While this makes scaling a little easier to do, it still doesn't
fix the fundamental problem of scaling being distracting and too
easy to trigger accidentally.
The "pummel" version of scaling caused some confusion when one
player accidentally triggered it trying to figure out how to get
lode out of lode ore. The current one triggers accidentally all
the time just from tabbing out of a game with it running (e.g. it
isn't paused in multiplayer) leaving the character staring at a
wall. While such a player WOULD have opportunity to find
handholds in the wall, we aren't differentiating between a player
who's scrutinizing a surface from one staring off into space.
The scaling needs to be made harder to trigger accidentally, like
reinstating the need for an empty hand. Using a right-click
action may also help distinguish it from pummelng recipes.
Removing this from the alpha branch so players don't get too
accustomed to this functionality and then have it change AGAIN.
This reverts commit 943604cf9588a316dce19e0a60a4219b52c4d905.
- Remove pummel recipes. Now find handholds just by
staring at a particular spot. Being closer or better focused
helps.
- Use only particles instead of a facedir node, so facedir
isn't a problem when adjacent to multiple walls/ceilings.
- Automatically upgrade "wall" climbing to "overhang" climbing
when a ceiling is present.
- 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.
- Move design principles back into docs (needs cleanup).
- New player-oriented README content.
- Clean up issue/wishlist docs a bit (some things are no longer
relevant).
