Auratus & Hertic addon

fixed bugs

Heretic: Bloodlink

• Fixed the random instant slam. Bloodlink sometimes skipped the hop entirely and drove you into the ground at full speed with no chance to aim. The launch impulse only reaches your server-side position after a round-trip to your client, so on a laggy tick the apex check read "already falling" and dove on the spot. It now waits for the climb to actually start.
• Victims are launched far less on landing - knockup cut from 1.4 to 0.6. The slam bumps them now instead of sending them into orbit.
• Aiming is blind to entities - the hop goes exactly where your crosshair points, never snapped onto a nearby player.
• The chain is earned hit by hit: a slam that connects with nothing ends it. Cap is 5 slams.

⛓️ Auratus: Ground Slam

• A normal wind charge is enough now. Required fall height dropped from 10 to 8 blocks - no more needing the full charged jump to arm a slam.
• You stay on the ground. Post-slam launch cut from 2.4 to 1.2, so the slam reads as the ground move it's meant to be instead of throwing you back into the air.
• Chains break cobwebs along their whole length, not just at the tip - webs no longer stop a chain that visibly cut straight through them.

Requires BlissGems v4.9.4. The addon links against BlissGems-4.9.4.jar - older cores won't work.

fixed bugs

Changed

• Auratus ground slam now requires real fall height above the landing spot to trigger - windcharge up after your grapple to reach it.
• Slam now launches you in the direction of your grapple (straight up if it barely moved you, or your original heading with more height if it carried you somewhere) instead of wherever you're looking.
• Landing a slam briefly denies wind charge use to opponents caught near the impact.
• Bloodlink and slam knockup on hit targets increased.
• Bloodlink's dive is now an actual elytra-style glide instead of a rigid drop.

Fixed

• Heretic Bloodsaws and Auratus chains now break cobwebs instead of stopping dead on them.

Note: BlissMythics needs ProtocolLib listed as its own dependency-free — the ProtocolLib soft-dep is only on BlissGems for the Blur clone.

Changed

Heretic: Bloodlink is aimed in all three dimensions. The hop only ever carried you sideways - the launch height was fixed and so was the dive, so anything above or below you was unreachable and distant targets fell short. The whole arc is now solved against the game's air physics toward whatever is under your crosshair, and the dive begins at the top of the arc rather than on a fixed tick, re-aiming at whatever distance is left. Across the tested range it lands within about a block of the point you aimed at, uphill or down. Aiming at open sky still gives the old forward hop.

Auratus: chains can't be spam-fired. A chain that connects refunds its charge, so anyone who kept hitting something never actually spent one and could fire nonstop. The refund stays, but there's now a two-second floor between shots - auratus.chain.min-interval-ms.

Auratus: you couldn't grapple onto the sky anchor. Two problems stacked up. The anchor window lasts 5 seconds but chains recharge in 8, so a parry regularly handed you an anchor you had no charge left to reach - anchor launches are free now. And the chain's entity raytrace fired first, catching the player you'd just parried, since Chained Judgment leaves them hanging directly overhead. A live anchor window plus a steep upward aim now takes the shot outright.

Heretic: Bloodlinking looked like it did nothing. A link needs at least two players caught in one slam before damage can be shared between them. Hitting one player, or none, now tells you so instead of failing silently. The requirement itself is unchanged.

Two things worth flagging: the jars aren't server-tested yet - the raytrace and charge changes on Auratus deserve an in-game pass before you publish. And once 4.7.4 is running, check the startup log for the + Added: lines to confirm the config repair fired on your live config.

fixed bugs with auratus and heretic

Fixed the issue with gems dropping