Neo Ascension 5.0.0 — Major Update

⚔️ Combat & Balancing

• Rebalanced mob health and damage across all dimensions.

• Overworld mobs: 2× health and damage.

• Nether mobs: 5× health and damage.

• End mobs: 10× health and damage.

• Twilight Forest mobs: 7× health and damage.

• Added a fixed 10× health multiplier for supported bosses, regardless of dimension.

• Preserved armor scaling and special balancing for Ice and Fire dragons.

✨ Magic & Progression

• Increased magic skill tree XP gain by 2.5×.

• Increased Spell Power bonuses in the skill trees by 10×.

• Improved overall magic progression and late-game character development.

⚙️ Mods & Automation

• Removed Mekanism and its addons.

• Removed EvilCraft.

• Added Simplest Paxels as an alternative to Mekanism's Paxels.

• Expanded Create automation with additional addons.

• Added Lithium, ScalableLux and MoreCulling for performance optimization.

📖 Questbook Overhaul

• Removed outdated Mekanism, Mekanism Reactors and EvilCraft quests.

• Added new Malum and Powah questlines adapted from FTB StoneBlock 4.

• Added quests for several utility and automation mods.

• Improved quest layouts, progression paths, connections and visual presentation.

• Added new quest decorations and artwork.

• Fixed missing quest names and descriptions.

• Preserved existing custom questlines.

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed outdated InControl references to removed mods.

• Updated InControl rules for improved boss balancing.

• Improved armor tooltips while preserving 3D item previews.

• Adjusted boss bar rendering to reduce Jade interface overlaps.

• Improved Curios slot availability.

• Removed obsolete crafting restrictions related to Mekanism.

• General configuration cleanup and compatibility improvements.

🚀 Performance

• Added new optimization mods to improve game performance.

• Improved entity processing, lighting calculations and rendering efficiency.

• Reduced unnecessary content and removed outdated configurations.

• General performance and stability improvements.