Spectrum 1.8.2 - Aria for Painters

Item Name Recoloring

You can now use Pigment in the Bedrock Anvil to color an item's name. Props to Athebyne!

Revamped Fishing / Archaeology Loot

You could always fish in all of Spectrum's fluids, but the loot was always okayish. Fishing loot got a big overhaul thanks to Athebyne! Archaeology loot also got a tad more interesting.

Fluid Interaction Recipes

EMI now shows what the result of two fluids interacting is. Props to LittleCircleOO!

Improvements

Improved Puff Circlet fall damage handling (Pizzer)
The Kindling remembering advancement is now also granted when interacting with a Kindling - useful for Multiplayer (Robotgiggle)
Added a new Infused Beverage: Sarsaparilla (Athebyne)
Malachite Ore can now be smelted (Athebyne)
Enchantment Canvases now unbind in Midnight Solution (Athebyne)
Improved the way Glass Ampoules are handled in Dispensers & Omni Accelerator
Kimchi recipe now only requires two veggies and gives double output (Athebyne)
Resonance & the Glass Crest Workstaff do not require breaking a budding block anymore
Modular Explosives are now simpler to craft, requiring stratine fragments instead of gems (Athebyne)
More plants are now compostable (Robotgiggle)
Improved Cinderhearth structure matching
Made the collision box of Rotten Ground bigger to make it easier to hit small mobs on it
Interacting with a high tier pedestal now completes advancement requirements for lower tier pedestals
The Radiance Staff is now unlocked with Yellow Pigment instead of blue
Made Neat Ring even more pricy (Athebyne)
Improved the logic certain items handle invincibility frames
Midnight Aberration now has a small grace period before it starts crumbling
Made the Mermaid's Jam guidebook entry less confusing (it showed the cheong recipe before, which kind of is the right one, but)
Better described that Bismuth interacts with Beacon base blocks specifically
Streamlined Incandescent Amalgam explosions (Robotiggle)
Improved performance around Azurite Ore veins
Memory to Head Spirit Instiller recipes now work with vanilla mobs
Shooting Stars do not spawn Stardust anymore when initially spawning
It is now more consistent getting the advancement to survive Fatal Slumber (Robotgiggle)
Added unique sounds for being on Primordial Fire (Azzy)
Added up to date guidebook images
Ink Storage blocks/items handle upgrading from <1.8 versions more gracefully (unilock)
Doubled the amount of Tipped Arrows from the Potion Workshop to match vanilla

Bug Fixes

Fixed duplicate entities in the Manor structure (Robotgiggle)
Fixed a crash when trying to render Concealing Oil tooltips
Fixed a few guidebook entries/pages never getting unlocked - most notably the Mob Heads one
Exploding Kindlings do not affect unbreakable blocks anymore (Azzy)
Fixed Mermaids Brushes rarely dropping two gems (Ethanolgie)
Unbreakable blocks can no longer be recolored (Robotgiggle)
Fixed the gravity ring advancement unlock (Robotgiggle)
Fixed the jade bulb crossbreeding advancement unlock (Robotgiggle)
Only reveal Moonstuck Nectar page when the player harvested it (Robotgiggle)
Fixed typo in moonstone core entry (Dinoturto)
Updated emissive textures
Fixed Blackslag Alloy Forge being referred to as Calcite
Fixed a crash on dedicated servers when accessing the Paintbrushes item name
Fixed Glass Arrows having more drag in water instead of less
Fix mirrored gem blocks in gen 1 textures (Robotgiggle)
Fixed Neolith being referred to as Neolith Dust in its advancement
Fixed Life Drain ticking when being in creative/spectator
Fixed a bug causing another bug that occurred when throwing a Dragon Talon/Twinsword at an Endermen
Fixed Kindlings visually floating on the ground in some cases
Fixed the Guidebook forgetting the Nightdew hint being bought
Star candies and whispy circlet now reduce incurable effect duration (Azzy)
Doomblooms are now more explosive (Azzy)
DD biomes with rain particles act as being under permanent rain (Azzy)
Fixed a Button / Stimmerstone light dupe involvind Pistons
Fixed loot tables for Weeping Gala Door & Leaves
Fixed the Spirit instiller continuing playing music at specific times the recipe was not valid anymore
Updated the chinese lang (SmallYii, moyuguguji)
Fixed a rare rendering crash when breaking Spectrum's chests
Reworded various guidebook entries & fixed typos
stubled (KatTheFox)
The Dragonbone hint does not mention Dragonrot swamps anymore, since they can also be found in the overworld now
Fixed the Life Drain Potion Workshop recipe unlock referencing the wrong criterion
Set Health damage now plays the entities death sound (Azzy)
Fixed exploding Kindlings crashing the game if Common Protection API is not installed
Fixed the Irrelevance Fading Music disk always playing at 100% volume
Fixed Weeping Gala Light & Lantern not handling translucency correctly
Made Manxi hydrophobic (Preservation Roundels, too)
Added missing tags to some Preservation Blocks

Mod Compat

Mod integrations based on code will no longer try to load when Connector is installed (it caused issues with Travelers Backpacks, Create, ...). Compat based on json is unaffected
Added a description what the 'mod integration packs to disable' config setting does
Fixed missing icon for Biome Makeover guidebook entry (Athebyne)
Fixed an infinite meat exploit with Neepmeat (Athebyne)
Exclusion Lib is now optional. The worldgen structure experience is still better with it, though!
Fixed a duplication glitch in combination with Dank Storage
Partly fixed a duplication glitch in combination with Sophisticated Backpacks
Marked Enchancement as incompatible. It ships outdated mixins into Spectrum and will not be updated for 1.20.1 anymore, leading to crashes
Fixed a load order crash with Botania
Updated Colorful Hearts compat (unilock)
Updated Alloy Forge stats
Fixed some mod compat guidebook entries sharing the same coordinates, rendering on top of one another