Operation: Starcleave

• Updated to Minecraft 1.21
• Ported to Neoforge, mod is now Multiloader, and will support both Fabric and Neoforge for the foreseeable future

New Content

• Added Bucket of Starcleaver Golem (the new objective best item in the mod)

• Added a post-processing effect to Firmament Fractures

  • Disabled on Fast Graphics for performance, and on Fabulous Graphics because I haven't got it working there yet

• Added Stellar Mulch and Mulchborne Tuft

  • These are just decorative

• Added Stellar Farmland

  • Is farmland, but a little bit better, doesn't need water
  • Under starlight, becomes even better, speeding up crop growth
    • However, fully grown crops can get converted into Bisreeds, and crops of any age next to Bisreeds can convert into Bisreeds

• Add Bisreeds

  • Can (sometimes) drop Bisreed Root (seed item)
  • When grown, drops Bismuth Fleck(s)
    • These can be crafted into Starflecked Bismuth (6 <-> 1)

• Added Bismuth Pegasus Armor

  • Crafted from Starflecked Bismuth, Bismuth Flecks, Starbleached Pearl
  • Lets a Horse become a Pegasus
    • This lets them fly (briefly) and glide
    • Flight and gliding is substantially buffed under starlight

• Added Subcaelic Dux and Torpedos

  • The Subcaelic Dux is a naturally-spawning neutral miniboss, which uses Subcaelic Torpedos as minions/ammo
  • Upon death will fly into the air and spew Phlogistic Fire and explode

• Added Phlogistic Fire, Phlogiston Sacs, Hollowed Sacs

  • Hollowed Sacs can be obtained by tossing Ink Sacs into a Starbleach Cauldron
  • Hollowed Sacs can store Phlogistic Fire, becoming Phlogistion Sacs
  • Phlogiston Sacs can release Phlogistic Fire
  • Phlogistic Fire is spewed by the Subcaelic Dux on death

• Added Nuclear Stormcloud, Nuclear Stormcloud in a bottle

  • Will spawn on firmament fracturing, moves around dropping Nucleosyntheseeds before dissapearing
  • Can be disabled by setting the gamerule operation_starcleave:spawnFractureByproducts to `false

• Added Nucleosyntheseed, Nucleic Fissureroot, Nucleic Fissureleaves

  • Nucleosyntheseeds will spread upwards and downwards, tunneling through the eart, they grow Fissureroot and Fissureleaves
  • Can be burnt by Phlogistic Fire
  • When ignited, Nucleosyntheseeds will explode

• Added Petrichoric Plasma, Petrichoric Vapor, Coagulated Plasma, Plasma Ice

  • Formed when a Nucleosyntheseed explodes
  • Petrichoric Plasma can be Bucketed... it isn't good for the bucket

New Minor Features

• Dispensers can now fire Firmament Rejuvenators and Splash Starbleach Bottles
• Holy Moss Blocks now revert to Stellar Sediment when covered
• Holy Moss Blocks can now be spread via bone meal
• Damaged firmament now blocks rain and snow

Changes and Additions: Starcleaver Golem

• Added some sounds to Starcleaver Golem
• Feeding Starcleaver Golems Gold Nuggets will heal them and make them follow you
• Starcleaver Golems can walk on fluids
• Starcleaver Golems' post-Cleave crash-landing explosions now cause starbleaching
• Other minor Starcleaver Golem Changes

Changes: Starbleach Cauldron

• Starbleach Cauldron recipes are no longer hardcoded, and can now be defined via datapack
• Starbleach Cauldron recipes can now take 'fractional' amounts of Starbleach (which is implemented via probability)
• Starbleaching Food is now cheaper, one bottle can Starbleach multiple items of food
• Natural blocks can now be Starbleached in a cauldron e.g. Dirt -> Stellar Sediment
• Throwing items into Starbleach Cauldrons will now Starbleach them
• Dispensers can now fill cauldrons using Starbleach Bottles
• Starbleach Cauldrons can now hold 7 bottles of Starbleach, instead of 3

Changes: Firmament

• Added screen shake to firmament fracturing
• Added glow effect to firmament fracturing
• Creative Players can now remove Damaged Firmament Tiles via mining
• Skylit areas beneath damaged Firmament now use different mob spawning tables; most normal hostile mobs will not spawn there
• Adjusted fracture shader, the "static" now persists for a short time rather than changing every frame, the fracture shifts around slightly, got more interesting shapes (eg clusters of circles)
• Updated skybox visuals
• Lowered Firmament to be the same as world height limit

Changes: Firmament Rejuvenator

• Updated Texture
• Altered Firmament Rejuvenator stack size and throwing behaviour, now hold to charge throw
• Boosted tracking range

Minor Tweaks

• Lowered hardness of most added blocks
• General tweaks and reworks of many textures
• Updated in-game mod logo and description
• Minor tweak to firmament fracturing behaviour
• Tweaked recipes for chiseled starbleached tiles, blessed carpet, imbued tiles, splash bottle, rejuvenator

Internal Changes

• Some assets now use Datagen
• Fracture rendering now uses the damage map instead of the old tile system
• Minor changes to Starcleaver Golem NBT

Resource Pack Changes

• Changed starbleach death message translation keys from death.attack.operation_starcleave_starbleach to death.attack.operation_starcleave.starbleach

Bugfixes

• Fixed starbleach pearl blocks not dropping
• Fixed stardust and short holy moss missing explosion checks in loot tables
• Fixed Imbued tile recipe group
• Fixed Blessed bed recipe book requirement
• Short holy moss now uses non tinted model
• Possibly other things, whatever "etc etc" means
• Fixed minor Starcleave Golem door animation bug
• Fixed Imbued Starbleached Tiles particle positions being incorrectly offset