Sol's Leveling System

v1.0.3

New Content & Progression

Rebalanced Progression Curve

• Player progression has been rebalanced and is now the default progression mode.
• The first level-up now costs 60 EXP, and reaching Level 50 requires 73,500 total EXP instead of 112,670, reducing the overall Leveling grind by roughly 35%.
• Player Level and aptitude-rank requirements have been lowered as well and spread out across all 25 aptitude passives.

Long Progression Mode

• Added longProgressionMode to the common config for players and servers that prefer the original progression grind.
• Enabling it restores the complete legacy:
  • Player EXP curve
  • Player-Level requirements
  • Aptitude-rank requirements for all aptitude passives
• The new balanced progression remains the default.
• Switching progression modes does not reset Player EXP, aptitude allocations, or customized requirement lists.
• Existing earned Player EXP always counts toward whichever progression mode is currently active.
• If enabling Long Progression Mode causes a character to fall below a legacy passive requirement, the now-ineligible passive is removed by the normal rules check and can be purchased again at no aptitude-point cost once the requirement is met.

Aptitude Updates

LUCK - Fortune

• Fortune is now a complete Loot Luck aptitude instead of relying only on Minecraft's limited built-in Luck behavior.
• Fortune can grant one additional full loot-table roll from:
  • Chests
  • Fishing
  • Player-credited mob kills
  • Compatible modded loot tables
• Each Fortune rank grants +0.4% bonus-roll chance, reaching 20% at Rank 50.
• Other equipped Loot Luck bonuses contribute to the same shared chance, up to a 50% maximum bonus roll.
• When Sol's Relic System is installed, both mods now share the same Loot Luck roll instead of rolling independently.
• Sol's Leveling System remains fully functional without Relic System and automatically lets Relic System handle the shared roll when its expanded Luck support is available.

Dexterity

• Dexterity now introduces Attack Speed increase by 0.2% per rank, reaching +10% at Rank 50.
• The proportional bonus works consistently across vanilla and compatible modded weapons.
• Attack Speed scaling can be adjusted through the aptitude balance datapack.

Ore Breaker

• Ore Breaker I now allows common stone-family blocks to be harvested with an empty hand.

Interface & Inventory Improvements

Leveling Inventory Tab

• Replaced the old floating Leveling shortcut in Survival and Creative inventories with native Minecraft-style controls.

Survival Inventory

• When Leveling is installed by itself, it now appears on the second tab directly after the player inventory.
• Conflicting modded tabs are moved after the reserved Sol's tabs instead of overlapping them.

Creative Inventory

• When both Sol mods are installed, the Leveling shortcut stacks above the Title System shortcut.
• When used alone, Leveling uses the matching position above Destroy Item.

Leveling Screen Toggle

• The Leveling screen keybind now works as a true toggle.
• Press the configured key once to open the screen and press the same key again to close it.
• This continues working correctly after rebinding the control.

EXP Distribution

• Players who directly contribute to a kill are now always included in its EXP distribution.
• Nearby party members must still satisfy the existing:
  • Same-dimension requirement
  • Distance requirement
  • Activity requirement
  • Eligibility rules

Fixes

Death & Respawn

• Fixed the death-related progression reset reported in v1.0.2.
• The following are now preserved correctly through death and respawn on all supported editions:
  • Player EXP
  • Aptitude allocations
  • Purchased passives
  • Mastery progress
  • Persistent cooldowns
• On Forge, pre-death progression is also retained through a disconnect or server restart before the player respawns.

Dimension Travel & Progression Sync

• Fixed progression sometimes breaking after traveling between dimensions, including the Nether and modded dimensions.
• Mob damage tracking, kill EXP, Mastery progress, and admin Leveling commands now continue functioning without requiring the player to rejoin.

Minecraft 1.16.5 Forge / 1.20.1 Forge

• Fixed Forge invalidating the active player progression capability during dimension travel.

Minecraft 1.16.5 Forge / 1.21.1 NeoForge

• Fixed the Leveling screen becoming stuck on "Loading progression" when the client's profile UUID differs from the server's authoritative UUID, as commonly occurs on offline-mode servers.
• Fixed progression remaining at Level 1 or stuck loading after:
  • Dimension travel
  • Death
  • Revive flows
  • Reconnecting while inside another dimension

Player Model

• Fixed opening and closing the Leveling screen leaving the player's head and torso shifted away from the arms and legs until rejoining.
• This also works when damage or death closes the Leveling screen.
• Fixed on:
  • Minecraft 1.16.5 Forge
  • Minecraft 1.20.1 Forge
  • Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge

Inventory Tabs

• Fixed Survival inventory tabs gradually drifting apart, changing order, or overlapping after repeatedly opening the inventory with mods that reuse their tab buttons.

Migration

• No player-data migration is required.
• No configuration reset is required.
• Existing Player EXP, aptitude allocations, Mastery progress, and progression data remain compatible with this update.