From version 29.1

Fixed broken salt pond spawning, salt block spawning & other bugs

Added salt pond & crystals

Spawn in salt desert, salt ponds generate salt crystals over time. The salt crystals can be used to craft the new enchant or damage undead/infected

Wound salter enchant

Deal more damage the more wounded your enemy is

Some desert plants can now be placed on sand slabs

Salt block will now kill water mobs and heavily wounded entities

Tweaked spear of sands wind gust spawn location

Fixed bugs (water drying leaving weird tubes & removing every waterlogged block if under them, …)

More compatibility (newer versions of Spore, …)

Added scorpions

Small neutral critter that can drop its tail

Its tail can be used to give wither to mobs or cure certain infection effects

Improved performance

Improved compatibility

Fixed some bugs

Fixed bugs related to wind gusts

Added an marker entity to random tick distant desert blocks

On by default, low performance impact, do not force load chunks

Enchants can be crafted

You can craft them by throwing items at an enchanted sand rose near a enchantment table. Recipes in the mod’s description

Blocks now have a correct map color

Fixed messages in the console complaining about the desert:gust entity

More compat

Improved weathered sandstone brick’s texture

Added enchants

These can be dropped by zombies/skeletons in a large desert

Swift sands

Allow you to travel faster when on sand

Electrostatic

Inflicts weakness to attackers

Other

• Improved phayriosis compat
• Improved abominations infection compat
• Improved Sculk Horde compat
• Various small tweaks and fixes

Overcharged sand rose

Now summons charged wind gusts that spread the desert faster than normal ones

Sandshaper

Can be used as a shovel for sand

Other

Partial Phayriosis compat

Bugfixes

Fixed oasis bug

Added sand roses

Overcharged sand roses

rarely created when a wind gust hit a weathered sandstone block (with more conditions). Create a wall a glazed sand around it and zap nearby entities. Drops sand roses

Sand rose

material and decorative block

Enchanted sand rose

crafted with sand roses, can be used as a material. Can also boost sandblasters and vitalizers when on them. Prevents overcharged sand roses from spawning

Added sandshaper

Crafted with a enchanted sand rose, can create sand walls and pillars

Added guetoufa infusion : cleanse blindness & darkness

Improved compatibility with Sculk Horde

Weathered sandstone bricks

Larger area for the vitalizer block

The desert is now a little bit slower (can be configured)

Tweaked the sandy diamond block's recipe

Dummy texture for the sandshaper

Fixed desert flowers bugs

Added a config option to generate some desert sand in deserts (off by default)

Fixed spear of sands enchanting on (Neo)Forge

Updated the texture

Increased the spears gust's damage to 3 HP

Disable infection config now works again

Added Vitalizer Block : purify block around it, requires a nearby tree

Desert lily : decorative white flower

Performance improvements

Fixed bugs (guertoufa dye, …)

Basic verdant growth compatibility

Phayriosis compatibility