Rite of Returning — Recent 25 Update Changelog

Major Lich Ritual Expansion

• Added the full Lich Ritual system.

• Added a 3-minute ritual startup phase.

• Added a boss bar timer for the ritual startup.

• Added Soul Seeker attack waves during the ritual.

• Added ritual completion advancement: And Death's Life Begins.

• Ritual completion now instantly turns the player into Lich Form.

• Ritual completion consumes the worn Crown of the Spider.

• Ritual completion consumes the held Seeker Orb.

• Added command support for changing soul counts:

  • /ror souls set <amount>

  • /ror souls set <amount> <player>

  • /ror souls set <player> <amount>

Ritual Structure Changes

• Added Ritual Spire blocks for the four outer ritual towers.

• Center structure now uses Ritual Tower blocks.

• Outer structures now use Ritual Spire blocks with Ritual Tip blocks on top.

• Only the center Ritual Tower is interactable.

• Added Darkrock, a dark bedrock-style ritual block.

• Darkrock dome now builds over the full 3-minute ritual startup.

• Dome forms around the ritual with entrances to the north, south, east, and west.

• Center Ritual Tower break time adjusted toward 2 minutes.

• Center Ritual Tower can be broken by any player.

• Breaking the center tower collapses the ritual.

• When the center tower breaks, the Darkrock dome slowly breaks apart.

• Ritual Tower, Ritual Spire, and Ritual Tip blocks now break during collapse cleanup.

Ritual Corruption

• Ritual corruption now spreads in vein-like patterns.

• Corruption now converts 75% of the selected ritual area into Shadow Grass.

• Corruption spreads over the full ritual startup instead of happening all at once.

• Corruption scans under the Darkrock dome so the dome does not block the ground conversion.

• Original ground blocks are remembered.

• After ritual collapse, corrupted ground slowly restores over 1 in-game day.

Ritual Kill Effects

• Ritual-killed mobs are struck by black lightning-style effects.

• Ritual kills send soul particles toward the central tower.

• Soul particles now travel slowly over 5 seconds instead of appearing instantly.

• Reduced the number of soul/smoke particles for better visibility and performance.

• Ritual-killed mobs now have nearby item drops absorbed by the ritual.

• Absorbed drops also send a soul trail into the central tower.

Lich Form

• Added full Lich Form behavior.

• Lich Form grants 3 rows of hearts / 60 max health.

• Liches can now take damage from normal sources.

• Liches are immune only to burning/fire-type damage.

• If ritual protection saves the lich from fatal damage, the lich returns to the ritual at low health instead of being fully healed.

• Liches clear fire every tick.

• Liches break nearby torches and light sources.

• Nearby entities receive Darkness and Weakness.

• When attacked, a lich summons 2 friendly Shadow Spirits for 8 seconds.

• Shadow Spirit summon cooldown is 30 seconds.

• Undead and shadow mobs rally around the lich.

• Added Lich's Curse effect.

• Added Lich's Blessing effect.

• Lich's Curse reduces nearby mobs’ health.

• Lich's Blessing gives undead/shadow mobs 2x attack damage.

• Passive mobs flee from liches.

• Endermen become highly aggressive toward liches.

• Soul Seekers flee from liches and despawn if they get too close.

• Shadow Spirits naturally rally to help liches.

• Spider Pals become aggressive toward liches.

• Liches cannot wear the Crown of the Spider.

• Armor is removed and saved when entering Lich Form.

• Saved armor is restored when leaving Lich Form.

Spider Pal Updates

• Added Poisoness Friends Forever advancement when taming a Spider Pal.

• Spider Pals now move at regular spider speed.

• Spider Pal ownership is tied to the Crown of the Spider.

• Spider Pals can be stored in and summoned from the crown.

• Spider Pal follow/wander/stay behavior was improved.

• Spider Pal crown binding and rebinding was improved.

• Spider Pal lost/recovery behavior was improved.

• Spider Pal pickup/summon controls were cleaned up.

• Spider Pals now spawn in Mystic Grove / Mystic Garden compatible biomes.

• Spider Pal projectile positioning and fire behavior was tuned.

• Spider Pal visual/offset issues were adjusted.

• Spider Pal crown mode cooldowns were improved.

Soulfire Mobs and Mystic Grove Spawns

• Soulfire mobs now spawn in the Mystic Grove / Mystic Garden compatible biome tag.

• Confirmed Mystic Grove spawn support for:

  • Soul Fire Blaze

  • Soul Fire Cow

  • Soul Fire Sheep

  • Soul Fire Pig

  • Soul Fire Chicken

  • Soul Fire Wolf

  • Soul Fire Zombie

  • Soul Fire Skeleton

  • Soul Fire Creeper

  • Soul Fire Phantom

  • Spider Pal

MagiBlade and Weapon Updates

• Soul MagiBlade was renamed/updated into Soulfire MagiBlade.

• Soulfire MagiBlade has 14 attack damage.

• Soulfire MagiBlade melee hits release a soulfire slash.

• Soulfire MagiBlade can block Iron's Spellbooks magic while shielding.

• Blocked spell damage is absorbed as mana.

• Removed the experimental MagiBlade laser ability.

• Removed MagiBlade animation issues from the spider-related update work.

• Improved sword/item behavior and socket compatibility.

Iron's Spellbooks Compatibility

• Added Iron's Spellbooks compatibility.

• Switched Rite of Returning mana behavior to use Iron's Spellbooks mana.

• Added Iron mana helper logic.

• Added starting mana support.

• Added Arcane Anvil socketing support for Rite of Returning weapons and gems.

• Added safer Arcane Anvil behavior to prevent crashes with socket gems/weapons.

• Fixed Arcane Anvil null spell-container crash.

• Socketing now safely clears the result slot when the input is incomplete.

• Normal Iron's Spellbooks items still pass through to Iron's default Arcane Anvil logic.

Removed / Cleaned Up

• Removed Soul Trap block.

• Removed Soul Trap ritual requirement.

• Ritual now requires 4 living mobs within 10 blocks instead.

• Those mobs are killed as sacrifices when the ritual starts.

• Removed Stormie’s Spiders dependency and references.

• Removed the experimental Soulfire MagiBlade laser ability.

• Removed older/temporary spider offset and animation fixes that were no longer needed.

Fixes

• Fixed missing corruption helper methods from the Lich bossbar update.

• Fixed Arcane Anvil crash caused by Iron's Spellbooks trying to read a null spell container.

• Fixed ritual corruption not spreading properly under the dome.

• Fixed ritual cleanup so the dome and ritual structure break after the center tower is destroyed.

• Improved performance and visuals by reducing soul-travel particle spam.

• Improved Mystic Grove/Mystic Garden spawn compatibility.