All the scaling factors are now either in the plant table or the
crops.settings table. This makes end-user tuning a bit harder, but
switching easier and configuring easier as well.
Adding some code to handle double sized plants easily. The
watering can now redirects water to the bottom, and the hydrometer
reads the bottom half water value instead of the top. No ABM's for
hydration happen on the top half, so no risk of double damage there.
This allows a server admin to tweak the mods growth rate, chance
and required light level. For convenience I've made 3 sets of
"easy", "normal" and "difficult" settings so that it's easy to
understand what the difference is and what good starting values
are.
- Globally use the same across all veggies
- use a shorter ABM, with lower chance
I don't like the fact that if you have 100 plants, then half of them
will ALL change phase every 90 seconds. It's just very unnatural. By
changing the rate/chance proportionally, plants still grow about as
fast (~1200secs for 90% growth rate to 5 phases), but there will be
less abrupt changes and no massive block updates, just small amounts
at a time. Yes, more ABM's will fire, but that's unlikely a load that
it won't be able to handle.
Corn plants are 2 blocks high, and yield corn cobs. These can be
cooked to corn-on-the-cob, or processed to make corn seed (corn
kernels, basically).
Digging a mature plant yields the corn cob. A harvested corn plant
"wilts", and needs to be dug away to make the land usable, or can
be left as ornamental 2-block plant. Digging either top or bottom
block works in all cases, although I need to verify that I've
covered every block combo.
