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Changelog

MekaSuit Rebalance Fork — Initial Release

For Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge, based on Mekanism 10.7.19.

Armor and combat

• Removed the MekaSuit’s ability to convert stored energy into near-total damage immunity.
• Powered MekaSuit armor now behaves like high-end conventional armor.
• Players continue to lose health from meaningful attacks and remain killable.
• Full powered armor provides protection slightly stronger than Netherite.
• Defensive modules consume energy based on the damage or effect they prevent.
• Added safeguards against defensive modules combining into practical invulnerability.

Unpowered behavior

• Unpowered armor loses most of its enhanced protection.
• Wearing most or all of an unpowered suit applies Slowness and Mining Fatigue.
• Penalties are removed cleanly when sufficient power returns or the armor is removed.
• Powered modules stop functioning when their armor piece cannot supply enough energy.

Energy system

• Fixed every MekaSuit piece at 20,000,000 energy capacity.
• Full suit capacity is now 80,000,000 energy.
• Energy Unit modules can no longer be installed into MekaSuit armor.
• Added a configurable charging throughput limit for each armor piece.
• Removed unnecessary passive energy drain.
• Movement and utility systems primarily consume power while actively used.
• Defensive systems use high event-based energy costs during combat.

Environmental protection

• Added powered fire-damage reduction.
• Added powered lava-damage reduction with higher energy costs.
• Added strong freezing protection.
• Powered helmet breathing prevents drowning while sufficient energy is available.
• Preserved Mekanism’s existing radiation-protection behavior.
• Armor-bypassing sources such as void damage remain unaffected.

New modules

• Strength Enhancement Unit
• Knockback Stabilization Unit
• Arcane Dampening Unit
• Blast Dampening Unit
• Thermal Regulation Unit
• Fall Dampening Unit

Module behavior

• Strength Enhancement increases melee damage and consumes energy when an enhanced attack lands.
• Knockback Stabilization completely prevents knockback while enabled and powered.
• Arcane Dampening provides configurable magic-damage reduction across four levels.
• Blast Dampening reduces explosion damage without granting explosion immunity.
• Thermal Regulation improves fire and lava protection with event-based energy consumption.
• Fall Dampening completely prevents fall damage when the required energy can be paid.
• Fall-protection energy cost scales with the damage that would have occurred.

Existing modules

• Vision Enhancement now uses a small continuous energy drain while active.
• Locomotive Boosting now provides configurable movement bonuses across four levels.
• Higher movement levels have increasingly expensive energy costs.
• Movement energy is primarily consumed while the player is moving.
• Hydraulic Propulsion consumes energy when an enhanced jump is performed.
• Existing jetpack, elytra, nutritional, breathing, radiation, and module-configuration systems remain intact.

Content and configuration

• Added dedicated recipes for every new module.
• Updated recipes for several existing movement and utility modules.
• Added native-resolution Mekanism-style icons for all new modules.
• Added English names, descriptions, settings, and tooltips.
• Added configuration options for armor, energy, charging, environmental protection, module bonuses, and operating costs.
• Added reusable magic-damage detection based on Minecraft and NeoForge damage classifications.

Development and testing

• Added balance-focused unit tests.
• Added NeoForge GameTests for powered damage behavior and fixed energy capacity.
• Verified all 60 GameTests successfully.
• Verified the complete Gradle build and data generation.
• Verified the development client reaches the title-screen resource-loading stage.
• Replaced the unavailable CC:Tweaked Maven dependency source with its pinned NeoForge release on Modrinth.