Sensory Abyss

Fixes

The Shattered can craft grimoires again. Because the Shattered carry every affliction at once, the grimoire rituals were checking for a single class and turning them away every time. The Shattered can now perform any class's grimoire ritual, as intended. Mod stability. A failed internal patch no longer brings the whole game down on startup — if one piece can't apply, the rest keeps running.

Changes

Blinded vision reworked. The old breathing in-and-out pulse is gone. You now sit inside a steady black-and-white "bubble" — the world around you stays lit out to about 5 blocks and fades to black past that edge. Your tongue-click ping (G) pushes that edge out to ~10 blocks for a few seconds before it settles back in. Heat sources and exposed ore still read as colored cues on top. Unfed — Apex Predator reworked. The Apex Predator subclass moves off the old "Devour" kit onto a stance-based predator identity (Striker / Reaver / Drinker). All three pick tiers are new: Passive: Sanguine Sense (wounded enemies glow to you), Stance Memory (switching stance briefly boosts your melee), or Predator's Resilience (low on HP, switching stance resets your ability cooldowns). Spec: Adaptive (carry the last stance's bonus a bit longer), Lockstep (commit to one stance to double its bonus), or Flux (switch stances instantly). Mastery: Bloodflood (at full HP, run all three stance bonuses at once), Stance Anchor (lock into one stance for a big bonus), or Bloodforce (kills extend your current stance's bonus). Other subclass picks refreshed. Several subclasses had stale or weak picks swapped out — notably the Necromancer's mastery tier (new Fresh Recruits, Soul Vortex, and Phylactery, the last of which keeps part of your soul reservoir through death).

New

Fuel & weather tweaks — rebalanced fuel types and lantern/brazier light, and the world now tracks wind across biomes (breezy / windy / stormy), which feeds into fuel behavior.

Improved

Spell visuals — the Sight school's effects got a visual overhaul, with cleaner, more consistent casting feedback across spells. The sight school is the only one to get these changes as a trial for feedback before I adjust all schools.

Future Experimental Change

Native shadows & lighting (early, work in progress). I'm building a from scratch shadow and lighting system that runs without an external shaderpack, real directional shadows from the sun and moon, softer light, and a cooler, more readable night. This is still under construction and rough in places. It stands aside automatically if you're using a real shaderpack, and Blinded players are unaffected. This will also be easier on performance since it isn’t general like a shaderpack but a specified look I am curating for the atmosphere of the mod. It is able to be enables in the configs but defaulted to off since it is in such early development. I thought I should get an update out to fix some of the other issues. I just wanted to let players know of a huge future update