Rename it to "lode" so that its relationship with the more familiar
iron element is less direct, to maintain a higher baseline level of
suspension of disbelief.
Also restructure the way ores work in general, especially with
respect to normal stone. Natural ore deposits are stone with a
texture overlaid. Cobbled ore is the same ore "stain" texture with
alpha stripped and cobbles drawn over it. Normal cobble is now
basically what "gravel ore" would look like. This should allow
us to get a more consistent ore appearance with fewer textues.
- There are now 6 degrees of embers. Better fuel sources will
make better embers.
- Embers differ only in lifespan; each class lasts twice as long
as the previous. Top-grade fuels may last 15 minutes or
longer.
- Embers decay stochastically.
- Embers decay 16x as fast when smothered, but still go through
the same lifecycle.
Also:
- Plain ash now reposes.
There are no infinite fuel sources, nor are any specifically
planned at this time.
Iron ore is distributed in sheets. The ore itself will not be
exposed to the air (or any other material other than stone) but
can be detected by the rusty tint it gives nearby rocks.
Iron ore is a stone that yields cobble infused with iron.
Smelting processes to produce steels are TBD.
There are 4 different states for things in the world:
- Regular node in world
- Item stack on ground
- Item entity (falling)
- Falling node entity
The entity states are not interactable at all, and regular node
doesn't rotate. We can help differentiate node-in-air vs
node-stack-on-ground with a shadow visual.
Sometimes a node will get stuck as an entity inside another node's
negative space (e.g. a nodebox) and having a way to tell that it's
not a real one should maybe help.
This actually makes it a little easier to start a fire, in case
the node we picked to send sparks to isn't flammable enough; the
fire here may last long enough that, depending on ABM timing,
nearby tinder may catch fire anyway.
- Clean up utils into multiple files.
- Standardize limited ABM.
- Standardize debug trace handling. Instead of using chat_send_all
to debug, and then having to remember to remove before release,
allow privileged players to receive all server debug messages.
Right-clicking with an item now by default places one as a stack
node. When placing this way, crafting detection applies.
Had to copy in a bit of code from builtin.
