Echoes of Antiquity

# Echoes of Antiquity — 1.1.0 Field Notes. The guide book stops being a placeholder: four chapters written as an **excavation notebook**, and pages you unlock by **deciphering Ancient Scrips** dug out of the ground. The Void Anchor and Static Pearl finally have recipes, and EMI was lying about the Sieve's odds. --- ## 📖 The guide book - **Four categories.** A Field Manual for the recipes, and three narrative chapters: the Architects, the Fallen Humans, the Failed Clones. The lore follows Game Theory's reading of Minecraft's ancient builders, bent to fit this mod's factions. - **Written as a dig journal.** The narrator is wrong about things early on and corrects himself later. A sherd he takes for a mason's signature turns out to be a datum mark; tools he admires as a builder's kit turn out to be evacuation gear. - **Pages you have to earn.** Each narrative entry ends on a sealed page. Sealed pages do not show at all until unlocked . - **The Ancient Scrip does something.** Right-click one and it deciphers a page you have not seen yet, picked at random. Six pages to find. Scrips come from sifting sand or gravel (2%), and from the abandoned house basement (60% for 1–2). - **The Sieve entry is a hub**: flavour, the craft, then links through to sand, gravel and red sand. ## 🔘 Anchors and pearls are craftable - The **Void Anchor** and **Static Pearl** were creative-only, so that whole waypoint system, and three advancements pointing at it, were unreachable in survival. - The anchor is a one-off build; 4 Obsidian, 4 End Steel Ingots, an Ender Eye. The pearl is the renewable part you spend: Ender Pearl, End Steel Ingot, Popped Chorus Fruit. ## 🎯 Bug fixes - **EMI was overstating the Sieve's odds.** It multiplied an entry's weight share by the roll count, which double counts the rolls where the same item comes up twice. Bone meal read 80% when it is really 61.8%; gravel flint 70% instead of 52.7%. It now works out the odds of seeing the item at all. - **Guide book text no longer runs off the page.** Patchouli does not clip text, it just draws past the frame. Bold and italic add a pixel per character, which is what pushed a few entries over. - The sifting pages in the book are **generated from the actual recipes**, so their numbers cannot drift from what the block does. ## 📚 Documentation - The README covers the **config file, the advancements, the End Steel trim and EMI**, none of which were mentioned at 1.0.0. Stale entries fixed too — the Magnet Ring's Off mode, and the new recipes.

# Echoes of Antiquity — 1.0.0 The Foundation. The first stable release. **Patchouli is no longer required**, a **config file** lands, **26 advancements** chart the progression, End Steel becomes a real **armor trim**, and the Sieve gains **weighted pools** and an **EMI page** — on top of a long list of bugs that had been quietly breaking half the mod. --- ## 📖 Patchouli is optional - **The mod runs without it.** Patchouli moved from a hard dependency to a suggestion, so a pack no longer has to ship it just to load Echoes of Antiquity. - **The lore book has a recipe** — a Book plus an Ancient Scrip. It sits behind a resource condition, so it only appears when Patchouli is actually installed, and quietly does not exist otherwise. This also finally gives the Ancient Scrip a use. **BUT** this lore book is still **\[WIP\]** ## ⚙️ A config file - **`config/echoesofantiquity.json`**, plain JSON, no config library pulled in. It covers the Void Pedestal and Gravity Anchor radiuses, the Magnet Ring range and strength, the Waystone's Soul Fragment cost and how much it heals, the durability the void rescue eats, the Static Pearl's uses, both machine speeds, and the Soul Siphon cooldown. - Values are **clamped on load**, so a typo in the file cannot produce a broken world, and the file is rewritten afterwards — new options appear on their own after an update. ## 🏆 26 advancements - **A single tree** rooted on the End Steel Ingot, branching into the Fallen Humans, the Failed Clones and the Architect's Tools. (May change) - Fully translated in English and French. ## 🌑 End Steel armor trim - **End Steel is a trim material.** Any vanilla armour can be trimmed with it at the smithing table, in a turquoise palette drawn from the ingot's own colours. - **It works on every armour, not just this mod's.** The extra trim entry is injected into each armour model as it loads, rather than shipping edited copies of the vanilla files — so it will not fight another trim mod, and it will not freeze an old copy of a vanilla model. ## 🧺 The Sieve - **Weighted pools.** A pool is now `{chance, rolls, entries}` with a weight on each entry, so a recipe can say "roughly two things, mostly flint, rarely gold" instead of rolling every result on its own. The three sifting recipes are rebalanced onto it. Older `results` lists still work. - **EMI support.** A Sifting category shows the input, the Soul Fragment as fuel, and every possible output with its real odds, worked out from the weights and the roll count rather than written by hand. - ⚠️ **Sand now yields at most 2 items per sift** instead of up to 6. The averages are tuned to match the old ones, but the swingy jackpots are gone. ## 🧲 Quality of life - **The Magnet Ring has an Off mode.** It cycles Off → Attracting → Repulsing, with a click to confirm, and does no work at all while off. It used to run permanently from your inventory with no way to stop it. - **Ender gear and Void Chainmail can be repaired again** — Void Treated Leather for the Ender tier, End Steel Ingots for the Void Chainmail. They had no repair material at all, so the anvil refused them. ## 🎯 Bug fixes - **The Void Pedestal blocks Phasing again.** The tag it used was renamed a while back and the effect was still looking for the old name, so walking through walls ignored the pedestal entirely. The whole tag mechanism is gone; teleports now ask a registry directly, which also stops the mod leaving dead tags in player data. - **Gravity Anchors survive a restart.** Nothing re-registered them when the server came back up, so an anchor stayed lit and did nothing until you toggled it. They register themselves now, and also recover from a chunk reload. - **Void Chainmail no longer drops you back at the lip of the void.** Walking off a ledge keeps you "on ground" for a tick while your centre is already over nothing, so the armour was saving a column of air as your last safe spot and returning you straight to it. It now checks there is really something to stand on, and looks for a nearby safe spot if the ground was mined while you were away. - **Phasing no longer triggers while standing still.** The old check passed on any movement at all, and gravity always leaves some — so facing a wall was enough to go through it. You have to actually walk into the wall now. - **The Architect's Level fills holes instead of levelling everything.** It was destroying every block in the 3×3, ores included. It now only shaves natural bumps and fills genuine gaps. - **The Sieve and Uncrafter screens close properly.** Both stayed usable from any distance and even after the block was broken. - **The Soul Siphon actually drops fragments.** The death check ran a moment too early and almost never passed. The right click also gained a cooldown; it could be spammed for permanent Strength and Speed. - **The Sieve's progress arrow is no longer stretched.** - **The Relic Blade is in the creative menu** — it was in no tab at all. - **Fixed a crash** when wearing a mix of armour and non-armour pieces, and several cases where a dispenser or a fake player could crash the Static Pearl, the Level or the Measuring Tape. - Added the missing French translations and the Sieve's sound subtitle. ## 🧹 Under the hood - **Cheaper anchor and pedestal lookups.** Both were flat lists, so every falling block checked every anchor in the dimension, every tick. They share a chunk-bucketed index now and only look where the radius reaches. The Void Pedestal also stopped scanning for nearby entities on every single tick. - **Typed data components** replace the raw NBT the Magnet Ring, Measuring Tape and Void Chainmail were storing their state in. ⚠️ Rings, tapes and chestplates from an older world lose their saved state. - **Client-only mixins are separated**, so dedicated servers stop logging failures trying to load them. - **Credits.** [CREDITS.md](./CREDITS.md) lists the code borrowed from ImplementedInventory, structurized-reborn, MedievalWeapons and StructureTutorialMod, with their licences. The LICENSE file also had its placeholders filled in. - The placeholder block and the leftover example mixin are gone.

## 🌟 What's New in Echoes of Antiquity 0.2.0 ### ✨ New Content & Features * **Void Chainmail Armor:** A new high-tier set crafted using an End Steel Upgrade and chainmail armor. It grants a permanent Slow Falling II effect and can teleport you to your last safe ground position if you fall into the void, costing 1/3 of the armor's durability. * **Magnet Ring:** A new utility tool with two distinct modes: attracting and repulsing. You can toggle between these modes by right-clicking the item. * **The Sieve Block:** A new functional block powered by Soul Fragments. It includes custom sifting sounds and animations for processing materials. * **Waystone Crafting:** A survival recipe has been added for the Waystone block, making it obtainable in normal gameplay. ### 🌍 World Generation & Structures * **Abandoned House:** A new structure that now generates naturally in the world. * **Technical Framework:** Implemented foundational code and logic to support future world generation and resolve specific structure spawning issues. ### 🛠️ Tweaks & Bug Fixes * **Infinite Water Bucket:** Fixed a bug where the bucket was not functioning as a truly infinite source. * **Server Compatibility:** Updated the code for the Measuring Tape and Infinite Water Bucket to ensure they function correctly on multiplayer servers. * **Translations:** Added the missing translation key for the Level Item and fully updated the French localization files.

New Features Gravity Systems Gravity Anchor: A major new utility block that can manipulate gravity for falling blocks and entities. Active States: Includes a dynamic model for when the anchor is active. Custom Audio: Added unique sound effects specifically for the Gravity Anchor's active state. Teleportation Waystones: Added Waystone blocks as a way to save yourself from danerous situations. New Items & Tools Architect's Level: Levels ground. Infinite Water Bucket: A utility bucket providing an endless water source (And an endless removing of liquid sources). Gameplay & Mechanics Crafting & Progression New Recipes: Added crafting recipes for the Gravity Anchor, Infinite Water Bucket, Level Uncrafter Integration: Formally added the recipe for the Uncrafter block. Recipe Variants: Added a flipped version of the Dragon Bow recipe.

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