Veil Origins

## v1.1.0 - The Companion & Polish Update (2026-10-13)

### Added

#### New Origins (7) - 28 Total

- **Emberling** - Small fire-spirit origin with ember abilities

- **Stormborn** - Lightning and storm caller

- **Luminary** - Light-wielding radiant origin

- **Sandstalker** - Desert predator with sand-based abilities

- **Deepdweller** - Deep-dark dweller with ambush and warden-touched powers

- **Blightborn** - Corruption and disease origin

- **Hexweaver** - Curse and hex caster with mirror/amplify magic

#### Technomancer Drone Companions

- **Drone Controller item** - Deploy and command your personal drone squad

  - Right-click air: deploy a drone of the selected type

  - Sneak + right-click air: cycle drone type (utility, combat, scout, repair)

  - Right-click a drone: cycle its mode (follow, stay, aggressive, harvest, patrol, passive)

  - Sneak + right-click a drone: check its charge and mode

  - Sneak + click a beacon or lodestone: mark a squad recharge station

- **Utility Drone** - Allay-style helper that follows you, orbits nearby, and fetches dropped items back to your feet

- **Combat Drone** - Ranged defender; guards an area in AGGRESSIVE mode

- **Scout Drone** - Fast, long-range flier; light bodyguard duty

- **Repair Drone** - Passive medic that restores nearby allied drones

- **Owner Defense System** - All combat-capable drones retaliate against whatever hurts you - hostile mobs AND other players - and assist against your targets

- **Charge System** - Drones drain charge while deployed and recharge near a marked beacon or lodestone station; low-charge drones return to their owner

- **Friendly-Fire Guard** - Drones can never attack you, your other drones, your tamed pets, or your companions

#### Skill Tree Enhancements

- **OR-prerequisites** - Skills can now require "any one of" a set of prerequisites (`requiresAny`)

- Skill tooltips show a "Requires one of:" line for OR-grouped prerequisites

#### Ability Dashboard

- **Locked ability indicators** - Skill-gated abilities now display a lock state so you can see what to unlock

- **Scrollable passives panel** - The passives list no longer clips at 6 entries; mouse-wheel scroll with a scrollbar and overflow hint

### Changed

- **Full localization** - All user-facing text moved into `en_us.json` (messages, tooltips, GUI labels, config names)

- **Drone deployment simplified** - Drones behave like allay-style companions: they follow, fetch, and defend - no port infrastructure required

### Fixed

#### Skill Tree Deadlocks (CURSEFORGE REPORTS)

- **Fixed 10 apex skills being permanently unreachable** - Convergent apexes required skills on BOTH sides of mutually-exclusive branches

  - Affected apexes across starborne, tidecaller, voidtouched, crystalline, cindersoul, deepdweller, hexweaver and more

  - Verified: 561 skills, 0 unreachable in every supported version

#### Summons & Companions

- **Fixed summoned minions and companions attacking their owner** - Target interception at the AI source; wild undead and minions can no longer acquire the owner as a target

- **Fixed Necromancer undead re-acquiring the player between sweep ticks** - `LivingChangeTargetEvent` interception

#### Origin Passives

- **Fixed Starborne flight not returning after death** - Passives are now re-equipped on respawn

#### UI

- **Fixed origin selection carousel overflowing the screen at GUI scale 4** - Cards now fit-scale to the window

- **Fixed ability dashboard overflow** - Passives panel now scrolls

#### Earlier Hotfixes Rolled In

- Dedicated-server classloading safety for client-only screens and handlers

- Per-player cooldown isolation (abilities no longer share cooldowns between players)

- Spore cloud behavior rewrite

- F-keybind firing the wrong ability

- Origin data sync on login/respawn/dimension change

- Riftwalker XP sources and dimension persistence

- Phantom insomnia for bed-blocking origins

- HUD scale option respected by all overlays

- Mojibake/encoding issues in displayed text