Star Dragon 2.3.0 — Update Summary

New Ability: White Hole

Star Dragons can now cast White Hole.

• The white hole travels in the direction the player is aiming, then hovers when it hits an obstacle or reaches its maximum range.
• Once stationary, it creates a Stellar Suspension field that gradually lifts and controls hostile targets while dealing damage.
• When the white hole expires naturally, it releases affected targets and pushes them downward. Kills caused by the resulting fall can be credited to the caster.
• The caster, allies, and passive animals are protected from its normal targeting. Effects on players follow the server’s PvP and team rules.
• The ability has its own icons, damage type, death messages, and graphics settings.

Black Hole and White Hole Combination: Singularity Annihilation

A white hole can pair with a nearby black hole when there is a clear line of sight between them.

• The two singularities orbit a shared center, gradually spiral inward, and collapse into a large explosion.
• During the combination, the white hole stops its normal suspension effect and does not deal its natural-release damage.
• Explosion damage falls off with distance and obstruction, and follows PvP and team friendly-fire rules.
• The explosion can affect pets, villagers, passive animals, and the casters. Terrain damage follows configuration and protection permissions.
• Pairing distance is configurable, and each singularity can participate in only one combination.

The white hole has a bright core, luminous rings, and an outward-flowing disk. The combination adds orbital trails, a connecting band, collapse effects, and expanding shockwaves. Black hole rendering has also been adjusted for the interaction.

Ability Visual Improvements

Star Laser

• Redesigned the beam with layered light, spiraling star streams, impact glow, and flashes.
• Added smoother transitions between charging, firing, and the aftermath, along with particles, a looping sound, and screen shake.
• Effects scale with graphics settings. A fallback rendering path is available when the custom shader cannot be used or Iris is present.

Time Power

• Replaced the previous ground magic circle with an astral clock that displays the current in-game time.
• The clock includes markings, hands, sun and moon indicators, sweeping light, and stardust.
• During stopped time, the hands freeze and an icy blue ring appears.
• The clock scales with the dragon’s size and growth, with improved synchronization as time changes.

Meteor Shower and Magic Circles

• Improved meteor, trail, and explosion visuals.
• Fixed incorrect frame interpolation that could make meteor animations appear to jump in some versions.
• Further revised general magic circle visuals and rendering.
• Improved synchronization and cleanup of ability effects across dimensions and in multiplayer.

Gameplay and Balance

• Gravitational Field and Stardust Armor can now be activated while airborne.
• The default base starlight recovery rate changed from 0.005 to 0.013; default acceleration strength changed from 1.0 to 0.0.
• The starlight exhaustion penalty interval changed from 20 ticks to 40 ticks.
• Adjusted how some level-dependent Stardust Armor and Supernova values are calculated.

JEI and Other Improvements

• Star Surge Breath conversion recipes are now collected from ability data instead of a fixed hard-coded list, and the JEI recipe display has been updated.
• Improved kill attribution for fall damage after a white hole releases a target.
• Added or adjusted assets, settings, and localization for the white hole and other updated effects.