Time manipulation, and a real centaur

The headline is a new subsystem: time runs at whatever speed you say it does, per entity, per chunk or per dimension, without a second mod in the pack.

Tick rates are an Apoli type now#

Minecraft has had /tick since 1.20.3, but only for the whole server. Apoli 1.67.0 takes the same idea and makes it addressable: an entity, the chunk under a block, or a whole dimension can each carry their own rate, and the three fall back to each other — an entity with no rate of its own inherits its chunk’s, and a chunk inherits its dimension’s.

There are five new types, all sharing the name:

• apoli:modify_tick_rate — the power. It re-applies its state every tick and lets it lapse when the power stops, so nothing stays frozen after a death, a revoke or a /reload. target: area slows or freezes everything around the holder.
• apoli:tick_rate and the block action — the one-shot form, with rate, frozen, step, sprint, reset and duration.
• apoli:tick_rate and the block condition — read the effective rate back.

A slowed chunk covers block entities, scheduled block and fluid ticks and random ticks, so a time-stop bubble stops furnaces and crops as well as mobs. Rates never run anything faster than the server’s own tick rate: to speed the world up, raise it with vanilla /tick rate and hold everything else down with a power.

{
    "type": "apoli:modify_tick_rate",
    "target": "area",
    "radius": 8,
    "shape": "sphere",
    "frozen": true,
    "affect_chunks": true,
    "condition": { "type": "apoli:sneaking" }
}

The centaur is a centaur#

apoli:centaur used to be a pose — a seated rider, meant for sitting on someone else’s avatar. It is now an actual centaur: the player’s own head, torso and arms lifted onto a four-legged horse body with a mane and a tail, the player’s legs hidden, and the horse’s legs trotting off the player’s real movement.

The horse half is drawn from its own texture — a plain 64 × 64 horse skin at apoli:textures/entity/centaur/horse.png — so any horse texture drops straight in, either globally through a resource pack or per power with the new model_texture_location field on apoli:modify_player_model. Every horse part is addressable by name (horse_body, horse_tail, front_left_leg, … , plus horse_legs and horse) from modify_model_parts, model_color and custom_model_render.

Custom particles where a shot lands#

apoli:spawn_particles is now a block action, so a raycast’s block_action and a projectile’s block_action_on_hit can spawn an Apoli custom particle at the impact — something /particle through a command could never express. Its anchor defaults to hit, which uses the exact impact point rather than the block’s centre.

Expressions in two more places#

distance on apoli:grab is re-evaluated every tick, so an expression reels the held target in and out while the grab is running.

roll and roll_speed on a custom particle are evaluated once per particle, which is what you want them for:

"roll": "rUni(0, 360)",
"roll_speed": "rNor(0, 4)"

Every particle in the burst starts at its own angle and tumbles at its own rate.

Smaller things#

• The apoli:fire_projectile action now honours interval and start_delay like the power does, and its page finally lists the fields it always shared with the power — offset_x/y/z, space, max_distance and shooter_action.
• origins: resolves to apoli: even without the Origins mod installed. A single unresolvable type id anywhere inside a power’s entity_action drops the whole action, so a pack written against origins: ids used to go quietly dead on an Apoli-only server. It doesn’t any more.