🔭 1.2.7 Performance fix

Smoother nights, and a catalog that pays properly.

Runs lighter now. The sky and the viewfinder used to redo the same work every frame — now they work it out once and share it. Same stars, same places, fewer frames spent thinking about it. The Analyzer and the Lightroom got the same treatment, so a busy server with several Analyzers going has a much easier time of it.

Rewards, retuned across all 256 objects. Payout now follows the lens you needed and the kind of thing you shot. Pulsars pay redstone, comets pay ice, probes pay the parts you'd build a probe out of, black holes pay obsidian and netherite. Diamonds moved up to the top two tiers where they belong, and anything slow to analyse or rarely in the sky pays a bonus on top.

Film comes back to you. Exposure film used to drop from six objects — it now drops from eighty-one, scaling from black-and-white up to high-sensitivity colour at Sculk tier. Your astrophotography habit should start funding itself.

Nothing in your world changes and no configs need touching. Objects sit exactly where they always did, and studied entries keep their progress.

Requires Exposure and Architectury API. Works on dedicated servers — install the same jar on both sides.

🔭 1.2.7 Performance fix

Smoother nights, and a catalog that pays properly.

Runs lighter now. The sky and the viewfinder used to redo the same work every frame — now they work it out once and share it. Same stars, same places, fewer frames spent thinking about it. The Analyzer and the Lightroom got the same treatment, so a busy server with several Analyzers going has a much easier time of it.

Rewards, retuned across all 256 objects. Payout now follows the lens you needed and the kind of thing you shot. Pulsars pay redstone, comets pay ice, probes pay the parts you'd build a probe out of, black holes pay obsidian and netherite. Diamonds moved up to the top two tiers where they belong, and anything slow to analyse or rarely in the sky pays a bonus on top.

Film comes back to you. Exposure film used to drop from six objects — it now drops from eighty-one, scaling from black-and-white up to high-sensitivity colour at Sculk tier. Your astrophotography habit should start funding itself.

Nothing in your world changes and no configs need touching. Objects sit exactly where they always did, and studied entries keep their progress.

Requires Exposure and Architectury API. Works on dedicated servers — install the same jar on both sides.

🔭 1.2.6 HOTFIX

The Telescopic Lens is craftable again — for everyone.

The tier-2 lens recipe asked for the tier-1 lens from Exposure: Expanded, a mod listed as optional. Minecraft quietly drops any recipe containing an unknown item, so without Expanded installed the recipe simply vanished — no entry in JEI, no lens, and since every higher tier is built from the one below, no telescope progression at all. Thanks to everyone who reported the mysteriously missing recipe.

The middle slot now takes Exposure: Expanded's lens if you have it, or a plain spyglass if you don't, so the upgrade path is intact for Expanded users and the whole lens tree works in a vanilla Exposure setup. Nothing else about the recipe changed.

Everyone should update — on older versions the lenses are uncraftable without Expanded.

Requires Exposure and Architectury API. Works on dedicated servers — install the same jar on both sides.

🔭 1.2.6 HOTFIX

The Telescopic Lens is craftable again — for everyone.

The tier-2 lens recipe asked for the tier-1 lens from Exposure: Expanded, a mod listed as optional. Minecraft quietly drops any recipe containing an unknown item, so without Expanded installed the recipe simply vanished — no entry in JEI, no lens, and since every higher tier is built from the one below, no telescope progression at all. Thanks to everyone who reported the mysteriously missing recipe.

The middle slot now takes Exposure: Expanded's lens if you have it, or a plain spyglass if you don't, so the upgrade path is intact for Expanded users and the whole lens tree works in a vanilla Exposure setup. Nothing else about the recipe changed.

Everyone should update — on older versions the lenses are uncraftable without Expanded.

Requires Exposure and Architectury API. Works on dedicated servers — install the same jar on both sides.

🔭 1.2.5

The Analyzer got a power cord, and the sky got 50 new things to point a camera at.

50 new cosmic objects. Alphard, Wezen and the Przybylski star with its impossible chemistry; the Flame, Pacman, Jellyfish and Elephant's Trunk nebulae; the ghostly Malin 1 and the colliding Porpoise Galaxy; WASP-76b where it rains molten iron; ring-wearing Chariklo, the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, the Parker Solar Probe and Gaia; M87* — the first black hole ever photographed. All 256 objects were redrawn through the same pixel-art pipeline, so the newcomers sit in the Cosmic Album like they were always there.

Everything in the Solar System drifts now. Planets creep about half a degree an hour, moons and asteroids a little faster, so a shot you lined up last night needs re-aiming tonight.

BETA — Jade overlay (on by default). Look at a working Photo Analyzer and read the study progress, the object's name and the percentage straight off the overlay. Requires Jade on the server as well as the client.

BETA — tech mod energy (off by default). Flip betaEnergyRequired and the Analyzer becomes a real machine with a 5,000 FE buffer: AE2 (it joins the ME grid as a proper network node, so ME cables connect to it and draw from network power), Mekanism / EnderIO / Flux / Pipez on NeoForge, and Tech Reborn / Modern Industrialization and friends on Fabric. No power, no science — the scan pauses and keeps its progress until the electricity comes back.

Stellar View (off by default). Objects you've already studied stay visible in the night sky with the naked eye. The layer politely steps aside while you're aiming through the viewfinder, so photographing them works exactly as before.

The Night Analyzer has a proper GUI — a starfield panel with tonight's event, its luck and analysis multipliers, and the exclusive objects hanging up there, instead of a wall of chat text.

Requires Exposure and Architectury API. Works on dedicated servers — install the same jar on both sides.

🔭 1.2.5

The Analyzer got a power cord, and the sky got 50 new things to point a camera at.

50 new cosmic objects. Alphard, Wezen and the Przybylski star with its impossible chemistry; the Flame, Pacman, Jellyfish and Elephant's Trunk nebulae; the ghostly Malin 1 and the colliding Porpoise Galaxy; WASP-76b where it rains molten iron; ring-wearing Chariklo, the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, the Parker Solar Probe and Gaia; M87* — the first black hole ever photographed. All 256 objects were redrawn through the same pixel-art pipeline, so the newcomers sit in the Cosmic Album like they were always there.

Everything in the Solar System drifts now. Planets creep about half a degree an hour, moons and asteroids a little faster, so a shot you lined up last night needs re-aiming tonight.

BETA — Jade overlay (on by default). Look at a working Photo Analyzer and read the study progress, the object's name and the percentage straight off the overlay. Requires Jade on the server as well as the client.

BETA — tech mod energy (off by default). Flip betaEnergyRequired and the Analyzer becomes a real machine with a 5,000 FE buffer: AE2 (it joins the ME grid as a proper network node, so ME cables connect to it and draw from network power), Mekanism / EnderIO / Flux / Pipez on NeoForge, and Tech Reborn / Modern Industrialization and friends on Fabric. No power, no science — the scan pauses and keeps its progress until the electricity comes back.

Stellar View (off by default). Objects you've already studied stay visible in the night sky with the naked eye. The layer politely steps aside while you're aiming through the viewfinder, so photographing them works exactly as before.

The Night Analyzer has a proper GUI — a starfield panel with tonight's event, its luck and analysis multipliers, and the exclusive objects hanging up there, instead of a wall of chat text.

Requires Exposure and Architectury API. Works on dedicated servers — install the same jar on both sides.

🔭 1.2

Every photo is properly framed now. 83 object textures were sitting slightly off-center in their frame — planets leaning left, the ISS hugging the top edge, Tiangong practically escaping orbit. All 200+ textures have been re-centered, so polaroids in the Cosmic Album (and objects in the sky) finally look the way an astronomer would want them.

Requires Exposure and Architectury API.

🔭 1.2

Every photo is properly framed now. 83 object textures were sitting slightly off-center in their frame — planets leaning left, the ISS hugging the top edge, Tiangong practically escaping orbit. All 200+ textures have been re-centered, so polaroids in the Cosmic Album (and objects in the sky) finally look the way an astronomer would want them.

Requires Exposure and Architectury API.