Mystical Terrain 1.0.6 — The Bosses Update

A reworked Ender Dragon, ten realm bosses with their own lairs and summoning rituals, twenty new mobs, and 77 pieces of boss gear. Every realm now has something at its heart worth hunting: a boss with 14 to 19 animated moves, a lair built around its altar, servants that roam its lands, and a set of weapons and armour forged from what it leaves behind.

New requirement: GeckoLib 5.4.5 or later (Fabric, 1.21.11) must now be installed alongside Fabric API and TerraBlender, on both the server and every client.

Highlights

• The Ender Dragon, reworked: a new detailed model, three new moves, 22 animations and a summoning ritual.
• 10 realm bosses, one for each fantasy realm, each with a unique ritual, a lair, three phases and 14 to 19 moves.
• 20 new mobs, two for each realm, several of them the bosses' own servants.
• 77 items of boss gear: 33 weapons with right-click abilities and 11 armour sets with full-set bonuses, all in 3D.
• Custom boss bars for the dragon and every realm boss.
• A new Mystical Terrain: Bosses creative tab.

The Ender Dragon

The dragon has a new face and a new fight.

• New model: black-violet scales, a crown of swept-back horns, a cracked chest plate over a glowing void core, torn membrane wings with glowing veins, a spined tail ending in a blade. Its neck and tail still bend along its flight path the way vanilla's do.
• A summoning ritual: the dragon no longer wakes when you first arrive. Four Void Pedestals now stand around the exit portal; set an Eye of the Void in each. The pedestals flare, lightning strikes, the sky darkens, and the dragon rises out of the void through the portal while its health bar fills. Filling the pedestals again after a kill summons it once more (the vanilla end crystal respawn still works too).
• Three new moves on top of its vanilla attacks:
  • Void Breath Sweep: from its perch it rears back and rakes a wave of dragon's breath across the island.
  • Crystal Recall: once crystals are down it flies to the portal and channels to rebuild two of them. Deal enough damage to break the channel and it staggers.
  • Shatterdive: at a quarter health, and again near death, it climbs high and slams into the island, throwing everyone back.
• 350 health, up from 200.
• 22 animations: flapping, banking into turns, climbing, gliding, hovering, take-off and landing, perching, scanning for players, roaring, breathing fire, spitting fireballs, and every new move, plus a ten-second death in which its core swells and bursts.
• Drops 8 to 12 Essence of the Void Dragon.

Eye of the Void: an Eye of Ender surrounded by 4 crying obsidian and 4 amethyst shards.

The Ten Realm Bosses

Each boss lives in a lair in its own realm. Right-click a lair's altar with an empty hand to learn its ritual. Every boss has three phases, a custom health bar, and summons a boss-specific entrance and death.

The offerings (Cinder Heart, Primal Egg, Drowned Idol, canopic jars, Spore Heart, Starlight Vial) can be crafted, are found in lair chests, and some are dropped by the realm's mobs. The Frost Bells, Gloom Braziers and Rune Pillars are built into their lairs; moonpetals grow in the Fae realm. Once a boss is defeated, its altar resets for the next fight.

Their moves

• Emberlord Pyraxis (400 health): Swipe, Slam, Meteor Rain, Fissure, Flame Breath, Magma Combo, Lava Geyser, Molten Armour, Ember Rain, Hellfire Ring and Quake March; in its last phase it sets itself alight and Erupts.
• Hrimthane (420): Bite, Tail Sweep, Freezing Breath, Ice Spikes, Frost Nova, Glacial Charge, Icicle Volley and Frozen Prison; it burrows under the ice and bursts up beneath you, and in later phases calls a Whiteout, an Avalanche and a Blizzard of ice shards.
• Queen Lirael (320): Thorn Bolts, Charm, Thorn Sprites, Blink, Petal Storm, Vine Snare, Fae Dance, Moonbeams and Pollen Haze; rings of Thorns from her second phase, a Thorn Crown of seeking thorns, and a Queen's Decree that lifts you and slams you down.
• Grothmaw (500): Bite, Tail Club, Tail Whip, a thundering Charge that stuns it if it hits a wall, Leap Slam, Rock Throw, Bone Quake, Devour, Stomp with rockfall, a Roar that knocks you back, Primal Rage, and a Raptor Call that brings its pack.
• The Hollow Warden (360): Six-Armed Flurry, Shadow Bolts, Shadow Clones, a Darkness Pulse, Vanish to reappear behind you, Soul Chains, Nightmare, Grasp of the Dead, Shadow Combo, Soul Siphon, Lantern Flare and an Eclipse.
• Mother Bogrot (420): Vine Whip, Slam, Root Grab, Poison Mist, Toxic Spit, Thorn Patch, Swamp Gas that ignites, Hag's Curse, Leech Swarm, Mire Pull, Bog Thralls rising from the water, and Sap Regeneration; she heals while standing in water.
• Sekhmar (440): Claw, Curse, Sandstorm, Scarabs, Sand Spikes, Mummy Wrap, Solar Beam, Tomb Guardians, Quicksand and Pharaoh's Wrath; in its last phase it takes wing and dives on you, and once per fight it rises again with the Ankh.
• Mycelord Vorr (400): Slam, Spore Cloud, Sporelings, Mushroom Bombs, Root Eruption, Fungal Bloom, Decay Touch, Spore Vortex, a Mycelial Network it travels through underground, Spread (turning the arena to mycelium), and finally Burst and Rot Nova.
• The Archon of Runes (380): Rune Missiles, a sweeping Arcane Beam, Detonating Sigils, Teleport, Rune Barrage, Arcane Orb, Gravity Sigil, Mana Burn (strips your buffs), Prism Split, Rune Prison and Arcane Overload; Rune Shields from its second phase.
• Astrael (450): Lance, Starfall, Gravity Well, Radiance, Meteor Lance, Halo Blades, Constellation, Wing Buffet, Comet Dive and Judgement; at its last phase the sky darkens into a starfield, the starfall quickens, and it can unleash a Supernova.

Each boss drops 5 to 8 of its essence, plus diamonds, emeralds and golden apples.

New Mobs

Twenty mobs, two for each realm. They spawn at night in their own realm, have their own animations, attacks and loot, and several are the servants their bosses call into battle.

Boss Gear

33 weapons and 11 armour sets (44 pieces), three weapons and one set for each boss and for the dragon. Every piece is modelled in 3D, in the hand, in the inventory and on the body, with glowing and animated parts.

• Every weapon has a right-click ability on a cooldown, and many have an effect on every hit. Hover over a weapon to see its ability, effect and cooldown.
• Every armour set has a full-set bonus when all four pieces are worn.
• Forged from the boss's essence and netherite; enchantable, and repaired with that boss's essence.

Weapon abilities only harm monsters and bosses, never other players.

Boss Health Bars

The dragon and every realm boss have their own health bar: an ornamented frame in the boss's colours with its own gem and trimmings (horns for the dragon, flames for Pyraxis, icicles for Hrimthane and so on), a glassy fill with a travelling shine, a trail that shows the damage you've just dealt, notches at each phase, and a pulse when the boss is close to death.

Commands

For operators and map makers:

• /mysticalterrain lair <boss> builds that boss's lair where you stand, in any world.
• /mysticalterrain summon <boss> summons a boss in front of you with its full entrance.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash on start-up that could happen depending on the order in which mods loaded (TerraBlender reading the surface rules before Mystical Terrain's blocks were registered).

Upgrading

• Install GeckoLib 5.4.5+ first; the game will not start without it.
• Existing worlds are safe to update. A dragon already alive in your world keeps fighting with the new model and moves. If you have never entered the End, the dragon will now wait for the Void Pedestal ritual.
• Boss lairs and realm mobs appear in newly generated chunks of their realms.
• As before, Mystical Terrain must be installed on the server and on every client.