Astral Ordnance

# Astral Ordnance 0.1.0-beta.2

## New: fan requests (7 weapons, 104 in total)

Asked for by players, so here they are.

- **Marsfall** — the Red Planet comes down, its two moons first; the land round it turns to red sand and a dust storm rolls out.
- **Jupiterfall** — the biggest planet does not land, it arrives as weather: a banded storm with a red eye, lightning and wind.
- **Saturnfall** — the rings come down first and cut a circle in the land; then the planet fills it.
- **Skyrail** — an orbital railgun station turns its rails on the target; three hypersonic slugs walk across the land and bore deep shafts.
- **Galaxy** — a spiral galaxy turns over the target, collapses, and drops its last light as a starburst.
- **War Titan** — a walking gothic cathedral of war strides in, shells the target and stamps it flat.
- **Sunkiller** — an ice weapon-world drinks the sun and fires it back down as a splitting red beam.

**Orrery reworked**: now the real eight, Mercury to Neptune, each arriving on its own orbit and coming down its own way (Earth flattens the trees, Mars rusts the land, Saturn cuts a ring); then the Sun.

## New: real things (4 weapons)

These put real, lasting things into the world instead of only effects.

- **Ring of Fuses** — rings marked round the target, and real lit TNT comes down on each in turn; last, a stack of it on the middle.
- **Arrow Storm** — a low black cloud, and hundreds of real arrows out of it. They stay where they land (they cannot be picked up).
- **Uproot** — a ring cracks open round the target, and the whole round of land inside it ends up hanging high in the sky, roots and all. Whoever stood on it goes up with it.
- **Wolf Pack** — two dozen burning streaks come down, and each one is a tamed wolf of yours, already after the nearest monster.

## New: Realms (3 weapons)

Long films that go through a rift into somewhere else, and come back with something.

- **Call of the Abyss** — down into a sea under another sky, where one enormous eye opens in the dark. Its arms follow you back, burst out of the ground at the target, drag everything into the hole, and leave a lake.
- **Throne of Embers** — a world of lava; a giant on a throne of black stone stands up and throws its hammer through the rift onto the target.
- **Void Herald** — a black sky full of floating islands; something huge circles them, sees you, roars, and follows you back breathing violet fire along the line.

## New: Impact Frames (4 weapons)

A new family drawn like animation rather than filmed: flat, cel-shaded explosions, and impact frames (the hard, wrong-coloured stills an animator puts on the instant something very big lands).

- **Crimson Verdict** — the sky goes red, red lines fall, a dark spear comes down through them; ten impact frames, then a mushroom of fire in flat colours.
- **Final Cut** — a hair-thin line across the land, one white frame with a single stroke of ink, and the land comes apart along the line.
- **Heaven's Drum** — five beats of outlined lightning as thick as a tower; the fifth is on the target.
- **Blue Giant** — a blue star is drawn into being, folds to a point, turns the picture inside out, and goes off.

Impact frames are fast full-screen flashes. They are switched off together with the other screen effects (`"screenEffects": false` in `config/astralordnance.json`).

## Fixes

- The weapon menu's family list no longer runs into the key hints.
- H and J now work even if another mod grabs the same key.

## New versions

Astral Ordnance now also runs on **Minecraft 1.21.1** (Fabric, Forge and NeoForge) and on **Forge 1.20.1**.

## Files

- `astralordnance-0.1.0-beta.2+1.20.1.jar` — Minecraft 1.20.1, Fabric Loader 0.15+, Java 17+, Fabric API
- `astralordnance-0.1.0-beta.2+1.21.1.jar` — Minecraft 1.21.1, Fabric Loader, Java 21, Fabric API
- `astralordnance-0.1.0-beta.2+26.3.jar` — Minecraft 26.3, Fabric Loader 0.19.3+, Java 25, Fabric API
- `astralordnance-0.1.0-beta.2-forge-1.20.1.jar` — Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47+, Java 17
- `astralordnance-0.1.0-beta.2-forge-1.21.1.jar` — Minecraft 1.21.1, Forge 52+, Java 21
- `astralordnance-0.1.0-beta.2-neoforge-1.21.1.jar` — Minecraft 1.21.1, NeoForge 21.1+, Java 21