Changelog

All notable changes are documented here. Format: Keep a Changelog + SemVer.

[2.2.1] - 2026-08-21

A hotfix. Two of these follow you out of the session they happened in, which is why it is not waiting for the rest of the list.

🐛 Fixed

• Confusion no longer comes back every time you take a portal. Anyone who had been confused once got the whole effect again on every trip to the Nether and on every respawn — inverted controls, inverted camera, from a Confusion that had ended minutes ago. It now counts down properly, and stepping through a portal or waking up at your bed ends it instead of starting it over (#75).
• Protect can no longer leave you invulnerable forever. Dropping out of the world during Protect's one second used to bring you back untouchable, permanently, with nothing in the game able to undo it — including a second Protect, which made it worse. The second is now settled the moment you log back in, and casting Protect while Protect is already up no longer confuses it about whose invulnerability it is holding (#76).
• Defog clears Confusion, which is exactly the sort of thing a move that "clears away any harmful conditions affecting you" ought to have been clearing all along (#77).
• Camouflage copies the shine. Disguise yourself as a shiny and you are drawn as a shiny; it used to quietly hand you the ordinary colours (#78).

🎯 Improved

• Defog is the answer to Obstruct. Aim it at a sealed container and the seal lifts — one container, at arm's length, so it counters a seal rather than wiping a base clean (#77).

[2.2.0] - 2026-08-20

Everything since 2.1.0, gathered into one release: eighteen new HMs, a second way to pay for them, and a wheel rebuilt around the fact that you now know far more HMs than it was drawn for.

✨ Eighteen new HMs

• Shadow Sneak (toggle) — no footsteps, no name over your head, and nothing underfoot notices you: not pressure plates, not tripwires, not a sculk sensor.
• Powder Snow (toggle) — you carry the cold with you. Anything that comes near frosts over; step out and it thaws. You are exempt from your own.
• Acid Armor (toggle) — a quarter of a suit of armour, and it poisons whoever hits you.
• Lucky Chant (toggle) — luck, for as long as it is on.
• Blizzard — real snowfall where you call it down, whatever the biome, lasting as long as a thunderstorm. The snow then obeys the world's own rules: it stays in a taiga and it is gone from a desert by morning.
• Confusion — turns the target around inside its own head. A player loses which way is forward; anything else simply loses the thread.
• Obstruct — seals a container shut, and against its own hoppers, which is the half that makes it a seal.
• Earthquake — the ground goes out from under everything nearby.
• Whirlwind — knocks back whatever is in front of you.
• X-Scissor — clears the undergrowth around you.
• Rock Throw — cobblestone from your inventory, thrown. If it hits nothing, it lands.
• Boomerang — a bone that comes back, and drops beside whatever it hit.
• Tail Whip — a brush finished in one motion, on suspicious sand, gravel and rooted dirt.
• Decorate — carpets the whole floor and hangs a painting where you point.
• Barrier — a wall that is not there for anything but you.
• Protect — the hit does not land.
• Celebrate — fireworks. Enormous cooldown, almost no hunger.
• Present — one a day, and it might be coal.

✨ New

• HMs can be paid for with experience. Hunger was the only currency and it made the mod a food problem; now a server picks which one it wants, or both in order.
• The wheel became usable at scale. Discs size themselves to how many HMs you know, so the ring never turns into an unreadable band. A food bar runs down the side, a green light marks what is running and an amber one what is selected, scrolling resizes, and each toggle can be switched off on its own.
• A running toggle can be seen from outside, so other players know what you are doing.
• Your mount is part of the kit. Surf, Tailwind, Swift, U-turn and Jump make the thing you are riding better at something, Helping Hand makes its stamina last five times as long, and all of it shows in the Pokémon's own summary.

✨ Changed

• You learn an HM from the Pokémon itself. Discs became an operator's tool rather than the way in.
• Flash is real full brightness — not Night Vision wearing another name, and brighter than the brightness slider goes.
• Magnet Rise is a toggle, and it is flight, at a half-step's pace with no dash.
• Rock Climb is steered by W and S, so glancing down mid-climb no longer drops you.
• Camouflage lasts a quarter of an hour and you can take it off — and the disguise now walks when you walk and sits the camera where its head is.
• Substitute leaves a decoy that does what you were doing, takes real damage, and hides everything you are carrying while you get away.
• Rollout is now Agility, Seed Bomb is now Egg Bomb, and Teleport is learned with an Ender Pearl.

🐛 Fixed

Thirty-five fixes, most of them found by playing rather than reading. The ones worth naming: the sixty-four HM ceiling is gone, half the HMs were missing their names entirely, Leafage no longer wrecks flowers it did not plant, and Tail Whip, Mean Look, Rototiller and String Shot all now do the thing they said they did.

[2.1.32] - 2026-08-20

🐛 Fixed

• A Substitute decoy really does leave nothing behind now. The last attempt cancelled the shared half of the break and missed the line that drops the stand itself, which is the half anyone would notice.
• String Shot tells sprinting from standing. Sprinting is a thing the game states outright, so it is simply asked; walking is measured once a tick instead of at the moment the HM fires, when the reading has usually already been overwritten.
• Flash is brighter than the brightness slider goes. The blend it drives is not capped where the slider is — above the top of the scale it carries past white rather than stopping at it, which is how a full-bright is supposed to look and what the setting will not let you ask for.

🎯 Improved

• A Blizzard lasts as long as a thunderstorm — three to thirteen minutes, rolled from the same table the weather itself uses. It used to run for fifteen seconds, which is long enough to see snowflakes and nowhere near long enough to be weather.

[2.1.31] - 2026-08-20

🐛 Fixed

• 2.1.30 would not start. The third-person camera change declared its hook with the wrong number type, and a mixin whose signature does not match its target refuses to apply — which on this one meant the game could not build its renderer at all. Nothing else in 2.1.30 was affected.

[2.1.30] - 2026-08-20

🐛 Fixed

• Right-click fires an HM again. The activator shipped set to left-click only, which the documentation had never said and which quietly made half the HMs awkward: the one button that worked is also the button that mines the block you are aiming at.
• String Shot finally tells moving from standing. It was asking the server how fast you were going, and a server never simulates a player's walking — it is told where they ended up. The number it read was always zero, so every shot was the standing-still one.
• Flash is as bright as it says. Overriding the brightness curve only changed the target of the blend the game does at the end; how much of it landed was the player's own brightness slider, so at a low setting the HM did almost nothing. Both ends are now handled, for exactly the span of the one method that reads them, and your Options value is never actually touched.
• A Substitute decoy leaves nothing behind. Breaking it dropped an armour stand, which both says out loud what the decoy was made of and hands out free crafting material every cast.

🎯 Improved

• Jump doubles what your mount can clear. A flat 2×, not derived from the setting — that number is the potion strength of Jump's other half, the one that makes you jump higher.
• Helping Hand is three times the help. A mount spends a fifth of the stamina it used to, so it goes five times as far and the bar drains slowly enough to notice.
• Blizzard is ten times the radius, and this time it shipped. The last change to it never reached the game: the handler clamped the radius to 16 regardless of the setting, so raising the setting to 18 did nothing at all. The clamp is gone, and the snowfall now scales with the area so a bigger storm is a bigger storm rather than the same snow spread thinner.
• Third person backs off far enough to see your disguise. The camera sat at a fixed four blocks because a player is always the same size; wear something large and it was inside its shoulder.
• A Pokémon disguise gets told to change its animation. Writing the pose was not enough — Cobblemon learns which animation to play from the callback that fires when a packet assigns that value, and local code writing it announces nothing.

[2.1.29] - 2026-08-20

🐛 Fixed

• Ten HM discs were wearing the wrong picture. Absorb's showed a flat slab of a hopper's flank instead of a hopper, and nine others carried a single face of a block where the block itself belonged. The disc art now asks the game what it draws in that slot rather than guessing at a texture: items with a real icon get it exactly, and block items — which have no picture anywhere, only a model the game renders on the spot — get one built the same way, from the same textures. Fixed: Absorb, Rototiller, Defog, Stockpile, Acid Armor, Rock Throw, Snowscape, Eruption, Earthquake and Barrier.

[2.1.28] - 2026-08-20

🎯 Improved

• The HM wheel sizes its discs to how many HMs you know. One number could never be right at both ends — a ring divides 360° between however many slots it has, so a size with comfortable air around three discs has twenty-six of them overlapping into a band. Each ring now works out how much room a slot actually has and draws the disc to fit, with a margin. The scroll still sets how big you want them and still wins whenever there is space; the only thing it can no longer do is ask for more room than exists.
• Blizzard covers three times the ground. It became real weather rather than a circle of cold, and weather six blocks across read as a bug.
• Magnet Rise is half as fast again. It is meant to be a half-step off the ground, not flight.

[2.1.27] - 2026-08-20

🐛 Fixed

• A Camouflage disguise moves its legs. A Pokémon costume slid along the ground in a permanent idle no matter how fast you ran: the stand-in is deliberately never put into the world, so nothing ever ticked it, and Cobblemon animates from state that only ticking produces. Both halves — which animation to play, and advancing it — are now driven from the player wearing it.
• The camera sits where the disguise's head is. The costume borrowed the size its entity type was registered with, which for a Pokémon is one placeholder shared by every species, so a Wailord and a Joltik got the same box and the same eye height. It takes the size of the actual creature being drawn.
• Substitute hides everything you are carrying. Vanilla invisibility hides the body and leaves the armour, the held items, and anything a third-party mod draws on a player — beside a decoy wearing your own face, that pointed straight at which of the two was real. Nothing about you is drawn at all for the two seconds you have to get away.

[2.1.26] - 2026-08-20

🐛 Fixed

• Rototiller no longer destroys what is growing on the ground. Farmland cannot hold a flower, so tilling under one quietly deleted it. The plant is picked instead — it lands at your feet as an item and the tilling goes ahead. Aiming at the flower now tills the soil under it, too.
• String Shot leaves a web behind you that stays there. The escape half lasted one second, which is less time than it takes for the thing chasing you to arrive; and it read your facing rather than your movement, so running backwards put the web in front of you.

🎯 Improved

• Charge, used again on the block it is already on, turns it off. A charge is permanent by design, and a power source you can only cancel by walking somewhere else to dump it is a fault.

[2.1.25] - 2026-08-20

🐛 Fixed

• Tail Whip finishes the brushing, every time. It worked once and then refused for nine seconds on any block it had touched: it was driving vanilla's brush with a fabricated clock to get ten strokes into one gesture, and the brush writes that time back as its own cooldown. It goes at the finish directly now — no invented clock, nothing left poisoned, and the same loot table as a real brush. The failure message also names the block instead of talking about sand at a gravel.
• Leafage stops wrecking flowers it did not plant. The old guard protected the flowers it knew about by class, so a modpack's own wildflowers were not on the list. It reads the #minecraft:flowers tag instead — the thing a mod uses to say "this is a flower" — and any plant that grows nothing from being bone-mealed is left alone after a single try instead of being asked four times.
• Jump reaches the thing you are riding. It was putting vanilla's jump boost on the player, and a mounted player is not who is jumping — Cobblemon moves a mount by its own riding stats and an attribute on the rider never gets there. Same lesson as Surf and Tailwind.

[2.1.24] - 2026-08-20

🎯 Improved

• The mount HMs now show up in the Pokémon's own summary. Surf, Tailwind, Swift and U-turn make the thing you are riding better at something, and until now the only place that was visible was in how it felt. Open the summary on the Pokémon you are riding and its Ride chart draws the boosted figures — a helped stat reads over its own maximum, which is what a temporary buff is. Any other party member still shows its honest numbers.

[2.1.23] - 2026-08-20

✨ New

• Confusion — turns the target around inside its own head, and it means two different things because its victims do. A player loses which way is forward: W walks them backwards, A and D swap, and the camera inverts on both axes. Anything else has no keys to invert, so it loses the thread instead — forgets what it was chasing and blunders off somewhere. Pretending a zombie has a W key would have been the wrong translation, and doing nothing to mobs would have made this an HM that does nothing at all in single player.

[2.1.22] - 2026-08-20

✨ New

• Obstruct — seals a container shut for a long while, and seals it against its own hoppers. That second half is the one that makes it a seal: a chest with a hopper under it is a chest with a hole in the bottom, so stopping the lid and leaving the hopper draining would have looked like protection without being any. A hopper pointed at a sealed chest simply idles, the way one pointed at nothing does.

[2.1.21] - 2026-08-20

✨ New

• Shadow Sneak (toggle) — total stealth on foot. No footsteps, no name over your head, and nothing underfoot notices you: not pressure plates, not tripwires, not a sculk sensor. You move slower than a walk for it, though faster than a crouch, so it is something you can actually travel in.

✨ Changed

• Flash is real full brightness. It used to be Night Vision wearing a different name — the blue wash and all. Now the world is simply lit, the way a brightness slider turned past its own limit would light it.

[2.1.20] - 2026-08-20

✨ Changed

• Blizzard makes it snow. Actual snowfall where you cast it — flakes in the air and snow settling on the ground, a layer at a time — whatever the biome. A desert gets a blizzard if that is where you called one down, and the biome is never touched to do it. The snow then obeys the world's own rules: it stays in a taiga and it is gone from a desert by morning, because leaving that to vanilla is what keeps this from being a landscaping tool. Learned with a Snowball now.

✨ New

• Powder Snow (toggle) — the freezing cold Blizzard used to leave behind, except now you carry it. Anything that comes near frosts over and starts to freeze; step out and it thaws. Its edge is drawn on the ground at exactly the radius that bites, which matters more than ever now that the edge walks around with you. You are exempt from your own cold.

[2.1.19] - 2026-08-20

✨ Changed

• Rock Climb is steered by the movement keys. W climbs, S descends, and holding nothing holds your place on the wall — which is the one thing the old version could not express, because you are always looking somewhere. It used to read your pitch, so "look up to go up" was the only way, and glancing down mid-climb dropped you.
• Decorate carpets the whole floor, and hangs the painting where you point. Both were scattered at random before, and random decoration is not decoration: you cannot aim a sprinkle, and a room you cannot aim is a room you cannot finish. Its power is now the shiny chance, a plain percentage from 1 to 100, for a server to set as generous or as cruel as it likes.

[2.1.18] - 2026-08-20

🐛 Fixed

• Mean Look stopped playing tug of war. Frightened Pokémon ran a few steps, turned round and came straight back, over and over. They were still hunting you the whole time — the flee path was being set and their own AI was undoing it every tick. They now let go of you first, which ends the chase properly: the Pokémon runs off, calms down, and you can walk up to it afterwards.

✨ Changed

• String Shot does something different standing still. On the move it still spits a web behind you that is gone in a second — an escape, left in a doorway. Standing still, it plants one where you are aiming, and that one stays: a trap you set on purpose, or something to break a fall at the bottom of a shaft. What you were already doing decides which you meant.
• Teleport is learned with an Ender Pearl instead of an Eye of Ender. It also fixes a real clash: Teleport and Miracle Eye shared the Eye, and anything looking an HM up by its item alone could only ever find the first of the two.

✨ New

• Your real food bar shows what the toggles have taken. The red the HM wheel draws is now painted over the vanilla bar too — which is where you are actually looking when you wonder why it will not fill.

[2.1.17] - 2026-08-20

🐛 Fixed

• Half your HMs had no name. Nine toggle effects, eighteen keybinds and sixteen discs were missing their text entirely, so the game fell back to showing the raw key — effect.cobblemon_ditto_hms.hm_swift sitting in your status bar where a name should be. Every one of those is now generated from the ability list itself, so an HM added later cannot arrive nameless.
• The thrown projectile is not called "Seed". It is shared by Bullet Seed, Egg Bomb, Rock Throw and Boomerang, and it renders as whatever it was loaded with.
• A two-line HM description no longer falls off the bottom of the screen. The text is measured and lifted until it fits.

✨ Changed

• The selected active HM gets a light of its own, amber where a running toggle is green. "This is what fires" and "this is running" are now the same mark in different colours, instead of one being a light and the other a ring you had to know to look for.

[2.1.16] - 2026-08-20

The first two fixes that came from actually playing the mod.

🐛 Fixed

• Magnet Rise flew at full creative speed, and the dash still worked. Halving the flight speed was only half the job: the game doubles it again while you sprint, and it does that on your own machine as it works out where you moved to — so holding Ctrl handed the whole reduction back. The doubling is now cancelled where it happens, which means the speed is the same whether or not the key is down. That is what "no dash" was always supposed to mean.
• Tail Whip swept nothing, and said it had. It also charged you for the privilege. It now re-reads the block between strokes — the last one replaces it, and holding on to the old one is how the sweep quietly stopped short — and if it does not finish, it refuses and costs nothing instead of playing a happy sound over an untouched block.

[2.1.15] - 2026-08-20

✨ New

• HMs can be paid for with experience. A new setting picks the currency — experience then hunger (the new default), hunger then experience, or strictly one or the other. Every HM keeps a single price, quoted in food, and it is converted at the till, so switching your server to XP does not re-balance anything: the relative cost of everything stays exactly where it was. /dittohm config cost order <mode> and /dittohm config cost xp <n>.
• Cobblemon: PlayerXP (CurseForge) is now a declared optional dependency. Vanilla only pays experience for killing things, so on a Cobblemon server with mob spawning turned down the XP modes would be a slow starvation. PlayerXP pays you for the battles your Pokémon win — install it and the currency refills from the thing you were already doing.

✨ Changed

• U-turn is a toggle, and it is about turning. Whatever you are riding corners far more sharply, on land, in water and in the air. It used to be a backwards hop.
• Your double does what you were doing. Cast Substitute at a run and it keeps running your way at your pace; cast it standing still and it stands still. It used to wander off on a random bearing when you were still, which gave it away just as badly as freezing would have.

[2.1.14] - 2026-08-20

✨ New

• Present — point it at an empty container and it fills itself, out of the tables the game uses for the chests nobody placed on purpose: a mineshaft's, a dungeon's, a bonus chest. One in ten is a lump of coal, which is the whole joke and the reason the cooldown is a full day. It refuses a container with anything already in it — a present does not go on top of your things.
• Blizzard — leaves a circle of standing cold where you cast it. Anything that walks in freezes the way powder snow freezes it, and thaws on the way out. Its edge is drawn on the ground, at exactly the radius that bites: an area effect that punishes you for entering without showing you where it starts is a trap, not a mechanic. The caster is exempt — it is their storm.
• Boomerang — throws a bone that turns around and comes back to your hand. Hit something and it stops there instead, on the ground beside it, which makes a clean miss the cheap outcome and a hit cost you the walk over.
• Decorate — carpets the ground around you, all one colour, rolled fresh each time, and hangs whatever art fits on the walls in reach. Aimed at a Pokémon instead, it takes a single long shot at making it shiny — permanently, at the game's own odds, and quietly when it misses.

[2.1.13] - 2026-08-19

✨ New

• X-Scissor — clears the ground around you, and it clears it in an order. Weeds first: grass, ferns, dead bushes, the things nobody planted. Only when there is not a single weed left in range does it start on flowers and crops — so standing in your own wheat field and casting by accident costs you the weeds, not the field. And if nothing is growing at all, it strips the grass down to dirt.
• Earthquake — shakes the ground out of true around you. Some of it rises a block, some of it is simply gone, most of it stays: what you get is ground nobody can trust, which is worse to be chased across than a crater. It will not move anything with something inside it, and it will not move anything tougher than stone, so nobody's floor goes with it.
• Rock Throw — throws a stone out of your pockets. It hurts what it hits, and if it hits nothing it lands as a stone, including somewhere you could never have reached to place one. Ammunition you can pick back up is ammunition you can afford to miss with.

[2.1.12] - 2026-08-19

✨ New

• Barrier — a three-by-three wall you cannot see, straight in front of you, for a while. An arrow stops in mid-air; a creeper walks into nothing. It fills empty space only and takes away only what it put down, so it can never eat a piece of anybody's house.
• Acid Armor (toggle) — a caustic coat worth a quarter of a full diamond set, and whatever lands a blow on you gets poisoned for its trouble. One dose per hit, from whatever actually reached you: an archer three blocks back never touched the acid.

🗑️ Removed

• Aura Sphere is gone. It was an early draft of what became Whirlwind, and keeping both meant shipping the sketch alongside the drawing.

[2.1.11] - 2026-08-19

✨ New

• Whirlwind — takes whatever you aim at and puts it ten blocks away, without hurting it at all. It ends an encounter without ending a creature, which makes it the answer to the things you would rather not kill and the things you could not.

[2.1.10] - 2026-08-19

The mod can hold as many HMs as it likes now.

🐛 Fixed

• The sixty-four HM ceiling is gone. What you have learned was stored as one number with one bit per HM, and a number of that kind holds exactly sixty-four of them. The mod was at fifty-six with more on the way, and going past the line would not have thrown an error — the sixty-fifth HM would have quietly shared a bit with the first, so learning one would have taught you the other. It is stored as a growing set of numbers instead, with no limit. Existing worlds are read as they are and convert themselves the next time they save; nothing has to be done by hand.

✨ New

• Tail Whip — sweeps a suspicious block clean in one motion instead of a dozen slow ones, and finds exactly what a brush would have. Rooted dirt gives up its hanging roots to it too.
• Aura Sphere — a punch that lands harder the worse off you are: nothing at all while you are healthy, five hearts and halfway across the clearing on your last one. A weapon that only becomes worth having at the moment you would rather be running.

[2.1.9] - 2026-08-19

✨ New

• Protect — nothing can touch you for a single second, and then not again for ten. It is not a shield you stand behind; it is a read. Spend it on the creeper you heard, the arrow you saw leave the bow, the lava you are about to land in — and spend it a moment early and you have nothing left when the blow lands. It blocks everything, falls and drowning and the void included.
• Lucky Chant (toggle) — fortune leans your way while it is on. What you break and what you fish give up a little more.
• Celebrate — a firework show over your head, for absolutely no reason. Costs almost nothing and comes back almost never, which is the only way a party stays a party.
• A running toggle can be seen from outside. Each one breathes out its own type's particle on a slow loop, so a player with four going no longer looks exactly like a player with none. Sparse on purpose — it is a sign, not a firework.

✨ Changed

• The HM Case shows the cooldown. Fire an active and the Case in your hotbar sweeps around with Minecraft's own cooldown shadow, the one every player can already read without being taught.

🐛 Fixed

• Mean Look stopped quietly clearing your luck. It had not granted any since it became a repel, but it was still switching Luck off every tick — which would have fought Lucky Chant for it.

[2.1.8] - 2026-08-19

The wheel tells you what things cost before you pay for them.

✨ New

• A food bar down the side of the wheel. Twenty pips, and it answers three questions at once: how much of your maximum the running toggles have taken (in red — that capacity is not yours again until one goes off), how much you have left, and what the HM under the cursor would cost, flashing, before you commit to it. Hover an active and it flashes what it would eat; hover a toggle and it flashes the slice it would claim, or hand back if it is already on.
• Toggles wear a little green light. Only toggles have one, so at a glance you can tell what fires from what stays on — and lit means that one is running right now. The glow could never say that on its own, because a selected active glows too.
• Scroll on the wheel to resize the discs. They start twice as big as they used to and go twice as far again, and where you leave them is remembered between worlds — the right size depends on your monitor and how many HMs you know, which is not something a server can guess.

✨ Changed

• The two ways out of the middle look like buttons now. A red ✖ for cancel and brushes around the ring for clear-everything, visible before you hover them rather than after.

[2.1.7] - 2026-08-19

Two HMs turned out to be the wrong move under the right effect.

✨ Changed

• Rollout is now Agility. The effect is the same — you move faster while it is on — but it is a Psychic move now, learned from different Pokémon, obtained with a different item and wearing a different disc. Rolling downhill was never what the speed felt like.
• Seed Bomb is now Egg Bomb. Same lob, same small deliberate blast; it throws an egg, from your own supply, and it flies as one. Learned from the Pokémon you would expect to be carrying eggs.

Both keep your progress. If you had learned Rollout or Seed Bomb, you know Agility or Egg Bomb — it is the same slot, wearing a different name. Their old discs are gone from the game, and the settings for them go back to defaults; run /dittohm config reset_all after updating.

🐛 Fixed

• No more counting HMs at people. The store page and the README stated exactly how many HMs there were, in three places, and all three were already wrong. Numbers that go stale the moment an HM is added do not belong in a description.

[2.1.6] - 2026-08-19

HMs are taught to you now. They are not handed over.

✨ Changed

• You learn an HM from the Pokémon itself. Sneak-click one holding the right item and it shows you the move — there is no disc in the middle any more, and the Trainer Ditto teaches across the counter rather than selling you a badge. The reason is simple: a disc is an item, an item goes in a chest, and an HM that can be posted to a friend who never went looking for the Pokémon is not something anyone had to earn. What you know cannot be traded away.
• HM Discs are an operator's tool. They are still registered, still in the creative tab, still work exactly as they did — nothing in survival hands one out.
• The Trainer Ditto will not deal with you if it is afraid of you. Catch one, or knock one out, and every trader after it backs away instead of opening the stall. It used to only run, which meant cornering one against a wall got you a shop as though nothing had happened.

✨ New

• Every HM can be switched off, one at a time. /dittohm config <hm> enabled false closes all three doors in at once — nobody can learn it, no Pokémon will teach it, and the Trainer Ditto stops offering it. Players who already know it keep it: closing the door is not the same decision as taking something back.

[2.1.5] - 2026-08-19

Magnet Rise finally does the thing its name says, and Headbutt learned what lives in a tree.

✨ Changed

• Magnet Rise is a toggle, and it is flight. Not five seconds of floating — switch it on and you are off the ground for as long as you like, drifting at half your walking pace with no dash. The price is the steepest of any toggle and it is paid once: fifteen food points off your maximum, out of a budget of eighteen. Flying is nearly everything you have.
• Destiny Bond picks its victim. Aim at a creature to tie yourself to it, and then however you die — a mob, a fall, lava, your own Explosion — it dies with you, wherever it happens to be standing. It used to only avenge you against whatever landed the last blow, which asked nothing of you. Now you choose who you are taking, and then you have to be right.
• Headbutt knows which trees bear fruit. Apples — and the Applin that grew inside one — only come out of apple trees. Every tree still gives up sticks and its own sapling.

✨ New

• There is sometimes a Greedent in the tree, and it does not enjoy being woken up.
• Bees notice. Headbutt a tree with a hive in it and the whole hive comes out after you, exactly as it would if you had broken into it.

[2.1.4] - 2026-08-19

Six of the older HMs were not quite the thing their name promised.

✨ Changed

• Charge is permanent, and it shows. A charged block stays charged until you charge another one or leave — no timer — and it throws off sparks the whole time it is live. A power source that switches itself off after a minute is not a power source, it is a fault to go and find.
• Explosion is what it sounds like. Nine times in ten it kills you outright. The tenth leaves you standing on a single heart. It is not a tool with a downside; it is the last thing you do.
• Rock Climb stops gluing you to the wall. You can travel along a face now, and step off it, instead of being cut to a fifth speed the moment you touch one. Up, down and holding on are unchanged.
• Mean Look holds off Pokémon that are hunting you, not only the mobs the game calls hostile. Anything else in the field is left where it is.
• Cut cuts plants. Grass, ferns, crops and ground cover come away as if you had used shears — the right drop, every time, including for plants added by a datapack — and it costs hunger, so it is a tool and not an infinite harvester.
• Sweet Scent takes three times as long to come back. It was far too quick.

[2.1.3] - 2026-08-19

Substitute goes back to doing the one thing a substitute is for: taking the hit.

🐛 Fixed

• The decoy takes damage now, and pops when it has taken enough. It could not be hurt at all — not because it was set invulnerable, but because it was set invisible, and the game refuses every blow aimed at an invisible armour stand before it checks anything else. It soaks up a quarter of your own maximum health and then goes off in a puff. Nothing drops when it does.
• The decoy wears your name. A disguise drawn in a player skin was skipping the nametag altogether, so your double stood there anonymous — the one detail that gives a double away. The Trainer Ditto gets its label back for the same reason.

[2.1.2] - 2026-08-19

Camouflage finally copies the thing you are looking at.

🐛 Fixed

• The disguise is the creature you aimed at. It had been turning you into a random Pokémon at zero health, and it was not random at all: the costume was packed the way a world save is written and unpacked the way the client expects, the read failed every single time, and the game quietly handed out a blank Pokémon instead. It is packed the client's way now — right species, right form, right shiny, right everything — and with a real creature underneath, the animations follow.
• The disguise wears the target's nametag. Whatever hangs over the thing you copied now hangs over you, word for word, and nothing hangs over you if nothing hung over it. Trainers, traders and named mobs included — it is no longer only Pokémon that carry their label across.

✨ Changed

• Camouflage lasts a quarter of an hour, and you can take it off. Fifteen minutes instead of five, and firing it again while it is running sheds the costume on the spot and frees the HM immediately — so swapping from one disguise to another is two presses, not a wait.

[2.1.1] - 2026-08-19

A round of things that fired twice, said too much, or quietly took your dinner.

🐛 Fixed

• One click, one HM. Firing an HM with an empty hand could set it off twice. The vanilla client re-sends a held left-click every few ticks, and every re-send was a fresh cast — which is why the HMs with no cooldown of their own (Cut, Rock Smash, Rototiller, Strength, Dig) were the ones you saw double. A press now pays out once, however long you hold it.
• The weather HMs give the sky back properly. Sunny Day ended with a thunderstorm arriving the instant the sun ran out, and Rain Dance ended with the rain stopping and lightning starting in the same breath. Both handed rain and thunder the same countdown, so both went off together. Each is now rolled separately, the way the game rolls them, and the sky is quiet in between.
• Leafage stopped wrecking the flowerbed. Tall flowers were being planted as half a flower, so the next cast in the same field knocked every one of them over. They are planted whole now, only where there is room, and never on a spot that already has something growing on it. A biome with no flowers of its own gets grass rather than a dandelion that does not belong there — and bone-mealing a sunflower no longer showers you with free sunflowers.
• Rest keeps quiet. It no longer writes a line into the chat log for every person it heals.
• Your food is not thrown away any more. With toggles running, your hunger bar is capped below full — and the game read that as "still hungry", so you could always eat, and the meal was clipped straight back off. Food you cannot use is now refused, and it says so.

✨ Changed

• Miracle Eye throws an eye. No more line of text telling you the name, the distance and the bearing: it flies off towards the monument and you follow it, exactly the way you find a stronghold. It does not leave anything behind when it lands.

[2.1.0] - 2026-08-13

Six new HMs, and three of the old ones became something else. Everything below has been in development since 2.0.1.

✨ New

• Seed Bomb — lob a heavy seed that bursts where it lands. Small on purpose, and the blast is a dial (#52).
• Eruption — open a pool of lava on the face of the block you aim at, never underfoot. Respects claims and spawn protection, exactly as a bucket does (#56).
• Miracle Eye — find the nearest legendary monument: what it is, how far, and which way. Not where. Which monuments count is a datapack tag (#11).
• Helping Hand (toggle) — your mount spends half the effort on everything, so it lasts about twice as long (#43).
• Tailwind (toggle) — whatever you fly on moves half again as fast (#42).
• Swift (toggle) — and gets up to speed twice as quickly, on land, in water and in the air.

🌊 Three HMs found out what they were for

• Dive stopped being a way to swim fast and became the ability to work underwater: mine at full speed, walk the seabed as if it were dry land, breathe. It takes penalties away rather than handing out a bonus (#44, #45).
• Lava Plume is now Dive's twin for lava — move through it, walk its floor, see and breathe down there, and sprint into a proper swim. It grants no fire protection of its own: it asks Burning Bulwark for that (#65).
• Surf now speeds up the thing you are riding, not you (#41).

👤 The Trainer Ditto is an event the whole server shares

One turns up every half hour, once, for everybody, announced in chat when it arrives and when it leaves — neither message says where. Its stall is rolled once and stays put, a disc you bought stays sold, and scarce HMs turn up scarcely. Beat one in battle and every one after it keeps its distance (#62, #55, #61, #58, #59).

🎡 The wheel

Open it, look, and back out — the bullseye cancels and changes nothing. The ring around it clears everything, selection and toggles alike. Star your favourites and the HM Case opens a short wheel holding only those. Whatever is live radiates, and the one HM that fires is marked apart from the ones merely running. Every HM can carry a required experience level, all shipping at zero (#66, #49, #60, #57, #63).

🐛 Fixes

• Bullet Seed hits things. It was firing dropped items, which cannot touch a creature (#53).
• Rock Smash takes the whole vein of netherite and quartz, and of any ore a mod adds.
• Rest counts the room the way Minecraft does, instead of demanding a unanimous yes from every connected player (#54).
• Destiny Bond takes an armoured player down with you (#51).
• Camouflage holds its shape and moves with you, instead of cycling through creatures.
• Substitute wears your name and walks away with it, and hides you for two seconds as you go.
• Headbutt works from standing, only shakes what you actually reached, and shakes giant mushrooms (#68).
• Leafage leaves a meadow (#64); Rock Climb works from standing; the HM Case reports the real reason it refused; a disguise holds its shape (#69); sky-clicks reach the server (#46); Headbutt drops the right sapling (#50); a toggle you cannot pay for is refused (#48); and one shake in a hundred knocks an Applin loose (#67).

[2.0.28] - 2026-08-13

⛏️ Rock Smash takes the whole vein of netherite and quartz

It knew about eight kinds of ore, and the two you actually go to the Nether for were not among them: ancient debris belongs to no ore tag at all, and nether quartz ore has no tag of its own. Both were being treated as ordinary rock and broken one block at a time. Any ore a mod adds now counts too — by the shared tag every modern one uses, and failing that, by simply being called an ore.

🧿 Substitute lets you actually slip away

You left a copy of yourself standing there and then stood next to it in plain sight, which fools nobody. Casting it now turns you invisible for two seconds: long enough to get behind something and let whatever was chasing you commit to the wrong target, short enough that it stays an escape rather than a cloak.

[2.0.27] - 2026-08-13

⚡ New toggle — Swift

Whatever you are riding gets up to speed twice as quickly — off the mark, out of a turn, after every stop. It is the third of the mount toggles and the only one that is not about top speed: Surf is faster in water, Tailwind faster in the air, Swift is quicker to get there in all three.

Learned from a Ninjask, Accelgor or Electrode with Sugar.

/dittohm config swift power <0-512>

🐛 Headbutt only shakes what you actually reached

Charging a tree with something in the way counted as a hit on the tree: it read the block two paces ahead and never checked whether you got there, so a wall with a trunk behind it dropped sticks while you bounced off the wall. It now looks for the first thing in the way, which is the only thing your head can have met.

[2.0.26] - 2026-08-13

🍄 Headbutt shakes giant mushrooms

The huge caps of the swamps and the Nether answer a headbutt the way a tree does, and give up mushrooms instead of saplings. They were never covered before because, for all they look like trees, the game does not count them as wood.

[2.0.25] - 2026-08-13

🧿 Camouflage holds the shape you picked, and moves with you

Two separate faults, both of them in how the costume was kept.

• It stopped being a slideshow. The server re-sends your disguise every couple of seconds so anyone who walks into view can see it, and every one of those resends was rebuilding the stand-in — which is created as a random creature and then filled in from what the message carries. The guard that was supposed to stop this compared the whole message, and the message is re-read off the live target each time: health, timers, animation state, all of it moving on its own, all of it different on every resend. What you are disguised as is which creature, so that is what is compared now.
• The disguise walks when you walk. A Pokémon's animations come from its own movement, not from the walk cycle vanilla mobs use, so a stand-in placed frame by frame read as standing perfectly still however fast you ran. It is handed your velocity and footing now.

[2.0.24] - 2026-08-13

🌋 Sprinting in lava looks like swimming

Setting the swim flag was not enough and the tick order is why: the game decides whether you are swimming — refusing outright unless the fluid is water — and then picks your pose from that answer, both before a mod gets a word in. So the flag was being set after the pose had already been chosen and cleared again before the next one, every tick, forever. The pose is now set directly, on your own game and on the server, so you see it and so does everyone else.

[2.0.23] - 2026-08-13

🎡 The selected HM is marked on its slot

Every attempt so far drew the marker around the disc, and an item picture is the one place on this screen that is hard to draw next to — it renders in its own pass, at its own depth, and whatever you put beside it is at the mercy of where that pass leaves things. So the mark moved to the segment: the selected HM's wedge is flooded white and edged top and bottom, through the same code that draws every slot on the wheel. Only one active can ever be selected, so there is never a second white wedge to mistake it for.

🐛 The HM Case tells you the real reason again

Firing from the Case reported "No HM selected" for every refusal there is — on cooldown, too hungry, not experienced enough. Each of those had already said exactly what was wrong, and the Case then talked over it with something untrue. It now only says that when nothing actually is selected.

[2.0.22] - 2026-08-13

🎡 The glow sits around the disc, not behind it

Both the radiance and the selected HM's white ring were sized as if a disc ended eight pixels from its middle. It does at the edges — but its corners reach a good deal further, so the ring was being drawn underneath them and came out as four disconnected arcs, and the glow only escaped at the top, bottom and sides. Both now start outside the picture, and both keep those proportions at any wheel size.

[2.0.21] - 2026-08-13

🎡 You can tell what is selected again

The glow said "this is running", and a dozen toggles can be running at once — so the one HM that actually fires when you click was lost among them. The selected one now carries a hard white ring of its own, which nothing else on the wheel has and only one thing can ever have. The type-coloured radiance goes on meaning "on".

[2.0.20] - 2026-08-13

🐴 Surf, Tailwind and Helping Hand actually reach your mount

They were being applied on the server — and the rider is what simulates the ride. Like a horse, a mounted Pokémon is moved by the game of whoever is sitting on it, and the server takes the result; a speed changed on the server alone was a number nobody was reading. The boost is now written on both sides, so the one that decides how fast you go has it too.

[2.0.19] - 2026-08-13

🌋 Lava Plume has a second gear

Hold sprint under lava and you swim — properly, in the pose and at the pace, not a slightly brisker wade. Vanilla's swim is hardcoded to water and can never happen in lava no matter what you do, so Lava Plume brings its own.

🎡 Clear means clear

The centre of the wheel switches off every toggle along with your selection, instead of only unsetting the active. One gesture puts you back to a bare fist — and switching a toggle back on is one click, which the old split never was.

[2.0.18] - 2026-08-13

✨ A live HM glows

The disc that is running now radiates — light coming off it in its own type colour, breathing slowly. It used to carry an enchantment glint, which was the wrong signal twice over: a sheen that sweeps across a picture is not the same as a picture giving off light, and at a glance it just read as "this item is enchanted".

🔦 You can see in lava

Lava is not dark, it is foggy — vanilla draws it at one block, three if you are fire resistant, which is why brightening it did nothing at all. With Lava Plume on you now see two dozen blocks down there.

🐴 Helping Hand spends half instead of holding twice

It was reaching for the wrong end of the same number and doubling what a mount spends rather than what it has, so it was quietly making mounts tire faster. Everything it does now costs half the effort, which is the same "lasts about twice as long" asked the right way round.

[2.0.17] - 2026-08-13

🐛 Fixes

• Lava Plume no longer sends you skating. Letting go of the controls left you sliding across the pool like it was ice: lava's only brake is that it halves your momentum every tick, and taking the drag off had taken the brake with it. Let go now and you come to rest the way you would on land.
• You can see something in there. Lava is pitch black from the inside; Lava Plume lights it up while you are under. The dense fog is drawn by your own game rather than the server, so this is only half the answer — but it is the difference between the block in front of your face and nothing at all.
• Surf and Tailwind find your mount however you are sitting on it. They only looked at what you were directly riding, so anything sat between you and the Pokémon hid it from them.

🔧 For working out what is going on

/dittohm mount

Reports what the mount boosts can actually see — which Pokémon, whether each toggle is on, and the raw speed stat it is reading.

[2.0.16] - 2026-08-13

👁️ New HM — Miracle Eye

Reach out and find the nearest legendary monument. It tells you what it is, roughly how far, and which way — and deliberately not where. Knowing that Lake Verity is nine hundred blocks north-east is what makes it a journey; a pair of numbers is what ends one (#11).

Five food and a thirty-second wait, because searching the world for one is genuinely hard work.

Learned from a Xatu, Sigilyph or Unown with an Eye of Ender.

Which monuments it knows about is a datapack tag, cobblemon_ditto_hms:miracle_eye. It ships pointing at the thirteen from Legendary Monuments — the three lakes, Turnback Cave, Stark Mountain, Giratina's island, Eternatus' cocoon, the distortion portal and the shrines — each listed as optional, so a world without that mod loads fine and the HM simply says there is nothing out there. Override the tag to point it at anything you like.

[2.0.15] - 2026-08-13

🏄 Surf is for the thing you are riding

Surf made you a better swimmer. It now makes your mount one: get on something in water with Surf on and it cuts through at half again its usual pace. Your own swimming on foot is untouched by it — that was never what an HM called Surf was supposed to mean (#41).

💨 New toggle — Tailwind

A following wind for whatever you are flying on: the same half-again, in the air instead of the water. Learned from a Talonflame, Noivern or Staraptor with a Breeze Rod (#42).

/dittohm config surf power <0-512>
/dittohm config tailwind power <0-512>

Both boosts are put on the creature you are riding and taken straight off again the moment you get down or switch the toggle off — nothing about your Pokémon is changed for good.

[2.0.14] - 2026-08-13

🌋 Lava Plume becomes the ability to work in lava

Lava Plume was a one-shot ride to the surface of a pool. It is now what Dive is underwater: the ability to live and work down there. It is a toggle, so it lives in the wheel's inner ring now.

• Move through lava, and walk its floor, without the fluid dragging on you. Lava normally cuts you to about a third of a walking pace; it no longer does.
• Breathe while you are under.
• Swimming out is exactly as it always was. Like Dive, it takes a penalty away rather than handing out a bonus.
• It gives you no fire protection of its own — that is Burning Bulwark's job, and two HMs handing out the same immunity makes one of them pointless. Lava Plume asks for it instead: you need Burning Bulwark learned to switch it on, and switching it on switches Burning Bulwark on with it. The same arrangement Fly already has with Glide (#65).

For the ride to the surface of a water pool, that is still Waterfall.

[2.0.13] - 2026-08-13

⭐ Favourites, and a short wheel to hold them

Fifty HMs is a lot to read at a glance when you use six of them.

• Right-click a slot in the wheel to star it. The wheel stays open, so you can set your whole list up in one visit, and a starred slot carries a gold star from then on. Right-click again to take it off.
• Hold the HM Case and open the wheel, and only your favourites are on it. No new gesture to learn: the Case is already in your hand as the activator, and now it is the short way in too. It still fires your selection exactly as before.
• Starred nothing yet? The Case shows the full wheel and tells you how to star something, rather than opening an empty ring.

Your list is saved with your world (#49).

[2.0.12] - 2026-08-13

🐴 New toggle — Helping Hand

Whatever you are riding keeps going about twice as long before it tires. Nothing else changes: it is not faster and it does not recover any quicker, it simply has more in the tank. Costs 2 food off your maximum while it is on, like most toggles (#43).

/dittohm config helping_hand power <0-512>

Learned from a Plusle, Minun or Audino with a Saddle.

🌋 New HM — Eruption

Opens a pool of lava on the face of the block you are aiming at — the same square a bucket would fill, and never underfoot. It refuses outright if you are standing close enough to end up in it, and it has to pass the same permission check a lava bucket does, so claims, spawn protection and the world border all hold: a plot you cannot build in is a plot you cannot erupt in.

Five food and a ten-second wait, so it stays a deliberate act rather than something you pave with (#56).

Learned from a Camerupt, Magcargo or Heatran with a Magma Block.

[2.0.11] - 2026-08-13

💣 New HM — Seed Bomb

Lob a single heavy seed and it bursts where it lands. It is Bullet Seed's ammunition with a fuse: same flight, same "it renders as the seed you actually threw", one of them instead of a dozen.

The blast is small on purpose — a strength of 1, against a creeper's 3 and TNT's 4. It scatters what is standing there and takes a bite out of soft ground; it will not open a hole in your base. If you want a bigger bang, that is exactly what the dial is for (#52).

/dittohm config seed_bomb power <0-512>

It follows your world's mob-griefing rule, so a server with block damage off gets the bang and the knock without the crater. For moving terrain on purpose, Explosion is still the HM.

Learned from a Breloom, Torterra or Chesnaught with Melon Seeds.

🐛 Fixes

• Headbutt needs both feet on the ground. You could fire it mid-air, which quietly turned it into a flight tool: charge, hop, charge again before landing, and it carried you across anything. It is a shoulder-charge — you have to push off something.

[2.0.10] - 2026-08-13

🌱 Bullet Seed hits things

It never has. The barrage was firing dropped items — seeds on the ground, thrown hard — and a dropped item cannot touch a creature, so every burst passed clean through whatever you aimed at no matter what the config said. They are proper projectiles now: they fly flat and fast, they still render as the exact seed you fired, and they hurt what they land on.

Damage comes off the same power dial that decides how many seeds a burst holds, so turning Bullet Seed up makes it hit harder and more often (#53).

🐛 Fixes

• Destiny Bond takes an armoured player down with you. The blow was struck for the largest number a computer can hold, which kills a bare mob and then quietly fails against armour: the reduction arithmetic overflows and the victim walks away. It now strikes for enough and not more (#51).

[2.0.9] - 2026-08-13

🎡 You can open the wheel, look, and back out

The middle of the wheel holds two things now, and they are not the same:

• The bullseye is Cancel. It closes the wheel and changes nothing — not your selection, not a single toggle. Until now every release did something, so there was no way to check what you had without committing to it (#66).
• The ring around it clears your selection, exactly as the centre used to, and your toggles go right on running.

A band of nothing separates both of them from the toggle ring, so a release that drifts a few pixels off centre can no longer flip a toggle on its way past. Letting go anywhere else that is not a slot — between the rings, off the wheel entirely — cancels as well.

😴 Rest counts the room the way Minecraft does

Rest asked for a unanimous yes from every single connected player — spectators, someone AFK in the Nether, everybody — so one person not joining in meant nothing happened at all, no matter how many of you were stood there resting.

It now runs the same vote a bed does, playersSleepingPercentage and all: spectators are left out, anyone already asleep counts towards the tally, and the threshold is whatever your server set. The clock also moves once for the whole vote — it used to be pushed to the next boundary again for every player who agreed, which sent an odd number of you a full night too far (#54).

[2.0.8] - 2026-08-13

🎚️ An HM can ask for an experience level

Every HM carries a required experience level, and every one of them ships at zero — so nothing is gated and nothing about your game changes today. What it buys is that gating one tomorrow is a config line in a pack, not a new version of the mod.

Where a pack does set one, it is a requirement, not a price: nothing is deducted when you use the HM, you simply cannot reach for it until you have got there. The wheel greys out a slot you have not qualified for and says which level it wants, and it lights back up the moment you level up (#57).

/dittohm config <ability> minlevel <0-100>

[2.0.7] - 2026-08-13

👤 The Trainer Ditto is an event the whole server shares

One turns up every half hour, once, for everybody — and everyone is told in chat when it arrives, and again when it moves on. Neither message says where: finding it is the point. It stays five minutes as it always has, so there is a trader standing somewhere about a sixth of the time.

It used to be a private dice roll per player, which made a rare visitor commoner the busier the server was — four players meant one turning up every ninety seconds, several at a time, each of them somebody else's. The wait survives a restart, and it runs while the server is empty: an appearance nobody was around for is missed rather than banked (#62).

/dittohm config trader every <ticks>

🛒 Its stall holds still

• What it lays out stays laid out. The offers were worked out afresh every time the screen opened, so learning anything — a disc bought from that very trader included — reshuffled the whole table behind your back (#55).
• A disc you bought is sold out. It used to go straight back on the shelf, and the same trader would happily sell you the same disc twice (#55).
• The scarce HMs turn up scarcely. Every HM carries a weight the stock is rolled against: flight, blinking, a free heal and a suit of armour are the rare ones, the everyday tools are common, and a pack can retune any of it — down to never offering something at all (#61).

/dittohm config <ability> weight <0-100>

🥊 It remembers being beaten

Knock one out and word gets around: every trader after that keeps its distance from you, the same way they already do from someone who caught one. Your friends are unaffected, and it does not forget over a reload (#58).

[2.0.6] - 2026-08-12

🌼 Leafage leaves a meadow, not a lawn

Bare ground now answers a burst in flowers, with the odd blade of grass among them — the other way round from before. The blooms are ones the biome you are standing in would grow, read from its own worldgen, so a burst in a plains looks nothing like one in a flower forest, and no two patches come out the same (#64).

Crops, saplings and berry trees still leap to full growth exactly as they did.

[2.0.5] - 2026-08-12

🐛 Fixes

• Rock Climb works from standing. It used to require you to already be off the ground, so the only way to start a climb was to jump into the wall and catch it mid-air. Walk up to a wall, look up, and you go up (#68).
• A disguise holds its shape. Camouflage was re-rolling what you looked like every couple of seconds, cycling through creatures instead of staying as the one you targeted (#69).

🖥️ Small

• The "learned it!" message names your actual wheel key, and stays right if you rebind it. It also goes to chat now instead of flashing past on the action bar — it is the one line telling you how to use what you just earned (#63).

[2.0.4] - 2026-08-12

👤 No two Trainer Dittos are the same any more

• Its level is rolled, from a band you can set, instead of every visitor arriving identical.
• Its IVs are rolled like any wild Ditto's. Every trader used to be flawless, which turned a rare visitor into a stat vending machine with nothing left to hope for. A pack that wants the old behaviour can ask for it back (#59).

/dittohm config trader levels <min> <max>

[2.0.3] - 2026-08-12

🎡 The wheel tells you what it is doing

• The disc under your cursor grows. No more guessing which slot a release will commit (#60).
• Whatever is live now pulses. The selected HM and every toggle that is on carry a much stronger halo, a bright rim and a slow breath of light — readable in a dark cave and at noon alike. Size always means "about to be picked", light always means "running", so the two never get confused for each other (#60).

🐛 Fixes

• The HM Case fires at open sky again. Left-clicking at nothing with the Case in hand did nothing at all, which killed Teleport and Explosion — the two you use without aiming at a block (#46).
• Headbutt drops the right sapling. Shake a birch and you get a birch sapling; the same for every other tree, modded ones included. Woods with nothing to plant drop none (#50).
• A toggle you cannot pay for is refused, and says how much is spare, instead of switching on into a state it cannot sustain (#48).

🍎 And one for the tree-shakers

• One shake in a hundred knocks an Applin loose. It lands at the foot of the trunk (#67).

[2.0.2] - 2026-08-12

🌊 Dive becomes the ability to work underwater

Dive was a way to swim faster. It is now the ability to live and work down there — it takes the water's penalties away rather than handing out a bonus.

• Mine underwater at full speed. A block below the surface breaks as fast as the same block in open air, and the weight a guardian temple puts on your arms lifts while you are under (#45).
• Walk the seabed as if it were dry land, with no drag on every step.
• Breathe freely, as before.
• Swimming is exactly as fast as it always was. Push off the bottom and you move like anyone else — if you want speed in the water, that is Surf's job (#44).

[2.0.1] - 2026-08-07

Everything here since 1.1.0. 34 abilities became 47, HMs moved off an item and onto a wheel, and a wandering Ditto turned up selling discs.

✨ Nine new HMs

• Thief — take whatever the creature you're aiming at is holding (#36).
• U-turn — leap backwards and spin to face what you were running from (#35).
• Charge — turn the block you aim at into a redstone power source for a while. Timed, not permanent: the original block comes back exactly as it was (#33).
• Destiny Bond — for a short window, whatever kills you does not outlive you (#34).
• Sweet Scent — draw a horde of wild Pokémon out of hiding around you (#8).
• Headbutt — hurl yourself forward head-first. Shakes trees loose, hurts what you hit, and hurts you (#9).
• Bounce (toggle) — every block you land on answers like a slime block (#37).
• Snowscape (toggle) — winter follows you: snow underfoot, still water freezing as you cross (#6).
• Vine Whip (toggle) — reach several paces further, for blocks and creatures alike (#7).

🎡 The HM Wheel

• Press H for a radial selector holding every HM you know, tinted by the type of the move it is named after. Only what you have learned appears, so a handful of HMs get wide, easy segments (#14).
• Whatever is live glows — the selected HM and every toggle that is on get a halo and a glint, so one look tells you what is running.
• The HM Case is no longer required. It survives as one of two activators; a bare hand is the other, and both are configurable. HMs fire on left-click by default — it never opens a chest or a door out from under you — with right-click and either as options.
• A keybind for every HM, unbound by default, in Options → Controls.
• Discs, HUD icons and wheel slots all wear the same art: the Scarlet/Violet TM disc for the move's type, with the trigger item set into it.

🧬 The Trainer Ditto

• A rare wanderer with perfect IVs that lays out five random HM Discs, each costing only that HM's own trigger item. If you have learned nothing yet, your first disc is free (#15).
• It really is a Ditto — throw a Poké Ball and catch it. Do that and it never seeks you out again, and actively keeps its distance if it meets you.

🔧 Also

• Camouflage really turns you into the creature, hitbox included, instead of spawning a copy and hiding you under it (#30, #4).
• Stockpile (#16), Lava Plume (#38) and Absorb (#32) joined earlier on.
• Same-move teachers (optional) — any Pokémon knowing an HM's namesake move can teach it (#12).
• Strength pushes in six directions and moves double chests as one unit, contents intact (#5).
• Big fix-and-feel pass: Dive (#26), Rock Climb (#27), Waterfall (#18), Glide (#29), Explosion (#24), Charm (#25), Magnet Rise (#19), Dig (#23), and free single-block Cut/Rock Smash (#3).
• Bullet Seed no longer crashes (#21). Ember lights campfires (#20), Rain Dance actually rains (#22), Burning Bulwark scorches nearby blocks (#28), and right-clicking a chest opens it instead of firing your HM (#17).
• HMs tell you why they didn't fire — cooldown, hunger, wrong target — instead of doing nothing.
• Toggles no longer double up. Jump, Rollout, Dive and Harden work through attributes rather than status effects, so the HM entry is the only one you see. Hiding the icon was never enough — the inventory lists every effect regardless.
• The Trainer Ditto's IVs are a setting — from rolled like any wild Ditto, through one guaranteed best stat, up to flawless.

🐛 Fixed

• Rock Climb climbs again. It only ever clung to walls like a web: it watched the forward movement key, which a server never receives unless you are riding something, so the climb branch could not fire. Look up to climb, sneak or look down to descend, look level to hold on.
• Waterfall stops at the surface instead of launching you out of the water and into the sky.
• Charge powers the block instead of replacing it. It used to swap in a redstone block and put the original back — so charging a furnace briefly deleted it, and anything with contents was refused. Now the block stays exactly what it is and simply answers as a power source.
• Substitute no longer duplicates your gear. The decoy copied your armour and held item onto an armour stand, which could then be broken for a second set — backpacks included. It now wears your skin and carries nothing.
• The Trainer Ditto is finally the right height to talk to. Entity ray-tracing is done by the client, and the client never got the disguise hitbox, so its head was not clickable.
• Strength moves containers properly again. A moved block entity kept the coordinates of where it used to be, which broke it and every later push of the same chest.
• Sweet Scent actually spawns a crowd, beside you and made of what lives around you. It used the world heightmap to place them, so underground or indoors the horde appeared far off at the surface.
• Stockpile's lava gulp hurts properly — 3.5 hearts, up from half a heart.

🔧 Changed

• Kotlin incremental compilation is off. It failed repeatedly while Gradle still reported success, shipping jars missing synthetic classes that crashed the server and looked exactly like code bugs.

[1.2.9] - 2026-08-07

Fixed

• A disguise now has the shape it looks like. The Trainer Ditto stood at head height but kept a Ditto's knee-high hitbox, so you had to aim at its feet to trade with it. Camouflage got the same treatment: wear a Wailord and you take up a Wailord's room (#15).
• Throwing a Poké Ball at the Trainer Ditto drops the costume, so it is a Ditto being sucked into the ball rather than a trainer standing there unbothered while the ball wobbles.

[1.2.8] - 2026-08-07

Added

• The Trainer Ditto wears a player skin. Four faces ship with it and each trader picks one from its own identity, so it keeps the same face while it stands there. Drop more PNGs into textures/entity/trainer_ditto/ and they join the rotation on their own — masculine and feminine share one pool, because a Ditto has no gender (#15).
• A shiny trader is a genuinely shiny Ditto, rolled at Cobblemon's own odds, and it wears the shiny skin. The sparkle does not survive capture: what lands in your party looks like any other Ditto.
• /dittohm trader spawn shiny [player] forces one, the only sane way to see that skin without waiting out 1-in-8192.

[1.2.7] - 2026-08-07

Added

• The HM wheel's disc size is adjustable in the config screen, 50%–200%. A wheel holding three HMs wants bigger discs than one holding twenty.

Fixed

• HM Discs could not be learned. Right-clicking one did nothing at all: the activator was swallowing the click before the disc ever saw it, so the disc was never consumed and the HM never learned. Right-click learns again; left-click still fires a learned disc.
• The Trainer Ditto's stall was empty for anyone who already knew an HM. Opening the trade screen never sent the offers themselves, so it came up blank — the free starter disc worked only because it is handed over directly rather than sold.
• The Trainer Ditto looks like a trader, not like a plain Ditto standing in a field.
• The free starter disc no longer also sits on the table with a price on it.

[1.2.6] - 2026-08-07

Fixed

• /dittohm trader spawn took the server down. Summoning a Trainer Ditto threw NoSuchMethodError and killed the server tick loop. Five more of the same fault were waiting behind it — the trader despawning, fleeing, being looked up, and being named would each have crashed in turn (#15).

[1.2.5] - 2026-08-07

Added

• Trainer Ditto keeps its distance from anyone who has already caught one. Word gets around: it runs from you the way a creeper runs from a cat, on foot, so a friend can still walk up and trade while you hang back (#15).
• /dittohm trader spawn [player] summons one on demand, and /dittohm trader forget [player] undoes a catch so it will visit again.
• /dittohm learn <ability> [player] teaches an HM outright, no disc needed.

Changed

• Every player-facing command now takes an optional [player] — give, learn, select, forget, forget_all and both trader actions. An operator can run the whole set on someone else without logging in as them.

[1.2.4] - 2026-08-07

✨ Added

• The Trainer Ditto visits. A rare wanderer that lays out five random HM Discs, each priced at nothing but that HM's own trigger item — no emeralds, no haggling. Right-click it to see the stall. Its IVs are perfect, and if you have not learned a single HM yet it hands you your first disc for free, once ever, so the trigger items stop being a chicken-and-egg problem.
• It really is a Ditto: throw a Poké Ball and you catch it like any other. Do that and it never seeks you out again — you already have yours. Rarity, how long it stays and whether it comes at all are configurable in the config screen and under /dittohm config trader (#15).

[1.2.3] - 2026-08-07

🔧 Changed

• Camouflage really turns you into the creature now. You are the mob: your model is replaced by it, matching its variant and its gear. Before, an inert copy was spawned on top of you and you were made invisible underneath — which meant a second real creature stood in the world, could be hit, blocked doorways, and trailed a tick behind you. Nothing is spawned any more, and the disguise cannot be killed off you (#30).

[1.2.2] - 2026-08-07

✨ Added

• Lava Plume — 27th active HM. Waterfall's twin for lava: ride a rising current to the surface of a pool, without burning on the way up or as you climb out. Learned from a Magcargo, Slugma or Turtonator with a Magma Cream (#38).
• Absorb — 11th toggle HM. Loose items on the ground drift toward you while it is on. Learned from a Gulpin, Swalot or Victreebel with a Hopper (#32).
• A keybind for every HM, in Options → Controls → Cobblemon Ditto HMs. All unbound by default — bind the two or three you reach for constantly and leave the rest to the wheel. A keybind always works, whatever is in your hand and wherever you are looking.

🔧 Changed

• Your HMs now tell you why they didn't fire. Cooldown left, hunger short, aiming at nothing, not in water, not off the ground — each says so on the action bar with a short thud, instead of silently doing nothing.
• Toggle HMs no longer double up in the HUD. The HM icon is the only badge a toggle shows; the vanilla effect behind it (Dolphin's Grace, Night Vision, Resistance…) stays hidden, and a visible instance left over from an earlier session is replaced rather than kept.

[1.2.1] - 2026-08-07

✨ Added

• Substitute — 26th active HM. Leaves a decoy of you standing where you were, wearing your head and your armour, and hostile creatures already hunting you go for it instead. Learned from a Wobbuffet, Mew or Smeargle with an Armor Stand (#31).
• You choose how HMs fire. Two settings in the config screen (Mod Menu on Fabric) and under /dittohm config activator:
• Activator item — an empty hand, the HM Case, or either. The empty hand costs you punching and hand-mining while an HM is selected; the Case costs a hotbar slot and leaves your fist alone.
• Activator button — left-click, right-click, or either.
• The HM Case is back, now purely as an activator: it holds nothing and manages nothing, so any Case is every Case and one is all you will ever need. Craftable as before.

🔧 Changed

• The wheel only shows HMs you have learned. No more hunting for your three abilities among 35 slivers — with a handful learned, each one gets a wide, easy segment.

🐛 Fixed

• Fly and Magnet Rise did nothing. Both are used looking at open sky, and the vanilla client only tells the server about a click when a block or entity is in reach — so the HM was never reaching the server at all. Aiming at nothing now works, with either button.
• Strength duplicated a container's contents. Pushing a chest spilled its inventory onto the floor and carried the same items along inside the block. The chest now arrives with its contents and nothing is left behind.

[1.2.0] - 2026-08-07

A big pass over how you reach your HMs, plus a fix-and-feel sweep across most of them.

✨ Added

• The HM Wheel — press H (rebindable) for a radial selector holding every HM you know: the 25 actives on the outer ring, the 10 toggles on the inner one, each tinted by the type of the move it is named after. Hold the key and release on a slot, or tap to pin the wheel open and click. Picking a toggle switches it on or off; the centre clears your selection (#14).
• Stockpile — 25th active HM. Drinks up the water or lava you aim at, though lava burns going down. Learned from a Gulpin or Swalot with a Sponge (#16).
• Same-move teachers (optional, off by default) — any Pokémon whose moveset holds an HM's namesake move can teach it, on top of the curated species (#12).

🔧 Changed

• The HM Case is gone. Nothing to craft, nothing to carry — learn an HM and it is in your wheel. Your selection is per player, so it survives death and relogging.
• Active HMs fire on a left-click with an empty main hand. Anything in your hand keeps its normal left-click, so tools mine and weapons swing as before — and right-clicking a chest or door opens it instead of firing your HM (#17). While an HM is selected a bare-handed click fires it rather than punching; clear the selection from the wheel's centre to get your fist back.
• New disc art — every HM Disc is the Scarlet/Violet TM disc for its move's type, with the trigger item set into the bottom of the face. Toggle HUD icons are the same disc, so wheel, inventory and hotbar all match.
• Strength pushes in any of the six directions you look, and moves double chests as one unit — both halves travel together, or the push fails. Contents are preserved (#5).
• Dive is a proper scuba suit: water breathing, Dolphin's Grace and full underwater stride speed. The forced sinking is gone (#26).
• Rock Climb is ladder-like — hold forward to climb, sneak to descend, idle to cling (#27).
• Waterfall raises a soul-sand-style bubble column that carries you to the surface (#18).
• Cut slices bamboo and wood blocks in one swing, keeping the whole-tree cascade for trees. Leafage bonemeals everything in range and sprouts grass and flowers.
• A single-block Cut or Rock Smash is free; you only pay hunger when the whole-tree or whole-vein effect fires (#3).
• Explosion now has a 1-in-10 chance of being fatal instead of always leaving you at 1 HP (#24).
• Charm reaches about a block and plays a sweet chime (#25).
• Magnet Rise cooldown drops to 5s so it chains with its own effect (#19).
• Dig no longer grants Haste — it breaks the block you aim at and nothing more (#23).
• /dittohm select <ability> needs no item in your hotbar; /dittohm select none clears it.

🐛 Fixed

• Bullet Seed crashed on first use, then fired arrows. It fires seeds now (#21).
• Camouflage actually disguises you as a creature: aim at a mob in clear view and an inert copy of it, matching its variant and gear, mirrors your every move. Before, it only turned you invisible. It is creature-only — a block, a wall or empty air does nothing (#4).
• Glide only engages after you have been dropping a couple of blocks, so a normal jump is no longer hijacked (#29).
• Ember lights campfires and soul campfires, like flint and steel (#20).
• Rain Dance sets the weather in your own dimension, so it actually rains (#22).
• Burning Bulwark also scorches the odd block beside you while it is up (#28).
• Charm, Leafage, Stockpile and Thunder discs showed the missing-texture checker instead of their trigger item.
• Learned and enabled HMs used 32-bit masks, so past 32 abilities the newest collided with the oldest — Glide and Burning Bulwark shared bits with Water Gun and Leafage.

[1.1.0] - 2026-06-21

✨ Added

• Burning Bulwark — 10th toggle HM (learn from a Gouging Fire with a Blaze Rod). Grants fire immunity and a thorns aura that scorches hostile mobs that get close. Blocks 4 hunger.
• Per-toggle HUD icons — each enabled toggle shows its own HM status-effect icon, so it's obvious which toggles are on. Underlying vanilla effects have their icons hidden.
• Particles & sounds for every HM use and toggle on/off.
• HM Discs now use custom TM-style disc art (gold "HM" rim + type-coloured ring) with the trigger item as the centre symbol.

🔧 Changed

• Fly no longer equips an Elytra — it requires Glide to be learned, auto-enables Glide, and launches you skyward (re-use mid-air for a firework-style boost).
• Glide now uses real Elytra gliding (no more Slow Falling).
• Mean Look now makes hostile mobs flee with pathfinding (like creepers from a cat); it never affects Pokémon, friendly mobs, or players.
• Rock Climb reworked — look at a wall to climb, sneak to descend.
• Cut now also fells vines.
• Dive sink tuned so it no longer fights swimming.
• HM Case — disc icons, drag-and-drop reordering, sections separated without spacer panes, and ability descriptions shown in tooltips.
• Rewrote all ability descriptions to say what each HM does (no Minecraft buff names).

🐛 Fixed

• Corrected several wrong ability descriptions (Leafage, Rock Smash, Rototiller, Waterfall, Dig, Defog, Revival Blessing, Strength).
• Fixed missing disc overlay textures for block/shield trigger items (Sunny Day, Harden, etc.).

[1.0.0] - 2026-06-20

Initial release. 33 Pokopia-inspired HM abilities (24 active + 9 toggles) for Cobblemon, multiloader (Fabric + NeoForge).

🧬 Core systems

• HM Discs — learn an ability by right-clicking its disc; the disc remains as a reusable badge.
• Acquisition — obtain a disc by holding an ability's trigger item and sneak + right-clicking one of its unlock Pokémon. Which Pokémon/item unlocks each HM is intentionally not shown in-game — it's documented only in the wiki.
• HM Case — craftable hotbar item; right-click uses the active HM, shift-right-click opens a management GUI. Slots use each ability's trigger item as an icon; shift+click reorders HMs within a section.
• Hunger — active HMs cost hunger on use; toggles block food points from your max while enabled.
• Per-ability config — hunger / cooldown / power / hungerBlock via /dittohm config and the Cloth Config screen (Fabric, through Mod Menu).

⚡ Active HMs (24)

Water Gun, Leafage, Cut, Rock Smash, Rototiller, Camouflage, Strength, Waterfall, Magnet Rise, Ember, Bullet Seed, Teleport, Fly, Rain Dance, Sunny Day, Rest, Dig, Explosion, Thunder, String Shot, Defog, Crabhammer, Revival Blessing, Charm.

• Camouflage morphs you into the block or entity in your crosshair (5 min).
• Magnet Rise is airborne-only and grants Levitation II + Slow Falling for 5s.
• Charm makes a targeted mob follow you for 2 minutes.

🔄 Toggle HMs (9)

Jump (Jump Boost IV), Surf (Dolphin's Grace), Rollout (Speed), Dive (Water Breathing + sink), Flash (Night Vision), Rock Climb (all blocks act as ladders), Mean Look (repel mobs), Harden (full diamond armour, blocks 3 hunger), Glide (elytra-like glide physics, no item).

⌨️ Commands

/dittohm use|list|select, plus operator give|config|reset_all|learn_all|forget|forget_all.

🧩 Multiloader

Fabric and NeoForge shipped as one Modrinth version.