Updates timeline - MarshP/yon-readme GitHub Wiki
This page aims to give a quick highlight of major changes on Yon, so returning players can see what's new since they last played. It's in reverse-chronological order, so the newest things are at the top.
2025-02-16: Realm now on 1.21.4. BP's base has expanded and now includes a cobble generator. MrTrousers' firework factory has a roof and also a growing range of automated redstone component crafters on the upper floor. There's a resin farm up high and a pale oak tree farm at ground level in the Big Cooling Tower. And the moss farm there has been converted to pale moss, but can easily be converted back. Also an overworld mob switch based on shulkers, follow the magenta carpet line on the nether roof past the shulker farm.
2024-11-23: Realm now on 1.21.3. Yon has come alive! MrTrousers is back, and has built a tunnel bore running for miles to the east of his base, and is constructing an epic firework factory just outside Spawntown. He's also working on a Trouserporter to exploit the new ender pearl stasis chamber chunk loading behaviour and sub-tick timing for remote signal transmission, but it seems unreliable on the Realm. Welcome to new player BP, who has joined and set up base in the desert to the NE of Spawntown! Witch farm added, north of the nether hub (green carpet on the roof, tunnel inside). Gasometer built near the Enchantment Hall. Nether roof ice boatway extended east from Clapyon Junction to go all the way to a double witch hut, location for a possible future perimeter. Triple cable-stayed bridge built over the ocean from The Sea at the end of the Old Gravel Path to Jorfinka-Jüfüll, with new towers at either end.
2024-07-27: Realm now on 1.21. Breeze rods and wind charges available in the nether hub potlatch cave. Also a 'rare grooves' chest in the music section there with rare music discs for lending. New water tower added on the road from the Brickworks and Cardingyon sheds north towards the Enchantment Hall and Wheat Farm. Added a screengrab of the big floor map to the Maps page. Also 1.21 changes have nerfed the Stacking Raid Farm and the Void Trading System.
2024-04-07: New wheat farm added in the marsh near the Enchanting Hall.
2023-12-29: Realm now on 1.20.4. New hoglin farm on the nether roof, near Clactyon-on-Lava. Plentiful cooked porkchops now available in the nether hub potlatch cave.
2023-08-08: In case the new villager changes in upcoming 1.20.2 make it much harder, we now have an Enchantment Hall with a Librarian selling every single enchanted book available by trading (i.e. excluding Soul Speed and Swift Sneak), in the marsh N of the Brickworks. Also updated the Maps page here with schematic maps.
2023-07-31: DnC's chain of amazing follies has been extended over time and now has easier nether portal access, either inside via the Beetown portal (just keep going in a straight line) or on the nether roof - follow the purple carpet path. Growing unusual mob menagerie on the nether roof by the Rainbow Castle portal, including allays and camels. (Help yourself to breeding.) Oh and also the Dragon Egg was moved from The End some time ago and is currently on display in Korvar's pagoda at Spawntown.
2023-06-23: Realm now on 1.20.1. There is now a BioBank in the lending part of the Potlatch Cave in the Nether Hub, with a stack of just about every plant or crop in the game, so you can restock or find that thing you're missing. (Including cherry saplings and pink petals.) Numerous builds: an Atomiyon (5/3 scale model of the Atomium in Brussels) between the Mossque and the Circus Maximus, a big bamboo farm in DgC's farming area, and a goat horn farm - the music bit of the Potlatch Cave now has one of every possible goat horn for you to tootle.
2023-02-01: An iron golem statue now gazes wistfully over the iron farm. And there's a clay farm in the Big Cooling Tower.
2022-12-28: New Void Trading System. Good for obtaining villager trades in bulk without them locking. Go to The End, turn right as you climb out of the obsidian spawning pad or follow the soul sand path to the bubble column. Instructions on the lectern underneath the platform on the far side. Also new iron golem statue by iron farm.
2022-12-19: Realm now on 1.19.3. The Rainbow Castle has had some remodelling: there are new and taller towers (the Central Tower now goes up to the new build limit of y=319), more flags, and some rainbow bridges. Plus a bit of sorting out. The top is now out of view from the bottom.
2022-10-06: Realm now on 1.19.2! Lots of things, haven't updated here for ages. Check out the new-ish Potlatch Cave in the nether hub for all the communal, shared, and free stuff, including all the latest items from new Minecraft versions. Marsh has an amazing maze deep under his base. Many new things along the nether roof ice boatway south from Clapyon Junction (change from Rainbow Castle): Froglight farm with Deep Dark through portal, mangrove swamp biome, wither skeleton farm, ghast farm. The big map has moved from the map cave in the Rainbow Castle (now a spa) to a new map building further east (easy find through the nether Rainbow area). The End has seen a bit of remodelling - a few more dragon fights have created some more end gateways, reachable by a convenient new circular walkway, and one of which leads to a sculk farm.
2022-01-13: New build: Cardingyon Sheds and Flying Bum! A tribute to the Cardington Sheds south of Bedford and the Airlander hybrid airship that is based there. Use the Flushing Mob Farm portal (pink) in the nether to the NE of the Rainbow Castle, in between the Mossque and the Brickworks.
2022-12-22: If you want the Caves & Cliffs advancement, there's a big hole in the desert to the south of the Rainbow Castle down to bedrock and a scaffolding tower up to build height. You can fall from the top to the bottom of the world and not die thanks to the water. Also a route in to new tunnels beneath the Rainbow Castle connecting to a largish new 1.18 cave.
2022-12-10: Realm now on 1.18.1! A fix for an issue with fog that made it hard to see very far, and for an issue that disappeared bees. Also patched the log4j vulnerability.
2021-11-30: Realm now on 1.18! New terrain under the old: previous bedrock layer around y=0 replaced with deepslate and new terrain all the way down to y=-64, and build height now goes up much higher. Ordinary mobs now only spawn in light level 0. Spawn rates on most mob farms substantially reduced by the change to build heights, including the gold/XP farm which is now only just self-sustaining.
2021-10-27: New build: Brickworks! A tribute to the recently-demolished Stewartby Brickworks. From the Rainbow Castle, follow the red path on the nether roof or head NE inside.
2021-09-14: Shulker farm built! With safe viewing gallery in the nether and overworld. Magenta path on the nether roof from the Rainbow Castle. Free shulker shells in the Free Shit chest in the nether hub. The seed shulker came from an End City around -600 ~ -2900 (please leave any others there as future spares). New canal from outside Spawntown built to transport it to the river/canal network.
2021-09-??: Three new roads built:
- One is mostly east-west from Spawntown to the Flushing Mob Farm. It starts just west of Spawntown and wraps round it, past the gold farm water elevator in Il Torrione, past Juliet's base, through the Mossque, then on to the Flush Mob farm.
- Another goes mostly north-south, starting from the Flush Mob farm, south-west then south past the Rainbow Spaceport and Hexahelix, through the Rainbow Castle, over the Rainbow Bridge, crossing the Old Gravel Path at Deadsville, then on south with a junction to the red suspension bridge, then round through the desert, sneaking through tunnels to the east of Roundwell, before ending near Damian's pyramid thing.
- And the third goes mostly east-west from south of Yondinium/Cerulean Sands, under the SPPE, through the Big Cooling Tower, through the ordinary-sized cooling tower, past the Rainbow Palace, through the courtyard in front of the Rainbow Castle, under the north end of the Rainbow Farming Area, just south of the Semi-Submersible Villager Trading Hall, then curving round to the south-east to the Rainbow Ranch.
2021-07-06: Realm now on 1.17.1. Useful new 1.17 items now in chests in nether hub, including moss, dripleaf, dripstone, amethyst shards, glow lichen, and a spyglass. New moss farm in the big cooling tower, and also a glow lichen duplicating station. New build: the Mossque, go to the Rainbow Flush Mob Farm (pink wool) and follow the path over the bridge to the desert.
2021-06-10: Realm now on 1.17! Drowned farms now also give copper ingots, ink sac farm has stopped working. The Old Gravel Path has been upgraded and now goes from near Janet's not-mushroom house, past the swamp near Olly's base, through Squaresville, through the big Cooling Tower, the Library, Deadsville, and the Rainbow Ranch, and on eventually to the Sea, with numerous bridges and a tunnel along the way. (The suspension bridge goes in parallel and is visible from there in parts).
2021-03-23: Many things done during Covid-19 lockdowns but not added in a timely manner. Korvar's Hole is now complete and the spoil is neatly sorted and available for use. Suspension bridge built linking Squaresville and the southern end of the SPPE to the desert south of the Library. The Paraboloids have popped up just to the south of the bridge opposite the big cooling tower. The bubble column in the desert for the gold/XP farm now has Il Torrione round it to make it look less of an eyesore. Loads of resource farms added, see Resource farms for a list. New page added to this wiki on Dyes detailing where you can get coloured dyes for your colouring needs.
2021-01-31: Note block arrangement of the first prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier built in the desert under Rainbow Spaceship One, featuring map art of J. S. Bach. The mystery villager killer in Spawntown has struck again and all the villagers are gone, apart from a couple who are trapped, plus the inhabitants of Irondene, who are alive but not producing babies to repopulate the village. At the same time, somehow, we still have a problem with excess iron golems.
2021-01-16: Realm now on 1.16.5. Music disc farm built, so free music discs of all tunes now available in the nether hub. The farm is through a portal to the SW of the Rainbow area, pink path on the nether roof. Also a flushing multi-mob farm next to it.
2020-11-28: Tree farm! In the big cooling tower. Instructions on the lectern.
2020-11-23: New squid farm for ink sacs. Follow the winding black path south from the Rainbow Palace, through the library, and on, then zoom up the bubble column and wait for the ink sacs to arrive. Doesn't work properly if anyone else is in the overworld.
2020-11-??: Realm now on 1.16.4. Gold/XP farm tweaked and extended for the recent mechanics. The ordinary piglins now get scared by soul torches or the zombified piglins and fall down a separate trap, which stops them filling up the mob cap and reducing the rates. Added a second sorting line and switched the furnaces to blast furnaces to keep up with the new, improved rates.
2020-10-16: New blaze farm added. Follow the signs in the nether fortress, or the orange carpet path on the nether roof.
2020-10-01ish: Piglin trading post added on the nether roof at Clapyon Junction, via the ice boat track from the Rainbow Castle.
2020-09-30: Realm now on 1.16.3. Nether portal roof network extended to connect to the Hole and to Clactyon-on-Lava, where there are the new nether biomes, via an ice boat/minecart track.
2020-07-??: New Library finished, based on the Long Room at Trinity College Dublin, to the south of the Rainbow Palace, on the gravel path from Deadsville to Yondinium.
2020-06-26: Realm now on 1.16.1, the Nether Update! Beware of piglins in the nether who may attack on sight if you're not wearing a piece of gold armour. Crimson and warped nylium available for loan in the loan chest in the nether hub. (You can use nylium to make more nylium by bonemealing netherrack placed next to nylium.) If you go exploring, be aware that the nether is even harsher than it was, and are advised to take a Totem of Undying or two from the free stuff chest in the nether hub, and remember to hold it in your off hand all the time.
2020-06-21: New build at Brightyon Marine Preserve and Research Labs (blue carpet path on nether roof from Rainbow Castle). Visiting scholar Prof Bob McCrachan has arrived but is not quite what the lab folks were expecting.
2020-06-??: New nether portal network added on top of the nether roof, now that portals connect properly up there. Water elevators in the overworld take you to nether roof portals, at Spawntown, Iron Farm, Ocean Monument/Prismarine Farm, Rainbow Castle, Brightyon, and more. This has also changed the Gold/XP portals so they connect to a new water elevator system in the desert rather than to Spawntown/MAMP's base. You can now water elevator all the way up in the overworld as an alternative to the automated nether railway line that is currently (June 2020) a bit broken.
2020-05-07: Six Cooling Towers added, in decreasing size, between the Pinkway and the SPPE, a tribute to the now-demolished Didcot A Power Station. Number 2 is life size (114 m high).
2020-04-??: Raid Farm added. It's a bit complex and fiddly. You need to get Bad Omen first, by killing a pillager with an ominous banner. These spawn occasionally as part of pillager patrols, and also by the Pillager Outpost. (At a stop on the nether rail from the rainbow area to Brightyon.) Then go in to the raid farm from the portal near maximum height in the nether (not the lower one). Full instructions in signs at the farm and here in the Mob farms list. Key outputs are emeralds and Totems of Undying - there are loads of totems going for free in the free stuff chest by the smelter in the nether hub.
2020-02-05: Honey and honeycomb farm built in The End, on one of the far islands, which you can use to make honey blocks and honeycomb blocks. From the entry space, follow the cut through to the endstone ramp to the End Gateway (the portal that spawned when the Ender Dragon died). You can throw an ender peal in to the portal, or use the trapdoor to squash yourself down to one block height to crawl through. If you take honey to make honey blocks, please leave the empty bottles, and ideally refill the dispensers so there are an equal number of bottles in every slot (typically 14).
2020-01-23: Realm now on 1.15.2. Bees now sometimes spawn in bee nests when oak or birch saplings grow in to trees.
2020-01-07: Coverage expanded in the Map Cave in the Rainbow Castle (from the Central Tower, drop down to mine level, follow the sign). Now reaches from Janet's bases in the West to Korvar's Hole in the East, and from the Iron Farm in the North West to Roundwell and a thing under construction in the South East.
2019-12-21: Realm now on 1.15.1. Two cleric villagers placed in the gold/XP farm for trading of rotten flesh and gold. Take care not to accidentally click on their beds: they explode. The obsidian blast chamber reduces the knock-on damage to the farm, but it's still annoying to rebuild and fetch two new villagers.
2019-12-16: Two rainbow tunnels added connecting the Rainbow Castle and the Rainbow Palace, one in the air, one deep below ground at mining level.
2019-12-12: Spawntown has villager inhabitants again! New secure villager breeder, Irondene, added on the edge of the village. The baby villagers drop out in to Spawntown.
2019-11-22: New iron farm operational, same portal as the old iron farm. Gives lots of iron. Old iron farm converted to a secure villager breeding centre. Help yourself to villagers if you want them; they repopulate themselves.
2019-11-16: Rainbow semisubmersible Trading Hall now open. Portal just beyond the other rainbow ones. Range of new villagers with useful trades, including many enchantments (Mending and Looting III).
2019-11-??: Gold/XP farm tweaked to work better: added 'alarm' zombie pigmen, trapped on small platforms beyond the edge of the spawning platform, where they can see the player but can't get to them, which keeps the aggro going. Try not to shoot them.
2019-10-25: Brightyon-on-Sea now has a complex of research labs connected by underwater glass tunnels. (Take the nether railway line from the rainbow area.)
2019-09-30: Ocean monument has been drained (and the cave systems below lit up), so the spawn rates in the guardian farm are now much higher.
2019-07-19: Realm now on 1.14.4.
2019-07-13: New overworld pathway: the Naughty Path, a polished diorite path from the round thing to the east of The Fingers (a folly, south of Deadsville) to the very big hole being dug by Korvar.
2019-07-11: There's third new stronghold and End Portal. From the nether hub, go north and through the door in the green glass wall and out on to the walkway above the lava lake.
2019-07-04: There's a new stronghold and End Portal. To find the connecting nether portal, head west out of the nether hub, past Janet's portals and through the yellow glass ghast screen. Or go out to the east up the stairs and then climb down, using the yellow glass as a signpost. The stronghold is huge. Most of it is lit up, but it connects to an abandoned mineshaft system that is not fully explored.
2019-06-24: Realm now on 1.14.3. Illager patrols no longer spawn in places other hostile mobs can't (i.e. lighting space up now protects against them). There is a cow in a boat in a tree in the nether hub near Marsh's portal where you can get milk to dispel the Bad Omen effect (from killing a raid captain with the banner) to avoid triggering a Raid when you visit a village. Zombie pigmen aggro has changed, so you have to keep shooting them to make the gold/XP farm work.
2019-06-15 (ish): Korvar is digging a very big hole. If you go from the hub, in the secondary group of portals with the rainbow carpet, if you take the far-right exit, and take the second left (after the gates with the pressure plates), and go along there, the portal's around the corner. Co-ords 199 63 103 in the nether, 1577 68 844 in the real world.
2019-06-02 (ish): Realm now on 1.14.2. Lighting bug fixed. Some places that are well lit may have been in darkness since 1.14, so beware hostile of mobs in enclosed places. Villagers (?and other entities) still seem to be randomly despawning.
2019-05-14: Realm now on 1.14.1, villager discount bug fixed. You can still buy Mending from a Librarian trapped in a house in Deadsville, but for a more reasonable price.
2019-05-06: There's currently a ?bug [later fixed] where villagers give you maximum discount on prices if (a) you cured them of being a zombie, or (b) they are trapped with their feet in water and open and close the trading UI repeatedly. In related news, in Deadsville there is a set of new 1.14 villagers trapped with their feet in water. Including a Cleric and a Librarian with Mending.
2019-05-02: Item sorter and bulk storage silo added to the Rainbow Castle, in the store below entrance level (stairs and drop on right as you go in from the main entrance)
2019-04-28: New 1.14 village mechanics sometimes cause old villagers to despawn after trading. Notable casualties so far: the cleric at the gold/XP farm and the double-Mending villager in MAMP's base. Roundwell, Deadsville and Rainbow Palace equipped with beds, work stations and bells. Bells added to communal chest in the nether.
2019-04-27: Realm updated to Minecraft 1.14. Sweet berries, bamboo, and scaffolding added to communal chest in the nether. Iron farm has stopped working.
2019-04-??: Circus Maximus, chariot raceway in front of the Rainbow Palace, in progress
2019-03-21: Rainbow Palace, new building near the Rainbow Castle
2019-02-04: MrTrousers finds the fabled octagon of legend.
2019-02-03: MrTrousers fixes problems with the nether rail hub route to the gold/XP farm (see Overworld Transport))
2019-02-01: Blue Streak, very fast ice boatway between Rainbow Castle and OG's place via Yondinium (see Overworld Transport)
2019-02-01: Pinkway, elevated walkway between Rainbow Castle and MAMP's smiley base (see Overworld Transport)
2018-11-14: Zombie pigmen gold/xp farm working again, with the update to 1.13.2 (see Mob farms)
2018-09-23: Minecrafternoon
2018-08-18: Hostile mob farm above Spawntown extended (see Mob farms))
2018-07-29: Minecrafternoon
2018-07-??: Now we have a wither skeleton skull farm (see Mob farms), there are beacons for loan in the chests next to the public smeltery in the nether (see Communal and Borrowable items)