Essence Ascendance 1.0.0-beta.8

Minecraft 1.21.1, Java 21, Fabric or NeoForge. Fabric requires Fabric API and Architectury API; NeoForge requires Architectury API. Install matching versions on the server and every client.

Start with fresh worlds and Essence Ascendance configuration. Item identifiers and generated configuration formats have changed without migration. Back up existing installations before updating.

Balance and configuration

• Improves generic pack equipment references and Skill/Bonus generation using shared native attributes and tool rules. Vanilla and normal ATM10 passed isolated generation, rebuild and saved-profile restart checks; modpack balance remains approximate and may need tuning.
• Gives Latent gear an iron-era foundation, then scales higher tiers toward measured pack equipment. The Essence Caster deals less damage than the bow, fires faster and has shorter range.
• Adds editable Skill unlock tiers, rank counts and first/maximum stat values in skill_settings.toml. Bonus active tiers and effect bounds now live in bonus_settings.toml.
• Clarifies global settings, advanced overrides, reports and diagnostics. Apply edited balance settings with /essence admin balance rebuild.
• Improves generic recipe quantity and reversible material handling without content-specific valuation rules.

Equipment, recipes and interface fixes

• Renames the Ascendance Blade to the Ascendance Sword, including its internal identifier.
• Keeps equipment and armor variants ordered from Latent through Transcendent in creative listings and JEI's creative sorting stage.
• Corrects tier-specific crafting and Infuser recipe matching, removes armor-trim recipes, and changes the Archive recipe to a vertical stick, Raw Latent Ore, stick.
• Lists generated Latent Ore variants alongside the existing variants in JEI and creative tabs.
• Improves narrow Archive layouts, long item names, unnamed yield filtering and tab navigation.
• Cleans up the completed Transcendent Ascendance display, small-scale symbols and tier text.
• Improves Tool Instinct's initial mining behavior and avoids repeating JEI search indexing already completed for the current tooltip revision.
• Makes Info, Settings and membership popups move only the JEI area on their actual side, keeping page controls with the items.
• Fixes a JEI startup failure caused by an unavailable internal sorting callback. The corrected integration passed native hook checks with JEI 19.53 on Fabric and 19.54/19.57 on NeoForge; optional late-variant sorting now fails safely if that hook is unavailable.

The added glaive artwork remains an authoring asset; this release does not add a playable glaive. Pack generation checks do not establish perfect valuation or complete gameplay balance for every item and Skill.