1.2.1: Farming, Companions, and Quality of Life

Interface

• Added a switch beside the offhand inventory slot to toggle offhand block placement without affecting shields, food, buckets, or tools.

Equipment

• Added Unique-Level material upgrades for all 14 Weapons Expanded weapon families.
• Longswords, halberds, and warhammers retain their selected combat mode after upgrading.
• Added the missing Melee requirements and guide entries for rapiers, morningstars, glaives, and halberds.

Farming and Item Grades

• Rotten flesh no longer receives item grades.
• Higher-grade gifts grant more Friendship.
• Higher-grade food speeds up baby-animal growth.
• Graded breeding food can produce twins, with up to a 10% chance at L10.
• Cows, mooshrooms, pigs, sheep, chickens, goats, and rabbits now inherit persistent breeding grades.
• Livestock grades carry over to meat, eggs, feathers, and eligible organic Alchemy materials.
• Hold Shift with a hoe while looking at a supported crop or animal to inspect its grade.
• Eligible mob drops and fishing catches now receive grades based on their source zone.
• Supported crafting and cooking conversions preserve ingredient grades.
• Updated the Farming and Alchemistry guides.

Companions

• Completed the remaining advertised companion abilities.
• Added Armadillo, Sniffer, Vindicator, and Witch companions.
• Bonded companions are protected from transformations such as curing, zombification, drowning, freezing, lightning conversion, and mooshroom shearing.
• Appropriate edible Friendship gifts now heal injured mobs and companions.
• Defend-mode companions remember valid threats for 30 seconds instead of 10.

Progression and Commands

• Added a persistent server-wide RPG XP multiplier.
• Operators can use /rpg setglobalxpmult [value].
• Added /rpg fixbossgate for operators to repair a missing required boss well.

Boss Wells and Rewards

• Tall grass, flowers, bushes, leaf litter, and similar natural ground cover no longer prevent boss-well placement.
• Player builds, crafted blocks, block entities, and water remain protected.
• /rpg fixbossgate now distinguishes unloaded chunks from unsafe terrain.
• Fixed Boss Loot Boxes sometimes losing their announced material reward.
• Boss Loot Box currency messages now say copper coins.

Shrine Performance

• Removed the Enchantment Shrine Mining Fatigue aura.
• Reduced shrine-related server work by limiting searches to loaded terrain and using indexed protection checks.
• Deferred shrine maintenance until the relevant chunks are loaded.
• Removed glowing shrine-sign text to improve nearby rendering performance.

Economy

• Scrap Merchant equipment values now include bonuses for enchantment levels, workmanship quality, and armor material tier.