DragonMine Z Plus - Planetary Destruction Update!

1.1.4

A space travel update. Space pods gain launch and descend controls, deep space gets a proper sense of speed, and Gravity Mastery now pays out. Flying fast also looks the part.

Space pod controls

• Launch. A button in the pod climbs you to the next layer up: from a planet surface to its orbit, and from orbit out to deep space. The climb is sustained rather than a single hop, and it stops if you leave the pod or take damage.
• Descend. The reverse, with the pod braking to a hover above the ground rather than dropping onto it. Available from orbit and from a planet surface.
• Speed readout. While piloting, the HUD shows your current speed in blocks per second.
• Your pod now follows you through layer transitions instead of being left behind.

Deep space

• Speed windup. Sustained flight in deep space builds up speed over time rather than being flat, so long crossings are no longer a fixed crawl.
• Hyperdrive effect. The starfield streaks past in proportion to how fast you are actually going.
• Weightlessness. Deep space is now genuinely weightless and orbit is light, instead of both pulling like a planet.
• Planet to planet pod travel is switched off. Travel goes through the layers.

Gravity Mastery

• Mastery now grants a permanent TP multiplier, the reward half of the gravity system. Training under gravity you have mastered is worth more.
• The character Statistics screen shows the environmental gravity you are standing in, and folds the mastery bonus into the existing TP Multiplier row rather than adding a second one.

Flight aura

• Flying fast now uses a new aura shaped to read correctly on a body pitched forward. DragonMineZ's standing aura is drawn to rise, which looked wrong once you were horizontal.
• The crackling lightning is hidden while flying fast and returns as soon as you slow down.
• Both are cosmetic, local to you, and can be turned off in config/dmzplus-client.toml under [aura].

Fixes

• The pod Launch button no longer fails on the first press. Damage taken at any earlier point could cancel a launch about a tick after it started, which read as the button only working on the second try.
• Fixed a client crash when a skill was missing.
• The pod no longer sinks through weightless space.
• Flying no longer causes an unwanted fall while the hyperdrive effect is active, and the effect is quieter.
• Gravity readouts on the Statistics screen no longer show a duplicate multiplier line or stray annotations, and now match the surrounding font style.

For server admins

The deep space dimension has been renamed from dmzplus:universe_7 to dmzplus:universe_7_deep_space. Forge does not rewrite an existing world config when a default changes, so on an existing world you must edit serverconfig/dmzplus-space-server.toml and update deepSpaceDimension to the new id before starting up. If you do not, orbit to deep space travel is refused and the only sign is one error line in the log at startup. Anyone logged out inside the old dimension will be moved to the overworld, and the old region files are left behind unused.

Requires DragonMineZ 2.1.3+ on Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge).