Majestic

v0.0.0-beta.3 - Astral Altar, research and the Almanac guide book

The first real ritual and progression loop: build an altar, research the first light, and engrave a spell onto your focus.

Added

• Astral Altar (Tier 1): a small multiblock (altar + 4 astral pillars) that runs the engrave_spell ritual.
• Hold your focus in your main hand and a spell sigil in your off-hand, interact with the altar — consumes a blank page and essence, engraves that spell onto your focus. Requires the first_light research node.
• Research: the first_light node, auto-unlocked the first time you cast with your focus.
• Guide book (The Almanac, via Vellumli if installed): documents the 4 spells, the engrave ritual, and first_light. Delivered to you, with its advancement, when first_light unlocks.
• New items: blank page and 4 spell sigils (bolt / ward / reveal / surge).
• The focus's cast spell is no longer fixed — it remembers whichever spell you last engraved onto it.

Fixed

• A datagen path bug meant generated spell data was never actually read by Almanac Core — fixed (the hand-written alpha content already lived at the correct path, so this had no visible effect until now).

Early alpha. Tier 2 of the altar (and the Observatory structure it belongs to) isn't built yet — that's the next milestone. Ritual reagents are checked from your inventory, not from the pillars themselves.