Reality Shards 1.4.1 — Cosmic Relics & Machines

For Minecraft Java 1.20.1 / Forge / Java 17.

New since the published 1.3.0 release

• Rebuilt all 55 wearable Reality Shards as distinctive three-dimensional artifacts across the eleven existing families and five progression tiers.
• Added dedicated relic materials and restrained animated cosmic energy without repainting the completed equipment texture sheets.
• Rebuilt the Reality Analyzer with an engraved dimensional housing, rotating suspended crystal, pulsing cyan runes, and a brief processing effect.
• Rebuilt the Reality Forge with an obsidian-and-gold frame, floating violet crystal, moving orbital rings, animated energy channels, and subtle processing effects.
• Improved Reality Ore and Deepslate Reality Ore with natural stone textures, crystalline purple veins, emissive highlights, and staggered twinkles.
• Added a dimensional Unidentified Reality Shard and detailed artwork for all five registered research papers.
• Preserved the original paper and dust artwork in high-resolution exports: papers are 256×256, and Reality Dust uses sixteen 256×256 animation frames. These were exported directly from the original high-resolution artwork rather than enlarged from the previous small sprites.

Preserved behavior

Completed armor, weapons, standard tools, staves, and crook designs are unchanged. Existing registry IDs, recipes, equipment stats, research requirements, Forge menus and costs, loot, progression, and save formats are preserved.

Curios remains required; JEI and Patchouli remain optional. KubeJS is not required by the standalone mod. The Genesis Core and ending sequence belong to the separate Ex Nihilo Ad Infinitum modpack and are not standalone mod features.

Replace the old Reality Shards JAR and keep only one active copy in the mods folder. Restart Minecraft to load the new renderer classes.