BondCraft

# ◆ BondCraft Fabric v1.6.0 Update

BondCraft continues to evolve on Fabric 1.20.1.

This update introduces a new Large Boss, a new status effect, major improvements to Bond mob combat behavior, expanded system refinements, and numerous fixes across existing monsters, abilities, passives, and UI systems.

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## ✨ Main Additions

### New Large Boss

**Dominus: Voldis**

A massive Cursed-type monster that appears in the desert.

Voldis introduces a unique set of combat abilities, including ranged attacks, area-based curse attacks, and a powerful large-scale special attack.

Like other contractable BondCraft monsters, Voldis can also become an ally after obtaining and using its Bond Certificate.

### New Status Effect

**Corruption**

A new harmful status effect has been introduced.

Targets affected by Corruption take increased final damage for its duration.

Corruption also interacts with BondCraft's existing debuff duration and Type Synergy systems.

### New Passive Ability

**Curse Dominion**

When bonded, Dominus: Voldis can support its owner and allied Bond mobs by reducing the duration of incoming debuffs.

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## ⚔ Combat AI Improvements

Bond mob combat behavior has received several improvements.

### Automatic Defense

Bond mobs in **NORMAL** mode can now automatically detect nearby hostile mobs and engage them in combat.

Existing behavior modes remain distinct:

- **NORMAL** — Can automatically engage nearby hostile mobs
- **FOLLOW** — Prioritizes following the owner and does not automatically seek nearby enemies
- **STANDBY** — Remains in place and does not automatically engage enemies

Owner combat targeting and retaliation behavior continue to take priority over automatic defense.

### Wild Monster Behavior

Targeting and retaliation behavior has also been refined across BondCraft monsters.

Wild monsters will no longer become involved in unnecessary combat simply because another monster is nearby, while retaliation behavior is preserved where appropriate.

### Smile Robot Behavior

Wild Smile Robot variants no longer actively seek out players.

However, attacking a wild Smile Robot can still cause it to retaliate.

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## 👁 Dominus: Voldis

Dominus: Voldis introduces several unique combat mechanics.

### Ranged Attack

Voldis fires a dedicated cursed projectile during its ranged attack animation.

The projectile uses its own visual effect and can inflict Weakness on enemies.

### Curse Cast

Voldis releases a large curse field beneath itself, spreading smoke and applying **Corruption** to enemies caught within the area.

### Void Collapse

A powerful large-scale attack that pulls nearby enemies inward before releasing a damaging shockwave.

### Large Flying Monster AI

Voldis uses specialized movement and combat behavior designed for its large flying body.

Its Wild and Bond forms share the same core combat system while maintaining appropriate owner, ally, and targeting rules.

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## 🔗 Type Synergy Improvements

Type Synergy behavior has received additional auditing and fixes.

- Improved Type Synergy activation handling
- Improved Party-wide synergy application
- Improved debuff duration modifiers
- Improved final damage modifiers
- Improved knockback modifiers
- Improved healing modifiers
- Improved passive interval modifiers
- Improved EXP modifiers
- Improved synergy compatibility with Down / Recovery / Reserve states

### Humanoid Synergy Fix

Humanoid Type Synergy now correctly grants its Bond EXP bonus to all valid Party members when the synergy is active, rather than only Humanoid-type members.

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## 🛠 Passive & Ability Improvements

Existing BondCraft monsters, passives, and abilities received a large internal audit.

Improvements include:

- Fixed duplicate Curse Dominion debuff duration reduction
- Curse Dominion now correctly reduces debuff duration by 20%
- Improved passive activation conditions
- Improved owner and ally targeting conditions
- Improved Wild / Bond behavior consistency
- Improved Down / Recovering / Reserve exclusions
- Improved ability cooldown handling
- Improved passive interval handling
- Improved damage modifier handling
- Improved debuff duration handling
- Improved knockback handling
- Improved Bond EXP handling
- Improved support and aura behavior

Passive and ability execution paths were also reviewed to ensure displayed abilities are connected to their gameplay effects.

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## ✨ Seraphim Improvements

**Praying One: Seraphim** received additional ability and localization consistency improvements.

- Improved Sacred Mark handling
- Improved Judgment description consistency
- Judgment consumes one Sacred Mark stack per activation
- Improved ability and passive descriptions across supported languages

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## 🤖 Smile Robot Improvements

Smile Robot behavior received additional consistency improvements.

- Improved Wild player targeting behavior
- Wild Smile Robots no longer actively target players
- Retaliation against attacking players is preserved
- Improved behavior consistency across Type-1, Type-G, Type-C, and Type-S
- Existing Bond behavior remains unchanged
- Type-C farming support behavior remains unchanged

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## 🖥 UI Improvements

Several UI systems received additional improvements.

- Improved Bond Coin display positioning
- Improved Bond Coin Transfer button positioning
- Improved compatibility with the vanilla Status Effect list
- Improved dynamic UI positioning when multiple effects are active
- Improved large monster name and HP bar positioning
- Improved Target Info status display support

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## 🌐 Localization Improvements

BondCraft continues to support 5 languages:

- Japanese
- English
- Simplified Chinese
- Russian
- Brazilian Portuguese

Localization received a full consistency review across all supported languages.

Improvements include:

- Updated monster descriptions
- Updated passive descriptions
- Updated ability descriptions
- Updated Type Synergy descriptions
- Updated NPC dialogue
- Updated UI text
- Updated system messages
- Improved terminology consistency
- Removed remaining untranslated text from supported localization files

All five localization files now contain matching translation key sets.

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## 🐛 Fixes & Internal Improvements

- Fixed duplicate debuff duration processing in Curse Dominion
- Fixed Humanoid Type Synergy EXP application
- Fixed several targeting inconsistencies
- Fixed Wild Smile Robot player aggression inconsistencies
- Fixed large monster suffocation damage caused by oversized collision checks
- Improved large monster hit detection
- Improved large flying monster movement
- Improved Bond follow behavior for large flying monsters
- Improved owner combat response behavior
- Improved projectile positioning and visuals
- Improved area attack target validation
- Improved friendly-fire prevention
- Improved status effect handling
- Improved Party / Bench / Reserve compatibility
- Improved Down / Recovery compatibility
- Various internal cleanup and consistency fixes

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## ⚠ Notes

- Balance and systems may continue to change in future updates.
- Dominus: Voldis and other large monsters may receive additional visual or balance adjustments in future versions.
- Combat AI improvements apply across multiple BondCraft monsters.
- Existing worlds can continue to be used, but creating a world backup before updating is recommended.

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## ❤️ Thank you for supporting BondCraft!

BondCraft continues to grow with new monsters, improved combat systems, and more ways for your allies to fight alongside you.

More monsters and new gameplay content are planned for future updates.

**Claim the allies you have yet to meet.**