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.

Progression and rewards

• Age capstones and several mod questlines now require opening their guidebooks.
• Later-stage content stays hidden in EMI until unlocked.
• Added age-appropriate rewards to all age capstones, Iron Harvest, Harvest and Hearth, and The Dark Curriculum.
• Cleaned invalid, duplicate, and progression-breaking rewards.

Alloys and technology

• Removed outdated Medieval Alloyed quests.
• Added optional bronze and invar alloy tasks to the Industrial Revolution.
• Tin and electrum remain gated for later progression.
• Moved the Immersive Engineering Crude Blast Furnace to the Renaissance. Powered IE machinery and the Improved Blast Furnace remain Industrial Revolution content.
• Moved Silent Gear azure silver to the Industrial Revolution.
• Simplified steel, gem, and generator quests, and moved the obsidian generator to the Atomic age.

Questbook changes

• Removed The Long Night and moved its content into the appropriate chapters.
• Moved Helvar, the Eye of Curse, and Lord Pumpkinhead to their intended progression points.
• Corrected the Lord Pumpkinhead target and summon recipe.
• Replaced the unavailable Drone Interface quest with a Logistics Drone quest.
• Combined component quests into their finished products across several mod lines.
• Removed exact-item quest rewards while keeping loot and XP rewards.
• Corrected roughly eighty quest descriptions and fixed early dark-alloy gear and gravitite ore leaks.

Stability and visibility

• Updated AStages to 2.5.0 with fixes for entity interaction server crashes.
• Progression locks, recipe locks, and stage-based EMI visibility now work together consistently.