2.7 (Aequus)

2.7
"1.4.4 Port and More"
Release date	August 1, 2023
Version chronology
2.6.1	—
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The 2.7 update of Aequus focused on porting to the 1.4.4 version of Terraria, with many features, tons of cleanups, and a bunch of broken stuff!!!!!!

Additions

Added a full Aetherial armor set
Added the Phase Phone, a combination of the Phase Mirror and Shellphone
Added The Christmas Spirit, sold by the Exporter
Added the Portable Tesla Turret, a sentry sold by the Physicist which gets consumed on use, and spawns a Tesla Turret minion
Added Galactic Clockwork, crafted using Omni Gems
Added the Crimson Sceptre
Added Polluted Sedimentary Rock Wall, obtained by throwing Sedimentary Rock Walls into Shimmer
- Sedimentary Rock Wall now places a friendly variant of the wall by default, instead of the hostile variant
Added Frozen Technology
Added Aloe Vera
Added the Frost Mimic
Added the Blacklight Fan
Added Ancient versions of the Gravity Block and Anti-Gravity Blocks
Added the Oblivion Reformatory
Added the Radon Moss Fishing Bobber, Radon Moss Brick, and Radon Moss Brick Wall
Added Trapped variants of Aequus' chests
Added the Sunbeam Carp, caught uncommonly in the Desert
Added the Fiery and Frosty Dust Devil Masks
Shimmer skin for the Physicist and Carpenter
Added music for Aequus' custom title screen
Added a new track for the Glimmer event, you can select between it and the old track in the Config!
Added a few Paintings

Changes

Temporarily disabled necromancy, due to it being in the middle of a rework!
Graphical updates to many items
Many new secret seed features!
Dedicated items now say "Thank you, {Dedicatee}!" instead of "Dedicated Item", and now have a sparkling and glowing rarity
Guranteed that atleast one Pyramid spawns in every world
Aequus Pets now support the new Terraria feature where pets show up in the player selection screen
Renamed the "Aetherial Crown" to "Ethereal Crown"
Renamed the "Magmabubble" to "Legged Lava"
Renamed the "Trapper" to "Chained Soul"
Renamed the "Trapper Imp" to "Keeper Imp"
Renamed the "Cindera" to "Cinder Bat"
Renamed the "Fishy Fins" to "Merman Fins"
Renamed the "Bone Hawk Ring" to "Bontalon Ring"
Renamed the "Zombie Scepter" to "Zombie Sceptre"
Renamed the "Block-s-ing Glove" to "Bloxing Glove"
Renamed the "Pale Pufferfish" to "Palebreath Puffer"
Many overhauls regarding the Carpenter
Overhauled Mirror's Call, Omni Paint, and Shutterstocker
Overhauled The Reconstruction, it is now a combination item of all 3 Mechanical Boss Master pets, summoning them all at once!
Added a bestiary entry for Adamantite Mimics, and they are now properly called "Adamantite Mimic" instead of just "Mimic"
Adjusted the spawnrates for naturally growing tiles
Undead and Armored Vikings can now spawn with the Crystal Dagger lodged in their head, and the Crystal Dagger no longer appears in Frozen Chests
Increased the droprate of Possessed Shards from the Possessed Armor from 33.33% to 50%
Red Sprite / Space Squid now mark the Gale Streams as complete instead of Dust Devil
The Gale Streams now only occurs in the outer 3rds
The Sentinel 6510's bonus slot no longer has a vanity slot, since it had literally zero purpose because it also didn't even appear on the player
The Bontalon Ring now drops from Dark Casters, instead of being found in Gold Chests, and is also ocassionally sold by the Skeleton Merchant after Skeletron has been defeated
The Bontalon Ring now reduces enemy movement speed by 60% instead of reducing their movement speed by 25% and reducing their damage
The Battle Axe now spawns in trees after defeating any boss
The Storm Cloak no longer works automatically, but instead attacks when you use a weapon
Made Aequus' Banners and other hangable tiles placeable on Platforms
Forced the Aether to generate closer to the middle of the world so that the Crab Crevice doesn't generate over it
The Underground Forest biome now generates Living Wood Chests instead of Locked Gold Chests, making Rock Man obtainable earlygame again
The Demonite / Crimtane generated after Eye of Cthulhu no longer generates near minecarts, and generates much smaller spikes
Eye of Cthulhu no longer drops any ore. To fully prioritize mining it
The Eclipse now counts as nighttime for the Vampirism transformation
Omni Gems now spawn and grow in the Aether instead of their own minibiome
Crab Crevice now spawns with Reef Chests instead of Palm Wood Chests
Ash Tombstones now explode on contact with the ground, this explosion hurts friendlies and players on the For the Worthy and Get fixed boi seeds
The Gore Nest's "zone" effect gets disabled if there are 2 or more Town NPCs nearby, disabling Oblivision spawns, and letting them sell Pylons correctly
The Gore Nest is now mined with a Pickaxe instead of Hammer
The Gore Nest now slowly clears liquids around it, this should prevent it from being covered in Lava
The Grand Reward's sparkle effect no longer lasts forever
The Demon Siege now has announcement messages for when you activate it
The Recycling Machine no longer creates Scrap when you craft near it, and is no longer found in the Crab Crevice
Radon Moss can now drop from the long grasses which grow off radon moss Stone Blocks / Gray Brick
Town NPCs should no longer spawn Jeweled Furniture while the Exporter is present, due to the Thievery system being removed
Nettlebane, Hitscanner, and Saving Grace are no longer craftable, and are now obtainable from the Bramble Crate
The Titanium Crate can now drop items normally found from Mimics or Adamantite Chests
The Boreal Crate can now drop items normally found from Mimics or Frost Chests
The Celestial 8-Ball now sells for 1 instead of having no value
The Physicist now throws turrets instead of moon projectiles
The Carpenter now sells seeds, instead of the Merchant
The Carpenter now gives a free Shutterstocker once first met
Omni Bait can no longer give you access to various fishing loot pools, until a certain condition is met:
- Dungeon - Until Skeletron is defeated
- Hallow - Until Hardmode
- Lihzahrd Temple - Until Plantera is defeated (There is no fishing loot there... but might as well prevent this edge case scenario anyways)

Various Exporter town NPC changes
- Headless, Pumpking's Cursor, and Pumpking's Cloak after defeating the Pumpking, or during Halloween
- Glint-In-Your-Eye, Santa NK1's Cursor, and Ice Queen's Spirit, are now sold after defeating the Ice Queen, or during Christmas
- Can now sell the Sentry Squid, like other Crab Crevice items
- No longer sells Sedimentary Rock, and you can now craft Sedimentary Rock at the Beach with Stone Blocks + Sand Blocks while Nearby Water

Various Occultist town NPC changes
- Her sleeping is now much MUCH more rare
- Now treats Night as Day, and Day as Night, being active during the night, and going back home during the day
- No longer sells the Whoopie Cushion
- Will now sell Soul Gems during a Blood Moon, since before, it was replaced with the Whoopie Cushion during a blood moon
- No longer sells the Black Phial
- Now sells the Demon Cursor

Various Pearl Shards changes
- Now have a unique in-world sprite
- No longer drops multiple shards
- Can now place down pearls back onto the ground
- Added research support

Shimmer

A few floating items (Fluorescence, Frozen Tears, ect) now obey gravity when above the shimmer, allowing for them to be properly dunked into the liquid
The Halting Machine effect will not work on items which are above the shimmer liquid

Crown of Blood

Now has the Reconstruction's old ability, of boosting Expert Mode-exclusive Accessories. This only works when the accessory is equipped to the primary slot

Balancing

Rebalanced most Aequus debuffs
The Warhorn now activates once every 10 seconds, instead of once every time a minion hit an enemy which was at maximum HP
Nerfed the damage of the Green Jellyfish from the Crab Crevice by 66%
Nerfed the damage of the Angler Fish from the Crab Crevice by 50%
The Super Star Sword now shoots a slash while above 90% health instead of requiring maximum health
Phasebrink no longer has the tornado effect, instead having a new ability which doubles its damage, makes it go farther, and inflict both Hellfire and Frostbite
Slice's projectile is now much larger, and tweaked its stats slightly
Nerfed the Ultimate Sword, lowering its range and damage slightly, it still deals more DPS than Night's Edge.
Hell's Boon now emits dark slash projectiles just like Light's Bane, and now deals half the damage it used to due to the new slashes

Nerfed the Gamestar
- Debuff now effects bosses
- Damage: 40 -> 32
- Knockback: 1 -> 3.5
- Now has a 20% damage penalty after every pierce

Nerfed the High Steaks
- Crit Damage: 50% -> 25%
- Crit Cost: 1 silver -> 3 silver

Nerfed the Steak Eyes
- Crit Damage: 50% -> 25%
- Crit Cost: 1 silver -> 3 silver

Recipes

The Frost Potion now uses Sunbeam Carp instead of Flarefin Koi
Spicy Eel is now crafted using a Spicy Pepper and Worm, instead of dropped by various Worm AI enemies
Unholy Tearstones now be used to craft Shadow Orb / Crimson Heart drops
Organic Energy can now craft Plantera's drops
Phoenix Ring no longer uses Bone in its recipe, due to the Bontalon Ring now being locked to post-Skeletron
Added a recipe for Flying Carpet like how 1.4.4 added a recipe for Sandstorm in a Bottle
Fixed the Tortoise Case using Granite Chests in its recipe instead of Ivy Chests
Fixed Titanium Bars crafting the incorrect amount of Adamantite Chests (yes this sounds odd, but this is what happens when alts exist...)
The Fertilizer Box now uses Fertilizer in its recipe instead of Bones and Ash Blocks
The Junk Jet now uses the Recycling Machine as its crafting station
The Venom Dart Trap Hat is now properly craftable
The Steak Eyes now uses Possessed Shards in its recipe instead of Bloody Tearstones
The Black Phial is now crafted, using Radon Moss

Shimmer

The Suspicious Looking Eye now turns into the Swag Looking Eye
Nettlebane, Hitscanner, and Saving Grace convert into each other
Fluorescence and Frozen Tears convert into each other

Fixes

Fixed the Cosmic Monolith being a bit janky, randomly deactivating and reactivating depending on lag and stuff
Fixed a bug with the Phase Mirror and Potion of Resurrection, where when dropped from your inventory, they activated their effect on accident (teleporting you home / to death point)
Fixed a few bugs regarding Raygun/Hitscanner bullets not properly inheriting the speed bonuses
Fixed bugs regarding sounds either playing at odd pitches, or being heard by everyone in the server, or both
Fixed a bug regarding the Leech Hook and Meathook not disappearing when you die
Fixed Ultra Starite having invisible hitboxes which were too far out from its center
The Radon biome now plays the Underground Corruption music instead of no music
Hopefully fixed duping bugs related to the Phasebrink
Hopefully fixed Starites sliding sideways on the ground if they hit a sloped surface
Hopefully fixed the Occultist not waking up properly in various scenarios
Fixed Ultra Starite's bestiary portrait looking weird
Fixed a bug with a player inflicted with Vampirism on the title screen
Granite, Marble, and Mushroom Chests should now properly upgrade into their hardmode variants instead of only into Adamantite Chests
Fixed the Vampire Squid and Pale Pufferfish having an odd bug when visible on a fishing rod. This fix also means they no longer have a held sprite
Fixed the Glimmer Event's Ultimate Sword not summoning Omega Starite in Multiplayer
Fixed many text and localization issues
Fixed Pixelgrammer Clips using their internal name instead of their actual name
Hopefully fixed some random freezes regarding tile framing funkiness
Fixed Modded Accessory slots bugging out with Aequus enabled