⭐ New The Unfed: Mastery Devouring a kill no longer fills a fixed essence slot — it banks per-mob Mastery, a currency you spend from the reworked Essence Codex screen. Spend it on a stat boost, a stolen Passive (one mob ability, kept until you die), or Gorge — become the creature outright. Gorge A full transformation: model, hitbox, moveset, and weaknesses, all swapped to match. Bosses cost less Mastery to trigger but are far rarer to earn it from. While gorged you can't eat, drink, use items, or draw a bow/wand — your damage comes from the creature's own body. A new key (default V) fires each form's signature attack: Wither/Blaze/Ghast projectiles, Skeleton arrow volleys, Enderman blink, and more. (you can become any mob but not all mobs have all attacks or animations right now. Notably the ender dragon. Its hitbox is off and it uses the wither attack. I am working on it though) Permanent stat stealing Bank enough Mastery against one mob type — the cost doubles each time — to permanently steal the mobs Health, Armor, or Damage. A real long-term goal sitting on top of the spend economy. Way more ways to earn class XP Building, sleeping through the night, keeping candles lit, casting spells, using class abilities, breeding, taming, harvesting, learning a new spell, completing a ritual, and leveling up spell mastery all grant a small trickle of XP now, alongside combat and exploration. ⚖️ Balance • Fixed a survival-XP exploit — taking damage you were actually immune to (Anosmiac vs. poison, Numb vs. cold, etc.) no longer granted XP as if you'd been hit. 🔍 Quality of Life • Grimoire spell descriptions rewritten across the board to say what a spell actually does — e.g. "Everything caught is Chilled — a brief movement slow" instead of vague text. • The Unfed's class-select blurb and progression readout now describe the Mastery loop instead of the old essence-slot system. 🔧 Fixes • Necromancer's raised Skeleton minions can actually shoot arrows now — they were silently never firing. • Fixed a bug where newly raised minions could fail to appear at all. • Admin class-wipes no longer leave Shattered players staring at a stale drafted loadout.

⭐ New The Unfed: Mastery Devouring a kill no longer fills a fixed essence slot — it banks per-mob Mastery, a currency you spend from the reworked Essence Codex screen. Spend it on a stat boost, a stolen Passive (one mob ability, kept until you die), or Gorge — become the creature outright. Gorge A full transformation: model, hitbox, moveset, and weaknesses, all swapped to match. Bosses cost less Mastery to trigger but are far rarer to earn it from. While gorged you can't eat, drink, use items, or draw a bow/wand — your damage comes from the creature's own body. A new key (default V) fires each form's signature attack: Wither/Blaze/Ghast projectiles, Skeleton arrow volleys, Enderman blink, and more. (you can become any mob but not all mobs have all attacks or animations right now. Notably the ender dragon. Its hitbox is off and it uses the wither attack. I am working on it though) Permanent stat stealing Bank enough Mastery against one mob type — the cost doubles each time — to permanently steal the mobs Health, Armor, or Damage. A real long-term goal sitting on top of the spend economy. Way more ways to earn class XP Building, sleeping through the night, keeping candles lit, casting spells, using class abilities, breeding, taming, harvesting, learning a new spell, completing a ritual, and leveling up spell mastery all grant a small trickle of XP now, alongside combat and exploration. ⚖️ Balance • Fixed a survival-XP exploit — taking damage you were actually immune to (Anosmiac vs. poison, Numb vs. cold, etc.) no longer granted XP as if you'd been hit. 🔍 Quality of Life • Grimoire spell descriptions rewritten across the board to say what a spell actually does — e.g. "Everything caught is Chilled — a brief movement slow" instead of vague text. • The Unfed's class-select blurb and progression readout now describe the Mastery loop instead of the old essence-slot system. 🔧 Fixes • Necromancer's raised Skeleton minions can actually shoot arrows now — they were silently never firing. • Fixed a bug where newly raised minions could fail to appear at all. • Admin class-wipes no longer leave Shattered players staring at a stale drafted loadout.

⭐ New The Ability Wheel Hold C to open a radial menu of your class's abilities, point, and release. It shows everything your class can do with live cooldowns. In Controls you can set it to fire on release or select then fire, and you can keep walking while it's open. The old direct ability keys (Primary / Secondary / Ultimate / Slots 1–3 / Transcendence / Resonant Dash) are now unbound by default — the wheel replaces them — but you can re-bind any of them if you prefer dedicated keys. Become The Shattered — the Convergence Ritual A new sixth class change ritual. Where each base ritual gives up one sense, the Convergence gives up all five at once to make you The Shattered. Same five pedestals, but the chalk is every color at 5 (5 Sightmark + 5 Echomark + 5 Scentmark + 5 Voidmark + 5 Bloodmark). Channels for about a minute — the longest class change. The Shattered drafts its whole kit The Shattered no longer has fixed sense-combination perks. At L3/5/9/13/16 you draft two abilities at a time into a six-slot loadout — including your ultimate at L13, which is now a pick-2-of-4 draft instead of a fixed grant. Free respec after big updates Run /sa respec to re-do your level-up choices without a full class reset — it keeps your class, subclass, level, XP, and everything you've absorbed. You get one free respec per major update (not bugfix patches), and a chat line tells you when it's available on your first login after updating. Modpack & server support Server owners can now slot modded mobs, blocks, and items into the affliction systems without code — datapack JSON for The Unfed's essence pools and The Numb's materials, config for The Deafened's sound categories and Item Mastery. See MODDED_CONTENT_CONFIG.md. ⚖️ Balance • The Blinded — Light and Dark stat pools trimmed roughly 20–25% per pick, and passive Health Regen cut further, so a long-played character no longer snowballs out of control. (The journal's listed values are updated to match.) • The Shattered now correctly receives its Blinded affliction's Light/Dark stat pools and health regen — these were previously being dropped. • The Numb — Clumsy Hands — a single heavy blow (50%+ of your max health in one hit) now reliably knocks your held item loose. Ordinary chip damage no longer fumbles it. • Sensory fuel plants (Redroot, Emberroot, Blightroot, Ashblossom) now slowly spread to nearby soil on their own — a small starter patch grows into a renewable supply. (No seeds or bonemeal.) • Sensory distortion zones — corruption now builds steadily over minutes rather than spiking, so a zone is a hazard you leave, not an instant wipe. Gravity Fault lifts you in pulses (with gaps to escape) and its Slowness is capped, instead of pinning you in place. • Blinded echo-vision — the white reveal is toned down; players found it too bright. • Accessories & charms — several descriptions corrected to match what they actually do: Echo Pendant outlines nearby hostiles, Plague Collar inflicts Poison on hit (plus immunity), Void Locket reduces spell cooldowns, and Charm of Tremors / Charm of Endurance reworded. 🔧 Quality of Life • Grimoire crafting is no longer locked to your affliction — any class (including classless and The Shattered) can craft a grimoire. As always, any class can learn any spell. • Ability bar HUD slimmed now that abilities fire from the wheel; the vanilla XP bar is back on the modded HUD skin. • /sa set now accepts shattered. • Journal updated throughout — new Spell Mastery page, Ability Wheel keybinds, the Convergence ritual, the respec, plant renewal, and corrected Blinded stat values. 🐛 Fixes • Death Remnant recall now works across long distances and unloaded chunks — your statue is no longer reported missing when it's far away. • Class & sense progress now survives disabling and re-enabling the mod; it's recovered from a backup on your next login. • Spell mastery no longer resets when you die. • The Shattered's L13 ultimate draft now actually opens (it was being skipped).

⭐ New The Ability Wheel Hold C to open a radial menu of your class's abilities, point, and release. It shows everything your class can do with live cooldowns. In Controls you can set it to fire on release or select then fire, and you can keep walking while it's open. The old direct ability keys (Primary / Secondary / Ultimate / Slots 1–3 / Transcendence / Resonant Dash) are now unbound by default — the wheel replaces them — but you can re-bind any of them if you prefer dedicated keys. Become The Shattered — the Convergence Ritual A new sixth class change ritual. Where each base ritual gives up one sense, the Convergence gives up all five at once to make you The Shattered. Same five pedestals, but the chalk is every color at 5 (5 Sightmark + 5 Echomark + 5 Scentmark + 5 Voidmark + 5 Bloodmark). Channels for about a minute — the longest class change. The Shattered drafts its whole kit The Shattered no longer has fixed sense-combination perks. At L3/5/9/13/16 you draft two abilities at a time into a six-slot loadout — including your ultimate at L13, which is now a pick-2-of-4 draft instead of a fixed grant. Free respec after big updates Run /sa respec to re-do your level-up choices without a full class reset — it keeps your class, subclass, level, XP, and everything you've absorbed. You get one free respec per major update (not bugfix patches), and a chat line tells you when it's available on your first login after updating. Modpack & server support Server owners can now slot modded mobs, blocks, and items into the affliction systems without code — datapack JSON for The Unfed's essence pools and The Numb's materials, config for The Deafened's sound categories and Item Mastery. See MODDED_CONTENT_CONFIG.md. ⚖️ Balance • The Blinded — Light and Dark stat pools trimmed roughly 20–25% per pick, and passive Health Regen cut further, so a long-played character no longer snowballs out of control. (The journal's listed values are updated to match.) • The Shattered now correctly receives its Blinded affliction's Light/Dark stat pools and health regen — these were previously being dropped. • The Numb — Clumsy Hands — a single heavy blow (50%+ of your max health in one hit) now reliably knocks your held item loose. Ordinary chip damage no longer fumbles it. • Sensory fuel plants (Redroot, Emberroot, Blightroot, Ashblossom) now slowly spread to nearby soil on their own — a small starter patch grows into a renewable supply. (No seeds or bonemeal.) • Sensory distortion zones — corruption now builds steadily over minutes rather than spiking, so a zone is a hazard you leave, not an instant wipe. Gravity Fault lifts you in pulses (with gaps to escape) and its Slowness is capped, instead of pinning you in place. • Blinded echo-vision — the white reveal is toned down; players found it too bright. • Accessories & charms — several descriptions corrected to match what they actually do: Echo Pendant outlines nearby hostiles, Plague Collar inflicts Poison on hit (plus immunity), Void Locket reduces spell cooldowns, and Charm of Tremors / Charm of Endurance reworded. 🔧 Quality of Life • Grimoire crafting is no longer locked to your affliction — any class (including classless and The Shattered) can craft a grimoire. As always, any class can learn any spell. • Ability bar HUD slimmed now that abilities fire from the wheel; the vanilla XP bar is back on the modded HUD skin. • /sa set now accepts shattered. • Journal updated throughout — new Spell Mastery page, Ability Wheel keybinds, the Convergence ritual, the respec, plant renewal, and corrected Blinded stat values. 🐛 Fixes • Death Remnant recall now works across long distances and unloaded chunks — your statue is no longer reported missing when it's far away. • Class & sense progress now survives disabling and re-enabling the mod; it's recovered from a backup on your next login. • Spell mastery no longer resets when you die. • The Shattered's L13 ultimate draft now actually opens (it was being skipped).

Sensory Abyss 1.9-1.9.1 (I forgot to upload 1.9 on here but 1.9.1 has everything) Lighting & Atmosphere • Fixed a client crash on some GPUs (notably Intel) caused by the atmosphere shader. A shader compile failure now just disables the effect for that session instead of taking down the game. Performance • Reduced render-thread CPU load from a hot vanilla path that was eating roughly a quarter of frame time and causing GC stutter. Smoother frames during chunk loading and movement. Spells & Mastery • Spell mastery no longer resets when you die. Cast counts now persist through death — no more watching a spell slide from Adept back down to Practiced. • Mastery expanded from 5 ranks to 8. New high ranks: Grandmaster, Ascendant, Eternal. A fully-mastered spell now hits 85% harder, comes off cooldown twice as fast, and — new — costs 25% less mana. Mana cost still rises slightly in the early ranks before mastery makes the channel efficient. (New journal entry "Spell Mastery" explains all of this in-game.) • You can now craft any grimoire and learn any spell regardless of class. Removed an old affliction gate, and fixed a bug where a grimoire placed on an altar or pedestal wasn't recognized as a grimoire — which could block learning entirely. • Spell visuals — the Sight school's effects got a visual overhaul, with cleaner, more consistent casting feedback across spells. The Sight school is the only one to get these changes as a trial for feedback before I adjust all schools. Classes • The Shattered now correctly receives the Blinded light/dark stat pool and its health regen. These bonuses were silently being dropped for Shattered players. • The Shattered can craft grimoires again. Because they carry every affliction at once, the grimoire rituals were checking for a single class and turning them away every time — they can now perform any class's grimoire ritual, as intended. • Rebalanced the Blinded stat pools downward (~20–25%). The pools stack with no cap, so long-played characters were snowballing — especially health regen, where a single high pick could out-heal most incoming damage. Sustain now scales more gently over a long game. • Unfed — Apex Predator reworked. The Apex Predator subclass moves off the old "Devour" kit onto a stance-based predator identity (Striker / Reaver / Drinker). All three pick tiers are new: o Passive: Sanguine Sense (wounded enemies glow to you), Stance Memory (switching stance briefly boosts your melee), or Predator's Resilience (low on HP, switching stance resets your ability cooldowns). o Spec: Adaptive (carry the last stance's bonus a bit longer), Lockstep (commit to one stance to double its bonus), or Flux (switch stances instantly). o Mastery: Bloodflood (at full HP, run all three stance bonuses at once), Stance Anchor (lock into one stance for a big bonus), or Bloodforce (kills extend your current stance's bonus). • Other subclass picks refreshed. Several subclasses had stale or weak picks swapped out — notably the Necromancer's mastery tier (new Fresh Recruits, Soul Vortex, and Phylactery, the last of which keeps part of your soul reservoir through death). Death Remnants / Abyss Recall • Recall to a distant remnant now works. If your remnant was far away (its chunk unloaded), recall used to report "nothing remains there." It now loads the remnant in, waits for it to resolve, and lands you with your contents — with a graceful fallback if the remnant is genuinely gone. World & Zones • Sensory plants now slowly spread and renew. They have no seeds and can't be bonemealed, so a planted patch will occasionally seed a nearby tile of its preferred soil (with a density cap — it's a trickle, not a crop). • Rebalanced sensory distortion zones. Sense-corruption now accrues per second instead of per tick, so a zone fills your corruption over minutes rather than near-instantly — a hazard you leave, not an instant wipe. Gravity Fault zones are now escapable: levitation pulses with gravity-normal gaps instead of holding you airborne, and slowness no longer ramps to a level that traps you. • Fuel & weather tweaks — rebalanced fuel types and lantern/brazier light, and the world now tracks wind across biomes (breezy / windy / stormy), which feeds into fuel behavior. Fixes & Stability • Fixed the absorption-upgrade chat confirmation showing things like "+50% armor" for what is actually +0.5 flat armor. Flat stats (armor, health, damage points, regen) and percentage stats now display correctly. • Mod stability. A failed internal patch no longer brings the whole game down on startup — if one piece can't apply, the rest keeps running.

Lighting & atmosphere • Fixed a client crash on some GPUs (notably Intel) caused by the atmosphere shader. A shader compile failure now just disables the effect for that session instead of taking down the game. Performance • Reduced render-thread CPU load from a hot vanilla path that was eating roughly a quarter of frame time and causing GC stutter. Smoother frames during chunk loading and movement. Spells & Mastery • Spell mastery no longer resets when you die. Cast counts now persist through death — no more watching a spell slide from Adept back down to Practiced. • Mastery expanded from 5 ranks to 8. New high ranks: Grandmaster, Ascendant, Eternal. A fully-mastered spell now hits 85% harder, comes off cooldown twice as fast, and — new — costs 25% less mana. Mana cost still rises slightly in the early ranks before mastery makes the channel efficient. (New journal entry "Spell Mastery" explains all of this in-game.) • You can now craft any grimoire and learn any spell regardless of class. Removed an old affliction gate, and fixed a bug where a grimoire placed on an altar or pedestal wasn't recognized as a grimoire — which could block learning entirely. Classes • The Shattered now correctly receives the Blinded light/dark stat pool and its health regen. These bonuses were silently being dropped for Shattered players. • Rebalanced the Blinded stat pools downward (~20–25%). The pools stack with no cap, so long-played characters were snowballing — especially health regen, where a single high pick could out-heal most incoming damage. Sustain now scales more gently over a long game. Death Remnants / Abyss Recall • Recall to a distant remnant now works. If your remnant was far away (its chunk unloaded), recall used to report "nothing remains there." It now loads the remnant in, waits for it to resolve, and lands you with your contents — with a graceful fallback if the remnant is genuinely gone. World & zones • Sensory plants now slowly spread and renew. They have no seeds and can't be bonemealed, so a planted patch will occasionally seed a nearby tile of its preferred soil (with a density cap — it's a trickle, not a crop). • Rebalanced sensory distortion zones. Sense-corruption now accrues per second instead of per tick, so a zone fills your corruption over minutes rather than near-instantly — a hazard you leave, not an instant wipe. Gravity Fault zones are now escapable: levitation pulses with gravity-normal gaps instead of holding you airborne, and slowness no longer ramps to a level that traps you. Small fixes • Fixed the absorption-upgrade chat confirmation showing things like "+50% armor" for what is actually +0.5 flat armor. Flat stats (armor, health, damage points, regen) and percentage stats now display correctly.

Fixes

The Shattered can craft grimoires again. Because the Shattered carry every affliction at once, the grimoire rituals were checking for a single class and turning them away every time. The Shattered can now perform any class's grimoire ritual, as intended. Mod stability. A failed internal patch no longer brings the whole game down on startup — if one piece can't apply, the rest keeps running.

Changes

Blinded vision reworked. The old breathing in-and-out pulse is gone. You now sit inside a steady black-and-white "bubble" — the world around you stays lit out to about 5 blocks and fades to black past that edge. Your tongue-click ping (G) pushes that edge out to ~10 blocks for a few seconds before it settles back in. Heat sources and exposed ore still read as colored cues on top. Unfed — Apex Predator reworked. The Apex Predator subclass moves off the old "Devour" kit onto a stance-based predator identity (Striker / Reaver / Drinker). All three pick tiers are new: Passive: Sanguine Sense (wounded enemies glow to you), Stance Memory (switching stance briefly boosts your melee), or Predator's Resilience (low on HP, switching stance resets your ability cooldowns). Spec: Adaptive (carry the last stance's bonus a bit longer), Lockstep (commit to one stance to double its bonus), or Flux (switch stances instantly). Mastery: Bloodflood (at full HP, run all three stance bonuses at once), Stance Anchor (lock into one stance for a big bonus), or Bloodforce (kills extend your current stance's bonus). Other subclass picks refreshed. Several subclasses had stale or weak picks swapped out — notably the Necromancer's mastery tier (new Fresh Recruits, Soul Vortex, and Phylactery, the last of which keeps part of your soul reservoir through death).

New

Fuel & weather tweaks — rebalanced fuel types and lantern/brazier light, and the world now tracks wind across biomes (breezy / windy / stormy), which feeds into fuel behavior.

Improved

Spell visuals — the Sight school's effects got a visual overhaul, with cleaner, more consistent casting feedback across spells. The sight school is the only one to get these changes as a trial for feedback before I adjust all schools.

Future Experimental Change

Native shadows & lighting (early, work in progress). I'm building a from scratch shadow and lighting system that runs without an external shaderpack, real directional shadows from the sun and moon, softer light, and a cooler, more readable night. This is still under construction and rough in places. It stands aside automatically if you're using a real shaderpack, and Blinded players are unaffected. This will also be easier on performance since it isn’t general like a shaderpack but a specified look I am curating for the atmosphere of the mod. It is able to be enables in the configs but defaulted to off since it is in such early development. I thought I should get an update out to fix some of the other issues. I just wanted to let players know of a huge future update

Added • Death Remnant + Abyss Recall system. On death you no longer scatter your items — your full inventory and XP are sealed into a Remnant, a soulbound statue rendered as you, turned to stone (your skin + gear under a stone overlay). It never despawns and waits indefinitely for you. Two ways to reclaim: o Path A — walk back: right-click the Remnant with your Abyss Recall token → instant, penalty-free return. o Path B — channel: hold right-click anywhere to channel the token (3s); you're pulled to the Remnant through a face-first "swallow / spit-out”, the contents return, and the Abyss takes its price in corruption + sanity. Token is consumed on success. o A single-use Abyss Recall token (Epic, fire-resistant) is granted on respawn, bound to that death's Remnant. o New config block death_remnants.enabled (default on); keepInventory always takes priority. o New Remnant entity, Abyss Recall item. Changed • Anosmiac smell-input rework. Seed/exhale moved off plain right-click (it was stomping normal block interaction — opening a chest could throw a seed or exhale a zone) onto sneak-gated tap/hold: o Sporeweaver: sneak + tap = throw a seed at the crosshair; sneak + hold = plant (2.5s channel at your feet). o Miasma Walker: sneak + right-click = exhale a zone at the crosshair. • Sleep & poem cadence. Dream poems now drip ~every 7–10 in-game days. Each dream also now teaches its one signature poem the first time you have it • Village/stored food now spoils • Dream implementations trimmed/refactored; continued Blinded shader + true-darkness/darkness-presence tuning.