Petroglyph

World generation places the desert biome across the overworld and adds structures that hold the artifacts. Crypts, pyramids, oases, suspicious sand patches and desert tradesmen outposts all generate in desert terrain, while badlands hold the pyramids. A fort creates a new Pyroa biome, and a camp biome is always placed near the world origin at 0 0. The mod also introduces Fossilyard, a new deadly biome.

Survival in this world depends on water. A hydration system tracks how a player moves, where they stand and how much daylight they face, and the player has to find renewable ways to get water. Many structures contain suspicious sand, which can be uncovered with brushes to reveal artifacts and gems. Collected gems give permanent bonuses, and a new Advancement tab records which gems have been found.

Petroglyph requires Fabric API on Fabric and Forge on Forge, and it also needs the Data pack to run on a server. Only the server has to run it, so players can join without installing it. Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across five game versions, 1.21.5 – 1.21.9, under a custom license that is not open source.