Minor Update: Big Factions, Animations, Balancing and More Update 7.3

Released: Jan 25, 2026

A faction revamp, new animations and boss level changes. The notes warn that the update resets all factions and removes all current faction entities.

Gameplay Changes#

Revamped factions, faction structures and the faction questline.
Re-added Iron’s Spellbooks custom casting animations, and added new animations to most default weapon types and to movement (sprinting, walking, stagger).
Raised Warden and Old Champion levels to 100, and Frostmaw, Shade and Wroughtnaut to 60. They no longer level with distance.
Increased the Nether Crystal drop chance from Wardens to 50%.
Increased item vault capacity to 54 stacks, and Revenant summon power by about 300%.
Tweaked quests, improved rewards and added new quests (credit: Odd_Turtle).
Balanced several Apotheotic Additions gems, and nerfed Chain Lightning, Abyssal Shroud and Magic Missile.
Added an Estus Flask recipe, a new Eye of Mech recipe, and extra spell power attributes to several weapons.
Added many new dragon textures (thanks to LaTabla).
Disabled the foundry structure, and the buried treasure, stronghold and ancient temple locations on the explorer’s compass.
Fixed skill tree evasion chance nodes (thanks to Klayrex), and lowered the Sepia Globe arcana bonus.

Backend Changes#

Set claimed chunk expiry to 40 days (default).
Made several shader adjustments and quality-of-life changes.
Updated mods.

Mods and resource packs#

Added: Create: Copycats+, Excalibur | Ice and Fire | Tabla’s Dragon Retextures, OPAC Bonus Claims, Nightfall: Invade, Epicfight-Extras

Removed: Apothic Supplementaries - Enchanting (replaced with custom data), Apothic Amendments - Enchanting (replaced with custom data), LUMINOUS: BEASTS (unnecessary), YDM’s Weapon Master (caused too many visual bugs), Auto Third Person (unnecessary), Small End Features (unnecessary), Particular Reforged (unnecessary), Farsight (unnecessary), Healing Campfire (unnecessary)