The Progression Update

New Features

• Added Alelchemical Dishes
• Added the Spectrometry mechanic
• Added the Vaporization process
• Added new reagents
• Added new advancements
• Added custom textures for custom items (only works if the datapack is installed as a resource pack)
• Added translation keys (only works if the datapack is installed as a resource pack)
  • Added Russian translation
• Added a brewing recipe for water
  • Add Ice, Packed Ice, or Blue Ice to the Brewing Stand's reagent slot to melt it into a Glass Bottle
• Added a few new secrets

Changes

• Reworked in-game Guide
• Aleldron is now a craftable and placeable block
  • Craft it using the same ingredients as before: a Cauldron and Blaze Powder, in a shapeless recipe
  • You can now break it with a pickaxe, and it will drop itself
• Aleldron can now accept item stacks
  • It takes one item from a stack and spits out the rest
  • If nothing interrupts the process, it will eventually consume the entire stack
  • Unsupported items will still be split into smaller stacks and spat out
• Significantly changed some reagents (we can't name them due to our spoiler-free policy)
• Tweaked some reactions
• Changed the functionality of some secret items

Alelchemical Dish

An early-game tool for alelchemy. To create an Alelchemical Dish, place a pressure plate, then place an item frame inside it (on the same block as the pressure plate). If everything is done correctly, green particles will appear. The Dish has several differences and limitations compared to the Aleldron:

• It doesn't need to be boiled
  • A reaction starts automatically once the required number of reagents has been added
• It cannot be automated
• It can only start reaction with a fixed number of reagents
• The maximum number of reagents depends on the Dish's material:
  • Wood and Stone - 2 reagents
  • Iron - 3 reagents
  • Gold - 4 reagents
• Once first reagent added, a solution appears in the Dish and takes on a color based on its properties

Alelchemy is no longer locked behind the Nether!

Spectrometry

You can now analyze solutions using their color spectrum. Or at least, you can start trying to understand what it means.

Spectrometry is accessible through a Spyglass:

• Look at a solution in an Aleldron or an Alelchemical Dish through a Spyglass to see its spectral data
  • Alternatively, you can crouch while holding a Spyglass if using it normally isn't possible for some reason
  • Stop looking at a solution to send it's spectral data to the chat
• The spectral data may look confusing at first, but you'll gradually learn to interpret it through experimentation
• You must be close enough to the solution for this feature to work

Vaporization

An end-game feature. You can now place a Dragon Head on the side of a boiling Aleldron and activate it to vaporize the solution inside.

• The process attempts to transform an item placed in front of the Dragon Head
• Successful transformations may yield new items and unlock new mechanics
• The solution will gradually be consumed during the process

This feature is still WIP, so don't expect much "recipes" on it's current state