Elysium Mod - Development Changelog

🚀 Major Features

🛠️ 7-Tier Crafting System

Implemented a complete progression system for all 3 Factions (Aetherius, Abyssal, Equilibrium).

• 21 New Ingot Items: Represents the journey from Initiate to Godhood.
  • Aetherius: Sunmetal, Illumite, Celestium, Seraph Steel, Divinity, Eternium, Omnisteel.
  • Abyssal: Voidsteel, Umbralium, Obsidite, Dreadiron, Abyssalite, Nihilium, Singularity.
  • Equilibrium: Veridium, Terra, Harmonite, Aequilibrium, Cosmolite, Quantium, Universal.
• Recipe Progression:
  • All Ingots are craftable via Shapeless recipes using vanilla materials and lower-tier ingots.
  • All 21 Rings now strictly follow the Tier system (e.g., Tier 3 Ring = Tier 2 Ring + 4x Tier 3 Ingots).

💾 Robust Persistence System

• Fix: Solved the "Ghost Ring" / Item Deletion bug upon death or relog.
• Implementation:
  • Migrated to ServerEntityEvents.ENTITY_LOAD for reliable data loading.
  • Fixed InvalidInjectionException in PlayerPersistenceMixin by targeting correct 1.21 methods.
  • Resolved NBT Serialization errors for empty ItemStacks.

🔧 Technical Fixes & 1.21+ Compatibility

📦 1.21.2+ Recipe Format

• Issue: Recipes failed to load with "List is too short" errors.
• Fix: Updated all 42 recipe files to use the new simplified format (Ingredients/Keys must be Strings, not Objects).
  • Before: {"item": "minecraft:iron_ingot"}
  • After: "minecraft:iron_ingot"

🎨 1.21.3+ Item Model System

• Issue: Ingots rendered as Purple/Black Checkerboards despite valid textures.
• Fix: Implemented Client Item Definitions (assets/elysium/items/*.json).
  • Minecraft 1.21.3+ now strictly requires these definitions to map Item Registry IDs to Models.
  • Generated definition files for all 21 Ingots.

⚠️ Recipe Fallbacks

• Abyssalite Ingot: Implemented a "Dual Recipe" system.
  • Primary: Uses minecraft:echo_shard.
  • Fallback: Uses minecraft:amethyst_shard (if Echo Shard is missing in the modpack/version).

🎨 Asset Updates

• Textures: All 21 Ingot textures upscaled to 64x64 resolution for high-fidelity pixel art.
• Registry: Renamed all texture files to *_tex.png to guarantee zero collisions with Item Registry names.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• ModAttachments: Fixed Codec error when encoding empty/air stacks.
• Ring Inventory: Fixed NullPointerException accessed via 
   
  getRingInventory() by enforcing lazy initialization.
• Mixins: Removed obsolete PlayerPersistenceMixin class references that caused startup crashes.