Biohazard: Project Vanguard — v1.0.6 

⚠️ Core Progression Overhaul

WARNING: Vanilla gear crafting is gone. Survivors must rebuild their entire approach to armor and tools.

• Vanilla Gear Disabled — Leather, Iron, Diamond, and Netherite gear recipes fully removed.

• Tiering Kits Added — Four new upgrade items: Leather Scrap Kit, Machined Iron Plate, Advanced Diamond Matrix, Apex Netherite Matrix.

• Sequential Tiering — Each tier requires the previous one.

• Armor Base Requirements — Iron armor now requires the matching Leather piece as a crafting base.

⚙️ Industrial Automation (Create + IE)

WARNING: High-tier gear now demands real factory infrastructure.

• Diamond Gear Reworked — Crafted via Mechanical Crafters using diamond grit, IE steel plates, and the Tier 3 Matrix.

• Netherite Gear Industrialized — Requires large Mechanical Crafter arrays with Netherite Ingots, Heavy Engineering Components, Steel Blocks, and the Tier 4 Matrix.

• Tier Kit Manufacturing — Tier 3 & 4 Kits now produced in Create Mixers with heated or superheated blaze burners.

🔫 Weapons & Balancing (TaCZ)

Adjustments focus on pacing, fairness, and resource scarcity.

• Rebalanced Crafting — Firearm and attachment recipes tuned to match the hardcore economy.

• Progression Alignment — Weapon access now mirrors armor/tool tiering to prevent early-game power spikes.

📘 Questing & Lore

• New Tiering Questline — FTB Quests now guides players through the new armor/tool progression