Road to Laugh Tale — 1.0.0-beta.1

First public build. Everything below is in and playable; see Known limitations for what still needs eyes on it.

The story

• 8 blue Poneglyphs generate across the world as monoliths 3-4 blocks wide and 4-5 tall, each carrying its own fragment of the Void Century.
• Tracing Paper (3 paper + 1 ink sac) lets you take a rubbing of any stone.
• A real language barrier. Red stones stay unreadable until you have deciphered three blue ones. Nothing unlocks them but reading.
• Learning the script hands you an Eternal Pose and a Historian's Journal.

The four islands

• 4 Road Poneglyphs, each on its own island generated in open ocean, more than 1200 blocks from spawn. 68 blocks across, a 5x7x3 red monolith at the center, two chests, and a guardian.
• Zou — jungle and standing stone vertebrae.
• Whole Cake — icing, cake mushrooms, honey down the slopes.
• Wano — snow, cherry blossoms, a vermilion torii.
• Elbaph — podzol, giants' logs, a ring of fire.
• The Eternal Pose points at the nearest island you have not copied yet — bearing and rough distance, never coordinates.

Laugh Tale

• A dedicated dimension with one island per crew. Only the player who opened the road and their Mine Mine no Mi crew can enter.
• Beach, pier, jungle, 6 treasure chambers, a plaza where all 8 history stones stand together, and a tomb at the summit.
• No natural mob spawns.
• The Red Log Pose (4 rubbings + compass + 4 gold ingots) opens the road, and brings you home from the island.

The fight

• Gol D. Roger — 600 HP, three phases, boss bar. Shockwave on every phase change, a straight-line ranged attack, and a per-hit damage cap so no single overpowered fruit ends the fight in two clicks.
• Reinforcements: Silvers Rayleigh arrives in phase 2, Scopper Gaban and two crewmates in phase 3. They vanish when the King falls.
• Beat him, read the Rio Poneglyph again, and the One Piece is yours — announced to the whole server.

Systems

• 9 quests built on Mine Mine no Mi's quest system, paying berries, bounty and doriki. They hand themselves out and validate themselves. When the journal is full, the extras queue up and arrive as slots free.
• 11 advancements, from the first rubbing to Pirate King.
• Voice acting on every milestone — reading stones, landfall on Laugh Tale, each boss phase. English by default; a French resource pack (text and voice) ships inside the mod, switchable in Options → Resource Packs.
• Two ambient tracks, one for the island, one for the fight.
• GeckoLib models for Roger, the Guardian and the crew, with idle / walk / attack animations. The .geo.json files are Bedrock format, so they open directly in Blockbench.

Server and compatibility

• /roadtolaughtale (alias /rtl, permission level 2) — inspect and edit progress, grant stones, open the road, travel, place a shrine, reset a player.
• Config (config/roadtolaughtale-common.toml) lets you name any entity as an island guardian or as the final boss. Example with Mine Piece installed:

   

   

   

   

   

  [guardians]

  wano = "minepiece:kaidou"

  whole_cake = "minepiece:charlotte_linlin"

  [laugh_tale]

  boss_entity = "minepiece:gol_d_roger"

   
  If the mod is not installed, the addon falls back to its own entities. No code is borrowed from anyone — only entity IDs are referenced at spawn time.
• If ompworld is installed, the addon stops generating its own islands and places the red stones on its real One Piece islands (Zou, Wano, Whole Cake, Elbaph) instead.
• Worldgen can be turned off entirely in the config.

Design note

Crafting the Red Log Pose gives the four rubbings back. A stone already copied refuses to give a second rubbing, so consuming them would mean that losing the Log Pose locks you out of the ending for good. You keep your proofs, and you can always forge the needle again.

Known limitations

• ompworld integration has not been played through. The code and the lookup are in place and verified against the real jar, but no session has run with ompworld actually installed. If the red stones do not show up on its islands, the log will say ompworld detecte at startup and Sanctuaire X pose sur l'ile ompworld Y when one is placed. Reports welcome.
• The 3D models are a first pass. Roger has his coat, moustache and pauldrons, but the shapes are simple. They will be refined before 1.0.
• Balance across the four islands and the boss fight has not been tuned against a full Mine Mine no Mi playthrough. Tell me if Roger folds too fast, or not fast enough.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47+
• Mine Mine no Mi 0.11+ — required
• GeckoLib 4.4+ — required
• ompworld / Mine Piece — optional, detected at runtime