Createch 2 — 0.8.1b Changelog

0.8.1b — Progression Hardening

0.8.1b is a focused progression-hardening update for the 0.8.1 series.

This release addresses issues discovered during a full static Stone-to-Infinity progression audit, improves several poorly communicated progression handoffs, and removes stale development artifacts without expanding the pack's scope.

Fixed

• Fixed a critical Chemical Age progression cycle in the Pressurized Reaction Chamber assembly.

  • Replaced the prematurely required Mekanism Advanced Pressurized Tube with a Basic Pressurized Tube.

  • Replaced the prematurely required Advanced Chemical Tank with a Basic Chemical Tank.

  • Titanium-tier Mekanism components remain reserved for later High Pressure progression.

• Fixed stale Research'd nuclear datapack unlock IDs so they match the live recipe authority.

• Restored JEI lookup-history overlay to its intended disabled state.

• Localized the global FTB Quests progression-lock message across all seven supported languages.

Progression

• Made the Beneath route explicit before heated bronze production.

  • Players are now directed through the Beneath sacrifice ritual.

  • Blaze capture and the Empty Blaze Burner are explained as the intended source of early Create heat.

  • The CBC bronze foundry now clearly communicates the expedition required to operate it.

• Clarified the first Heavy Industry lubricant bootstrap.

  • Railcraft Coke Oven creosote is explicitly identified as the starting feedstock.

  • The MI Bronze Mixer route into MI lubricant is explained.

  • Createch's lubricant bridge into TFMG lubrication oil is documented before refinery self-supply begins.

• Mars is now structurally required before Advanced Electric aluminum production.

  • Aluminum Reduction explicitly depends on completing the Mars supply route.

  • Mars Tharsite is communicated as a mandatory industrial resource rather than optional exploration.

• Venus and Mercury are now represented as mandatory High Pressure supply routes.

  • The former informational planet-route quest is now a required progression quest.

  • High Pressure platinum processing explicitly depends on securing Corronium from Venus and Solerium from Mercury.

• Moved the Elite Control Circuit milestone from Nuclear into Cosmonautics.

  • Elite Control is now introduced before Rocketnautics thrusters begin consuming it.

  • Nuclear progression now assumes the component standard was established during the aerospace era.

Eternal Starlight

• Reworked the opening Eternal Starlight quest sequence around the mod's actual native entry path.

• The chapter now begins with Portal Ruins and the Gatekeeper's trial.

• Seeking Eyes are no longer presented as the key used to enter Eternal Starlight.

• Seeking Eyes are now a later navigation tool for deeper structures and bosses.

• Moved Seeking Eye progression behind the Starlight-fed superconductor line.

• Removed the old unreachable Eternal Starlight recipe-override block that had been disabled behind an immediate return.

Questbook

• Preserved all 1,222 quests while correcting progression dependencies.

• Preserved an acyclic quest graph with no missing prerequisites.

• Updated chapter autofocus after moving Elite Control and Eternal Starlight entry milestones.

• Improved descriptions and subtitles for the affected Beneath, Heavy Industry, planetary, Cosmonautics, and Eternal Starlight progression.

• Kept changed quest content synchronized across:

  • English

  • Simplified Chinese

  • Russian

  • Spanish

  • Brazilian Portuguese

  • German

  • French

Maintenance

• Removed stale Moderner Beta configuration and datapack remnants.

• Removed obsolete runtime/cache artifacts from the release source.

• Removed stale 0.7.9/0.7.9a release labels from active Createch authority files.

• Made validation and authority metadata version-independent where appropriate.

• Expanded optional runtime validation for the Re:Avaritia singularity and first-Infinity crafting chain.

• Preserved the existing 348-mod CurseForge payload with no mod additions, removals, or upgrades.

Validation

Static validation confirms:

• 1,222 unique quests

• 0 missing quest dependencies

• 0 quest dependency cycles

• 20 valid chapter autofocus targets

• exactly one role classification per quest

• complete localization key parity across all seven supported languages

• 36 KubeJS scripts passing JavaScript syntax validation

• unchanged CurseForge dependency set from 0.8.1a

• valid release ZIP integrity

Summary

0.8.1a made Createch 2 easier to understand.
0.8.1b makes that path safer to actually follow.

The journey from primitive survival to interplanetary industry and Infinity remains unchanged in scope.

The road is simply better connected.