🌌 SlotZero v0.4.0 — The Heavy Burden Update

This update brings major improvements to storage, encumbrance, and overall gameplay balance. Carrying large amounts of loot is now more realistic, backpacks and storage containers properly contribute to your burden, and several new systems make managing weight easier and more rewarding.

✨ New Features

📦 Smart Container Weight

Storage items now contribute their true weight.

• Shulker Boxes now count the weight of items stored inside them.

• Compatible modded backpacks and storage containers are automatically detected.

• Weight calculations work recursively, ensuring stored items always contribute to your total burden.

• Prevents players from bypassing the weight system by storing heavy items inside containers.

🧪 Potion Effect Bonuses

Certain vanilla potion effects now interact with the encumbrance system.

• Strength increases carrying capacity.

• Haste reduces mining penalties caused by heavy loads.

• Resistance reduces overloaded damage and improves survivability when carrying excessive weight.

📊 Improved Encumbrance Information

The Encumbrance screen now provides more useful information.

• View active potion-based bonuses.

• See detailed burden statistics.

• Monitor how weight affects your character in real time.

⚖️ Weight & Encumbrance Improvements

Rebalanced Encumbrance Tiers

Encumbrance now scales dynamically based on your carrying capacity.

• Light Burden begins at 50% capacity.

• Medium Burden begins at 75% capacity.

• Heavy Burden begins at 100% capacity.

• Overloaded begins at 120% capacity.

Improved Overloaded Penalties

Carrying far more than your capacity is now significantly more dangerous.

• Movement speed is reduced.

• Mining speed is reduced.

• Attack damage is reduced.

• Hunger consumption increases.

• Overloaded damage becomes more frequent as excess weight increases.

🎒 Inventory Progression Improvements

Backpack Death Protection

Your equipped backpack can now help protect your items after death.

• Main inventory contents are stored inside the equipped backpack.

• The backpack drops as a single item.

• Prevents inventory contents from scattering across the ground.

Improved Pouch & Toolbelt Swapping

Equipment swapping is now safer and more reliable.

• Items are preserved during hotbar upgrades and downgrades.

• Overflow items are moved to available inventory slots when possible.

• Items only drop when no valid storage space exists.

🛠️ Quality of Life

Improved Burden Statistics

Encumbrance information is now easier to understand.

• Displays practical movement and hunger information.

• Replaces several developer-oriented statistics with player-friendly values.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fixed recursive backpack issues that could cause inventory problems.

• Fixed edge cases involving locked inventories and equipped storage items.

• Added safeguards against excessive backpack nesting.

• Improved reliability when equipping and unequipping storage equipment.

🔧 Stability & Multiplayer Improvements

• Improved multiplayer synchronization for equipment and weight calculations.

• Added protections against corrupted or outdated player data.

• Improved handling of inventory and capability data during login and world transfers.

• Various backend optimizations and stability improvements.