Forgotten Technology

[0.4.5] — 2026-06-22 — Pylon upgrade safety + Pickaxe quality buff + gem crafting fix

Added

• Pylon upgrades now refuse to start when something is in the way. If a workbench, chest, or one of your own machines is standing in the build area, the upgrade dialog lists the coordinates to clear and marks each blocker with red warning particles for 4 seconds. No more lost benches, no more crashes from the auto-builder trying to overwrite block-entities.

Changed

• Resonating Pickaxe is now a Mithril-tier hardness gatherer out of the box. It couldn't break Adamantite, Mithril, or magma rocks even with a full Power loadout because mining is gated by tool hardness, not damage. Hardness ratings raised to match (and beat) vanilla Mithril: Rocks Q6, Volcanic Q5, Thorium / Cobalt Q3, Adamantite Q4, Mithril Q5. Power on standard ore types bumped to 1.0 across the board.
• Power gems hit harder per crystal. Magnitude bumped 5% -> 8% per (Tier x Quality). T1 Rough = +8% damage, T5 Pristine = +120%.
• Power and Speed gems can stack multiple-per-tool now. The one-crystal-per-type rule still applies to Magnet, Range, and Capacity, but Power (damage) and Speed (movement) scale linearly. Full 8x T5 Pristine Power = +960% damage, roughly 10x base mining speed.

Fixed

• Gem crafting works again. Coloring recipes (Power / Range / Magnet / Speed / Capacity) were rejecting Blank Gems with "missing items" despite the green check, due to leftover tooltip metadata from 0.4.2. Blanks now stack to 64, no rogue overlays, and pre-fix blanks in your inventory clean up automatically next login.
• Pylon auto-builder no longer crashes the world when a workbench / chest / your own machine is in the build area — see Added above.