Changelog

All notable changes to Unknown's Altar SMP. Built for Paper 1.21.11.

1.0.0

Arc 1, complete.

The forge

• Altars. Bind a block with /altar set <weapon>, read the placard that hovers over it, throw the tribute in, watch the pile burn and the weapon rise. Relic lines only accept the tagged relic - a plain breeze rod is not a Weapon Handle, and the altar knows the difference.
• Four relics. Warden's Heart and Vulcan's Skull are torn off a boss; Weapon Handle and Illusion Core are forged at altars of their own. Each is consumed by the forge, so a relic is worth exactly one weapon.
• /legendaries, the in-game book of every weapon, relic, recipe and ability.

The legendaries

• Bloodlust. Levels in stages - speed, a tracker that draws a red line to every player nearby, Blood Trail, strength, then Bloodhook. The kill count is saved per player rather than on the item, so it survives death and a stolen blade carries none of its owner's progress. Bloodhook lands 3 hearts on the catch before it reels; Blood Trail leaves no body to collide with while it holds.
• Frost Scythe. Throw it and it cuts, freezes and comes back, or raise three blocks of ice overhead and swing to send them wherever you are looking.
• Bone Blade. Skeletal Leap closes the gap. Bone Cage pins a target to the spot it was caught on for the full duration - a real hold, not a stack of slowness anyone can walk out of.
• Vulcan's Crossbow. Scattershot is passive: every shot splits three ways and every bolt burns. Vulcan's Wrath turns the next shot into a fireball. Tuned as a pressure weapon - the blast leans on fire and knockback rather than raw damage.
• Wand of Illusion. Keeps the shape of anything it kills - every mob in the game, and every player too. A mob shape parks a real creature on top of you and takes your own body out of the picture underneath it; the shell cannot be hurt, cannot be killed by its wearer, and cannot shove you around. A player shape rewrites your live profile, so your name and skin change in tab, on your nametag and in death messages. The borrowed form lends a little of what makes it dangerous, read off the mob itself - and anything with wings lets you fly.

Admin

Command	What it does
/altar set <weapon>	Binds the block you are looking at
/altar place <weapon>	Builds an altar where you stand
/altar removenearbyaltars	Clears every altar around you
/altar list	Every altar and what it forges
/altar recipes [id]	Prints every altar recipe, or just one
/altar give <player> <id>	Hands over a legendary or relic
/altar ability <player> <id>	Fires an ability, kill gate waived
/altar kills <player> <n>	Sets or adjusts a Bloodlust ledger (5, +3, -1)
/altar resetcooldown <player>	Clears their cooldowns
/altar reload	Rereads the config

Requirements

• Paper 1.21.11 (or a Paper fork). Spigot and CraftBukkit are not supported.
• Java 21 or newer.
• The resource pack is optional - without it the weapons look vanilla.