The Long Travail

Added

• Added six thematic essences. While wearing an initialized Travel Diary, use an essence to complete a random unfinished requirement for its theme, or reset that theme if Witness has already been attained. Failed operations do not consume the essence.
• Added essence rewards to selected chests, archaeology, fishing treasure, sniffer digging, Hero of the Village gifts, piglin bartering, cat gifts, and player-mined budding amethyst.
• Added accessory support for Touhou Little Maid. Supported accessories must be placed in the maid's native accessory slots. Effects requiring Malice or Witness use the equipped diary of the online owner. The Travel Diary itself cannot be equipped by maids.
• Added a Travel Diary advancement, audiovisual cues when Star Voice activates time stop, and a JEI source page for budding amethyst essence drops.
• Added a server-side journey API for completing requirements, granting Witness, resetting journeys, and managing state overrides.

Changed

• Updated several accessory reactions to check incoming hits without requiring actual health loss.
• Added configurable negative-effect exemptions for Creative and Spectator players, enabled by default.
• Renamed Daydream to Free and Easy Wandering and allowed it in multiple functional Curios slot types.
• Enabled right-click equipping for accessories other than the Travel Diary, subject to their existing requirements.
• Added a persistent lighting toggle for Sword and Lantern. Visual lighting extends to 12 blocks, with maximum brightness within the central 3 blocks. Actual world light levels are unchanged.
• Adjusted default accessory and material loot probabilities. Material rewards remain separate from the accessory reward pool; nautilus shells and sponges in fisher cottages are mutually exclusive.
• Improved biome and structure visit detection, with configurable tolerances and nearby biome sampling.
• Added /the_long_travail reverse without an index to force all six themes into Witness without changing exploration progress.
• Improved journey detection, maid accessory processing, time-stop handling, and revival storage performance.
• Updated the empty diary-slot icon, tooltips, translations, and optional-mod integration structure.

Fixed

• Fixed an anvil startup conflict with Apotheosis while preserving the diary's cost cap and free-operation setting.
• Improved compatibility with modified archaeology reward pools and loot configuration reloads.
• Fixed accessory restoration after respawning with Keep Inventory enabled.
• Fixed repeated frozen-entity animations during time stop.
• Fixed stale Free and Easy Wandering requests after reconnecting or respawning, and preserved recovery data when exiting fails.
• Prevented old Book of the Dead records from granting Witness to a newly reset Underworld journey.
• Improved health and absorption restoration after interrupted Azrael executions.
• Improved temporary health-bonus cleanup for maid spell, affection, and personality/storage integrations.
• Fixed movement restrictions and speed bonuses being bypassed by some modded speed calculations.

Upgrade Notes

• Update both clients and servers to the same version. Journey data generated or reset by this version does not support downgrading.
• Free and Easy Wandering now uses the item ID the_long_travail:free_and_easy_wandering. Update scripts, quests, or data packs referencing the old item ID.
• Curios API remains required. Touhou Little Maid and other integration mods are optional.
• Maid support does not grant Icarus gliding or active rain summoning. Tokaido provides applicable healing and fire immunity, without restoring hunger.
• Existing valid configuration values are preserved. Newly added default loot entries are not automatically inserted into existing customized configurations.