nodecore-cd2025/docs/roadmap.txt

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ROADMAP: Large New Development Projects
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- Import YCTIWY as part of the base game.
	- Setting to disable entirely
	- Setting to disable compact mode
	- Setting for fresh/stale like bones; items become accessible
	  only after time has passed since last login
	- Make the priv just to override any protections

- Shelf recipe reform
	- Add a "shelf frame" node made from wooden frames
	- Add appropriate material to shelf frame to make shelf
	- 2-stage construction should make it easier to discover
	- Shelf frame can gain its own distinct uses
		- e.g. some things can fall through it but not others.
		  Items?  Players?  Fluids?

- Should there be pockets of softer stone at depth, like there is gravel?

- Add recipe hints (prearranged nodes) to dungeons as decorations?

- Tree sap
	- Stumps with air above exude, become dry stumps.
	- Use as a glue/resin in recipes.
	- Make longer-life torches?
	- Stick optics in place to prevent rotating?

- Straw/thatch?

- Lode tongs?
	- Craft from bars/rods.
	- Pick up any item and embed in tongs itemstack.

- Domain Wall Sensor
	- Adapt from sztest?
	- Field Generator?
		- Power an annealed lode block from 2 opposite faces.
		- Generates particle effect at mapblock boundary.
	- Particle effect with lux fluid and/or cobble?
	- Create particle effect around player while carrying lux in
	  inventory?
		- Maybe only if the lux is higher activation tier?

- Easier recipe API:
	- Use ascii art like ezschematic?
	- Aliases like "sides"/"corners"?
	- Make 3x3 recipes easier to define.

- Should ash and derivatives have a fertilizing effect?
	- Maybe wet/tacky stuccos?

- Optic locking
	- Prevent accidental rotation.
	- Use tree sap / glue?
		- Make "glued" optic node?
		- Detect adjacent glue node?
	- Apply frame, make framed optics?
	- Hammer into place with certain tool?

- Make stone brick more easily crafted by chiseling with a high-tier
  pick, e.g. tier 7+

- Door Automation
	- Should have press recipes for stickcraft, i.e. staves,
	  frames, ladders.
	- Press tools (or tool heads) into nodes to activate other
	  pummel recipes like chopping.
		- Mount tool heads on frames to make machine tools?
	- Press recipes for digging.
		- If pushing a node (or toolhead backed by node) and there
		  is a climbable walkable behind it, or a storebox, dig the
		  node and push it through climable as catapult, or into
		  storebox if it fits.
	- Pressing stack of 1 node places it, instead of pummeling it.
	  Can pummel on the second push.
	- Should doors trigger place recipes when blocked?
	- Push players?
	- Need more door materials: lode, glasses

- Standardize visinv access API
	- stack_access(pos, node, dirfrom) - return booly
	  whether access to inside stack is allowed.
	- Use for shelf API.
	- Use for touchtips inv access.
	- Genericize sponge logic using stack_access API

- Lava rework:
	- Wandering fluids API for concrete, glass, lava?
		- Configurable setting for generation count multiplier.
	- Lava wandering.
		- Concentrations of lava should melt nearyby stone
			- Dependent on hardness of stone
		- Lava near fringes should spontaneously quench.

- Renewability Gap
	- Renewable but not generatable
		- Sponges: Sprout under water from peat+sand?
		- Lode
		- Lux
		- Water sources.
	- Sustainable but not renewable
	- Not sustainable
		- Lava sources.

- Threats
	- Visceral
		- Flammable/toxic gas?
		- Monsters: stone-lurkers, mimics.
			- Complex multi-node mimic that eats tools you try to dig it with,
			  stores them in core node(s) inside somewhere to be recovered.
		- Lightning, meteor strikes?
	- Creeping
		- Cellular automata hazards.
		- From exploration, delving too deep, leaving things to rot, etc.
		- Blights, Fungi
		- Termites, carpenter ants, other wood-eating inflictions?

- Lurk Ore
	- Moves freely among air-exposed stone while no player is looking.
	- Follows after player, attempting to cause harm.
		- Weakens nodes above/below player into falling nodes,
		  e.g. loose cobble, gravel?
		- Steals items from player, drops onto ground or absorbs them
		  into body?  Saps tool durability?
		- Ignites flammables it passes by?
		- Downgrades or absorbs ores nearby by contact or air floodfill?
		- Creates illusionary nodes you can fall through?
	- Cannot be dug or damaged directly.
		- Digging it yields plain stone, but converts up to 2
		  surrounding stone nodes into Lurk.
	- Need to dig all around it so it cannot move, then apply Some
	  time-integrated process to convert it to useful form.

- New materials to craft with.
	- Dungeon materials, stonework?
	- Decorations for dungeons
	- Small plants? Reeds? Mallows?
	- Sea stars, anenome, coral, other underwater things?
	- Fungi, esp. tree-destroying ones, blight?
	- Oil, natural gas?  Fossils and fossil fuels?
	- Geode, hydra crystals, radioactives?
	- Shipwrecks or alien tech
	- Slow-moving animals? Snails? Miniature spice worms?
	- Non-portable things, like "spawners" or wormholes
	- Tubers and taproots, cacti, and other "defensive" plantlife
	- Plant-like CA animals, like bee nests and clouds of bees?
	  Termine mounds? Ant colonies? Coral?
	- Popeggcorn?
	- Ores that smelt via heating and then rapid quenching?
	- Things that cannot ever be dug, and must be moved only
	  by in-world machinery?

- Vary player walking speed based on nodes under feet?

- Visual "craft guide" system?
	- Build a 3x3 work space out of wood/logs, place center node
	  last and it will convert to a workbench node.
	- Workbench node will scan for potential recipe matches
	  centered on the space above based on what's present
	  and matches at least 1 non-air node, picks one.
	- Create display "ghost" entities representing items that
	  can be placed to complete the recipe.

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