MOAR Tools — Major Content Update

This update introduces necromancy, new spears, balloon weapons, major dungeon improvements, redesigned flying enemies, expanded boss interactions, and numerous fixes.

Necromancer Equipment

• Added the complete Necromancer Armor set.
• Added the Reaper Scythe, created through smithing with a Diamond Hoe.
• Added the craftable Soul Stone, made using Soul Shards, Phantom Membranes, and String.
• The Reaper Scythe can claim eligible undead created by the Totem of Dying.
• The scythe provides one servant slot.
• Every equipped Necromancer Armor piece provides one additional servant slot.
• Claimed servants no longer despawn.
• Right-click servants to switch between:
  • Following their owner
  • Staying and guarding an area
• Servants protect their owner and attack nearby hostile creatures.
• Removing armor immediately lowers servant capacity.
• Excess servants begin shaking before sinking into the ground and disappearing.
• Added friendly-fire protection between servants, their owner, and allied risen mobs.
• Bosses claimed as servants retain their special abilities.
• Claimed bosses no longer display their original boss health bar.

Servant Interface

• Added a Soul Servants panel to the inventory.
• Displays each servant’s:
  • Name
  • Current and maximum health
  • Live picture of the mob
• Moved the panel to the left side of the inventory to prevent potion-effect overlap.
• Reduced the panel, portrait, and text sizes.
• Added name wrapping for longer mob names.
• Added borders around the header, full panel, and individual servant entries.

Zombie Evoker Improvements

• Claimed Zombie Evokers now use their curses and summoning abilities against valid enemies.
• Fixed claimed Zombie Evokers attempting to curse their owner or allied servants.
• Fixed claimed Zombie Evokers failing to approach enemies.
• Zombie Evokers now pursue targets in both follow and guard modes.
• They stop moving while performing their summoning attack.
• Summoned undead inherit the correct allied behavior when created by a risen Zombie Evoker.
• Zombie Evokers can drop Soul Shards.

Devourer Tendril Conversions

The Devourer’s tendrils can now corrupt certain creatures:

• Iron Golems become Obsidian Colossuses.
• Zombie-family mobs become Hollows.
• Skeleton-family mobs become Voidbones.
• Converted mobs preserve their held items, armor, and equipment.
• Bosses cannot be converted and instead receive heavy tendril damage.
• Converted boss servants retain their special attacks without keeping a boss bar.

New Spears

Emerald Spear

• Added the Emerald Spear.
• Retains the charge-and-dash attack used by the other spears.
• Deals bonus damage and provides special benefits against Illagers.
• Uses separate inventory and held-item textures.

Endonium Spear

• Added the powerful Endonium Spear.
• Added the Endonium Spearhead.
• The spearhead is an exclusive drop from The Devourer.
• Added a stronger and more visually impressive Endonium charge attack.
• Improved its unique End-themed combat ability.
• Retains a powerful charged dash.
• Improved dash hit detection so enemies are struck more consistently.

General Spear Changes

• Reduced spear attack speed to better balance their reach and power.
• Improved charged dash collision and target detection.
• Preserved the existing Amethyst Spear charge behavior and crystallizing identity.

Balloons and Balloon Launcher

Added four throwable balloon types:

• Water Balloon
• Lava Balloon
• Milk Balloon
• Powder Snow Balloon

Also added the Balloon Launcher.

Balloon Throwing

• All balloons now follow a potion-like throwing arc.
• Reduced hand-thrown balloon distance to approximately splash-potion range.
• Increased their impact range and usefulness while keeping manual throws controlled.
• Added appropriate liquid, status, or environmental effects for each balloon.
• Water Balloons deal bonus damage to Endonium creatures.
• Reduced the original Water Balloon bonus against Endonium mobs to prevent excessive damage.
• All Endonium mobs and bosses remain vulnerable to water-based attacks.

Balloon Launcher

• The launcher must be pulled back before firing.
• Longer charging improves the shot.
• Launcher shots travel farther than balloons thrown by hand.
• Increased the launcher cooldown for better balance.
• Supports all four balloon ammunition types.

Recipe Discovery

• Added automatic recipe discovery when players collect relevant ingredients.
• New equipment, balloons, crafting components, and related recipes become visible as their ingredients are discovered.

Endonium Equipment

• Increased the durability of Endonium armor.
• Improved the power and presentation of Endonium weapon abilities.
• Maintained Endonium as the mod’s endgame equipment tier.

End Fortress Changes

• Prevented water and lava placement before and during fortress waves.
• Protected the fortress from liquid griefing.
• Prevented the Devourer from becoming stuck inside walls.
• Improved boss spawn-position safety and clearance.
• Improved Elytra enemy navigation around walls and enclosed spaces.
• Made the Devourer immune to lava and fire.
• Made the cracked End Portal Frame and surrounding protected blocks unbreakable inside the structure unless using an Endonium Pickaxe.
• Improved multiplayer wave handling.
• Bosses no longer disappear when only one participating player dies.
• Waves now reset correctly after every participating player is defeated.

Rift Creeper Changes

Fractured Rift Creeper

• Increased its visual size.
• Increased its danger, explosion strength, and damage.
• Improved damage against both players and the dungeon fruit objective.
• Removed Fractured Rift Creepers from earlier waves.
• Only one Fractured Rift Creeper now appears in the final wave.
• Fixed the creeper staring at its target without properly swelling.
• Improved swelling and explosion behavior.

Normal Rift Creeper

• Normal Rift Creepers now recognize the dungeon fruit as an explosion target.
• If no player is available, they approach and explode on the fruit instead of standing nearby and staring at it.

Voidbone Elytra Redesign

• Reworked Voidbone Elytra movement around Phantom-style aerial behavior.
• Flying Voidbones now face toward their target while gliding.
• Added improved flight steering and obstacle avoidance.
• Reduced collisions with dungeon walls.
• Added gliding wing movement.
• Added leg wobbling while flying.
• Suppressed the awkward standing melee pose.
• Removed the repeated arm-flailing and weapon-swinging animation while in flight.
• Flying Voidbones now remain in a forward aerial pose while attacking.

Emerald Dungeon Fixes

• Fixed bosses becoming stuck at 50% health.
• Fixed elite boss guards having incorrect health and missing names.
• Elite guards now use Emerald Blocks as their heads.
• Fixed dungeon mobs spawning inside logs.
• Fixed incorrect backup mobs being summoned.
• Skeleton Pillager encounters now summon the correct reinforcements.
• Fixed bosses disappearing in multiplayer when only one player dies.
• Fixed waves failing to reset after the entire party dies.
• Improved protection against block and liquid griefing.
• Fixed Wave Spawner blocks incorrectly detecting themselves as an already active dungeon.
• Wave Spawners can now be placed without immediately reporting that another dungeon is active.

Totem of Dying Improvements

• Bosses summoned through the Totem of Dying retain their original abilities and attacks.
• Improved ownership and ally tagging for risen creatures.
• Risen creatures interact correctly with the Necromancer servant system.
• Added additional protection against risen mobs attacking their owner or one another.

General Improvements

• Added descriptions and tooltips to custom weapons, armor, components, balloons, and important progression items.
• Updated item language entries and corrected missing or broken names.
• Improved custom item discoverability.
• Improved servant targeting and navigation.
• Added safer enemy and ally validation across dungeon, boss, and necromancy systems.
• Added numerous multiplayer synchronization and encounter-stability improvements.