Rite Of Returning

Phobetor / The First Thalleous

• Added the boss originally named The First Thalleous.
• Renamed the boss to Phobetor.
• Made Phobetor a large Wither Skeleton-style boss.
• Gave Phobetor Death’s Thalleous.
• Added Phobetor boss bar.
• Added Phobetor spawn egg.
• Added boss drops:
  • Deathbound Core
  • Heart of Phobetor
  • Broken Soul Crown
  • Deathbound Hilt
  • Soul of the First Lich
• Added recipe for Death’s Thalleous.
• Fixed Phobetor spawning at half health.
• Fixed Phobetor damaging itself with its own abilities.
• Changed Phobetor so it can only take damage from the Soulfire Broadsword.

Death’s Thalleous / New boss items

• Added unique textures/models for:
  • Deathbound Core
  • Heart of Phobetor
  • Broken Soul Crown
  • Deathbound Hilt
  • Soul of the First Lich
• Fixed broken Phobetor spawn egg texture.
• Fixed broken Shadow Vex spawn egg texture.

Iron’s Spellbooks removed

• Removed Iron’s Spellbooks as a dependency.
• Removed Iron’s Spellbooks from mods.toml.
• Removed Iron’s Spellbooks from `build Heart of Phobetor
  • Broken Soul Crown
  • Deathbound Hilt
  • Soul of the First Lich
• Fixed broken Ph.gradle`.
• Removed bundled Iron’s Spellbooks jar.
• Removed Iron Arcane Anvil mixins.
• Removed Iron spellbook socket support.
• Removed Iron imbue-item socket support.
• Removed Iron mana usage.

Rite mana restored

• Restored the mod’s old Rite mana system.
• Magic abilities use Rite mana again.
• Restored mana overlay/sync.
• Base max mana is 200.
• Liches get +2000 mana.
• Active lich players are kept at at least 2000 mana.
• Mana regenerates passively.
• Mana regenerates when damaging enemies.

Socketing system

• Removed Iron Arcane Anvil socketing.
• Changed socketing to use the regular Minecraft anvil.
• Weapon goes in the left anvil slot.
• Socket gem goes in the right anvil slot.
• Output becomes the socketed weapon.
• Socketing costs 5 XP levels.
• Socketing consumes 1 gem.
• Updated socket gem tooltips to mention the regular Minecraft anvil.
  
  

  Lich ritual changes

  • Lich Form now gives 3 rows of hearts / 60 max health.
  • Normal lich/human form gives 1 row / 20 max health.
  • Fixed undead/lich auto-healing issue.
  • Lich players get +2000 mana in general.
  • Added requirement: player must wear full Netherite armor to start the Lich Ritual.
  • If they are not wearing full Netherite armor, the ritual kills them and says:

   

  Come back with stronger armor

   

  New Phobetor ritual

  • Added a new Phobetor ritual in The End.
  • Ritual requires the player to have the vanilla Free The End advancement from killing the Ender Dragon.
  • Ritual uses a Return Altar in the center.
  • Requires 4 spire towers:
    • North
    • South
    • East
    • West
  • Each tower uses:

   

  Ritual Spire
  Ritual Spire
  Ritual Tip

   

  • Altar offerings:
    • 1 Elytra
    • 1 Totem of Souls
    • 1 Seeker Orb
    • 4 Soul Ingots
  • Added new Totem of Souls item.
  • Added Totem of Souls model and texture.
  • Ritual lasts 30 seconds.
  • Shadow Stone tentacles grow in a full 40-block circle.
  • Tentacles grow 10 blocks up.
  • Tentacles now also grow 10 blocks down.
  • A black meteor falls onto the altar.
  • Meteor explodes visually.
  • Phobetor spawns at the ritual center.

  Shadow of Flames

  • Added Totem of Souls as a drop from the Shadow of Flames boss.
  • Shadow of Flames still drops Totem of Flames too.

  Ritual cleanup / deconstruction

  • Ritual-spawned Phobetor is tagged with the ritual center.
  • When that Phobetor dies:
    • Shadow Stone tentacles break.
    • Center Return Altar breaks.
    • Four spire towers break.
    • Ritual Tips break.
  • Meteor no longer destroys the whole ritual instantly so the full deconstruction can happen after Phobetor dies.