Mist Seas 0.6

Changes since 0.5

New

• Ember Vermin — the silverfish of the mist basins. One and a half hearts of glowing chitin that nests inside the basins' ore blocks — any ore, including ores from other mods — without changing the block: mine an occupied ore and it pops out at you. Left alone, a vermin will crawl back into an empty ore and re-arm it.
• Vermin Scavenger — a hulking crusher-crab, ~3 blocks tall on long jointed stilt legs, pale orange with a bioluminescent purple crystal carapace (a translucent shell over a glowing core) and asymmetric claws: a lobster pincer and a spiked crusher club. Peaceful until struck, it hunts Ember Vermin — it senses one hiding in a nearby ore, walks over, raps on the block until the vermin pops out (the ore is never broken) and crushes it in a single blow. Steps straight up 3-block ledges.
• Basin ores — ore veins now stud the basin soil of every mist sea at deep-cave-like richness. The pool is built from the c:ores convention tag, so every overworld ore, vanilla and modded, appears automatically (deepslate/nether/end variants excluded).
• Raw Niobium — niobium ore now drops it like other raw metals (Fortune-boosted; Silk Touch keeps the ore); smelt or blast it into ingots.
• Scavenger Meat — dropped by the Vermin Scavenger. Raw it risks Hunger (mist taint); cooked (furnace/smoker/campfire) it's a solid meal.
• Crystal Chitin — a very rare shard of the Scavenger's carapace. In an anvil, it enchants a compatible item with Silk Touch (8 levels; blocked by conflicting enchantments such as Fortune).
• Contaminated Kelp — a rare drop from Fungal Pursuers and Mucus Stalkers; drying it in a furnace, smoker or campfire yields ordinary dried kelp.
• New advancements, JEI info pages and FTB Quests entries covering the basin ores, the two new mobs and their drops.

Changes

• Items no longer float on the mist — drops fall through the air-like fluid and land on the basin floor.
• Mist mobs burn in daylight — all five mist creatures (Fungal Pursuer, Mucus Stalker, Mist Warden, Ember Vermin, Vermin Scavenger) now ignite in open daylight outside the mist; inside it they are untouched. The Mist Warden is no longer fire-immune. (The Ghost Narwhal, a creature of the open sky, is exempt.)
• Ground mobs keep to the mist — the new basin walkers actively return to the mist whenever they leave it, and the mist no longer confuses pathfinding (it reads as open air, not water).
• Stalker & Pursuer spawns cut hard — roughly a third of the previous rate, in smaller packs (~1/18 of the pre-0.5 abundance).
• Niobium ore is tagged c:ores / c:ores_in_ground/stone for cross-mod compatibility, and Raw Niobium joins c:raw_materials.

Visuals

• Vermin Scavenger — custom model with a segmented plated abdomen, six two-segment jointed legs (tripod-gait walk with lifting knees), a crouch-and-hammer excavation animation while it raps on ores, and a two-layer crystal carapace: a semi-transparent shell breathing light over an opaque glowing core. Eyes glow ember.
• Ember Vermin — custom segmented rig (head with flicking antennae, thorax, abdomen, tail) with serrated ember dorsal fins and a compounding slither animation; fully repainted ember-chitin texture.
• Shader support (Complementary Reimagined pack patch, shipped with the modpack): the Scavenger's crystal carapace + eyes and the Ghost Narwhal's tusk + veins render truly emissive and colored under shaders, and mist crystal blocks cast purple voxel light with Colored Lighting enabled.

Fixes

• Fixed the Ghost Narwhal loot table failing to load on 1.21 (obsolete looting_enchant function).
• Fixed severe lag from the new mobs' AI (pathfinding retried every tick against unreachable ores; vermin spawn-hide-despawn churn).
• Fixed z-fighting on the Scavenger where the legs and the crystal carapace meet the body.