This is Retold’s first Modrinth release. It includes the complete player-facing history of versions 0.1.0 and 0.2.0.

Retold 0.2.0 — Aender Portals

This update focuses on bidirectional Aender portal travel, more reliable Aender terrain transitions, and stronger foundations for mob AI and territory systems.

Player-facing changes

• Improved the Air Temple Gale Core encounter:
  • The boss now roams slightly while idle
  • It responds when attacked by a valid player outside its usual activation range
  • It no longer deflects projectiles during phase two
  • It returns to the top tower area instead of one exact block
• Lava poured into the Aender now vaporizes like water in the Nether
• Added bidirectional horizontal Aender portals
• Portal frames support rectangular interiors from 3×3 through 21×21 blocks
• Added 8:1 Aender travel scaling:
  • Overworld coordinates are multiplied by eight when entering
  • Aender coordinates are divided by eight when returning
• Added safe automatic 3×3 counterpart portals when no nearby destination exists
• Survival and adventure players must charge an Aender portal for four seconds
• Portal charging includes distortion and ambient sound
• Creative and spectator travel remains immediate
• Aender terrain prepares during the portal charge, reducing visible chunk-by-chunk regeneration
• Improved volatile Aender terrain resets while preserving stabilized chunks
• Fixed hostile spiders failing to attack valid nearby players in darkness
• Fixed spiders failing to retaliate correctly when attacked

Technical and quality changes

• Added portal indexing, destination validation and safe counterpart creation
• Added world-border clamping and coordinate conversion
• Added bounded destination warm-up during portal charging
• Improved stale-chunk regeneration and reduced visible terrain seams
• Improved island generation near chunk boundaries
• Reworked territory escalation into a clearer state machine
• Moved mob behaviour profiles into reloadable JSON data
• Expanded unit-test and NeoForge GameTest coverage
• CI now runs both unit tests and the GameTest server

Retold 0.1.0 — Initial Alpha

The first internal build established Retold’s survival progression, Water and Air paths, Aender foundation, reactive mob systems and environmental changes.

Progression

• Added a three-stage world progression model
• Defeating the Ender Dragon advances the world into Stage 2
• Added the four-element dragon-egg ritual framework
• Added the Water Element and Air Element
• The current ritual requires Water and Air while Fire and Earth remain in development
• Hatching the dragon egg advances the world into Stage 3
• Normal survival End portal travel redirects to the Aender during Stage 3
• Vanilla End access remains available through commands for existing builds

Water Element

• Added a Water Element path through ocean monuments
• Elder guardians are guaranteed to drop the Water Element
• Added guardian mining-pressure behaviour
• Added additional elder guardian boss and support behaviour
• Added mining-fatigue and blocked-hit pressure mechanics

Air Element

• Added the Air Temple in frozen, jagged and stony mountain peaks
• Added floating islands, satellite islands, wind hazards and an open tower
• Added changing horizontal winds
• Nearby blocks can shield players from the wind
• Added wind particles and environmental feedback
• Added Breeze spawning around the temple
• Added the Gale Core boss encounter
• The Gale Core drops the Air Element
• The boss includes grounded and aerial phases, wind immunity, projectile interactions and return-home behaviour

The Aender

• Added the Aender dimension
• Added floating-island terrain and a custom block palette
• Added bright fixed-time lighting and disabled normal weather
• Added faster and farther-flowing water
• Added volatile terrain that can change between visits
• Added stabilizer blocks that preserve protected chunks
• Added the Aender Eye
• Added the Aender Chronolith time-control block
• Added Aender grass, soil, stone, logs, leaves and stabilizers
• Added a regeneration-resistant obsidian arrival platform

Mobs, factions and world stages

• Added foundations for mob hunger, homes, ranges, hunting, fleeing and regrouping
• Added wolf packs, predator behaviour and herd reactions
• Added faction-combat helpers
• Added territory warnings for Nether Remnants
• Added territory warnings for Illagers
• Added Stage 2 undead sunlight changes
• Added Stage 3 undead cleansing
• Added Stage 3 zombified-piglin blocking and cleansing
• Added Stage 3 living-piglin support
• Changed Enderman behaviour after the Ender Dragon’s defeat
• Added delayed Stage 2 mansions and pillager outposts
• Added structure-sensitive chunk tracking

Discovery and villagers

• Added persistent recipe knowledge
• Added recipe-book knowledge gating
• Added advancement-visibility hiding foundations
• Added villager recipe teaching
• Added profession-based teaching data
• Added emerald costs and recipe previews

Environment and quality of life

• Added rain-extinguished normal, wall, soul and copper torches
• Added extinguished-torch relighting through tagged ignition items
• Added a gamerule controlling whether beds skip the night
• Valid daytime bed rest is supported when night skipping is disabled

Current alpha limitations

• Retold is not feature-complete
• Fire and Earth Element paths are not implemented
• The Air Temple encounter still needs additional tuning and a more natural discovery path
• Additional Aender rewards and in-dimension travel remain planned
• Tool, armour, enchanting and combat progression are unfinished
• Village reputation and broader world-generation changes remain unfinished
• Existing worlds should be backed up before installation
• Retold must be installed on both the client and server

The full developer-oriented changelog is available on GitHub.