Astralbound 0.9.8

⚠️ EXISTING SAVE WARNING

This is a major content and world-generation update and may break, alter, or behave unpredictably with existing saves.

Starting a new world is strongly recommended for the intended 0.9.8 experience.

Back up any existing worlds before updating.

Farming & Cooking Expansion

Major new farming, food, and agricultural systems have been added.

Farmer's Delight

Croptopia

Farmer's (Delight) Croptopia integration

[Let's Do] Farm & Charm

[Let's Do] Brewery

Farmers Structures

Aquaculture Delight

Ocean's Delight

Aether Delight

Undergarden Delight

Kelp Fertilizer

Expect substantially more crops, meals, cooking, brewing, farm-related equipment, cottages, agricultural structures, and cross-mod food integration.

Magical & Automated Agriculture

Mystical Agriculture and Mystical Agradditions have been added, introducing resource crops, magical farming progression, new equipment, and powerful late-game agricultural production.

Botany Pots now provides compact crop and resource farming options, including integration with the new magical agriculture systems.

Create & Automation

Create has been added.

Players can now construct large mechanical systems using gears, shafts, belts, windmills, water wheels, mechanical harvesters, processing machinery, moving contraptions, trains, and much more.

Additional construction and automation tools have also been added through:

RFTools Builder

Building Gadgets 2

Capsule

Prefab

These greatly expand large-scale building, automation, portable structures, and prefab construction possibilities.

Ocean & Underwater Expansion

The oceans have received another major expansion.

Deeper Oceans creates dramatically deeper seas.

Underwater Village adds new underwater settlements and structures.

The Submarine introduces player-controlled underwater transportation.

Scuba Gear expands underwater exploration equipment.

Aquatic Torches and additional lighting options improve underwater construction.

Dangerous Waters adds further ocean creatures, structures, equipment, and hazards.

Modular Forcefields introduces configurable protective force-field technology.

Together with Astralbound's existing aquatic content, oceans should now feel considerably larger, stranger, more dangerous, and more worthwhile to explore.

Building & Decoration

Additional building, lighting, prefab, machinery, and decorative options have been added to support farms, factories, underwater bases, cottages, laboratories, and large automated settlements.

Performance / Memory

Astralbound has grown substantially.

12 GB RAM is now the recommended allocation for 0.9.8, particularly when using shaders, rapidly exploring new terrain, traveling through multiple dimensions, or operating complex automation systems.

General

Various dependencies, compatibility libraries, configuration files, and integrations have been updated or expanded to support the new content.

Astralbound remains in active development.

As always, expect ridiculous magic, enormous dimensions, dangerous oceans, catastrophic weather, questionable experiments, and absolutely no guarantee that pressing the interesting-looking button was a good idea.