Immersive Smithing 1.3.0

This update completely overhauls the smithing experience, replacing traditional minigames with hands-on crafting, cinematic workstation interactions, improved visuals, and much broader mod compatibility.

What's New

• Completely redesigned smithing: Forge weapons, armor, and tools through actual interactions with your workstations instead of menus and timed minigames. Choose a pattern, prepare your materials, heat the metal, hammer it into shape, quench it, and attach the finishing components.
• Hands-on heating and hammering: Work the bellows, rotate your metal to heat it evenly, and strike specific areas to gradually shape your creation. Different items require different techniques, and you can reheat your work whenever necessary without losing progress.
• Cinematic crafting: Get a closer look at your work with new Cinematic and Shoulder camera modes, or stick with the traditional view. Improved visual guides, animations, sound effects, and workstation feedback make every step feel more immersive.
• Improved quenching and finishing: Quench your heated metal directly in the trough, attach handles and other components at the anvil, and refine finished equipment using the redesigned grindstone. Optional engraving lets you put your signature on your creations.
• Expanded Epic Knights compatibility: Added extensive built-in support for Epic Knights and its add-ons, including Slavic Armory, Antique Legacy, Ice and Fire, Dark Ages, Seven Kingdoms, Artilleries, Medieval Boomsticks, and more. Equipment now follows appropriate forging recipes while preserving special upgrades, transformations, and original crafting methods where needed.
• Expanded Epic Fight compatibility: Added built-in forging recipes for Epic Fight weapons, including daggers, longswords, greatswords, spears, tachis, netherite weapons, and the uchigatana. The bokken also has a new crafting recipe.
• Better material and equipment handling: Improved ingredient costs, component requirements, equipment quality, and recycling calculations. Added blackened and gilded steel support, along with a new flail anvil pattern.
• Redesigned workstation models: The forge, anvil, trough, and grindstone now use cleaner, more optimized models with improved collision and selection outlines.
• Improved multiplayer: Workstations now properly manage who is using them, preventing players from interfering with each other's work. Unfinished projects can eventually be picked up by another player.
• More customization and accessibility: Added adjustable camera settings, reduced-motion options, keyboard controls, clearer crafting guides, improved status displays, and additional server configuration options.
• Better modpack support: Expanded datapack customization for crafting processes, materials, and equipment compatibility. The forge's pattern book also supports searching by mod using @, similar to JEI.
• Save compatibility: Existing workpieces are migrated to the new system, preserving completed progress where possible and preventing materials from being charged twice.

Additional Improvements

Numerous fixes and improvements have been made to crafting behavior, recipe handling, equipment quality, workstation performance, multiplayer synchronization, and overall stability.

Smithing is now about working the metal yourself, from the first heat to the finishing touches.