Iron's Botany

[1.4.1] - 2026-04-17

Visual Overhaul — Phase 1

• Block Entity Renderers — Spell Reservoir and Mana Conduit now render a floating, fill-scaled glow orb above the block. Orb intensity, scale, and alpha track the block's stored ISS mana in real time. - SpellReservoirBER: cyan-green halo + spinning core, subtle bob. - ManaConduitBER: violet-cyan halo + core + three orbital sparks (reuses the color-cycling / orbital trig pattern from SparkSwarmRenderer). - Both use LightTexture.FULL_BRIGHT + RenderType.entityTranslucent to stay bright in dark biomes without a custom shader pipeline. - Gated on ClientConfig.enableManaParticles.
• Client-synced block entity state — SpellReservoirBlockEntity and ManaConduitBlockEntity now implement getUpdatePacket / getUpdateTag and broadcast sendBlockUpdated on every mana mutation, so BERs (and any future client listeners) see live stored-mana values instead of stale NBT snapshots.
• Spell particle signature — Five spells gained Iron's Botany-flavored particles layered onto their existing vanilla VFX for visual cohesion: - ManaBloomSpell — petal bursts at each flower spawn. - LivingRootGraspSpell — botanical burst ring at target feet. - RunicInfusionSpell — mana transfer swirl on caster (scales with rune count). - GaiaWrathSpell — botanical burst on each target + petal storm column rising from caster. - ManaRebirthSpell — petal rebirth burst + rising mana transfer pillar.
• Ambient block particles — active SpellReservoirBlockEntity and ManaConduitBlockEntity now emit low-rate ambient wisps from their serverTick (~25–30% per second) while they hold mana, giving the blocks atmospheric presence beyond the BER orb. Uses existing particle types — no new assets.
• Config gates — CommonConfig.enableSpellParticles and CommonConfig.enableBlockAmbientParticles now actually govern server-side particle emission. ClientConfig.enableSpellParticles was dead code (client flag, server broadcast) and has been removed — existing configs with the key will log a warning once and be ignored.
• HUD proximity pulse — ClientEventHandler now scans a 6-block radius around the player every 20 ticks for active Spell Reservoirs / Mana Conduits and wraps the Botania mana bar in a cyan pulsing border while any are in range.
• Block geometry — SpellReservoir and ManaConduit replaced their cube_all models with hand-written multi-element geometry (pedestal + bowl rim, and pedestal + column + top cap, respectively). Reuses the existing block textures; collision stays a full cube.

[1.3.3] - 2026-04-15

Critical Fixes

• Dedicated server crash fixed (second leak) — SpellCastSyncPacket (a common-side packet class) held a private static handleClient method that directly referenced net.minecraft.client.Minecraft. When PacketHandler.register() ran inside FMLCommonSetupEvent, the JVM loaded SpellCastSyncPacket via the consumerMainThread(SpellCastSyncPacket::handle) method reference, and Forge's transforming classloader refused the client type on DEDICATED_SERVER with BootstrapMethodError: Attempted to load class net/minecraft/client/multiplayer/ClientLevel for invalid dist DEDICATED_SERVER. The existing DistExecutor.unsafeRunWhenOn guard did not prevent class loading because the client reference lived on the same common-side class. - Moved the client-only handler into a new @OnlyIn(Dist.CLIENT) class com.ironsbotany.client.network.SpellCastClientHandler. - Added public getPos() / getSpellId() accessors on SpellCastSyncPacket so the new client class can read packet state without exposing fields. - SpellCastSyncPacket.handle() now dispatches via the canonical Forge () -> () -> SpellCastClientHandler.handleClient(packet) double-lambda pattern, using a fully qualified class name so the client reference never appears in the common class's import table. - Verified: ./gradlew compileJava clean; grep over com.ironsbotany.common returns zero net.minecraft.client / net.minecraftforge.client references.