IMPORTANT: Crashed Forerunner Ship Archaelogical Site will not generate unless specified by an operator through commands or the settings menu
Forerunner Graves in the Overworld can spawn in any biome, although they're generally rarer now. Made it to compensate for the now probable lack of Archaeological Sites
Added a settings menu. Default keybind: [END] - Will have more options in the future
Removed game rule: mdeOldHud. Its effects can be applied to only certain players and not the world overall via the new settings menu
Artistically changed how the Old HUD looks like (symbols instead of saying "ammo" or "energy")
Added new curious gamerule: mdeGameruleSetup. Read more about it when creating a new world
Added a new kit: Forerunner Builder Security
Added a new Energy Sword variant with infinite battery: Slipspace Shadow. Smithing Table ---> Any Energy Sword + Void Aspect
Added ambient sounds from Halo: Combat Evolved in the Prevalence's biomes
H&MDE's mobs (except for wildlife) will not attack each other or the player in peaceful difficulty
Severely nerfed Forerunner crate loot (Like the found in Beam Emitters)
Nerfed Virtue Beam's Data Burn duration. However, Custodian players can Archangel Brand other players with it. In addition, Custodian Players holding an Alien Knowledge Tablet can forgive other players for Curse of Dying Star and Archangel Brands
Severely buffed the Silver Shroud potion effect against shields, similar to Data Burn but upscaling the damage with the levels
The Forerunner Shield World "moon" changed to an Eld
Covenant Lockers now only hold 108 slots as the GUI implies (there were hidden slots belonging to the size of a Forerunner Locker) - This should fix some strange happenings with the lockers found in the Covenant Bases
Made some leftover block textures and potion effect icons' resolution smaller (64x at most)
Holding a Digital Bolt without Custodianship will no longer be a guarantied death if the player stops holding it fast enough
The "///halo_mde kits" command string now gives out fully reloaded/charged weapons instead of just the means to charge them, like generators or charging stations. Certain kits, normally leaders, still give out such resources. Examples: Elite Major, Elite Field Marshall, Elite General, Forerunner Builder...
Blaze Rod Stack burn time fixed
Fixed Forerunner Durances not using processing power when analyzing
Fixed crashes related to tooltips
Fixed the reason Nitai-Class Sentries didn't attack the player in Archangel Castles
Minor improvements
Quick Slander:
The file is lighter due to the optimization of texture resolution...
Changed the command "/mde" to "///halo_mde"
Removed "/mde_truly_efficient" and "/mde_halo_species" commands, as "///halo_mde species" does all of it well enough. This also means no player without OP can use said commands
Spartans can be differenciated between Orion (I) and the three next generations on the "///halo_mde species" command string
Upgraded some of the "///halo_mde" command code
Changed ALL the guns' textures (except for melee) to 32x instead of 64x
Mjolnir armor sets kill the PLAYER wearers that are not spartans or aliens
Added Rocket Launcher, Fuel Rod Cannon (Halo Reach/4) and Fuel Rod Gun (Halo CE)
Added plenty of tooltips to aid the player in-game
Added so much little details I can't even remember them, such as name changes, advancements, description upgrades...
Added new blocks for all factions (UNSC and MAK blocks will be legendary when they're added, but not now)
Added a lot of new structures (Mostly Covenant and Custodian)
Added an AI deobfuscation system to get rewards from the new Alien Data Fragment items, mostly coordinates (the new way to obtain them now is like that). This new system will require the player to use a new Field Thought Scanner tool along empty chips to make an AI based off the sentient entity scanned. Then the AI will study the data fragments on the new AI Workbench to gather clues and eventually obtaining a reward from them
Added more uses to Forerunner and Yag Shapers based on the function Covenant Shaper already had since a long time ago: Removing Covenant Forcefields
Fixed a surprising bug related to the Forerunner and Custodian tiers of armor's ability to despawn arrows around their users. (Particles were spawning wrongly on tick update on broken coordinate printings)
Fixed some FSW generation problems and changed the way its biomes look, same for Nevhatreqyos (You do notice the trend here, right?)
Fixed the bugs that made Cosmic Gates teleport you to the desired Dimension but not the desired coordinates + made the Cosmic Data of each player remain even after death.
The Cosmic Data Tab now has visible letters where the buttons are (In the Treqyo font, of course)
Universal Coordinates now show their data on a proper tooltip instead of their name, making them easier to read. All existing Universal Coordinates before this update are fixed automatically when hovering over them
Silver Shroud armor will protect the player from the Prevalence without the need for a Custodian status, granting the player infinite time to stay in the dimension
Fixed a bug that made ALL of the mod's blocks tick
Greatly nerfed the Forerunner Grave Loot Table (Loot table inside the Beam Towers remains the same)
Solved aesthetic aspects of the Plasma Grenade when on the ground, looking more like the Halo games
Upgraded archaea particles
Reworked Nanolaminate Block, Nanolaminate-related items and similar textures (Covenant Curveblade is now blue instead of redish too). Did the same to the Forerunner items (ingot, plate, barrel...), they look even better now
Nanolaminate Blocks now spawn in the Nether to give the player a minimal chance of farming them. Yet again, something similar made to the Forerunner Metal Blocks: They now can be found in the same manner ores can on the FSW between the -7 and the 7 Y levels
Random unfocused texture fixes
More ADHD driven improvements, fixes and content
Completely broke Máekran's brain
Fixed a bug that made shotgun projectiles shot by Marines break the ticking of the game
The Prevalence instakill mechanic bug on multiplayer has been fixed with a workaround: instead of carrying the tablet, the player will then need to be a Custodian, thus granting them up to nine minutes to stay in The Prevalence before dying if they don't use commands to extend the effect or grant themselves true Custodianship
Solidified the energy shield system in stone, it's now perfect
All Custodian/Tenebris energy shields now ignore damage randomly with a probability exponential to its strength. When not ignoring the damage, the shields are drained by the same amount of damage received instead of double the damage like the other tiers
Repurposed the "Energy Shields Bugfix" keybind, made the other two Debug keybinds' purpose transparent. Be not afraid
Some texture fixes
Minor fixes and improvements
Added the Zoom mechanic with both a select group of guns and helmets (marines/army included). The LightRifle now shoots differently when zoomed in
Added vacuum-sealed variants of both Marine helmets (Brown and Green)
Added Fragmentation and Plasma Grenades
Added the SuperCombine mechanic from the games' Blamite weapons (needle) alongside two gamerules to activate or deactivate it both in general and only for players: "mdeSuperCombine" & "mdeSuperCombineHalo4"
Added new gamerules: "mdeTravelerNotification", "mdeNemesisNotification" & "mdeRememberSpecies". The first two enabling/disabling the messages sent to players each time Custodian Travelers or Silver Shroud Nemesis spawn. The "mdeRememberSpecies" rule, logically, remembers the player's species, Custodian castes they have joined in and if they even are a true Custodian (not the tablet one) after they die
Added new species trait: Cosmos Doppelganger. The Tenebris-like cheat species equivalent for Custodians
Added a new Silver Shroud themed item: Apeiroversal Link. Crafted with eight Apeiroversal Virtual Qubits and an Alien Knowledge Tablet, it can be consumed to open the GUI of any Custodian Machines that are not used for storage (examples: Generator, Repair Bench, Charging Station)
Added new particles: Digital Deltas and Digital Quads. They come in the same color palette as the Data Trails
Added a tame mechanic for every single relevant mob: Silver Shroud Entropiers, Brutes, Storm Elites and Promethean Armigers included. To be in the correct faction and be the correct species is needed to tame most if not all of them
Reworked faction-based AI, made it more strict and also made vanilla monster-type mobs attack Halo & MDE's creatures, except creepers (you're welcome)
Projectiles from the Needler and Sentinel Beam-like weapons now feature no gravity
Projectile entities will now self-destruct after 10 seconds of ticking to save resources and solve bugs in the long run
Items' texture resolution is now a consistent 16x16 (except for guns and the Robo-Crawler)
DMR and Promethean guns' sounds improved
Changed "entropy_warrior" to "entropier" in the "mde species" command string. Changed "tenebris" to "silver_shroud", "custodian" to "ancient_ecumene" and "forerunner" to "forerunner_ecumene" in the "mde factions" command string.
Covenant Guns textures updated, Reclaimer rifle texture enhanced and Beam Rifle (Halo 3) model rotation fixed
Overall random texture fixing
Plasma/Covenant, MAK & Forerunner Hard Light tools' durability greatly buffed
Mobs with energy shields now are as resistant as the player with the same set of armor. (Example: Spartans and Elites died to less damage than the player with their traits and armor)
Teleporter tool impact on block coordinates fixed (just Y+1, trust me that it feels so much better)
Nevhatreqyos Wildlife rage mechanic reworked to un-tame (reset values) the Gunais and more
AÃmaslyr tier energy shields "ignored damage" mechanic polished: added a sound cue to properly differentiate it from regular shield damage and made the player reactionless to it
Curse of Dying Star behaves similarly to the Silver Shroud Brand but without dealing damage, making it so both stop allowing the player to fire weapons above tier 1 (UNSC/Human)
Several minor fixes and improvements
Fixed structures not spawning on ports beyond 1.18.2
IMPORTANT: Almost every Custodian Mob IDs renamed
Added Quarantine Rifle, only seen briefly on the Halo 4 terminals. Behaves like a buffed Arcane Sentinel Beam
Added Yitai Custodian Weapon, with a long range mode and a beam mode
Added B.O.B and Arbiter armor sets (the latter with a sealed helmet variant)
Added a lot of Forerunner armor sets from Halo 4 and Halo Origins
Added new Forerunner mobs using the new content
Added Forerunner Sentinel Aggressor from Halo: Combat Evolved. As if we did not have enough beam-based weapons already, a new Sentinel Beam with a more red laser was added along side it
Added new Forerunner variants of the Hard Light tool set
Added Forerunner Armiger mob and armor set, the blue variant of the Lost Promethean (this new one being neutral)
Added new selectable species for the player: Forerunner Armiger. Grants iron golem sounds when hurt/dying and makes their blood glowing orange
Added two sets of armor based on Al-An from Subnautica
Added Ergaslyr and Kalvryr Variants, added the new AÃmaslyr-tier armor with variants too
Added new NevhaseÃba mobs
Added Armiger Armor randomized teleport, the same keybind behaves differently with both Forerunner Combat Skins and Custodian Armor Variants
Added Universal Coordinates item, making the management of Cosmic Gate data a lot easier in both singleplayer and multiplayer
Added Silver Shroud Nemesis + armor set and new sword
Added more Architect/Precursor content from Subnautica, including Robo-Crawlers, Ion Cubes, recipes for the Sigma Architects, a huge block selection... All of it to both serve a friend and consistently separate the Precursor art direction from Custodian's
All energy shielded armor is compatible with each other + shield visual effects enhanced
All Elite Helmets have HUD now
The command "mde" now has one more main string: "kits", a way to give the player loadouts based on species, rank and more
Forerunner Armiger Shell armor has long sleeves now and, with that, can be fully used in space. Also given sentinel-based shields now (reflected in the recipe too)
Custodian Ypirétis variants added and reworked. Any Custodian construct, because of lore logic, can only be tamed with Universal Abstract Data
Overall Custodian art direction changed/improved
Various Armor Textures fixed
Some helmets use new models now
Bungie Promethean weapons overheat now
Armor and mobs' knockback resistance reconsidered
Nerfed Yag Blocks
Buffed Titanium/Lead ore spawns
Covenant/Forerunner blocks ignite in blue Soul Fire now
Hard Light Bricks have animated textures now
Cosmic Gates can be used by the Silver Shroud players now
Most block textures that were 64x64 pixels resized to 32x32. Also redesigned visual Alloy, Covenant, Forerunner and Yag block materials (Example: Covenant blocks look more shiny, Forerunner blocks look more dusty and heavy...)
Forerunner "Golden" Textures now look golden (hilarious), including blocks, the Sentinel Major, its beam and scrap items
Forerunner Beam Emitter structure is now a near 1:1 replica of the one found in Halo: Reach's Installation 04 firefight map
Sigma Architect sounds' volume reduced by a 75%
Heavily optimized the mod's tick update usage
Some mobs accuracy when shooting greatly improved
Custodian/NevhaseÃba mobs' drops enhanced
Rebalanced Custodian Travelers' spawn rates
Fractal Suns and Shielded Object on The Prevalence/Pocket Dimension and Nevhatreqyos/Nevhatreqyos Barrens visually improved
A lot of insane small details, fixes and improvements
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Removed sanity from Máekran