Kaelo’s Ruinbound

Fairer bosses

The big bosses were built against our own weapons and took four to eight minutes with vanilla netherite. They are now lighter and less armoured, so a vanilla fight takes about two to three minutes, while our gear still finishes them in well under two:

• Winged Regent 600 health (was 700), Star Devourer 850 (was 1000), Void Elemental 680 (was 800), Fallen Kaelo 760 (was 900);
• all four: armour 12 and toughness 4 (was 18-20 and up to 9).

The Last Smith and the Standard-Bearer are unchanged.

Smoother fights

• The Winged Regent's fight runs much faster - the mod used to take about a quarter of every frame in it; now it takes about a twentieth. The Citadel's guards, Kaelo, the forge's defenders and the Smith gain the same way.
• The Star Devourer's fight is lighter too - the mod's share of each frame is less than half of what it was: his glow is drawn only where something glows, and the observatory's rings draw only the part you can see.
• The Devourer no longer writes a fight recording into your world every fight (it was a development tool that shipped by mistake), and his server tick costs less than half of what it did.

New things

• Boss bars: new frames for every boss.
• Spawn eggs for all fifteen of the mod's creatures, in the creative tab.
• The Star Devourer's arrival now shows the rift he comes through, under shaders too.

Fixes

• The Astral Observatory is placed only on flat, dry ground - no more halls on slopes or ringed by a moat.
• The Standard-Bearer's death: the standard falls beside him, level, instead of sinking into the ground.
• Bleeding and Sunfire no longer make the health bar jump or show the damage twice.
• Leaving a world and opening another in the same session no longer carries over ground waves or the Smith's burning cracks.
• The development commands are left out of the release.