ZENIX Arcane Ascension 0.4.2

For Minecraft Java 1.20.1, Forge 47.4.10 and Java 17. Install the same mod version on both client and server.

• Rebuilt mentor bases as magical castles with a furnished central keep, four roofed towers, enclosing walls, a gate, paths and surrounding courtyards. Domain decorations give each school its own identity. Castle footprints grow to 31 / 35 / 39 blocks wide across the Overworld, Nether and End tiers.

• Mentor castles live on your normal Overworld, Nether and End maps. The wayfinder still surveys safe natural ground and avoids player-built, inhabited, protected and unsafe terrain. Castles and their surroundings retain the structure protection and bounded repair system, with usable doors and workstations.

• Added safe castle upgrades for existing mentor sites. Restart Minecraft, then use the Mage Wayfinder or Test Book → World → Teleport to Mentor. The survey creates the new castle on suitable ground and directs you there. Mentor favor, quests, ranks, learned spells and inventory remain saved; the old building keeps its original protection footprint.

• Replaced the bulky spell labels with a 142-GUI-unit-wide compact strip: six small spell glyphs, actual rebound key badges, cooldown overlays, ultimate markers and a thin domain-colored mana bar. The strip sits above Minecraft's health and hotbar and disappears when a screen is open, the GUI is hidden or Magic is inactive. Spell names, descriptions, requirements and costs remain in K → Active Spells.

• Expanded the journey to 108 promotion quests: six at ranks 1–3, eight at ranks 4–6, ten at ranks 7–9 and twelve at ranks 10–12. Difficulty rises from Easy at ranks 1–4 through Hard at ranks 5–8 to Super Hard at ranks 9–12. All assigned tasks, the rank's rune trial and its guardian remain required for promotion. Material offerings consume the actual supplies; combat and realm visits use the normal server quest rules. Each newly reported task gives five mentor favor and its one-time reward. Journal pagination exposes the full assignment. The original four quest IDs and requirements at each rank remain compatible with existing quest counters and earned ranks.

This update preserves the 13 magical domains, 182 named forms, 39 ultimates, 13 ranks, custom mentors and guardians, six saved spell slots, 39 domain ores, 195 equipment pieces, guide and test books, alchemy and Monarch progression. The mod remains independently playable with Minecraft and Forge.

This is a beta update. Build, installation and publication results are recorded separately from these release notes.