2.6 (Aequus)

2.6
"Terrarian's Delight (part 1/3)"
Release date	February 2, 2023
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The 2.6 update of Aequus focused on implementing more content, balancing, bug fixes, and other general features.

Additions

• Added Build Buffs, a secondary reward for doing Carpenter Bounties, most buildings will gain a passive buff aura after snapping a successful photo!
  • Added the Galaxy's Commision, which increases your range for picking up Build Buffs
• Added Hardmode Chests, which are spawned after Cobalt or Palladium is generated in your world, they contain much more valuable loot, and replace all undiscovered chests
• Added the Iron Lotus
• Added the Aetherial Crown
• Added the Black Plague, an upgrade of the Black Phial and Phoenix Ring
• Added the Blood Curcleav
• Added the Soul Neglectite
• Added the Wabbajack, sold by the Occultist during a Blood Moon
• Added the Manathirst Potion, crafted using the Depthscale
• Added the Chlorophyte Box
• Added the Lavaproof Mitten, sold by the Carpenter after the Demon Siege has been completed
• Added the Broken Mining Helmet, a light pet which spawns in the same way as the Glow Beacon
• Added Gust Dye, crafted with Atmospheric Energy
• Added the Photobook and Peony Photobook, replacing the printed version of the Shutterstocker Clip
• Mimics and Ice Mimics now spawn in pre-Hardmode, with much lower stats (configurable)

Misc

• Added Xenon Bait
• Added a recipe for the Potion of Ressurection
• Added the CREATION and Bread and Bugger paintings
• Added vines to the Underground Forest
• Added a unique effect for Ash Tombstones, having 5 or more allows for Underworld enemies to spawn
• Added a visual effect for when the Fertilizer Box makes a rare tile grow
• Added a visual effect for when the Grand Reward rolls an item to drop
• Added a visual effect for when the High Steaks consumes a coin
• Added equipped sprites for the Occultist crowns
• The Sky Merchant now sells various Slot Machines depending on the Moon phase
• Added sound effects for the War Horn and Black Phial when their abilities is activated
• Added research support for the Bottle O' Spirits and Potion Canteen
• Added the ability for the Pumpinator to extinguish fire debuffs from Allies
• Added the ability to clear a printed Shutterstocker Clip or Pixelgrammer Clip by dunking the item into water
• Damage reduction is now capped at 60%, to prevent exploits to gain 100% damage reduction (configurable)

Cross Mod

Thorium Mod

• Added the Inspiration Cursor, which shows your current inspiration
• The Occultist will now sell various Dungeon chest items from the Thorium Mod
• Slot Machines will now contain various chest items from the Thorium Mod
• The Cure and Liberation from the Thorium Mod now cure related debuffs from Aequus

Others

• Added support for the WikiThis mod
• Added a Boss Checklist entry for the Ultra Starite

Changes

• Sedimentary Rock now converts into Sandstone instead of Hardened Sand when converted using a Clentaminator
• All Pearls now glow in the Crab Crevice
• The Hypnotic Pearl is now much more common, and glows an oscillating Teal color
• Increased the depth of the Crab Crevice, and gave it a surface background to fix the water turning yellow when underground.
• The Sky Merchant will now lower/raise their balloon when nearby, to match the height of nearby players, and will also now sell various items found on Floating Islands
• Crate Bait can now catch Crab Crevice Crates
• Fertilizer Box is now crafted in groups of 3
• Dying with Vampirism will now clear the debuff, preventing you from turning into a Vampire
• Lowered the growth rate of Aequus' herbs
• Tweaked the gfx of many of the custom swung swords
• Bloody Tearstone can now be dropped by any enemy during a Blood Moon, lowered its droprate to compensate
• The Blood Moon fishing items now require Aquatic Energy in their recipes
• Demonic Energy can now be used to craft various Shadow Chest and Underworld items
• Cosmic Energy can now be used to craft various Enchanted and Martian items
• Horrific Energy can now be used to craft various Halloween and Pumpkin Moon items
• Frolic Energy can now be used to craft various Christmas and Frost Moon items
• Pumpking and its Scythes are now in the Heat Damage list
• Many on-hit effects should now work on players in pvp
• The Shutterstocker and Pixelgrammer now inflict a 5 second cooldown, to prevent spam usage
• The Celestial 8-Ball now inflicts a 2 second cooldown instead of needing to be held up for 2 seconds
• The Moro now uses a recipe group for fruits instead of many individual recipes
• The Fishy Fins are no longer vanity, and now provide 20 seconds of Water Breathing when not submerged in a liquid
• The Pylon Healer should now prioritize NPCs over critters, remove debuffs from whatever it is healing, and will ignore anything with the Stinky debuff
• Increased the price of the Pylon Cleanser from 15 to 2
• Lowered the item prices on multiple weapons and accessories, to make them more fair to reforge
• The Moonluna Hat is now crafted using Fallen Stars instead of Cosmic Energy
• The Sky Merchant now spawns much more commonly in towns, more commonly during the early morning and early night, and extremely commonly when holding the Pumpinator
• Changed the selectable list of names for many of Aequus' Town NPCs
• Bullets fired from the Hitscanner now have trails, to show how the bullets actually travelled
• The White Phial no longer increases the duration of buffs which have a duration lower than 1 minute, and updated its tooltip to be more descriptive
• Tweaked the gfx of the Starite Staff minion
• "Passive Damage" helmets now state the damage they deal again
• Updated many tooltips
• Reworked the Regenerative Bait, making it an Accessory

Balancing

• Reworked the Breath Conserver
• Starite Staff damage decreased from 24 to 20
• Dart Trap Hat no longer grants 10% increased summon damage
• Venom Dart Trap Hat now only increases summon damage by 10% instead of 20%
• Super Dart Trap Hat now only grants 1 minion slot instead of 2
• Reworked the Storm Cloak
• The Worm Scarf+The Reconstruction combo now deals 30 damage instead of 60
• The Mallet now deals 16 damage instead of 17 damage
• The Bloodthirst Potion now makes all healing applied over time instead of instantly
• Lowered the damage difficulty scaling of the Starite and Super Starite
• Slightly lowered the life and damage difficulty scaling of Hyper and Ultra Starite
• Increased the damage of Omega Starite
• Halved the catchrate of Depthscale and Leecheel, so they should be caught about the same amount of times as other Corruption/Crimson fish
• Holding the Ultimate Sword now grants +8 defense and knockback immunity
• Holding the Crystal Dagger now grants 10% increased movement speed and acceleration
• Increased the length of the Moonluna Hat's constellation trail
• Reduced the health of the Blood Mimic (125 / 250 / 375) -> (100 / 200 / 300)
• Flameblaster
  • Ranged reduced to be about the same as the vanilla flamethrower
  • Re-added the ability for the Flameblaster to shoot its flames foward via right click, allowing for a long distance attack
• Spicy Eel
  • Secret Luck Bonus: 0.05 -> 0.03
  • Removed all "Acceleration" bonuses
  • Changed many of the remaining stat bonuses to be Flat instead of Multiplicative
  • Raised the droprates from all enemies which can drop Spicy Eel, making it more common
• Super Long Leech
  • Damage: 12 -> 6
  • Armor Penetration: 0 -> 5
  • Range: 20 blocks -> 17 blocks
  • Velocity: 16 -> 13
  • Now deals damage and heals the player constantly, this results in this item getting an overall buff

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Cross Mod

• The Physicist's Census entry now properly states they move in after defeating Ultra Starite instead of Omega Starite

Fixes

• Fixed the Crab Crevice water being buggy on sloped/half block tiles
• Fixed a tooltip error on the Super Dart Trap Hat, where it says it increases summon damage by 50% when in reality it is only 40%
• Fixed an issue with custom swinging swords and melee speed bonuses
• Fixed the Moonluna Hat granting 10% increased summon damage instead of +1 minion slot, as the tooltip says
• Fixed the Rock Man biome purposely generating inside structures, instead of outside of structures
• Fixed Hellfire and Frostbite not working with several "debuff" effects
• Fixed inconsistent rarities on the energies
• Fixed the Ultra Starite defeated flag being preserved between worlds
• Fixed the Hellbat, Cindera, Magmabubble, and Trapper fireballs, and more not being in the Heat Damage list
• Fixed the Super Starite's projectile accidentally be half size in its sprite
• Fixed the Energies and Supernova Fruit rendering improperly in the inventory
• Fixed the Pylon Cleanser never moving to the left
• Hopefully fixed a crashing bug regarding the Piranha Pot minion
• Fixed there being an "Aequus Prefix", as it was an unintentional side effect from internal code
• Fixed the Carpenter having the Forest and Underground happiness dialogue swapped
• Fixed Splash Potions sometimes not colliding with other players
• Fixed the Fishing Spot Sign not working in multiplayer
• Fixed Equippable Cursors only working in the vanity slots
• Aequus herbs can now be properly harvested with the Staff of Regrowth, and fixed their seeds being able to place ontop of ungrown herbs, wasting seeds
• Blood Mimics should no longer get stuck on blocks
• Fixed a bug with the Phasebrink, where if you did its "combo effect" while the boomerang is returning, it will not have collision and leave the other boomerang behind inside tiles
• Fixed the Galactic Starfruit breaking the Glimmer event in multiplayer
• Fixed the Fertilizer Box actually being bugged, preventing it from functioning at all