Fantastic Frontier - Experimental Early Access 0.3.0

This is a large progression and systems update. It focuses on a clearer quest line, expanded Frontier Works machinery, the Nemesis campaign, the Doomed class, and multiplayer stability. There will be many frequent updates. This update is incredibly unstable.

Highlights

• Rebuilt technology progression around six ordered ages.
  - Expanded Frontier Works into a connected singleblock and multiblock machine line.
  - Added broader Nemesis and Titan campaign support with automatic quest tracking.
  - Expanded the Doomed class with new medical, survival, and treatment systems.
  - Reworked combat scaling, enchanting, loot, mob farming, and resource processing.
  - Improved world startup, multiplayer reliability, loading time, and client stability.

 

Quest Book and Progression

• Technology is now divided into Kinetics, Green, Red, Blue, Integrated, and The Frontier's Edge.
  - Each age has one main route with optional machines and equipment placed in nearby branches.
  - Oil-derived plastic is now part of circuit and machine progression.
  - The Integrated Age covers semiconductor production, Mekanism factories, industrial automation, and computers.
  - The Frontier's Edge connects fission, fusion, antimatter, Draconic Evolution, and the Annihilation Core.
  - Refined Storage unlocks in stages: basic parts first, a working network in the Red age, then large storage, wireless access, and autocrafting.
  - The Refined Storage Machine Casing now uses an Infused Alloy instead of the Integrated Machine.
  - Class, Guild, Nemesis, and Titan quests read their real progression state where possible.
  - Previously hidden quests are generally visible while locked, so future goals can be inspected.
  - Duplicate, impossible, untitled, misleading, and disconnected quests were removed or repaired.
  - Normal quest rewards are collected automatically. Choice rewards still wait for player selection.

 

Frontier Works and Industry

• Frontier Works now forms a connected industrial path instead of a collection of isolated machines.
  - Powered singleblocks include the Powered Furnace, Frontier Pulverizer, Magma Crucible, Coil Winder, and supporting components.
  - Multiblocks cover storage assembly, circuit production, pressing, ore refining, chemistry, coolant, heat exchange, power generation, and late-game fabrication.
  - Controllers support FE, item and fluid ports, status reporting, recipe locking, batch processing, filters, JEI, debug output, and the Multiblock Projector where applicable.
  - The Ore Refinery Array processes industrial ore batches with water and produces ore slurry for later use.
  - The Chemical Tower, Reactant Column, and Coolant Plant form the first fluid-processing chain.
  - Stabilized Coolant can be heated in the Heat Exchanger Stack and used by the Frontier Dynamo Hall to generate FE.
  - Late-game Frontier Works fabrication now contributes to the Annihilation Core.
  - The Warium Leaching Vat requires a late nuclear material before heavy fabrication begins.
  - The unused Reality Compiler was removed from active progression.
  - The Oil Pump requires power and will not begin pumping until its hose reaches bedrock.
  - Oil springs, oil sand, and deep reserves provide several routes into crude-oil processing.
  - Portable Teleporter crafting has been restored.

 

Recipes and Resources

• Crude oil is converted into HDPE pellets before being pressed into plastic sheets.
  - Thermal, Cosmos, and Warium crude can feed the same early plastic route. Mekanism remains the later high-throughput option.
  - Copper wire recipes and outputs are unified around the Create Crafts & Additions item.
  - Common ores and processed materials use shared Forge tags more consistently.
  - Duplicate Warium generation for common materials such as lead, nickel, zinc, and sulfur has been disabled where another mod already supplies them.
  - Warium-specific resources remain available and are documented through JEI or JER where supported.
  - Ruby generation has been increased and its spawn information is available through resource information pages.
  - Missing recipes for steel casings, elite circuits, polished coke, cannon moulds, and the Portable Teleporter were restored.
  - Accidental coal-to-diamond and other development recipes were removed.
  - Capturing has been removed from the enchantment pool.

 

Nemesis, Titan, and Story

• Nemesis now runs as a server-owned campaign with heat, doctrines, scans, raids, escalation, and persistent global state.
  - The Watch Console displays sector heat, doctrine level, Titan containment, Nemesis activity, and current shelter state.
  - Albedo warns players about escalation, containment deadlines, planetary attacks, and dangerous exposure.
  - Campaign quests track real events including first contact, suppression, lockdown, killbox survival, planetary attacks, and boarding objectives.
  - Titan and Nemesis share a dedicated endgame chapter with clearer preparation and outcome paths.
  - Required landmarks now use bounded terrain searches with fallback placement, reducing new-world stalls without skipping story structures.
  - Main Town, Hidden Library, Heart of the Forest, Titan, and Nemesis received placement and loading fixes.
  - Multiplayer state handling has been improved for players joining, leaving, hiding, or progressing at different times.

 

Doomed Class

• Added a machine-based chemistry system with product purity affecting treatment quality and infection risk. Controlled-drug chemistry remains deliberately abstracted.
  - Arrows can lodge in individual body parts and require a dedicated extraction procedure.
  - Heavy bleeding can create deep wounds that may reopen unless stitched, stapled, or cauterized.
  - Added the Wound Stapler, Drying Cloth, blood bags, craftable protective gear, landmines, and new medical recipes.
  - Added temperature, exposure, frostbite, insulation, heaters, coolers, braziers, thermometers, canteens, hot drinks, and cold packs.
  - Nether ash can damage unprotected lungs. Dust masks and rebreathers prevent it.
  - Limb damage now affects attack strength, attack speed, and mining speed.
  - Adrenaline responds to nearby threats, while company and isolation affect mood recovery.
  - Bites and dirty wounds can cause infections that worsen without treatment.
  - Bandages stop active bleeding, while sutures provide the best recovery for deep wounds.
  - Medical equipment now reports charge or contents, and the AED can be recharged.
  - Decontamination showers, heaters, and coolers now consume power.
  - Bear traps are single-use until reset. Sound cannons can be disabled temporarily with projectiles.
  - Gun turrets now use visible short-range trip beams and a readable recharge cycle.
  - Added a cosmetic option to hide Doomed horns and tail.
  - Added `/doom off` and `/doomed off`, including operator support for other players.
  - The transformation finale, near-death effects, treatment screens, medical audio, and condition tooltips received a major presentation pass.
  - Server owners can configure temperature, frostbite, despair, infection, radiation, traps, condition effects, and bleeding severity.

 

Doomed Fixes

• Fixed permanent tinnitus, brain-damage text distortion, frozen pain tremors, and several impossible treatment interactions.
  - Fixed infections fading before taking effect, excessive fracture bleeding, non-stacking internal bleeding, and unsplinted bones never healing.
  - Fixed dimension changes resetting medical state, hearing damage, stimulants, scarring, and cooldowns.
  - Fixed tourniquet duplication, syringe limits, blood-bag transfer amounts, and nearly free zero-power defibrillator shocks.
  - Fixed eye wounds being impossible to select, treatment screens losing the cursor, and status elements overlapping.
  - Fixed trader lairs generating without accessible entrances or living traders.
  - Fixed several trap, ragdoll, thrown-body, crafting, and machine-energy edge cases.

 

Combat, Classes, and Enchanting

• Fixed Epic Fight enemies whose animations ignored their attack damage.
  - Armor mitigation now caps at 80%, and Protection caps at 60%.
  - High-value armor and maximum-health affixes are restricted to higher rarities and use lower values.
  - Potion charms can no longer provide permanent Resistance, Regeneration, or Absorption.
  - Class ultimates cap at Resistance II instead of granting practical invulnerability.
  - Frontier Age difficulty scales per player. New players remain at base difficulty while progressed players face stronger enemies.
  - Class selection, first skill, trial, mastery, rebirth, and subclass quests now read the real class state.
  - Creative flight from high-tier equipment is restricted to the player's own claims or party claims. Elytra, jetpacks, and ships are unchanged.
  - Goblin and librarian trades are capped at legal vanilla enchantment levels.
  - Above-cap enchanting remains part of Entropi progression instead of ordinary trading.
  - The Create Enchantment Industry Printer now requires an endgame component.
  - Enchanter's Cache rewards provide deliberate access to useful vanilla-level books.

 

Loot, Farming, and Exploration

• Hostile Neural Networks provides a late-mid-game, server-friendly mob farming route.
  - Only a curated list of common mobs can be simulated. Bosses and progression-sensitive enemies are excluded.
  - Simulation costs are increased, and Wither Skeleton skulls require a full processing cycle.
  - The Draconic Evolution Mob Grinder recipe has been removed.
  - Spawners cannot be moved with Create contraptions, and obsolete carryable spawners remain disabled.
  - Legendary, rare, boss, and Frontier Works quest rewards have been improved.
  - Major campaign and class milestones award unique keepsakes.
  - Magic loot is concentrated in appropriate structures and treasure locations instead of ordinary chests.
  - Luck has a broader effect on eligible chest loot outside Apotheosis content.
  - Waystones generate in the world and support inventory teleporting with a cooldown.
  - Corpse locations are reported after death, and phantoms are disabled by default.

 

Fixes and Quality of Life

- Added clearer first-join guidance, progression announcements, loading-screen tips, and machine tooltips.
- Fixed conflicting default keybinds for quests, classes, and combat controls.
- Reduced the animated menu background from 111 MB to 33 MB and removed unused shader packs.
- Improved server entity ticking, script load behavior, and several high-frequency event handlers.
- Fixed multiple multiplayer disconnect causes related to malformed or oversized synchronized data.
- Fixed KubeJS recipes with missing outputs, templates, fluids, or unsafe optional-mod references.
- Fixed Frontier Works FE overflow displaying negative energy and corrected block mining speeds.
- Fixed reinforced concrete not dropping and FFBox C-Foam fluid rendering.
- Fixed Mob Capsules for villagers, horses, llamas, and wandering traders.
- Reduced the maximum Teleport spell distance to 50 blocks at its highest level.
- Fixed multiplayer Class Mastery upgrades and several advancement triggers.
- Fixed ComputerCraft startup programs appearing on unrelated computers.
- Improved Nemesis movement synchronization and global-event audio on multiplayer servers.
- Main-menu music no longer continues while using the pause menu.