Adrian, 2026-11-09: legendaries, mythicals, Ultra Beasts and Paradox Pokemon
come from crafted summons. 22 Sigils (Naganadel evolves from Poipole), one
item told apart by custom data, from world/summons.json through
tools/summons.py: late-game recipes in three tiers (Lv 70, 80, 90), each used
in a fitting zone. A summoned legend fights as a boss (area attacks by level
and type, arena 32, the Guardian's Ward) but can be caught; on capture it
loses every boss mark. One at a time within 96 blocks.
Quest book: a Legends chapter, one quest per Sigil (97 quests). JEI lists each
Sigil as its own item, and Island Drops says where a legend is summoned; drops
Cobblemon names but doesn't have (Ho-Oh's Sacred Ash) get no slot.
Self-tests every_implemented_pokemon_is_obtainable (spawn, fossil or Sigil for
every implemented species) and sigil_summons_a_catchable_legend. Self-tests
and the island check pass.
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Phase 8 approved (2026-11-09). Adrian's Phase 9 answers: left-out Pokemon rare
in fitting zones; legendaries from crafted summons; no public release.
- Ore veins more sporadic but bigger: nodes about 40 % rarer, veins about 30 %
further apart, each one block larger in radius. 1.5-3x the ore overall; a
new island is needed to see it. World check on the regenerated island passes.
- The respawn block (Regenerating Ore Veins' regenerator): the aim passes
through it unless sneaking (mixin, the pack's first), so ore behind it can be
mined; much fainter glass through KubeJS assets. Self-test
regenerator_lets_the_aim_through casts a real ray.
- 31 lines (67 species) with no matching island biome, or no spawn data
(Rotom), get rare homes in fitting zones (world/zones.json -> homeless).
Existing spawns and guardians don't change. JEI data and quests regenerated.
- surface_nodes_lie_in_the_ground checks the node's centre column: a wider
node's edge can lie under a tree or a slope.
- Roadmap: every implemented Pokemon obtainable; Iris and Complementary
Reimagined as the default shader.
Self-tests and the island check pass.
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Adrian, 2026-11-02/03: every item that can drop gets a JEI page naming its
sources, alongside the Cobblemon Info add-on (which shows drops and biomes,
not zones). The companion mod's JEI plugin (jei/DropSourcesJei.kt) adds:
- Pokemon drops on the island: 794 species of lines that live on the
island, with chances, amounts and the zones they spawn in (or where their
line lives); spawns with their own drops (Beheeyem in the End). The Drop
Synthesizer core is the catalyst.
- Guardians and the End boss; Sacrifice Altar tiers and specials; Rebirth
Chamber; zone ore veins with regrow times; Cobblebase pasture finds per
skill and zone.
JEI runs on the client, so the pages read assets/cobblesurvival/jei/
drop_sources.json inside the mod, written by tools/jei_sources.py from the
pack's files. Self-tests drop_sources_match_the_server (file vs live server:
drops, zones, own-drop spawns, guardians, End boss, altar) and
jei_pages_build (every page builds, every item exists). The ore a vein gives
moved into world/zones.json (ores -> item), shared with the quest book.
JEI's API (19.64.0.455) is a compile-only dependency from JEI's own Maven.
Self-tests and the island check pass.
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Bosses (Adrian, 2026-11-02: Eternatus too small and too easy; guardians way
bigger and tougher; only defensive stats up; no attack takes more than 25 %):
- Guardians scale to about 8 blocks tall (1.5x-12x), Eternatus to 15 blocks
(2.5x, was 0.2x). Cave guardians look for a spot with room above them.
Bosses already in a world grow on the next check outside battle.
- Perfect IVs and 170 EVs each in HP, Defense and Sp. Def, nothing offensive.
- The Guardian's Ward, a Showdown-only held item (held_items/guardiansward.js)
handed to every boss by a HeldItemProvider: Defense and Sp. Def x2 while
defending, and one attack (all hits together) takes at most 25 % of max HP.
- Area attacks that start at the boss reach half its width further.
Machines (Adrian, 2026-11-02): a working core is active: it glows, its front
animates (flickering fire on the furnace core, pulsing emblems elsewhere), and
particles show in the chamber and at the core (client side). The Pokemon
inside flinches about every 15 s (red flash, Cobblemon's hit sound, no damage).
Roadmap Phase 8: every item that can drop gets a JEI page naming its sources.
Self-tests: practice_bosses_spawn checks size and training,
boss_takes_a_quarter_per_attack runs a real battle (each Lv 100 Bullet Seed
takes exactly a quarter), heat_core_cooks_with_hoppers checks the active state
and the flinch. Self-tests and the island check pass.
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Adrian, 2026-11-02: the End looked barren. The End is now a zone of its own
(Lv 50-70, world/zones.json -> dimensions; Zones.at returns it anywhere in the
End). tools/zone_spawns.py copies every line Cobblemon spawns in End biomes
into spawn_pool_world/the_end.json, on top of its island home: Beheeyem,
Reuniclus, Metagross; Gothitelle and Sigilyph in End cities; Malamar and
Unown with a Poke Snack. Cobblemon rolls the bucket before the Pokemon and
has these all uncommon or rare, so they move to the common bucket with even
line weights (Metagross a fifth).
Self-test end_has_spawns: the main island is in the_end and offers only End
spawns, some in the common bucket. Self-tests and the island check pass.
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Adrian (2026-11-02): every zone guardian gets area attacks (harder in
harder zones); a boss for the Basalt Furnace; a Pokémon replaces the
Ender Dragon; dying or leaving the arena loses; the Deep Dark gets a
legendary and every guardian should fit its zone. Groudon, Giratina and
Meloetta have no model in Cobblemon 1.8.4: Moltres, Eternatus and
Regigigas stand in.
- Guardians: Mudsdale, Flygon, Abomasnow, Regigigas (normal size), new
Moltres for the Basalt Furnace; zone_spawns.py takes a guardian
"scale".
- tools/zone_bosses.py writes bosses/<zone>.json and end.json from a
tier table (circle, line, cone, rings; telegraph, damage, triggers,
fire/ice/poison effects, arena).
- boss/: BossFights runs patterns during a guardian or End boss battle
(particle telegraphs, hits players inside, stops on battle end),
enforces the arena and death as a loss (battle ends, boss heals);
EndBoss keeps the dragon out (allowlist emptied), spawns Eternatus on
the main island with the dragon's boss bar, and on defeat opens the
exit portal, gateway and egg via the vanilla dragon fight, plus XP.
- Self-tests: coverage (incl. Cobblemon models), shapes, landing and
stopping, arena loss, End boss. Docs, balance, Phase 7 checklist.
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Adrian (2026-10-31): add Cobbreeding without a gate; only Ditto should
be rare, in an endgame area or gated behind something else.
- Cobbreeding 2.4.1 (Modrinth only) and Cloth Config (client) in the
pack; Cobblebase's hatchery takes Cobbreeding's eggs.
- Ditto moved from Button Isle to the Deep Dark with both of Cobblemon's
entries (rare in slime chunks, ultra-rare elsewhere): zone_spawns.py
pins take {"zone", "all_entries"}; Deep Dark target +1, Button Isle -1
so no other line moved; Southwold and Frostpeak guardians pinned (they
tie on base stats and flipped between runs).
- HMs' Trainer Ditto is made uncatchable; it still trades.
- check_deps.py skips other-side dependencies; Cobbreeding's harmless
client-mixin log line allowlisted.
- Self-tests cobbreeding_eggs_fit_the_hatchery, trainer_ditto_cant_be_caught;
docs, balance table, Phase 5 checklist.
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From Adrian's play-test (2026-10-30):
- The Deep Dark no longer fills the deepslate layer: world/biomes.json
splits it by temperature (Deep Dark under cold and temperate land,
basalt deltas under the hottest, ordinary caves between); at y -52 it
drops from 30 % to 14 % of the land, basalt 7 %.
- Cave zones fill up to their targets with lines whose primary type fits
the cave; top stages spawn up to the band's top (Deep Dark Lv 60, Basalt
70); no time-of-day conditions underground.
- Wild Pokemon more than 10 levels above the band of the zone they
wander into despawn (zone/Wanderers.kt).
- Loot is shared: all players in one scoreboard team, Lootr team_loot.
- Basalt ore nodes reach the deep basalt.
Self-tests strays_despawn and loot_is_shared; the catching rules from the
previous commit are now tested too. Template rebuilt (world check passed),
island quick check passed (36 self-tests and the restart test).
Shoulder Pokemon noted for Phase 5.
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Done and checked: surface and cave-floor ore nodes (companion mod
ore/OreNodes.kt), bigger and rarer underground veins; template with nodes
passed the world check and the island quick check (node self-tests).
Built, not yet tested: catching rules (catch rate falls with the level
gap to the trainer's strongest Pokemon, failed catch enrages, strong wild
Pokemon hunt weaker trainers; catching/, Fight or Flight config), bee
nests emptied when their bee is turned away.
In progress: the Deep Dark no longer fills the deepslate layer (split by
temperature: cold = Deep Dark, hot = basalt deltas, warm = ordinary caves;
world/biomes.json), zone layout regenerated; cave zone types added to
world/zones.json but tools/zone_spawns.py doesn't use them yet; template
not rebuilt for the new caves.
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Ore veins: make_world.py loads the island again row by row until
Regenerating Ore Veins has filled every chunk (/cobblesurvival veins
unfilled), cave tiers sit at their biome's depths, small zones get denser
veins, showcase veins are full size. The world report checks surface
tiers against the zone grid, cave tiers within two biome cells of their
cave, and fails on unfilled chunks; the template passes (37,689 chunks).
Drops: tools/drop_audit.py checks every creature drop a recipe or brewing
needs (docs/pokemon-drops.md). Blaze rods, ghast tears, breeze rods,
shulker shells and nether stars now drop from Pokemon through species
additions (self-test drop_additions_apply). The field guide counts vanilla
mobs as absent, applies species additions and reads the veins as sources.
Cobblebase tried (loads, self-tests pass) and left out until Adrian
decides its scope. Phase 4 checklist with the open questions.
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Regenerating Ore Veins 1.4.0 (CurseForge only, MIT). tools/zone_ores.py
writes its config from world/zones.json: surface zones as boxes from the
zone grid, cave tiers by cave biome, 21 tiers including Cobblemon's
evolution stones (their natural ores are off). The world report now
allows ore only in tracked veins inside their tier's zone. Self-tests:
a mined vein regrows after its chunk unloads and after a restart (new
after_restart pass in selftest.py and quick_check.py). make_world places
showcase veins.
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- Companion mod (zone/LevelPressure.kt): a Pokemon more than 5 levels
above the band of the zone its trainer is in gets 10% less experience
per extra level, down to 10%. Exp. Candy and commands are exempt; no
hard level caps (roadmap).
- Rules in world/zones.json -> level_pressure, shipped in the zone layout.
- Self-test level_pressure_cuts_xp.
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- Companion mod zone hazards (zone/ZoneHazards.kt, data in
data/cobblesurvival/zone_hazards/): in the Mire a player without an
item from #cobblesurvival:mire_protection gets Poison every 5 seconds,
with a one-time warning. Potions, milk and golden apples still help.
- Mire Waders: KubeJS leather boots, dropped by the Westmarch and Verdant
Jungle guardians (the zones before the Mire), per Adrian's boss rule.
- Self-test mire_poisons_without_waders.
- Allow-list Cobblemon's misspelt jigsaw state in
habitats/parched_peat_bog7.nbt, which test players now reach.
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- Companion mod (zone/Guardians.kt): each zone's guardian stands at the
zone's sample point, appears when a player is within 96 blocks, stays
within 24 blocks, is uncatchable and half again as big. Beating it in a
battle gives every player in the battle its drops; it returns after 5
hours of game time (Adrian: fixed spots, 5 hours). State lives in the
world save; /cobblesurvival guardians lists it.
- tools/zone_spawns.py writes data/cobblesurvival/guardians/<zone>.json:
the strongest walking (or swimming) Pokemon of the zone at band top + 5,
with the drops from world/zones.json. Boss drops follow Adrian's rule:
Icy Rocks before Sunscorch, Heat Rocks before Frostpeak.
- Goat Fur and Hoglin Hide recipes make 8 per rock, so one guardian's 3
rocks pay for one full insulating set.
- Self-test guardian_appears_and_returns; hazard tests cleaned up; the
zone generator reads Cobblemon's own entries from the field guide's
hidden_spawns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Free NeoForge 1.21.1 modpack on Cobblemon 1.8.4 built with packwiz, plus
the Kotlin companion mod (cobblesurvival) and its built-in data pack.
- Phase 0: packwiz pack with Modrinth/CurseForge cross-links, build and
export tooling, Prism instance sync, test server with smoke checks.
- Phase 1: Poke Ball shaped island (WorldGen Editor preset, seed isle-26),
Adrian's biome list, no natural ore, structures without ore or vanilla
mobs, no Nether portals, world template builder and world report.
- Phase 2: permadeath (CobbleHardcoreMon plus the companion mod's gap
fixes), Revival Charm, expensive Healing Machine, Lootr refreshing
loot, in-game self-tests on Minecraft's GameTest framework.
- Phase 3 so far: 14 zones with their own spawn pools and level bands
(tools/zone_layout.py, tools/zone_spawns.py, "zone" spawn condition),
Cold Sweat heat and cold as gates with boss-drop insulation recipes,
spawn survey and hazard self-tests in tools/quick_check.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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