Vampires Strike Back

# Vampires Strike Back 1.9.0
## Mods
### Removed
- Better Advancements
- Expiration Dates
- Sodium Dynamic Lights
- KeybindJS
### Added 
- Reliable Advancements
- Lamb Dynamic Lights
- Goety
- Gnetum
- Alex's Caves + Iris Caves
- Citadel + Lighter Citadel
- CM2E
- Hinged
- Epic Villages (Standalone)
- T.O Magic 'n Extras - Iron's Spells Addon
- GTBC's Geomancy Plus
- Shadow Drop
- Time Stop Clock
- Keybind Hider
### Updated
- Questlog
- Doom's Markers
## New
### Items
- Added Absorption Heart Crystals, another Heart-based reward that gives you Absorption and Regeneration for a period
- Added Earth, Water and Time spells
### Structures
- Brand new fully-custom GRAND MANSION dungeon, featuring two boss fights! Thank you to Day and Calcyon for putting this together!
- New Villages!
### Advancements
- A whole new advancement line!!! There's a lot to fight, so fight well!
### Mobs
- Implemented Wicked, Runner, Crusher, Conquillager, Preacher, Piker, Reprobate, Inquillager, Minister, Candicorn, Cryologer, Smasher (Grottoceratops), Ankle-Biter (Vallumraptor), Tremorer (Tremorsaurus), Endersent, Underzealot, Deep Ones, Vivizer, Envioker, Heresiarch, Licowitch, Storm Caster, Bruteillager (Coral Golem), White Walkers (Coralssus), Hallowed Knights (Hippocamtus), Black Beast, Gumbeeper, Grave Golem, Deep Ones (Regular, Knight & Mage), Giant (Aptrgangr), Blindsight, Bluff, Warlock
### Modes
- **Oblivion Mode** - New, harder Nightmare-like Mode that allows Mantle mobs and bosses to rarely spawn
## Soulbinder
New Origin!
- 3 Hearts
- Can fly for a short period before needing to inflict damage or touch the ground again to recharge
- Slain mobs can drop Souls, which she can summon and upgrade to fight for her
- Has an Infinity Trajectory-mapping Bow
- Cannot wear armour
## Changes
### Other Origins
- Vampires and Werewolves now have Super Scent: By crouching, they can sniff out the nearest human! Useful for stealth!
### Mob Spawning
- Reduced Patrol Blimp spawnrates
- Nerfed Patrol Blimp drops (they were way too consistently good)
- Buffed Pyreillager's health by 20
### Balance
- Reduced max extra hearts gained from Heart Crystals from 68 to 20
- Reduced various loot tables of numerous mobs to slow gameplay pace down
  - Players used to become so powerful that all challenge in the endgame became trivial... This should hopefully help fix that
- Buffed Life Crystal's Absorption duration
- Nerfed Healing Potion recipe
- Nerfed certain overpowered Apotheosis affixes
- Re-enabled Spellbooks, by popular demand
- Netherite items can no longer be Repaired by Scrap Metal, but can instead be Scrapped for and Repaired by Ancient Scrap
- Made Summoner Scrolls scrappable
- Buffed stronger Resistance potion lengths
- Any trinket, in addition to permanent hearts, can now rarely be rolled in a Vampire's starter chest for more gameplay variety between lives
- Soulbound is now consumed when killed
- Massively increased XP kept when dying (70%!)
- Greatly buffed the power of Summoner Scrolls Summons
- Spells now cost 3 Limitite to duplicate
- Nerfed enchantment power of Diamond armour in Acropolis
- Replaced Diamond armour in Frosted Prison with Black Iron armour
- Black Iron items can now be upgrades with the Diamond Upgrade Tablet
- Forger now begins with 3 hearts of health (From 2)
- Wanderer now has 10 hearts but no dodge-roll
- Polar Bears are now sick-nasty
### Quests
- Tyros now has a dedicated quest, with a message given upon beating him
### QoL
- Added a tooltip for Life Crystals
- Added Teleporter Maps, earnt by defeating the Mad King allowing you to teleport closer to a given marker
- Completing the Grand Mansion side-quest will now reward you with early markers towards the boss structures
- Life Crystals can now be used to Soulbind items via crafting (Thanks Hrry for the idea!)
- Improved Vampire Crypt books about Emeralds, Limitite, Repairing and Upgrading, and Entering the Overworld
- Certain mobs now spawn in the Dragon Tower to act as a source of healing when fighting the Dragon Tower Boss
- Renamed Shaders in-game to Vampires - Shaders!
  - Added a higher brightness version of the VSB shader!
  - The default Complementary Shaders is now bundled seperately, and uses the Complementary Ultra default settings + VSB colour grading!
### Visual
- New main menu slideshow!
- Replaced the Ancient Emerald Beech Forest biome's Oak Wood with Thornwood
- Increased default GUI scale
- Redesigned EMI layout
- items in GUIs now have drop-shadows
- Gave Maledictus a new coat of paint, opaque wings and Afterimages
- Glowing entities now emit visible light
- Spectral Servants now have visible names when looked at
### Fixes
- Made Wooden Slingshot, Sharp Stone Blade, Iron Bow & Shield, C&C Silver tools and Kunai scrappable
- Made Boots of Speed & other leather items repairable via Heart Crystal
- Expanded spawn protection area radius for Vampire Crypt
- Added Shield Expansion attributes to Black Steel Targe and Dragon Guard Shield
- Sorted longstanding bug of certain particles/sounds not working without Cheats enabled
- Broken Grenadier/Vindicator loot tables