Veilworks - The Confluence Engine

2.0.0 (from 1.8.0)

Material Arsenal 2.0.0 — every item keeps vanilla handling and gains its effect, with the numbers on the item tooltip:

• Black Quartz knife, sword, axe and arrows inflict a stacking Bleed (up to 3 stacks, 6 s after the last hit). Bleeding shows as slashed hearts and an effect icon. Eating does not cure it: only real healing or a Bandage.
• New early-game Black Quartz Sword and Axe: iron-grade damage, gold-grade durability, repaired with Nether Quartz. Knife, sword and axe craft from quartz and sticks only.
• Bandage: paper + any wool + string in a row makes five. Hold for 1.6 s to stop Bleeding and restore a heart; consumed only on completion while injured or bleeding.
• Energized Steel longsword calls lightning on about one hit in ten; Nitro spear, trident and arrow burst into shrapnel that hurts creatures, never blocks; Starfall arrows pierce every mob in a line, slow them, and stop only at blocks; the Cosmic Warhammer opens a short vortex; Astral Verdict keeps its dash (crit and bleed on anything passed through) without swing animations.
• Full armor sets burst when hit hard, with a two-second wind-up (particle ring, rising tone, action-bar warning) so you can dodge. Fixes an armor-burst crash when one explosion triggered another armored target's burst.
• Skeletons, golems, slimes, blazes, the Wither and other bloodless mobs cannot bleed. All combat numbers live in config/material_arsenal-server.toml.

Quest book

• Every page is one tree: no quest depends on a quest from another page, and each page reads from its first quest outward. The Material Arsenal pages run from Black Quartz up to Astral.
• All 76 pages re-laid out: 2,187 quests, 19 reward tables, 61 custom recipes; existing quest IDs preserved.
• The spawn starter chest gives an enchanted Black Quartz sword, knife and axe, Nether Quartz for repairs and Bandages in place of the iron sword and axe.

Pack

• Almost Unified prefers AllTheOres for shared metals. Loading screen shows pack tips. Changelog ships inside the pack as VEILWORKS-CHANGELOG.txt.
• Corrected public installation instructions, credits and server launch scripts. Back up your world and profile before upgrading, and use matching pack versions on clients and servers.