Homestead - Official 2.0 Update Trailer & Overview

Homestead 2.0 Overview

Homestead 2.0 is a major update shaped by months of player feedback, suggestions, and bug reports. It focuses on a more polished cozy-survival experience, with new exploration, improved crafting and storage, quest updates, and numerous fixes.

New Content and Gameplay Changes

• Longer days: The day-and-night cycle now lasts 40 minutes: 25 minutes of daylight and 15 minutes of night, leaving more time for farming and daily tasks.
• End exploration: After the removal of Eldritch End, new End world generation and structures were added through Better End-related mods and Endercon. The old End mod was removed due to lag, server problems, and compatibility issues.
• Rivers: Streams Reflowing adds naturally flowing rivers, with water particles that complement the pack’s existing world generation.
• Music and ambience: Soundscape revamps the jukebox interface, adds a boombox that plays YouTube links, and introduces more than 50 ambient discs.
• Simplified item variety: A new consolidation feature reduces duplicate types of wood, crops, and food. Different appearances can still be found in the world and selected using a compact workbench, while recipes are standardized across mods.
• Flexible enchanting: Better Bookshelf Enchantment lets bookshelves work within 16 blocks of an enchantment table, provided they have direct visibility. This allows for more creative, concealed enchanting-room designs.
• Other additions: New or updated content includes horse improvements, bakery content, spawn protection, and additional End structures.

Quests, Recipes, and Quality-of-Life Updates

• Added questlines for the updated horses and the Let’s Do Bakery mod, plus an update-information page and a redesigned FTB Quests theme.
• Added hints and tips for features such as Elytra Wings, Tom’s Simple Storage’s Wireless Terminal, the compact workbench, mob grouping, and tools.
• Mystic Berries can now rarely generate in lush caves, making players less reliant on finding a Mystic Merchant to tame a Mystic Elk.
• Spring water can now be made renewable. Fertile soil is more effective, winemaking equipment lasts longer, and hats are rarer loot.
• Several questlines were re-linked to require sequential completion.
• Storage mods and wine racks were added to Carry On’s restricted-item configuration to prevent item loss and related errors.

Removals and Fixes

Eldritch End was removed because of performance, server, and operating-system compatibility problems. Several redundant storage mods were also removed, with Sophisticated Storage selected as the pack’s main storage option.

The update fixes issues involving crop and food compatibility, modified farmland and sprinklers, tree and biome generation, loot tables, quest recipes, missing items, and recipe display in the quest book. Additional fixes address crashes, tooltips, menus, plush-toy models, hotkeys, and mod compatibility. Numerous mod updates and rollbacks were also included.

The update was announced for release on CurseForge and Modrinth at midnight on October 23.

People and Sources Mentioned

Tokimi; Kame Million, programmer of the Better Bookshelf Enchantment mod; AY RCS and Its Melon, credited for GitHub fixes; Splice, a source for ambient audio; and BisectHosting, the video’s sponsor.