Veil Origins

v1.1.0 - The Companion & Polish Update (2026-10-13)

Added

New Origins (7) - 28 Total

• Emberling - Small fire-spirit origin with ember abilities
• Stormborn - Lightning and storm caller
• Luminary - Light-wielding radiant origin
• Sandstalker - Desert predator with sand-based abilities
• Deepdweller - Deep-dark dweller with ambush and warden-touched powers
• Blightborn - Corruption and disease origin
• Hexweaver - Curse and hex caster with mirror/amplify magic

Technomancer Drone Companions

• Drone Controller item - Deploy and command your personal drone squad
  • Right-click air: deploy a drone of the selected type
  • Sneak + right-click air: cycle drone type (utility, combat, scout, repair)
  • Right-click a drone: cycle its mode (follow, stay, aggressive, harvest, patrol, passive)
  • Sneak + right-click a drone: check its charge and mode
  • Sneak + click a beacon or lodestone: mark a squad recharge station
• Utility Drone - Allay-style helper that follows you, orbits nearby, and fetches dropped items back to your feet
• Combat Drone - Ranged defender; guards an area in AGGRESSIVE mode
• Scout Drone - Fast, long-range flier; light bodyguard duty
• Repair Drone - Passive medic that restores nearby allied drones
• Owner Defense System - All combat-capable drones retaliate against whatever hurts you - hostile mobs AND other players - and assist against your targets
• Charge System - Drones drain charge while deployed and recharge near a marked beacon or lodestone station; low-charge drones return to their owner
• Friendly-Fire Guard - Drones can never attack you, your other drones, your tamed pets, or your companions

Skill Tree Enhancements

• OR-prerequisites - Skills can now require "any one of" a set of prerequisites (requiresAny)
• Skill tooltips show a "Requires one of:" line for OR-grouped prerequisites

Ability Dashboard

• Locked ability indicators - Skill-gated abilities now display a lock state so you can see what to unlock
• Scrollable passives panel - The passives list no longer clips at 6 entries; mouse-wheel scroll with a scrollbar and overflow hint

Changed

• Full localization - All user-facing text moved into en_us.json (messages, tooltips, GUI labels, config names)
• Drone deployment simplified - Drones behave like allay-style companions: they follow, fetch, and defend - no port infrastructure required

Fixed

Skill Tree Deadlocks (CURSEFORGE REPORTS)

• Fixed 10 apex skills being permanently unreachable - Convergent apexes required skills on BOTH sides of mutually-exclusive branches
  • Affected apexes across starborne, tidecaller, voidtouched, crystalline, cindersoul, deepdweller, hexweaver and more
  • Verified: 561 skills, 0 unreachable in every supported version

Summons & Companions

• Fixed summoned minions and companions attacking their owner - Target interception at the AI source; wild undead and minions can no longer acquire the owner as a target
• Fixed Necromancer undead re-acquiring the player between sweep ticks - LivingChangeTargetEvent interception

Origin Passives

• Fixed Starborne flight not returning after death - Passives are now re-equipped on respawn

UI

• Fixed origin selection carousel overflowing the screen at GUI scale 4 - Cards now fit-scale to the window
• Fixed ability dashboard overflow - Passives panel now scrolls

Earlier Hotfixes Rolled In

• Dedicated-server classloading safety for client-only screens and handlers
• Per-player cooldown isolation (abilities no longer share cooldowns between players)
• Spore cloud behavior rewrite
• F-keybind firing the wrong ability
• Origin data sync on login/respawn/dimension change
• Riftwalker XP sources and dimension persistence
• Phantom insomnia for bed-blocking origins
• HUD scale option respected by all overlays
• Mojibake/encoding issues in displayed text

Technical

• Added AbstractDroneEntity base with modes, charge, orbit-follow, friendly-target guard
• Added UtilityDroneEntity, CombatDroneEntity, ScoutDroneEntity, RepairDroneEntity
• Added drone AI goals: DroneFollowOwnerGoal, DroneOwnerHurtByTargetGoal, DroneOwnerHurtTargetGoal, DroneAggressiveTargetGoal, DroneGuardGoal, DronePatrolGoal, DroneHarvestGoal, DronePickupItemGoal, DroneMoveToWaypointGoal, DroneHoverGoal
• Added DroneControllerItem + DroneAbility for the Technomancer
• Added drone models and renderers with per-type textures
• Added requiresAny support to Skill/SkillTreeData and unlock evaluation
• Added locked/unlocked reconstruction of skill-gated abilities on the client
• audit_tree_deadlocks.py - structural analyzer proving 561/561 skills reachable per version
• All version branches verified green: 26.2, 1.21.11, 1.21.10, 1.21.1