nodecore-cd2025/docs/issues.txt

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ISSUES: Bugs, Cleanup and Refinements
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- Switch from deprecated depends.txt to mod.conf or whatever.

- Design principles doc is badly out of date, needs to reflect lessons
  learned and things observed about where the game is headed.

- Balance/nerf leaf composting rates.
	- Leaves decay and convert grass underneath into
	  dirt-with-peat if left in the sun.
	- Dig dirt-with-peat into dirt to retrieve a peat lump.
	- Pack 4 or 8 peat lumps into a peat node.
		- N.B. Average tree yield is 15 dry leaves, so conversion
		  is just barely sustainable at cost = 8.
	- Bury peat under dirt and moisture over time to compost to soil.
	- Maybe composted soil is richer, i.e. loam?
		- Registered as soil, can grow trees.
		- Maybe can grow other future cultivatables that won't
		  grow in plain dirt.

- Lode smelting changes.
	- Currently lode smelting is too counterintuitive.
	- Split recipe into 2 stages.
		- Heat lode to melt the metal inside.  Add a cobble
		  with molten lode node, and show metal pooling
		  more at the bottom of the node.
		- Have air space under molten lode for prills to
		  come out.
		- Molten lode cools back to lode cobble.

- Less cumbersome scaling controls.
	- Use loitering or staring, or some other passive input
	  instead of a pummel recipe.
	- Should hopefully make the process feel more natural.
	- Need multiple handholds (i.e. ceil+wall version) since
	  player no longer picks the surface.
	- With no death/respawn, and no fast-travel, we need to
	  buff player movement to balance that out.

- Hint system updates.
	- Need a "witness" system for spontaneous in-world processes,
	  such as tree growth or lode cooling.  Credit players within
	  a certain distance and line-of-sight.  
	- Feedback/issues URL?
		- Look for new URL buttons in 5.0+

- Stone doors don't necessarily dig right.  Probably leftover junk
  being inherited in the cloning; need to dig through the properties
  and remove the ones we don't want inherited.

- Reinstate and update toolbelt once engine PR #8701 is released
	- Alternative item strategy with dedicated slots for each
	  inventory space, which can be empty if in hand instead.
	- Consider a "backpack" approach as opposed to toolbelt.

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