Chaos Mod — Changelog

Rifts and Combat

• Fixed closed Reality Scars preventing new natural Rifts from spawning nearby.
• Reworked Dimensional Guardian AI, animations, combat phases, and plate-based attacks.
• Added limited plate resources, defensive openings, smarter attack selection, and tier-based combos.
• Increased Guardian damage relative to same-tier Rift Walkers.
• Reworked Rift Walker movement, attack timing, animations, and combat abilities.
• Fixed Rift command availability after respawning.

Machines and Energy

• Fixed Flux Crystal and Empowered Flux Crystal consumption thresholds.
• Fixed module insertion exceeding machine Module Power limits.
• Rebalanced generators, machine energy inputs, and cable throughput.
• Removed battery calibration while preserving stored energy, side configuration, and Machine Controller support.
• Renamed the existing Flux slot to Stabilizer and added Reality Condensate as a stabilization material.
• Reality Condensate restores up to 100 percentage points of stability for Basic–Darklight machines, 80 for Nova, 40 for Zenith, and 20 for Chaos, using the existing automatic consumption thresholds.
• Increased Zenith Refiner consumption to 1 GFE/t, with a 128 GFE buffer and 8 GFE/t input limit.
• Increased Zenith Extractor consumption to 4 GFE/t, with a 512 GFE buffer and 32 GFE/t input limit.
• Added antimatter extraction with a 4.5% base chance: 5 from Nova, 15 from Zenith, and 32 from Chaotic Extractors.

Zenith Accelerator

• The Accelerator now accepts Zenith Bars only.
• Rebalanced collision energy to 10 TFE × charge², reaching 10 TFE at full charge.
• Reduced Reality Condensate output to floor(16 × charge), with a maximum of 16 per collision.
• Collisions at exactly 50% charge produce 2.5 TFE and 8 Reality Condensate.
• Beams interrupted below 50% charge now decelerate and disappear without producing energy or condensate. Consumed resources are not refunded.
• Reworked the UI with clearer bars, useful statistics, and Start/Stop controls.
• Stop ends the current run without freezing the particle; sufficiently charged particles route toward the center when they next pass the input.
• Removed the Accelerator's I/O screen shortcut; side configuration remains available through the Configurator.
• Preserved acceleration timing, progressive bar consumption, the 8 MFE/t running cost, and the Center Accelerator Rod's 100 TFE capacity.

Nova Reactor

• Added modular reactor construction up to 13×13×13, preserving the compact 3×3×3 reactor.
• Added Fuel Rod, Control Rod, and coolant components with recipes and models.
• Added complete fuel columns, individual roof-mounted controls, and coolant-filled interiors.
• Component placement, coolant volume, and circulation now affect thermal behavior.
• Added thermal inertia, fractional resource consumption, and manual/automatic SCRAM.
• Reworked the UI with detailed energy, resource, structure, and thermal indicators.
• Allowed controllers and ports on exterior faces outside edges and corners.
• Closed gaps around Control Rod tops.
• Scaled meltdown radius and explosion strength with reactor size.
• Removed reactor calibration and its output penalty.
• Removed the reactor’s I/O shortcut;
• Added compatibility handling for existing reactor saves.

Equipment and Recipes

• Enabled enchanting for tiered tools, bows, and shields, including the Chaos Bow.
• Higher-tier modules now require the previous-tier module surrounded by eight current-tier bars.
• Added/fixed Stellar Wire and Darklight Wire recipes.

Reliability

• Improved energy persistence, resource accounting, multiblock updates, and server-side validation.
• Updated Zenith energy handling to support GFE/TFE values without integer truncation and prevent segmented transfers from bypassing input limits.