initiated by looking straight down and double-sneaking.

• All minecarts now load chunks as they move, allowing for seamless cargo delivery, mob delivery, or chunk loading.

• Player riding limit has been set to 4.

• Tridents can no longer be enchanted with Riptide. This change is temporary until a solution is found to where they cannot be used with gliders during the rain.

• Gliders can no longer be enchanted with Mending.

• Campfires now propel you into the air when wearing a Glider. Normal campfires launch you 20 blocks up, while Soul Campfires launch you 30 blocks up. Unlit campfires do not launch you up.

• Nether travel has been disabled. While you can still access the nether, entering a different portal in the nether than the one you entered originally will always send you back to the one you entered in the overworld regardless of the one you leave through in the nether.

🧭 ALTERIC II

• Rift Nations: Rebirth features a whole new map, Alteric II! Alteric II is built to last and function as a world building world, while still keeping the beauty of old maps like Athena.

• Alteric II is comprised of different world features. There are two primary continents, the Southern Continent and the Northern Continent. In these continents you will find long, flat terrain, rolling hills, and mountainous regions, seamlessly connecting the terrain.

• In addition to continents and height differences, no one place on Alteric II is truly the same. You can find small scattered islands, large central islands, island chains/archipelagos, peninsulas, hidden valleys, coves, bays, sprawling underwater caves, and more. You will never run out of places to explore.

• The Maple Forest has been visually upgraded, and short grass in the Maple Forest now has a chance to be Barley.

• Cold/snowy biomes have also gotten an upgrade. Spruce leaves will now be Frosted Leaves, and short grass is also frosted. In addition to that, a new weather type has been added in snowy biomes: Light Snow! Light snow is well — light, snow. Snowflakes will flutter down from trees and the clouds above.

🪁 ITEMS

• Added the Netherite Crate, a crate variant crafted by upgrading an Iron Crate with a netherite ingot in a smithing table, that does not burn in lava. Useful for storing things in your inventory without having to worry about it burning in lava or fire if you die.

• Added Terracotta Bricks, replacing the Terracotta Shingles from Rift Nations: Ascension. We found that shingles weren't used as often as we thought, so we replaced them with bricks! Terracotta Bricks are crafted in a 2x2 of terracotta.

• Added wood variations to the former Wooden Crate. Crates now come in Oak Crates, Spruce Crates, Birch Crates, Jungle Crates, Acacia Crates, Dark Oak Crates, Mangrove Crates, Cherry Crates, Pale Oak Crates, Bamboo Crates, Crimson Crates and Warped Crates. Whatever plank you craft them with is the crate you will get in return.

• Added Rift Shards and Supercharged Upgrades. Rift Shards can be used alongside Supercharged Upgrades to upgrade netherite tools into Supercharged Tools in a smithing table.

• Supercharged tools currently include the Supercharged Pickaxe, Supercharged Axe, Supercharged Shovel, and Supercharged Hoe. These upgraded tools allow for instamining abilities with that item, alongside a +500 durability increase from netherite.

• Re-added Corn, Corn Seeds and Corn Chowder from Rift Nations: Ascension, replacing beetroot.

🔨 CRAFTING

• All light block variants from 1-15 are now craftable by putting any light block in a stonecutter.

• Diorite is now craftable by smelting Calcite.

• Quartz is now craftable by smelting Diorite.

• Oats are now craftable with short grass and wheat seeds.

• Wheat seeds are now craftable with oats.

• Rotten flesh can now be smelted into Leather.

• Slimeballs are now craftable with a water bucket, clay, and lime dye.

👒 COSMETICS

• Added the Propeller Hat, a hat cosmetic which makes you lighter by having a very small ineffective propeller on your head. With the propeller hat on, you can jump up to 2 blocks high. Useful for building!

• Changed the model and texture for the Crown, with it now having a more royal theme.

✨ VISUAL/AUDIO

• Changed skybox colors in daytime, sunset, and nighttime. The day is now more vibrant, with increased shadows. The sunset covers the sky in a yellow-red hue, and the nighttime has a blue tint with stars of varying sizes.

• Clouds have been upgraded and depending on the direction you are looking at them from (above or below) it will fade into that direction. Clouds also have increased brightness during the night so they are more visible at nighttime.

• Added "Light Oak Leaves" texture in Cherry Grove, Flower Forest, Plains, and Sunflower Plains biomes.

• Improved Pistol model and texture.

• Improved all plank variants textures.

• Improved all wooden paneling variants textures.

• Improved all crate variants textures.

• Improved all concrete and concrete powder textures.

• Re-added Custom Cows from Krill Nations: New Horizon and Rift Nations: Ascension.

• Added all 3D custom models to render correctly when placed in shelves.

• Added random rotations to plants, including Bushes, Ferns, Firefly Bushes, Large Ferns, Seagrass, Short Dry Grass, Short Grass, Sunflowers, Tall Dry Grass, Oats (Tall Grass), and Tall Seagrass.

• Updated Cardboard Box texture when placed on the ground.

• Updated GUI textures for all chests and crates to match the inventory.

• Updated pumpkin blur overlay to make it look like you're looking out of the pumpkin's eyes.

🔧 TECHNICAL

• Updated server to Minecraft version 1.21.11

• Added support for Voxy mod, allowing players to see the entire map all at once. While Voxy is not required, Alteric II is built with voxy usage in mind. Players who do not use Voxy will be at a natural disadvantage.

  • A full map render will be released on the Discord. Players who do not install the full map render will have to load in the chunks themselves in order to see them.

• Added Skyboxify as a mod requirement, enabling customization of the skybox and skybox elements.

• Added /patchnotes command, allowing you to quickly get a link to the latest patch notes in-game.

🏗️ FIXES

• Shovels now mine Coarse Dirt Slabs and Rocky Dirt (double coarse dirt slabs) faster.

• Fixed banner textures using a custom texture for the base but vanilla textures for patterns.

• Fixed Axiom "Phantom Mode" texture being missing when using Axiom on the Workshop server.

• Fixed title screen texture being Rift Nations: Ascension branding when having the pack locally installed.

⛔ REMOVED

• Removed Deep Dark Pickaxe, although still obtainable on the Workshop server.

• Removed Terracotta Shingle Stairs and Terracotta Shingle Slabs.

• Removed Bench prop due to technical limitations.

• Removed The Sword of The Grid from the files.