v0.1.7

☢️ Breaking Changes

• N/A

✨ What's New

• Added a new debug command /avp debug hive layer current to check which layer of a hive the player is currently in.

♻️ Changes

• Updated female marine model + hair_5 texture.
• Irradiated queens now have a chance of spawning naturally in irradiated biomes.
• Hives are now broken up into layers:
  • Every hive is now represented as a "sphere" of influence.
  • The sphere consists of different layers. From closest to furthest away from the hive center, the layers are as follows:
    • Center Layer (Core). The queen resides here.
    • Praetorian Layer. Where Praetorians can naturally spawn.
    • Drone Layer. Where drones can naturally spawn. In the future, ovomorphs will be moved here by drones.
    • Warrior Layer. Where warriors can naturally spawn.
    • Edge Layer. Nothing spawns here, this is the border of the hive.
    • Leash Layer. Aliens can exit the core hive (resin area), but still be members of the hive beyond it if they are within this layer.
    • Buffer Layer. This is a layer double the width of the core layers + leash layer. No other hives (of the same variant) can form here.
  • Currently, this hive layering is only used for natural spawning. Later on the alien AI will have a bias towards resting in their respective layers.
• Aliens can now place resin nodes above blocks they can't replace.
  • Previously, aliens could only replace certain blocks with resin nodes. This lead to the alien being unable to put resin nodes down in areas with irreplaceable blocks.
  • Now, aliens can place resin nodes in open air blocks above blocks they can't replace, allowing them to spread resin veins in nearly all places.
• Added the following configuration options:
  • ABERRANT_CHESTBURSTER_SPAWN
  • ABERRANT_DRONE_SPAWN
  • ABERRANT_OVAMORPH_SPAWN
  • ABERRANT_PRAETORIAN_SPAWN
  • ABERRANT_QUEEN_SPAWN
  • ABERRANT_WARRIOR_SPAWN
  • IRRADIATED_DRONE_SPAWN
  • IRRADIATED_PRAETORIAN_SPAWN
  • IRRADIATED_QUEEN_SPAWN
  • IRRADIATED_WARRIOR_SPAWN
• Removed the following configuration options:
  • NATURAL_SPAWNING_ENABLED
    • This config option wasn't actually used in the code.
  • ADULT_SPAWNING_ENABLED
    • Following the recent hive spawning changes, this config option is no longer all that useful.
  • YOUNG_SPAWNING_ENABLED
    • Following the recent hive spawning changes, this config option is no longer all that useful.
  • REMOVE_VANILLA_SPAWNS
    • Highly specific spawn configuration like this option provided is better suited for other mods to handle, not AVP.
  • MINIMUM_DISTANCE_BETWEEN_HIVES_IN_BLOCKS
    • This has now been replaced with MINIMUM_DISTANCE_BETWEEN_NATURAL_QUEEN_SPAWNS_IN_CHUNKS, which more accurately describes what the original config option was used for.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed uprooted ovomorphs not despawning even if they have already hatched.
• Fixed nether resin nodes having incorrect block properties.
• Fixed irradiated resin, irradiated resin nodes, irradiated resin veins and irradiated resin webs having incorrect block properties.
• Fixed variant aliens being unable to replace enemy variant resin.
• Fixed variant aliens not creating hives near enemy variant hives.
• Fixed variant aliens spawning on resin near enemy variant hives without having a nearby hive of their own to spawn in.
• Fixed variant hives not balancing drone and warrior numbers correctly.
• Fixed variant hives not balancing praetorian numbers correctly.
• Fixed variant hives not balancing queen numbers correctly.
• Fixed nether resin not being flame-resistant and turning into basalt (NeoForge-only).
• Fixed nether resin veins being destroyed when ignited by flamethrowers.
• Fixed aliens spreading resin that belonged to other strains (ex. nether xenomorphs spreading aberrant resin).
• Fixed broken textures appearing when an aberrant queen became irradiated.
• Fixed broken textures appearing when a nether queen became irradiated.
• Fixed nether queens not spawning in the nether.
• Fixed aberrant aliens not naturally spawning on aberrant resin.
• Fixed aberrant aliens not spawning on aberrant resin in the end, nether or overworld.
• Fixed nether aliens not spawning on nether resin in the end or the overworld.
• Fixed normal aliens not spawning on regular resin in the end or the nether.
• Fixed the following resin blocks having incorrect map colors:
  • Aberrant Resin
  • Aberrant Resin Node
  • Aberrant Resin Vein
  • Aberrant Resin Web
  • Irradiated Resin
  • Irradiated Resin Node
  • Irradiated Resin Vein
  • Irradiated Resin Web
  • Resin
  • Resin Node
  • Resin Vein
  • Resin Web
• Fixed the following resin blocks not being flammable (Fabric-only):
  • Aberrant Resin
  • Aberrant Resin Node
  • Irradiated Resin
  • Irradiated Resin Node

🛠 Data Pack

• Added #avp:has_xenomorphs biome tag.
• Added #avp:is_irradiated biome tag.
• Added #avp:resin_blocks block tag.
• Added #avp:resin_nodes block tag.
• Added #avp:aberrant_resin_replaceable block tag.
• Added #avp:irradiated_resin_replaceable block tag.
• Added #avp:nether_resin_replaceable block tag.
• Added #avp:normal_resin_replaceable block tag.
• Added #avp:resin_replaceable block tag.
  • Allows for controlling which blocks aliens can fully replace with resin.
  • Serves as the base for the other resin replaceable tags.

🔬 Technical Changes

• Entity spawn handling code is now shared between Fabric and NeoForge.
• Rewrote alien variant type handling from the ground up.
  • Aliens can no longer have multiple variants.
  • This rewrite makes handling alien variants far less bug-prone.

v0.1.6

☢️ Breaking Changes

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✨ What's New

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♻️ Changes

• Queens no longer forcibly create their own hives regardless of nearby hives.
• Queens may now join an existing hive even if that hive already has a leader.
  • This means a hive can have multiple queens. This is intended behavior for a future mechanic.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed ovomorphs hatching and releasing facehuggers even while they are dead or dying.
• Fixed queens having issues creating new hives.
• Fixed hives not creating praetorians if a queen is present.
• Fixed hives sometimes breaking out into civil wars due to interference from multiple queens and/or hive leaders.
  • Please note that this only applies to newer hives and does not apply to existing hives.
  • If you have hives undergoing civil wars, one of the hives needs to lose (all xenomorphs in that hive are dead) so that the hive dies.

🛠 Data Pack

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🔬 Technical Changes

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v0.1.5

☢️ Breaking Changes

• NOTE: If you have an existing world you must delete your old avp config for some changes in this update to take effect.

✨ What's New

• N/A

♻️ Changes

• Updated deepslate titanium ore texture to be more consistent with other deepslate ores.
• Xenomorphs now only move 10% faster instead of 20% faster when chasing a target.
• Significantly improved hit registration for all hitscan-based weaponry.
• Queens no longer despawn under any circumstances.
• Queens no longer immediately place a resin block down beneath wherever they are standing.
• Chestbursters, facehuggers and ovomorphs no longer count towards the hive's overall health.
  • These aliens will no longer count towards the hive boss bar.
  • They also will not keep the hive alive. If you kill all xenomorphs in the hive, the hive dies, even if there were chestbursters, facehuggers or ovomorphs within the hive.
  • If they are left alive under the right conditions, however, they can form an entirely new hive.
• Rebalanced queen resin spread stats to allow queens to spread resin faster and more frequently than drones.
  • We want queens to be able to "jump-start" a hive with this change. Previously they were too slow to spread any resin at all.
• All aliens (except queens) will now only naturally spawn in hives.
  • This means if there is resin outside a hive, aliens will no longer naturally spawn there.
  • Hives must be alive and must not be in an angered state in order for aliens to spawn in them.
• Aliens with a hive no longer despawn if their hive is in an angered state.
• Reduced MINIMUM_DISTANCE_BETWEEN_HIVES_IN_BLOCKS from 1024 blocks (64 chunks) to 256 blocks (16 chunks).
  • This change does not apply retroactively.
  • We're reducing the default value so that naturally spawning queens are more common as the default experience.
• Naturally spawning queens now only spawn once in a chunk region.
  • The size of the region currently depends on the value of MINIMUM_DISTANCE_BETWEEN_HIVES_IN_BLOCKS in the config.
  • Killing the queen will not allow more natural queens to spawn in that region. Once the region is cleansed, it's cleansed for good.
  • Artificial queens/hives can still be made in these regions even after naturally occurring queens have been eradicated.
• Removed requiresResin config options, xenomorphs (excluding queens) now always require resin in order to spawn.
  • We're making this change to allow for players to have consistent experiences, as well as to complement other spawn changes we've made this update.
  • If you want to add custom xenomorph spawns, we recommend using third-party mods designed with spawning customization in mind.
• Renamed "Ovamorph" to "Ovomorph".
  • These are only display-facing, non-breaking changes. Ovomorphs will have their registry name changed starting with v0.2.0.
• Renamed "Raw Silica" item to "Silicon".
  • These are only display-facing, non-breaking changes. Raw Silica will have its registry name changed starting with v0.2.0.
• Renamed "Block of Raw Silica" block to "Block of Silicon".
  • These are only display-facing, non-breaking changes. Block of Raw Silica will have its registry name changed starting with v0.2.0.
• Reduced overall block damage dealt by acid by 80%.
  • Acid's block damage still scales with the "strength" of acid, which increases when acid entities overlap.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed the inner jaws of both drones and warriors sticking out of their necks.
• Fixed aliens not checking their surroundings to see if there is enough space to grow.
• Fixed hatched ovomorphs closing up again after re-logging.
• Fixed hatched ovomorphs not closing up again after royal jelly is used on them.
• Fixed 'Imperfect Organism' advancement not including alternative strains of aliens or royal aliens.
• Fixed 'Eggsploration Time' advancement not being granted when shearing royal or non-regular strain ovomorphs.
• Fixed 'Regicide' advancement not being granted when killing non-regular strain praetorians or queens.
• Fixed 'Xenocide' advancement not including alternative strains of aliens or royal aliens.
• Fixed mobs dying to chestbursting even after switching to peaceful difficulty.
• Fixed royal jelly item not triggering player hand swing animation when used.
• Fixed royal jelly item being consumed when right-clicking non-alien entities.
• Fixed royal jelly block item not triggering player hand swing animation when used.
• Fixed royal jelly block item being consumed when right-clicking non-alien entities.
• Fixed poison jelly item being consumed even if alien is already poisoned.
• Fixed villagers not becoming commissaries (Fabric-only).
• Fixed empty canisters being consumed when right-clicking non-cow entities.
• Fixed industrial furnaces not emitting light while cooking.
• Fixed shift-clicking not working with industrial furnace.
• Fixed marines always wandering around immediately when spawned in or when loading into the world.
• Fixed guns rendering a muzzle flash in inventories.
• Fixed multiple guns in inventory playing animations if the guns are copies of each other.
• Fixed trip mine block texture dimensions not being powers of 2.
• Fixed ovomorphs spawned from queens not persisting.
• Fixed facehuggers and xenomorphs lunging towards targets even if they aren't looking towards the target.
• Fixed irradiated queens laying eggs when they shouldn't.
• Fixed persistence not carrying over when an alien grows into the next stage.
• Fixed royal aliens not being acid immune.
• Fixed royal aliens not being tagged as aliens.
• Fixed missing name translations for aberrant, irradiated, nether and royal aliens.
• Fixed hive leaders being stuck in warrior form within small hives and not growing into queens.
• Fixed queen spawn checks only checking for nearby queens.
  • This created a scenario where a queen could spawn in a loaded chunk next to an unloaded queen in an unloaded chunk.
  • Instead, queen spawn attempts will now check for nearby hives instead of nearby queens, as hives are loaded regardless of chunk load state.
• Fixed xenomorphs lunging in-place while attacking a target.
  • Fixed by increasing their minimum horizontal lunge distance check from 1 block to 6 blocks.

🛠 Data Pack

• Added #avp:hated_by_xenomorphs entity type tag. Includes players, marines and predators.
• Added #avp:drones entity type tag.
• Added #avp:facehuggers entity type tag.
• Added #avp:praetorians entity type tag.
• Added #avp:queens entity type tag.
• Added #avp:royal_xenomorphs entity type tag.
• Added #avp:warriors entity type tag.
• Updated #avp:aliens entity type tag to include missing #avp:royal_aliens.
• Updated #avp:xenomorphs to use #avp:drones, #avp:queens, #avp:praetorians and #avp:warriors.
• Updated #avp:parasites to use #avp:facehuggers.
• Updated #avp:royal_aliens to use #avp:royal_xenomorphs.
• Updated #avp:normal_aliens to include missing avp:royal_chestburster, avp:royal_facehugger and avp:royal_ovamorph.
• Updated avp:aliens/shear_an_ovamorph advancement to use #avp:ovamorphs entity type tag instead of just the single avp:ovamorph entity type.

🔬 Technical Changes

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v0.1.4

☢️ Breaking Changes

• Ported the mod to NeoForge! :)
  • Please note that this also required a substantial change to the Fabric version of the mod. We haven't found any issues in our testing, but please back up your worlds just to be safe!

✨ What's New

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♻️ Changes

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🐞 Fixes

• Fixed ModernFix crash (for good this time).

🛠 Data Pack

• Added NeoForge-related data pack files for worldgen and entity spawns.
• Added #avp:razor_wire block tag.
  • This tag is now used internally for shear item logic.
  • This change fixes the crash with ModernFix.

🔬 Technical Changes

• Rewrote the project to support multiple mod loaders.
• Added NeoForge modloader support.

v0.1.3

☢️ Breaking Changes

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✨ What's New

• N/A

♻️ Changes

• N/A

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed block corruption occurring in servers caused by the previous attempt to fix a world crash caused by ModernFix.
  • Please note that this means ModernFix will cease to work with AVP, again - we're looking into why exactly ModernFix isn't playing nice with AVP and hope to have the issue fixed soon.

🛠 Data Pack

• N/A

🔬 Technical Changes

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v0.1.2

☢️ Breaking Changes

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✨ What's New

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♻️ Changes

• Doubled range of M37-12 Shotgun (6 blocks -> 12 blocks).
• Doubled range of ZX-76 Shotgun (6 blocks -> 12 blocks).

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed hitboxes for the following entities being incorrectly sized:
  • Aberrant Chestburster
  • Aberrant Drone
  • Aberrant Facehugger
  • Aberrant Ovamorph
  • Aberrant Praetorian
  • Aberrant Queen
  • Aberrant Warrior
  • Irradiated Drone
  • Irradiated Praetorian
  • Irradiated Queen
  • Irradiated Warrior
  • Nether Chestburster
  • Nether Drone
  • Nether Facehugger
  • Nether Ovamorph
  • Nether Praetorian
  • Nether Queen
  • Nether Warrior
  • Royal Aberrant Chestburster
  • Royal Aberrant Facehugger
  • Royal Aberrant Ovamorph
  • Royal Nether Chestburster
  • Royal Nether Facehugger
  • Royal Nether Ovamorph
  • Royal Chestburster
  • Royal Facehugger
  • Royal Ovamorph

🛠 Data Pack

• N/A

🔬 Technical Changes

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v0.1.1

☢️ Breaking Changes

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✨ What's New

• Added tooltip for ammo chest item.
• Added tooltip for lead chest item.
• Added tooltip for sentry turret item.
• Added new sound effects:
  • Ovamorph hatching sfx
  • Ovamorph rooting sfx
  • Ovamorph shearing sfx
  • Queen egg-laying sfx
• Implemented new queen sound effects:
  • Idle
  • Hurt
  • Death
• Added tooltips for armor items that have full set bonuses.
  • Full set buffs are colored green.
  • Full set debuffs are colored red.
  • The following armor sets are affected by this change:
    • MK50 Suit
    • Pressure Suit

♻️ Changes

• Added a sound effect for when royal jelly is used on ovamorphs.
• Facehuggers now spawn on top of ovamorphs if no obstructing block present.
• Facehuggers now jump towards a random direction when leaving ovamorphs.
• Facehuggers now move 10% faster after targets.
• Xenomorphs now move 20% faster after targets.
• Improved xenomorph(and their variants) digging capabilities:
  • Xenomorphs now dig 2x as many blocks at a single time.
  • Queens now dig 4x as many blocks at a single time.
  • Xenomorphs now dig a single block faster:
    • Drones dig a single block 10x faster (5 -> 50 block damage).
    • Warriors dig a single block 5x faster (10 -> 50 block damage).
    • Praetorians dig a single block 3.33x faster (15 -> 50 block damage).

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed world crash caused by ModernFix.
• Fixed incorrect resin spreading subtitles.
• Fixed shearing ovamorphs causing damage to shears while in creative mode.
• Fixed rooting ovamorphs consuming resin balls while in creative mode.
• Fixed royal jellying ovamorphs consuming royal jelly while in creative mode.
• Fixed xenomorphs periodically getting stuck while digging.
• Fixed radiation damaging regular armor on mobs and players (armor is now ignored).
• Fixed radiation damaging wolf armor on wolves (armor is now ignored).
• Fixed radiation damage being reduced by protection 4.
• Fixed radiation damage being reduced by resistance.
• Fixed aberrant xenomorphs becoming nether afflicted when the world reloads.
• Fixed irradiated xenomorphs becoming nether afflicted when the world reloads.
• Fixed sentry turret's pitch being slightly offset from where it should be.
• Fixed yautja's pitch being slightly offset from where it should be.

🛠 Data Pack

• Added the following chests to the #c:chests block tag:
  • Ammo Chest
  • Lead Chest
• Added the following ores to the #c:ores block tag:
  • Autunite Ore
  • Bauxite Ore
  • Deepslate Titanium Ore
  • Deepslate Zinc Ore
  • Galena Ore
  • Lithium Ore
  • Monazite Ore
  • Zinc Ore
• Added the following ingots to the #c:ingots item tag:
  • Aluminum Ingot
  • Brass Ingot
  • Ferroaluminum Ingot
  • Lead Ingot
  • Steel Ingot
  • Titanium Ingot
  • Uranium Ingot
  • Zinc Ingot
• Added the following ingots to their respective individual ingot item tags:
  • Aluminum Ingot to #c:ingots/aluminum item tag.
  • Brass Ingot to #c:ingots/brass item tag.
  • Lead Ingot to #c:ingots/lead item tag.
  • Steel Ingot to #c:ingots/steel item tag.
  • Titanium Ingot to #c:ingots/titanium item tag.
  • Zinc Ingot to #c:ingots/zinc item tag.
• Added the following nuggets to the #c:nuggets item tag:
  • Aluminum Nugget
  • Brass Nugget
  • Ferroaluminum Nugget
  • Lead Nugget
  • Steel Nugget
  • Titanium Nugget
  • Uranium Nugget
  • Zinc Nugget
• Added the following nuggets to their respective individual nugget item tags:
  • Aluminum Nugget to #c:nuggets/aluminum item tag.
  • Brass Nugget to #c:nuggets/brass item tag.
  • Lead Nugget to #c:nuggets/lead item tag.
  • Steel Nugget to #c:nuggets/steel item tag.
  • Titanium Nugget to #c:nuggets/titanium item tag.
  • Zinc Nugget to #c:nuggets/zinc item tag.
• Added the following ores to the #c:ores item tag:
  • Autunite Ore
  • Bauxite Ore
  • Lithium Ore
  • Deepslate Titanium Ore
  • Galena Ore
  • Deepslate Zinc Ore
  • Monazite Ore
  • Zinc Ore

🔬 Technical Changes

• Moved Stellaris compatibility tags to datagen.
• Added a log for when an ovamorph is unable to spawn a facehugger.

v0.1.0

✨ What's New

• Initial release. Happy Alien Day! :)