Ascendant Technology v0.8.0-alpha

v0.8.0 Alpha Build 7 (Current)

BLOCKS

Mob Grinding

• Mob Magnet
  • Increased Max Range Radius from 22 blocks to 32 blocks
    • That also means that you'll need more range upgrades.
  • Updated its textures and render method.

ITEMS

Armor

• Aetherium Armor can now be repaired.

Meshes

• Aetherium Mesh
  • Increased amount multiplier from 1.5 to 2
  • Increased chance multiplier from 6 to 10

Nets

• Aetherium Net
  • Increased luck from 4 to 15
  • Increased catching speed multiplier from 6 to 8
• Lucky Net
  • Increased luck from 10 to 30
• Titanium Net
  • Increased luck from 2 to 6

RECIPES

• Added recipes for every Enchantment Station module.
• Added recipes for the Mob Magnet.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a critical bug causing UI elements from Ascendant Technology machines to be pulled by Item Exporter.
  • Must be tested in 3.3.10, since it was fixed in UtilityCraft 3.4, which is not out yet.
• Fixed Aetherium Armor not being resistant to fire and lava.

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v0.8.0 Alpha Build 6

BLOCKS

Generators

• Absolute Wind Turbine
  • Decreased altitude modifier by 43%.

Note

This change was made because this generator was simply the best generator present in the game, surpassing event active generators while being a passive generator.
The player now needs to go ~2.8 blocks high instead of ~1.5 blocks to gain +10% efficiency, which is a more meaningful difference and makes the generator less of a no-brainer in many cases.

Machines

• Enchantment Station
  • Changed which enchantments are applied by level. These changes are docummented in docs.

Transportation

• Added Inverted Sorter
  • Filtered items are diverted to side outputs; other items continue forward.
• Added Sorter
  • Filtered items move forward; other items are diverted to side outputs.
• Bridge Conveyors (All)
  • Path guides now clear small environmental blocks (plants, torches, snow layers) during projection setup.
  • Now have their own textures and models.

ITEMS

Tools

• Aetherium and Titanium Swords no longer breaks blocks in creative mode.
• Aetherium AIOT can now be enchanted with sword enchantments.
  • Due to Mojang's lazy ass, it also has the every enchantments. I don't recommend using it in a Enchanting Table.
• AIOTs can now break honeycomb blocks and bamboo.
• Fluid Capsules
  • Added Capsules for Water, Lava and XP.
  • Fluid Capsules can now place world fluids and pick up source blocks, similar to buckets. They can also be filled with steam from the Vaporworks Processor.
  • Milk capsules are now infinite-only and cannot pick up milk from the world.

MOBS

General

• Disabled the Enderling family spawn.

Note

My sincerely apologies. These guys proved to be way worse than I thought they would be. Animations, behavior and everything else is far beyond my power and knowledge to create and it'll take a while. They're still available in creative mode, but I don't recommend trying them.

RECIPES

Machines

• Added recipes for Conveyors, Inclined Conveyors, and Bridge Transmitters/Receivers across all three tiers (Copper, Titanium, Aetherium).
• Updated machine crafting progression recipes:
  • Cryo Chamber now uses Titanium Block and Packed Ice in the core recipe.
  • Enchantment Station and Vaporworks Processor recipes were added.
  • Singularity Fabricator ingredient progression was adjusted for better late-game flow.

UI/UX

• Updated Mob Magnet and Smart Router placeholders to JSON-style % variables so dynamic values render correctly in all supported languages.
• Added Smart Router localization coverage (menu text, assignment actions, and status feedback) across all supported languages.
• Added Sorter Conveyor localization coverage (mode/filter labels, set/clear actions, and close button) across all supported languages.
• Localized Generator transfer mode selection text and Laser Barrier upgrade feedback across all supported languages.
• Added missing bridge obstruction feedback key and Enchantment Station entity name mapping in non-English locales to prevent raw key text.
• Added missing Mob Magnet localization entries for new settings buttons and filter mode variants.
• Added missing item-group localization entries for Conveyors and Mob Grinding.
• Replaced hardcoded Cryo Chamber freezer title text with a localized key mapping.
• Aligned Cryo Chamber UI slot bindings with script indices, including explicit hidden guide-slot reservation (25) and clearer stabilizer input slot naming (3).

BUG FIXES

• Fixed Mob Magnet text rendering issues. #36
• Fixed Mob Magnet not pulling mobs in some cases after state updates. #37
• Fixed Aetherium and Titanium hammers not applying hammer recipes correctly. #39
• Fixed Aetherium and Titanium ores dropping nothing when mined by drills or command breaks. #40

TECHNICAL CHANGES

Core Utilities

• Added global metadata-aware machine item handling utilities (name, lore, enchantments, durability, lock mode, keep-on-death, and dynamic properties).
• Upgraded shared item insertion logic to support metadata-aware stacking/capture flows.
• Added centralized drop particle catalog exports for drop system usage.
• Extended Dorios Excavate bridge vanilla-drop handling with additional regeneration mode support.

Runtime Registration

• Refactored machine-local defaults into local config objects for the new machine helper pipeline.
• Enchantment Station now supports runtime override channels via settings.machine.station and settings.machine.config.station.
• Added machine.config payload support in machine block definitions to align runtime configuration channels.
• Migrated Insight injector runtime imports to DoriosCore exports and removed obsolete legacy runtime dependencies.
• Moved deprecated Tabs Test Machine assets out of production runtime bootstrap.
• Improved Mob Magnet runtime safety for cross-API entity validation and clarified range display as 1-based levels in settings UI.

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v0.8.0 Alpha Build 5

ITEMS

General

• Added a new menu category for Materials and Resources from Ascendant Technology.
• Added new resource items:
  • Aetherium Dust
  • Titanium Dust
  • Titanium Plate
• The following items had their textures updated:
  • Enchantment Module (All levels)
  • Enderling Tear
  • Pure Enderling Tear
  • Reinforcement Module (All levels)
  • Void Essence

RECIPES

General

• Changed one recipe to use Titanium Plate instead of Titanium Ingot.

Catalyst Weaver

• Added a new recipe for Void Essence. It uses an Empty Bottle, Crushed Endstone, and Dark Matter.

Residue Processor

• Added a new recipe: Podzol now processes into Bone Meal with a chance for Rotten Flesh.
• Added Rotten Flesh processing into Leather with a chance for Bone Meal.
• Removed the old recipe that generated Void Essence.

UI/UX

• Restored Cryo Chamber classic UI.

BUG FIXES

• Laser Barrier no longer leaves behind orphan blocks when size upgrades are removed.
• Laser Barrier now properly clears light environment blocks (e.g., vegetation, snow) before projecting the wall, allowing it to form fully in natural terrain.
• Fixed Laser Barrier orientation so that North/South placement projects the wall in the same direction as the machine front, while East/West behavior remains unchanged.

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v0.8.0 Alpha Build 4

BLOCKS

Machines

• Catalyst Weaver
  • Decreased energy capacity from 256 MDE to 128 MDE.
  • Increased operation speed from 180 DE/t to 6.4 kDE/t.
• Duplicator
  • Added Dynamic Rate
  • Doubled base energy cost per operation.
  • Energy cost and ETA now scales with item/block rarity:
    • Common: 1x Cost, 1x Time
    • Uncommon: 2x Cost, 1.75x Time
    • Rare: 3.5x Cost, 3.5x Time
    • Epic: 5x Cost, 6x Time
    • Legendary: 10x Cost, 8.25x Time
    • Mythic: 15x Cost, 10x Time
    • Transcendent: 25x Cost, 12.5x Time
  • Increased operation speed from 400 DE/t to 800 DE/t.
  • No longer can duplicate Shulker Boxes, as they are now containers with special handling.
• Enchantment Station
  • Decreased energy capacity from 128 MDE to 25.6 MDE
  • Increased minimum operation cost from 8 kDE to 64 kDE.
  • Increased time requirements for repair, reinforcement, and enchant progression steps, making full-item processing meaningfully longer.
  • ETA now uses real per-operation processing speed, improving second-by-second accuracy in the machine HUD.
  • Max Reinforcement value is now shown right after the Current Reinforcement value.
  • Rebalanced energy scaling across core operations:
    • Enchant changes now scale much more aggressively with operation complexity.
    • Reinforcement and curse-protection operations now have higher energy scaling.
    • Disenchant extraction now costs significantly more per enchantment removed.
  • Reinforcement now correctly applies durability increases to armor and tools/weapons, and it now consumes reinforcement points based on the amount of durability restored.

Ores

• Aetherium
  • End
    • Increased max ore count from 3 to 7
  • Overworld
    • Increased spawn rate significantly
    • Increased vertical generation range from -59..-54 to -61..-54
• Titanium
  • Decreased vein size from 8 to 5 ores
  • Spawn rate reduced by ~80%

Transportation

• Removed Conveyor Network Updater block and script.
  • Conveyor networks now automatically update every 80 ticks without needing a dedicated block.

ITEMS

• Curse Protection Module
  • Now completely nullifies the chance of curses.

FLUIDS

General

• Steam capsules are now registered directly in the fluid container registry.
• Empty liquid capsules can now be filled with steam through the same fluid output mapping used by other fluids.
• Steam display mapping now uses the fluid bar renderer, keeping HUD behavior consistent with other liquids.

RECIPES

Cryo Chamber

• Snow and Water to Ice now takes way less time and energy.
• Ice to Packed Ice now takes more time.
• Packed Ice to Blue Ice now takes way more time.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed Vaporworks internal tank routing after gas migration so input and output use independent fluid tank slots.
• Fixed Vaporworks transfer flow to avoid stale node refresh loops and to keep pulls/pushes on the same fluid network snapshot during each transfer cycle.

TECHNICAL CHANGES

• Removed standalone gas config loading in favor of fluid-only capsule registration.
• Removed legacy dead gas objective/whitelist internals from the core runtime.
• Optimized pipe-network BFS traversal by replacing queue shift() iteration with index-based queue walking.
• Reduced repeated dynamic-property JSON.parse calls for Vaporworks fluid-node lookups.

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v0.8.0 Alpha Build 3

Stability and correctness updates for the Overclock system, improved machine upgrade consistency (notably the Cryo Chamber), and clearer fluid units. This release also includes network and cable fixes, recipe integrations, documentation updates, and a number of bug fixes.

Everything here is subject to change and it's not ready.

BLOCKS

Machines

• Added Enchantment Station
  • Repairs, enchants, and reinforces gear in a shared 3x3 grid.
  • Module slots control enchantment boosts, reinforcement targets, and curse protection.
  • Uses XP for enchanting.

Note

Will also use lapis in the future.

• Added Vaporworks Processor
  • New machine that generates Steam from water using energy and a fuel source.
  • Can use either Gas Tubes or Fluid Conduits for input and output.
• Cloner
  • ETA is now affected by Overclock boost.

Ores

• Aetherium Ore (End)
  • Increased generation frequency by 2.5x.

Overclock

• Overclock Relay
  • Now supplies Overclock Tower if it doesn't have its own power source.
• Network
  • Overclock now boosts more elements of a machine, including:
    • Energy capacity
    • Energy input rate
    • Fluid capacity

Note: If an overclocked machine loses its overclock (e.g., the Overclock Tower is removed), its boosted capacity values will remain until they revert to the normal maximum.

Transportation

• Added Conveyor Network Updater
  • Automatically rebuilds adjacent conveyor network caches every 80 ticks.
• Added Conveyor Belts (Copper, Titanium, Aetherium)
  • Normal Conveyors:
    • Tiers: Copper, Titanium, Aetherium.
    • Speed: 1 block/sec, 2 blocks/sec, 5 blocks/sec, respectively.
    • Variants: Horizontal, Vertical, Ascending/Inclined, Descending/Declined.
    • Vertical conveyors can be toggled between upward and downward flow using the Wrench, and their models flip to match direction.
    • Conveyor networks now persist and rebuild automatically when reloading a world.
    • Aetherium conveyors now transport creatures standing on them.

    Note: Aetherium conveyors only forward items when stacks reach 64 to cut down on loose entities.

  • Bridge Conveyors:
    • Operating Mode:
      • Uses a transmitter/receiver system to create a temporary teleportation link between two points, allowing items to bypass gaps and terrain. Automatically builds a translucent path to guide item trajectories.
    • Properties:
      • Tiers: Copper, Titanium, Aetherium.
      • Speed: Infinite. (Teleport)
      • Range: 8 blocks, 16 blocks, 32 blocks, respectively.
      • Variants: Horizontal only (for now).

    Note:

    • Bridge conveyors are designed for long-distance item transport and can be used to create efficient item routes that bypass obstacles. However, they require careful setup and alignment to function properly, and they will not work if the path is obstructed by blocks other than plants. Bridges do not connect to different tiers, so a transmitter and receiver must be the same tier to link successfully.
    • Bridge path guides are translucent and non-colliding for quick alignment. Paths blocked by any obstruction will warn the player.

  • Special Conveyors:
    • Junction
      • Allows conveyor lines to cross without merging or rerouting, preserving straight-through flow.
    • Overflow Conveyor
      • Sends items forward first; if blocked, alternates side outputs for overflow routing.
    • Router
      • Teleports items to a random output and delays direction changes slightly.
    • Smart Router
      • Routes items based on per-item assignments set via the Smart Router UI.
    • Underflow Conveyor
      • Prioritizes side outputs, using the front only when sides are unavailable.

ITEMS

Capsules

• Added Infinite Capsules:
  • Vanilla fluids: Water, Lava, Milk, XP.
• Added New Fluid Capsules:
  • Vanilla fluids: Water, Lava, Milk, XP.
  • Ascendant Technology fluid: Steam.

Modules

• Added Ascane Engine Modules:
  • Curse Protection Module: Reduces the chance of curses during enchanting.
    • Higher tiers provide stronger protection.
  • Enchantability Module: Unlocks enchanting in the Ascane Engine.
    • Tier I: Enables enchanting; max level 1.
    • Tier II: Max level 2.
    • Tier III: Max level 3; includes mid-tier enchantments (e.g., Knockback, Frost Walker).
    • Tier IV: Max level 4.
    • Tier V: Max level 5; includes low-max enchantments (e.g., Mending, Infinity).
  • Reinforcement Module: Enables armor reinforcement in the Ascane Engine.
    • Higher tiers grant more durability points.
• Added Upgrade Package:
  • Stores upgrades for mass application to machines. Can be used on conveyors and other state machines, such as Mob Magnets, Mob Grinders and Ender Hoppers.
  • Now absorbs upgrade items from your inventory when used in the air, shows stored counts in the lore, and applies upgrades across connected upgradable blocks or conveyor networks via a context menu.

Misc

• Added Enderling Tear and Pure Enderling Tear.
  • New Enderling drop materials reserved for future Interdimensional Gem crafting.

RECIPES

• Added sieve drops for compressed variants.
• Changed Cryofluid recipe
  • You must now use Titanium alongside 8 Lapis Lazuli OR 16 Lapis Lazuli Dust per 1000 mB of water processed. This change was made to make the recipe more expensive and to give more use to Lapis, which is currently underused in the addon.

UI/UX

• Expanded localization coverage from 3 to 8 languages (en_US, pt_BR, es_MX, fr_FR, de_DE, ru_RU, ja_JP, zh_CN).
• Reviewed and aligned translation formatting/parity across existing languages (en_US, pt_BR, es_MX), including capsule formatting and missing UI/block entries.
• Fixed Mob Magnet value placeholders so subtitles render correctly in all languages.
• Fixed panel textures and background sizing for new panels.
• Moved Mob Magnet filter controls into the main settings panel and stabilized filter mode labels.
• Updated Cryo Chamber UI layout and improved several machine panels.
• Updated machine UI accents to match the refreshed texture set.
• Updated Mob Magnet settings to use button-based controls with inline value subtitles.
• Updated toggle button states to render with panel-based surfaces (normal, hover, and locked) for more consistent UI styling.
• Adjusted Enchantment Station tab toggles to avoid forced per-open state reset, allowing binding-driven tab state restore when available.
• Enchantment Station status panel now shows diagnostic helpers (power/XP, disenchant readiness, active task ETA, blocker summary, and corrective hints).
• Added a simple Main/Dis toggle to switch visibility between Enchantment Station top panels.

FLUIDS

• Cryofluid
  • It is now recgnonized as a coolant for Heavy Machinery machines.
    • It has an efficiency of 175% as a coolant, making it the best coolant in the game at the moment.
• Updated fluid display units to use bucket-based scaling: mB → B → KB → MB → GB → TB → PB (decimal scaling).

GASES

• Added the Gas element system (separate from fluids) with gas capsules and gas networks.
  • Gases are a new type of substance that can be generated, stored, and transported using dedicated mechanics. They will be used in future machines and recipes. They'll also have a block form that will flow high in the world, but they won't have fluid dynamics or flow like fluids.
• Added Steam
  • This is the first gas implemented in the system, and it will be used in future machines and recipes. It can be generated by the Vaporworks Processor, using either Gas Tubes or Fluid Conduits as transports.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed Aetherium and Titanium hammers not applying hammer recipes correctly. #39
• Added missing hammer metadata parity with UtilityCraft for Titanium and Aetherium hammers (repair entries and tier-equivalent tags).
• Fixed Aetherium and Titanium ores dropping nothing when mined by drills or command breaks. #40
• Fixed Aetherium conveyors not moving mobs unless items were present.
• Fixed inclined conveyors detecting items too far to the sides.
• Fixed Compressed Crushed Cobbled Deepslate not yielding Titanium and Aetherium. #2
• Fixed Compressed Crushed Endstone not yielding Aetherium. #2
• Fixed Duplicator startup import failure by stabilizing singularity recipe loading at runtime.
• Fixed Energizer producing more items than the maximum stack size for energized outputs. #8
• Fixed machine network connectivity so machines reliably connect to energy cables and networks. #38
• Fixed Mob Magnet text rendering issues. #36
• Fixed Mob Magnet not pulling mobs in some cases after state updates. #37
• Fixed Reinforced Cable not conducting electricity. #15
• Fixed special conveyors (Router, Junction, Overflow, Underflow) stalling items; they now teleport to valid outputs, and Underflow only injects into side containers before forwarding.
• Fixed Singularity Fabricator not accepting Dark Matter. #13
• Fixed Singularity Fabricator taking an impossible amount of time to craft Singularity items. #4

TECHNICAL CHANGES

Documentation

• Added Overclock Boost Network documentation.
• Expanded machine documentation (recipes and capabilities).

Core Utilities

• Improved time/format helpers, numeric scaling, and fluid/energy parsing utilities.
• Extended command helpers and block-lookup APIs used across scripts.
• Updated the drop system to support dropMode (replace/supplement/vanilla) and broader tool tag matching.
• Added non-cancel replacement support via originalDropId → replaceDropId for intrusive drop swaps that preserve vanilla break effects.
• Added drop system XP delivery control (xpMode) with player, orb, auto, or disabled modes.
• Added a Dorios Excavate compatibility bridge that listens for dorios:blockLoot and dorios:hammerBlock ScriptEvents, using loot-table fallback when custom drops are not defined.
• Updated Titanium-related drops to use non-cancel swap logic for hammer and smelting-pickaxe outcomes, keeping break effects while replacing the raw drops.
• Excavate bridge now favors swap-based drops first and falls back to setblock ... destroy when loot-table access is disabled.

Entities

• Ported the Enderling family (Snareling, Watchling, Blastling, Endersent) from End Expansion references.
  • Updated identifiers to utilitycraft:*, refreshed format versions, and added spawn rules + loot tables.
• Updated Enderling entity and projectile components to current schemas.
  • Aligned minecraft:hurt_when_wet, minecraft:shooter, minecraft:spawn_entity, and projectile field naming for newer format validation.
• Normalized Enderling type_family tags and added missing ranged-attack priorities.
  • Snareling and Blastling now use canonical lowercase families and explicit minecraft:behavior.ranged_attack priorities for more consistent projectile combat behavior.
• Fixed Enderling projectile runtime behavior and combat presentation.
  • Snareling web now triggers an impact event that applies an AoE root-like slow field (slowness 255 in radius) instead of only direct-hit damage.
  • Blastling ammo now correctly triggers its splash explosion event on impact with non-griefing settings.
  • Snareling/Blastling ranged attack sounds are now mapped to custom projectile shot SFX.
  • Enderling client entities now keep the mad animation active whenever they are angry, including while stationary.
• Refined Enderling combat follow-up and projectile presentation.
  • Watchling melee now keeps target tracking after the first hit (reduced stop stalls + enabled attack tracking).
  • Blastling projectile explosion power was reduced from 1.5 to 1.0 for a tighter blast radius.
  • Projectile visuals now use an improved dart-like model inspired by End Expansion reference assets.
  • Enderling client entities now also trigger mad during active attacks via query.is_delayed_attacking.
• Added Enderling client assets (textures, spawn-egg icons, and sound definitions) from the End Expansion reference pack.
• Reworked Enderling creature baselines using Ender Awakening v1.0.3.3 references (aggressive remap profile).
  • utilitycraft:blastling now uses the Ender Awakening blastling calm/angry state machine and goo-style projectile profile (utilitycraft:blastling_ammo).
  • utilitycraft:watchling now uses the Ender Awakening watchling aggression flow (calm → angry) with attack-driven client animation.
  • utilitycraft:snareling and utilitycraft:endersent retained the original Ascendant Technology baselines (no Ender Awakening counterparts).
  • RP models/animations for Blastling and Watchling were replaced with Ender Awakening-derived rigs and animation sets while preserving utilitycraft:* identifiers; Snareling and Endersent remain on original rigs/animations.

HUD & UI Assets

• HUD and lore fluid display now uses bucket-based units: mB → B → KB → MB → GB → TB → PB (decimal scaling).
• Steam UI bar items now use dedicated at_steam_bar_00 → at_steam_bar_48 frames in RP/textures/items/ui/steam_bar.
• Added missing nine-slice definitions for colored panel textures.
• Added nine-slice JSON definitions for all cell textures ({color}_cell_image.json), enabling proper scaling and rendering.
• Extended ascendant_common.slot_base with panel-style slot surfaces, allowing dark/custom-colored slots with configurable texture and alpha.
• Added fixed-image slot variants for all 16 colors (slot_white, slot_light_gray, slot_gray, slot_black, slot_brown, slot_red, slot_orange, slot_yellow, slot_lime, slot_green, slot_cyan, slot_light_blue, slot_blue, slot_purple, slot_magenta, slot_pink) plus slot_dark, mapping directly to cell textures for parameter-free slot styling.

Overclock & Energy Network

• Tower charging is now gated by the TOWER_NEED_PROP constant (dorios:oc_energy_need); overclock relays and reinforced cables only push charge when the recipient's stored energy is below the declared need.
  • This also fixes reinforced cable energy conduction.
• Overclock now boosts additional machine stats:
  • Energy capacity
  • Energy input rate
  • Fluid capacity
  • Unique properties depending on the machine
• Added utilitycraft:debug_energy ScriptEvent toggle to enable energy network debug logs (including updatePipes and rescan traces).

Runtime Registration

• Fixed Enchantment Station slot mapping collision between disenchant processing and XP fluid-bar rendering.
  • XP tank tracking is now shown in status HUD text so disenchant outputs remain exclusive.
  • Disenchant source slot in the UI is now aligned with machine logic.
• Reworked Enchantment Station internals to fit a strict 27-slot inventory layout.
  • Updated script, block container metadata, and UI indices to remain within slots 0 through 26.
  • Disenchant processing now uses one source slot, one catalyst slot, and seven dedicated output slots.
• Fixed Ascane Engine enchantment cycling so it only applies missing enchantments.
• Fixed Ascane Engine repeatedly re-applying enchantments when nothing changed, which could keep it running.
• Fixed Ascane Engine XP tracking so it no longer occupies disenchant output slots.
• Machine spawns now honor entity.identifier from machine definitions; Cryo Chamber is the first machine explicitly migrated.
• Removed the UtilityCraft-only fluid_container script from the expansion pack.
• Fixed Vaporworks Processor tanks sometimes initializing incorrectly.
• Fixed Vaporworks Processor failing to load in some cases.
• Fixed a generator destruction crash caused by a duplicate gas declaration in BP/scripts/machinery/AscendantMachinery/core.js.
• Fixed startup errors caused by duplicate custom component registrations (utilitycraft:thermo_generator, utilitycraft:solar_panel, utilitycraft:fluid_container) in the expansion pack.