Two New Powers: Midas & Vessel Strain

This release adds two completely new powers, removes the old Vought facility worldgen, and includes several fixes to power handling.

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🟡 Midas

A permanent Compound V power built around living transmutation.

Your body gradually hardens into gold, increasing your durability while permanently adding extra weight. Bare-handed attacks can transmute living targets into gold.

Controls

Action	Ability
Unarmed Hit	Golden Touch — gild whatever you strike
Sneak + Unarmed Hit	Aurum Lock — unlocked through the skill tree
Z	Open the Midas Skill Tree

Features

• Includes a dedicated 10-node skill tree.
• Auric Plating reduces incoming damage.
• The additional weight of golden tissue slightly reduces movement speed.
• Zinc suppression disables Auric Plating.
• Aurum Lock must be unlocked before it can be used.
• Chained Gilding must also be unlocked through progression.
• Gilding generates gold, allowing the power to partially sustain its own progression.

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🩸 Vessel Strain

A new Pure V Special.

Vessel can roll alongside:

• Homelander
• Stormfront
• Telepath
• Radioactive
• Immortal
• Chronos

Unlike every other Pure V Special, Vessel has no natural offensive power of its own.

Instead, it wears the powers of others.

Controls

Action	Ability
G while Hollow	Siphon a power from a donor damaged within the last 2 seconds
G while wearing a power	Use the borrowed power's primary action
Shift + G	Release the current borrowed power
Use + G	Read the Blood — detect nearby V carriers
Shift + Use + G while Hollow	Echo a stored trace
Z	Open the 15-node Vessel Skill Tree
K	Open the Vessel guide
Shift + K	Open the full Vessel information page

How Vessel Works

You may wear exactly one stolen power at a time.

Borrowed powers always operate at their base tier.

You inherit the phenotype — not the experience.

Strain

Vessel introduces a resource that works in reverse compared to most systems in the mod.

• Strain is full while Hollow.
• Strain drains while wearing another power.
• When Strain reaches zero, the borrowed power is forcibly released.
• The forced release leaves the Vessel temporarily incapacitated.
• While Hollow, Vessel is weaker than an ordinary body.
• Unlocking Full Collection removes the Hollow weakness.

Traces & Echo

Every phenotype you successfully wear is permanently remembered as a Trace.

Once recorded, that phenotype becomes part of your collection.

Echo allows you to temporarily re-wear a stored Trace without needing a donor nearby, although Echoed powers operate at reduced strength.

Your Vessel collection is therefore shaped entirely by the Supes and V-mutated creatures you encounter.

Valid Donors

Siphon works on both:

• Players carrying V powers
• V-exposed creatures

This includes compatible V-Touched and Universal V mobs, making Vessel fully usable in single-player worlds.

Borrowing, Not Stealing

Siphon does not permanently remove powers.

The donor's power returns when the Vessel's wear window ends.

If a player disconnects while their power is being worn, their power is restored immediately the next time they join the world.

Read the Blood

Vessel is also the first power focused on gathering information rather than directly applying force.

Read the Blood detects nearby V carriers.

With the Deep Read upgrade, it reveals the exact strain instead of only identifying its general family.

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Removed

Vought Research Facility

The old Vought research facility has been removed from world generation.

The following content no longer generates or functions:

• Underground Vought laboratory
• Facility rooms and markers
• Facility chest loot table
• /facility command
• compoundvmod:vought_lab structure

As a result:

/locate structure compoundvmod:vought_lab

will no longer resolve.

Existing Worlds

Facilities that were already generated in existing worlds are not deleted.

They remain as ordinary blocks.

Invisible room markers are automatically removed when the area loads, but no other part of the save is modified.

Vought Research Notes

Vought Research Notes have NOT been removed.

They can still appear in:

• Stronghold libraries
• Ancient Cities
• Dungeons
• Mineshafts
• Igloos
• Woodland Mansions

The Research Log and Cult of Whispers offering tasks therefore continue to function normally.

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Fixes

Midas

Midas is now correctly handled by:

• Temp V blocking
• Power cleanup
• Zinc suppression
• Radioactive stripping
• Suppressed power rendering

Unstable V

Unstable V reworks now:

• Respect disabled content
• Can roll any registered compatible power
• Never return the same power you already had
• Correctly survive death
• Correctly survive world reloads

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Requirements

Java 25 is required for this release.