Sponges grow way too slow for the new cultivation
mechanics. Extremely slow growth is no longer
necessary to prevent colony explosion due to the
introduction in gen2 of total colony size inhibition.
- Sponge mod now depends on optics/glass.
- Living sponges die to wet sponges rapidly in air.
- Living sponges are preserved by water, or a
water-tight container.
- Glass tanks with a watertight lid preserve sponges.
- Glass tanks inside a packed tote preserve sponges.
- Sponges have about a 2 second half-life in air.
The net effect is that capturing living sponges is no
longer a frustrating, probabilistic exercise, but now
transporting them involves significant technological and
problem-solving work.
If players are invisible, NodeCore will not add any visible or
audible effects for them, allowing such players to be completely
non-interactive with gameplay.
This allows things like spectator or stealth-admin mods to
function properly.
- Unbake the scaling tweak from models, apply it
using mesh scaling in MT instead.
- Standardize ratio definition in one place.
- Default all nodeboxes to winning z-fights.
Automatic z-fighting prevention was causing some
nodes to fail to connect to neighbors due to the tiny
gaps. Allow certain nodes to "win" the z-fight instead
so they also connect to neighbors properly.
We were assuming that falling_nodes would settle in an
orderly fashion and just calling the node placement code, but
not the displacement of old nodes.
Make sure that things aren't destroyed in the landing zone.
Instead of shuffling all the shells once for each tick used,
shuffle only those shells actually used once per tick. This
should save us more time in common cases where we need
to only check a few shells to find a place to settle.
- Always prefer closest place first, then lowest height.
- Simplify search order; use a pre-built order instead of scan.
- Randomize search order only once per tick, if used.
Many processes that have a significant speed/time component can
now have speeds adjusted (as a multiplier from base rate) via
settings.
Things that can be adjusted:
- Tool speeds (including digging and pummeling)
- Cooking and pummel recipe durations
- Soaking processes like tree growth, peat fermentation
The settings are hierarchical, so groups of rates can be
adjusted together, and a further multiplier can be applied to
each member of the group.
The settings are calculated dynamically, for power users only,
and documenting them is out of scope for the project.
Specifically, this should help tuning for Kimapr's SkyBlock, and
possibly other mods involving signficant gameplay rebalancing.
