Tinker's Newlife 1.0.1.22

2026-10-11 | Requires Forge 47.4.22+ | Minecraft 1.20.1

This release is headlined by the portable device family — every Tinkers workstation can now be carried in your pocket, and the Toolkit stitches six of them together behind Tinkers' own tab bar. It also adds the cursed titles system, reworks curse affinity, fixes a JEI crash on Tinkers multi-module screens, and puts the project on the MIT license with a proper README.

Only mod_version (and mod_license) changed in gradle.properties.

Added

Portable Devices (carry your workshop)

• Six portable devices, each opening the real Tinkers interface anywhere: portable_crafting_station, portable_tinkers_anvil, portable_part_builder, portable_modifier_worktable, portable_cast_chest, portable_part_chest.
• Contents live in the player's persistent data, never in the item's NBT, so a portable chest cannot be used to duplicate its contents.
• The devices are ghost block entities: no block is ever placed in the world. The block itself creates the entity (EntityBlock#newBlockEntity), which keeps the real slot counts on both sides.
• Portable Tinker Station was removed as requested; the anvil covers that role.

Portable Toolkit (six devices in one)

• Shapeless recipe from the six portable devices; opens the crafting-station interface.
• Tinkers' own tab bar, drawn by TinkerTabsWidget from Menu.stationBlocks: we fill that list ourselves, so all six devices appear as tabs with their own icons.
• Clicking a tab opens that device, and switching tabs keeps the tab bar visible.
• The tab bar only appears inside a toolkit session, so opening a single portable device directly does not show the other tabs.

Cursed Titles

• 15 titles with rarities, displayed as [title][title]playerName, keeping only the three rarest active ones.
• Five unlock conditions (binding rituals, curse crafting, puppet core, merchant kill, cursed ring) plus dynamic sorcerer rank derived from maximum curse power.
• Title picker screen: single vertical list, mouse-wheel paging, rarity colours, a picked counter, and a "restore automatic" button; reachable from the HUD editor.
• Titles update in real time (compared every 20 ticks; the cached display name is refreshed and re-synced when the prefix changes).

Curse Affinity

• Affinity is rolled once per item the first time it reaches a player (marked in NBT), so creative-spawned curios get it too, and dropping and picking an item back up never re-rolls it.
• Written with Slot=curio so Curios renders a single "When worn as a curio" block; legacy slot-less vanilla entries are stripped every tick so the six bogus tooltip lines disappear.
• Shown as one Curse Affinity +N line, with the value kept in our own NBT key.

Recipes and Art

• Each portable tool = its prototype block surrounded by eight scorched bricks; the prototype is matched through a tag (tinkersnewlife:portable_prototype_*), so adding a variant later only means editing the tag.
• Toolkit = the six portable devices, shapeless.
• Seven new 16x16 icons for the portable devices (each model now points at its own texture).

Fixed

• JEI crash on Tinkers screens (width must be >= 0): Mantle hands JEI a negative-width exclusion rect while a multi-module screen is mid-layout; negative rects are now clamped to zero.
• "Connection lost" on world load: the title-sync packet is server-to-client but was registered with the client-to-server helper; it now uses registerClientPacket with a delayed login sync.
• Portable chests closed instantly / threw ClassCastException: chest contents live in an IItemHandler, not a Container, so the inventory is routed through the capability.
• Menus opening and closing at once: stillValid is overridden, because the ghost sits far from the player and the server closes the screen on the next tick otherwise.
• Slot-index crashes on portable GUIs: unified ghost creation and an explicit side count in the menu buffer.
• Silent Glove no longer prints an extra ring-slot line in the middle of its tooltip (Curios already shows the slot modifier at the bottom).
• Missing language keys: item_group.tinkersnewlife.curse_core.description and item_group.tinkersnewlife.long_short_blade.description were showing as raw keys.

Engineering

• Adopted the MIT license (LICENSE, plus license="MIT" in all four mods.toml files and mod_license=MIT).
• Added a proper README.md (environment, build, deploy, module layout, conventions); the Forge MDK boilerplate README.txt was removed.
• Workspace cleanup: temporary decompile dumps and bin/ removed (about 77 MB).
• check-json: 2092 files checked, bad 0.

Verification

• gradlew singleJar: BUILD SUCCESSFUL.
• Artifact: tinkersnewlife-1.0.1.22.jar (~15.2 MB), deployed to both instances, MD5 identical.
• Not yet playtested: the toolkit tab switching on a fresh world, the portable device recipes, and the new device icons.