📦 0.6.0 Update: Northstar Redux Integration and Major Overhaul

This major update focuses on integrating the latest Northstar Redux changes (v0.5.0 and v0.5.1), resulting in a massive overhaul across space survival difficulty, oxygen dynamics, and general machine functionality.

⚙️ General Changes and QoL Improvements

• Renaming: Oxygen Concentrator has been renamed to Atmospheric Concentrator (northstar:atmospheric_concentrator).

• Item Adjustment: The stack size of the Targeting Computer has been increased from 1 to 64.

• Texture Updates: Numerous block and item textures have been updated, including Chiseled Mars Stone, Coiler Vine/Sapling, Glowstone Lamps, Interplanetary Navigator items, and Mars/Mercury/Moon/Venus Stone Lamps/Pillars.

• Placement Rules: Sneaking (Shift) when placing the Atmospheric Concentrator, Oxygen Sealer, or Oxygen Charger will now reverse the placement direction.

• JEI Tooltips: Fuel JEI tooltips have been updated to match the modpack's color scheme.

• Tooltip Visibility: Goggle tooltips have been improved to show information about blocks that affect oxygen consumption or temperature regulation.

• Fluid Density: The density of Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Chlorine gases has been updated to make them float within fluid tanks.

• Volcanic Ash Drops: Volcanic Ash drops have been increased and can now be mined with Silk Touch.

⚠️ Survival Difficulty and Durability Adjustments

The difficulty of space exploration has significantly increased to make resource management more crucial. A standardized durability policy has been applied across all gear via custom scripts.

• Custom Durability Policy Applied: The durability calculation for all space suits, general gear, and tools has been changed via KubeJS scripts as follows:

  • Iron Space Suit: Adjusted to have identical durability (1.0x) to Netherite gear. (Example: Helmet 407)

  • Martian Steel Gear (Suits and General Equipment): Adjusted to have 2.0 times the durability of Netherite gear. (Example: Suit Helmet 814)

  • Martian Steel Tools: Adjusted to have 1.5 times the durability of Netherite equipment. (Example: Pickaxe 2341)

• Dynamic Oxygen Consumption: The oxygen consumption of the Oxygen Sealer is now dynamic based on the environment. Active machinery or heat sources inside the sealed area will increase oxygen consumption.

• Suffocation Speed Increase: The delay between suffocation damage ticks has been halved (from 1 second to 0.5 seconds).

• Mars Root Change: Mars Roots no longer grow on their own and now require Bone Meal to propagate.

• Underwater Breathing: Wearing a space suit now enables breathing underwater.

🛠️ New Environmental Mechanisms and Blocks

• Multiblock Large Fan added, used for air control and temperature management.

• Insulated Vents added, with crafting recipes alongside Glowstone Lamps.

• Small Solar Panel Line-of-Sight Requirement: Small Solar Panels must now have a direct line of sight to the sky to produce power. (Stops working if installed under a roof)

🤝 Expanded Mod Compatibility

• Create Mod:

  • All ice cream types can be used as potato cannon ammunition to temporarily freeze entities.

  • Blaze Burners and Backtanks affect oxygen consumption when inside a sealed area.

  • Blaze Burners now accept Biofuel Buckets as general fuel.

• Create Diesel Generators:

  • Biodiesel, Diesel, and Gasoline can be used as fuel for the Combustion Engine.

  • Engines require oxygen and affect sealed area consumption.

• Crafts and Additions:

  • Blaze Burners with Straws affect oxygen consumption and can now accept Biofuel, Hydrogen, Liquid Hydrogen, Hydrocarbons, and Methane.

• Copycats (Create & Copycats+):

  • Copycats blocks are sealed based on the inserted material and provide Heat Shielding and Insulation based on the material.

✅ Bug Fixes and Stability

• Hardened Precision Mechanism Recipe Conflict Resolution: The default recipe for northstar:hardened_precision_mechanism has been removed, ensuring only the KubeJS Sequenced Assembly recipe is active, improving automation stability.

• Oxygen and Pressure Systems:

  • Improved Handling of Multiple Oxygen Systems: Fixed instability issues when multiple Oxygen Sealers were operating within a sealed area.

  • Fixed a bug where the Oxygen Sealer would ignore Oxygen Filter insertion.

  • Reduced performance lag that occurred during validation failures inside sealed areas.

• Entities and Players:

  • Fixed entities freezing while sitting in a seat.

  • Fixed players being ejected when dismounting a rocket.

• Rendering and Models:

  • Fixed the Oxygen Charger model appearing inverted, and Space Suit Helmet/Chestplate rendering/animation issues.

  • Resolved an issue where Gravity Blocks applied incorrect collision boxes.

  • Fixed Solar Panel texture alignment issues.

  • Resolved issues where Space Suit HUD text appeared blurry.

• Environmental Interactions:

  • Fixed blocks/fluids not updating based on temperature/oxygen changes within a sealed area.

  • Fixed Martian Dust Storms affecting entities inside sealed areas.

  • Fixed torches extinguishing even when placed on an oxygenated wall.

  • Fixed ice immediately reverting to ice when broken inside a sealed area.

• Machinery and Recipes:

  • Fixed Combustion Engines making sound and consuming fuel when overloaded.

  • Fixed the Atmospheric Concentrator only producing 1mB/t regardless of input speed.

  • Fixed Create Pipes being visible inside the Oxygen Charger.

  • Adjusted Amethyst Crystal recipes and Tungsten Plate/Block recipes and block drops.

  • Strawberry Ice Cream recipe was corrected again.