Version 1.0.3 — First-Launch Improvements & Survival Polish

✨ New Features & Improvements

• Sky Island is now selected automatically as the default world type when creating a new world.

• Added Default Options to provide a smoother first-launch experience.

• Default GUI scale set to 3.

• Default FOV widened to 90 for improved visibility.

• FTB Quests keybind set to J by default.

• Player settings remain customizable and persist after restarting the game.

♻️ Equipment Recycling

• Added furnace recycling recipes for iron, gold, diamond, and netherite chestplates.

• Added chainmail chestplate recycling, returning one chain.

• Removed the Recycle mod in favor of custom KubeJS recipes.

• Updated recycling quests to require smelting the appropriate chestplate instead of simply obtaining it.

• Corrected recycling outputs and verified all five recipes and quests.

🛡️ Defensive Progression

• Added progression quests for wooden stakes, copper spikes, iron barbed wire, and spike traps.

• Added defensive progression rewards to help players prepare for increasingly dangerous hordes.

• Improved survival guidance for trap damage, resource management, and bunker preparation.

🧟 Horde & Survival

• Preserved the escalating horde system, including the 5% stat increase every seven in-game days.

• Retained progressive zombie block-breaking difficulty.

• Preserved day announcements and atmospheric warning effects.

🧪 Testing & Stability

• Tested the exported pack in a fresh CurseForge profile.

• Verified the default Sky Island world type, GUI scale, FOV, and FTB Quests keybind.

• Confirmed settings persist after restarting the game.

• Confirmed the narrator welcome screen did not appear during the clean-install test.

• Tested all five chestplate recycling recipes and their associated quests.

Build your bunker, prepare your defenses, and survive the next horde!