[balls_game_2] 2.0.0-beta.3

beta.2 made the pack readable and turned the endgame from a wait into a build. The ending still stopped at the Moon. This adds the other half: a second dimension you reach by rocket instead of by tripping over a ruin in a field, and it puts Avaritia's capstone behind it. 5 mods added, 7 removed, 5 updated.

added

• Eternal Starlight [0.9.0] plus Eternal Starlight's Delight [1.3.0] - a full second dimension, and the first thing in this pack that is gated on getting there rather than on building something. Its five Portal Ruins structure sets have been emptied, so it does not generate anything in the overworld, and its portal frame is craftable only from Voidstone, which exists solely inside the dimension. The rocket is the only way in.
• EMI Structures [0.1.0] - structure previews in EMI, which matters more now that the Golem Forge is a place you have to find.
• EMI Trades Reborn [2.0.0] - villager trades in EMI. The pack ships 10 custom trades across four professions and none of them were visible.
• Better Modlist [21.1.1] - 116 mods is past the point where the stock list is usable.

updated

• Starcatcher [3.0.6] -> [3.1.2]
• Entity Texture Features [7.1] -> [7.2.1]
• Entity Model Features [3.2.4] -> [3.3.2]
• Puzzles Lib [21.1.52] -> [21.1.56]
• ME Requester [1.4.3] -> [1.5.0]

NeoForge stays on [21.1.248], Create on [6.0.10], EMI on [1.1.24].

removed

Everything here was added in beta.2 and is being walked back.

• Figura [0.1.6], Figura Extra Bone [0.0.3] and FiguraSVC [2.0.1]
• Simple Voice Chat [2.6.22] and Emotecraft [2.4.12]
• No Chat Reports [2.9.1] and No Chat Restrictions [1.0.2]

fixed

• Create: Enchantment Industry was entirely unreachable. All four of its Blaze machines are gated behind create_dragons_plus:blaze_upgrade_smithing_template, and the template's only recipe required a copy of itself. Checked every loot table in the pack: 2,287 tables across 116 jars, zero of them dropped it. The template now has a craft, and seeds at 20 percent in Nether Bridge and 30 percent in Bastion Treasure chests.
• Fresh Catch could not be completed. Seven Starcatcher Delight recipes ask for starcatcher_delight:starcaught_fillet by exact item id, but cutting a starcaught fish only ever yields a rarity variant, so nothing in the game produced the base fillet. Seven recipes and the seven dishes behind them were dead. They now accept the mod's own starcatcher_delight:filet_fishes tag.
• Uramaki had no name. Starcatcher Delight ships names for all five rarity variants but never the base item, which is exactly what those seven repaired recipes produce, so it would have shipped reading as a raw translation key.
• The Infinity Cobblestone Cell and Infinity Water Cell had no names either.
• Three blocks rendered as missing models: Avaritia's Fake End Portal Frame, whose blockstate lists eye and facing variants for a block that has no properties at all; the Rocketnautics Credits book, which has no model file; and the Nocturnal Millet Bale laid on its side, whose model points at minecraft: textures instead of its own.
• Two Eternal Starlight's Delight recipe advancements named a criterion that does not exist in their own requirements list, so they failed to load and those recipes never unlocked.
• Removed incendium:upgrade_elytra. It is a smithing recipe with an empty template ingredient, so the slot can never be filled and it sat in EMI as a fake elytra recipe forever.
• Three loot tables named items that were never registered and threw a parse error every load. They already dropped nothing; now they say so.

changed

• Eternal Starlight is a planet, not a structure. It is wired into Cosmonautics with a real orbit and is flown to the same way as the Moon. The map you see from orbit is sampled from the dimension's own biome colours rather than a painted texture. Mars, the gas giant and the ice world have been removed from the sky, which leaves three bodies: the overworld, the Moon and Starlight. Starlight keeps its own sky and day cycle; the solar system is deliberately not drawn over it.
• Crystal Matrix Ingots now require Unrealium, so the road to Infinity runs through Starlight the same way beta.2 routed it through the Moon. Unrealium is not a mining project: it is an alloy of Deepsilver, Golem Steel, Malarite and Soul Dew, and the Alloy Furnace that makes it has no recipe in the mod at all. It is Golem Forge loot or a Starlight Golem drop.
• Ten new singularities, taking the Eternal Singularity from 17 to 27: Certus Quartz, Zinc, Deepsilver, Starlit Diamond, Malarite, Starcore, Golem Steel, Thermal Springstone, Glacite and Thioquartz. Every singularity that resolves to a real item is a mandatory ingredient in the Eternal Singularity, so this is 10,000 more items on the completionist tier and nothing else. Materials with no repeatable source were deliberately left out: Aethersent is not placed in the world at all, and Unrealium already gates the Crystal Matrix.
• Titanium's singularity was renamed and recoloured. It read as "Titanium Singularity Singularity", and its grey sat 47 units from Silver's, which is closer than any two stock singularities except iron and quartz.
• Nine creative items are now craftable, in the Extreme Crafting Table and nowhere else. Creative Blaze Cake, Rocket Thruster, Physics Staff, Motor, Worldshaper, ME Storage Cell, Voltage Source, Current Source and Resistor. The Motor, the Worldshaper and all three Powergrid sources had no recipe anywhere before this. The Creative Energy Cell uses Avaritia's own Extreme recipe and the duplicate bench recipe has been dropped.
• Five things now have two routes, so the choice is which content you want to engage with rather than which one recipe you were handed:
  • Diamond Lattice: Avaritia's table chain, or the Moon. Unchanged from beta.2 and the model for the rest.
  • 1M Cell Component: Lunar Regolith, or Aethersent. Both are rock that fell out of the sky; one wants a rocket, the other a boss fight.
  • Alloy Furnace: Golem Forge loot, or a craft from Deepsilver, Thermal Springstone and a Blast Furnace.
  • Soul Dew: farm it in Starlight, or condense it from Sculk, Soul Sand and a Wither Skeleton Skull. Echo Shards were deliberately avoided because ancient city loot does not respawn, which makes a countdown, not a farm.
  • Neutron Piles: wash Lunar Regolith as in beta.2, or crush Starcore. Neutronium is neutron-degenerate matter and the only place it exists is the collapsed core of a dead star. Starcore is ore.
• The advancement tree grows from 53 nodes to 95, and from six branches to eight. Eternal Starlight is a new root ending at the Crystal Matrix; the others add Diesel Generators, MEGA Cells and ComputerCraft, which between them had two nodes across 1,550 lines of script.
• Unrealium armour lost to Netherite on everything except raw protection: a sixth of the toughness, no knockback resistance, two thirds the durability. That is the endgame metal of a boss-gated dimension losing to something you get in the Nether. Toughness is now 3.5 a piece, knockback resistance 0.15, and the durability multiplier goes from 25 to 40. Unrealium tools are left alone: at 15.0 mining speed against Netherite's 9.0 they are not weak, they are a different trade.
• Sky Stone Dust is made with a Magnet instead of a Propeller. Meteorites are iron-nickel and meteorite hunting is done by dragging a magnet through rock; a propeller is powered flight, which is the opposite of what a meteorite does. It also hid a four iron cost inside a recipe that otherwise looks like rocks.
• 17 Selling Bin prices corrected. Several dishes paid more as slices than as the whole item, and cabbage paid ten times what it cost to grow.
• The Avaritia shader fix is folded into [balls_game].zip instead of shipping as a second resource pack.
• configureddefaults/ grows from 108 files to 179.

known issues

• Avaritia logs eight blockstate warnings a load for its Fake End Portal Frame. The block renders correctly now; the warnings come from the mod's own file, which is still in the pack stack alongside the override.
• Garnished's JEI plugin still throws inside TooManyRecipeViewers during registerCategories. Correcting beta.2's note on this: the categories do appear in game, so the throw lands after registration rather than before it.
• Also correcting beta.2: the note that selling_bin logs quality_foods_processor is not registered five times per load was wrong. That string appears in no log. Starcatcher's fish datapack does reference an unregistered processor type, but the registry resolves it to EmptyProcessor instead of erroring.