Falling nodes themselves are too unstable, so players should not
be encouraged to build machines that perpetually put nodes into
that state and destabilize the game. Testing has led to some node
duplication exploits.
Leave the door operatoin rate nerf in place, though, since it will
help keep a lid on traffic.
- Inhibit sponge colony growth beyond a maximum size. Players
will have to prune colonies (or, smarter yet, split them) to
grow more sponges.
- Allow sponge colony transplantation. Sponges near the "core"
of a colony (i.e. surrounded by more sponges) are more viable
and more able to survive the player's crude harvesting.
- Make some adjustments to player entity location finding.
- Genericize crush damage logic to apply to item entities too.
- Item ents cause only 20% crushing damage.
When a leaf node is displaced by crushing by a falling node,
instead of ejecting an item, try to place the node itself within
a reasonable distance.
This shoudl reduce the number of stack nodes generated from tree
canopy decay, and should alleviate the inconsistency of leaves
falling sometimes as nodes and sometimes as stacks.
- Make handhold nodes glow, to visually simulate the player
character's now "familarity" with them by feel. We have to
represent it synesthetically because the game only gives us
sight and sound to work with.
- Make floors "scalable" so that they glow, even though they
don't affect maneuverability.
The effect of this is to allow a player who has fallen into a dark
cavern to navigate, slowly, by feel, allowing more extensive
self-rescue possibilities.
Stone, lode, and lux tools now all have their handles burn, and
eject the non-flammable portions of the tool.
Now using a unified on_ignite hook for when flammable things catch
fire. The call is made BEFORE the node is replaced, and has an
opportunity to look at node metadata and eject anything
non-flammable.
It can be a function, e.g. for shelves, or a static value in the
same format that the function would return (e.g. for lode tools
which need string values for temper substitutions).
If it returns a string or itemstack, it will eject that from the
position where the node burned. If it returns a table it will
eject all the values of that table.
Comb through issues. Shelve some of them. Fix a couple.
Add some ideas and reorganize/recombine others.
Lux tools should infuse in any open container, so shelves should
work fine too.
