Essence Ascendance 1.0.0-beta.4

For Minecraft 1.21.1, on Fabric and NeoForge.

Ascendance fishing rod

• Added the Ascendance fishing rod with all six equipment tiers, tier-colored rod and hook artwork, Infuser progression, and Archive guidance.
• Water casts use ordinary fishing, including native loot, open-water checks, Lure, and Luck of the Sea. Fishing Speed improves the native fishing countdowns.
• Hook blocks to pull yourself toward the anchor, or hook supported entities to pull them toward you. Start pulling with a strong hook-setting tug, steer the opening burst by looking sideways, up, or down, then keep holding for steady reeling. Release to detach while retaining momentum.
• Improved close-range pulls so hooked targets settle in front of the caster without passing them and rebounding away.
• Shortened rod tooltips into separate range, hook speed, hook gravity, pull force, and reel speed lines.
• Surface Tension supports exposed liquid surfaces while sprinting or holding a compatible fishing rod. Added the Water Skiing advancement for sustained travel across water during a block-anchor pull.

Equipment browsing

• All six Ascendance shield tiers now appear in JEI and the creative inventory.
• Reordered ingredients to place the Ascendance Matrix, raw Latent Ore, Latent Nugget, Latent Ingot, and Latent Block before the Essentium sets. The Raw Latent Ore Block remains under Natural Blocks.

Updating an existing world

Run /essence admin balance rebuild to generate the new fishing rod tier values and Fishing Speed balance for your loaded pack. Existing player progress and human configuration are retained.