Rite Of Returning

1.0.40 — Symbiote player-anchored tentacles

Changed passive Shadow Symbiote tentacles:

• Passive symbiote tentacles now keep their growth point attached to the player.
• While growing, the tentacle start follows the player’s body position.
• While retracting, the tentacle retracts back toward the moving player growth point.
• R ability ground-circle tentacles stayed unchanged.

1.0.41 — Static tentacle body fix

You said the whole tentacle should not move with the player.

Changed:

• Passive tentacle body no longer drags around with the player.
• Only the starting/root particles stay attached to the player.
• Tentacle body grows outward by creating more particles.
• Retraction shrinks the tentacle body instead of moving the whole thing.

1.0.42 — Extended player-root tentacles

You clarified that if the player moves, the tentacle should become longer and stay connected.

Changed:

• The root/growth point stays attached to the moving player.
• The original tentacle body stays in place.
• If the player moves away, a connector segment grows from the player to the original tentacle path.
• Retraction now pulls back:
  1. from the far end,
  2. through the main tentacle body,
  3. through the extended connector,
  4. fully back into the player’s moving growth point.

1.0.43 — Meteor replaced with Crystal Heart Holder

We removed the broken meteor system and replaced it with a mob encounter.

Changed:

• The meteor event no longer spawns a falling meteor.
• The meteor event now spawns a Crystal Heart Holder.
• Crystal Heart Holder is a Husk.
• It wears full netherite armor.
• It holds a netherite sword.
• It has a Crystal Heart floating above it.
• When killed, it drops 1 Crystal Heart.
• Netherite gear should not drop.
• /ror meteor spawn still works, but now spawns the holder.
• Flame Soul Compass was changed to point to the holder instead of a meteor.
• Crystal Heart Ore was removed from active content:
  • block registration removed
  • item registration removed
  • creative tab entry removed
  • blockstate/model/loot resources removed
  • ore tag entries removed

Broadsword Meteor Baptism was changed because Crystal Heart Ore no longer exists:

Sneak-right-click any block with the Soulfire Broadsword

while carrying:

1 Flame Soul
1 Crystal Heart
Required sword souls

1.0.44 — Crystal Heart Holder compile fix

The build failed because ArmorStand methods were private in the mappings:

setMarker(true)
setSmall(true)

Fixed:

• Removed direct calls to ArmorStand#setMarker.
• Removed direct calls to ArmorStand#setSmall.
• Added safe NBT setup for the floating Crystal Heart display:
  • Marker
  • Small
  • Invisible
  • NoGravity
  • Invulnerable
  • Silent

1.0.45 — Flame Soul Compass Holder fix

You said the compass did not work.

Changed:

• Compass now directly searches for the nearest active Crystal Heart Holder.
• It no longer depends only on the old temporary meteor/holder list.
• Added fallback scan for named/tagged Crystal Heart Holder husks.
• If a holder is found but missing from the tracker, it re-registers it.
• Compass target NBT now force-syncs to the player inventory/container.
• Tooltip/mode now tracks:

Crystal Heart Holder

1.0.46 — Phobetor chest laser

Added a new Phobetor ability:

Chest Laser

Behavior:

• Shoots from Phobetor’s chest.
• Range: 38 blocks
• Cooldown: 280 ticks
• Deals 24 magic damage originally.
• Applies:
  • Darkness
  • Slowness III
• Pushes hit targets back slightly.
• Uses a thick soul-fire beam effect with smoke and soul particles.

1.0.47 — New Phobetor model + animations

Added your uploaded:

Phobetor Boss.bbmodel

Changed:

• Added new Phobetor model.
• Extracted and added Phobetor texture.
• Used Blockbench project/UV resolution for proper texture mapping, like we learned from the earlier .bbmodel weapon texture fixes.
• Replaced old Wither Skeleton renderer with a custom Phobetor renderer.

Animation mapping:

Idle = idle
Slow Move = walking
Fast Move = sprinting
Physical attacks = Slash1 / Slash2
Chest laser = Big Boom
Other magic = Laser1 / Laser2

Attack animation behavior:

• Melee attacks alternate Slash1 and Slash2.
• Thalleous Slash uses Slash1 / Slash2.
• Chest laser uses Big Boom.
• Other magic alternates Laser1 / Laser2.

1.0.48 — Phobetor magic timing + stronger laser

You asked to slow down Phobetor’s magic and make magic trigger at the end of animations.

Changed:

• Slowed down how often Phobetor uses magic.
• Added queued magic casting:
  • animation starts first
  • damage/effect triggers at the end of the animation
• Chest laser now uses Big Boom first, then fires at the end.
• Other magic powers use Laser1 / Laser2 first, then trigger at the end.
• Chest laser made slightly larger.
• Chest laser damage increased:

24 → 30

1.0.49 — Phobetor range laser + Shadow Phobetors

You asked for Phobetor to punish players who get too far away.

Changed:

• If the player gets farther than 15 blocks:
  • Phobetor immediately stops moving.
  • Starts Big Boom chest laser animation.
  • Fires laser at the end of the animation.
  • After firing, starts moving/attacking again.

Phobetor health changed:

600 → 1200

Shadow clone changes:

• Old Shadow Clone of Thalleous became:

Shadow Phobetor

Shadow Phobetors now:

• Use the same Phobetor model.
• Use the same Phobetor animation system.
• Hold Death’s Thalleous.
• Do not show a boss bar.
• Fight as clone enemies instead of full bosses.

Phobetor shield mechanic:

• While Shadow Phobetors are alive, the real Phobetor cannot be damaged.
• Player must kill Shadow Phobetors before damaging the real Phobetor again.

1.0.50 — Shadow Phobetor size and glow

You asked for Shadow Phobetors to be 3 blocks tall and glow.

Changed:

• Shadow Phobetors now scale to about 3 blocks tall.
• Real Phobetor keeps the larger boss scale.
• Shadow Phobetors now have the vanilla glowing outline.
• Shadow Phobetor model renders with full-bright lighting so it looks more visibly glowing.
• Shadow Phobetor particles were moved upward and adjusted to fit the 3-block size.