Upgrade Arid – Desert & Badlands Overhaul

Upgrade Arid is a lightweight Desert and Badlands overhaul mod that’s designed to update these biomes in a Vanilla-Friendly way, by adding cosmetic blocks + content and functional hazards.

 

 

Quicksand & Red Quicksand

These blocks look similar to regular sand and regular red sand. However, if you step on it, it’ll start sinking you inside slowly. Could be collected with shovels and used for traps.

 

 

Oasis Trees 

These new types of trees spawn in the deserts and badlands now. They are fully functional for crafts and building.

Ancient Urns & Gilded Urns

You can find Ancient Urns in deserts and badlands. They drop random items. 

 

Desert Vegetation

New desert and badlands vegetation.

Sand Cube 

A new agressive mob that spawns in deserts at nights, created specifically for more enemy variety. Uses jumps to move, like a normal slime!

Red Sand Cube 

Sand Cube Variant for badlands. Has chance to drop gold or iron nuggets.

Gilded Sandstone

A new block. Could be crafted with 8 gold nuggets and 1 sandstone block, requires silk touch to drop. 

Chiseled Terracotta

A new terracotta block, can be made via stonecutter.

Cracked Mud Brick Blocks 

New mud brick block variants for building.

Enjoying this mod? More coming soon. [WIP]