📜 Changelog — NeoForge 1.21.1 Full Release

✨ Major Platform Update

• Fully migrated the mod to NeoForge 1.21.1
• Adopted Minecraft 1.21 Data Components across all items, blocks, and entities
• Updated all registrations to NeoForge’s latest lifecycle rules
• Modernized rendering, transforms, and animation hooks for 1.21
• Removed legacy 1.20.1 systems and deprecated compatibility code
• Internal modernization for long-term stability and forward compatibility

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⚙️ Systems & Configuration

• Introduced a new JSON-driven configuration system for fine-tuning mod behavior
• Replaced legacy config handlers with modern component-based formatting
• Migrated tooltips, item data, and block state data to Data Components
• Cleaned up outdated registry entries and deprecated event hooks
• General stability, performance, and crash-resistance improvements

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🧚 Fairy System, AI & Spawning

General Improvements

• Fixed Pet Fairy duplication after crashes or improper world reloads
• Added server-side safeguards to prevent stray or duplicate pet entities
• Improved AI navigation, collision handling, and owner-following behavior
• Improved spawn validation and density handling across fairy types
• Reduced duplicate deployment messages and chat spam
• Fixed fairy arrow crafting tag issues
• Fixed bottle NBT/tag issues

Navi Overhaul

• Reworked spawn logic:
  • Temple of Time proximity validation
  • Dynamic spawn chance tuning
  • Density limits to prevent over-spawning
• Stabilized Temple of Time behavior
• Expanded contextual hint system
• Improved cooldown handling (including fire warnings)
• Refined hint priority logic (combat → progression → secrets → flavor)
• Improved clarity and usefulness of hint text

Goddess Sword Interaction

• Navi greets the player upon first obtaining the Goddess Sword
• If no active fairy is present, Navi becomes the player’s companion
• If a fairy is already active, Navi provides a bottled version instead
• One-time trigger prevents repeat greetings

Structure & Healing Fairies

• Ensured Healing Fairies properly spawn around Healing Fountain structures
• Updated Leaf Fairy spawn rules
• Improved multi-type fairy spawn consistency

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🪄 Items, Weapons & Combat

• Magic Boomerang now throws from the correct hand and position in first-person
• Fixed rod use animations appearing too low in 1.21
• Rods now display foil/glint when fully charged
• Updated Ice Rod and other charge-based rods to comply with new use-tick rules
• Fixed bottle use animations and aligned them with updated vanilla timing
• Rewrote multiple interaction (useOn) handlers for improved block, fluid, and entity consistency
• Updated all weapons to NeoForge’s frozen attribute system
• Improved attack damage, durability, and interaction feedback consistency
• Restored Curios compatibility

Upgrade & Component Fixes

• Fixed Goddess Sword upgrade paths
• Fixed Golden → True Master Sword attribute copying
• Fixed Bow → Fairy Bow component copying
• Fixed ore blocks dropping incorrect items

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🏪 Entities & World Interaction

• Fixed boomerang → fairy collision crash
• Improved Goron Merchant stock rotation logic and stability
• Prevented Goron profession from appearing in zombie villager conversions
• Fixed/replaced Giant Zombie placeholder entity
• Improved structure detection and validation checks
• Adjusted loot tables (including Ocean Monuments)
• Cleaned up shrine and progression interaction hooks

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🔥 Blocks

• Fixed campfire block entity issues under Minecraft 1.21’s stricter validation rules
• Updated all custom lanterns:
  • Corrected light emission levels
  • Fixed toggle and interaction behavior
  • Migrated state data to Data Components
• Improved block interaction logic and tooltips

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📜 Advancements

• Updated all advancements to the Minecraft 1.21 trigger system
• Fixed broken or non-functional criteria
• Corrected missing icons and invalid parent relationships
• Improved shrine, weapon, and overall progression consistency

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🎨 Visual & First-Person Improvements

• Corrected first-person transforms for rods, boomerangs, and bottles
• Fixed animation regressions caused by updated hand transform pipelines
• Reduced reequip flicker and visual popping
• Fixed tick-based animation flicker caused by client/server desync
• Improved consistency between first-person and third-person visuals

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🧪 Crafting & Brewing

• Din’s Flame, Farore’s Flame, and Nayru’s Flame are now proper brewing ingredients
• Updated legacy crafting logic to modern 1.21 systems

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🛠 Overall Polish

• Numerous small bug fixes across items, entities, and world systems
• Improved consistency in spawning, interactions, and progression logic
• Continued internal cleanup and performance optimizations