Changelog

1.1.0

Added

• 5 weapon components: Barrel, Body, Stock, Magazine and Scope.
• Crafting recipes for each component (diamonds, obsidian, redstone blocks, gold, iron, blaze powder, ender pearls, one netherite ingot).
• New assembly recipe: the Orbital Strike Designator is now crafted from its 5 components.
• Screen-space lens flare (bloom haze, anamorphic streak, lens ghosts), hidden when terrain blocks the view.
• Real terrain lighting around the strike site during targeting, the strike and the afterglow.

Changed

• Complete lighting overhaul: HDR shaders with filmic tonemapping, white-hot cores, chromatic falloff and animated energy filaments.
• New volumetric glow along beams and lasers.
• Sharper, more intense targeting lasers.

Removed

• Old designator recipe (nether star, beacon, end crystal).

1.0.3

Changed

• The shaft now covers the entire world height, from the build limit down to the Void: every block above the target is destroyed too.
• Water and lava in the centre of the shaft are eradicated.
• Water on the shaft wall turns into cobblestone and lava into obsidian, sealing the shaft from nearby oceans and lava lakes.

1.0.2

Added

• Dedicated "Orbital Strike" creative tab.

Changed

• The beam now stays at full power until the shaft is fully bored, then collapses.
• Faster boring: about 3.5 s instead of 5.5 s, still spread over multiple ticks.

1.0.1

Changed

• New "Void Cylinder" impact: the strike now bores a huge cylindrical shaft straight down to the Void, bedrock included, replacing the surface crater.
• Molten effects (magma, fire, sand to glass) are now limited to the shaft's vertical walls.
• Much less magma and obsidian on the walls.
• The beam now reaches down into the Void, and the shaft walls glow after the strike.
• Destruction now runs on a time budget per tick, so even huge shafts never freeze the server.

Removed

• Coal blocks on the crater walls (free resources).
• Scorched-earth ring around the impact.

1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Orbital Strike Designator: long-range targeting (320 blocks), 15 s cooldown, recoil and overheat animations.
• Targeting phase: holographic rings, radar sweep, scan lines and six converging sky lasers, all rendered with custom shaders.
• Orbital beam with shockwave, debris, glare, white-out flash and distance-based screen shake.
• Sound design: lock-on, alarm, rising charge hum, beam fire and a layered impact.
• Fractal crater with scorched terrain, spread over multiple server ticks.
• Custom damage type and death messages.
• English and French translations.