YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments in All the Mods 10

YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments is a complete redesign of Minecraft's ocean monuments. If you've ever thought the vanilla monument was a bit small and samey, this mod is the fix.^[1]

Better Monuments are much larger than the vanilla ones and have completely randomized layouts, so exploring one never plays out the same way. The loot is better too, and it includes Tridents and a Heart of the Sea.^[1]

In this pack

This pack ships version 1.21.1-NeoForge-4.1.2 of the mod. It was first included in version 1.0 of the pack or earlier.^[2]

Worldgen compatibility

The mod is intended to be fully compatible with every worldgen mod. The project page names these as examples:^[1]

• YUNG's Better Desert Temples^[1]
• YUNG's Better Mineshafts^[1]
• YUNG's Better Strongholds^[1]
• YUNG's Extras^[1]
• YUNG's Bridges^[1]
• Repurposed Structures, which also offers an optional data pack that adds repurposed versions of these overhauled monuments^[1]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Good news: there is nothing to craft before you start with YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments. It's a worldgen mod that completely redesigns Minecraft's ocean monuments, so your first steps are about exploring and getting ready for a bigger fight, not about building a tool.^[1]

What changes in the ocean

Better Monuments are much larger than vanilla ones and have completely randomized layouts. Don't count on memorizing a route from one monument to the next, because each one can be laid out differently.^[1]

The loot is the reason to go. The mod's project page promises much better rewards, including Tridents and a Heart of the Sea.^[1]

Your first steps

1. Gear up and prepare for a long dive. These monuments are bigger than vanilla, so expect to spend more time inside one.^[1]
2. Find an ocean monument. The mod redesigns monuments rather than adding a new structure, so you are looking for the same kind of structure you already know, just a larger one.^[1]
3. Explore it fully. The layouts are randomized, so check every section for the improved loot.^[1]

Crafting and quests

Unverified I found no recipes for this mod's items and no quests that involve it, so there is no crafting order to follow here. If you spot something in your world that suggests otherwise, treat it as unconfirmed until it's verified.

Good news and a heads up: this mod has no machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation. It is a pure worldgen overhaul. The mechanics that matter are how and where the new monument generates, so that is what this section covers.^[1]

The mod redesigns ocean monuments so they are much larger than vanilla and have completely randomized layouts, with better loot including Tridents and a Heart of the Sea. No recipes produce this mod's items, so there is nothing to craft here.^[1]

Where monuments generate

Monuments can appear in deep ocean biomes. The biome tag uses the vanilla deep ocean tag, plus a common deep ocean tag that is marked as optional.^[4]

Placement is a random spread with a spacing value of 50 and a separation value of 20. The structure set contains only the one monument structure, with a weight of 1.^[5]

The structure is generated at the surface structures step, with a start height picked uniformly between 54 and 64. It uses a size of 20 and a maximum distance from center of 80.^[6]

The mod has an option whose tooltip says it controls whether vanilla ocean monuments are disabled.^[3]

Unverified Whether that option is switched on in this pack is not shown by the sources here, because no config file for the mod is available. Check the mod's config in your instance if you need to know.

How a monument is assembled

The monument is built from jigsaw pieces. Generation always begins from a single start piece, and that piece goes through the mod's main processor list. The other pools covered below use the same list.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

That main processor list runs these processors in order:^[11]

• random prismarine slab decoration^[11]
• random dark prismarine slab decoration^[11]
• sand and gravel^[11]
• random oxidization^[11]
• structure void^[11]
• air^[11]
• waterlog^[11]
• seagrass^[11]
• random sponge^[11]
• leg^[11]

Randomized pieces

The randomness comes from weighted template pools. The lower middle chambers pool lists its chamber variants all with the same weight of 1, so each is equally likely.^[8]

The maze chamber battle rooms pool lists its rooms all with weight 1, and each entry has a max count of 1.^[9]

The mobs pool offers an elder guardian, an elder guardian with a heart of the sea, a guardian and an axolotl, all at equal weight.^[10]

Kelp decoration uses several pools that share the same kelp pieces but weight them differently. In the micro pool the first kelp piece has a weight of 2 and the other a weight of 1. In the mini pool the weights are 3, 1 and 1. In the small pool the first piece has a weight of 6 and the rest have 1 each. In the full kelp pool the first piece has a weight of 15 and the rest have 1 each. So the bigger the pool, the more the first kelp piece dominates.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Guardians

The structure has a monster spawn override that applies to the bounding box of each piece. It spawns guardians with a weight of 1, in groups of 1 to 3.^[6]

Unverified The contents of the outside walkway shrine, parthenon, side lower chamber, top dome and top ring pools, and the upper side chamber chest loot table, are not shown by the sources here. Exact loot beyond Tridents and a Heart of the Sea is not confirmed.

The data for this mod covers world generation and loot, so this section is about what you meet when you find a monument, not a tier ladder to climb. Here is what the files show.^[6][16]

Finding a monument

• Monuments can generate in deep ocean biomes, using the vanilla deep ocean tag plus an optional common deep ocean tag.^[4]
• They are placed with a random spread, a spacing value of 50 and a separation value of 20, so they show up at fairly regular intervals instead of clumping together.^[5]
• The structure starts at a height between 54 and 64, and is built from a jigsaw layout with a size of 20.^[6]

What guards it

The monument spawns guardians as monsters inside its pieces, in groups of 1 to 3. Go in prepared.^[6]

Loot in the upper side chambers

The upper side chamber chest loot table is generous with ocean materials. One pool rolls many times, and every roll gives Nautilus Shell. A second pool rolls between 3.0 and 6.0 times, and each roll gives either a stack of Prismarine Shard or a stack of Prismarine Crystals.^[16]

How the build looks

Every piece runs through a shared processor list. It adds random prismarine and dark prismarine slab decoration, sand and gravel, random oxidization, waterlogging, seagrass and random sponges, among other steps. That is why each monument looks a little different.^[11]

The kelp around the monument comes from template pools of several kelp variants, picked by weight. The small pool favors the first kelp variant most heavily.^[12][13][14]

All the Mods 10 8.2 includes YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments at version 1.21.1-NeoForge-4.1.2, and the mod was first included in All the Mods 10 1.0 or earlier. The notes below come from the mod's own changelogs.^[2]

Changes in the mod's own releases

• 4.1.2: fixed an issue where feature mixins could cause worldgen deadlocks. This is the version in the pack.^[2][17]
• 4.1.1: lowered the minimum version requirements so the mod works on both 1.21 and 1.21.1.^[18]
• 4.1.0: the port to 1.21.1. It reduced the number of guardian spawns and updated all structure NBT files. One entrance piece variant also had its horizontal trident changed to spawn vertically, because the horizontal one sometimes loaded with the wrong rotation.^[19]

Since the pack runs 4.1.2, the 4.1.0 changes (fewer guardian spawns, updated structure files) and the worldgen deadlock fix from 4.1.2 are both part of the monuments you find in this version.^[2][17][19]