⚠️ Essence collection is broken in this release, please update to 1.4.1!

Thanks to invaluable feedback from several players, this update is fully focused on rebalancing the early game progression and making the mod overall less painful to get into.

Updated Sounds (courtesy of PessiMysterio):

• Essence spawning, collecting, and despawning
• Athame creation
• Harbingers
• Altar Crafting

Additions:

• Added Soumberglass and Soul Soot, new materials used for various recipes throughout the mod.
• Added basic keepers, these are made with pure Soumberglass and don't require ender pearls.
• Added obsidian and extra mineral drops to Spectral miners.
• Spectral Miners now have a rare chance to drop a diamond.
• Added the Willingness enchantment with four levels, this allows glaives and scythes to reap faster than normal while also providing a chance to not consume durability on reap.
• Added the Reaping Frenzy enchantment, this allows glaives and scythes automatically reap as long as right-click is still held.
• Added a new page to the guidebook that shows information about Soumberglass.

Fixes:

• Fixed glaives and scythes not swinging properly while using the ability on the offhand.
• Fixed glaives and scythes being interrupted while being repaired like from Mending.
• Fixed the animated texture on soul altars.
• Fixed small globins doing no damage.

Tweaks:

• Deadtime Watch now applies the Slowness effect on nearby players.
• Increased charging costs for durable weapons.
• Increased the drop chance for a Damaged Vampire Knife in the Nether (1/2000 -> 1/1000).
• Ripe Biomass crops will now always drop germinated seeds.
• Various altar recipes are now cheaper with most costs being halved.
• Altars, absorbers, and crucibles no longer require ender pearls and now require Soumberglass.
• Made recipes for all essence containers cheaper.
• Essence containers will now carry the same amount of soul essence as blood.
• Increased the maximum amount of essence carried for keepers and vessels.
• Buffed Biomass gear and greatly improved the repairing mechanic.
• Harbingers now always drop ender pearls and abyssal fragments.
• Harbingers now drop Soumberglass instead of bones.
• Increased the chance for the Bloodletting (10% -> 20%) and Soulsteal (15% -> 25%) enchantments to drop essences.
• Essence max health limit is now disabled by default, silverfish and small slimes will drop essence again!
• The guidebook now shows more information about essence containers.
• Updated Book of Shadows and Book of Carnage recipes to require only basic keepers.
• All glaives and scythes now require at least one Soumberglass to craft.

Mod Integration:

• Implemented HWYLA integration for Biomass crops.
• Increased the chance for the Blood Conjuration (10% -> 20%) and Soul Conjuration (20% -> 25%) traits to drop essences.