1.2.9

New Features & World Changes

Synced Assets & Content: Backported content and assets from newer versions, including the Void Sea, Wormhole Potion, restoration crystals, armor, and vanity sets.
New Weapons & Balancing:
- Added the True Copper Shortsword.
- Adjusted Zenith crafting recipe input, damage attribution, and hit frequency.
- Rebalanced stats for the Guardian Flail, Shark, and I-32 Iron Golem.
World Generation & Mechanics:
- Added wind mechanics, stalagmite formations, and Crimson Eye features.
- Implemented an initial overhaul for the Shimmer lake.
- Adjusted various world features.
QoL & Settings:
- Added preventEnemyFriendlyFire to control whether enemies can damage each other (enabled by default).
- Expanded spider replacement models to Spiders, Cave Spiders, Blood Crawlers, Wall Creepers, Black Recluses, Jungle Creepers, and Sand Poachers.
- Reorganized Creative mode inventory categories for accessories and natural blocks.

Mob Behavior & Spawning:
- Unified enemy difficulty scaling, progression attributes, and targeting logic.
- Fixed an issue where Brain of Cthulhu minions lost their assigned targets and failed to chase players.
- Fixed Shark bite range and enemy interactions with doors.
- Fixed enemy floating bugs, Demon Eye orientation, and worm digging sound effects.
NPCs & Mounts:
- Improved NPC rescue sequences, unlocking requirements, duplicate prevention, housing validation, and Shimmer transformations.
- Fixed mount stability and support on liquid surfaces.
Summons & Loot:
- Fixed summon damage scaling; adjusted summon staff modifiers and target selection.
- Corrected Looting probabilities, duplicate empty loot table weights, and item count function conditions.

Tooltips & DataTip:
- Unified weapon damage, critical strike chance, and attack speed tooltips (configurable to show base or boosted stats).
- Bundled DataTip and migrated static descriptions, weapon lore, and image tooltips.
- Added cycling text colors for lore tooltips.
Dynamic Lighting (MagicLib):
- Reworked dynamic lighting for equipment, visual effects, phaseblades, projectiles, light beams, flashes, and glowing creatures.
- Added GPU spatial grouping, asynchronous processing, and cache reuse.
- Expanded internal brightness range to 0–255.
- Added per-pixel terrain lighting; improved cross-section light assignment, coordinates, and visibility checks.
- Expanded colored lighting for blocks, items, entities, and effects using NBT data and entity states.
Rendering & Combat Text:
- Refactored dismemberment and body parts, including armor display, fluid interaction, and lifecycle cleanup.
- Fixed GeckoLib colored-light buffers, model formats, and texture issues.
- Adjusted floating damage numbers; healing numbers now show actual health restored.

Items & Gameplay Fixes:
- Fixed Magic Mirror chunk loading failures, item disappearance, and cross-dimensional XP loss.
- Fixed phaseblade attributes, arm rendering, leftover blade rendering, and client crashes after throwing.
- Fixed reforging ignoring coins stored in the Piggy Bank.
- Weapon shooting feedback now plays only after projectiles are successfully spawned.
- Fixed missing dungeon layers, Hellforge bucket consumption, and crafting failures after exiting the housing interface.
Compatibility & World Fixes:
- Resolved compatibility issues with Immersive Portals.
- Fixed missing Diving Helmet texture.
- Fixed configuration screens failing to trigger reload events after saving changes.
Miscellaneous:
- Updated lava fishing tables, crafting recipes, textures, and translations.
- Optimized build pipelines: improved nightly builds, dependency caching, artifact validation, and publishing.