⛏️1.21.5 Gameplay Changes

🪄Rune Locales

The Great Runic Shift has fully transformed the following locales:

• 💨Gusts: New locale - Aethryn, the Helm of Terados. Floating islands holding an old observatory. Once used for navigation, now only the Breezes call it home.

• 💎Stones: New locale - Ruit, the Shimmering Grotto. A cave of geodes beneath a giant tree, with magical waters that empower the Silverfish within.

• 🐝Vitality: New locale - Thriaechor, the Amber Eaves. The bees in this canopy of the great tree above Ruit do not take kindly to visitors!

The following locales are also affected by the Runic Shift:

• ❄️Chills: Now housed in Skatheim, the Winter Bastion (previously the Mortus locale).

• 🔥Cinders: Now home to Blazes instead of Wither Skeletons.

• 💀Mortus: Now housed in Arkose, the Crimson Crypt (previously the Stones locale).

Additionally, the following changes are applied to all locales:

• The base rune drop rate is increased from 3% to 5%.

• The most difficult and frustrating locales have been toned down - lower stats, shorter levitation from Kuiper shulkers, and no Thorns on the Mystic Grove witches.

• In exchange for the above, some locales have more spawners to make them harder to cheese.

  • Also note the Extinction changes in the Enchantments changelog, which reduces the ease of farming runes late game.

• We hope this combines to make farming runes more enjoyable and less polarizing.

✨Luck

Now affects many areas of gameplay:

• Increases the odds of high-value rolls from Bottom Feeder, Schrödinger’s Thumb, the boardwalk claw machine, and the Tip Jar charm.

• Increases the activation odds of Hot Rod, Hands-On Learning, the Juniper Sprig charm, and the Runic Compass charm.

• Increases the average drop count from Trawling, Tithing, Cultist bosses, and the Opulence Runic Tome spell.

• Increases the chance of Rune and Gem drops in survival worlds and duping the Shiny Gold Coin.

• Reduces the odds of hostile mob heads during whack-a-staff.

• Increases the drop rate of heads. (This isn’t new, but stating it for visibility)

• Increases the quality of fishing loot. (This is vanilla, but stating it for visibility)

💎Socketing

• A new Gem of Favor has been added, granting +0.25 Luck per gem. These can be obtained in the same way as all standard stat gems.

• Armor now only has 4 sockets. Gems are not buffed to compensate - this is an intentional nerf to give room for power in more interesting areas.

🔱Tridents

• Can now be crafted using 3 Twinkling Sea Crystals, 1 Nautilus Shell, and 1 Prismarine Shard.

• Riptide is now more compatible with other trident enchants, including Runecrafted ones, and so is now only exclusive with Loyalty.

• Note that Loyalty tridents are already buffed to return if they fall into the void and generally return faster.

🛡️Shields

• Shields can now parry by blocking <=0.3 seconds before a strike. Parrying an attack stuns the attacker, while parrying a projectile reflects it.

• Shields can now bash by quickly double blocking, pushes enemies away in a radius in front of you.

• Axe attacks now only disable shields for 1.6 seconds rather than 5.

• We intend these changes to make shields more considerable as a primary accessory into the late game.

📝Miscellaneous

• Applying splash or lingering potions to targets other than yourself now grants mcMMO Alchemy experience.

• Projectiles now bypass invulnerability frames.

• Stuns are a more present mechanic from various items and enchants. Stuns prevent the target from acting, but are broken if they take direct damage.