New Era — Current Changelog / Feature Set

Formerly Demonic Legends — Forge 1.20.1

This is the current project-level changelog based on the latest build state we worked on, through roughly v1.25.0. It covers the major characters, systems, transformations, attacks, weapons, AI, visual changes, and fixes already added.

• Core / Mod Structure

  • Demonic Legends, the Imu content, transformations, bosses, and World Weapons were merged into one Forge 1.20.1 mod.
  • Project renamed to New Era.
  • Built around MinePiece-style combat and progression.
  • MinePiece, HakminePiece, and GeckoLib remain core integrations.
  • YOUPIECE and MinePiece Void Century were removed as required dependencies in later builds.
  • Several previously borrowed AI systems, animations, covenant behavior, and attacks were rebuilt directly inside New Era.
  • Large attacks use shared terrain/explosion handling to reduce server lag.
  • Giant entity hitboxes and scaling were adjusted so huge bosses can actually be fought properly.

• Haki System

  • Custom entities can use Armament Haki.
  • Observation Haki support.
  • Supreme King / Conqueror's Haki support.
  • Strong bosses are balanced around high-level MinePiece characters.
  • Haki levels were assigned individually to characters such as Loki, Rocks, Imuko, Kid, and Cerberus.
  • Certain Domi Reversi conversions can receive Haki, Covenant, and infusion-related buffs.
  • Native punching and weapon attacks can use Haki effects instead of only generic Minecraft damage.

• Imu / Imuko

  • Full custom Imu entity integrated directly into New Era.
  • 666 HP configuration was implemented during the Imu combat overhaul.
  • MinePiece-inspired sword and melee combat.
  • Native punch/sword animations.
  • Imu uses Gram in combat.
  • Morning Star attack.
  • Morning Star can create a large crater/explosion effect.
  • Nova Eclipse attack with stronger explosive damage.
  • Nova/Omen attack visuals improved.
  • Stigma creates a giant shadow sword from Imu that locks onto and stabs a target.
  • Stigma visual size/scaling improved.
  • Giant eye-ring halo attack.
  • Imu raises a hand and expands the eye ring into a huge overhead halo.
  • Halo launches explosive black/demonic projectiles.
  • Repeating special attacks during combat rather than using abilities only once.
  • 35% HP awakening / phase change mechanics.
  • Can transition into stronger forms during battle.
  • Devil / Horned Warrior form cycle.
  • Horned Warrior form receives increased strength and speed.
  • Horned Warrior was set around 2× strength/speed with stronger access to Imu-style moves during that revision.
  • Gigantification system.
  • Gigantification was capped to avoid permanent oversized states.
  • Camera/body scale changes for giant forms.
  • Restored functional flight wings.
  • Normal guarding.
  • Custom perfect guard animation/effect.
  • Perfect guard shield visuals.
  • Domi Reversi targeting.
  • Covenant mechanics.
  • Covenant healing.
  • Imu bounty-based ability unlocking.
  • Latest bounty pass exposes 13 Imu abilities with cleaner/plain ability names.
  • Very high displayed bounty values, including the 5 billion range, were made compatible with unlock checks.
  • Imu damage was later rebalanced because earlier versions were too strong.
  • Character back/face rendering issues repaired.
  • Imuko can appear through a large ritual after Imu's death.
  • Imu-death ritual includes:
    • ground pentagrams
    • overhead pentagrams
    • pillars
    • lightning
    • Haki-style effects
  • Imuko New World spawning support.
  • Imuko uses combat abilities inherited from the broader Imu system.

• Imu Devil Fruit / Transformation

  • Player can transform into the actual Imu model rather than only receiving potion effects.
  • Player body/camera changes when transformed.
  • Gigantification changes player POV appropriately.
  • Transformation visual effects.
  • Later transformations were shortened to roughly a 2-second transformation sequence instead of dragging on.
  • Normal blocking retained while transformed.
  • Perfect guards use the custom Void-style guard animation.
  • Fruit abilities use different energy costs depending on attack strength instead of one flat energy cost.
  • Player and NPC damage values were separately adjusted for stronger abilities.

• Nidhogg

  • Massive custom dragon entity.
  • Player transformation uses the actual Nidhogg model.
  • Native MinePiece-compatible flight system.
  • Camera positioning adjusted for the enormous body.
  • Improved flight-body handling.
  • Faster wing flapping.
  • Tail movement/waddle.
  • Independent neck/head tracking.
  • Bite attacks.
  • Scratch/claw attacks.
  • Arm/forelimb swipe attacks.
  • Massive charged black energy projectile.
  • Mouth remains open while charging.
  • Large destructive projectile impact.
  • Mini-lightning beam barrage.
  • Barrage lasts several seconds.
  • Earlier beam hits were around 10 damage per hit before later scaling passes.
  • Later barrage version increased to roughly 75 beams.
  • Beams target an area around the enemy rather than flying hundreds of blocks away.
  • Beam spread restricted to around an 8-block target radius.
  • Beam impacts use TNT-like explosions.
  • Nidhogg AI can back away/reposition when a target gets directly underneath it.
  • Improved aerial attack angles.
  • Wing/top-view model holes repaired through several passes.
  • Smoke effects were eventually removed from Nidhogg.
  • Nidhogg flight/transformation crashes received multiple fixes.
  • Nightmare-related Nidhogg behavior from an earlier version was later removed.

• Loki

  • Giant Loki boss.
  • High-level Haki.
  • Heavy custom hammer combat.
  • Hammer held properly during idle/walking.
  • Horizontal lightning-enhanced swings.
  • Two-handed ground slam.
  • Slam contacts the ground instead of playing backward or above it.
  • Crater effects.
  • Lightning around hammer impacts.
  • Frequent melee attacks.
  • Movement/pathfinding changed so Loki does not stand still while attacking.
  • MinePiece-style running/fighting behavior.
  • Thrudheim attack.
  • Thrudheim later changed into a large TNT-style explosion without deleting huge amounts of terrain.
  • Thor Bullet naming/attack pass.
  • Hammer barrage.
  • Pandemonium / Gigantic Hammer style attacks.
  • Loki lightning reach was increased during one pass to roughly a 16-block combat area.
  • Loki can temporarily transform into Nidhogg.
  • Transformation duration set around 10–25 seconds.
  • Around 30-second transformation cooldown.
  • Fires two lightning projectiles during the transformation.
  • Reverts to Loki after the transformation expires.
  • Loki fruit/ability bounty unlocks added.
  • Latest unlock pass exposes 6 Loki moves.
  • Loki ability cooldowns were revised, including approximately 15s / 30s cooldown groups.
  • Ragnir/Ice-related abilities were also integrated into Loki's broader combat revisions.
  • Current known issue: the most recent Loki player transformation crash was traced to an animation-loader/keyframe timing problem and was being repaired, so this is the main feature I would still consider not fully gameplay-verified.

• Ragnir

  • Custom Ragnir combat.
  • Uses MinePiece/Void Century-inspired behavior.
  • Aokiji-style model/AI integration was used as part of earlier behavior work.
  • Ice attacks.
  • Ice Prison.
  • Thrudheim-related effects.
  • Hammer abilities.
  • Improved entity/combat integration.
  • Earlier Loki/Ragnir compatibility problems were fixed.

• Rocks D. Xebec

  • Custom demonic Rocks boss.
  • Aggressive toward enemies.
  • Black wings.
  • Custom face, fangs/vampire-style teeth, and model revisions.
  • Teeth repositioned inside the mouth.
  • Face colors corrected.
  • Head spikes/hair/goatee received multiple accuracy passes.
  • Equipped with the Eclipse sword.
  • Sword-holding position corrected.
  • MinePiece-style combat animations.
  • Haki integration.
  • Rocks selector from an older implementation was removed.
  • Later balancing lowered Rocks to around 500 HP and reduced his outgoing damage because he was too strong.

• Eustass Kid

  • Custom Kid entity/model.
  • Around 250 HP in the configured combat pass.
  • Haki integration.
  • Assigned approximately Haki level 6 during balancing.
  • MinePiece-inspired combat behavior.

• Cerberus

  • Large three-headed Cerberus boss.
  • Three-head combat design.
  • Bite attacks.
  • Downward head attacks.
  • Walking/running animations.
  • Collars can spin rapidly.
  • Tongues can transform/use sharp blade-like attacks.
  • Projectile-style head/tongue attacks.
  • Scramble AOE attack.
  • Scramble was tuned to deal around 50 damage against very strong MinePiece-class enemies during its major combat pass.
  • Observation Haki around level 8.
  • Armament Haki around level 8.
  • Resistance buffs.
  • Can receive MinePiece-like strong-entity buffs.
  • Shamrock can summon Cerberus.
  • Summon lasts approximately 30 seconds.
  • Despawns afterward.
  • Roughly 20-second cooldown before another summon in the configured version.

• Shamrock

  • Cerberus summoning behavior.
  • Uses Cerberus as a temporary combat summon.
  • Cooldown/despawn logic integrated.

• Kaido

  • Kaido combat expansion.
  • Flaming Dragon Form.
  • Can enter Flaming Dragon around 15% HP.
  • Extreme heat/damage around the dragon body.
  • Environmental interaction designed to feel destructive without destroying server performance.
  • Stronger Flaming Kaido attacks added in later builds.
  • Fish-Fish Fruit receives high-level related transformation/ability content.
  • A major Flaming Dragon/Fish-Fish ability was tied to extremely high progression, including an approximately 1-billion bounty requirement in one implementation pass.

• Dorry & Broggy

  • Giant models/entities.
  • Improved giant hitboxes.
  • Large pentagram effect beneath Dorry and Broggy.
  • Pentagram visibility reworked so it remains visible when the player moves above it or changes elevation.
  • Large combat/environment effects.
  • Imuko conversion/ritual interaction.
  • Conversion pentagrams.
  • Airborne pentagram attacks.
  • Pentagram shotgun mechanic.
  • Fires three explosive AOE projectiles/shells.
  • Crater effects.
  • Ally protection so friendly entities are not indiscriminately destroyed by their own effects.

• Domi Reversi

  • Full conversion mechanic.
  • Can convert sufficiently weaker Marine/Pirate-type entities.
  • Conversion is faction/strength restricted rather than affecting everything.
  • Converted entities receive demonic visual traits.
  • Horns.
  • Fangs.
  • Black wings.
  • Alliance/faction behavior updated after conversion.
  • Haki/Covenant/infusion-related enhancements supported.
  • Domi ritual/sigil visuals rebuilt.
  • Domi targeting improved.
  • Later visual fixes cleaned up the conversion effects.

• Ju Peter

  • Custom Gorosei-related boss behavior.
  • Underground movement/attack AI.
  • Vacuum-style attack.
  • Can consume/destroy blocks as part of attacks.
  • Custom combat AI instead of simple melee behavior.

• Marcus Mars

  • Combat Yokai form.
  • Flying/monster combat.
  • Large beam attack.
  • Beam is anchored correctly to the beak/mouth.
  • Approximately 40-tick sustained beam implementation.
  • Explosion effects.
  • Environmental damage.
  • Yellow destructive laser-style attack.

• Warcury

  • Custom combat entity.
  • Tusk slash attacks.
  • Ram/charge attacks.
  • Very large Conqueror's Haki roar.
  • Roar radius configured around 48 blocks during the Gorosei update.

• Killingham

  • Custom centaur-style character/model.
  • Trident-related combat work.
  • Zaza/Nightmare-gate related content was connected during later expansion updates.
  • Model/attack integration with the wider boss system.

• Sommers

  • Custom model/entity.
  • Thorn-Thorn related abilities.
  • Thorn damage.
  • Thorn AI.
  • Model rebuilt during later updates.
  • Green snake/thorn visuals were adjusted.
  • Nightmare-related fruit/content integration.
  • Added to the larger fruit/locked-treasure progression system.

• Rain God Zaza

  • Custom Zaza boss/model.
  • Four-arm design.
  • Model received several rebuilds because earlier versions were too jellyfish-like and not humanoid enough.
  • Grounded four-arm version added.
  • Custom summon system.
  • Arm positioning repeatedly revised.
  • Wolf/bear/draugr/cloud-associated summon/model content received rebuilds during the same expansion period.
  • Current visual direction is the more humanoid four-armed Rain God style rather than the older cylinder/jellyfish form.

• Elbaph Luffy

  • Added as a separate custom entity.
  • Inherits/uses advanced Luffy-style combat and fruit behavior.
  • Gear-related combat behavior.
  • Higher Haki.
  • Added in the later 1.20–1.21 era.

• Elbaph Zoro

  • Custom Elbaph Zoro.
  • Native Onigashima-style AI.
  • Custom moves.
  • Combat animations.
  • Sprint animation repaired.
  • Sword sheathes removed when requested.
  • Model updates and weapon handling improvements.

• Elbaph Sanji

  • Custom Elbaph Sanji.
  • Native Onigashima-style AI.
  • Custom moves/combat behavior.
  • Conqueror/Haki-related expansion.
  • Sprint animation repaired.
  • Face repeatedly rebuilt to match the references.
  • Left eye kept visible instead of being covered by hair.
  • Eye raised to the proper facial position.
  • Nose redesigned using the sketch reference.
  • Hair alignment corrected.
  • Cigarette added in the later version.
  • Latest face correction was included around v1.21.6.

• Horned Warrior

  • Separate stronger Imu-related form.
  • Significant strength/speed increase.
  • Uses enhanced Imu abilities.
  • Part of the Imu transformation/form cycle.

• Nightmare / Summoned Creatures

  • Wolf-related models.
  • Bear-related models.
  • Draugr-related models.
  • Cloud-related models.
  • Nightmare summon framework was added and retuned across multiple builds.
  • Several summoned-model visuals were rebuilt for better quality.

• World Weapons

  • Seven World Weapons were merged directly into New Era.
  • Weapon names and implementations cleaned up, including Fragarach/Xingtian-related naming changes.
  • Known custom weapons include:
    • Gram
    • Eclipse
    • Sword of the Wailing Void
    • Skull Crescent Axe
    • Cloud Hook
    • Longinus Spear
    • additional merged World Weapon content
  • Custom Blockbench weapon models.
  • Weapon positioning corrected in hands.
  • Axe orientation corrected.
  • Cloud Hook orientation/bend corrected.
  • Gram blade made slimmer.
  • Sword of the Wailing Void changed to a much straighter blade.
  • Smaller animated black flames added to the Wailing Void sword.
  • Weapon attacks can include:
    • explosions
    • environmental damage
    • poison
    • life-steal-style effects
    • energy/projectile attacks
    • special AOE effects
  • Random World Weapon usage tied into Imu's combat/eye-ring system.

• Special Combat Systems

  • Giant bosses have custom melee ranges/hitboxes.
  • Native MinePiece-like running/fighting behavior.
  • Bosses can cycle special moves throughout a fight.
  • Transformations can trigger based on health.
  • Temporary transformations with cooldowns.
  • Summoned entities with despawn timers.
  • Target-locking projectiles.
  • Large AOE attacks.
  • Lightning.
  • Lasers.
  • Energy blasts.
  • Craters.
  • TNT-style explosions.
  • Environmental destruction.
  • Ally-safe attacks for selected abilities.
  • Smarter aerial positioning.
  • Player camera adjustment for giant transformations.
  • Combat abilities use individual cooldowns rather than simply firing everything continuously.

• Fruit / Progression Content

  • Multiple custom fruits were added to progression.
  • Seven fruit-related items/content entries were added to locked treasure loot during the 1.17–1.18 phase.
  • Imu transformation fruit.
  • Nidhogg transformation fruit.
  • Fish-Fish/Kaido high-level abilities.
  • Sommers/Thorn-related fruit mechanics.
  • Nightmare-related content.
  • Ability costs scale with move strength.
  • Bounty requirements used for high-level attacks/forms.
  • Imu and Loki later received dedicated bounty unlock systems.

• Omen Culverin

  • Added in the later builds.
  • Made self-contained so it no longer requires the removed external dependencies.
  • Custom visuals/attack behavior integrated into New Era.

• Covenant

  • Covenant system support.
  • Covenant buffs/effects.
  • Covenant healing.
  • Domi-converted units can interact with Covenant-related systems.

• Visual / Model Fixes

  • Numerous face fixes.
  • Hair positioning fixes.
  • Backside model holes repaired.
  • Wing holes repaired.
  • Nidhogg top-view holes repaired.
  • Weapon grip/orientation fixes.
  • Sanji face and hair rebuilt.
  • Zoro sheath removal.
  • Zaza four-arm redesign.
  • Domi sigil clarity improved.
  • Removed unnecessary flames from certain Domi sigils.
  • Player transformation models now replace the body properly instead of merely placing effects around Steve.
  • Flight wings restored where they disappeared.
  • Nidhogg smoke removed.
  • Large effect rendering adjusted for distance/height.

• Performance / Stability Work

  • Large terrain destruction queues optimized.
  • Nemesis/giant lag reduced.
  • Kaido environmental heat designed to avoid constant massive block updates.
  • Giant pentagrams/effects changed to render more efficiently.
  • Thrudheim changed so the visual/explosion remains huge without deleting enormous regions of terrain.
  • Transformation crash fixes were made repeatedly for Nidhogg and other large forms.
  • Dependency-related crashes from removed external mods were addressed.
  • Later builds passed compile/static/server-side checks, though not every feature has been fully verified in live multiplayer gameplay.

Latest reported build status

The most recent completed build we had was approximately New Era / Demonic Legends v1.25.0. That build included the Loki/Imu bounty unlock fixes, Imu damage balancing, restored flight wings, safer Thrudheim explosions, model face/back repairs, and removal of Nidhogg smoke. The latest Loki transformation crash happened afterward and was traced to a bad animation keyframe timing during transformed-character rendering, so that specific fix was still being worked on rather than something I would count as confirmed finished.