eXc SolarCraft

1.1.0

Design

Cables reworked. Five tiers (Copper → Netherite) with a dark tier-coloured casing and a translucent glowing core. Casing shows the tier, core shows the dye colour, so you can read both at a glance. All 16 dye colours available on every tier. Battery reworked. Energy-cube look with a recessed frame, a glowing ring per face and corner lights. The glow colour is the tier: copper orange, iron white, gold yellow, diamond cyan, netherite purple. The charge bars are gone — corners breathe while charging, and the exact charge is in the HUD when you look at it. Solar panels are now 64px with a darker, higher-detail surface: chamfered cell corners, finer finger lines, wider busbars, screw heads with slots. Nodes got a black funnel with a small direction arrow on every side face — blue pointing in for Input, orange pointing out for Output. The arrow used to sit on the front face, which is always hidden against the block it feeds. Wrench redrawn at 32px in a fixed vanilla-style palette, with light scratches. Energy Cell is smaller, thicker and blunter, with black end caps. Photovoltaic Cell is 32px and uses the exact solar panel palette. Mod icon is now the Netherite panel on a galaxy background.

Crafting

Cable tiers. Copper is the base recipe and now yields 12. Each upgrade sleeves the previous tier and yields 3:

Iron: 6 iron + 3 copper cables Gold: 6 gold + 3 iron cables Diamond: 2 diamonds + 3 gold cables Netherite: 2 netherite scrap + 3 diamond cables (scrap, not ingots — cables are bulk goods)

Upgrades keep the colour. 3 red copper cables give 3 red iron cables. This means you need 3 of the same colour; mixed colours no longer work. Recolouring still works on any tier, including already-dyed cables. New item: Blank Cell — 2 iron + 1 glass. Energy Cell now has two recipes: Blank Cell + 4 redstone, or straight from 2 iron + glass + 4 redstone.

Gameplay

Solar panels running at full sun now burn you — half a heart every 3 seconds, same damage type as a magma block. Only at maximum light, so never at night or dusk. Sneaking and fire resistance protect you. Panels at full output catch a shimmer sweeping across every 20 seconds.