⚔️ VKCraft Update Changelog

🖥️ UI & Quality of Life Overhaul

• Unified Navigation Menu: Say goodbye to typing multiple commands! The Stats, Quests, and Perks menus are now seamlessly connected via a top navigation bar. Switching between them is instant.

• New "HELP" Page: Added a brand new in-game Guide accessible from the navigation bar. It clearly explains the leveling system, perks, economy, and anti-exploit mechanics to new players.

• Chat Notification Toggle: Tired of the chat spam? You can now easily mute/unmute mod chat notifications directly using a new toggle button located at the bottom of the Stats profile.

📜 Quest System Enhancements

• Smarter Quest Tracking: Quests are no longer ridiculously strict. Mining any variant of an ore (e.g., Copper in Basalt, Sandstone, or Volcanic rock) will now properly count towards your base Copper quest! The same goes for Woodcutting (chopping _full trunks now tracks correctly).

• Level-Gated Quests: The quest board is now aware of your skill level. You will no longer receive impossible endgame tasks (like Crystal Trees or Adamantite) at Level 1. The quest pool expands naturally as you level up.

• Cleaned Up UI Text: Default quest names have been cleaned up for better readability (e.g., "Ore Copper" instead of "Ore Copper Stone").

• Updated Magic Quests: The Magic quest pool has been updated to require the new, specific flower variants (Flax Blue, Tall Yellow, Common Red2, etc.).

🔮 Magic Skill & Balance Adjustments

• Magic Level-Up Fix: Resolved a notorious bug where Magic XP gained from gathering flowers would get "stuck" at the cap and wouldn't trigger a level-up until the player hit an entity with a magic weapon. Level-ups now trigger instantly upon picking up the final flower.

• Anti-Exploit (Flower Gathering): Implemented a strict 30-second cooldown on gaining quest progress/XP from picking up flowers. This completely destroys the exploit where players could repeatedly drop and pick up a single flower to instantly finish quests.

• XP Hoarding Prevention: Completing a massive quest will now grant a maximum of one level-up per action. Any excess XP over the level requirement is deliberately discarded to prevent players from skyrocketing through the early game.

⚙️ Under the Hood

• Config Safety Net: Added an automated sanity check (applyPerkTuningDefaults) that runs on server start. If a server owner accidentally sets perk values to 0 or negative numbers in the config file, the mod will automatically repair them to prevent game crashes.

• UI Stability: Ensured all new UI elements use safe CamelCase IDs (e.g., #navStats) to prevent random parser crashes caused by the strict Hytale UI engine.