When this was setup, it was named generically
in order to support future functionality that
used the same heating/tempering/annealing
mechanics. Ironically this has actually only
caused problems.
Standard game mechanics will not mimic one
another, especially something this complex.
Anything worth making a system for nodecore
that's as complex as lode-working deserves its
own distinct mechanics rather than recycling
lode-working. So vanilla NC will not reuse the
metal-working logic anyway.
Mods were able to reuse the existing logic, but
ironically the only one mod that would actually
have benefitted from it (i.e. uses very similar
heating/tempering/annealing) just copied and
pasted the code from NodeCore anyway, which
not only didn't take advantage of the existing
mechanic provided, but actually made the mod
break the game when installed, because the
mod would replace functionality in use by
vanilla with an older version, and the copying
will always keep that functionality locked in to
an older version, breaking whenever future
changes to the base mechanic are made.
Rename the base mechanic to (1) get out of
the way of the existing mod, and (2) make it
more clear that this is NOT generic functionality
that can be used to create new metals, but
only specifically for lode, and if somebody else
wants a clone of this logic, they would need to
rename it to make sense.
Lenses enter a "glowing" state to propagate signal
immediately as before, but now they don't actually
produce light until powered steadily for 2 seconds.
This should mitigate the risk of "strobe" circuits that
cause excess lighting recalculations and irritate some
sensitive players.
- Retire items_fall_thru group
- Add on_settle_item callback
- Open-topped storeboxes automatically capture
items settling on top of them
- Start converting form into storebox
