Swing Beat Guitar — 0.5.67-prototype

Changes since 0.5.65-prototype, combining the final changes from 0.5.66 and 0.5.67.

New Unique Special: Bottleneck

• Added Bottleneck to the Advanced and Applied Electric Guitars.
• Hold left-click to spin the guitar counterclockwise after a 0.3-second windup. Release to stop; the move ends automatically after 10 seconds, including the windup. Short taps perform normal attacks.
• Rotation speed matches the guitar’s effective attack speed in revolutions per second, including upgrade and demonic bonuses.
• Each enemy can be hit once per revolution within the standard 3.5-block melee reach.
• Successful hits increase damage from 1.1× on the first hit to 2.8× on the tenth, relative to the first normal combo strike. The multiplier resets when the move ends.
• Synchronized rotation timing across hit detection and first-person and third-person animations.
• Balance and visual effects remain provisional.

Names and Tooltips

• Renamed the heavy-attack Unique Special to Power Chord and the flying-slash Unique Special to Economy. Existing behavior and saved IDs are preserved.
• Guitar tooltips now display US: [Unique Special] directly below the item name, followed by AA: [Additive Ability]. Unassigned entries are hidden.

Automatic Default Guitar Updates

• Added version tracking through SBG/default/meta.json. Outdated bundled guitar JSON files now update automatically at startup, including installations without version metadata.
• Existing files are backed up under SBG/backups/default/ before replacement.
• Manual edits to bundled guitar JSON files are replaced during version updates, with previous contents preserved in the backup. Edits remain intact when restarting the same version.
• Custom JSON files with different filenames, additional ZIP packs, models, textures, other settings, and existing item data are preserved.

Updating

Replace the mod JAR with 0.5.67-prototype and restart Minecraft. Bottleneck’s default assignments update automatically; manual JSON edits are no longer required.

For multiplayer, use matching mod versions, guitar definitions, and additional packs on the server and all clients.