Confluence: Otherworld

New Features & World Changes

• Synced Assets & Content: Backported features and assets from earlier versions, including armor sets, vanity items, and related gear.
• Environmental Features: Added wind mechanics, stalagmites, Crimson Eye world features, and an initial overhaul for the Shimmer lake.
• Arachnophobia Settings: Restored spider replacement configurations for Spiders, Cave Spiders, Blood Crawlers, Wall Creepers, Black Recluses, Jungle Creepers, and Sand Poachers.
• Gameplay Toggles: Added preventEnemyFriendlyFire (enabled by default) to restrict damage between hostile mobs.
• Balancing & Organization:
  • Rebalanced the Guardian Flail, Shark, and I-32 Iron Golem stats.
  • Reorganized Creative mode tabs for accessories and natural blocks.

Combat & Creatures

• AI & Spawning:
  • Unified difficulty scaling, progression attributes, and mob targeting.
  • Fixed an issue where specific bosses and monsters failed to spawn due to desynchronized data.
  • Fixed Brain of Cthulhu minions dropping targets and failing to chase players.
  • Fixed floating enemy glitches, Demon Eye orientation, and worm digging audio.
  • Corrected Shark bite range and mob interactions with doors.
• NPCs & Summons:
  • Improved NPC rescue flow, unlock criteria, housing detection, duplicate prevention, and Shimmer transformations.
  • Fixed liquid surface mechanics for mounts.
  • Corrected summon attribute scaling, bug net capture mechanics, and associated combat behavior.
• Loot: Fixed Looting enchantment multipliers, duplicate drop weights, and item count condition checks.

Rendering & Visuals

• Dynamic Lighting Engine (MagicLib):
  • Fully reworked dynamic lighting for equipment, visual effects, phaseblades, projectiles, light beams, flashes, and bioluminescent entities.
  • Implemented per-pixel terrain lighting with improved cross-section assignment, coordinate mapping, and visibility checks.
  • Added GPU spatial grouping, asynchronous processing, and cache reuse, expanding internal brightness range to 0–255.
  • Expanded colored lighting support across blocks, items, entities, and effects based on component states.
  • Resolved GeckoLib colored-light buffer flushing and "Not building!" errors.
• UI & Visual Feedback:
  • Unified tooltips for weapon damage, critical strike chance, and attack speed (configurable between base and boosted values).
  • Updated DataTip: migrated static descriptions, weapon lore, and image tooltips; added cycling lore colors.
  • Fixed damage number vertex winding, adjusted visibility thresholds, and updated healing indicators to display actual health restored.
• Models & Animation:
  • Refactored dismemberment and body parts, including armor fit, fluid interactions, and entity lifecycle cleanup.
  • Resolved model format warnings and updated textures.

Bug Fixes & Technical Improvements

• Gameplay Fixes:
  • Fixed phaseblade attributes, arm rendering, and lingering blade visuals after throwing.
  • Fixed reforging failing to draw coins from the Piggy Bank.
  • Weapon attack feedback now triggers strictly after projectiles successfully spawn.
  • Resolved compatibility issues with Immersive Portals.
  • Updated lava fishing tables, crafting recipes, resource IDs, and loot tables.
• Codebase & Build System:
  • Cleaned up porting leftovers, redundant components, and unnecessary client-side handling.
  • Updated MagicLib publishing configurations.
  • Optimized nightly build pipelines with dependency caching, artifact validation, and streamlined publishing.