Blue Skies "Holiday Update" is now available for Minecraft 1.17.1

Hey everyone! Cheers to another big update coming your way for Blue Skies' initial release on Minecraft 1.17 we're called the "Holiday Update" that contains the NEW raw ores to match vanilla and some cool aesthetic tweaks to be a little more festive when the times come.

Full changelog

Additions
- Added new music disc for the Population trailer music
- Raw Ores and Raw Ore Blocks for the following:
- Aquite
- Charoite
- Ventium
- Falsite
- Horizonite
- Nuggets for the following:
- Ventium
- Falsite
- Can be used in place of Lapis for enchanting
- Horizonite
- Advancements:
- Preheated
- Craft a Horizonite Furnace
- Now We're Cooking With... Shrooms?
- Craft a Snowcap Oven
- Well Seasoned
- Craft a Food Prep Table
- Getting Wood
- Kill the Starlit Crusher with your fist as the final attack
- Nowhere Safe
- Kill the Arachnarch while she's on the ceiling
- New advancements for obtaining each ore in the mod
- Alchemy Recipes:
- Added recipe for candle conversion
- Transmutation Recipes:
- Added a `blacklist` field
- Represented as a list of strings
- Item IDs in this list will not be craftable through the alchemy table
- `items` is now an optional field
- Config:
- Added a config option to allow mobs to spawn in the Everbright or Everdawn called `allowed_mobs_for_spawning`
- This does not make any mobs spawn in the Everbright or Everdawn, it simply allows them to pass our filter
- Default: []
- Added a config option for the percent chance of a Gatekeeper House generating called `gatekeeper_house_chance`
- Range: 0 - 100
- Default: 75
- New Journal Entries
- Enchanting
- Arcs
- Stick variations

Changes
- Textures:
- Brand new holiday textures that automatically enable around their respective holidays
- Everdawn (Halloween)
- Blood Moon
- Pumpkin Shade Monitor
- Candy Corn Glimmer Reeds
- Skeletal Arachnarch
- Everbright (Christmas)
- Lights tangled in the Reindeer's antlers
- Ornaments in Starlit Leaves
- Christmas Tree Starlit Crusher
- Updated the Everbright and Everdawn Emerald Ores to match vanilla
- Redid Lunar Cobblestone and Mossy Lunar Cobblestone
- Redid Turquoise Cobblestone and Mossy Turquoise Cobblestone
- Redid Aquite and Pyrope
- Updated tools, weapons, armor, and blocks as well
- Redid Charoite
- Updated blocks as well
- Minor update to Diopside
- Reshaded all ores to better match vanilla
- Updated the arc tab icon to contain only obtainable arcs to clear confusion
- Added glowing item layers to the following
- Spears
- Nature and Poison arcs
- Blinding and Nature keys
- Defying Starlight disc
- Warding Pearl
- Astrolabe (when ready)
- Zeal Lighter
- Cherry Leaves:
- Leaves can now grow with textures reflecting this change
- Leaves that can produce berries are decided when the tree grows and have white blossoms
- Cherries can be picked from leaves with cherries on them via right click
- Cherries no longer drop randomly from leaves as they now always drop from fully grown leaves
- Can now be bonemealed
- Cherry Pie:
- Iron Ingots can now be used in the crafting recipe, as a substitution for Ventium Ingots
- Crescent Fruit Leaves:
- Can now be bonemealed
- Gatekeeper House:
- Adjusted the generation rates to be more spread out, making it about as common as a village
- Added to Savanna and Taiga biomes
- Horizonite Tools/Armor:
- Can now be used as furnace fuel like the Horizonite Ingot
- Less efficient than if used in the Snowcap Oven
- Snowcap Mushroom:
- Added sounds for when a block freezes
- Star Flare:
- Has brighter dye colors than before, with black being darker than before
- Warding Pearl:
- Now requires falsite nuggets instead of ingots in the crafting recipe
- Raw Moonstone
- Renamed to Vitreous Moonstone, due to "raw" not making sense in the vanilla context
- Aquite Gemstone
- No longer has "gemstone" in the name
- Sounds:
- The Sliv now has brand new sounds
- Snow Owl
- Now occasionally sings sections of Christmas songs during the holiday season
- Future/unused items have been removed from the creative tabs, and given descriptions of their unused status
- Blue Journal is now more clear about the addition of the tab, now including notification icons, and making more sounds and visuals (you can't miss it!)
- Lava and magma can no longer be found in the Peeking Oceans
- The Gatekeeper's chests now have basic loot. Including a book to purchase the journal with
- Boss spawns eggs no longer work in survival, and have disclaimers mentioning that the bosses spawned from them will not work as expected
# Fixes
- Cave features were using incorrect methods for getting heightmap data resulting in poor performance
- The following items can now be used as furnace fuel:
- All wooden tools
- Chests
- Pressure Plates
- Signs
- Snowcap Mushroom:
- Fixed blocks being frozen many times if the frozen block is the same as the original block, such as with a campfire
- Fixed vanilla and modded saplings not being able to grow in the Everbright and Everdawn
- Fixed the alchemy table advancement trigger not working properly upon shift-clicking an item out of the result slot
- The alchemy recipe for changing bed colors no longer works with beds from Good Night's Sleep
- Fixes some emissive blocks rendering extremely dark shadows, namely cinderstone
- Fixed entities with glowing layers not displaying properly with shaders
- In the unlikely case a villager from the Everbright or Everdawn were zombified, it would have a missing texture. This has been fixed.
- Cave features were generating improperly causing performance issues, this has been addressed.