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(C) 2016 Auke Kok <sofar@foo-projects.org>
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Licensing Terms and Conditions
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==============================
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ATWT is licensed permissively, generally under the MIT-feh license
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(https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-feh.html) for all ATWT code
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components. Artwork is generally CC-BY-4.0.
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ATWT contains code and artwork that is borrowed from other mods and may
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be licensed under different license terms. You should confirm that your
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use of the code and artwork is compatible with these licenses. These
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licenses are stated in the subfolders and files of these components
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where relevant.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
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IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
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CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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A Tome With Trials
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==================
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A Tome With Trials is a `game` for Minetest, and a very special one,
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at that.
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Prologue
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========
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The land is lush with greens, the brown soil of the fields makes the
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grass shoot up knee high. It would be easy enough to live off the
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fruit and leave this landscape untouched, forever keeping it's beauty
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intact. But, you know you'd get settled eventually in a favorite spot
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in this Valhalla, this Eldorado, and do more than just sleep under the
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stars at night. Perhaps it's that nice cove overlooking the sunsets
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over the water, or the viewpoint upon the ridge back east that has
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the winter muttons grazing.
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No, this landscape demands a keeper. Someone who doesn't just take,
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but leaves a small but recognizable footprint. As friends come and go,
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they'll speak of this place with fondness, even years from now. Yes,
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it's a good day to get a head start before the sun stands high in
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the sky. Food. Wood. Dirt. Stone. That's how this place will be raised.
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You reckon, know even, that you'll have to get stock. The traders
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aren't anywhere near, and it's not the season to make the long trails
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without a large cache of food. Not that it's dangerous to go out. As
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long as you stay afar from any of the caves, but you suspect that
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the caves may be useful to get to metal ores. You've heard stories
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about folk getting lost in caves searching for ores.
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Then again, it's easier to go down the caves than up to the cloud
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rocks. You didn't believe the stories at first. It makes no sense
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anyway, rock mountains in the sky? But then, that one time, as you
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were gazing at the clouds in the warm summer fields, surrounded by
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the swaying wildflowers. It readily startled you, for sure. I mean,
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you've had a mutton lick you awake once when you dozed off, but this
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was a thundering thump! As you sat up to see what happened, you could
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see the brown dust cloud starting to settle just a few paces away. It
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was quite the sight, I mean, it left a small crater! Unsettling
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for sure. Of course, it was a very moist and tender lamb roast that
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evening, but you didn't tell any one of the event. Needless to say
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there was no other logical explanation that the poor mutton ihad
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fallen from a sky rock.
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Umpf. Enough day dreaming. First, let us get some breakfast, and
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then start construction of our abode!
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Anatomy of A Tome With Trials
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A Tome With Trials is a story addition to the open sandbox world that
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minetest creates. The story is not open ended, there is a deliberate
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end game scenario, but the world remains open ended as such. The
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player can choose to progress through the story elements, or play
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the game in the traditional sense.
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The story presents itself as a collection of books, each progressively
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offering the player hints. Some of these books contain simple stories,
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songs or even shopping lists, but there are some that speak of dangers,
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describe far places and magic like powers. As the player explores,
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they gradually uncover more knowledge of the world around them, and
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expose themselves to greater danger. This makes the game extremely
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suitable for both beginner players and experienced players.
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The end game encompasses an entire world changing event that
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permanently changes the world to a much more dangerous place,
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challenging the experienced player and offering a lasting experience
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to the player.
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A Tome With Trials is meant to be played alone. It is not intended
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nor suitable for unmoderated multiplayer gameplay, and as such, it
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contains elements and code that would likely not be performing well in
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a remote network situation. LAN gameplay, at best, should be possible.
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ATWT, for short, is not compatible with minetest_game, nor is it
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compatible with minetest mods that depend on features in minetest_game.
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This is intentional: While mods in general are easy to make compatible,
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the ATWT game is intentionally balanced to provide an increasingly
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difficult environment, and adding mods that add items and nodes to
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the game would drastically change that balance.
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For the very same reason, ATWT isn't compatible with minetest texture
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packs. Many of the basic nodes in ATWT are named completely different
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than their minetest_game equivalents.
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Licensing Terms and Conditions
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==============================
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ATWT is licensed permissively, generally under the MIT-feh license
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(https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-feh.html) for all ATWT code
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components. Artwork is generally CC-BY-4.0.
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ATWT contains code and artwork that is borrowed from other mods and may
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be licensed under different license terms. You should confirm that your
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use of the code and artwork is compatible with these licenses. These
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licenses are stated in the subfolders and files of these components
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where relevant.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
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IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
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CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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