Soulus 5.0.0

Welcome to Soulus's biggest update yet, with 30 changes:

Modpackers:

• (IMPORTANT!) Configs will now be regenerated on every major and minor release in order for default configs to be updated correctly. Modpackers will need to re-apply their edits when updating to a new major or minor version.
• The amount of creatures that can be spawned with each soulbook is now configurable per-creature.
• Added a way to rename & translate essence types. In a language file, translate misc.essence_type.<essence type>.name. For example misc.essence_type.minecraft:pig.name.

New:

• Upgrades can now be inserted into Soulus contraptions using a dispenser.
• Bone chunks can now be marrowed automatically using a composer cell with an oscillating gear inside.
• Added wolf taming with Soulus bones.
• The skewer now has a looting upgrade, bottles o' enchanting! It requires the player upgrade.
• Added 7 new advancements.

Tweaks:

• Ender and blackened bone chunks can now only be marrowed by auto-marrowing by default.
• Creatures spawned from natural summoners no longer have drops by default.
• Soulbooks can now be crafted together to consolidate the essence. Empty soulbooks will be retained.
• The skewer now has comparator support for the fill level of the inserted blood crystal.
• Less iron golems, slimes, and magma cubes can now be spawned from their respective soulbooks by default.
• Pricking yourself with a blood crystal now grants slightly more blood and comes with a new tiered mining fatigue effect.
• The composer cell recipe now returns four cells.
• There is now experience for crafting or filling miscellaneous Soulus upgrades.
• There's now a rare chance of gaining experience while marrowing.
• Added experience to fossil blocks.
• The soul inquirer recipe has been made slightly cheaper.
• Composer cells can now be placed next to each other using sneak.
• Rebalanced essence drop rates.
• Improved the formatting of composer & composer cell tooltips in certain situations.
• Barkets are now broken when used by a dispenser or a right-clicker block.

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash caused by summoner replacement replacing spawners that don't have a registered essence type.
• Upgradeable blocks dispensing items downwards into a full inventory will now spit the items out into the world rather than deleting them. (Oops!)
• Fix entities spawned by spawn eggs, morbs, golden lassos, etc being invisible and invulnerable after reloading the world.
• Fixed composer cells not returning full stacks on right click.
• Fixed the bone chunk drops not being affected by fortune 1 or 2, and always being doubled on fortune 3.
• The soul catalyst recipe is now displayed in the guidebook. (Whoops.)
• Fixed the composer consuming creatures while they were in the death animation.

Soulus 4.3.3

• Fixed fossil block configs being invalid by default. Fixed a crash caused by these invalid configs.
• Fixed a memory leak caused by configs reloading.

Soulus 4.3.2

• Summoner and Composer timers are no longer reset when configs are reloaded if the config tweakers don't cause the Summoner & Composer settings to change.

Soulus 4.3.1

• Fixed a crash when JEI is not present.

Soulus 4.3.0

New

• Fossils now have a rare chance of dropping full bones, 3% by default.
• Maligned Summoners now have special particle effects.
• Added End Stone Dust.
• You can now configure a list of names that summoned creatures from each essence type spawn with.
• Added metals to Soulus ore dictionaries.

Fixes

• Fixed sledgehammers being duplicated on repair.
• Added a fallback for converting vanilla mob spawners into Summoners.
• Fixed negative essence remaining in a Summoner causing a Soulbook with a type & 0 essence to be returned.
• Fixed existential essence being used up in creative mode.
• Added a workaround to fix a Game Stages bug causing stages to reset when a user is disconnecting.
• Improved the clarity of the Composer directions in the guidebook.
• Fixed the Soulus website having incorrect data.

Soulus v4.2.4

• Fix Summoners being duped when broken when empty with a Silk Touch tool.

Soulus v4.2.3

• Fix the ability to insert empty soulbooks into a summoner

Soulus v4.2.2

• Potential fix for a crash caused by Skewers.

Soulus 4.2.1

• Fixed sleeping being disabled when the player doesn't have the "sleepy" status effect (given by midnight draught)

Soulus 4.2.0

In this release, the automatically-injected Ex Nihilo Creatio sieve recipes have been removed. If you want to replicate the old functionality, you will need to use Ex Nihilo Creatio's CraftTweaker or JSON recipe support.

New:

• Added the Midnight Draught, a potion which allows you to go to sleep at any time.
• Added a config for disabling sneak insertion in a composer cell.
• You can now configure the max stack size for upgrade items.
• Added Stardust Bricks, decoration blocks composed from Purpur & Stardust. They are used in the Soul Totem recipe.
• Added Stardust, created from crushing a Midnight Jewel. Stardust can be used to brew a Midnight Draught, and is also used to create Niobium.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with shift-crafting recipes sometimes causing errors and disconnects. (Thanks codewarrior0!)
• Fixed the endersteel bars styling recipe taking eight bars and only returning one.