Shattered Meridian 0.3.0 (alpha)

Every spell is now its own, Xenoculture replaces Starcatchers, the Overworld sky is torn open, the pack has its own title screen and look, and about 40 new mods for co-op, building, the Overworld and quality of life are in. Needs Meridian Core 0.3.0.

Before you update: Starcatchers and Echo Chambers are gone. Worlds that had a Spectrograph, Catch Bowl, Catcher Lenses or an Echo Chamber lose those blocks. Back up your world.

Spells

• 30 spells instead of 6 forms in 5 colours. Every Form and Aspect pair is its own spell with its own name, look and sound: Ice Lance, Fireball, Star Strike, Wave Orb, Seed Shot, Tidal Wave, Meteor Beacon, Tree of Life and more.
• Each aspect plays its own way. Frost slows and freezes, Ember hits hardest, Radiant jumps from enemy to enemy, Tide hits an area and pushes and pulls, Verdant heals your friends and poisons your enemies.
• Beams charge, then fire for a few seconds wherever you look. Let go early and nothing is spent.
• New particles, beams, shockwaves, ice spikes, thorns, flowers and screen shake. A client setting turns the effects down.
• Spells still never hurt players or pets.

Xenoculture

Resource automation you tend by hand, in place of Starcatchers and Echo Chambers.

• Find Ore Blooms, glowing microbe crusts on exposed ore, and scrape them with the Sample Kit on the brightest pulse.
• Grow the cultures into ore nodules in the Culture Jar, the powered Culture Vat and later the nine-culture Bioreactor.
• Breed better strains in the Splicer by lining up star patterns, and discover ten mutations, including strains for diamond, Starsteel and starlight.
• Tissue cultures grow creature drops, as the Echo Chamber used to.
• Climate modules, the Nodule Press, Bloom surges, feral cultures and their Bloom Mites, and the Lithe Bloom ritual for later on.
• The Bioreactor builds itself: carry the core and 25 casing or glass, place the controller, and the 3 x 3 x 3 goes up block by block and forms into one machine.

The Wound in the Sky

• At night the northern sky is torn by a molten gold crack in a band of nebula: the wound the Echo fell through. It warms the horizon to amber when you face it.

Title screen and look

• A title screen of its own: the torn night sky over the observatory, the painted pack logo and a new lore line every time.
• Every Meridian screen and every button now has the pack's indigo-and-gold look.

Quests

• The Xenoculture side chapter (29 quests) replaces the Starcatchers chapter. The quest book now has 539 quests in ten chapters.
• Chapter 1's "The Wound in the Sky" now asks you to look north at the wound from open ground.
• The Star Moths quest counts for every player who sees the moth, not only the nearest.

New mods

• Co-op: Simple Voice Chat (proximity voice), Ping Wheel and Chunky.
• Building: FramedBlocks, Effortless Building and Comforts (sleeping bags and hammocks).
• The Overworld: Towns and Towers, Explorify, Structory, Dungeons and Taverns and YUNG's Cave Biomes, kept apart by Sparse Structures, and new mobs from Friends and Foes. None of them reach the Meridian worlds.
• Quality of life: Enchantment Descriptions, Durability Tooltip, Item Borders, Overflowing Bars, Trade Cycling, Jade Addons and Crash Assistant.
• Performance and looks: ImmediatelyFast, Dynamic FPS, Cull Leaves, Not Enough Animations, 3D Skin Layers, Better Clouds and Entity Model and Texture Features.
• FTB Ultimine: hold the key (` by default) to mine a whole vein or tree at once.
• Mouse Tweaks: drag and scroll items between slots.
• Inventory Profiles Next: sort with a button or middle click, and refill tools and blocks as they run out.
• Trash Slot.
• Crafting Tweaks: rotate, balance and clear the crafting grid.
• AppleSkin: hunger and saturation on the HUD.
• Controlling: search key binds and find conflicts.
• Pick Up Notifier and Toast Control.
• Leaves Be Gone: leaves fall fast once the tree is cut.
• Clumps: XP orbs merge.
• Entity Culling: faster rendering.

Art

• New hand-made models for the Selene creatures: the Silent Sentinel, Craterspawn, Moonmite and Gravelmaw (boss).
• The new Bloom Mite has its own model, and every Xenoculture block and item is hand drawn.

Notes

• This is an alpha. Many blocks, items and creatures still use placeholder art.
• Polymorph and Configured will join once they have a build for Minecraft 26.1.2.