2.0.8 BETA TEST FIXES & CHANGES

This BETA update focuses on progression guidance, mob behaviour, structure loot integrity, and visual improvements identified during continued testing.

Quests & Progression

• Added a new mandatory early-game quest introducing the Stat system, including how to spend XP, what each Stat governs, how to check requirements, and which Stats are most useful to prioritise early.
• Fixed several quests with missing rewards or incorrect quest shapes.
• Updated the Boss chapter with improved rewards and more accurate progression information.

Mob AI & Equipment

• Pillagers now always spawn armed, with Common Pillagers guaranteed to use Crossbows.
• Added a defensive Pillager weapon fallback to prevent unarmed variants.
• Restored reliable fallback spells for Uncommon and Rare magic classes.
• Staff and wand-equipped mobs now correctly prioritise Wizard casting AI instead of rushing into melee.
• Improved caster responsiveness with a shorter 40–80 tick casting interval.
• Prevented duplicate Wizard AI goals from being registered.

Structure Loot & Worldgen

• Audited installed structure NBTs for prohibited static equipment and blacklisted items.
• Replaced blacklisted armour, weapons, shields, runes, enchanted books, item-frame contents, and other embedded items with PotA-safe or thematic alternatives.
• Cleaned static armour stands, mob loadouts, furnaces, hoppers, droppers, spawners, and item frames.
• Preserved structure mechanics where items were used as puzzle components.
• Fixed Loot & Explore Wizard Small Towers calling unsafe nested Wizard loot tables that could generate disabled runes.
• Fixed Loot & Explore Paladin Recruiting and Shrine structures calling unsafe Monk loot tables.
• Replaced disabled rune rewards with thematic alternatives:
  • Arcane → Amethyst Shard
  • Fire → Blaze Powder
  • Frost → Ice
  • Healing → Glistering Melon Slice
• Expanded the audit to include dynamic structure processors capable of generating equipment after structures are placed.
• Fixed YUNG’s Better Desert Temples dynamically generating Chainmail/Gold armour, Golden weapons, and Shields.
• Fixed Desert Temple armour stands and processor markers that could bypass normal blacklist checks.
• Fixed YUNG’s Better Dungeons Wither Skeleton spawners dynamically receiving Netherite armour.
• Fixed YUNG’s Better Nether Fortresses dynamically generating prohibited item-frame weapons, shields, and enchantments.
• Sanitised Moog structure armour pools, replacing Iron, Chainmail, Gold, and Diamond armour with appropriate PotA class equipment.

Visuals & Shaders

• Updated the default Bliss shader preset with improved cinematic colour grading, lighting, clouds, and atmosphere.
• Added an optional Photon preset featuring more vibrant visuals, pixelated shadows, and coloured lighting at a potentially higher performance cost.

Mod Updates

• Updated Streams Reflowing.