Ruthless Frontiers - Grim Harvest: Changelog 0.3.4a → 0.3.5

New Mods

• Guildmaster — Guild quest system added to the pack
• The Rift Between Us — New fast-travel system via rifts (use /rift sethome, /rift home, /rift go)
• Village Spawn Point — Players now spawn near designated village spawn farms (replaces Biome Spawn Point)
• Dynamic Tooltips — Enhanced item tooltips; collapses enchantment descriptions by default, hold Shift to expand
• Attribute Icons (RPG Series) — Visual icons for attributes in tooltips
• Icon Leading Tooltip — Companion to Attribute Icons for leading icon display in tooltips

Removed Mods

• Biome Spawn Point — Replaced by Village Spawn Point

New Starter Kits

Two new character kits available at world start:

• Northling — Wildling armor (head/chest/feet) + Iron Berserker Axe. "From the ashes, a mighty warrior rises."
• Pugilist — Archer armor (chest/legs/feet) + dual Diamond Gauntlets. "You've never met a problem you couldn't solve with your fists."

Balance & Gameplay Changes

Combat

• Empty offhand now counts as two-handing your mainhand weapon — enables two-handing bonuses when your offhand is empty
• Player base stats increased: +2 base attack damage, +0.6 melee reach (entity interaction range)
• Archer armor (all tiers): Now grants +8% glancing blow chance per tier
• Berserker armor (all tiers):
  • Removed: attack speed bonus (+0.02)
  • Added: movement speed penalty (−0.01)
  • Added: frost resistance (+12.5%)
• Spell Engine: Removed auto-swap hands on spell cast (client setting removed)
• Spell Engine: New spell binding level cost/requirement multipliers and offsets are now configurable (server-side)

New Content: Fists

• Added FISTS_2 datapack and resource pack — unarmed combat support using Gauntlet items.

Teleportation: Rifts

• The Rift Between Us mod introduces a rift-based travel system:
  • /rift sethome — sets your home rift
  • /rift home — teleport home, leaving an adventure rift behind
  • /rift go — return to your adventure rift (breaks the portal)
  • /rift go <playername> — use another player's home rift (does not break it)

Quest / Guide Updates

• Survival & Regeneration chapter reworked:
  • Removed old campfire healing and saturation/regeneration quests (Campfires never healed, that was an error)
  • Added "Food and Healing" quest explaining no natural regeneration — use healing magic or bandages
  • Added "Darkness" quest explaining the reduced night vision and the lantern/stealth tradeoff
  • Added Rifts quest explaining the new fast-travel system
• Armor descriptions corrected: Heavy armor and Medium armor tier descriptions were swapped — now accurate
• Fixed typo in combat guide: "appliy" → "apply"
• Constable kit description updated: "Even now, law and order makes a desperate attempt at existence."

Resource Pack & Datapack Changes

• Removed battlemage, spellblade_5, and pack datapacks/resource packs from Paxi (content is now integrated)
• Added grimguild resource pack — text assets for the Guildmaster mod
• Added spawn_farm_tag datapack — tags village structures for Village Spawn Point
• Updated NPC name packs (names_4, names_5 replace names, names_3)
• MalfuCombatDatapack given explicit load order prefix (0_) to ensure correct loading sequence

Default Settings Changes

(These affect new installs; existing players keep their current settings)

• Shaders enabled by default (Iris)
• World curvature effect disabled (Chunks Fade In)
• Bob view disabled (less camera sway)
• Advanced item tooltips enabled by default
• Dynamic lights set to Fast mode (was Realtime) for better performance
• Backpacked unlockable slots now enabled
• Third-person camera default changed to front-facing (was shoulder surfing)
• Cosmetic accessories hidden by default in Accessories config
• Backpack management key unbound (was V)
• New keybinds: Left Shift → show Dynamic Tooltip details, Insert → open Guildmaster quests

Performance Tweaks (C2ME)

• Max render distance cap raised: 43 → 56
• No-tick view distance concurrent chunk loads increased: 5 → 9
• Global executor parallelism increased: 4 → 8