Rite Of Returning

Changes made since then

Flame Spear

• Added the Flame Spear as its own spear item.
• Flame Spear uses the same behavior as Soul Spear:
  • soul counter
  • damage scaling
  • throw/return behavior
  • sockets
  • spear commands
  • sword/trident tags
• Flame Spear uses its own model/texture.
• Fixed thrown Flame Spear so the projectile uses the Flame Spear thrown model, not Soul Spear’s thrown model.
• Made all Flame Spear particles normal fire particles.
• Changed Flame Spear tooltip colors:
  • Soul Counter: orange/gold
  • Throw Speed and Attack Damage: red

Ritual Of The Spear

• Added Ritual Of The Spear.
• It uses:
  • Ritual Brazier in the center
  • 4 diagonal Ritual Spires
  • 32 souls in the Brazier
  • 8 Soul Flame Rods in the Brazier
• Fixed the compile crash caused by RITUAL_OF_THE_SPEAR missing from a switch.
• The ritual now accepts multiple soul types and creates the matching spear:
  • Flame Soul → Soul Spear
  • Fire Soul → Flame Spear
  • Poison Soul → Poison Spear
  • Shadow Soul → Shadow Spear
  • Magic Soul → Magic Spear
  • Blood Soul → Blood Spear
  • Demon Soul → Demon Spear
• The ritual now takes 3 minutes.
• Added a purple boss-bar timer.
• Spawns 3 Death Vexes every minute during the ritual.
• The spear is created after the timer finishes.

Ritual GUI

• Made the Ritual Brazier GUI larger.
• Moved item slots farther up.
• Moved requirement text farther up.
• Removed cyan text under the item slots.
• Requirement descriptions now name the actual required items instead of vague text like “items”.
• Improved dropdown layering so it covers the ritual-info panel better.
• Reworked the player inventory section so it looks like a proper vanilla-style inventory grid while keeping the dark GUI style.
• Added dark framed inventory slots and hotbar slots.

Scrappers

• Reworked Scrapper flying pathing using Ice and Fire dragon-style movement as a reference.
• Added:
  • broad flying targets
  • gradual yaw turning
  • turn-speed scaling
  • pitch-based climbing/descending
  • distance-based speed
  • collision reversal
• Added Ice and Fire-style ground pathing for landed Scrappers.
• Scrappers now switch between flight navigation and ground navigation.
• Kept the 5-minute landing/walking cycle.
• Tamed Scrappers use the improved flight/ground movement too.

New Souls

• Added new Flame Soul recolors/items:
  • Fire Soul — red/orange
  • Shadow Soul — black
  • Poison Soul — green/yellow
  • Blood Soul — maroon/black
  • Magic Soul — purple/blue
  • Demon Soul — black/gold
• Flame Soul now drops at 15% from all living mobs added by Rite of Returning.
• Fire, Shadow, Poison, Blood, and Magic Souls each drop at 1% from those same mobs.
• Demon Soul does not drop from mobs.
• Demon Soul is crafted with:
  • 1 Flame Soul
  • 1 Fire Soul
  • 1 Shadow Soul
  • 1 Poison Soul
  • 1 Blood Soul
  • 1 Magic Soul

New Spears

Added five new spear variants using Soul Spear logic. They currently use temporary Netherite Sword visuals until models are added.

• Poison Spear
  • Poison V for 10 seconds on hit
  • green/yellow particles
  • green name/description
• Shadow Spear
  • Wither V for 10 seconds on hit
  • black/dark particles
  • black/dark description/name
• Magic Spear
  • +5 magic damage on hit
  • purple/pink particles
  • purple name/description
• Blood Spear
  • 75% lifesteal on hit
  • maroon/dark red particles
  • maroon/dark red name/description
• Demon Spear
  • combines Poison, Wither, Magic damage, and Blood lifesteal
  • gives Strength I, Speed I, and Resistance I while held
  • black/gold particles
  • golden name/description

Spear Soul Counter

• Thrown spear kills now count toward the spear’s Soul Counter.
• Covered:
  • direct projectile kills
  • poison kills
  • wither kills
  • magic bonus kills
  • fire/lightning delayed kills tied to the spear
• If the projectile still exists, the thrown spear stack gets the soul.
• If it already returned, a matching spear in the player’s inventory gets the soul.
• Eligible delayed kills also count toward the player’s global Accursed/Lich Soul Counter.

Death Vexes

• Death Vexes now randomly use any spear variant.
• They throw the same spear variant they are holding.
• Ritual Death Vexes remain hostile.
• Friendly Death Vexes are summoned by holding spears:
  • any spear → 1 friendly Death Vex
  • Demon Spear → 2 friendly Death Vexes
• Friendly Death Vexes:
  • follow the owner
  • defend the owner
  • attack targets the owner attacks
  • avoid hurting the owner and owned friendly mobs
  • despawn when the player stops holding a spear, dies, logs out, or changes dimension
  • give no XP or soul-item drops
• Updated their follow behavior:
  • they now stay within a loose 20-block leash
  • prefer hovering around 14 blocks away
  • drift away if closer than 10 blocks
  • return if farther than 20 blocks
  • teleport back if farther than 26 blocks

Achievements

• Added Weapon Of The Gods
  • awarded when obtaining any spear except Demon Spear
• Added The Overlords Spear
  • awarded when obtaining the Demon Spear

Crash Fixes

• Fixed a startup crash in 1.6.3.
• Cause: SoulSpearItem.initializeClient() checked the spear variant before Forge finished assigning it.
• Fixed with:
  • safe renderer initialization
  • null-safe Soul Spear fallback
• Soul Spear and Flame Spear custom models stayed unchanged.