Ice Age: BH Pack V1.2 | Major Update |

ICED AGE 1.2 – MAJOR CONTENT UPDATE

 

This is one of the largest Iced Age updates so far, introducing four complete prehistoric animals, a full Kelenken domestication and riding system, new hunting tools, reusable traps, lithic resources, nests, incubation, foods, decorations and major animation improvements.

 

NEW PREHISTORIC WILDLIFE

 

Cave Hyena

• Added adults and cubs with normal, pale and charcoal coat variants.

• Cave hyenas live in social clans and defend one another, reacting especially strongly when a cub is threatened.

• They scavenge raw meat, carrion and bones found on the ground.

• Hyenas can visibly carry bones and store them inside naturally generated dens.

• Added unique eating, threatening, attacking, giggling, carrying and locomotion animations.

• Added dedicated sounds, footprints, drops and raw and cooked cave hyena meat.

 

Megaloceros

• Added males, females and calves with four coat variants for every age and sex.

• Adult males have large visible antlers and can retaliate against attackers.

• Females and calves rely more heavily on fleeing and staying with the herd.

• Megaloceros herds can naturally appear across the main Iced Age biomes.

• Added unique models, animations, hoof particles, sounds, drops and raw and cooked meat.

 

Steppe Bison

• Added bulls, cows and calves with four coat variants for every age and sex.

• Herds can graze, warn one another, regroup, defend calves and launch powerful charges.

• Steppe bison can paw snow away from the ground while grazing.

• Herds react to nearby predators and can huddle together during severe blizzards.

• Added unique models, horns, animations, cold breath, hoof effects, sounds, drops and raw and cooked meat.

 

Pleistocene Wolverine

• Added males, females and cubs, including solitary adults and mothers travelling with young.

• Wolverines scavenge food and use a persistent caching system.

• They can carry food, find a safe location, bury it, guard it, relocate it and return to eat it later.

• Wolverines compete with other scavengers and seek shelter during intense blizzards.

• Added unique models, carrying visuals, digging, sniffing, threatening and feeding animations, cold breath, snow effects, sounds and drops.

 

COMPLETE KELENKEN OVERHAUL

 

Taming and Breeding

• Kelenken can now be passively tamed by approaching carefully from behind while crouching.

• Taming requires three successful feeds, with a hunger period between each step.

• Kelenken accept their new dedicated berries as well as selected raw meats.

• Added a clean in-world taming indicator positioned behind the animal, showing when the next feed is ready.

• Added male and female Kelenken with a subtle visual difference: adult males have a larger colour-matched crest.

• Tamed Kelenken belonging to the same owner can breed and produce eggs.

• Added natural growth for newly hatched chicks.

 

Nests and Incubation

• Added a craftable Kelenken nest with two independent egg slots.

• Added large circular wild nests that can naturally contain one or two eggs.

• Wild nests generate naturally in the Mammoth Steppe and Windswept Heights.

• Nests support safe egg insertion, removal, incubation, breaking and recovery.

• Added a complete 3D nest, egg and wild nest display with visible egg states.

 

Riding and Equipment

• Added a dedicated Kelenken saddle required for riding.

• Added a brood harness capable of carrying and incubating up to two eggs.

• Harness eggs are shown directly on the animal and update visually as eggs are added or removed.

• Added a charged jump with separate crouch, charge, take-off, airborne and landing phases.

• Added gravity-driven gliding with horizontal steering. Kelenken can travel through the air and slow their descent, but cannot fly or hover.

• Kelenken and their legitimate riders are protected from fall damage while using the mount system.

• Saddles, harnesses and carried eggs can be safely recovered if the Kelenken dies.

 

Combat

• The original beak attack has been preserved.

• Added a second special claw attack with aggressive wingbeats, three timed hits, knockback, dust and feather bursts.

• Wild Kelenken use the beak attack more frequently while occasionally choosing the stronger claw attack.

• Mounted players can trigger two different attacks.

• Added protection to prevent riders from accidentally striking their own mount or allied tamed creatures.

 

Animation and Visual Improvements

• Expanded the Kelenken from six to thirteen animations.

• Completely reworked running with stronger body, leg, wing, crest and tail movement.

• Improved mounted animation speed so it better matches actual movement speed.

• Added smoother gliding with wider, more organic wing and body motion.

• Reworked the special claw attack to be longer, faster, more forceful and more visually dramatic.

• Added unique charge, take-off, airborne and landing animations for the new jump.

• Fixed wing clipping, inward folding, dark wing faces, missing UV coverage and gliding z-fighting.

• Added separate 3D overlays for the male crest, saddle, brood harness, carried eggs and taming indicator.

• Added surface-tinted attack dust and animated feather particles matched to all four Kelenken coats.

 

Kelenken Resources

• Added the Kelenken feather as a dedicated drop with a fully textured item icon.

• Added Kelenken-fletched arrows with greater speed, a flatter trajectory and increased power.

• Existing bows now support the new Kelenken arrows.

• Added Kelenken berries and a dedicated berry shrub with harvesting and natural regrowth.

 

PALEOLITHIC HUNTING AND SURVIVAL

 

Weapons and Ammunition

• Added Kelenken-fletched arrows for fast, flat shots.

• Added shale broadhead arrows designed for heavier impact.

• Added the moraine sling with a dedicated loading animation.

• Added moraine pebbles as sling ammunition.

• Updated the flint, ivory and gelid rock bows to support the new arrow types.

• Added the shale scraper as a new carcass-processing tool.

 

Reusable Traps

• Added a paleolithic snare that slows captured animals. Large megafauna can break free.

• Added a stone deadfall trap that damages prey, with reduced effectiveness against very large animals.

• Added a modular covered pit trap whose connected covers can collapse together when stepped on.

• Covered pits can be rearmed with dry thatch and never excavate terrain automatically.

• Added angular scree caltrops that damage and slow creatures walking over them.

 

Light, Heat and Construction

• Added a refillable animal-fat lamp with four fuel charges, manual lighting and extinguishing, and recoverable unused fuel.

• Added the glacial hearthstone as a compact source of both light and heat.

• Added the rime lantern as a new prehistoric light source.

• Added loess daub as a new building material.

 

Art and Decoration

• Added a dotted ivory pendant and a mammoth ivory amulet.

• Added nine placeable ivory figurines representing the addon’s prehistoric fauna.

• Added new models and textures for traps, lamps, hearthstones, lanterns, nests, dens and decorative objects.

 

USEFUL NATURAL RESOURCES

 

• Geological formations now provide dedicated crafting materials instead of serving only as decoration.

• Angular scree provides fragments for caltrops.

• Glacial erratics provide chunks for hearthstones.

• Moraine pebble deposits provide sling ammunition.

• Shale fans provide splinters for broadhead arrows.

• Rime rubble and crystals provide materials for lanterns.

• Ventifacts provide fragments that can repair prehistoric tools.

• Flint nodules, frost-shattered pebbles, loess clods and polished shale now feed directly into crafting and tool progression.

• Wind-packed snow formations provide recoverable snow chunks that can be crafted back into a full block.

 

FOOD AND ANIMAL RESOURCES

 

• Added raw and cooked cave hyena meat.

• Added raw and cooked Megaloceros meat.

• Added raw and cooked steppe bison meat.

• Added animal fat to mammoth and Elasmotherium drops.

• Woolly rhinoceros carcasses now provide meat and fat in addition to their existing resources.

• Campfires accept additional lithic materials and can visibly cook cave hyena and Megaloceros meat in all three cooking positions.

 

WORLD GENERATION

 

• Added naturally generated cave hyena dens.

• Added wild Kelenken nests containing eggs.

• Added naturally generated Kelenken berry shrubs.

• Added new mineral deposits and useful surface resources to the glacial and windswept regions.

 

VISUAL AND AUDIO EXPANSION

 

• Added complete models, skins and animation sets for all four new animal species.

• Added sex, age and coat variation across the new fauna.

• Added new particles for footsteps, hooves, cold breath, digging, snow scraping, dust and feathers.

• Added dozens of new block, item, food, equipment and entity textures.

• Added new sound profiles for the four new species, including ambient, juvenile, hurt, death, movement, attack and warning sounds.

• Improved the flint nodule, woolly rhinoceros horn and several gelid rock tool textures.

• Expanded English and Spanish localisation for all new content, interactions and creative inventory groups.

 

BLIZZARD AND TEMPERATURE IMPROVEMENTS

 

• Improved blizzard shelter detection so it relies on physical cover, terrain and local windbreaks.

• Improved visual continuity when biome detection briefly fails.

• Improved fog recovery when players join or a world reloads.

• Blizzard fog cleanup is now designed to preserve biome fog and Vibrant Visuals presentation.

• Improved separation between thermal effects and visual fog cleanup to prevent stuck presentation states.

• Hardened persistence and error recovery across the blizzard and temperature systems.

 

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

 

• Reorganised the creative inventory into broader and clearer groups.

• Expanded carcass processing to support meat, fat and the new shale scraper.

• Improved recovery and persistence for modular animal equipment and inventories.

• Improved the integration of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, campfires and other existing survival systems with the new resources.