Changelog — Cobblemon Cards

Changes by version. The V2 entry describes the prepared beta; it is not a stable-release announcement.

2.0.0-beta.1 — V2 beta

Target: Minecraft 1.21.1, Java 21, Cobblemon 1.8.1; Fabric and NeoForge.

Added

• Additional Experience, Catch Rate, and Shiny Chance trainer bonuses without replacing a card's primary stat.
• Trainer-bonus acquisition through high-grade grading/restoration and a configurable lucky chance on newly generated Legendary, Mythic, or Shiny cards.
• Grade-dependent restoration durations: 3 seconds at target grade 2, 12 seconds at grade 5, and 27 seconds at grade 10 with the default settings.
• Restoration settings in MidnightLib: restorerBaseProcessTime and restorerProcessTimePerGrade.
• Egg-group and EV-yield spawn bonuses, each disabled by default and configurable separately.
• A V2 gameplay/configuration guide and upgrade instructions in both READMEs.

Changed

• Migrated Fabric and NeoForge builds to Cobblemon 1.8.1, with compatible loader, Kotlin, Accessories, owo-lib, and supporting library versions centralized in gradle.properties.
• Both loaders use Accessories to equip binders; Trinkets and Cardinal Components are not required by this addon.
• Restoration is processed on the server while its chunk is loaded, continues after the GUI closes, and saves its progress. An active operation keeps its initial duration and cost; dust is spent once at completion.
• Removing/replacing the card cancels restoration. Removing required dust pauses it until the machine is refilled.
• MidnightLib configuration is organized into General, Player, Spawning, Trainer, Machines, and Binders, with colored headings and English/French labels and tooltips. Existing setting keys and values are preserved.
• Global, stat-family, and individual stat multipliers allow separate balancing of player, spawning, and trainer bonuses. Spawn, experience, catch, and shiny multipliers have configurable caps.
• Spawn bonuses modify eligible Pokémon's spawn weights before entity creation, preserving biome rules and spawn buckets. The stronger of a species' two elemental-type boosts is used; equipped binders are scanned every 40 ticks.
• Flat player stats display without a percentage sign; percentage bonuses retain it. Formatting and application calculations share CardStatUtil.
• Grading boosts card stat values by 3% per grade, up to 30% at grade 10.
• Release JARs identify their loader: cobblemon-cards-fabric-2.0.0-beta.1.jar and cobblemon-cards-neoforge-2.0.0-beta.1.jar.

Fixed

• Extended the Card Restorer's card hitbox 2 pixels downward.
• Added missing configuration translations and ensured newly introduced configuration entries are written alongside existing settings.
• Fixed Card Cabinet contents disappearing after restart in the affected 1.0.5 code. Previously lost cards cannot be recovered by this change; 1.0.4 and earlier saves remain readable.
• Cabinet serialization failures are logged; one invalid stack no longer aborts saving the entire cabinet. Breaking/placing a cabinet no longer shares mutable stack instances with its stored contents component.
• Corrected experience-bonus multiplication so fractional boosts are applied before rounding.

Upgrade notes

• Update Cobblemon and the dependencies listed in README.md for the chosen loader. Other Cobblemon addons need their own 1.8.1-compatible versions.
• Existing configuration is retained: enableCardStats = false still disables passive bonuses. Existing cards keep their stored stats.
• Existing cards without additional trainer fields and binders using the legacy container component remain readable.
• Shiny bonuses multiply the base probability: +600% = 7×. With shinyRate = 8192, this gives approximately 1/1170 per new Pokémon. The default 10× cap means bonuses beyond +900% do not further increase the chance.
• See the V2 guide for restoration timing, trainer-bonus acquisition, and configuration.

Validation and beta scope

• Both loader builds and their packaged metadata/resources have been checked during the migration.
• Both loaders initialized the addon and Cobblemon's Showdown service on Java 21. A NeoForge development server loaded a test world and all 1,025 species.
• Targeted headless checks passed for restoration (38) and the Cobblemon 1.8.1 shiny event (15).
• A full two-player dedicated-server session, existing-world upgrade playtests, and large-collection performance checks remain pending before declaring V2 stable.