(READ DESC) SonicMechanics: Special Stages

Players build toward a Special Stage by collecting 50 rings and crafting an empty goal post, which they walk through to start a big ring spawn. Jumping into that ring transports the player to the special dimension. A stage starter item replaces the held item in the main hand and makes the stage playable. If it is dropped, a fallback removes it after 15 seconds without active play, so the stage cannot softlock the player. The retrieveitem command reclaims the replaced item after a stage is finished.

The stage set includes 14 Special Stages in total, 7 Blue Sphere stages and 7 Half Pipe stages. In the Blue Sphere stages the goal is to walk into blue spheres, which turn red after being collected and fail the stage when touched. Movement is close to the original Sonic 2 Special Stage. The mod requires Kleiders Custom Renderer API, SonicMechanics: Monitors and the Revamp in Progress build of SonicMechanics, and Just Enough Items (JEI) is optional.

The mod runs on Forge for 1.16.5 only, and the environment is client and server, so both the server and each player need it. The 0.0.1 beta file was published on 2024-07-09. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license and is not open source. The author has noted that development is discontinued and the mod is being merged into SonicMechanics.