Skyfall disaster
- Night can periodically trigger Skyfall.
- Comet remnants, particles, lightning flashes, and star shards appear near players.
- Operators can force it with /astral skyfall.
World generation
- Starfall ore appears underground in the Overworld.
- Star Cradle ruins rarely appear on the surface.
- Rift Wraiths haunt End-like biomes, including the Shattered Sky biome source.
- Starfall ore smelts into raw astral ore and astral ingots.
Starlight ritual
- A Starlight Altar needs four Resonance Pylons two blocks away in the cardinal directions.
- Offerings transform star shards, void crystals, rift pearls, and eclipse cores into progression materials.
Gravity engineering
- Gravity Wells launch and slow entities.
- Gravity Boots reduce fall speed and improve sprint mobility.
- Voidglass, Void Lanterns, and Crystal Matrices form the astral machine palette.
Stellar Forge
- A Stellar Forge needs four Resonance Pylons and a Crystal Matrix above it.
- It passively gathers charge at night, under open sky, and in astral dimensions.
- Star shards, celestial dust, and void crystals can be fed into it for charge.
- Rift Pearls forge Meteor Compasses, Eclipse Cores forge Sky Anchors, and Singularity Matrices forge Dominion Crowns.
- A fully charged forge can consume a Harbinger Sigil to summon the Astral Harbinger boss.
- Too much unstable fuel can cause small energy bursts.
Rift travel
- A Star Chart moves players between the Overworld and the Shattered Sky.
- A Rift Gateway accepts a Star Chart or Singularity Matrix as a key.
- Arrival platforms are generated automatically.
- The Shattered Sky now uses its own biome with custom sky/fog colors, reverse-portal ambience, Rift Wraith spawns, Star Cradle ruins, and Shattered Spire landmarks.
- Unanchored players in the Shattered Sky are hit by rift squalls and void pressure; Sky Anchors, Nexus Stabilizers, and Rift Gateways create safe pockets.
- Shattered Starstone and Nebula Crystals create a dedicated dimension material palette.
Endgame gear
- Astral Blade applies Void Touched and Glowing.
- Void Pickaxe grants Starlit after mining hard blocks.
- Eclipse Staff releases a magic area pulse.
- Dominion Crown grants Night Vision, Starlit, and extra protection in the Shattered Sky.
Boss fight
- The Astral Harbinger is a boss-bar enemy with blink movement, gravity pulses, void clouds, and levitation strikes.
- The Astral Harbinger uses a custom crowned model, astral body texture, and emissive glow layer.
- It drops Astral Nexus loot through its entity loot table.
- Operators can test it with /astral harbinger.
Post-Harbinger technology
- Astral Nexus can craft the Nexus Stabilizer, a beacon-like anchor that cleanses Void Touched and grants defensive buffs.
- Astral Nexus can craft the Riftbreaker Cannon, a beam weapon that becomes much stronger when it consumes Astral Nexus ammo.
- Rift Wraiths become a renewable source of rift materials in the Shattered Sky progression layer.
Shattered Sky exploration
Shattered Spires generate in the Shattered Sky with Nebula Crystals, Starfall Ore pockets, Resonance Pylons, Void Lanterns, and fragile bridges.
Nebula Crystals emit light, grant Starlit when stepped on, and occasionally shed Celestial Dust.
Rift squalls can shove players, apply Void Touched, and sometimes pull a Rift Wraith into the area.
Rift Wraiths use a custom shrouded model with an emissive eye and rift-trail glow layer.
Visual identity
Custom pixel-art block and item textures are generated for the mod asset set.
Astral armor now has wearable astral_layer_1 and astral_layer_2 armor textures.
Custom status effects now have dedicated mob_effect icons.
Astral Harbinger and Rift Wraith have custom sound events for idle, hurt, death, and rift abilities.
Entity and armor texture previews can be checked at build/entity-armor-preview.png after running the resource script.
Advancements
A dedicated Astral Dominion advancement tab tracks the full progression path from Star Shards to the Dominion Arsenal.
The tree includes mining, rituals, Stellar Forge construction, Shattered Sky travel, spire exploration, Rift Wraith combat, Astral Harbinger victory, and post-boss gear completion.
English and Chinese advancement text is included.
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Astral Dominion