Features
Bloodlust ability
- Unlockable active ability for Brutes and Headhunters
- Researched at the Fortress (250 all resources, 150s)
- When used, instantly trades 10hp for 10s of +50% attack speed and +20% movement speed
- Headhunters cannot bloodlust while mounted
Bugfixes
- Fixed Illager Captain banners becoming invisible
- Fixed crash on exit when neutral units are placed
- Mangrove roots are now gatherable (same value as logs)
- Fixed being unable to exit an ally's garrison
- Hoglins can no longer spawn as neutral baby hoglins from spawn eggs
- Piglins can now build on all types of blackstone and nether brick
- Farmland and overworld crops convert into soulsand and nether wart respectively
- Excludes solid crop blocks like melons and pumpkins
- Plant blocks replaced by nether blocks no longer drop items
- Fixed crash related to attacking buildings (again)
- Shroomlight is now gatherable for 120 food
- Various language fixes and additions
Quality of Life
- Removing control groups now requires SHIFT + right-click
- RTS data now saves every 60 seconds to reduce chance of losing unit/building control on a server crash
- Added sounds when you make or disband an alliance
- Added name checks to network packets to prevent exploits
- If animals can't spawn at the required range around your capitol, spawning is reattempted at a closer range
- Portals being placed on overworld terrain show a yellow indicator
- Workers no longer collide with other units
- Spider Webs can now be autocast by right-clicking it
- When active, the first unit they attack will be webbed if off cooldown
- Witch potions can now be thrown by right-clicking a unit
- Right-clicking a friendly unit throws a regen potion
- Right-clicking an enemy unit throws a harming potion
- Only one potion is thrown at a time if multiple witches are selected
- This will NOT be automatically used off cooldown
Balancing
- All bridges: +50 wood (ore for piglins)
- Random damage dealt to garrisoned units by explosions has been halved
- This affects creepers and ghasts
Piglins
- Bastion: -20% build time
- Ghasts are now immune to knockback
- Brute Shields now make brutes immune to knockback when active
Monsters
- Creepers now friendly fire
- Dark Watchtower: -25 ore
- Husks: -5hp
- Skeletons & Strays: -10 food, +10 wood
- Night now begins 10 mins after game start
- This reverses the change from 1.0.5 which was made before Sculk Catalysts
Villagers
- Watchtower: -25 ore
- Vindicators: -5 food, +5hp, -3s
- Pillager: -5 wood, -3s
- Witch: -10 all resources
- Evoker: -30 ore
- Iron Golem: +50 ore, +5s (including when built by workers)
🎉 Features 🎉
Alliance System (Thanks to @Boobcat)
- /ally <player name> to send an alliance request to another player
- /allyconfirm <requester name> to accept an alliance request
- /disband <player name> to end an alliance (after a 30s delay)
- Allies are shown as blue in unit/building highlights and the minimap
- Allies win and lose together
- Allying a player will not automatically ally you with their allies
- Effects that don't friendly fire like creepers should also not affect allies
- You can still force attack allies using A + left-click
Translation Compatibility (Thanks to @PROMETHIA)
- Added language support for:
- Danish (da_dk)
- Polish (pl_pl)
- Russian (ru_ru)
- Ukrainian (uk_ua)
- Brazilian Portuguese (pt_br)
- Chinese (Simplified) (zh_cn)
- Chinese (Traditional) (zh_tw)
- Some languages may not yet have support for Alliances since it was just added
- If a string in your language is not available, it will default to English
- Due to a difficult-to-resolve bug, you must restart your client when switching languages for it to take effect
- If you would like to contribute translations, please see the localisation channel and the pinned posts
🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️
- Fixed workers not actually working if they were too far out of view
- Fixed crash related to Hiding Leaves
- Fixed crash related to Ranged units attacking buildings
- Fixed crash related to pressing Tab on neutral units
- Fixed enchantment icons
- The clock button no longer shows up in unexpected places like the title screen
- Fixed issue of being kicked from a server when switching instances (eg. between a game and lobby)
- Spider webs no longer stay forever if the spider dies before they decay
- Leaving F12 will now more reliably set you to spectator mode if you were in spectator previously
⚙️ Quality of Life Features ⚙️
- The world gen datapack is now hardcoded into the mod by default. As a reminder, this means:
- Ores are generated on the surface
- Flattened biome heights
- 4x normal randomTickSpeed
- No caves, mountains, jungles or other difficult biomes
- No insomnia
- No weather
- Improved performance for all units and buildings
- The thereisnospoon cheatcode to modify max population is - now /gamerule maxPopulation <value>
- this also means it is saved to the game world
- Added saved UUID data for all units
- Added gamerules to /rts-help
⚖️ Balancing ⚖️
- All build times with 2+ workers are slower (you need +1 worker to achieve previous speeds)
- Capitol build speeds have been sped up to compensate
Piglins
- Wither Skeleton Death Cloud: Duration +2s, Cooldown +5s
- Is now a one-click-one-use ability
- Melee units attacking a Wither Skeleton now get withered for 2 seconds (4 damage total)
Villagers
- Golem Smithing Upgrade: +50 ore, +30s
- Vindicators and Pillagers: -5 food
- Blacksmith: -150 wood, +150 ore
- Libraries now only require a Barracks to be built instead of an Arcane Tower
- Library: -50 wood, +10% build time
- Grand Library Upgrade: +100 wood, -250 ore, +20s
- Swapped Maiming and Sharpness Enchantment costs and requirements (Sharpness is now level II)
- Enchant Maiming: -5 wood, -15 ore
- Enchant Multishot: -10 wood, -5 ore
🎉 Features 🎉
Vindicator and Pillager upgrades are now enchantments paid for per-unit from the library
- Diamond axes and Multishot blacksmith upgrades have been removed
- Libraries can now be upgraded to Grand Libraries (150 wood, 350 ore, 120s) for more enchantment options
- Basic libraries have:
- (25 wood, 40 ore) Sharpness for Vindicators (+1 dmg)
- (30 wood, 15 ore) Quick Charge for Pillagers (-0.25s chargeup time)
- Grand libraries have:
- (40 wood, 60 ore) Maiming for Vindicators (slow applied on hit)
- (80 wood, 40 ore) Multishot for Pillagers
- (60 wood, 60 ore) Vigor for Evokers (-25% cooldown times)
- You can have only one enchantment at a time, and can be overridden, but no refunds are given
- Enchantments can be right-clicked to auto cast (be careful, it'll spend all your resources!)
Spiders now have an upgrade to unlock a Web Spin ability which creates temporary cobwebs on the field
- Researched at the Lab (300 wood, 300 ore, 140s)
- Cooldown: 30s, Range: 8, Duration: 5s
- Cannot be used while mounted or recently dismounted
🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️
- Improved pathfinding for melee units chasing enemies
- Ravager Artilleries no longer shoot themselves when targeting a building
- If you somehow got into F12 in survival or adventure mode, you are automatically taken out of it
- Fences, stairs, walls and other similar blocks won't cause buildings to be unbuildable if placed against other blocks
⚙️ Quality of Life Features ⚙️
- Mounted units now have special names and are grouped separately from non-mounted units when selected
- Improved performance for all monster units
- Can no longer use F12 cam in adventure mode
- Most units now use abilities one by one and will cycle through available casters of the same type when used
- when selecting groups of units, focus will be prioritised on the unit with abilities off cooldown
- Sculk Catalyst Sacrifice can no longer be used if the unit is standing on top of the catalyst or its stairs
- You can now move the camera by holding middle mouse click and its sensitivity has been raised
- Added more title screen splash lines
⚖️ Balancing ⚖️
- Worker Carry Bags now makes workers return resources when holding above 100 total
- Default max population is now 150
Monsters
- Zombie Villagers are now slowed under sunlight like creepers and spiders
- Drowned turn illagers into drowned instead of regular zombies
- Zombie Piglins +5 hp and Zoglins +15hp
- Creepers are no longer automatically set off by explosions, including from other creepers
Villagers
- Vindicator +1dmg, +30 food, +5s, +1 pop
- Pillager +5hp, +25 food, +5 wood, +5s, +1 pop
- Witch Lingering Potions upgrade -50 all resources, -10s
- Castle Officer's Quarters +150 wood, +50 ore, +30s
- Villagers can no longer build Golems if your blacksmith is destroyed
Piglins
- Brute -5 food
- Brute Shields protect against ranged by 75% up from 67%
- Headhunter -10 wood
- Headhunter Heavy Tridents upgrade -20s
- Hoglin -0.05as
- Blaze +1dmg, +0.1as
- Blaze Firewall upgrade +100 ore, -5 range, +5s cd
- Wither Skeletons +15hp, +1dmg, +50 ore, +5s, +1pop
- Wither death clouds reworked to instead give an active ability that generates wither clouds around them
- Piglins are immune to magma by default, fire resistance upgrade now gives total fire block and fire tick immunity
Hotfix changes
- Laboratories can now be built correctly
- Fixed a crash related to piglins building on overworld terrain
- Fixed a crash related to sculk spreading
- Added a Sacrifice ability to catalysts to allow spread without using the delete button
- Fixed a crash related to chopping mushroom blocks
- Buildings made of logs no longer break if an adjacent log was broken near them
- Falling logs are now convertible to nether blocks
- Further improved camera vertical smoothing
MAIN 1.0.6 CHANGES
🎉 Features 🎉 New Monster Building: Sculk Catalyst
- Costs 125 wood
- Like in vanilla, nearby units which die spread sculk blocks
- Warps day to night in a 25- block radius, which can be extended up to 50 blocks with more sculk
- When attacked, destroys nearby sculk blocks before taking damage (effectively giving it +1 hp per sculk)
- Can be upgraded at a Lab (with a Stronghold) to allow wardens to split sonic booms into 3 random nearby enemies within a range of 20
🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️
- Fixed a crash when using the idle workers button
- Fixed survival players not being able to deposit into stockpiles on non- English languages
- Iron golem spawn egg texture is fixed
- Survival players can no longer use F12 cam
- The hotkey for bridges has been changed to C to avoid an overlap with Build/Repair
- Fixed a crash when you build over a ledge with no floor
- Podzol, mud, moss and mycelium now convert to nether terrain (as nylium)
- Added a hard stop on opening the creative menu while in F12 cam
- Disabled "being revealed" messages when your capitol is destroyed if fog of war is disabled
- Farm water now turns magma below it into cobblestone and soulsand into soulsoil to prevent becoming a bubble column
- Workers no longer take damage from berry bushes and cacti
- Building blocks no longer drop items for survival players when mined
- Can no longer delete Creepers as this allowed circumventing their fuse timer
- Fixed undead burning too early or too late
- Defeated players now lose all of their research upgrades
- Adjusted camera so it doesn't start underground on most maps
⚙️ Quality of Life Features ⚙️
- Tree logs now become affected by gravity whenever any log is broken
- This applies to all log blocks, wood blocks and nether stems
- this is enabled by default but can be toggled using /gamerule doLogFalling
- /rts- fog now works from command blocks (no warnings are given)
- Sources of night warping now have a range indicator, toggleable by clicking the clock, and the exact range for sculk catalysts is written next to the building name
- Night warping areas are now cylinders instead of a sphere (this means it has unlimited vertical range)
⚖️ Balancing ⚖️
- Capitols now spawn animals closer and immediately spawn some nearby upon being built (within a 40 block radius)
- Piglins may now build basic portals on overworld terrain, but doing so takes twice as long
- The Advanced Portals upgrade removes this penalty
- Default max population has been raised from 100 to 120
- Bridges now take 1/2 damage from explosions
- Witches now throw regeneration potions instead of healing
- Natural monster unit regen is doubled to 1hp per 6s if you are near a night warp source AND it is true night
- Warden Health has been increased from 120 to 150
- Iron golem ore cost ↓ 50, wood cost ↑ 50
- Ravager food cost ↑ 50, build time ↑ 10s
- Hoglin health ↑ 5, attack speed ↑ 0.1, ore cost ↑ 25, build time ↑ 5s, population ↑ 1
- Ghast ore cost ↓ 50, damage to buildings ↑ 2
CHANGES SINCE 1.0.6 BETA
🛠️ Bugfixes 🛠️
- Fixed crash related to placing buildings
- Fixed crash on the title screen for some languages
- Fixed ticking entity crash related to Pillagers
- Fixed a crash related to building ticking
- Fixed Zombies spawning as neutral baby zombies
- Fixed some building block bugs in Barracks and Town Centres
- Two or more Sculk Catalysts that are too close to each are no longer indestructible
- Sculk Catalysts show how much extra HP they have on their health number
- Sculk is removed more consistently upon deleting a catalyst
- Sculk can now spread on dirt paths and tall grass
- Sculk spread is capped at 200 total blocks (2x what is needed for max night range)
- Can no longer build Portals on leaves
- Falling logs now break if they fall into buildings
⚙️ Quality of Life Features ⚙️
- Night circle borders that are overlapping can now be hidden by clicking the clock
- Night circle borders are now highlighted in green when their source building is selected
- Visible borders have been shrunk so the line itself is (usually) safe to walk on
- New /gamerule neutralAggro used to allow treating of all neutral mobs as enemies
- Allows attacking neutral mobs using attack move or when a military unit is idle
- Unfortunately due to an annoying bug this currently does not work with right click
- This includes all modded and vanilla mobs and defeated players' units
- Excludes vexes and huntable animals
- Random animal spawns around your capitol are now much more consistent
📜 Miscellaneous 📜
- Added Discord invite, Lilypad.gg link and RoN version to the main menu
- Laboratories now require a Graveyard to be built
- Chickens are now worth 75 food
Bugfixes
- Camera issues in worlds where the ground is far from Y=64 have been solved, thanks @Boobcat!
- Layered snow now correctly shows on the minimap, also thanks to @Boobcat!
- Farm water that freezes now melts after a few seconds
- Can no longer place buildings on top of leaf blocks
- Ghast fireballs no longer bounce off of each other
- Fixed another resources desync bug
- Ghasts high up in the air are now a bit easier to target with ranged units
- Evokers can no longer send vexes to attack enemies at unlimited range (now has a range of 20, or 30 in a garrison)
- Stopped iron golems from randomly attacking your own troops
- Ravagers no longer gain bonus movement speed when targeting an enemy (this was unintended vanilla logic)
- Ghasts no longer crash when you command them to move them into a sky block with no floor
- However, they will now simply ignore movement commands into open air
- Reign of Nether's version now correctly shows in the mods menu
- The witch icon is actually a witch now, not a villager
- Tutorial players may now cancel and delete buildings
- Workers may now gather bee nests (worth 100 food)
Quality of Life Features
- You can now CTRL+click the idle workers button (or hotkey) to select all idle workers
- Tab and shift+tab now cycle between both units and building groups (previously done via control group hotkeys)
- Right clicking with a building about to be placed now only cancels the building and does not issue a move command
- Moved controls from /rts-help into /rts-controls
- Added total workers count next to population
- The pillager icon has been given a headband to distinguish them from vindicators
Balancing
- All mounted unit upgrades have been upped in cost and time
- Spider Jockeys: (150 food, 150 wood, 60s) -> (300 food, 250 wood, 100s)
- Hoglin Cavalry: (150 food, 150 wood, 60s) -> (300 food, 250 wood, 100s)
- Ravager Artillery: (250 food, 250 wood, 90s) -> (400 food, 350 ORE, 140s)
- Skeletons, zombies and all their variants have had food costs and build times reduced:
- Zombie: (90 food, 20s) -> (75 food, 18s)
- Skeleton: (70 food, 20s) -> (60 food, 18s)
- Spiders and poison spiders have had their costs increased
- (80 food) -> (90 food)
- Warden health increased from 90 to 120
- Warden damage increased from 6 to 8
- Ravager health decreased from 300 to 250 and movement speed from 30 to 25
- Castles now additionally require a Blacksmith to be built (on top of a Barracks and Arcane Tower)
- When a monster faction joins the game, time of day is now set to noon (5 mins before sunset) instead of sunset. (Zombie villagers are immune to sunburn anyway)
Bugfixes
- Fixed Azalea and Flowering Azalea leaves not being nether-converted
- Regular TNT can now damage buildings with the same damage as regular creepers (20) and can set off other TNTs
- Having many buildings selected no longer has messed up HUD rendering
- Crimson and Warped Hyphae are now gatherable by workers
- Planks and stripped logs are no longer gatherable by workers and will no longer chain-break when broken in the air.
- Units in production queues now pause at 99% in red text if you dropped below max population while it was building
- Non-ops can no longer use /rts-reset
- Resources no longer act strangely (go negative, have doubled costs, etc.) after a match is restarted or a player is defeated
- Research buttons no longer disappear if someone else of the same faction is researching it at the time
- Joining a match no longer causes everyone's clientside buildings to be duplicated (this was causing population issues)
Quality of Life Features
- New command: /rts-lock enable/disable to prevent new players joining the match. Using /rts-reset will automatically unlock the match
- New experimental command: /rts-syncing enable/disable
- Prevents anyone logging in from syncing from server data, and from joining the RTS match, even if the game is unlocked
- New joiners will not be able to select buildings and units will appear neutral until the syncing is re-enabled and they relog
- This also affects existing RTS players who relog, so use at your discretion
- This is a temporary measure to (in theory) prevent login lag spikes until a permanent solution is found
- Pressing alt now cancels your building placement so you don't accidentally place it while dragging the camera
- Vanilla players can now drop off resources into stockpile chests and chests for this purpose have been added to civilian portals (This was actually designed previously, but was only working for villager stockpiles until now).
- New cheat code: thereisnospoon X - sets everyone's hard capped max population to X
- The current max value is now shown on the tooltip to the left of the bed icon
- Like most other cheats, this won't save between server restarts
- foodforthought now allows you to only ignore the soft cap (ie. houses are no longer needed), but does not let you go higher than what has been set with thereisnospoon
Balancing
- Any explosive damage to a garrison now deals a random amount of that damage directly to all garrisoned units
- Reduced ghast health from 60 to 50 to compensate for the above
Language Support
- Added translations for Spawn Eggs names for Russian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Full translations are still in the works!
Bugfixes
- /rts-reset now works from command blocks
- Spiders can no longer spawn out of lairs as vanilla jockeys and crash the game
- Liquid blocks that are part of a building can now be destroyed on damage. This means Flame Sanctuaries are no longer indestructible and damaged wheat/pumpkin farms can dry up.
- Fixed crash related to deselecting and reselecting control groups
- Fixed crash when selecting a nametagged unit
- Enabling F12 cam now forces you out of 3rd person cam so that you don't get rendering issues
Bugfixes
- Grunts are now immune to magma by default
- Workers returning a resource should count towards assigned number
- Farm crops can no longer be trampled
- Fixed the castle's building upgrade not working
- Fixed the pillager mounting ravager upgrade being missing
- Reduced occurrence of sonic booms randomly not working (please tell me if this still happens)
- Removed a duplicate line in the clock tooltip
Quality of Life Features
- Pressing same control group key again will now cycle through the selected unit types
Balancing
- Lowered ghast range from 40 to 30
- Garrisoned ranged units get an additional +10 bonus range against ghasts
- Raised ghast health from 30 to 60 so that groups can still reasonably take down garrisons
- Lowered ghast movespeed from 25 to 22
- Raised iron golem movespeed from 20 to 22
- Warden sonic boom damage increased from 60 to 75. It can now 1-shot all units except iron golems, ravagers and other wardens.
- Warden sonic booms now get +10 range after the target is acquired, so enemies can't run away as easily.
- Reduced watchtower garrison limit from 5 to 3 and bastions from 5 to 4
- Reduced all castle-type building garrison limits from 10 to 7
- Reduced all repair speeds by 25%
- Raised watchtower build times by 25%
- Raise capitols' animal spawn interval from 60s to 90s
- Raise wood cost of all farms by 50
Fixed issue where world generation is stuck at 100%