Warning

Back up your world, player data, instance, journeymap folder, and options.txt before updating. This release changes quest chapters, dependencies, stages, recipes, and progression paths. Keep a copy of the previous instance for rollback.

Questbook and progression

• Rebuilt the questbook around themed progression areas.

• Reworked chapter names, icons, layouts, dependencies, and stage reveals.

• Reorganized Renaissance into three tracks:

  • Blood & Brimstone: Neo Vitae and Nether progression.
  • Steam & Ledger: Create steam, rail logistics, Caupona cooking, archives, and recordkeeping.
  • Prisms & Circles: Spectrum progression and Mahou Tsukai circles.

• Added Three Roads Converge. It unlocks The Transmutation Hall after all three Renaissance tracks are complete.

• Folded the former Nether, archive, and Mahou Tsukai chapters into the new Renaissance tracks.

• Renamed Maledictus Vigil to The Long Night and reworked its boss progression.

• Moved Aether Literacy into Renaissance.

• Moved Deeper, Darker and Undergarden into Industrial.

• Added Hearth and Homestead to Medieval.

• Added Feast & Candlelight as an optional annex chapter.

• Consolidated Industrial progression into larger areas:

  • The Ore Refineries: Steam industry, Oritech, and Mekanism.
  • The Industrial Complex: Create and TFMG factory systems.
  • The Nervous System: Routing, safety, digital storage, and factory infrastructure.

• Reworked Gilded Age chapter grouping and progression waves.

Mod integrations

• Added TFMG to industrial progression.
• Added oil, pumpjack, processing, and factory chains.
• Added Silent Gear progression.
• Added staged forging, grading, salvaging, and starmetal materials.
• Integrated Caupona cooking into Steam & Ledger and Feast & Candlelight.
• Expanded cross-mod recipes, boss rewards, and machine component paths.
• Moved key guidebooks into progression rewards.

Nether and survival changes

• Set the Nether temperature floor to 98 F.
• Nether water is now hot.
• Added the chilled Waterskin flow for Nether travel.
• Drink from the Waterskin with right-click.
• Pour water with sneak-right-click.
• Cool the Waterskin in an Icebox.
• Rebalanced early night spawns.
• Improved protection during initial player entry.

Fixes and cleanup

• Added TFMG compatibility and crash protections.
• Fixed quest rewards, stage grants, dependencies, and recipe links.
• Removed outdated filler content from progression paths.