Got through a bunch of mods, up next is optics.
- Try to use crafting recipes rather than resources as
the criteria for completing a hint.
- It's okay to use simple item observation for specific
cases of transient things like pliant concrete.
- It's also okay to still use simple observations for the
eligibility checks.
- Simple observation is also okay for naturally occuring
e.g. decay processes, like wilting flowers, as opposed
to crafts that need to be completed.
- Anvil API is a wrapper that registers multiple
recipes, one for each type of anvil allowed.
- Can now use smooth stone as an anvil, however
once it's been used it cracks, and once it's been
cracked, if it cools, it converts to cobble and cannot
be reused, forcing players to master concrete, keep
their forge hot, or relocate the forge each time it
cools.
Lock more things behind prerequisite hints, even if
they're not absolutely strictly necessary to complete
in that order, if they would commonly be done in
that order. This reduces players being overwhelmed
by available hints very early in the game, and avoids
red herrings like "find lux" which can technically be
accomplished but yields no useful results until the
player can act on them.
Hints themselves have not been tided up
much, but this makes the project of fixing the
hints for each mod a little more manageable
and breaks up the hard-to-navigate single
monolithic hints file in the old guide mod.
The old guide mod has now been completely
retired. Hints are now a full-fledged API-layer
standard feature.
