1.0.0-beta.7: Chronicles of the Ash

Fixed from your reports

• The gap before the first boss. The fog gate in the Threshold had floor only in its middle block; one step to the side dropped you into the void with everything you carried. It is solid now, and the Threshold catches anyone who falls off the ruin and puts them back on the path, with nothing lost.
• "How do I get my things back?" After every death, chat tells you where you fell and how to recover both things you lost: your items wait in your corpse (right-click it), your runes in the bloodstain beside it, which your Echo guards (kill it, then step in). Ctrl+U opens the list of your last deaths (it shared U with the Fellowship roster before, so it never opened). The prologue's death quests explain the same.
• Creepers everywhere. Genetically Modified Monsters became Spore & Stem, so its seven creeper variants and their extra spawns are gone. Vanilla creepers are back to vanilla numbers.

New: Chronicles of the Ash (243 new quests)

A new quest group of storylines for NightBeam's mods, tied to the acts, the Ember Forge and each other:

Chapter	Mod	Quests
Runeborn	Runeborn: armaments, affinities, reinforcing, tears and crown shards	19
The Measure	RPG Stats: Valor, attributes, the Tallyman	13
What the Dead Carry	Mob LootBags: every bag tier, the opener, Old Pell the ragpicker	12
The Mycelial Court	Spore & Stem: giant caps, cultivation, Mycosis, the Myceliarch	25
The Last Coast	Fisherman's Coast: the bottles, the wreck, the lamp	14
Voices of Last Light	Smart Villagers AI and Guard Villagers	15
The Ashen Works	Core Utilities: power, processing, the quarry, item pipes	25
Chronofall	Chrono Rifts, the Fabricator, Flux, flight, mechs, rift gates	22
The Builder's Wands	RE:Constructed Wands, every tier and core	10
The Eclipsed Realm	Calder's survey: structures, graces, regalia, a second Sovereign	18

And bigger chapters: The Vaults (OmniVault in full: drawers, cells, buses, autocrafting, quantum bridge) 21 → 41, The Ash Garden (Sprout & Soil's climates and kitchens, Better Farming++) 16 → 29, The Fractured Archive 20 → 32, The Ashen Company 11 → 23, The Dungeon Trail (Much More Dungeons and the six Labyrinths) 21 → 34.

New mods

• Spore & Stem (fungal kingdom, replaces Genetically Modified Monsters), Core Utilities 2.0 (Forge Energy machines) and Chronofall 2.0 (Chrono Rifts and future tech).
• 19 mods updated to their newest versions (OmniVault 2.0.1, Sophisticated Backpacks/Storage/Core, JEI, KubeJS, Polymorph, Amendments, Rhino and more).

RPG Stats gates

Gear now asks for the attribute that fits it, gently and along the acts: weapons and tools Attack Power, armour Protection, guns and bows Attack Speed, anything that flies Agility, compasses Exploration, gauntlets and the heaviest hammers Fortitude. Modded ores follow diamond's level gate. Level-ups now pay runes, tempering stones and lustrous stones instead of free diamonds and diamond armour.

Balance

• OmniVault storage matrices use plain gold and diamonds again (the Forge's alloys compounded into thousands of ingots by 16M); Logic Processors craft two at a time. The processors keep the tier gate.
• Locked loot bags pay runes, stones, whetstones and diamonds instead of maxed netherite.
• The Scroll of Rebirth can be crafted again (its recipe never loaded on 1.21.1).
• The Farming Crate quest now waits for Duskforged (its diamond hoe needs one).

Numbers

667 quests in 33 chapters (was 424 in 23), 172 mods.