Retrolytra

[0.1.0] - 2026-11-06

Added

• Elytra item for Minecraft 1.6.4 with chest-slot equipping, durability, broken state, leather anvil repair and dispenser equipping.
• 1.9-style glide physics, eye height, third-person pose, animated wing model and wing-rotation smoothing.
• 1.15+ takeoff logic by default: jump again while airborne to deploy the elytra, including while still ascending.
• Firework-rocket boosting while gliding and the optional QuickTakeoff mode for deploying and boosting with a single right-click while airborne.
• Looping flight sound, enchanted glint, cape texture override and optional Backlytra-style dyeing.
• Multiplayer flight-state synchronisation, smoother tracker velocity updates and an exemption from the vanilla allow-flight=false floating kick while gliding.
• flyIntoWall damage and death message, plus item-name and death-message translations for 1.6.4 locales with official text.
• Configurable survival recipe, item id, data-watcher flag, flight sound and firework boost settings.
• RetrolytraAPI for querying and controlling elytra flight from other mods.
• Embedded Minecraft 1.9.4 elytra textures and flight sound, with reproducible extraction scripts under tools/.
• Automatic GitHub Actions build workflow and distributable artifact upload.

Changed

• Retooled the build to Retrospectum Loom 0.2.1 and Retrospectum Mixin 0.2.0, resolved from the Retrospectum Maven repository.
• Generated BuildConstants now provide mod metadata instead of source-token expansion.
• Setup records local JDK paths in gradle.local.properties.
• Moved the project package to io.github.vulpesstella.retrolytra.
• Reworked the README for players and external developers, and documented the server requirements for elytra flight.

Removed

• Bundled Loom and Mixin artifacts under libs/.
• Fully untranslated language files that only duplicated English.

Fixed

• Elytra takeoff no longer requires downward motion, matching modern versions.
• Leaving creative flight no longer starts gliding automatically.
• Firework boosting now requires the player to be airborne, and QuickTakeoff predicts the client-side flight state so the boost is not overwritten by normal fall movement.
• Corrected the untranslated Welsh flyIntoWall death message.
• Removed duplicate translator stubs and stale documentation.