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:
  • Ingots: Craftable via Shapeless recipes using vanilla materials and lower-tier ingots.
  • Rings (Redesigned): Now use Lore-Based Independent Recipes.
    
    • Require a mix of Faction Ingots (Current + Lower Tier) and a Vanilla Lore Item (e.g., Book, Golden Apple, Spider Eye, Heart of the Sea).

💾 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.
• Sunmetal Ingot Texture: Fixed incorrect texture (was using a ring placeholder) by generating a proper 64x64 Ingot texture.
• Cardinal Ring: Ability buffed to "Ascension". Now launches the player upwards and grants Creative Flight (double-jump to fly) for 20 seconds.
• Entropy Ring (Decay Wave): Fixed a critical bug where custom status effects (Decay, Silence, etc.) were instantly cleared if multiple dimensions were loaded. Effects now persist correctly across dimensions.
• Watcher Ring: Nerfed "Time Stop" duration from 10s to 7s for balance.