Heartcore Lives

Heartcore Lives 1.0.2 — Cinematic Update

NEW SETTINGS
- Added a cinematic settings menu: press J → Cinematics.
- Choose between Classic and Refined waking animations.
- Classic remains the default, preserving the original first scene.
- Animation preferences and Soft Effects now persist after restarting.
- Added safe cinematic previews that do not consume lives.

BED WAKE-UP
- Added a dedicated first-person animation when returning beside your saved bed.
- Open your eyes, brace against the mattress, sit up and stand.
- Follows the bed's direction and your safe respawn position.
- Occupied, broken or obstructed beds fall back to ordinary waking.
- Can be disabled separately in cinematic settings.

TIME REWIND
- Reworked player-arm animations into staggered reaching attempts.
- Improved shadow-hand wrist movement while maintaining contact with the clock pointer.
- Added subtle light trails and synchronized ticking.
- Improved the transition back to normal hands and held items.

SOLAR RETURN
- Shortened the fourth cinematic to 6.6 seconds.
- Reworked arrow extraction, charging, wind-up and throwing animations.
- Added solar glow, fiery trails and impact effects.
- Improved the skeleton's recoil and burn-to-ash animation.
- Flame aura remains during the 60-second Solar Might effect.

OTHER
- Preserved existing lives, loot, cat trading and revival mechanics.
- Public release uses vanilla Minecraft sounds.

REQUIREMENTS
Minecraft 26.3 • Fabric • Java 25
Fabric API and compatible GeckoLib 5.5.7 or newer.

Back up your world before updating.
Update both clients and server. Install only one Heartcore Lives JAR.