BetterPets-Paper

🐾 Better Pets Paper v1.5.0

A big content update: a rarity overhaul, ambient particle auras for every high-rarity pet, and a batch of ability reworks.

🎨 Rarity overhaul

• Epic is now pink, and the old Extraordinary tier is renamed to Mythical (dark purple).
• Goblin promoted to Mythical. All six former Extraordinary pets (Herobrine, Phoenix, Reaper, Ender Dragon, Shadow Dragon, Ancient Elf) plus the Goblin are now Mythical.
• Every pet you already own updates automatically — rarity is read live, nothing is stored per pet. extraordinary still works as a config/legacy alias.

✨ Particle effects

• Every Epic-and-above pet now has a fitting ambient particle aura while visible — Pixie fae sparkles, Lich souls, Goblin emerald glints, Phoenix embers, Warden sculk, and more. Dragons and the Unicorn keep their existing trail/glitter.

🐾 Ability reworks

• Shadow Dragon — the aura became a cooldown AoE burst: a ring of shadow particles briefly appears, nearby hostiles take damage, and a boss bar shows "Cooldown to AOE Damage". The cooldown shrinks as it levels (~12s → 4s).
• Ender Dragon — now deals bonus damage in every dimension, not just The End.
• Mole — saves durability on any block broken with an axe, pickaxe or shovel (was dirt/sand/gravel only).
• Goblin — dropped the coin-on-kill perk; instead a small level-scaled chance that a villager purchase refunds its emerald cost (a free buy). Cheaper trades stay.
• Penguin — new Treasure Sense: client-side markers only you can see on nearby unlooted structure chests/barrels, radius growing with level.
• Chicken — keeps Slow Falling and now lays eggs over time, more often and more at once as it levels.
• Pixie — grants more simultaneous random buffs at higher amplifiers as it levels.
• Pufferfish — same undead wither aura, now wider and stronger with level.
• Koala — same tree-rest heal, Regeneration I → III with level.
• Bee — fixed: standing next to plain flowers (poppy, dandelion, …) now correctly grants Regeneration.

⚡ Performance

• Penguin's chest scan only checks loaded chunks via a cheap container filter; ambient particles and scans are throttled; the Shadow Dragon boss bar reuses the existing tick loop.

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Requires: Paper 26.1.2 · Java 21 · (optional) BetterModel for 3D models.