# General

- Golden Apples now grant Regeneration II for 10 seconds.
- Defence political path now grants 3x prot I books.
Defence's pick rate was much higher than we hoped for, and the ability for players to start the match with full Protection 3 if they had a coordinated team was far too strong.
- Removed Brutes from Bastions and Citadels.
- Added Warden spawns to Citadels.
- Increased diamond spawn rates in Citadel chests.
- Changed nether structure odds to 33% of each structure type.
The idea behind adding brutes was to make the gameplay more intense and more risky. However this caused a higher amount of player deaths before pvp than we had hoped for. This change should make the nether slightly easier for less skilled players, and prevent skilled players from entering pvp with multiple player heads.
- Added anti-queue matchmaking penalty to solo. 
Like Civ, when you reach 3 matchmaking penalties, you become unable to queue for 15 minutes. This change along with the nether changes are intended to make solo games maintain higher player counts at pvp.
- Adjusted Ares Blessing loot table slightly.
- Added Efficiency 3+ back to miner at the levels that previously had it.
- Added cow and chicken spawns to swamps, deserts, badlands, and arctic regions.
- Arrow shots greater than 50 blocks away now broadcast in chat.
- Fixed a bug where partys larger than 3 players could get on the same team in Civ
- Added a title to the player's screen when they die.
- Lunar team view now colors party members blue and the king yellow. 

# World Gen

- Removed naturally occuring Ancient Debris in the nether.
- Reduced squid and pufferfish spawn rates.
- Fixed a bug where Amethyst Geodes would spawn at predetermined coordinates across the world.
- Fixed a bug where caves wouldn't spawn properly in Swamp biomes.
Due to how the world generation works, it may take a few days to cycle out maps generated before these changes were implemented.

# Crafts / Weapons

- Prevented lucky rod gold/diamond drops from replacing loot if the loot result is a bow or an enchanted book.
- Fixed a bug where Artemis Bow did not trigger Archer's perk.
- Removed custom book and quill recipe that allowed the item to be crafted with a glow ink sac.
- Removed Sharpness, Thorns, and Swift Sneak from Grimoire
- Reduced Fire Aspect on Grimoire to level 1.
- Changed Poseidon's Treasure to an instabook.
- Increased Pufferfish Cannon damage multiplier to 3x. (was 2x)
- Increased Sonic Crossbow damage to 9.0 (was 6.0)
- Dragon Katana now costs 1x Netherite Scrap and 2x obsidian to craft. (was 2x scrap, 1x obsidian)
- Dragon Katana now crafts with 1 teleport charge.
- Magma Blade increased to Sharpness 3. (was 2)
- Reaper Scythe can now only siphon a max of 3 hearts from a single mob.
- Fixed a bug where Fountain of Fate's secondary potion effect was not removed when the fountain was broken.
- Fixed a bug where punching with Artemis Bow would trigger a projectile damage message.
- Increased Emerald Sword's max Sharpness level to 50.

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Jan. 18th, 2024