Portables Beacons

1.1.0

Added

• Seven augments, and four new levers to build them from.

  The mod had seven operations and seven augments — one each — so the vocabulary was saturated and anything new was a recombination. These four operations are the first additions to it:

  mul_aura_cost	scales the sharing surcharge alone
  free_effect_slot	runs the dearest N effects for nothing
  mul_cost_moving	while the carrier is travelling
  mul_cost_still	while holding a position

  Four augments spend them, and three combine several gains across different axes for one cost — so what they buy back is a slot, which is the scarcest thing a beacon has:

  	Gains	Pays
  Communion	sharing surcharge ×0.5 / ×0.3	all fuel ×1.35 / ×1.5
  Wellspring	one effect free	everything else ×1.6
  Wayfarer	×0.5 / ×0.35 while moving	×1.6 / ×1.9 standing still
  Sentinel	×0.5 / ×0.35 standing still	×1.6 / ×1.9 while moving
  Vanguard	+12 range, +1 aura rank	fuel ×1.9
  Prism	+1 effect slot, +1 level ceiling	fuel ×2.2
  Recluse	fuel ×0.35, buffer ×3, no particles	−2 aura ranks

  mul_aura_cost is the one that opens the most ground: sharing became the central mechanic in this release and nothing modulated its price.

• Beacon IV: three effect slots and four augment slots.

Changed

• Fuel moved to container slot 0, with augments after it. It used to sit after the augments, so its index was derived from the augment count — meaning any future slot added by the mod would shift it and turn the fuel in every saved beacon into an augment. Doing this now costs nothing, since the id rename already breaks saves, and it means the layout is stable under the change this mod is most likely to make again.

  To be clear, since it is easy to confuse the two: a datapack moving augment_slots was never dangerous and still is not. That field says how many slots are usable; the container's size is fixed by the mod. Lowering it locks augments in place rather than losing them.

• The sharing surcharge is computed separately from an effect's own cost, so an augment can discount one without the other. Every existing price is unchanged, and a test pins them there — a refactor of that shape moves the whole balance without failing anything.

Fixed

• effect_slots accepted up to 9 while the screen laid out 5, and nothing connected them. A sixth effect would have been resolved, charged and kept — paid for and invisible. One ceiling now, in the place the number is decided.
• The effect cases were drawn from the background texture, which held exactly three, so a beacon with more slots showed its fourth and fifth floating with no frame.
• An effect covered by Wellspring reported "Drain 375%": its share compared a gross cost against a total it had been excluded from. It says free now.
• The advancement tab drew as missing texture. ClientAsset.ResourceTexture builds its own path, so passing a full one asked for textures/textures/….png.png.

1.1.0+26.1.2 — the port

Everything in 1.1.0 above, built for Minecraft 26.1.2 on NeoForge 26.1.2.95 and Java 25.

Ten primers separate 1.21.1 from 26.1 — 1.21.1 was the modding anchor for a year, so nothing moved and then everything did at once. core/, the layer with no dependency on components, packets or rendering, came through the whole port with three errors, all one rename; the two files that differ from the 1.21.1 branch differ by six lines and two.

Changed

• Item handling moved to NeoForge's resource transfer API. IItemHandler is deprecated for removal, and a bridge existed, but this plan already commits to 26.2 and 26.3 — the wrapper would have come due inside work already scheduled. Fuel is now drawn inside a transaction, so a slot that refuses to give up its item cannot credit fuel that was never burned.
• The augment glyph is chosen by the model, keyed on the augment's registry key. The old model_data integer had to match an array's order in the model generator, and when the two drifted an augment simply rendered as the wrong glyph with nothing reporting it. The field is gone from AugmentDef; existing datapacks still load, because a record codec ignores what it does not know.
• Item colours are tint sources declared by the model rather than handlers registered in code, so the augment tint travels with the model it tints.
• Tooltips are assembled from registered appenders instead of an override on the item.
• Gametests are registered functions plus test_instance data files; the @GameTest annotation is gone.

Fixed

• Vanilla unpacked the beacon's own slots into its tooltip, on every hover, shift or not: ItemContainerContents is a tooltip provider now and the beacon stores its augments and fuel in minecraft:container. Hidden through TOOLTIP_DISPLAY — the beacon already says what it holds, in its own words and only when asked.
• Every label on the beacon screen was invisible. Text colours are strict ARGB now, and a bare 0xRRGGBB is alpha 0 — it draws nothing rather than defaulting to opaque. The stats drawer read as an empty panel because it is nothing but text.

Notes

• EMI is not included. No 26.x NeoForge build exists to compile against, on either platform. The plugin stays in the source tree and returns in one commit when one appears. JEI covers the same ground meanwhile.
• Curios 15.0.0+26.1.2 and JEI 29.29.0.76 are the versions this was built against.