Exact cage art and canonical portal travel — October 18, 2026

The v96j2 complete native server and muted client pass with 1,211 complete source recipes and all inherited original sources. Six spawner cages now use their exact original owner PNGs, replacing the earlier generic texture binding. The real client checks every original PNG hash, all six faces and sprites, native cutout layers and six GPU draws. The complete eight-draw living/banner cohort includes Mega Guardian's 864 vertices. This is native rendering/resource evidence, not pixel-level visual equivalence.

All 22 existing canonical portals retain their actual native destination and teleporter. Twenty-one complete entity round trips preserve UUID and Forge extension data, honor non-player configuration and cooldown, and exercise discovered portal caches. Nowhere retains its specialized fixed lobby and player-only entry. Native cache insertions now use the requested chunk key and immutable coordinates, fixing block/chunk and wrong-axis mismatches. The first full test incorrectly expected Nowhere to use the generic frame cache; that failed run is retained and its specialized behavior is now checked explicitly.

Both independently compiled JARs have all 25,122 members compared byte for byte. Only the parsed main Implementation-Timestamp may differ. All inherited five-temple, 60-spawner, guardian/drop, 237-weapon and 270-projectile-save checks pass. Independent verifiers reject ten portal and eleven temple/projectile generated corrupt-result controls. Exact scoped counts and hashes publish no original payload.

The actual client master volume is zero before exercising content; original play settings are preserved. The normal test view was inspected with vanilla hearts. Current playable remains v93. Natural temple acquisition is a separate candidate: its first full run exposed the newer submerged Borean world's upper boundary, and its floor/ceiling adapter is under native verification. Player travel/UI, active-player encounters, full survival, current Hari, migration, multiplayer, representative performance and the entire historical/latest union remain open. The full-merge warning remains valid.