General

• Updated to 26.1.2
• Rewrote most of the mod from the ground up for more overall stability going forward
• Many systems now use datapacks instead of in-code solutions
• Updated many textures, credit to the amazing @MoonlitLamps for their texture work

Blocks

• Made various witchwood and flower blocks/items flammable, compostable and strippable where appropriate
• All of the mod's flowers now spawn in larger patches
• The Altar now accepts Shulker Boxes, Rune Bags and other container items, and will pull spell ingredients from their contents

Liquid Etherium

• Renamed Liquid Essence to Liquid Etherium
• Now generates in lakes in plains-like biomes, in addition to the centers of Moonstone meteorites
• Moonstone meteorites have been made rarer and no longer contain Liquid Etherium, to compensate for Liquid Etherium now generating in lakes
• Can now be used to create the Arcane Compendium by placing a book in a nearby item frame, similar to old Ars Magica
• Now has underwater fog
• Now can be placed in Cauldrons
• Liquid Etherium Bucket can now be used by Dispensers

Occulus

• Added a Forget All button
• Improved the display of the affinities in the Affinity tab
• Updated the tab icons

Inscription Table

• Added a Clear button
• Added a visual for where skills can be dragged when picked up
• Spell Recipes can now be changed afterwards by placing them back into the table
• Applied upgrades now show visually on the item if the block is broken, or middle-clicked in creative

Items

• Dyed Spell Books can now be undyed at a Cauldron
• Moved some Affinity Tomes to other biomes or structures
• Rune Bags can no longer be inserted into Shulker Boxes or similar containers
• The Spell Book HUD now displays right (instead of left) of the hotbar by default

Crystal Phylactery

• New item
• When killing a mob with an empty Crystal Phylactery in your inventory, a mob "soul" is added to the Crystal Phylactery
• Full Crystal Phylacteries can be used in a Summon spell to set the summoned mob type
• Stronger mobs require more kills before they can be used
• Certain mobs, such as bosses or disabled mobs, cannot be added to a Crystal Phylactery (this can be modified via datapacks)
• If not empty, a Crystal Phylactery can be shift-right clicked to empty it
• Filled variants for all supported mobs show up in the creative inventory and in JEI

Magitech Goggles

• Are no longer unbreakable
• Can be repaired using Topaz
• Now have visual indicators for etherium connections
• Now visually display on the player when in a Curios slot

Skills & Spell Parts

• Changed the name and/or behavior of the following spell parts:
  • Agility: Renamed to Swiftness. Now uses the Swiftness effect. The Agility effect was removed.
  • Dismembering: Is now functional.
  • Frost: No longer utilizes an effect, allowing it to stack with similar effects from other mods. The Frost effect was removed.
  • Grow: Now supports a variety of new crops.
  • Harvest: Now supports a variety of new crops. No longer has a built-in AoE effect.
  • Plant: Renamed to Replant. Now acts as an upgrade to Harvest that also replants the crops if applicable.
  • Rune Procs: Renamed to Rune Power.
  • Shield: Renamed to Resistance. Now uses the Resistance effect. The Shield and Magic Shield effects were removed.
  • Touch: Now uses the block/entity interaction range attributes.
• Changed the positions and costs of various skills, making them cheaper overall
• Changed how spell parts such as Color, Place Block or Recall store their metadata
• Added new config options for tweaking the behavior of various spell parts
• Removed the Telekinesis component

Miscellaneous

• Added new advancements for the mod
• Added translations for the mod's tags
• Added a notification when shifting into/out of affinity abilities
• Dryads now spawn twice as often
• Various minor fixes and balancing tweaks