What is Whittled & Wistful?

Whittled & Wistful is a modpack that one could call "Vanilla+", though its much more involved than that. Rather than simply adding things, like most Vanilla+ modpacks do, Whittled & Wistful envisions what an alternate universe's Minecraft could look like. After the 1.9 Combat Update got abysmal reception, Mojang became too afraid to make sweeping changes to the core sandbox of the game. A new core pillar of their design philosophy came into being: don't rock the boat.

Whittled & Wistful is a modpack that envisions a version of Minecraft that ignored this philosophy and focuses on keeping the main game fresh and unique.

Like its main inspiration, Raspberry Flavoured, Whittled & Wistful makes very opinionated changes. The most noticeable of these is the lack of the End dimension or Elytras, which each encourage stagnation, complacency, and a lack of investment.

Whittled & Wistful does everything it can to reward your investment.

Gear in W&W is designed to be expressive and encourage a feeling like every armor set and tool set contributes to the playstyle that you build for yourself. Each item has a 3 enchantment limit, which you expand with Limit Break Smithing Templates and Limitite (courtesy of the Sortilege mod). Additionally, Piglins can now give you a Reinforcement Smithing Template, which can be used to make your items unbreakable.

The loadout you bring to battle is not just a matter of the best materials you have, but rather is an expression of the playstyles you enjoy - whether that centers around moving fast, chugging potions, or embracing your inner arsonist.

The world has been redesigned and redecorated from the ground up, designed to make something beautiful, immersive, and truly fantastical.

Core Features

• Unique, completely overhauled combat system.
  • This is done using Better Combat as a base, with a completely unique, brand new mod to extend and overhaul several of its core features and functions: ABCO.
• Revamped world generation
  • Using Larion, WWOO, as well as many other smaller add-ons, additions, fixes, and tweaks!
• Revamped enchanting system
  • Using Sortilege, as well as a plethora of custom enchantments and cursed enchanting to improve your enchanted gear beyond any limit!
• Expanded smithing templates
  • Featuring Electrum from Oreganized, Mauveine from Astro! Reforged and many custom made smithing templates. Smithing Templates are no longer just a vehicle for trims and crafting Netherite. Instead, they're used as a way to upgrade armor in other ways like expanding the enchantment cap, making the item unbreakable, or even just recoloring your enchantment glint.
• Completely revamped armor and tools
  • Also featuring Oreganized, Astro! Reforged and many completely custom-made tools and armor. Each armor set has unique passive benefits, including Netherite which now provides fire resistance instead of its original stats. Picking between them is now a matter of preference, rather than purely a matter of progression.
• Revamped progression
  • Slowed early progression, using copper instead of stone, as well as a more complex and interesting progression that encourages self-expression and choice based on your available resources and playstyle.
• More animals, plants, and building blocks
  • Featuring Twigs, vertical slabs and stairs, Farmer's Delight, Nature's Spirit, and Naturalist. Whittled & Wistful aims to expand your building options while minimizing added clutter.
• Improved visuals
• Social features like voice chat, instruments, and the ability to sit anywhere

Credits

The modpack itself was assembled by anticode, who also designed and programmed many of its unique features. Much of the art done for this modpack is courtesy of Napino (Linktree).

And, of course, much respect and thanks to the mod, datapack, and resourcepack developers that made the mods included in this pack.

Performance Issues?

If you're having performance issues with the pack and are on a lower end machine, I recommend the following solutions:

• Lower settings in StutterFix (in the options menu)
• Disable Distant Horizon generation, or disable Distant Horizons entirely

If you're having performance issues with the pack and are on a machine that should be able to handle it, I recommend the following solutions:

• Toggle Fullscreen type
• Toggle VSync

In a future version, graphical presets will be included to help ease performance issues and quickly get to a version of the modpack that works best for you.

This modpack is NOT complete, and will receive many updates in the near future, some of which may completely and fundamentally change the way it behaves! Players beware.

In addition; expect features that aren't complete, changes that get reverted, textures that aren't consistent with each other, and a lack of a clear guide. All of these issues will be fixed as time goes on and the modpack becomes more developed.