JEG 1.8.0 Changelog (workspace total)

Date: 2026-08-05
Version: 1.8.0
Loaders: Fabric / NeoForge · Minecraft 1.21.1 and 26.2

This is the combined 1.8.0 release notes for the whole workspace.
Each branch also keeps its own full history in:

Per-branch files may include loader-specific bullets; this document merges the common 1.8.0 story plus those specifics.

Interim labels 1.8.1 / 1.8.2 were never separate public releases. Their work is part of 1.8.0.

Highlights

1. SuperbWarfare-style special equipment — drones, C4 / claymore / vest, Javelin & Igla, smoke denial, vehicle lock UI.
2. Kill credit — gun / rocket / explosive kills correctly credit the player (#10).
3. Vehicle / missile / rocket combat balance — SW-aligned missile damage model, ballistic AP for missiles, retuned vehicle armor & HE modifiers, rocket numbers + tooltip fix.

Added

• Ported SuperbWarfare-style special equipment into JEG: FPV drones with monitor control, C4 bombs (including remote/detonator variants), claymore mines, and a C4 vest wearable charge.
• Added the C4 Defuser tool for safely removing placed C4 charges, with durability-based uses.
• Added guided launchers Javelin and Igla 9K38, including lock-on fire, SW-aligned first-person poses/ADS, inventory icons, walk/sprint root motion, and full reload animation support.
• Added C4 drone FPV payload HUD with detonate guidance and a KAMIKAZE dive presentation for explosive drone runs.
• Added a C4 vest bomber gunner variant with configurable spawn rates so suicide-bomber pressure can be tuned per server.
• Added SW-style smoke screens that deny missile locks while active, including denser custom smoke particles and dedicated release audio.
• Added SW-style vehicle missile lock frames and seek audio so lockable targets get clear on-screen seek boxes and feedback.
• Soft-disabled natural Terror Phantom spawns by default to reduce unsolicited aerial boss pressure in normal worlds.

Changed

• Set the module version to 1.8.0 on all four maintained loaders.
• Rebalanced guided missiles: retuned tracking/damage feel and allow unguided Javelin dumps when lock is not available.
• Improved anti-vehicle rocket performance against armored targets.
• Strengthened drone descent power cut and raised max drone descent speed by about 1.33x for snappier FPV kamikaze dives.
• Aligned drone camera pitch with SuperbWarfare FPV framing.
• Only draw lock boxes for missile/drone targets that are in range and have line of sight.
• Improved vehicle state sync with broader tracking coverage and a 256-block fallback for distant vehicles.
• (Fabric) Hide the vanilla armor bar while riding a vehicle so vehicle HUDs stay readable.

Vehicle / missile / rocket balance (1.8.0 combat pass)

• Rebalanced vehicle armor ratings and HE damage modifiers using SW-style damage_modifiers with strict damage-type matching (no stacked explosion multipliers on a single hit).
• Guided missiles use SW-aligned direct hit + explosion falloff (SwStyleExplosion: diameter = 2R, quadratic damage percent).
• Removed per-vehicle missile entity multipliers (e.g. @javelin_missile * 0.8, @igla_9k38_missile * …); missile direct hits use the ballistic armor piercing system against vehicle part armor.
• Rocket launcher combat values: direct 150, blast 50, blast radius 11, AP 10.
• Rocket launcher tooltip shows real direct + blast damage (was incorrectly showing legacy GunStats 28).
• Guided launcher (Javelin / Igla) tooltips mirror the rocket layout: real direct damage, blast damage, blast radius, and profile AP from VehicleMissileProfile (GunStats damage was often 0/placeholder); seek range 256; headshot multiplier omitted for HE launchers.
• Rocket / guided launcher tooltips now include blast radius (rocket 11, Javelin 9, Igla 6).
• Raised LAV-150 HE vulnerability (vanilla explosion *7.5, missile blast *2.5).
• Lowered helicopter/aircraft HE multipliers: Mi-28 / AH-6 *1.75, A-10 *2.0.
• Aligned ported vehicle max health and armor fallback ratings closer to SuperbWarfare where applicable.
• Raised undermatch multipliers (~0.45–0.55) so non-penetrating hits still deal meaningful partial damage.

Missile combat table

Vehicle armor (fallback rating)

Fixed

Special equipment / vehicles / presentation

• Fixed drone FPV rubber-banding and missing pilot render during monitor control.
• Fixed missile/drone seek frames missing when targets were due north.
• Fixed helicopter rotor spin-down and engine sound continuing after dismount.
• Fixed guided launcher fire/lock handling, ADS raise, hand orientation, and inventory GUI presentation (including flat Igla icons that fill the item slot).
• Fixed special equipment audio, monitor link behavior, and payload HUD tip text; repaired related language JSON.
• Fixed vehicle missile and special-equipment presentation issues carried over from the special equipment port.
• (Fabric 1.21.1 / Fabric 26.2) Fixed special-equipment entity scale, claymore facing, and related mixin/render targets for drone and seek frames where applicable.
• (NeoForge 26.2) Fixed C4/claymore entity scale and claymore facing; fixed missile/decoy deferred render pose so projectiles keep correct scale; fixed GeckoLib v5 first-person guided launcher hip pose, ScreenProjection capture for HUD frames, and drone rotor bone spin.

Kill credit (#10)

• Fixed gun / missile / grenade / molotov kills not counting for vanilla advancements, boss kill credit, killed_by_player loot, and modpack kill tracking.
• Player-fired bullets use dedicated jeg:bullet damage type with the shooter as the causing entity, and set lastHurtByPlayer after successful hits (1.21.1 path).
• Explosive blast paths (rockets, vehicle cannons, grenades, molotovs) attribute player kill credit the same way.
• Fixed gun/missile kills not awarding Free the End / MOB_KILLS; attribute player credit before damage, keep player as bullet causing entity (Ender Dragon), resolve multipart parts, and tag jeg:bullet as always_hurts_ender_dragons where required.
• (NeoForge / Fabric 26.2) 26.x no longer relies on the old hurt-path lastHurtByPlayer alone; credit is applied from the damage source on incoming damage and death, and weapon code attributes before hurtServer. Guided missiles use a player-attributed blast source, pre-credit nearby targets, and explicitly credit lock/direct-hit bosses (e.g. Ender Dragon) that can sit outside a tight blast AABB. Rifles no longer strip the player causing entity in creative for dragon hits.

Vehicle combat balance fixes

• Fixed vehicle damage-modifier matching that stacked multiple explosion rules and could one-shot full-HP vehicles or nearly nullify rocket damage on airframes.
• Fixed rocket launcher item tooltip damage readout so it matches actual HE combat numbers (direct + blast).
• Fixed Javelin and Igla item tooltips so combat stats match VehicleMissileProfile instead of empty/placeholder GunStats values.

Verification

Modules / branches

Published jars (workspace release/)

• jegn-1.8.0+fabric1.21.1.jar
• jegn-1.8.0+neoforge1.21.1.jar
• jegn-1.8.0+fabric26.2.jar
• jegn-1.8.0+neoforge26.2.jar

Note on interim labels

Public version remains 1.8.0.