Golden Realms: Tricky Taiga Update

The Tricky Taiga Update is a major update to Minecraft: Golden Realms, released May 24th, 2024. It introduces game-exclusive items, blocks and mobs, such as the projectile weapon, the spear, the fluffy and vocal pony, as well as adding an exclusive game feature called "Frostbite", which gradually freezes players over-time, and so much more. Spruce trees and all its veritable craftings, as well as adding snowy taigas, spruce taigas, llamas and skeleton horses over from the original game. 
==Additions==
===Blocks===
; Spruce Log
*Generated as a part of spruce trees, which are located in spruce taigas, snowy taigas and windswept forests.
*Can be crafted into spruce planks and wood.
*Has a stripped variant.
; Spruce Planks
*Crafted from spruce logs.
*Can be crafted into spruce planks and wood.
*Can be used to craft respective slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, buttons, doors, boats and trapdoors.
; Peony
*Generates in spruce taigas.
*Can be crafted into pink dye.
; Spruce Wood
*A new type of wood, as well as a stripped variant.
*Can be used to craft spruce planks.
===Items===
; Spruce Boat
*A new type of boat, crafted with spruce planks.
; Spear
*A new projectile weapon that can be used as a cheaper alternative for the trident.
*Deals 4 (❤️❤️) hearts of damage.
*Crafted using one iron ingot and three sticks.
; Bone
*Dropped when killing a skeleton or skeleton horse.
*Can be used to craft 4 bone meal.
; Raw Chestnut
*Can be found in chests within spruce villages.
*Satisfies 2 (1🍗) hunger.
; Fur
*Can be crafted using 8 leather.
*Used to craft fur parkas.
; Fur Parka
*Can be crafted using 6 fur.
*Protects players from frostbite.
*Adds 1 protection boost.
;Spawn Eggs
* Llama spawn egg.
* Skeleton Horse spawn egg.
* Pony spawn egg.
===Mobs===
; Llama
*Can transport large storage units after being crafted alongside a chest.
*Can be tamed with carrots, pumpkins and beetroot.
*After being tamed, they can be ridden and are faster than horses.
*After being tamed, they will follow the player indefinitely, until their deaths.
*Bobs their heads if near note blocks.
*Immune to damage for its owner, after being tamed.
*Have 40 (❤️x20) health points and a natural health regeneration of 8 (❤️❤️❤️❤️) per second.
; Skeleton Horse
*Spawns exclusively in snowy taigas and, unlike their original counterparts, are neutral mobs.
*Deal 2 (❤️) heart of damage if provoked.
*Drops 2-4 bones upon death.
*Can be tamed with raw chicken and can walk, run and swim much faster than any other mob in-game.
*Have 40 (❤️x20) health points and can't regenerate its health.
; Pony
*Due to their long hair, some ponies can spawn blind.
*Tragically, some ponies can spawn barren, meaning that, when bred, they cannot spawn a baby variant.
*Has a sense of vibration. When sensing movement, it pathfinds toward the source of the movement.
*Can be tamed using beetroot and required a lot of attention when tamed.
**If not given enough attention, ponies will run away from its owner.
*When tamed, ponies can be used to carry items with 20 extra slots, after being equipped with a chest.
*Is immune to fire damage, knockback, and liquid slowdown.
*Can drop a wide variety of items upon them, more commonly fur.
*Have 20 (❤️x10) health points and a natural health regeneration of 2 (❤️) per second.
===World generation===
; Snowy Taiga
*A new snowy biome with frozen, iced water that often generates with temperatures below -30.
*Contains spruce trees, a new type of tree, and are the only trees that can generate there, which are shared with spruce taigas.
*Naturally and exclusively spawns skeleton horses, as well as rabbits, foxes, ponies and a dual of other mobs.
*Generates taiga villages.
*The floor is coated with layers upon layers of snow.
*Tropical fish and glow squid can spawn in the water and is immune to the temperature.
;Spruce Trees
*New type of tree variant that is found in spruce-and snowy taigas biomes.
*Composed of spruce logs.
*It has a chance to generate a bee nest.
===Gameplay===
*Added Frostbite, which is when the player is in a cold temperate biome for too long, and the cold meter appears. If the meter reaches zero blue hearts, the player will start taking damage due to freezing from frostbite. 
**This can, of course, be countered by wearing a fur parka.
==Changes==
===Blocks===
;Bubble Column
*Can now be crafted into one bubble.
;Pumpkin
*Can now be carved with spears, a new projectile weapon.
;Dried Kelp Block
*Can now spawn naturally in chests within taiga villages.
*Texture changes from dark green to mossy dark green.
;Beehive
*Can now spawn naturally on spruce trees within spruce-and snowy taigas.
;TNT
*Ores and spawners blown up by TNT ignited by a player can now drop experience.
;Vines
*Can now be placed on the side of snow.
Category:Updates
Category:Golden Realms Updates
Category:Update 4.0 (MGR)