Tinker's Newlife 1.0.1.20

2026-10-09 | Requires Forge 47.4.22+ | Minecraft 1.20.1

This is the "Long-Short Blade" release. It completes the new weapon type introduced in the previous version: per-context × per-form models, material tinting, a dash-based thrust and thrust afterimages. It also fixes a duplication exploit with the offhand "partner blade", fixes the slingshot's missing upper limb, and adds an automatic Tinkers part-texture generation step at startup.

Added

Weapon: Long-Short Blade (dual wield + two forms)

• One tool, one blade in each hand: while the main hand holds it, a "partner blade" is placed in the offhand with the opposite form (long / short).
• Vanilla F (swap offhand) is the form switch — the form travels with the item stack, so no extra key.
• Long form
  • Alternating swings (main hand and offhand take turns; the offhand swing uses its own animation path).
  • Melee hits build fever (1 per hit, capped at 100).
  • Thrust: dash forward for 160% damage, invulnerable during the dash.
  • Kill aura: continuous damage within a 2 block radius; the player model raises both arms and spins rapidly while active.
• Short form
  • Hold right-click to charge, release to throw (a projectile is thrown; the weapon itself never leaves the player). On impact it detonates a 3 block non-destructive explosion that counts as the player's kill (loot / XP work normally).
  • Execution: targets below 20% health take 500% damage, with a left-arm swing.
• Every skill costs durability: thrust 2 / aura 10 / execution 3 / throw 2 (through Tinkers' own durability API, so Reinforced and similar modifiers are respected).

Per-context × per-form models (four texture sets)

• Inventory not-held, inventory long, inventory/held short, held long — four independent looks.
• Implemented with custom ItemOverrides plus applyTransform: context (inventory / in hand) and form (long / short) are resolved in two separate stages.
• Material tinting: all four context models go through Tinkers' material resolution, so the textures change colour with the material.

Thrust afterimages

• While dashing, the server broadcasts position and rotation every 2 ticks to every player that can see the entity.
• The client caches the afterimages; each lives 0.35 s, fades by its remaining lifetime, and is drawn again with the same model.
• Your own afterimage is hidden in first person (visible in third person).

Automatic part-texture generation at startup (configurable)

• New config option auto_part_textures.enable_auto_part_textures, on by default.
• On reaching the main menu it runs the Tinkers part-texture generator once in "missing only" mode.
• If nothing was generated (0 entries) it does nothing at all (the resource pack is left untouched).
• When something was generated, the generated resource pack is force-enabled and moved to the top.
• ⚠ Tinkers' generator is not fault tolerant per entry, so one failure aborts the whole run. We wrap it in exception handling, so it never crashes the game, and the reason is written to the log.

New material variant textures

• Added the neptunium / promethium / malicious_star_spirit (and others) part textures for tools and armour — over 1700 files.

Fixed

The slingshot's upper limb was not drawn

When the slingshot's parts were changed to one tool handle + one bow limb + one bowstring, the item model was only told about three of the bow's four geometry pieces. A geometry piece that is not listed in a Tinkers tool model's parts list is not rendered at all, so the upper limb was simply missing from the item.

• The model now lists all four pieces: limb_bottom and limb_top both map to the bow limb part (there is only one limb part, so both limbs share its material and keep their own textures), grip maps to the tool handle and bowstring maps to the bowstring.
• On top of that, the broken model still carried the old indices: its upper limb pointed at the tool handle and it had no grip entry at all, so a broken slingshot was drawn without its handle. Both models now use the same mapping.

Offhand "partner blade" duplication

Taking the offhand blade used to trigger an immediate refill, allowing infinite copies. The rule is now "leaving the offhand destroys it, and an empty offhand refills it" — the refill is always the single blade, so the total count never increases.

Partner blade vanishing from the main hand after swapping hands

The main hand is actually the selected hotbar slot, which is inside the inventory scan, and it was being cleared as a stray. Both hands are now excluded (slot index plus instance identity).

Thrust afterimages never appeared

The broadcast used "players tracking this entity", but a player does not track itself in vanilla, so single-player received nothing. It now uses "tracking this entity and itself".

Thrust is no longer a teleport

It now applies forward velocity and lets the engine move the player (collisions, steps and fluids are handled by vanilla).

Notes

• ⚠ Not included in this version: per-entry skipping when the Tinkers generator fails (Tinkers only has a single outer try, so its loop cannot be fixed from outside; it would require calling it per material instead). Left for a follow-up.
• Harmless pre-existing log noise: Missing textures in model … and [模型] 没找到 tinkersnewlife:item/spear.