ClayGrounds Data Pack → v0.7.0

Native Entities

• Expanded all 9 ClayGrounds enemies into registry-backed native DAI entity types.
• Converted enemy spawns from vanilla IDs to dedicated claygrounds:* entities.
• Added ClayGrounds-owned loot tables and removed unintended vanilla mob drops.
• Preserved custom combat rewards, progression, spawn anchors, AI behavior, and boss encounters.
• Reworked enemy visual bodies from mounted passengers into independently synchronized displays.
• Added automatic visual repair, orphan cleanup, position syncing, and rotation syncing.
• Restored visible debug hitboxes while keeping underlying carrier models hidden.
• Added dedicated boss visual handling for the Shorewarden.

Custom Entity Animation

• Added synchronized visual interpolation for all custom enemies.
• Added per-entity idle and movement animation profiles.
• Replaced simple whole-model movement with fully articulated multi-part enemy rigs.
• Added independently animated heads, arms, legs, claws, tails, and body sections.
• Added alternating multi-leg movement cycles for Vinecrawler and Canopy Fang.
• Preserved attached equipment on animated entities including the Claycrest Archer bow and Ruins Sentinel shield.
• Added self-repair for missing individual rig pieces.
• Expanded death cleanup to remove complete articulated rigs.

World Generation

• Replaced the old 344-condition terrain dispatcher with 43 bounded generation batches.
• Replaced the 55-step foundation dispatcher with 11 compact foundation batches.
• Preserved the authored ClayGrounds terrain while dramatically reducing world-generation command overhead.
• Added deterministic resume support for interrupted world generation.
• Reduced initial generation settling delay.
• Removed unnecessary per-step particles and sounds during construction.
• Added paced first-world generation to reduce chunk rebuild and save spikes.

Solmere & World Polish

• Corrected the elevation of the four colored Solmere houses.
• Rebuilt the Solmere fountain into a contained, fully visible raised basin.
• Added fountain pedestal, spout, water containment, and lighting.
• Added windows, stoops, benches, planters, lamps, market decoration, and town clutter.
• Added environmental detail along routes to Sunwash Strand, Verdant Steps, Claycrest Ruins, and Sunken Grotto.
• Added shallow-water exit shelves around Solmere and Sunwash Strand.
• Added physical-location void recovery through the Solmere Waystone.
• Added migration passes so existing worlds receive map fixes without resetting progression.
• Fixed the invalid minecraft:cut_sandstone_wall reference for Minecraft 26.2.

Performance

• Split articulated enemy processing into separate update frequencies.
• Visual creation/repair checks now run at a reduced cadence.
• Smooth entity following runs independently from heavier maintenance logic.
• Broad enemy safety scans were reduced to a lower tick rate.
• Orphan/death visual cleanup was removed from every-player 20 TPS processing.
• Combat, cooldowns, input, and progression remain fully responsive at 20 TPS.

DAI Integration

• Updated ClayGrounds through the DAI MAIN/ADDON lifecycle changes.
• Added stable datapack identity: claygrounds.
• Added managed version metadata.
• Added automatic replacement support for outdated world-installed copies.
• Updated compatibility through DAI 1.9.5, 1.9.9, DAI 3.0, and DAI 3.1+ systems.
• Added native MAIN-experience application branding.
• Added ClayGrounds-specific startup, loading, world-generation, and level-transition presentation data.
• Preserved hot-reload compatibility for runtime gameplay definitions.

v0.7.0

• Synchronized the gameplay pack with the completed v0.7.0 visual companion.
• Updated managed pack metadata to 0.7.0.
• Preserved the complete class, combat, progression, contract, worldgen, native-entity, and subclass systems.
• Validated the full progression path from first contract through Guild Advancement, Shorewarden defeat, and subclass unlocking.