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It’s a nature update!
I've reworked all the trees.
Olive, banana, cocoa tree and coconut palm got new looks.
Every tree has its own trunk and leaves now. Previously, many trees had to share their trunk, which caused problems.
There is a new pear tree. Currently, it is very similar to the apple tree but it will gain some differences in future updates (I hope). The jungle tree will become the kaki tree bearing the kaki fruit.
All trees bear fruit or catkin, but not everything is edible.
The coconut now comes with an outer green shell, you must remove it first to get the large seed.
You can make chocolate from cocoa and coconut milk from coconuts.
Every tree species now has a "small" version that grows when a sapling does not have enough space to grow.
Flower and plant pots got an upgrade. Put seed in flower pot, and they grow, but not much further. Great to farm saplings. The flower pot now supports many extra plants.
The behavior of moss and vines was improved and is somewhat more realistic, but work on that is not finished.
Iron now got its own ingot and no longer smelts to steel. To get steel, you must craft a steel lump first.
Behind the scenes, more code reorganization happened to follow convention, but I made sure to maintain backwards compatibility. (See DEVELOPERS.md to read about my promises.) If any node or item became unknown, this is a bug, please report it!
A new era …
With this release begins a new era of Hades Revisited. The previous releases mostly focused on cleanup (because there was a LOT of technical debt) and there wasn’t really a direction. I am glad this phase is (mostly) over.
Now, I have finally put together a rough roadmap for this game, with many milestones, each with a single important topic. This helps me keep motivated and focused, instead of touching the game all over the place and never get anything done.
Thie game is now officially in Milestone 1: Plants and Nature. Here, I want to add a complete set of plants I (probably) want to see in the final game, and also complete the plant growth mechanics, so that everything works nicely together. This tree update was a first step, but more is to come.
I’ve decided the vegetation aspect of this game is probably the most important gameplay thing in the game, even more important than mining. This is the part to which all other concepts (mining, research, trading, decoration) will relate to. So I want to get this one right early.
In Milestone 2, I plan to do a research system. Here, I want to develop a progression system for the vegetation. You no longer have just a large cluster of plant species you can just craft, but instead have to progress through the species to progressively unlock more via research, from primitive to complex.
I have very high ambitions for this game, so wish me luck! :D
Highlights
- Full tree rework: New kaki tree and pear tree, every tree bears fruit, new tree shapes for existing trees
- No more generic "common trees" and "jungle trees" are over (renamed to apple/kaki)
- Plant pot now grows seeds and supports more plants
- Flower pot support more plants, and better
- Better moss spread
- Less erratic vine rot
- Add iron ingot and various related blocks and items
- No compatibility has been broken for the mods listed in DEVELOPERS.md (I hope)
- Various items and nodes got reorganized (aliases have been provided for every item and node)
- Olive, coconut and banana bud, flower and leaves now will only survive near their (new) matching tree trunk (so existing such trees will likely die because they used the "default" tree trunk/leaves)
- Mod renamed: 'gluncarp' to 'hades_carpets'
- Mod renamed 'columnia' to 'hades_columnia'
- Mod renamed 'creative' to 'hades_creative'
- Mod renamed 'signs_lib' to 'hades_signs'
- Removed function: 'creative.is_enabled_for' (use core.is_enabled_for instead)
- 'columnia' functions renamed to 'hades_columnia'
- Removed table lamp (replaced with rusty lantern)
- Cultivated jungle tree removed, is now kaki tree
- IF ANYTHING BROKE FOR YOU, PLEASE REPORT
- PLEASE REPORT ANY UNKNOWN NODES AND ITEMS
Nature updates:
- Add pear tree
- Add leaves and tree trunk for: Cocoa, coconut, banana
- Redesigned tree shapes: cocoa, coconut and banana
- Add canvas fruit, bland fruit (pale tree), birch catkin
- The jungle tree is now the kaki tree and bears kaki fruit
- Cultivated jungle tree removed (will become kaki tree)
- Renamed "common" tree trunk/leaves/bark to apple tree trunk/leaves/bark
- Cocoa and coconut seeds are now craftable
- Moss spread now supports any shape of stone, cobblestone and tuff (normal block, stair, slab, step, wall, columnia)
- Screwdriver no longer rotates flowering and rotten vines
- Vines now rot from the top if the top vine is no longer sustained
- Vines no longer spawn at pale leaves
- Vines block crafting needs more vines and they must be alive
- Vines block now prevents vine rot
- Coconut sapling now also grows on fertile sand
- Birch leaves now turn orange in fall
- Plant pot now grows tree seeds, bush seeds, grass seeds, flower seeds and sugarcane seeds (limited growth)
- Flower pots now support young grass, young garden bush, sugarcane, rotten sugarcane, rotten cactus
- Leaves in flower pots now change with the seasons
- Tree saplings may grow to small trees if space is limited)
- Cactus fig can now be cut by shears
- Now only coconut bud, coconut flower and olive flower may drop sticks (rare)
- Add iron ingot, iron rod, iron tools, iron block, iron bars, iron bar door, iron bar trapdoor
- Steel ingot recipe changed: Melt steel lump in furnace (steel lump = 2 iron lumps + 1 coal lump)
- Some recipes that used steel now use iron instead
- Add chocolate bar (3 cocoa beans + 1 sugar)
- Add coconut milk (1 coconut seed + 1 glass bottle)
- New armchair models and textures (from lrfurn mod)
- New table and chair models
- Removed table lamp (will become rusty lantern)
- Signs: Display replacement character if missing in font
- Fancy new death screen, shows death reason
- Make selected hotbar slot and minimap outline green
- New lava cooling behavior
- Generate less bedrock at the world bottom
- Can no longer set respawn position in simulation
- Jumps now make player hungry
- Sneaking makes player less hungry than walking
- Various changed textures
- Tooltip updates
- Add various item groups for better organization
- Water and lava lakes generate slightly faster
- Fix crash when using fertilizer on dirt with grass sometimes
- Fix sky not updating if day was changed with `/time` command
- Can no longer set spawn position in simulation
- Fix broken escaping of '#' character in signs
- Fix out-of-bounds texture writing in signs
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EDIT: There was an error in the 0.19.0 release, so I re-released this version as 0.19.1. No changes in the game itself.