Reign of Nether RTS

🤝 Diplomacy Menu

• Pressing Z as an RTS player now brings up a menu where you can send resources and ally/disband other players
• You can still use the old commands if you need to (/ally, /sendfood, etc.)
• Player names are coloured according to the new Player Colours system

🎨 Player Colours

• Players are now coloured based on the order they join the game
• If you started using RTS Start blocks, your player colour is the same as that block
• You can toggle between player colours or the old alliance-based colours at the bottom right
• You can also change the colours of alliances (self, ally, enemy, neutral) in the mods config menu
• Thanks to @Daratrix for the coding and design

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Building on top of a unit no longer cancels its commands if it was already moving away
• Fixed spiders' shift-queued movements not being shown
• Cheats are now reset whenever a new game begins
• Carrot and Potato crops no longer drop items when broken by hand or building damage
• Polar Bears are no longer worth 300 food when killed by workers
• Pillagers can no longer fire while out of range of a target (including when mounted)
• Fixed units sometimes stopping if moved to the same place they were already going
• Necromancer zombies are no longer upgraded into Husks or Drowned when research completes
• Fixed tab cycling and shift-tab cycling for units and buildings

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Camera sensitivty is now saved to your local configs
• Players who start at the same colour of starting block are now automatically allied
• While a worker is selected, mousing over resource blocks shows their values
• The clock is now clickable to toggle showing the tooltip permanently

⚖️ Balancing ⚖️

• All hero experience requirements raised by 33%
• All panicking animals' speed bonuses reduced to 20% (previously 25% to 100%)
• Beacon base cost reduced from (1000 wood, 1000 ore) to (500 wood, 500 ore)
• Default time to win with a fully upgraded beacon reduced from 20mins to 10mins
• You can still change this with /gamerule beaconWinMinutes

🐷 Piglins

• Brute HP raised from 50 to 55
• Military portal cost reduced from (125 wood) to (100 wood)
• Hoglin cost reduced from (150 food, 75 ore) to (140 food, 70 ore)
• Hoglin HP raised from 70 to 75 and move speed from 30 to 31
• Hoglin Cavalry cost increased from (300 food, 250 wood, 100s) to (350 food, 300 wood, 120s)
• Hoglin Stables cost reduced from (250 wood) to (150 wood, 50 ore)
• Flame Sanctuary, Basalt Springs and Wither Shrine costs all changed to (150 wood, 200 ore)
• Blaze attack damage raised from 0 to 0.5
• Ghasts now also gain the +10% movement speed bonus over nether terrain
• Food thrown by the Piglin Merchant can no longer be picked up by neutral units

🧑‍🌾 Villagers

• Hunter villagers now have only 1.5 damage against animals (2 for veterans)
• This is now also specified in their attack damage tooltip
• Iron Golems now have 20% ranged armour
• Iron Golem health reduced from 150 to 140
• Pillagers are now much more accurate
• Pillagers now reload their crossbows even when out of combat
• While reloading, movement speed is reduced by 20%
• Pillager attack speed reduced from 0.4 to 0.3
• Vexes now follow their parent evoker if the evoker is not in combat, instead of remaining where they are

💬 Languages

• Updated Traditional Chinese (zh-tw)
• Updated Simplified Chinese (zh-cn)

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Pressing Shift + number adds a unit or building to an existing control group
• Pressing Alt + number adds a unit or building to a new control group and removes it from all other groups
• Building rally points can now be shift-queued
• Spectators can now see RTS players' unit and hero abilities

⚖️ Balancing ⚖️

• All Heroes now have 30% magic resistance

🐷 Piglins

• Piglin Merchant

  • Greed is Good's TNT cooldown reduction per level increased from 5s to 7s (this means the cooldown is 0 at level 3)
  • Thrown TNT fuse time reduced from 3s to 2.5s
  • Delay before enemies can eat thrown food raised from 5s to 10s

• All piglin units now gain +10% movement speed while on nether terrain

• Wood value of all nether logs raised from 17 to 18

• Basic portals under construction can now queue their upgrade so it begins immediately upon completion

  • This will cost wood up front

• Military portal upgrade time reduced from 30s to 25s

• Transport portal upgrade time reduced from 40s to 30s

• Wither skeletons can stack +1 wither on heroes (3 to 4)

• Magma cubes gain ~5% physical armor per size above 1 (max size 6 = ~25% armor)

• Heavy Tridents cost raised from (250 wood, 250 ore, 120s) to (300 wood, 300 ore, 150s)

• Soul Fireballs cost reduced from (300 wood, 300 ore, 140s) to (250 wood, 250 ore, 120s)

🧑‍ Villagers

• Royal Guard
  • Taunting cry now also grants Resistance III for its duration (60% global armour)
  • Mace slam range and radius reduced from 4 to 3, and mana cost raised from 30 to 40

💀 Monsters

Necromancer - Zombie summons are no longer worth experience or population cost - Blood Moon now only spawns units at buildings within 30 blocks of the targeted building - this was previously spawning units at any random buildings owned by the targeted player

• Sculk amplifier sonic boom range reduced from 20 to 15 and damage penalty increased from -33% to -40% (45 damage)

• Sculk catalyst night range and bonus HP per nearby sculk block raised by 20% (max range is still 50)

• Sculk catalysts can now autocast sacrifice

  • It will only target the same type of unit you last manually sacrificed
  • Autocast turns off once at max night range

• Slimes gain ~5% physical armor per size above 1 (max size 6 = ~25% armor)

• Spider movement speed raised from 33 to 34 and damage from 4 to 5

• Silverfish movement speed raised from 25 to 28 and are no longer worth experience

• Mausoleum construction time reduced by 8s (to match other factions)

• Creeper bonus speed duration after being charged reduced from 60s to 30s

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Endermen can no longer teleport outside the world border
• Animals can no longer spawn outside the world border
• Magma cubes are no longer slowed in sunlight
• Royal guard now correctly uses 5 population (previously was 3 after trained)
• Spam clicking research buttons with high ping no longer queues up duplicates
• Resistance effects now correctly reduces ranged damage
• Fixed soul siphon not working correctly after the - Necromancer was revived
• Fixed Heroes having their levels reset to 1 sometimes when killed by ravager artillery

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Mounted units now show the combined damage of the mount and the rider
• The armour tooltip now shows details when a unit has multiple different armour types
• Added Bottle O'Hero Experience
• Like a Bottle O'Enchanting but gives 100 exp to the nearest hero when thrown
• Slime and magma cubes' autocast consume will now only eat size 2 slimes and turns off at max size

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Husks and Drowned now correctly have 20% ranged resistance
• Strays now correctly have -1 movement speed
• Fixed Evoker vexes having too short a cooldown when autocasted
• Fixed many bugs with Brutes with raised shields:
  • Armour stat incorrectly showed 0%
  • Ranged damage to absorption wasn't being reduced
  • Moving at 45% speed instead of 50% speed

⚖️ Balance ⚖️

• Necromancer daytime slowdown reduced from Slowness II (-36%) to Slowness I (-20%)

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Spectators can now hold tab to show a list of players and their resources in the match

  • Thanks to @Daratrix!

• All unit stats can now be hovered over for tooltips

  • Bonus stats like Hoglins' bonus damage to buildings are shown here
  • Stats are shown in green or red if affected by any buffs or debuffs
  • Armor is shown in different colours depending on what it is effective against

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Zombie production time increased from 10s to 18s
  • This was an error, all other zombies, skeletons and their variants take 18s to build
• Fixed heroes not being produced in new games on the same map even with /rts-reset
• Fixed Netherite Chestplates not granting armour to headhunters
• Evokers with Vigor now have the correct channelling times
  • This was effectively making Vigor enchantments useless
• Evoker Circle Fangs now correctly do 12 damage instead of 6
• Music from your opponents' factions no longer plays when they start their game
• Fixed units with absorption from golden apples taking double damage from projectiles
• Fixed a crash when using a transport portal with many units
• Fixed Skeletons and Pillagers being able to break their bows if used too many times

⚖️ Balance ⚖️

• Ravagers no longer benefit from the movement speed buff from Captains
• All basic melee units (brutes, zombies, vindicators) now have 20% armour against ranged attacks
• -1 speed to all basic ranged units (headhunters, skeletons, pillagers)
• Population cost max-sized (size 6) slimes and magma cubes reduced from 6 to 5
• The Necromancer can now consume souls to heal itself for 1.5hp per soul

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Fixed a possible crash when converting many units at the same time (eg. militia, upgrading zombies/skeletons, etc.)
• Fixed pillagers and skeletons doing less damage for their first few shots

📜 Languages 📜

• Updated Russian (ru_ru)

🎵 New Faction Themes 🎵

Each Faction now has a main theme that plays when you complete your first capitol at the start of each game.

Thanks to @Amphithere for composing these!

Check out the whole playlist for Reign of Nether here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc5d0pUIST7RJpP2QeRE69f1hnHS2UWah

🪖 Militia Archer Training 🪖

• New research at the Blacksmith costing (250 food, 500 wood, 160s)
• Unlocks the ability for militia to instantly swap between a bow and a sword at any time
• Militia Archers have -40% attack speed, -10% move speed and no armour compared to sword wielders

You can now promote militia to captains using upgraded Castles

• Militia captains cannot be converted back into a villager by any means

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• The piglin merchant's hitbox has been shrunk down to the size of a regular piglin with visual size unchanged
  • This fixes issues of getting stuck constantly and being too fat to use transport portals
• Fixed ctrl-clicking the idle worker button to select all idle workers
• Fixed a bug where the first survival wave would start immediately after completing your capitol
• Fixed Neutral Beacons not being fully upgraded when placed in sandbox
• Fixed /rts-lock not working from command blocks

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Ghasts no longer auto-aggro against blood moon spawns due to friendly fire damage to buildings
• You can now rotate the camera to 90 degree points by pressing alt + left/right arrow keys
  • Also added buttons to the bottom right to do this
• More blocks are now convertible to nether blocks including:
  • All variations of bricks and stone bricks, mossy blocks, clay and prismarine
• You can now shift click unit icons to deselect individual units

⚖️ Balancing ⚖️

💀 Monsters

• Creeper movement speed raised from 25 to 28
• Creepers now gain +20% move speed for 1min after becoming charged
• Drowned and Slime infection durations reduced from 10s to 3s
• Necromancer's base max mana reduced from 200 to 150
• Blood moon spawns now only affect one player per cast
  • To do this, use blood moon on any that player's units or buildings at any range
• Blood moon cooldown raised from 360s to 420s
• Blood moon base duration raised from 60s to 75s and mana cost from 150 to 175

🧑‍ Villagers

• Witch Healing Potion cooldown raised from 10s to 12s
• Militia max health reduced from 35 to 30, but given 18% armour to compensate
  • While wielding a bow, the armor is 0%

🐷 Piglins

• Ghasts now have 50% magic resistance, meaning they will no longer be one-shot by warden sonic booms

Other

• From level 5 onwards, heroes gain no exp from neutral mobs
  • This is borrowed from Warcraft 3's hero exp system
  • This means you can't unlock ultimates without fighting an opponent

Bugfixes

• Fixed transport portals missing its abilities
• Fixed survival players not being able to use transport portals
  • I actually added this months ago, it's been broken ever since!
  • To use a portal as a survival player it must be neutral or owned by you or an ally

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Fixed a crash when the Royal Guard touches a spider web
• Fixed piglin portals losing their production buttons

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• You can now use /allycontrol to give allies the ability to control your units

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Heroes no longer reset their levels when unloaded
• Unit ability cooldowns no longer reset when unloaded
• Fixed a crash when selecting an unloaded unit from a control group
• Fixed the Royal Guard not changing size for other players when using Avatar
• Husks are no longer infectious like drowned
• Fixed a UI bug where hero experience showed 0 if you were 1 exp away from levelling up

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Players and their allies now are notified when a friendly hero dies
• Hero revive costs are now configurable via .toml files

⚖️ Balancing ⚖️

💀 Necromancer

• The Necromancer and its zombies no longer burn under sunlight but are instead slowed
• Blood Moon enemies now decay over 30s after the blood moon ends regardless of time of day
• Raise Dead zombies now begin to decay over 30s after 1min
• Raise Dead zombies now have helmets and a sword of higher tiers with each rank
• Raise Dead cooldown raised from 60s to 75s

🧑‍ Royal Guard

• Avatar now gives the Royal Guard increased move speed and slowness immunity (including against spider webs)
• Mace slam radius increased from 2.5 to 3.0

🐷 Piglin Merchant

• The Piglin Merchant has been working out and now more reliably climbs up steep hills

All Heroes

• Heroes can now only have a max of 3 wither stacks on them (normally 6 stacks against regular units)
• Exp required to level up has been raised by 20%

Heroes Beta

The time of heroes is upon us! Each faction has found a worthy champion for their cause. To play with heroes, set /gamerule allowHeroes to true and build your faction's altar during a game.

MONSTERS: The Necromancer (Spellcaster)

VILLAGERS: The Royal Guard (Tank/Bruiser)

PIGLINS: The Piglin Merchant (Support)

Heroes are modelled after the Warcraft 3 system

• Trained and revived upon death at a special altar building for each faction
• Level up to 10, gaining stats and a skill point with each level
• 3 regular abilities with 3 ranks each, and 1 ultimate at level 6

🔷 Essential Mod Partnership 🔷

• Check out https://essential.gg/wiki/supporting-mod-creators for details on the new partnership!
• Added an in-game button on the title screen to download Essential

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Fixed poison spiders not having correct stats
• The idle worker button now shows your faction-specific worker

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

Fixed huntable animals not dropping any food

Units can now only pick up and eat cooked/prepared foods. Raw foods are only worth food resources and cannot be eaten. This includes all fruits and vegetables except golden apples and carrots.

🦸 Enabled the Royal Guard hero in sandbox 🦸

• See ⁠sneak-peeks for details of their abilities

🔷 Heroes now have and use mana for spellcasting 🔷

• This works pretty much like mana in any other game

🥩 Hurt units automatically pick up and eat food to heal 🥩

• Heals at a rate of 5hp per hunger point
• Eg. cooked beef is worth 4 hunger points for players, and heals units for 20 hp
• This does not impede movement or attacks

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• RTS Start Blocks that are removed via command are no longer tracked
• Fixed Ravager Artillery arrows not damaging buildings
• Fixed the Drowned production button not working correctly

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Items that are edible or worth resources are now much more visible in RTS camera
• Placed units can now have their relationship modified in sandbox mode
• RTS Units are no longer permanently stuck in powder snow
  • Instead, they fall a max of 1 block into it, then it converts into regular snow so they can escape

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Unit owners are now saved much more reliably between server restarts
• Fixed a crash when putting a worker unit in a spawner
• Mob spawners for vanilla units no longer have uncapped spawns at any range
  • This was causing significant lag in generated worlds with dungeons

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Exiting RTS camera while in sandbox will now always put you into creative mode instead of spectator
• /rts-reset now puts everyone into spectator mode
  • ops can still manually change player gamemodes during a match if they want to
• Double-clicking ungarrisoned units no longer selects garrisoned units and vice versa

🦸 🏛️ Added Hero Altars to Sandbox 🏛️ 🦸

Hero Altars are where each faction trains and revives their heroes. Training a hero for the first time is free but revival costs 100 food + 50 per hero level. Dead heroes are saved between server restarts but deleted on /rts-reset.

• Villagers: Shrine of Prosperity
• Monsters: Altar of Darkness
• Piglins: Infernal Portal

👻 🔥 Improved vanilla mob spawners 🔥 👻

• You can now use RoN unit spawn eggs on vanilla mob spawners
• RoN units spawn at any light level (but won't spawn monster units that burn in sunlight during daytime)
• Max 3 units per spawner, or 1 for castle-tier units (ghasts, ravagers, wardens). Nearby spawners of the same type raise this limit
• RoN units spawn without any nearby players, but only if there are no player units in a 30 block range
• Spawn delay is always 30 seconds, instead of a random time between 10-40 seconds
• Spawned units are anchored to their starting position (ie. they retreat back there if you run away)

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Readded water and healing potions research for witches to the Library

• Experience orbs for heroes no longer drop from a lone hero dying and now decay after 2mins

• Fixed gamerules flyingMaxYLevel and groundYLevel not matching the menu number when updated via command,

• Wheat that is transformed into netherwart is now fully grown and harvestable

• Units hit by blaze fireballs no longer delay their fire tick damage

  • This was causing a weird situation where shooting one unit with too many fireballs made them take LESS damage

• Mounted units no longer ignore direct right-click attack commands

• Spiders no longer use webs when autocast is disabled

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Witch lingering potions no longer collide with mobs
  • This was causing them to sometimes hit tall mobs and make the effect cloud unreachable

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Fixed building abilities (including library enchantments) only being usable once
• Fixed duplicate hotkeys on castles
• Fixed some building upgrades being able to be queued multiple times

⚠️ This version changes the code for building save data, so please back up any old maps before loading them in case there's issues ⚠️

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

Fixed building hotkeys being missing

⚠️ This version changes the code for building save data, so please back up any old maps before loading them in case there's issues ⚠️

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Neutral units now correctly attack non-neutral buildings when /gamerule neutralAggro is enabled
• Cheats are no longer disabled whenever rejoining a world in sandbox mode
• Fixed crash related to converting nether blocks
• Fixed crash when using a Militia spawn egg on a spawner
• Fixed worker gather targets not saving between server restarts
• Necromancers can no longer cast blood moon if one is currently active

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Players are now in Spectator mode instead of Creative while RTS camera is active
  • This will reduce the ability for players to cheat by spawning in items
• Mob spawners are now active whenever any non-neutral unit or survival player is near them
  • Creative players no longer activate spawners
• Added spawn eggs for all neutral animal units
• You can now shift-click the "Select all Military units" button to only select units on screen
• Added a button to toggle full unit control in sandbox mode
  • This is the same as toggling the 'wouldyoukindly' cheatcode
• Neutral buildings now award resources equal to 25% of their cost when destroyed

New Title Screen and Icon

• Included in-game, Discord, Modrinth and Curseforge
• Thanks to @omega9_6 for the design!

Necromancer Hero now available in Sandbox

The first of three heroes to join Reign of Nether, the Necromancer is a summoner, a veritable one skeleton army who can summon zombies and phantoms, collect the souls of the dead and even transform day into night under a deadly blood moon.

Heroes are designed after the Warcraft III system:

• Max level 10, gaining exp from defeating enemies
• Each level grants a skill point to assign to a new skill
• Has 3 regular skills + 1 ultimate (available at level 6)
• Health and damage scales with level

This hero is mechanically complete but still has some cosmetic changes to be fully complete (projectile model, particles, etc). I won't be including any heroes in regular gameplay until all three are done for balance reasons.

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Units no longer aggro against fish when /gamerule neutralAggro is turned on
• Players are no longer teleported to their nearest building when logging in

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Vexes no longer aggro against friendly units
• Other players can now see Militia holding up their swords when attacking
• Fixed Militia not having a button to convert back into villagers
• Fixed unit highlights not showing up behind blocks
• Fixed owned units and buildings sometimes showing up as neutral when logging into a singleplayer world
• Fixed rubberbanding from moving too fast at high camera sensitivity
  • To do this, the vanilla gamerule disableElytraMovementCheck is now set to true whenever a world starts up

📜 Languages 📜

• Updated Russian (ru_ru)

⚖️ Balancing ⚖️

• Slime cost increased back to (40 food, 40 wood, 40 ore)