Stellar Gauntlet

# Stellar Gauntlet 0.7.0: The Living Cosmos

## 🌌 A living Cosmos
- **A new sky** for the dimension: violet and teal nebulae, the band of a galaxy, a ringed giant planet and its moon.
- **New biome, the Starwood Grove**:
  - glowing **starwood trees** hung with luminous vines;
  - fields of **Starblooms**, **Glowcaps** and **Astral Grass**.
- **Astral Vines** hang from the underside of every floating island.
- Every biome has its own **ambient soundscape**, plus rare distant sounds.

## 🏛️ New structures
- **Cosmic Ruins**: broken colonnades, a fallen arch and a ruined altar.
- **Stone Shrines**: six small sanctuaries, one for each stone. Their chests can hold the stone itself.
- **Fallen Stars**: craters with a smoldering star full of Stellarite ore.
- **Astral Observatory**: a tall tower with a library, a spiral staircase and a domed telescope. Its chests can hold **Void Eyes** and **Star Charts**.
- **Herald's Citadel** *(boss dungeon)*:
  - a fortress on a floating rock, with towers, a guarded courtyard, a great hall and a sealed vault;
  - reach the arena on its roof and the **Herald's Altar** calls the Cosmic Herald down;
  - defeat it and the **Void Barriers** dissolve, opening the vault.
- **Void Eye**: throw it in the Cosmos and it flies toward the nearest Citadel.

## 👾 New creatures
- **Astral Manta**: a great singing ray that glides between the islands.
- **Geode Tortoise**: a slow grazer with a geode for a shell.
  - It hides in its shell when struck.
  - Lead and breed it with Starblooms.
- **Astral Sentinel**: a floating construct of the Herald that guards the Citadel and fires Star Bolts.

## ✨ The Snap, reimagined
- Victims stop, turn grey and crumble from the top down, one after another.
- The dust takes each creature's own colors and the wind carries it away.

## 🛡️ 3D Stellar Armor
- A full 3D suit:
  - crested helm with a T-visor and swept wings;
  - layered pauldrons with spikes;
  - glowing core on the chest;
  - starry cape that sways as you walk;
  - tassets, knee guards and finned boots.
- Visor, core and gems glow in the dark.
- Armor trims are no longer supported on this set.

## 🧱 New blocks and items
- **Masonry**: Polished Cosmic Stone, Chiseled and Cracked Cosmic Bricks, Cosmic Pillar, and brick stairs, slab and wall.
- **Starwood set**: log, planks, stairs, slab, leaves and sapling.
- **Light and loot**: Astral Lamp and Stardust.

## 📖 Descriptions
- Every item and block has a line of lore.
- Hold **Shift** to see where to find it and what it does.

## 🎵 Sound
- 21 new sound effects, 3 ambient loops and 5 new advancements.