### Fixes & Changes
* Fixed incorrect Soul Candlestick energy consumption when soul-cost reduction attributes are active.
* **Removed Heretic Servants and Maverick Servants. Back up your worlds before updating.**
* Reduced Gold Feather's default movement-speed multiplier while using items from 4.0 to 3.0.
* Increased whip damage by 1. Fixed the Venomous Spider Whip's Wartling summon triggering on the wrong player; it now summons when its wielder attacks a target, subject to its cooldown.
* Improved trail rendering and reduced visible stuttering.
* Reduced the total armor of the Spider and Spectre sets from 20 to 16. Spectre armor now grants a 3% soul discount per piece instead of 4%, its full-set attack damage bonus increased from 2.0 to 3.5, and each piece grants an additional 2% magic damage reduction.
* Reworked several mod integration hooks to reduce conflicts with other mods.
* Optimized post-processing effects, including the end ritual's screen effect.
* Updated the Goety integration for newer versions, including the move to Goety 2.5.56.0.
* Updated brewing integration to preserve newer Goety behavior and reduce brewing conflicts.
* Spider chestplates now prevent cobweb slowdown.
* Fixed severe lag caused by high Velocity enchantment levels on the Absolute Zero Focus.
* Fixed an interaction with Fantasy Ending's damage handling that could leave the Apostle stuck during a phase transition.
* Reworked the Quietus beam's visuals and sound, with improved shader-pack compatibility for beams and trails.
* Revised Apollyon's health storage and validation.
* Expanded the items protected from Apollyon's equipment confiscation through the no_stealing item tag and removed redundant default whitelist entries.
* Fixed missing and incorrect translation keys.
* Updated Nether Apollyon's servants with distinct textures.
* Redesigned Apocalyptium armor.
* Substantially reworked the Crimson Church and protected its generated area from overlapping structures and terrain features.
* Arrows fired by the Bow of Revelation and Nether Apollyon now pass through armor stands.
* Ascension Halo-enhanced Barricade monoliths now last 25 seconds. When a monolith breaks, its focus receives a mandatory 45-second cooldown that ignores cooldown reductions.
* Fixed Ascension Halo-enhanced spells ignoring focus enchantments and attributes.
* Fixed Ascension Halo-summoned Haunted Skulls failing to acquire targets and Fire Tornadoes occasionally moving erratically.
* The Apocalyptium Chestplate now continuously grants all three title effects.
* Updated invulnerability-frame handling for Valettein's occasional bonus fire damage.
* Reality Piercer now also reduces invulnerability frames through indirect damage, with a weaker effect than direct hits.
* Fixed a potential crash during Eerie Axe chain mining.
* Updated the minimum EndingLibrary requirement to 2.2.1fix.
* Fixed Frostbloom Staff's 25% damage bonus not applying when held in the offhand.
* Removed repeated player-model initialization when EnderKeeper creates shadows, addressing a source of severe stuttering with Entity Model Features and Entity Texture Features installed.
* Fixed cases where Apollyon's Doom phase failed to confiscate equipped armor and curios. Improved server-side state handling, item storage, and inventory synchronization.
### Additions
* Added the Ice Hermit boss and the Frostsleep Court encounter, featuring multiple combat phases, frost spells, a freezing buildup system, and dedicated boss and freezing displays.
* Added configurable enhancements for Apollyon's servants, with separate Nether and non-Nether settings. Enable them with the powerful servants option; disabled by default.
* Added the Eternal Waystone, which allows teleportation rituals to move nearby players and mobs to its bound location across dimensions while preserving their relative positions.
* Added contributor credits for testing, programming assistance, structures, and story development.
Optional dependencies
Enigmatic Legacy
Any compatible version
tetra
Any compatible version
Art of Forging: A Tetra Addon
Any compatible version
Nether's Delight
Any compatible version
Farmer's Delight
Any compatible version
Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
Any compatible version
Goety's Delight
Any compatible version
Developer information
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maven { name = "Modrinth"; url = "https://api.modrinth.com/maven" }