Lost Cities Modern Tweaks

This datapack (packaged as a mod for easier installation) applies many tweaks to the default Lost Cities geneartion on 1. 20. 1, making generated cities more interesting while trying to keep the original style.

⚠ You need to have (https://modrinth.com/mod/the-lost-cities) installed to use this datapack ⚠

Example tweaks:

1. Replaced all torches with lanterns. Unfortunately lanterns still generate when city lighting is disabled because torches are hard-coded light sources. You can use (https://modrinth.com/datapack/lost-cities-modern-tweaks-nolighting) if you don't want those lanterns to generate. 2. New street and highway designs. Streets now have lamp posts. 3. Added more details to the railway network. 4. Added more details to some existing buildings. 5. More roof variations. 6. More park designs. Some existing park designs are also tweaked. 7. Redesigned fountains to better fit the new streets. 8. More building palettes. 9. A new factory multibuilding with a spacious interior, which can be a convenient place to kick off your factory in tech packs. 10. New building designs. 11. New biome specific city styles. 12. Touch up interiors of multi-buildings like shopping center, town center, etc., and added unique loot tables for each of them. 13. And more ...

In general, most of the tweaks are aesthetic, and won't break the balance from the original mod. All tweaks use vanilla blocks only, also making it vanilla friendly (and you don't need to install extra mods!). Overall there are hundreds of modified building parts. You can visit the gallery for some examples.

I started these tweaks in my own playthroughs, when I found it strange that a modern city still uses torches everywhere. As I added more and more tweaks, I figured that it is also a good idea to share these tweaks with you.

## Permissions Feel free to use this datapack in any modpacks. The MIT license also gives you a lot of freedom to do additional tweaks yourselves (as the source files are just json files included in the pack).

## Compatibility

This datapack has been tested with various vanilla Lost Cities profiles. However, it is impossible to test every heavily modded environment that heavily modifies worldgen. So if the datapack works flawlessly, that's great and enjoy it! If not, you may have to remove it, or manually resolve the issue if you are experienced. Do not report issues caused by this datapack to the Lost Cities mod!

### Compatibility with Other Lost Cities Datapacks

Before 1. 0. 10 for Minecraft 1. 20. 1 and 2. 0. 7 for Minecraft 1. 12. 1, the answer is highly unlikely for the following reasons:

This datapack modifies lots of parts from the base mod (e.g., it touches all parts with torches). Currently the Lost Cities mod does not support merging city styles or building definitions (e.g., allowing multitple datapacks to add/alter different buildings to the same city style). Therefore one pack's content will usually override another's.

Starting from 1. 0. 10 for Minecraft 1. 20. 1 and 2. 0. 7 for Minecraft 1. 12. 1, general compatibility has been improved because the datapack moved the majority of the tweaks under its own pack namespace `lcmt`. The datapack only overrides the following datapack files from the base Lost Cities mod:

`lostcities/lostcities/worldstyles/standard.json` `lostcities/lostcities/worldstyles/standard_everywhere.json` `lostcities/lostcities/citystyles/citystyle_border.json`

These overrides help enable all the tweaks by default so you need to manually create new lost cities profiles to enjoy them.

### Compatibility with Other Mods

It should be compatible with mods that are compatible with (https://modrinth.com/mod/the-lost-cities) mod. The lootable chested/barrels added by this datapack are also compatible with mods like (https://modrinth.com/mod/lootr).

## Dependencies

(https://modrinth.com/mod/the-lost-cities)

If you are using the mod version, dependency check should be automatically performed by the mod loader. However, if you are using the datapack version, you must manually verify it is compatible with version of the Lost Cities mod you installed:

| Minecraft Version | Lost Cities Modern Tweaks Version | Required The Lost Cities Version | |-------------------|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------| | 1. 21. 11 | >=3. 1. 0 | 1. 21. 11-9. 5. 0 | | 1. 21. 11 | 3. 0. 0 | 1. 21. 11-9. 4. 0 - 1. 21. 11-9. 4. 2 | | 1. 21. 1 | >=2. 1. 0 | >=1. 21-8. 4. 0 | | 1. 21. 1 | 2. 0. 4 - 2. 0. 7 | 1. 21-8. 2. 6 - 1. 21-8. 3. 10 | | 1. 21. 1 | 2. 0. 0 - 2. 0. 3 | 1. 21-8. 2. 3 - 1. 21-8. 2. 5 | | 1. 20. 1 | >=1. 1. 0 | >=1. 20-7. 5. 0