Feathers & Winds

Performance

• Fixed heavy server lag from the wild Gryphon spawner. Every 10 seconds it could force-load or generate a chunk around a distant Gryphon Nest, freezing the server tick. Nests are now only checked in chunks where mobs are already active.
• Gryphons looking for a perch no longer force-load chunks either.

Gryph-Hounds

• New companion: a wolf-sized, eagle-headed hound that follows you and warns you of danger. It comes in 8 coat variants.
• Gryph-Hound Egg: crafted at the Aether Altar from a Wolf Fang, Gryphon Claw, Gryphon Feather, Stalker Eye and Aetheric Crystal (needs Houndmaster rank 5). The egg hatches only on Gryphon Nest Thatch.
• New drops: Wolf Fang (35% from wolves), Stalker Eye (25% from Necrotic Stalkers). Both only drop when a player gets the kill.
• Gryph-Hounds can be tamed with bones or any meat (always succeeds in Creative). They don't breed and don't spawn in the wild.
• New "Pack" skill tab: Houndmaster, Sentry's Vigil, Packbond, Blightscent.

New Iskaryl

• Rift Tailmouth: Iskaryl, spawns in the Crystal Rift. Inside a Rift wound it slowly turns into a Necrotic Stalker.
• Necrotic Stalker: now spawns naturally in the Crystal Rift. New model and variants (Bony, Crystal).
• Necrotic Gryphon and Necrotic Gryphon Stalker: Iskaryl gryphons that spawn in the Crystal Rift and during Well events. They glide down instead of taking fall damage.
• Hollow Tailmouth: hostile but not Iskaryl. Rare, spawns in any Overworld biome, day or night, and climbs out of the ground.
• Toxic Tailmouth: uncommon and neutral. It spawns like an animal, fights back when hit, and hunts Hollow Tailmouths.
• Novrim: a peaceful seraph Tailmouth that hunts corrupted creatures and never attacks players.
• Tailmouth-type mobs have a special tail bite that causes Wither and Rift exposure. Rift mobs play "emerge" animations when they spawn.

Iskaran Wells

• 9 Iskaran Wells generate on dry land in rings across the Overworld.
• A Novrim can be found near a Well; talk to it (new dialog screen). Escort it to the Well and protect it through a 6-wave Iskaryl ritual. During the ritual the world turns to night, lightning flashes, wisps circle the Well and a dedicated music track plays.
• Success cleanses the Well and gives every participant an Obelisk Shard.
• Failure makes the Well fall, and Rift corruption spreads up to 32 blocks around it.
• Cleansed Wells are besieged every 2–4 in-game days. Defend the core's integrity bar to earn another Obelisk Shard.
• Fallen Wells can be reclaimed after 4 in-game days. A successful reclaim slowly reverts the corrupted land.

Novrim Form

• Use Novrim's Blessing to unlock the ability to transform into a Novrim (G by default).
• New skill Novrim Mastery in the new Iskaryl tab
• Purifying Pulse (rank B): a Warden-style shockwave in every direction that hits all Iskaryl within 6 blocks. It has its own key (R by default) and a 30-second cooldown.
• In Novrim Form your attacks reduce the Iskaryl's damage resistance from 95% to 50%.
• While transformed you can use items and blocks normally, and you get night vision in the Crystal Rift.

Gryphons, Hippogryphs & Demigryphs

• Many random coat variants: 14 Gryphon, 13 Hippogryph, 13 Demigryph.
• New running, sleeping and attack animations.
• 15% of natural spawns are babies. Using a spawn egg on an adult creates a baby.

Bug-Fixes

• Text was invisible in the Skill screen, the Gryphon Pen and container titles (Aether Altar, Alchemy Belt, Alchemy Table, Forge, Workbench, Nest).
• Fixed a crash when opening the Gryph-Hound codex page.
• Fixed a crash when pressing the Novrim Form key.
• Codex: added a Novrim Mastery page and corrected the Gryph-Hound page.
• Gryph-Hounds, Novrims, Tailmouths and Necrotic mobs now turn their heads toward where they're looking.
• Removed the Aether Cylinder charge bar from the HUD.