The Aether II - NeoForge - 26.1.2-alpha.4

Additions

• Add Rustic Arkenium Bars, a darker decorative counterpart to Arkenium Bars
• Add Gel Blocks, a sticky storage block for Swet Gel that is also created from fluid collisions between Water and Alkahest
• Add Holystone and Brexallen Vases, lootable blocks that can be found in new structures
• Add Shifting Glass, a tool item found in loot that can be used for directional dashing
• Add advancement for using Shifting Glass
• Add Aerbunny Bell, a craftable companion item that can be used to keep a tamed Aerbunny in to retrieve and deploy
• Add Resonant Stone, a material item found in loot used for crafting the Aerbunny Bell
• Add advancement for using an Aerbunny Bell
• Add the Prismallard, a duck-like creature that spawns at bodies of water in Highfields biomes. When scared, it'll intimidate predators by displaying it's plumage
• Add Prismallard Feather
• Add Prismallard Egg and Fried Prismallard Egg
• Add Prismallard Leg and Prismallard Roast
• Add Ancient Henges, a rare structure found in Magnetic biomes
• Add Veradexian Aqueducts, an uncommon structure found in Shimmering Basin biomes
• Add Brexallen Ruins, a common underground structure
• Add Undercloud Mineshafts, another underground structure
• Add a new data-driven item_reinforcement registry, which is used for determining the attributes that are changed for a given item per reinforcing tier
• Add an internal sound instance that merges given stereo audio channels into a single mono audio channel; this will be used in the future for playing Engraved Discs from a block location
• Add lots of new tags and Aether II content to existing Vanilla, NeoForge, and common c tags
• Add a config screen
• Update Cumulus to 2.0.15; disallows world modification when world is previewed, allows double clicking menu entries for selection, fixes button render issues, fixes config entries missing translations, fixes mixin refmap warning
• Update Nitrogen to 1.3.5; fixes mixin refmap warning

Changes

• Reinforced items' durability bar now darkens with damage, as opposed to staying the same color regardless of durability left
• Aerbunnies now follow the player when tamed
• Aerbunnies can now receive external damage from hazards and enemies, excluding player-sourced damage and block suffocation damage
• An Aerbunny on the player's head will now display it's health above the hotbar
• Updated Swet assets to be brighter and shinier
• Irradiated Chunks can now purify into a wider array of output item groups including: log blocks, raw stone blocks, processed ore items, and some additional crafting materials
• Irradiated Armor purification output now includes pendants
• Irradiated Weapon purification output now includes tiered crossbows
• Irradiated Tool purification output now includes Zanite Shears and tiered shields
• Irradiated Dust now works as a fuel for the Holystone Furnace
• Golden Amber Blocks now work as a fuel for the Amber Hourglass
• Isolate Hesperose and Tarabloom flower generation to Highfields biomes
• Immolation effect buildup can now be reduced by drinking Water Vials and getting in water
• Isolate Lilichime, Poasprout, and Pluracian flower generation to Magnetic biomes
• Isolate Satival Shoot generation to Arctic biomes
• Rework Trunk block generation on trees to look more dynamic
• Rework Aether Bush and Blueberry Bush generation to look more natural
• Rework flower generation in the Flourishing field to occur in noise-based patches and "trails"
• Rework tree generation in the Flourishing Field to be in groups as opposed to individual trees, and generate Aether Ferns around these groups
• Use emissive rendering for spots and gills of Magnetic Shrooms and Magnetic Shroom Blocks
• Brighten the shadow rendering on Skyplane Leaves, Bryalinn Moss Flowers, Holpupeas, and Tarahesp Flowers
• Adjust lightmap color of the Holy Isles dimension
• Disallow putting Engraved Discs in Jukeboxes; a special equivalent will be implemented in the future
• Change the spawn_in_aether and experimental_dungeon_content config options to be common configurations as opposed to server configurations

Fixes

• Fixed Gravitite tools and weapons not having the correct stat upgrades at Reinforcement III
• Fixed Gravitite tools' ability being able to pick up blocks it shouldn't and not updating placed blocks properly
• Fixed enchantment prevention for Aether II's equipment not working
• Fixed 3D noise blobs of Mossy Holystone, Packed Ice, Ferrosite, Irradiated Holystone, and Ichorite not generating correctly in their respective biomes
• Fixed Aether II's saplings creating vanilla Dirt when grown and not Aether Dirt
• Fixed Vase blocks in Small Veradexian Ruins not having the cracked block state
• Fixed leaf particles not being spawned when walking through Aether Bushes
• Fixed Bone Meal and Swet Gel being usable on Tall Aether Grass, since there is no additional growth state
• Fixed Irradiated Dust not having a usage animation
• Fixed landing on Aerclouds playing the fall damage sound even though fall damage is prevented
• Fixed the Guidebook descriptions screen not having a properly darkened background
• Fixed the alpha information screen not having a properly darkened background
• Fixed Aerwhales and Zephyrs getting stuck on aerclouds
• Fixed animals having trouble pathfinding when tempted by food and when breeding
• Fixed Aerbunnies being able to jump even when sitting down
• Fixed visual sync issues with mounts and vehicles on multiplayer servers
• Fixed visual sync issues with accessories, latched Swets, stuck projectiles, and Aerbunnies on servers
• Fixed the unfold animation not playing when Cloud Skiffs are placed
• Fixed insect fold and unfold animations not playing correctly at the right times
• Fixed hovering block entities created by Gravitite tools' ability being rendered in complete darkness
• Fixed Aether II's armor sets not rendering properly on baby humanoid mobs
• Fixed Aether II's title screen music not looping properly
• Fixed music playing at the same time as Aether Portal sounds
• Fixed the Vertigo advancement being granted even when the player has not hit the ground
• Fixed aether II's key mapping category missing a translation key
• Fixed Corrobonite Crystals and Glint Gemstones being incorrectly included in the gems/zanite tag
• Fixed some recipes accidentally being placed in the minecraft namespace
• Fixed a mixin refmap warning error occurring on game startup
• Fixed some bugs with Sodium, Iris, and Complementary Shaders Reimagined compatibility; this includes snowy plant rendering, waterfall void fade rendering and tinting (only with Sodium), and Moa and Aerbunny rendering

Experimental Dungeon Content

[Note: Infected Guardian Tree structure must be spawned in using commands; following blocks and items need to be enabled in the mod's config]

• Added Prayer Candle
• Added Guardian Pew
• Added Guardian Donation Box
• Added Abandoned Bag
• Added Fungal Cache
• Added Sage Chest
• Dead Ends of the Infected Guardian Tree structures have been given more variation to give a dungeon a more natural appearance on the exterior