v1.2.0

• Added Simplified Chinese (zh_cn) translation (thanks to Notalway!)
  • Full coverage: all entities, blocks, items, death messages, advancements, effects, tooltips, JEI descriptions, and difficulty screen

Changelog

v1.1.0 - Difficulty Selection

Added

• Difficulty selection screen when you first join a world
  • Normal mode: toned down so you can actually win
  • Extreme mode: how the mod played before, nothing changed
  • Locked in per world, can't switch after
  • On servers, whoever joins first picks for everyone
• Normal mode changes 30+ things across the board:
  • Corruption spreads at half speed
  • Max 20 parasites per player (vs 30 on Extreme)
  • Adaptive AI turned off completely
  • Enemies can't break through blocks
  • No extra spawns on parasite death
  • Iron Golems can't be infected
  • Parasites have 70% HP and 75% damage
  • Infection recovery 3x faster
  • Smaller outbreak waves (3-5 vs 5-10)
  • Meteors arrive later and less often
  • Bosses rarer, longer respawn cooldowns
  • Blood moon not as intense
  • Broodmothers spawn fewer children, less often
  • Environmental air damage halved

Changed

• Tons of hardcoded values moved to the config system so they can be tuned per difficulty
• Meteor timing, outbreak sizes, boss spawn rates, blood moon multipliers, env damage, entity stats all configurable now
• 25+ new fields in ParasitesConfig
• Difficulty saved per world, persists across restarts

Initial release.

• Meteor system with 4-phase corruption spread
• 9 original parasite creatures across 3 tiers
• 9 infected vanilla mob variants
• Adaptive AI that learns player combat patterns
• Swarm coordination system
• Infection system with 4 stages
• Hazmat armor, flamethrower, scanner, and other countermeasures
• Corruption purifier to deactivate meteor cores
• Blood moon and outbreak events
• Noise-based detection system
• Full config file for all settings