Reign of Nether RTS

🛠️ 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)

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Fixed sometimes being kicked for sending too many packets when moving a large group of units
• Fixed ghast fireballs sometimes not doing damage to buildings
  • They were actually doing half of their intended damage for quite a few patches now
• Fixed the cursor sometimes selecting air blocks next to resources when ordering workers to gather
• Fixed crash related to saving unit anchors
• Toggled abilities are now synced if unit states are mixed
  • Eg. if you select a brute with a raised shield and one a lowered shield, clicking the ability only toggles one of them so they become synced
• Neutral units no longer aggro against neutral buildings
• Fixed beacon auras sometimes not working
• During a match, your resources are always shown at the top left regardless of if you have anything selected
• Wardens can no longer garrison
• Fixed neutral units not attacking from garrisons
• Buildings no longer remove blocks from nearby buildings when using /gamerule slantedBuilding
• Fixed a food duplication exploit when two workers kill the same animal at the same time
• Fixed the first wave survival wave sometimes being the incorrect faction
• Fixed unit highlights not being visible behind transparent leaves
• Fixed transparent leaves options not working when zoomed in too close
• Fixed /gamerule slantedBuilding not working when using the typed command
• Fixed start being able to choose more than one start block location
• Fixed capitols being placed a block too high on negative Y level maps
• Fixed crash related to building iron golems
• You can no longer view an opponent's resources during a match unless you are a spectator
• Evokers now stop their casting animation if their abilities are on cooldown

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Line of sight is now shared with allies
• You can now send resources to non-allies again
• /gamerule neutralAggro now also controls whether neutral and modded units are aggressive against player units

⚖️ Balancing ⚖️

• Bonus damage from ravager artillery arrows reduced by 1

• Slimes and magma cubes have more HP at all sizes above 1:

  • old: (15, 40, 75, 110, 145, 180)
  • new: (15, 45, 80, 120, 160, 200)

• Evoker Vexes

  • Can now be autocast
  • Channel time reduced from 4 to 3 seconds
  • Cooldown reduced from 70 to 60s

🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️

• Fixed all languages having broken strings

📜 Languages 📜

• Added Spanish (España) (es_es)
• Misc language fixes and additions for:
  • Ukrainian (uk_ua)
  • Chinese (Simplified) (zh_cn)
  • Chinese (Traditional) (zh_tw)

🎮 Modded unit controls 🎮

• All vanilla and modded mobs now have basic movement and attack controls
• Enabled while in Sandbox or by using the cheatcode 'wouldyoukindly'
• Attack-move only works against mobs that the controlled mob is naturally aggressive to
  • Disclaimer: sometimes the mob AI interferes with your commands
  • For example, iron golems constantly try to go back to the nearest village

🛠️ Bug Fixes 🛠️

• Can no longer send resources to a non-RTS ally
• Fixed unit and building ability tooltips not updating when language is changed
• Fixed camera moving up constantly when switching to RTS camera
• Fixed ghast soul fireballs not setting fires or creating soulsand when upgraded

⚙️ Quality of Life ⚙️

• Workers can now gather modded log blocks such as those from Biomes O'Plenty
• Huntable animals now show their food value next to their portrait
• Updated /rts-help list
• Added packet spoofing prevention on various player actions
• All units and buildings are now converted to neutral instead of being destroyed when exiting sandbox mode
• Double-clicking a villager now selects all nearby villagers of the same profession only

⚖️ Balancing ⚖️

🐰 The Killer Rabbit now has increased knockback resistance and attack jump height

🧑‍🌾 Villagers

• Witches
  • Can now autocast any potion, but only one at a time
  • All potion abilities now have a shared cooldown
  • Added Water potions, unlocked with research costing (250 wood, 250 ore, 140s), which can extinguish mobs and blocks on fire
  • Added Healing potions, unlocked with research costing (350 wood, 350 ore, 180s), which can also harm undead units
  • Extended lingering potions research cost reduced from (250 food, 250 wood, 250 ore) to (0 food, 250 wood, 250 ore)

🐷 Piglins

• Bloodlust
  • Health cost raised from 10 to 12
  • Attack speed boost raised from 50% to 60%
  • Affected units now regenerate their lost health over 30 seconds
• Soul Fireballs
  • Cost reduced from (350 wood, 350 ore) to (300 wood, 300 ore)
  • Research time reduced by 10s
  • Soulsand duration raised from 8s to 10s
  • Blazes now do 0 damage on hit (only setting enemies on fire)
• Wither Skeletons
  • Health raised from 90 to 100
  • Max wither stacks raised from 5 to 6

💀 Monsters

• Sculk Amplifiers
  • Sonic boom damage is now reduced by 33% (from 75 to 50 damage) when split
  • Sonic boom can no longer be used on unfinished catalysts
• Slimes
  • Cost reduced from (40 food, 40 wood, 40 ore) to (35 food, 35 wood, 35 ore)
• Spin web duration raised from 5s to 6s