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# Wisp & Willow 1.4.0 — The Foundations Update **Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge 21.1.213** The biggest update yet. Your altar is no longer a single block that does everything — it now sits on a **foundation of runes** that decides what rites it can perform and how well. Alongside that: pool crafting, three working flowers, bound familiars, and a completely rewritten in-game guide. > **Existing worlds are safe.** Altars you already built keep working at Tier I. Lay runes underneath when you want more. --- ## ✨ Altar Tiers & Rune Foundations Rites are now gated behind altar tier, and tier comes from the runes you lay **one block below** the altar in complete concentric rings. | Tier | Rings | Runes needed | |:----:|:-----:|:------------:| | I | — | 0 | | II | 1 | 8 | | III | 2 | 24 | | IV | 3 | 48 | | V | 4 | 80 | Rings must be **complete** — a gap drops you back a tier. Runes sit at ground level and never interfere with the ritual circle drawn on the altar's own layer. **Four rune types**, and the mix decides your bonuses: - **Blank Rune** — structure only, no bonus - **Water Rune** — +2,000 Fluxia reserve each - **Earth Rune** — +0.5% cost reduction each - **Blood Rune** — +0.4% bonus-output chance each Cost reduction and yield each cap at 50%, and 75% once familiar boons are stacked on top, so a maxed foundation is strong but never free. ## ⚗️ Fluxia Infusion — Crafting in the Pool Throw items into a charged **Willow Fluxia Pool** and they transmute. **9 infusion recipes** ship in 1.4.0, covering all four runes, all three blooms, and both upgraded tablets. The pool wants the exact ingredients and *nothing else* — stray items floating in it stop the reaction rather than being silently eaten. Short of charge, it puffs smoke and waits instead of failing quietly. ## 🌸 Functional Flora Luxinia and Solrosa *make* Fluxia. These three *spend* it. Link them to a pool with the Flux Linking Wand like any other machine — each only draws charge on a tick where it actually did something, so a bloom sitting over barren ground costs you nothing. - **Verdant Bloom** — bonemeals one growable within **5 blocks** every **2s**, for **60 ƒ** - **Gathering Bloom** — sweeps loose items within **6 blocks** into the inventory directly beneath it, **twice a second**, for **10 ƒ** - **Warding Bloom** — banishes freshly-spawned hostiles within **12 blocks**, once a second, for **40 ƒ** The Warding Bloom only takes monsters at full health that spawned naturally — nothing you led home, and nothing mid-fight, is ever deleted out from under you. ## 🐾 Familiars Familiars bind to an altar and grant it a permanent boon. They orbit their altar as an idle, are **immortal**, and **never despawn**. - **Frugal** — rites cost 50% less - **Bountiful** — +25% chance of bonus output - **Capacious** — +20,000 Fluxia reserve - **Balanced** — a little of all three If their altar is destroyed they walk to the nearest other altar on their own, or sit and wait if there isn't one. To release a familiar, use the new **Soul Wisp** — it ghosts away in a swirl of soul-light rather than dying. Two familiars ship in 1.4.0: the **Axolotl Familiar** and the **Wisp Familiar**. ## 📈 Greater Vessels The Fluxia Tablet now upgrades through infusion: | Tablet | Capacity | Throughput | |:--------|---------:|-----------:| | Fluxia | 20,000 | base | | Greater | 100,000 | 8,000 | | Grand | 500,000 | 32,000 | Upgrading preserves whatever charge the tablet already held. ## 👓 Arcane Goggles & Network Visuals New **Arcane Goggles** turn the Fluxia network into something you can actually read at a glance: - **Floating fill gauges** above every node, with a bright leading edge so a slowly filling pool visibly moves, a shimmer when it tops out, and exact `amount / capacity` numbers once you're close enough to read them - **Flowing links** between linked nodes, with evenly spaced pulses that make the direction of flow obvious - **Transfer arcs** — every Fluxia transfer now draws a travelling mote of light with a comet tail, scaled to the size of the transfer Look at an altar with the goggles on and it reports its tier, rune count, active boons, and — if the staged rite is out of reach — exactly which tier you still need. A rite you can't yet perform now says so plainly instead of failing silently. ## 📖 The Grimoire, Rewritten The Patchouli guide has been rebuilt from scratch: **10 categories, 52 entries**, generated directly from the same definitions that drive the recipes, so the book can no longer drift out of sync with the mod. - Tier foundations now render as **interactive multiblock previews** you can project into the world - Every ritual and infusion has a real entry with its circle layout, cost, and tier requirement - All 12 rituals are documented across Minor, Major and Grand chapters --- ## 🔧 Fixes - **Shader compatibility** — goggle overlays, network links and transfer arcs were completely invisible with any shader pack (Iris/Optifine-style) enabled. Two causes: custom render types aren't in a shader pack's program mapping, and geometry drawn at the old render stage was being composited away. Everything now renders correctly with and without shaders. - **Chunk Loader would crash on world reload** — the block entity was bound to the wrong class, throwing a `ClassCastException` the moment a saved chunk loader was read back. - **Chunk Loader was re-registering 81 chunk tickets every single tick** — a severe hidden performance drain on any world with one placed. - **The altar never actually spent Fluxia** performing rites. - **The altar renderer read server-only state**, so ghost glyphs, staged reagents and the result preview never appeared for anyone. - **Fluid Exporter crashed** when a bucket filter slot was left empty. - **21 recipes were registered under the `minecraft` namespace** instead of `wispwillow`, risking collisions with other mods. - **Willow Infusion was registered twice** under a wrong mod id, and now runs on a sane interval instead of every tick. - **Transfer effects were sent twice** to every nearby player, doubling network traffic for no visual benefit. - **Rune foundations no longer collide with ritual circles** — the two occupy separate layers by design. - Soil tags (`Soils`, `Amethyst Farmland`, `Snad`) now show readable names in EMI and JEI instead of raw tag ids. ## ⚡ Performance - Fluxia and storage network scans rewritten onto primitive collections, removing a large amount of per-tick object churn on big networks - Network traversal converted to an iterative queue, so deep cable runs no longer risk deep recursion - Overlay rendering batches and flushes only its own geometry, leaving vanilla's render order untouched --- **Known issue:** Currently the runes are `Temporary Textures`. *Report bugs and send me issues. Thanks for playing!* 💜