The Shooting Star Addition [SX-01 Solar Flare]

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# The Shooting Star: SX-01 Solar Flare

An unofficial, fan-made add-on for [The Shooting Star [Demo]](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-shooting-star-demo) by rimuru_dev. It adds a new skill to the Stellar Remote: SX-01 · Solar Flare.

## ⚠️ Early testing

This mod is still in early testing. Things might look off, break or behave strangely, so please report any bugs in the comments, ideally with a screenshot, a clip or your logs/latest.log file. It supports Fabric (1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.3), Forge (1.20.1, 1.21.1) and NeoForge (1.20.1, 1.21.1). Pick the file for your loader.

## SX-01 · Solar Flare

Flip the cover, press the button, and the camera takes off in one unbroken flight. It climbs into the sky and zooms straight into Minecraft's sun until the whole screen burns with it. Then it pulls back, the square sun transforms into the real, round Sun, and the title writes itself out in glowing strokes. The camera circles the Sun a full 360°, flies in to its edge where arches of plasma twist and snap, and a solar flare erupts. It chases the flare back across space to Earth and dives through the atmosphere in a burst of fire.

Back home, the sky burns red and auroras ripple overhead. Then the Sun itself lashes down: a writhing whip of plasma, or at night, one that tears out of a burning rift in the sky. It ploughs a molten trench across your view, straight through your crosshair. Where it crosses the mark, the ground erupts into a lava crater and a burning shock wave rolls out over the land.

- One continuous cutscene from the ground into the sun, around it, and back, skippable with the remote's cutscene key like the original skills
- Impact frames in the style of the original mod on the eruption, the touchdown and the blast
- A title card written out in glowing strokes, and an Earth drawn from the original mod's own images
- By day the whip comes straight out of the sun, by night from a rift in the sky
- The trench is floored with magma, obsidian, blackstone and basalt, glowing with molten cracks that slowly cool
- The eruption leaves a lava crater and throws, burns and hurts whatever stands past it
- An original soundtrack timed to the cutscene, plus original sound effects
- Everything in the trench and the crater is erased, you too if you stand there in survival. Creative players are safe

## How to use

1. Hold the Stellar Remote and press B, or press H and pick SX-01 · Solar Flare in the menu
2. Aim at the ground and right-click
3. Adjust the three sliders like on the original skills: Power (size), Damage (up to ∞, which erases) and Speed
4. Cooldown is 90 seconds. In survival, aim at least about 55 blocks away (more at higher Power)

You can change the key in Controls or from the remote's menu. The music follows your Music volume slider.

## Before you cast

- It permanently changes your world, so back up any world you care about
- Photosensitivity warning: flashes, impact frames and strong screen shake

## Settings

- Impact frames can be turned off by adding -Dsolarflare.noImpactFrames=true to your Java arguments (in the CurseForge app: profile settings → Java arguments)

## Known issues

- On 26.3, The Shooting Star can crash when firing if "Improved Transparency" (or the Fabulous graphics preset) is on. Turn it off in Video Settings
- Older Minecraft versions (1.20.1, 1.21.1) run the effects noticeably slower than 26.3. The original Shooting Star skills do too, so it's the older game versions, not this add-on

## Requirements

- Fabric: Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.11 or 26.3 (Fabric Loader 0.15+), plus Fabric API
- Forge or NeoForge: Minecraft 1.20.1 or 1.21.1 (no Fabric API)
- Java 17 for 1.20.1, Java 21 or newer for the other versions
- [Fabric API](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fabric-api) for your Minecraft version
- [The Shooting Star [Demo]](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-shooting-star-demo) 1.5.0 or newer
- [Rimulib](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/rimulib) 1.2.2 or newer
- For multiplayer, install it on the server and on every client

## Compatibility

- Tested with The Shooting Star 1.5.0 (26.3 Hotfix) and 1.5.2 on Fabric, Shooting Star 1.5.2 Forge and NeoForge
- Works alongside [The Shooting Star Addition](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-shooting-star-addition) and [SS-21 Quasar](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-shooting-star-addition-ss-21-quasar), and all of their skills stay on the remote
- It joins the remote through Rimulib's add-on system instead of The Shooting Star's internals, so it should keep working with newer versions of The Shooting Star. If it ever can't attach, it switches itself off and logs why instead of crashing

## Coming later

- Fixes and polish based on your feedback

## Credits

The Shooting Star, the Stellar Remote and Rimulib are by rimuru_dev. Please support the original! This add-on is not affiliated with or endorsed by them, and contains none of the original mod's code or assets. You need the original mod installed for it to do anything.