Additions

• Added the Giant
• Added a new stronghold
• Added mid-run upgrades
• Added the blue moon
• Replaced the ability items with spellbooks
• Added the paxel as a final upgrade to the pickaxe, combining the shovel, axe, pickaxe and hoe into one
• Added enchanted golden carrots as a final upgrade to food
• Added 5 new upgrades
• Added the shockbolt ability
• Added the copy ability
• Added the hunter class
• Added 10 new class abilities
• Added mob essence
• Added new skillpoint recipes using mob essence
• Added scrolls
• Implemented the bundle with the current 1.21.2+ recipe
• Added new entrances for trial chambers
• Added the water bucket as a final upgrade to the bucket
• Added 2 hidden lore books
• Added info messages
• Added new ways of obtaining skillpoints
• Added new advancements
• Added an error message for some incompatibilities (like lunar client)
• Added messages for summoned and defeated bosses
• Added some fanart and spoon froge as paintings
• Added a new song to the Infinite Garden (made by LeonJD)
• Added personal bests
• Added the lil’ guy
• Added a new secret in the cosmic dome

Giant

• A giant zombie that is able to use abilities
• Acts as the first boss in the intended progression
• Spawns at the end of the new modified raids
• Summons a blue moon at the start of the fight
• The giant has 180 base health, with 120 extra health per nearby player
• The giant has 11 attacks, based on the existing abilities
  • Arrow Shockwave: The giant will shoot out 3 pulses of arrows
  • Pulse Sphere: Particles start appearing around the giant, resulting in a massive pulse sphere, splitting off into smaller pulse spheres with delayed pulses
  • Drill: If the giant is encased in blocks, it will destroy them
  • Explosion: The giant will shoot out 3 bursts of TNT, parrying them as they explode to negate damage
  • Fireball: The giant will shoot multiple fires into the air, shooting fireballs at a random nearby player after some time
  • Quick Heal: Will heal some health
  • Levitate: The giant will leap into the ear, dragging nearby entities with it, then create a cloud on ground impact, dealing damage to mobs around it
  • Liquid Walker: In case of being stuck in fluids, the giant fill solidify them, then break them with drill
  • Shockbolt: The giant will shoot an electric cloud into the sky, which, after some time, pulses, and shoots a beam directly at nearby players
  • Arrow Shockwave + Levitate Combo: Executes both those abilities
  • Resurgence: Can only be used below 50% health; summons a few zombies
• The book the giant is holding always corresponds to its current attack, as long as it is an ability the player can obtain

Stronghold

• The Stronghold has been fully overhauled
• The center room will be the portal room, spawning right below the spawn platform
• There are 4 hallways in each cardinal direction, leading to a fire
• To destroy the fire, the player will have to clear one of the two rooms to the fire’s sides
• Upon entering a room, mobs will start spawning in
• Upon killing them, their souls converge into a single point. When all mobs have been killed, the fire at the end of the hallway will be destroyed
• One room is different, requiring you to destroy spawners instead
• There are 2 types of mobs: Normal and snipers
  • Normal mobs include zombies, skeletons, husks, strays, bogged, and rarely endermen
  • Snipers can be skeletons, bogged or strays. They always hold a bow, even on difficulty level 1, and don’t move
• The stronghold has 11 unique room, only 8 spawning in per stronghold
  • Bridge: An overgrown room with 2 bridges and a side room
  • Entrance: A room with multiple staircases and a blocked off doorway
  • Fountain: A room with a fountain that will be filled with water upon entering the room
  • Infestation: A 2 layered maze, filled with cobwebs and silverfish spawners. Clearing this room requires destroying all spawners
  • Lava: A room filled with lava, only containing a few islands. This room will exclusively spawn snipers
  • Library: A maze of bookshelves, filled with carpets and candles
  • Pillars: A room with 4 pillars
  • Prison: A room containing 2 sets of 2 prison cells. Pressing one of the buttons on the wall of those cells will open up both. Mobs will spawn in those cells
  • Spiral: An extremely tall room with a spiral staircase. The area is covered in splashes of amethyst
  • Storage: A 2 layer room, containing tons of barrels and pots on the upper layer, containing food
  • War Room: An open room with a table in the middle, and a pile of TNT and a shelf in the corner
• Clearing all 4 fires will open the end portal frames

Mid-Run Upgrades

• Picking up equipment during a run that is better than your current equipment will instantly upgrade it
• This applies to the tier as well as the enchantments
• This works on tools, your sword, bows and armor
• The tiers go as follows:
  • Armor: Leather -> Golden -> Chainmail -> Iron -> Diamond -> Netherite
  • Tools: Wooden -> Golden -> Stone -> Iron -> Diamond -> Netherite
• The hunter class will upgrade your sword to a knife and your bow to a crossbow with quick charge 2
• The reaper class will upgrade your sword to a scythe
  • These cannot be golden
• Incompatible enchantments do now work together (so smite can also be applied to a sword with sharpness)
• If a piece of equipment does not grant you any upgrades, it will instead give you experience

Blue Moon

• Every night has a 20% chance to be a blue moon, unless the giant spawns, in which case it’s guaranteed
• During these nights, you will have an increased 3 mana regeneration and 2 magic strength
• These changes also apply to zombies
• The scroll level of zombies will be increased

Spellbooks

• A replacement for the old ability items
• Displays the ability icon, mana cost and ability type
• The ability type is displayed as the rim of the book
  • None: Regular Ability
  • Gold: Class Ability
  • Blue / Purple: Copied Ability

Scrolls

• Loot chests now have a chance to contain scrolls
• Scrolls are (mostly) free, single use abilities
• They can be any ability except for copy, as well as revitalize in singleplayer
  • To clarify, revitalize DOES show up in multiplayer
• The level of the ability will be equal to your own level of that ability, defaulting to 1 if the ability hasn’t been unlocked
• Revitalize and adrenaline still cost max health, and phantasm costs max mana
• Zombies can also spawn in with certain scrolls: Quick heal, pulse sphere, shockbolt, arrow shockwave, parry and on higher difficulties explosion
• The level of these scales with the difficulty level
• On higher difficulty levels, the scrolls will be replaced with books, allowing them to use abilities repeatedly
• Zombies always drop their scrolls if they haven’t used them

Upgrades

• Added step height
• Added block reach
• Added entity reach
• Added soul speed
• Added magic strength, which amplifies any regular abilities
• Removed flame
• Removed attack speed
• Mana regeneration max: 5 -> 8
• Sharpness max: 7 -> 6
• Power max: 7 -> 5
• Bucket max: 1 -> 2
• Food max: 5 -> 6
• Tools and sword max: 5 -> 6

Abilities

• Added shockbolt
• Shoots out a beam of electricity that pierces mobs
• On higher levels, this beam will split into nearby mobs
• Higher levels increase the reach and damage
• Deals more damage to mobs underwater
• Deals damage to self if used underwater
• Can break pots
• Summons lightning upon impact with lightning rod
• Added copy
• Cannot be used by itself
• When used while holding a regular scroll in your offhand, copy will become that ability, keeping the level of copy and consuming the scroll
• When used again with a different scroll in your offhand, it will become that ability instead

Hunter

• Replaces your sword with a knife, dealing more damage, having more attack speed, but lower reach
• Replaces your bow with a quick charge 2 crossbow

Class Abilities

• Tank:
  • Aggravate: Deals damage to all nearby mobs, gaining their aggro
• Healer:
  • Multiheal: Send out orbs to self and nearby players, healing some hearts upon impact
  • Invigorate: Send out orbs to self and nearby players, granting absorption upon impact
  • Cleanse: Send out orbs to self and nearby players, clearing negative status effects upon impact
• Glass Cannon:
  • Final Adrenaline: Starts a timer that grants massive stat boots, at the cost of dying upon that timer running out. This can be prevented by killing a set amount of mobs before the timer runs out. The timer decreases by a second on every use
• Reaper:
  • Phantasm: Sacrifices some max soul charge to summon up to 3 phantasms that will deal extra damage upon damaging a mob
• Hunter:
  • Call of the Wild: Tames nearby mobs and gives them temporary buffs. Dolphins will instead try to lead you to a nearby treasure. Also works on Pengu
  • Venom Trap: Applies heavy damage and negative effects when a mob steps into it
  • Leech Trap: Applies some damage and sends out a heal orb to the caster when a mob steps into it
  • Stun Trap: Deals damage and stuns the mob for a few seconds upon stepping into it

Mob Essence

• Can be used to craft skillpoints
• Each mob will drop a different tier of mob essence depending on how difficult they are to kill: Lower -> Common -> Higher -> Ascended
• After killing a high amount of mobs, their soul will become exhausted for the end of the run, only dropping lower and common mob essence

Advancements

• Added a Challenge advancement tab for more difficult advancements
  • Moved to this tab: Perfect Optimization, An Old Friend, Apocalypse, World Record, Instant Regret
  • Lil’ Guy: Find the lil’ guy
  • 100% Vanilla: Complete all vanilla advancements
    • To make this possible, some advancements have been removed
      • Hero of the Village (got repurposed into the giant advancement)
      • Free the End (got replaced into the ender dragon advancement)
      • The End... Again...
      • The Next Generation
      • Remote Getaway
      • The City at the End of the Game
    • Some other advancments have seen minor changes to make them possible
  • One Above Mortality: Obtain the golden scythe
  • 10000%: Obtain ALL Roguecraft advancements
• Added a Progression advancement tab
  • Moved to this tab: Mob D, Dragon Slain
  • Hero of the Village: Defeat the Giant
• Changed advancements:
  • 1000% no longer includes Challenge advancements
  • ‘Tis but a scratch: Take damage 15 times during a single invulnerable shield
  • Not Even Close: Parry 20 consecutive attacks
  • keepInventory: Re-Obtain your loot from a loot point in the Infinite Garden
  • Instant Regret: Lower the timer for final adrenaline enough to die instantly on use

Skillpoints

• The second and third tier of the mineral crafting recipes now give one additional skillpoint
• Skillpoints can now also be obtained from: Mob essence crafting, fishing, archaeology, cat gifts, sniffer digging and piglin bartering
• The message for obtaining skillpoints has been changed Grouped skillpoint recipes in the recipe book
• You now get skillpoints for clearing the ender dragon waves and phases

Info Messages

• These messages will explain different aspects of the data pack as they become relevant
• They can be disabled by running /trigger toggle_info_messages
• Some prevent you from doing certain things until trying them again
  • Removing an upgrade will be prevented on the first attempt, giving you an info message mentioning that it won’t return any skillpoints
  • Starting a run with leftover skillpoints will work the same

Ability Changes:

• Quick Heal: Now only gives regeneration on lower levels, regenerating health slightly slower
• Drill: Now applies your pickaxe enchantments, allowing you to break ores with fortune
• Explosion: Only gives resistance 4, meaning you take damage yourself during the explosion
• Parry: Returns less mana, deals less damage, but blocks ALL damage
• Pulse Sphere: Ignores immunity frames, has been visually updated
• Fireball: Has been buffed
• Liquid Walker: Can now be cancelled by using it while it’s already active. Now works on powder snow, turning it into regular snow. Using this while riding a boat will create a massive ice path
• Dirt Walker: Can now be cancelled by using it while it’s already active
• Levitate: Also applies levitate to nearby mobs

General Changes

• Changed the starting platform
  • It now has its own model
  • It has a border that physically vanishes when leaving the platform
• Changed the text of the “Corpus” obelisk, as the giant has been implemented
• You are now able to sleep exactly once per run
• Zombie-like mobs can now hold and use ability scrolls
• The ball of death, fireball, and tp attacks of the ender dragon have been changed
  • Ball of death: As it gets closer to exploding, its sound will increase in pitch. The explosion has been visually improved
  • Fireball: The pattern has been changed to be more symmetrical
  • Tp: Now only happens in multiplayer
• Only 4 of the pillars spawn with cages around them during the second phase of the ender dragon
• Added an illusioner during the ender dragon’s wave 3
• Reaper scythe now has increased reach
• Doubled the soul charges of the reaper class
• The lodestone compass can now track both the giant route, as well as the wildfire + ender dragon route
• The lodestone compass can now be right clicked to change the target
• The lodestone compass can now be bound to an obelisk in the hub to set the route
• Pillager outposts are now more common
• Nether fortresses are now more common
• Changed the center room of the cosmic dome to be more symmetrical
• Some upgrades are now unlocked by defeating the giant
• Changed the text for restarting a run, allowing restarting by clicking it
• Healer no longer starts with potions, but always has a spellbook
• Memory beacons in the infinite garden have been overhauled
  • They now appear at predetermined locations, allowing you to retrieve all items at any of those points
  • They can now store an infinite amount of items (theoretically)
• Runs can only very rarely spawn in oceans
• Mages only get 2 extra mana regeneration
• You now get experience upon generating loot
• Each class now has a custom leather armor color
• The plank upgrade now gives planks corresponding to the biome you spawned in, defaulting to oak plank
• More difficult advancements now grant more skillpoints
• Most Roguecraft advancements now also grant skillpoints
• Added custom damage types for spells, allowing some to ignore attack cooldown
• Changed some advancements from challenges to normal Added icons for all abilities, class abilities, and classes
• These show up in the spellbooks as well as the shops
• Changed the colored platforms below the classes
• You can now add the lodestone compass and spellbooks directly into the loadout chest instead of using the designated loadout items
• Moved ability feedback into the actionbar
• The number of mobs in the raid and ender dragon waves now depends on the amount of players
• Bosses now scale their health depending on boss progress as well as the amount of nearby players
• Upgrade locks now visually vanish
• Obelisks now explode one at a time, in the order that you defeated the bosses in
• In multiplayer, you can now return to the hub during a run (you cannot rejoin that run)
• Updated the item frame visuals in the tutorial
• Updated all tutorial books (my deepest condolences to the translators)
• Added boss titles
• Added a prompt when joining the world if resource pack has not been installed
• Trail chambers are now rarer to balance out the overworld entrances
• Added the golden knife
• Buffed the golden scythe
• Advancements no longer reset
• Added a message when reviving
• Wildfire sounds are now directional
• Removed all naturally generated strongholds
• Using an eye of ender now returns the coordinates of the run’s stronghold
• Added nether brick slabs below the netherrack in the wildfire arena
• Added an indicator to differentiate the two fireball attacks of the wildfire
• On higher difficulties, spider will have the weaving effect
• Replaced team names for classes and the ready status in the hub with icons
• You can now toggle your class abilities
• The start platform now spawns below leaves
• Slightly changed the way players join runs visually
• Shield recipe has been changed to require 1 plank and 8 iron ingots
• Adding a sound to unlocking upgrades
• Added a system to automatically repair the hub if all entities are killed
• Most likely some more things I forgot about / didn’t write down

Balance Changes

• Most skillpoint costs have been increased
  • Max Health: 2 -> 3
  • Speed: 3 -> 5
  • Attack Damage: 3 -> 4
  • Efficiency: 3 -> 5
  • Fortune: 5 -> 8
  • Sharpness: 4 -> 5
  • Looting: 5 -> 7
  • Sweeping Edge: 5 -> 4
  • Protection: 6 -> 8
  • Aqua Affinity: 5 -> 6
  • Power: 4 -> 6
  • +64 Planks: 2 -> 3
  • Ender Pearls: 3 -> 4
  • +5 Golden Apples: 4 -> 7
  • +1 Enchanted Golden Apple: 10 -> 12
  • Water Breathing: 8 -> 12
  • Dolphin’s Grace: 7 -> 10
  • Max Mana: 3 -> 5
  • Tank: 10 -> 15
  • Healer: 12 -> 15
  • Glass Cannon: 20 -> 25
  • Reaper: 30 -> 35
  • Food: 1, 4, 6, 9, 11 -> 1, 4, 7, 11, 15, 25
  • Armor: 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 15 -> 2, 5, 8, 12, 18, 22
  • Tools and Sword: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 -> 1, 3, 6, 10, 20, 15
  • Drill: 3, 6, 12 -> 4, 8, 15
  • Explosion: 4, 8, 16 -> 7, 11, 20
  • Parry: 2, 5, 9 -> 4, 6, 9
  • Pulse Sphere: 4, 9, 18 -> 4, 9, 16
  • Arrow Shockwave: 2, 4, 7 -> 2, 5, 9
  • Fireball: 5, 6, 7 -> 4, 7, 11
  • Levitate: 5, 10, 20 -> 6, 12, 22
  • Dirt Walker: 15, 12, 14 -> 12, 18, 24
  • Liquid Walker: 3, 3, 4 -> 3, 5, 7
  • Quick Heal: 3, 6, 12 -> 4, 7, 15
• Lots of mana costs have been changed
  • Explosion: 40, 55, 65 -> 40, 50, 60
  • Parry: 70, 60, 50 -> 40, 35, 30
  • Fireball: 30, 25, 20 -> 25, 20, 15
  • Dirt Walker: 90, 85, 80 -> 80, 80, 80
  • Invulnerable Shield: 160 -> 140
• Abilities are overall nerfed to balance out the new magic strength upgrade. With full magic strength however, most abilities are more powerful than before

Bug Fixes

• Fixed z-fighting on the scythe model
• Items can no longer be smuggled outside the cosmic dome
• Restarting a run during the ender dragon death animation no longer breaks the entire data pack
• Fixed the ender dragon glitched kill
• Default warped fungus on a stick is now held correctly
• Fixed some block displays missing in the water stream near the “Fatum” obelisk
• Most advancements can no longer be obtained in spectator mode
• Spawn platform now generates, even if spawnpoint is void
• Water no longer spawns in the seal room
• Added several new bugs!

Technical Changes

• Added major performance improvements
• Removed the “master” marker, instead storing the scores in a fake player
• Changed most instances of “data merge” to “data modify”, leading to more performance improvements
• End generation has been overhauled
• The explosion creepers have been renamed
• Added hidden functions for killing bosses and reverting boss kills
• All boss bossbars are now removed upon ending a run
• Lots of stuff I probably forgot about