It seems that when we access metadata too rapidly
it pulls data out of order or something, so that the
player damage time stuff is unstable, and healing can
start immediately, or more than 8 seconds later.
Caching this stuff manually seems to work around the
issue, and it seems that the metadata system is at
least EVENTUALLY consistent, so it's still good for
long-term use or across world unloads.
- Player hp_max is 8 now, so most injuries will block
a whole slot each time.
- Player can be reduced to 1 slot, not 2. The 2 slots
was from back in the day when players needed to go
to the surface to heal faster, to help them get up
there. Now the 1 slot is only needed in case the
player is trapped in fire or something.
- Damage effects now don't stop playing just because
the player has reached maximum injury, and healing
is also delayed by continued injury.
Reinterpreting the grass side as a mask instead of a texture
causes some really ugly artifacts with texture packs designed for
legacy textures and not overriding this.
Renaming the texture prevents the collision, and creates a sane
fallback for texture packs that don't have an override.
Many of the textures replaced in this update were original textures
from the start of NodeCore, meant as placeholders, but which nobody
ever got around to officially replacing. A lot of these textures have
gotten a lot of criticism, and they're becoming a distraction.
The new textures aren't necessarily spectacular (they're the result of
a couple days of work instead of a couple of hours) but hopefully they
will bring the old artwork up to a more current standard, which can
be maintained consistently throughout the game.
Some liberties were taken, such as completely reinventing the image
of lode from a chrome-like shiny grey metal to something dull, rusty,
and more iron-like.
A lot of the new textures, particularly natural terrain, are smoother
and flatter, which should make them somewhat less distracting.
