The resource-seed economy release. The mod is reframed around a standalone fragment ladder with NeroAgriculture-native progression: the word "essence" is gone, every machine reports through a real screen, and a full code + design audit (neroland-mc-ecosystem/audits/2026-07-28-neroagriculture-audit.md) was remediated in the same cycle. Builds green across all six loader×MC cells (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge × 26.1.2/26.2).

Added

The fragment ladder and resource seeds

• Cosmic-ascent fragment ladder — five tier items Territe → Forgite → Orbite → Colonite → Voidite Fragment (replacing the essences), condensed 4:1 up the ladder on the Fragment Infuser with steeply scaling NeroFlux + time costs. The per-resource drop is the Resource Fragment; compacted fragment blocks and decor follow the same naming.
• Native, standalone progression — NeroAgriculture-owned datapack gates refinement / synthesis / transmutation / ascension that open themselves as each tier's fragments are first produced, so the whole ladder is reachable with only Neroland Core installed.
• Resource seeds require the real resource: synthesized from the resource + tier-scaled matching fragments + a Prospora Seed — seeds amplify what you have found, never mint what you haven't. Harvests have a configurable seed-return chance (growth.seed_return_percent, default 10%).
• Prospora base crop — a farmland-planted bootstrap crop dropping Territe Fragments + its seed.
• Fusion / alloy seeds — data-driven fragment_fusion recipes on the Infuser; curated Steel, Energized Steel (dormant-safe) and Core-native Nero Alloy, fully datapack-extendable and clamped by fusion.enabled / fusion.max_tier.
• Generic fragment → resource conversion for every catalog material (per-material recipe JSONs still override), and a dynamic creative tab listing one seed per synced catalog material.
• Tag-driven discovery across c:ingots/gems/ores/dusts/raw_materials, with per-resource tier/gate/yield/conversion/colour/enabled overrides and a configurable default tier for unknown materials (discovery.default_tier, default Orbite).
• Resource-colour tinting — seeds, fragments and planted crops tint to their resource's ingot colour on all three loaders, driven by the shared colour resolver.

Machines, screens and UX

• Every machine now has a real screen in the shared texture-free style: fabrication machines, Genetics Station, Crop Tower, Grow Beds, Planter/Harvester/Fertiliser Applicator, the processors, and slot-free status panels for Greenhouse / Terraforming / Pollination Beacon. All gauges are labelled (Energy / Nutrient / Progress), and gauge values sync as a fraction of the live configured capacity.
• Growth progress readouts — Grow Beds show a live growth bar for the planted crop; Crop Towers show average growth plus a "Ripe n/m" mature-slot counter.
• In-GUI build guides — the Crop Tower and Greenhouse Controller screens carry a scrollable left-hand guide (with a block-layer sketch) walking through the build steps.
• Working-area hologram toggle on the area machines (end-rod outline, persisted per machine).
• Grow beds are hopping pots — auto-harvest into four hopper-extractable output slots and auto-replant from the seed slot; the full farm loop automates on the bed.
• Greenhouse Door — a two-block metal-and-glass airlock door: it counts as sealed shell whether open or closed, so walking in never breaches the greenhouse. Crafted 2×3 from Greenhouse Glass over Greenhouse Frame (yields 3).

Ecosystem integration

• Nerospace planet-visit adapter (runtime-guarded, no hard dependency): planet visits grant Core material_discovered milestones for planet-bound materials, making Nerospace-restricted materials researchable; historical visits backfill when Nerospace ≥ 1.0.0-beta.8 is present. Toggle: compat.nerospace_visits.
• Optional sibling overlays (progression.sibling_overlays, default off): higher tiers can additionally require the matching Neroland arc gate a sibling mod drives open — dormant-safe, standalone play is never blocked.

Changed

• Progression posture (playtest decision, 2026-07-16): hard tier gates are off by default — no machine step or material is gate-blocked out of the box; the native gates stay registered for packs that want unlocks back. Pacing comes from the economy (real-resource sacrifice, the 4:1 ladder, NF + time, yield caps) plus Seed Research, now required by default (progression.require_research=true).
• Gate unlocks and machine/crop/pollination checks are owner-bound (placer-recorded, erasure-covered), with a nearest-player fallback only for ownerless blocks.
• Crop towers respect the environment: per-layer climate checks with a configurable NeroFlux surcharge in hostile environments (crop_tower.hostile_environment_nf_multiplier, default 4) instead of bypassing the system.
• Area machines (Planter/Harvester/Applicator) start at a 7×7 area, extendable to 13×13 with range upgrades.
• Biofuel is a fluid in its own right — own properties, bucket and liquid block (lighter and runnier than nutrient) instead of sharing nutrient's definition.
• Food & alien content de-emphasised to a clearly-labelled secondary system; nothing removed.
• Texture set repainted to the fragment naming with a ~15% darker lab palette; tinted items use neutral greyscale bases so the resource colour multiplies cleanly.
• Internal: canonical cross-loader machine and screen tables in common (new machines can no longer silently miss capabilities or screens on one loader).

Fixed

Audit remediation (2026-07-29)

• Recipe lookup no longer scans and sorts the whole recipe manager every tick — per-type cached index plus an idle gate on the fabrication machines; material matching cached per catalog.
• Breaking a Grow Bed or Foundation Machine no longer voids its inventory; all machines drop contents from the removal hook, covering creative breaks and explosions.
• Crop block entities sync to the client — in-world crop tints render the real material colour; grow beds no longer broadcast a full sync packet on every dirty-mark.
• Server-scoped static caches are cleared on server stop (terraforming regions, greenhouse index, cycles, catalog, gallery records, visit tracking) instead of leaking into the next world.
• Forge honours per-side machine side-config dynamically, matching Fabric/NeoForge.
• Platform services preload at construction even with telemetry opted out (mid-tick ServiceLoader crash class).
• Player-data erasure reaches machines in unloaded chunks via a persisted tombstone set with a retention window (privacy.erasure_retention_days, default 90). (POPIA/GDPR)
• Greenhouse oxygen contributions are retracted on breach/unpower/removal.
• Plus a full medium/low sweep: synthesizer hopper filter matches its recipe; tower harvests no longer burn fertiliser on jammed outputs and split yields across stacks; dedicated-server clients resolve materials/species from the synced catalog; screens no longer hard-code gauge maxima; compatibility panels cached per screen; menu slot filters, parser hardening, unified colour parsing, aggregated reload logging, surgical gallery clear, network action validation, Fabric dedicated-server classloading, zero-yield age reset, and client cache clearing on disconnect.

Playtest and rendering fixes

• All machines accept battery/pipe power — every machine exposes energy + fluid (side-config gated) and items on all three loaders.
• Fluids render on all three loaders (animated still/flow sprites; previously missing-texture checkerboard outside NeoForge).
• UI overlap sweep — fabrication, area-machine, grow-bed, genetics and tower screens re-banded so labels, slots and text never collide; the Crop Tower screen gained dedicated rows for its gauges, growth bar and status line.
• Right-click with an item in hand opens machine UIs instead of placing the held block; crops are walk-through (noCollision); block items translate via their block keys; seeds and fragments are named for their resource ("Iron Seed", "Redstone Fragment").
• Gallery: exhibits record what they place so clear removes exactly that; fluids and doors are excluded from the floating grid; the greenhouse exhibit's battery no longer blocks the controller's face and the dome has a walk-in Greenhouse Door.

Notes

• Privacy (POPIA/GDPR): player data is UUID-only, opt-out, and routed through Core's shared PlayerDataErasure hook — now including unloaded-chunk machine owners via erasure tombstones; telemetry carries no personal data. See Privacy and erasure.
• Build: all six cells compile and pass ecjCheck and unit tests. The new screens, door and tint paths are compile-verified; in-game visual checks continue on the dev machine.

The resource-seed economy release. The mod is reframed around a standalone fragment ladder with NeroAgriculture-native progression: the word "essence" is gone, every machine reports through a real screen, and a full code + design audit (neroland-mc-ecosystem/audits/2026-07-28-neroagriculture-audit.md) was remediated in the same cycle. Builds green across all six loader×MC cells (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge × 26.1.2/26.2).

Added

The fragment ladder and resource seeds

• Cosmic-ascent fragment ladder — five tier items Territe → Forgite → Orbite → Colonite → Voidite Fragment (replacing the essences), condensed 4:1 up the ladder on the Fragment Infuser with steeply scaling NeroFlux + time costs. The per-resource drop is the Resource Fragment; compacted fragment blocks and decor follow the same naming.
• Native, standalone progression — NeroAgriculture-owned datapack gates refinement / synthesis / transmutation / ascension that open themselves as each tier's fragments are first produced, so the whole ladder is reachable with only Neroland Core installed.
• Resource seeds require the real resource: synthesized from the resource + tier-scaled matching fragments + a Prospora Seed — seeds amplify what you have found, never mint what you haven't. Harvests have a configurable seed-return chance (growth.seed_return_percent, default 10%).
• Prospora base crop — a farmland-planted bootstrap crop dropping Territe Fragments + its seed.
• Fusion / alloy seeds — data-driven fragment_fusion recipes on the Infuser; curated Steel, Energized Steel (dormant-safe) and Core-native Nero Alloy, fully datapack-extendable and clamped by fusion.enabled / fusion.max_tier.
• Generic fragment → resource conversion for every catalog material (per-material recipe JSONs still override), and a dynamic creative tab listing one seed per synced catalog material.
• Tag-driven discovery across c:ingots/gems/ores/dusts/raw_materials, with per-resource tier/gate/yield/conversion/colour/enabled overrides and a configurable default tier for unknown materials (discovery.default_tier, default Orbite).
• Resource-colour tinting — seeds, fragments and planted crops tint to their resource's ingot colour on all three loaders, driven by the shared colour resolver.

Machines, screens and UX

• Every machine now has a real screen in the shared texture-free style: fabrication machines, Genetics Station, Crop Tower, Grow Beds, Planter/Harvester/Fertiliser Applicator, the processors, and slot-free status panels for Greenhouse / Terraforming / Pollination Beacon. All gauges are labelled (Energy / Nutrient / Progress), and gauge values sync as a fraction of the live configured capacity.
• Growth progress readouts — Grow Beds show a live growth bar for the planted crop; Crop Towers show average growth plus a "Ripe n/m" mature-slot counter.
• In-GUI build guides — the Crop Tower and Greenhouse Controller screens carry a scrollable left-hand guide (with a block-layer sketch) walking through the build steps.
• Working-area hologram toggle on the area machines (end-rod outline, persisted per machine).
• Grow beds are hopping pots — auto-harvest into four hopper-extractable output slots and auto-replant from the seed slot; the full farm loop automates on the bed.
• Greenhouse Door — a two-block metal-and-glass airlock door: it counts as sealed shell whether open or closed, so walking in never breaches the greenhouse. Crafted 2×3 from Greenhouse Glass over Greenhouse Frame (yields 3).

Ecosystem integration

• Nerospace planet-visit adapter (runtime-guarded, no hard dependency): planet visits grant Core material_discovered milestones for planet-bound materials, making Nerospace-restricted materials researchable; historical visits backfill when Nerospace ≥ 1.0.0-beta.8 is present. Toggle: compat.nerospace_visits.
• Optional sibling overlays (progression.sibling_overlays, default off): higher tiers can additionally require the matching Neroland arc gate a sibling mod drives open — dormant-safe, standalone play is never blocked.

Changed

• Progression posture (playtest decision, 2026-07-16): hard tier gates are off by default — no machine step or material is gate-blocked out of the box; the native gates stay registered for packs that want unlocks back. Pacing comes from the economy (real-resource sacrifice, the 4:1 ladder, NF + time, yield caps) plus Seed Research, now required by default (progression.require_research=true).
• Gate unlocks and machine/crop/pollination checks are owner-bound (placer-recorded, erasure-covered), with a nearest-player fallback only for ownerless blocks.
• Crop towers respect the environment: per-layer climate checks with a configurable NeroFlux surcharge in hostile environments (crop_tower.hostile_environment_nf_multiplier, default 4) instead of bypassing the system.
• Area machines (Planter/Harvester/Applicator) start at a 7×7 area, extendable to 13×13 with range upgrades.
• Biofuel is a fluid in its own right — own properties, bucket and liquid block (lighter and runnier than nutrient) instead of sharing nutrient's definition.
• Food & alien content de-emphasised to a clearly-labelled secondary system; nothing removed.
• Texture set repainted to the fragment naming with a ~15% darker lab palette; tinted items use neutral greyscale bases so the resource colour multiplies cleanly.
• Internal: canonical cross-loader machine and screen tables in common (new machines can no longer silently miss capabilities or screens on one loader).

Fixed

Audit remediation (2026-07-29)

• Recipe lookup no longer scans and sorts the whole recipe manager every tick — per-type cached index plus an idle gate on the fabrication machines; material matching cached per catalog.
• Breaking a Grow Bed or Foundation Machine no longer voids its inventory; all machines drop contents from the removal hook, covering creative breaks and explosions.
• Crop block entities sync to the client — in-world crop tints render the real material colour; grow beds no longer broadcast a full sync packet on every dirty-mark.
• Server-scoped static caches are cleared on server stop (terraforming regions, greenhouse index, cycles, catalog, gallery records, visit tracking) instead of leaking into the next world.
• Forge honours per-side machine side-config dynamically, matching Fabric/NeoForge.
• Platform services preload at construction even with telemetry opted out (mid-tick ServiceLoader crash class).
• Player-data erasure reaches machines in unloaded chunks via a persisted tombstone set with a retention window (privacy.erasure_retention_days, default 90). (POPIA/GDPR)
• Greenhouse oxygen contributions are retracted on breach/unpower/removal.
• Plus a full medium/low sweep: synthesizer hopper filter matches its recipe; tower harvests no longer burn fertiliser on jammed outputs and split yields across stacks; dedicated-server clients resolve materials/species from the synced catalog; screens no longer hard-code gauge maxima; compatibility panels cached per screen; menu slot filters, parser hardening, unified colour parsing, aggregated reload logging, surgical gallery clear, network action validation, Fabric dedicated-server classloading, zero-yield age reset, and client cache clearing on disconnect.

Playtest and rendering fixes

• All machines accept battery/pipe power — every machine exposes energy + fluid (side-config gated) and items on all three loaders.
• Fluids render on all three loaders (animated still/flow sprites; previously missing-texture checkerboard outside NeoForge).
• UI overlap sweep — fabrication, area-machine, grow-bed, genetics and tower screens re-banded so labels, slots and text never collide; the Crop Tower screen gained dedicated rows for its gauges, growth bar and status line.
• Right-click with an item in hand opens machine UIs instead of placing the held block; crops are walk-through (noCollision); block items translate via their block keys; seeds and fragments are named for their resource ("Iron Seed", "Redstone Fragment").
• Gallery: exhibits record what they place so clear removes exactly that; fluids and doors are excluded from the floating grid; the greenhouse exhibit's battery no longer blocks the controller's face and the dome has a walk-in Greenhouse Door.

Notes

• Privacy (POPIA/GDPR): player data is UUID-only, opt-out, and routed through Core's shared PlayerDataErasure hook — now including unloaded-chunk machine owners via erasure tombstones; telemetry carries no personal data. See Privacy and erasure.
• Build: all six cells compile and pass ecjCheck and unit tests. The new screens, door and tint paths are compile-verified; in-game visual checks continue on the dev machine.

The resource-seed economy release. The mod is reframed around a standalone fragment ladder with NeroAgriculture-native progression: the word "essence" is gone, every machine reports through a real screen, and a full code + design audit (neroland-mc-ecosystem/audits/2026-07-28-neroagriculture-audit.md) was remediated in the same cycle. Builds green across all six loader×MC cells (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge × 26.1.2/26.2).

Added

The fragment ladder and resource seeds

• Cosmic-ascent fragment ladder — five tier items Territe → Forgite → Orbite → Colonite → Voidite Fragment (replacing the essences), condensed 4:1 up the ladder on the Fragment Infuser with steeply scaling NeroFlux + time costs. The per-resource drop is the Resource Fragment; compacted fragment blocks and decor follow the same naming.
• Native, standalone progression — NeroAgriculture-owned datapack gates refinement / synthesis / transmutation / ascension that open themselves as each tier's fragments are first produced, so the whole ladder is reachable with only Neroland Core installed.
• Resource seeds require the real resource: synthesized from the resource + tier-scaled matching fragments + a Prospora Seed — seeds amplify what you have found, never mint what you haven't. Harvests have a configurable seed-return chance (growth.seed_return_percent, default 10%).
• Prospora base crop — a farmland-planted bootstrap crop dropping Territe Fragments + its seed.
• Fusion / alloy seeds — data-driven fragment_fusion recipes on the Infuser; curated Steel, Energized Steel (dormant-safe) and Core-native Nero Alloy, fully datapack-extendable and clamped by fusion.enabled / fusion.max_tier.
• Generic fragment → resource conversion for every catalog material (per-material recipe JSONs still override), and a dynamic creative tab listing one seed per synced catalog material.
• Tag-driven discovery across c:ingots/gems/ores/dusts/raw_materials, with per-resource tier/gate/yield/conversion/colour/enabled overrides and a configurable default tier for unknown materials (discovery.default_tier, default Orbite).
• Resource-colour tinting — seeds, fragments and planted crops tint to their resource's ingot colour on all three loaders, driven by the shared colour resolver.

Machines, screens and UX

• Every machine now has a real screen in the shared texture-free style: fabrication machines, Genetics Station, Crop Tower, Grow Beds, Planter/Harvester/Fertiliser Applicator, the processors, and slot-free status panels for Greenhouse / Terraforming / Pollination Beacon. All gauges are labelled (Energy / Nutrient / Progress), and gauge values sync as a fraction of the live configured capacity.
• Growth progress readouts — Grow Beds show a live growth bar for the planted crop; Crop Towers show average growth plus a "Ripe n/m" mature-slot counter.
• In-GUI build guides — the Crop Tower and Greenhouse Controller screens carry a scrollable left-hand guide (with a block-layer sketch) walking through the build steps.
• Working-area hologram toggle on the area machines (end-rod outline, persisted per machine).
• Grow beds are hopping pots — auto-harvest into four hopper-extractable output slots and auto-replant from the seed slot; the full farm loop automates on the bed.
• Greenhouse Door — a two-block metal-and-glass airlock door: it counts as sealed shell whether open or closed, so walking in never breaches the greenhouse. Crafted 2×3 from Greenhouse Glass over Greenhouse Frame (yields 3).

Ecosystem integration

• Nerospace planet-visit adapter (runtime-guarded, no hard dependency): planet visits grant Core material_discovered milestones for planet-bound materials, making Nerospace-restricted materials researchable; historical visits backfill when Nerospace ≥ 1.0.0-beta.8 is present. Toggle: compat.nerospace_visits.
• Optional sibling overlays (progression.sibling_overlays, default off): higher tiers can additionally require the matching Neroland arc gate a sibling mod drives open — dormant-safe, standalone play is never blocked.

Changed

• Progression posture (playtest decision, 2026-07-16): hard tier gates are off by default — no machine step or material is gate-blocked out of the box; the native gates stay registered for packs that want unlocks back. Pacing comes from the economy (real-resource sacrifice, the 4:1 ladder, NF + time, yield caps) plus Seed Research, now required by default (progression.require_research=true).
• Gate unlocks and machine/crop/pollination checks are owner-bound (placer-recorded, erasure-covered), with a nearest-player fallback only for ownerless blocks.
• Crop towers respect the environment: per-layer climate checks with a configurable NeroFlux surcharge in hostile environments (crop_tower.hostile_environment_nf_multiplier, default 4) instead of bypassing the system.
• Area machines (Planter/Harvester/Applicator) start at a 7×7 area, extendable to 13×13 with range upgrades.
• Biofuel is a fluid in its own right — own properties, bucket and liquid block (lighter and runnier than nutrient) instead of sharing nutrient's definition.
• Food & alien content de-emphasised to a clearly-labelled secondary system; nothing removed.
• Texture set repainted to the fragment naming with a ~15% darker lab palette; tinted items use neutral greyscale bases so the resource colour multiplies cleanly.
• Internal: canonical cross-loader machine and screen tables in common (new machines can no longer silently miss capabilities or screens on one loader).

Fixed

Audit remediation (2026-07-29)

• Recipe lookup no longer scans and sorts the whole recipe manager every tick — per-type cached index plus an idle gate on the fabrication machines; material matching cached per catalog.
• Breaking a Grow Bed or Foundation Machine no longer voids its inventory; all machines drop contents from the removal hook, covering creative breaks and explosions.
• Crop block entities sync to the client — in-world crop tints render the real material colour; grow beds no longer broadcast a full sync packet on every dirty-mark.
• Server-scoped static caches are cleared on server stop (terraforming regions, greenhouse index, cycles, catalog, gallery records, visit tracking) instead of leaking into the next world.
• Forge honours per-side machine side-config dynamically, matching Fabric/NeoForge.
• Platform services preload at construction even with telemetry opted out (mid-tick ServiceLoader crash class).
• Player-data erasure reaches machines in unloaded chunks via a persisted tombstone set with a retention window (privacy.erasure_retention_days, default 90). (POPIA/GDPR)
• Greenhouse oxygen contributions are retracted on breach/unpower/removal.
• Plus a full medium/low sweep: synthesizer hopper filter matches its recipe; tower harvests no longer burn fertiliser on jammed outputs and split yields across stacks; dedicated-server clients resolve materials/species from the synced catalog; screens no longer hard-code gauge maxima; compatibility panels cached per screen; menu slot filters, parser hardening, unified colour parsing, aggregated reload logging, surgical gallery clear, network action validation, Fabric dedicated-server classloading, zero-yield age reset, and client cache clearing on disconnect.

Playtest and rendering fixes

• All machines accept battery/pipe power — every machine exposes energy + fluid (side-config gated) and items on all three loaders.
• Fluids render on all three loaders (animated still/flow sprites; previously missing-texture checkerboard outside NeoForge).
• UI overlap sweep — fabrication, area-machine, grow-bed, genetics and tower screens re-banded so labels, slots and text never collide; the Crop Tower screen gained dedicated rows for its gauges, growth bar and status line.
• Right-click with an item in hand opens machine UIs instead of placing the held block; crops are walk-through (noCollision); block items translate via their block keys; seeds and fragments are named for their resource ("Iron Seed", "Redstone Fragment").
• Gallery: exhibits record what they place so clear removes exactly that; fluids and doors are excluded from the floating grid; the greenhouse exhibit's battery no longer blocks the controller's face and the dome has a walk-in Greenhouse Door.

Notes

• Privacy (POPIA/GDPR): player data is UUID-only, opt-out, and routed through Core's shared PlayerDataErasure hook — now including unloaded-chunk machine owners via erasure tombstones; telemetry carries no personal data. See Privacy and erasure.
• Build: all six cells compile and pass ecjCheck and unit tests. The new screens, door and tint paths are compile-verified; in-game visual checks continue on the dev machine.

The resource-seed economy release. The mod is reframed around a standalone fragment ladder with NeroAgriculture-native progression: the word "essence" is gone, every machine reports through a real screen, and a full code + design audit (neroland-mc-ecosystem/audits/2026-07-28-neroagriculture-audit.md) was remediated in the same cycle. Builds green across all six loader×MC cells (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge × 26.1.2/26.2).

Added

The fragment ladder and resource seeds

• Cosmic-ascent fragment ladder — five tier items Territe → Forgite → Orbite → Colonite → Voidite Fragment (replacing the essences), condensed 4:1 up the ladder on the Fragment Infuser with steeply scaling NeroFlux + time costs. The per-resource drop is the Resource Fragment; compacted fragment blocks and decor follow the same naming.
• Native, standalone progression — NeroAgriculture-owned datapack gates refinement / synthesis / transmutation / ascension that open themselves as each tier's fragments are first produced, so the whole ladder is reachable with only Neroland Core installed.
• Resource seeds require the real resource: synthesized from the resource + tier-scaled matching fragments + a Prospora Seed — seeds amplify what you have found, never mint what you haven't. Harvests have a configurable seed-return chance (growth.seed_return_percent, default 10%).
• Prospora base crop — a farmland-planted bootstrap crop dropping Territe Fragments + its seed.
• Fusion / alloy seeds — data-driven fragment_fusion recipes on the Infuser; curated Steel, Energized Steel (dormant-safe) and Core-native Nero Alloy, fully datapack-extendable and clamped by fusion.enabled / fusion.max_tier.
• Generic fragment → resource conversion for every catalog material (per-material recipe JSONs still override), and a dynamic creative tab listing one seed per synced catalog material.
• Tag-driven discovery across c:ingots/gems/ores/dusts/raw_materials, with per-resource tier/gate/yield/conversion/colour/enabled overrides and a configurable default tier for unknown materials (discovery.default_tier, default Orbite).
• Resource-colour tinting — seeds, fragments and planted crops tint to their resource's ingot colour on all three loaders, driven by the shared colour resolver.

Machines, screens and UX

• Every machine now has a real screen in the shared texture-free style: fabrication machines, Genetics Station, Crop Tower, Grow Beds, Planter/Harvester/Fertiliser Applicator, the processors, and slot-free status panels for Greenhouse / Terraforming / Pollination Beacon. All gauges are labelled (Energy / Nutrient / Progress), and gauge values sync as a fraction of the live configured capacity.
• Growth progress readouts — Grow Beds show a live growth bar for the planted crop; Crop Towers show average growth plus a "Ripe n/m" mature-slot counter.
• In-GUI build guides — the Crop Tower and Greenhouse Controller screens carry a scrollable left-hand guide (with a block-layer sketch) walking through the build steps.
• Working-area hologram toggle on the area machines (end-rod outline, persisted per machine).
• Grow beds are hopping pots — auto-harvest into four hopper-extractable output slots and auto-replant from the seed slot; the full farm loop automates on the bed.
• Greenhouse Door — a two-block metal-and-glass airlock door: it counts as sealed shell whether open or closed, so walking in never breaches the greenhouse. Crafted 2×3 from Greenhouse Glass over Greenhouse Frame (yields 3).

Ecosystem integration

• Nerospace planet-visit adapter (runtime-guarded, no hard dependency): planet visits grant Core material_discovered milestones for planet-bound materials, making Nerospace-restricted materials researchable; historical visits backfill when Nerospace ≥ 1.0.0-beta.8 is present. Toggle: compat.nerospace_visits.
• Optional sibling overlays (progression.sibling_overlays, default off): higher tiers can additionally require the matching Neroland arc gate a sibling mod drives open — dormant-safe, standalone play is never blocked.

Changed

• Progression posture (playtest decision, 2026-07-16): hard tier gates are off by default — no machine step or material is gate-blocked out of the box; the native gates stay registered for packs that want unlocks back. Pacing comes from the economy (real-resource sacrifice, the 4:1 ladder, NF + time, yield caps) plus Seed Research, now required by default (progression.require_research=true).
• Gate unlocks and machine/crop/pollination checks are owner-bound (placer-recorded, erasure-covered), with a nearest-player fallback only for ownerless blocks.
• Crop towers respect the environment: per-layer climate checks with a configurable NeroFlux surcharge in hostile environments (crop_tower.hostile_environment_nf_multiplier, default 4) instead of bypassing the system.
• Area machines (Planter/Harvester/Applicator) start at a 7×7 area, extendable to 13×13 with range upgrades.
• Biofuel is a fluid in its own right — own properties, bucket and liquid block (lighter and runnier than nutrient) instead of sharing nutrient's definition.
• Food & alien content de-emphasised to a clearly-labelled secondary system; nothing removed.
• Texture set repainted to the fragment naming with a ~15% darker lab palette; tinted items use neutral greyscale bases so the resource colour multiplies cleanly.
• Internal: canonical cross-loader machine and screen tables in common (new machines can no longer silently miss capabilities or screens on one loader).

Fixed

Audit remediation (2026-07-29)

• Recipe lookup no longer scans and sorts the whole recipe manager every tick — per-type cached index plus an idle gate on the fabrication machines; material matching cached per catalog.
• Breaking a Grow Bed or Foundation Machine no longer voids its inventory; all machines drop contents from the removal hook, covering creative breaks and explosions.
• Crop block entities sync to the client — in-world crop tints render the real material colour; grow beds no longer broadcast a full sync packet on every dirty-mark.
• Server-scoped static caches are cleared on server stop (terraforming regions, greenhouse index, cycles, catalog, gallery records, visit tracking) instead of leaking into the next world.
• Forge honours per-side machine side-config dynamically, matching Fabric/NeoForge.
• Platform services preload at construction even with telemetry opted out (mid-tick ServiceLoader crash class).
• Player-data erasure reaches machines in unloaded chunks via a persisted tombstone set with a retention window (privacy.erasure_retention_days, default 90). (POPIA/GDPR)
• Greenhouse oxygen contributions are retracted on breach/unpower/removal.
• Plus a full medium/low sweep: synthesizer hopper filter matches its recipe; tower harvests no longer burn fertiliser on jammed outputs and split yields across stacks; dedicated-server clients resolve materials/species from the synced catalog; screens no longer hard-code gauge maxima; compatibility panels cached per screen; menu slot filters, parser hardening, unified colour parsing, aggregated reload logging, surgical gallery clear, network action validation, Fabric dedicated-server classloading, zero-yield age reset, and client cache clearing on disconnect.

Playtest and rendering fixes

• All machines accept battery/pipe power — every machine exposes energy + fluid (side-config gated) and items on all three loaders.
• Fluids render on all three loaders (animated still/flow sprites; previously missing-texture checkerboard outside NeoForge).
• UI overlap sweep — fabrication, area-machine, grow-bed, genetics and tower screens re-banded so labels, slots and text never collide; the Crop Tower screen gained dedicated rows for its gauges, growth bar and status line.
• Right-click with an item in hand opens machine UIs instead of placing the held block; crops are walk-through (noCollision); block items translate via their block keys; seeds and fragments are named for their resource ("Iron Seed", "Redstone Fragment").
• Gallery: exhibits record what they place so clear removes exactly that; fluids and doors are excluded from the floating grid; the greenhouse exhibit's battery no longer blocks the controller's face and the dome has a walk-in Greenhouse Door.

Notes

• Privacy (POPIA/GDPR): player data is UUID-only, opt-out, and routed through Core's shared PlayerDataErasure hook — now including unloaded-chunk machine owners via erasure tombstones; telemetry carries no personal data. See Privacy and erasure.
• Build: all six cells compile and pass ecjCheck and unit tests. The new screens, door and tint paths are compile-verified; in-game visual checks continue on the dev machine.

The resource-seed economy release. The mod is reframed around a standalone fragment ladder with NeroAgriculture-native progression: the word "essence" is gone, every machine reports through a real screen, and a full code + design audit (neroland-mc-ecosystem/audits/2026-07-28-neroagriculture-audit.md) was remediated in the same cycle. Builds green across all six loader×MC cells (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge × 26.1.2/26.2).

Added

The fragment ladder and resource seeds

• Cosmic-ascent fragment ladder — five tier items Territe → Forgite → Orbite → Colonite → Voidite Fragment (replacing the essences), condensed 4:1 up the ladder on the Fragment Infuser with steeply scaling NeroFlux + time costs. The per-resource drop is the Resource Fragment; compacted fragment blocks and decor follow the same naming.
• Native, standalone progression — NeroAgriculture-owned datapack gates refinement / synthesis / transmutation / ascension that open themselves as each tier's fragments are first produced, so the whole ladder is reachable with only Neroland Core installed.
• Resource seeds require the real resource: synthesized from the resource + tier-scaled matching fragments + a Prospora Seed — seeds amplify what you have found, never mint what you haven't. Harvests have a configurable seed-return chance (growth.seed_return_percent, default 10%).
• Prospora base crop — a farmland-planted bootstrap crop dropping Territe Fragments + its seed.
• Fusion / alloy seeds — data-driven fragment_fusion recipes on the Infuser; curated Steel, Energized Steel (dormant-safe) and Core-native Nero Alloy, fully datapack-extendable and clamped by fusion.enabled / fusion.max_tier.
• Generic fragment → resource conversion for every catalog material (per-material recipe JSONs still override), and a dynamic creative tab listing one seed per synced catalog material.
• Tag-driven discovery across c:ingots/gems/ores/dusts/raw_materials, with per-resource tier/gate/yield/conversion/colour/enabled overrides and a configurable default tier for unknown materials (discovery.default_tier, default Orbite).
• Resource-colour tinting — seeds, fragments and planted crops tint to their resource's ingot colour on all three loaders, driven by the shared colour resolver.

Machines, screens and UX

• Every machine now has a real screen in the shared texture-free style: fabrication machines, Genetics Station, Crop Tower, Grow Beds, Planter/Harvester/Fertiliser Applicator, the processors, and slot-free status panels for Greenhouse / Terraforming / Pollination Beacon. All gauges are labelled (Energy / Nutrient / Progress), and gauge values sync as a fraction of the live configured capacity.
• Growth progress readouts — Grow Beds show a live growth bar for the planted crop; Crop Towers show average growth plus a "Ripe n/m" mature-slot counter.
• In-GUI build guides — the Crop Tower and Greenhouse Controller screens carry a scrollable left-hand guide (with a block-layer sketch) walking through the build steps.
• Working-area hologram toggle on the area machines (end-rod outline, persisted per machine).
• Grow beds are hopping pots — auto-harvest into four hopper-extractable output slots and auto-replant from the seed slot; the full farm loop automates on the bed.
• Greenhouse Door — a two-block metal-and-glass airlock door: it counts as sealed shell whether open or closed, so walking in never breaches the greenhouse. Crafted 2×3 from Greenhouse Glass over Greenhouse Frame (yields 3).

Ecosystem integration

• Nerospace planet-visit adapter (runtime-guarded, no hard dependency): planet visits grant Core material_discovered milestones for planet-bound materials, making Nerospace-restricted materials researchable; historical visits backfill when Nerospace ≥ 1.0.0-beta.8 is present. Toggle: compat.nerospace_visits.
• Optional sibling overlays (progression.sibling_overlays, default off): higher tiers can additionally require the matching Neroland arc gate a sibling mod drives open — dormant-safe, standalone play is never blocked.

Changed

• Progression posture (playtest decision, 2026-07-16): hard tier gates are off by default — no machine step or material is gate-blocked out of the box; the native gates stay registered for packs that want unlocks back. Pacing comes from the economy (real-resource sacrifice, the 4:1 ladder, NF + time, yield caps) plus Seed Research, now required by default (progression.require_research=true).
• Gate unlocks and machine/crop/pollination checks are owner-bound (placer-recorded, erasure-covered), with a nearest-player fallback only for ownerless blocks.
• Crop towers respect the environment: per-layer climate checks with a configurable NeroFlux surcharge in hostile environments (crop_tower.hostile_environment_nf_multiplier, default 4) instead of bypassing the system.
• Area machines (Planter/Harvester/Applicator) start at a 7×7 area, extendable to 13×13 with range upgrades.
• Biofuel is a fluid in its own right — own properties, bucket and liquid block (lighter and runnier than nutrient) instead of sharing nutrient's definition.
• Food & alien content de-emphasised to a clearly-labelled secondary system; nothing removed.
• Texture set repainted to the fragment naming with a ~15% darker lab palette; tinted items use neutral greyscale bases so the resource colour multiplies cleanly.
• Internal: canonical cross-loader machine and screen tables in common (new machines can no longer silently miss capabilities or screens on one loader).

Fixed

Audit remediation (2026-07-29)

• Recipe lookup no longer scans and sorts the whole recipe manager every tick — per-type cached index plus an idle gate on the fabrication machines; material matching cached per catalog.
• Breaking a Grow Bed or Foundation Machine no longer voids its inventory; all machines drop contents from the removal hook, covering creative breaks and explosions.
• Crop block entities sync to the client — in-world crop tints render the real material colour; grow beds no longer broadcast a full sync packet on every dirty-mark.
• Server-scoped static caches are cleared on server stop (terraforming regions, greenhouse index, cycles, catalog, gallery records, visit tracking) instead of leaking into the next world.
• Forge honours per-side machine side-config dynamically, matching Fabric/NeoForge.
• Platform services preload at construction even with telemetry opted out (mid-tick ServiceLoader crash class).
• Player-data erasure reaches machines in unloaded chunks via a persisted tombstone set with a retention window (privacy.erasure_retention_days, default 90). (POPIA/GDPR)
• Greenhouse oxygen contributions are retracted on breach/unpower/removal.
• Plus a full medium/low sweep: synthesizer hopper filter matches its recipe; tower harvests no longer burn fertiliser on jammed outputs and split yields across stacks; dedicated-server clients resolve materials/species from the synced catalog; screens no longer hard-code gauge maxima; compatibility panels cached per screen; menu slot filters, parser hardening, unified colour parsing, aggregated reload logging, surgical gallery clear, network action validation, Fabric dedicated-server classloading, zero-yield age reset, and client cache clearing on disconnect.

Playtest and rendering fixes

• All machines accept battery/pipe power — every machine exposes energy + fluid (side-config gated) and items on all three loaders.
• Fluids render on all three loaders (animated still/flow sprites; previously missing-texture checkerboard outside NeoForge).
• UI overlap sweep — fabrication, area-machine, grow-bed, genetics and tower screens re-banded so labels, slots and text never collide; the Crop Tower screen gained dedicated rows for its gauges, growth bar and status line.
• Right-click with an item in hand opens machine UIs instead of placing the held block; crops are walk-through (noCollision); block items translate via their block keys; seeds and fragments are named for their resource ("Iron Seed", "Redstone Fragment").
• Gallery: exhibits record what they place so clear removes exactly that; fluids and doors are excluded from the floating grid; the greenhouse exhibit's battery no longer blocks the controller's face and the dome has a walk-in Greenhouse Door.

Notes

• Privacy (POPIA/GDPR): player data is UUID-only, opt-out, and routed through Core's shared PlayerDataErasure hook — now including unloaded-chunk machine owners via erasure tombstones; telemetry carries no personal data. See Privacy and erasure.
• Build: all six cells compile and pass ecjCheck and unit tests. The new screens, door and tint paths are compile-verified; in-game visual checks continue on the dev machine.

The resource-seed economy release. The mod is reframed around a standalone fragment ladder with NeroAgriculture-native progression: the word "essence" is gone, every machine reports through a real screen, and a full code + design audit (neroland-mc-ecosystem/audits/2026-07-28-neroagriculture-audit.md) was remediated in the same cycle. Builds green across all six loader×MC cells (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge × 26.1.2/26.2).

Added

The fragment ladder and resource seeds

• Cosmic-ascent fragment ladder — five tier items Territe → Forgite → Orbite → Colonite → Voidite Fragment (replacing the essences), condensed 4:1 up the ladder on the Fragment Infuser with steeply scaling NeroFlux + time costs. The per-resource drop is the Resource Fragment; compacted fragment blocks and decor follow the same naming.
• Native, standalone progression — NeroAgriculture-owned datapack gates refinement / synthesis / transmutation / ascension that open themselves as each tier's fragments are first produced, so the whole ladder is reachable with only Neroland Core installed.
• Resource seeds require the real resource: synthesized from the resource + tier-scaled matching fragments + a Prospora Seed — seeds amplify what you have found, never mint what you haven't. Harvests have a configurable seed-return chance (growth.seed_return_percent, default 10%).
• Prospora base crop — a farmland-planted bootstrap crop dropping Territe Fragments + its seed.
• Fusion / alloy seeds — data-driven fragment_fusion recipes on the Infuser; curated Steel, Energized Steel (dormant-safe) and Core-native Nero Alloy, fully datapack-extendable and clamped by fusion.enabled / fusion.max_tier.
• Generic fragment → resource conversion for every catalog material (per-material recipe JSONs still override), and a dynamic creative tab listing one seed per synced catalog material.
• Tag-driven discovery across c:ingots/gems/ores/dusts/raw_materials, with per-resource tier/gate/yield/conversion/colour/enabled overrides and a configurable default tier for unknown materials (discovery.default_tier, default Orbite).
• Resource-colour tinting — seeds, fragments and planted crops tint to their resource's ingot colour on all three loaders, driven by the shared colour resolver.

Machines, screens and UX

• Every machine now has a real screen in the shared texture-free style: fabrication machines, Genetics Station, Crop Tower, Grow Beds, Planter/Harvester/Fertiliser Applicator, the processors, and slot-free status panels for Greenhouse / Terraforming / Pollination Beacon. All gauges are labelled (Energy / Nutrient / Progress), and gauge values sync as a fraction of the live configured capacity.
• Growth progress readouts — Grow Beds show a live growth bar for the planted crop; Crop Towers show average growth plus a "Ripe n/m" mature-slot counter.
• In-GUI build guides — the Crop Tower and Greenhouse Controller screens carry a scrollable left-hand guide (with a block-layer sketch) walking through the build steps.
• Working-area hologram toggle on the area machines (end-rod outline, persisted per machine).
• Grow beds are hopping pots — auto-harvest into four hopper-extractable output slots and auto-replant from the seed slot; the full farm loop automates on the bed.
• Greenhouse Door — a two-block metal-and-glass airlock door: it counts as sealed shell whether open or closed, so walking in never breaches the greenhouse. Crafted 2×3 from Greenhouse Glass over Greenhouse Frame (yields 3).

Ecosystem integration

• Nerospace planet-visit adapter (runtime-guarded, no hard dependency): planet visits grant Core material_discovered milestones for planet-bound materials, making Nerospace-restricted materials researchable; historical visits backfill when Nerospace ≥ 1.0.0-beta.8 is present. Toggle: compat.nerospace_visits.
• Optional sibling overlays (progression.sibling_overlays, default off): higher tiers can additionally require the matching Neroland arc gate a sibling mod drives open — dormant-safe, standalone play is never blocked.

Changed

• Progression posture (playtest decision, 2026-07-16): hard tier gates are off by default — no machine step or material is gate-blocked out of the box; the native gates stay registered for packs that want unlocks back. Pacing comes from the economy (real-resource sacrifice, the 4:1 ladder, NF + time, yield caps) plus Seed Research, now required by default (progression.require_research=true).
• Gate unlocks and machine/crop/pollination checks are owner-bound (placer-recorded, erasure-covered), with a nearest-player fallback only for ownerless blocks.
• Crop towers respect the environment: per-layer climate checks with a configurable NeroFlux surcharge in hostile environments (crop_tower.hostile_environment_nf_multiplier, default 4) instead of bypassing the system.
• Area machines (Planter/Harvester/Applicator) start at a 7×7 area, extendable to 13×13 with range upgrades.
• Biofuel is a fluid in its own right — own properties, bucket and liquid block (lighter and runnier than nutrient) instead of sharing nutrient's definition.
• Food & alien content de-emphasised to a clearly-labelled secondary system; nothing removed.
• Texture set repainted to the fragment naming with a ~15% darker lab palette; tinted items use neutral greyscale bases so the resource colour multiplies cleanly.
• Internal: canonical cross-loader machine and screen tables in common (new machines can no longer silently miss capabilities or screens on one loader).

Fixed

Audit remediation (2026-07-29)

• Recipe lookup no longer scans and sorts the whole recipe manager every tick — per-type cached index plus an idle gate on the fabrication machines; material matching cached per catalog.
• Breaking a Grow Bed or Foundation Machine no longer voids its inventory; all machines drop contents from the removal hook, covering creative breaks and explosions.
• Crop block entities sync to the client — in-world crop tints render the real material colour; grow beds no longer broadcast a full sync packet on every dirty-mark.
• Server-scoped static caches are cleared on server stop (terraforming regions, greenhouse index, cycles, catalog, gallery records, visit tracking) instead of leaking into the next world.
• Forge honours per-side machine side-config dynamically, matching Fabric/NeoForge.
• Platform services preload at construction even with telemetry opted out (mid-tick ServiceLoader crash class).
• Player-data erasure reaches machines in unloaded chunks via a persisted tombstone set with a retention window (privacy.erasure_retention_days, default 90). (POPIA/GDPR)
• Greenhouse oxygen contributions are retracted on breach/unpower/removal.
• Plus a full medium/low sweep: synthesizer hopper filter matches its recipe; tower harvests no longer burn fertiliser on jammed outputs and split yields across stacks; dedicated-server clients resolve materials/species from the synced catalog; screens no longer hard-code gauge maxima; compatibility panels cached per screen; menu slot filters, parser hardening, unified colour parsing, aggregated reload logging, surgical gallery clear, network action validation, Fabric dedicated-server classloading, zero-yield age reset, and client cache clearing on disconnect.

Playtest and rendering fixes

• All machines accept battery/pipe power — every machine exposes energy + fluid (side-config gated) and items on all three loaders.
• Fluids render on all three loaders (animated still/flow sprites; previously missing-texture checkerboard outside NeoForge).
• UI overlap sweep — fabrication, area-machine, grow-bed, genetics and tower screens re-banded so labels, slots and text never collide; the Crop Tower screen gained dedicated rows for its gauges, growth bar and status line.
• Right-click with an item in hand opens machine UIs instead of placing the held block; crops are walk-through (noCollision); block items translate via their block keys; seeds and fragments are named for their resource ("Iron Seed", "Redstone Fragment").
• Gallery: exhibits record what they place so clear removes exactly that; fluids and doors are excluded from the floating grid; the greenhouse exhibit's battery no longer blocks the controller's face and the dome has a walk-in Greenhouse Door.

Notes

• Privacy (POPIA/GDPR): player data is UUID-only, opt-out, and routed through Core's shared PlayerDataErasure hook — now including unloaded-chunk machine owners via erasure tombstones; telemetry carries no personal data. See Privacy and erasure.
• Build: all six cells compile and pass ecjCheck and unit tests. The new screens, door and tint paths are compile-verified; in-game visual checks continue on the dev machine.

See CHANGELOG.md for details.

See CHANGELOG.md for details.