Minor Update: Questing and Leveling Overhaul 8.2

Released: Jun 14, 2026

Act-based quests, a new leveling screen and new origin and class selection menus.

Gameplay Changes#

  • Overhauled leveling, attributes, factions and titles with QOL menus and inventory tabs, and a new damage progress tracker for leveling up.
  • Unified attributes and skill trees with the new leveling system, with custom commands.
  • Overhauled the Origin/Class selection screen with custom menus.
  • Decreased experience gain per mob level (-25%) and renamed the mage classes (Pyromancer, Warlock, Tideweaver, Voidmancer, Druid and others).
  • Reworked and overhauled the questing chapters, which are now more linear, with new Act chapters: Act 1 - Awakening, Act 2 - First Steps, Act 3.1 - Deeper And Darker, Act 3.2 - Into The Flames, Act 4 - Beyond Reality and Act 5 - Duties (Nesil, thanks Kaamos).
  • 100+ new quests, an expanded Overworld chapter with new structures to find, and many new descriptions.
  • Added a new (alternate) Quest UI and enchantment descriptions.
  • Added new Aqua, Geo and Sound gems.
  • Reworked many boss bars, and significantly improved the Retro Shaders.
  • Greatly improved world load times.
  • Fixed invisible T.O Magic n Extras armors, Xaero’s Waypoint popup warnings, a particle tick crash related to AsyncParticles, and model rendering bugs on several curios items.

Backend Changes#

  • Added the Soulrend Core mod, which holds the leveling and stats logic, and fixed related startup and spell bugs during the cycle.
  • Updated mods.

Mods and resource packs#

Added: Soulrend Core, Enchantment Descriptions, JEAsync, UIQuest

Removed: Foolproof (unnecessary), JustLeveling Fork (replaced)