Hextale

Added

• Hextech Skypack: two brass tanks of air essence around a hextech gemstone, worn on the back like elytra. Jump, then jump again in the air: a take-off from the ground fires its jets for two seconds like a firework rocket, then it glides until the next take-off from the ground. Every take-off costs a little air. Refill it from Essence Jars: right click a jar with the pack, or sneak beside jars while wearing it. Researched at the Research Table and made at the Hextech Altar (gemstone, phantom membranes, hexsteel, brass pipes, leather). It shows on the back; during the take-off long plumes of hextech flame burst from both nozzles with a ring of light and a roar, glints running down them - drawn on the flyer, so they stay with you at any speed - then thin out and die. The jets cough when the air runs low.
• Six runes for the skypack (three at a time): Motor (faster), Bellows (a kick when the jets catch), Dam (take-offs that cost no air), Breath (softer walls and landings), Fireproofing (fire resistance in flight) and Lens.

Changed

Every particle and light effect of the mod is new: hand-made, high-resolution sprites with their own motion, each fitting what it shows.

• Essence is alive now: once in a while a drop of glowing liquid seeps out from under the lid of a filled Essence Jar and floats up slowly, wobbling and changing shape as it evaporates - in the colour of an essence inside. Push a jar and it spills a few drops. A Big Essence Jar breathes along its whole lid.
• Essence drawn from jars into machines (Research Table, Lab Bench, Whirl Reaper, Hex Sawmill) flows as a chain of those living drops along a soft channel of light, gathering over the jar's lid and sinking into the machine.
• New particles everywhere instead of the vanilla ones: drops that fall and splash, bubbles that wobble and burst, soft steam and smoke that swells as it rises, crackling hextech sparks, twinkling glints, tongues of coloured flame, and rings of light that rush out when a ritual ends, a block wakes, a lens is cut or a brew splashes.
• The crucible boils, bubbles and splashes in the colour of what is in it; the drain valve pours a real stream of drops in the colour of the essence it drains.
• Rune procs show glints and a ring of light in the rune's colour; the altar's motes, the steles' rune shards, the shimmer motes and the magic tree's falling leaves are redrawn.
• Whirl Reaper whirls carry puffs of air and glints up the funnel; pylon tendrils glint at their root and tip.

Fixed

• The drain valve's drops showed a random colour: the colour did not survive the trip to the client.