0.7.0-beta — Excavation Update

A major beta update focused on excavation, progression, cooperative play, and interface improvements.

Excavation

• Fossil and mineral ores now drop raw specimens to clean at the excavation table.
• Added an excavation minigame with terrain layers, dust, debris, integrity, and ten tools.
• Excavation progress remains saved when closing the interface or moving specimens between tables.
• Added a directional excavation table model that displays the specimen on its surface.
• Finished specimens must be collected before cleaning the next specimen.
• Added cooperative excavation with shared progress, visible player cursors, and tool reservations.
• Eligible collaborators receive excavation progress and applicable advancements. Only one specimen is produced.
• Added Perfect and Cooperative medals that remain on specimens and awakened Spectrobes. The cooperative medal is cosmetic.

Spectrobes and Progression

• Excavation integrity provides a small stat bonus, up to 3%.
• Added Spectrobe levels and XP, with mineral feeding and progression up to level 100.
• Expanded the Child roster to 22 species. Species awaiting their final designs use temporary models.
• Child companions are protected from combat and environmental damage.
• Added excavation and training advancements.
• Evolution remains under development.

Prizmod and HUD

• Redesigned the Prizmod interface with search, filters, sorting, collection pages, feeding controls, and clearer statistics.
• Added animated 3D previews of selected Spectrobes.
• Added an optional Prizmod equipment slot through Curios. Without Curios, inventory use continues to work.
• Added a companion HUD with level, XP, medals, and prepared Adult/Evolved team slots.
• Configure HUD position, size, visibility, and team slots.
• Choose horizontal or vertical layouts, drag to reposition, and resize using the mouse wheel or − / + buttons.

World Generation

• Added blue ice, sandstone, red sandstone, and mud deposits with matching raw specimens and textures.
• Natural frozen fossil deposits contain Flash fossils.
• Desert fossil deposits contain Corona fossils.
• Swamp and mangrove fossil deposits contain Aurora fossils.
• New deposits appear in newly generated terrain.

Vortex Encounters

• Improved biome-based Krawl selection and vortex pursuit.
• Added cooperative encounters with a vanilla-style raid bar.
• Each participant contributes three Krawl to the encounter.
• Rewards are distributed individually after completing the entire encounter.
• Leaving and rejoining does not generate extra enemies or rewards.
• Death reduces personal rewards. If everyone falls, the encounter ends without loot.
• Arrows now bounce off idle vortices.

Awakening and Tools

• Improved the incubator interface with clearer sound sources, signal feedback, color bands, countdown, and status messages.
• Awakening continues to use Minecraft sounds; no microphone is required.
• The handheld blower now pushes mobs with air when holding right-click.
• Air reaches up to five blocks and is blocked by solid walls.
• The blower has 256 durability and causes no direct damage or player knockback.
• The excavation minigame blower remains independent.

Settings and Community

• Added client preferences for particles, sound effects, scanner feedback, hints, and reduced motion.
• Added server settings for vortex encounters.
• Added a Discord feedback button in mod settings.
• During the beta, a private chat invitation appears when joining a world or server. It does not repeat on respawn or dimension changes.

Wiki

• Updated guides in all six supported languages.
• Added crafting recipes with item and block icons.
• Added Spectrobe and Krawl galleries.
• Improved navigation, version selection, and gameplay documentation.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.219+
• GeckoLib 4.8.3+
• Java 21
• Curios — optional

Use the same mod version on clients and servers. Back up existing worlds before updating.

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