Tainted Forces

• the pack doesn't crash on startup anymore woooo

Taint changes:

• removed linear pollution fade, caused bug where pollution cloud wouldn't spread farther than 5 chunks

• removed residual flux that would cause taint to spread slowly even in absence of polluting machines

• taint seeds now immune to suffocation and starvation, both of which could passively occur and kill it

• taint evo gamestages replaced in favor of a gamerule that increments when a taint seed dies. Not many effects yet.

aesthetic improvements:

• taint fiber now looks closer to thaumcraft 4's version

• custom death animation for tainted mobs

• essentia smelters now only hive off smoke when actually processing items, should give a better idea of their flux output (tho still far from perfect)

progression:

• put botania at the very front to incentivise automation from the very beginning and establish a CORE GAMEPLAY LOOP (apparently only around a third of packdevs know what that is)

• simplified thaumcraft-based ore processing to the point where it can be used to skip the bloomery entirely

• simplified some crafting recipes for frequently used items to encourage automation

• laid the groundwork for the big nether & ore processing rework

• removed Yung's caves in favor of the more customizable CaveGenerator Currently only implemented big-ass ravines, cave systems soon to come