Eclipse Gate

1.4.4

Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47.4+. Needs DarkmoonLibrary 1.1.0 or newer.

The way in: by Stargate

• The Hollow calls. Form a Stargate in the Overworld (JSG's Pyramid with Sun above it), or stand by one of the gates already in the world, and a few seconds later the Hollow's gate in Castle Nocturne dials it, in a cutscene: the camera pulls back as the gate shudders, swings round as the wormhole bursts open, and closes in as a Lunar Wisp drifts out of the event horizon (sneak to skip; off with the Cutscenes setting). Then the wisp talks with you: ask it who it is, what happened to the Lunar Order, why the moon stopped, and why you, then agree to help and it gives you a map to a Lunar Watchtower and fades back through the gate. Not ready? Say so, and it waits by the gate: right-click it to talk again (it remembers what you've asked). The map and the advancement come once per player.

• Lunar Watchtowers (new Overworld structure): ruined towers of the Lunar Order. The Hollow's address is on signs on the upper floor, and the chest holds The Way to the Hollow, a notebook page with the address, and loot. Cartographers and the Wandering Trader now sell Watchtower Maps.

• Ruined Hollow Portals no longer generate, and a Moonstone Brick frame can't be lit from the Overworld any more. Inside the Hollow a Moon Shard still lights one, as a way home; the portal it opens in the Overworld leads back. Portals lit before 1.4.4 keep working, and server owners who want the old way back can turn on moon_shard_portals_outside_hollow in eclipsegate-common.toml.

• Advancements: A Voice Through the Gate (answer the Hollow's call) and The Order's Watch (find a watchtower) replace finding a ruined portal and lighting the frame. Cartographer of the Night now asks for a watchtower.

• A welcome in the Hollow. The first time you come through a Stargate into the Hollow after answering the call, the wisp comes back a few seconds later, in a cutscene: it drifts down from the sky to float in front of you, then greets you, points you to your first steps, and gives you a Moon Shard for the way home.

Conversations

• A new dialogue screen: the speaker's name and line typed out along the bottom of the screen (click, Space or Enter to show it all) and your answers underneath (click, or press 1-4). It doesn't pause the game.
• For pack makers: conversations are data, in data/<namespace>/dialogue/<id>.json, reloaded with /reload. Answers can depend on flags, advancements, items and what the player has already heard, and can give items, grant advancements and set flags. The server checks every answer before anything happens. The player's flags and what they've heard are saved with them, through death and relogging.

Rune circle rituals

• Wake a rune circle. Use a Star Fragment on a rune circle's standing stone in the Moonlit Hollow: the runes light one by one around the ring, chiming higher as they go, and a beam of light rises from the stone.
• The runes show you the way. When the beam fades you get a Rune-Read Map marking the nearest Hollow place you haven't found yet: ruins, observatories, outposts, shrines, crypts, grottos, mines, hamlets, camps and more.
• Once per moon. A circle's runes then go dim (darker, and no sparks) until the next eclipse, when they wake again on their own. Go looking for other circles in the meantime.
• Build your own. Any Rune-Carved Lunar Stone or Rune-Carved Selenite with a ring of at least 8 lit Lunar Runes around it works.
• New advancement: Rune Reader.

Star Enchanter

• Lift a star. Pick a star the item already has and press Lift to take it off. Star enchantments give back half their Starlight Shards (rounded up); the experience spent is lost.
• Preview. Hover over Inscribe to see the item as it will be, with all its enchantments, before you pay.

The Way to the Hollow

• A book with the Hollow's Stargate address, by Archivist Lyra, lies in every Lunar Watchtower's chest in the Overworld. It gives the address for Milky Way, Pegasus and Universe gates, one symbol per line, and only lists the 7th symbol when your world's gate setup needs it.

Handbook and JEI

• New handbook entries: By Stargate, Starlight Crystal Ore and Rune circles. Menu and settings, Stone, Wood, Lore, The Star Enchanter and Other mods now cover 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 too.
• JEI: info pages for the Rune-Carved stones and Glimmerwood Mosaic, and on every star enchantment's book (at each level): what it does, its constellation, and what it costs at the Star Enchanter.

DarkmoonLibrary 1.1

• Eclipse Gate's settings in one place with every Darkmoon mod's: Mods list > DarkmoonLibrary > Config.
• Update notices. When a newer Eclipse Gate is out, a small note in the title screen's top-right corner says so; click it to open the download page. Turn it off in the same screen.