nodecore-cd2025/docs/issues-game.txt
Aaron Suen 5d8e2d9eb4 Add radius param to some cheats
This should make it easier to snuff mass
fires created by griefers quickly.
2023-06-09 21:45:18 -04:00

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ISSUES-GAME: Gameplay-affecting issues
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- Move some ABMs into soaking API:
- Sedges growing
- Lava melting stone
- Hardening/softening stone
- Move sedge growing abm into soaking.
- Continuing issues with storebox fall-thru
- Items now refusing to fall from a form into a crate or
case directly below.
- This is a side effect of logic to prevent items from falling
OUT the bottom of lode crates that are suspended above air
and will not be simple to fix.
- Prills dropping out of glowing lode spawn inside a
storebox below, but this allows them to fall through
the bottom (since they're already past colliding with
the box and being absorbed)
- Maybe entities need to try to settle into a box
if it WAS in the box's node space last tick but
is below it now, and the box isn't open on
the bottom.
- Skip more entity<->entity<->node transition steps
- falling_node / item_entity conversions
- Instant settling on catapult for items ejected with
downward component into a settlable space
- Lantern brightness non-linearity
- level = ceil(4 * (1 + 2*arcsin(charge/50 - 1)/pi))
(thanks to Oblomov)
- Rake recipe is a major problem
- Lots of players are getting caught up on it
- Replace recipe:
- Add "partial" rakes for 1, 2, and 3 tines.
- Using adze on handle makes partial rake.
- Using adze on partial rake upgrades it.
- Once a full rake is completed it works as normal.
- Partial rakes have rake functionality but break
after a single use.
- Break into appropriate prills (lode)
- Hide rake recipe until later in the game?
- Maybe add a generic "# hints completed" qualifier?
- Maybe add a number of hours played (non-idle) qualifier?
- All flora should be radiation-sensitive.
- Currently only flowers, add sedges and rushes
- Should be at risk of harm during growth or spreading
- Rushes may dry out
- Sedges may be stunted, lose growth stages
- Door placement convenience
- If player places a door panel against the face of another
door panel (sneak+place) then match axis if possible.
- Cheats
- Should these be spun off into a separate mod?
- Maybe a separate mod within the game so they
are still standard and don't require a separate
installation.
- Rename the admin hand tool again.
- Remove fullbright from admin hand.
- Separate command to set a minimum player dynamic light.
- Priv to disable skybox/sunlight diminishing by depth?
- Add a /soak cheat to push soaking?
- Add a /forest or /grove cheat to sprinkle trees around
- Like the flora redecorate
- Useful for servers with spawn tree attrition
- /snuff should probably snuff torches too
- General snuffable/on_snuff API?
- Merge with growtrees for a general on_cheat API?
- Emergency digging mechanic issues
- Players still confused by it.
- Detect and warn players about misuse of singlenode mapgen
- Mods can register if they're supporting singlenode.
- We can detect player "falling forever" by scanning down
to find anything other than air before ignore.
- Re-examine chiseling recipes
- Bricks accept annealed chisels, which makes some sense
from a game balance perspective (cosmetic-only = cheap)
but less re: realism.
- Similarly doors all require tempered chisels, and maybe
at least wooden doors should accept annealed.
- Cannot catapult an item into a form from below.
- Is this actually important?
- Thatch and wicker should probably have recycling recipes.
- Do we really need stack_as_node for leaves, sticks, and a
few other ordinary items anymore, or has our falling_node
rework made that irrelevant now?
- Sponge Fixes
- Fix crappy sponge death mechanic
- Remove special treatment of glass case and glass nodes
- May need to find a new use-case for glass case?
- Improve sponge colony growth shape
- Prevent tall vertical column growth seen on NCC by Kimapr
- Instead of just pushing out a sponge, floodfill to find colony
(reuse colony volume check), then pick a random surface node
to grow from; maybe save candidate water spots during the flood
scan and grow non-locally to that?
- Hint system:
- Split hint descriptions into "pre" and "post" parts.
- Undiscovered, show just "pre" part (1 stick + 4 adze)
- After, show both (1 stick + 4 adze => rake)
- Make all crafts/recipes trigger witnessing?
- Hide stylus hint until after mixed concrete
- Make a way to prevent crafting on place
- Sneak? Aux?
- Confirmation UI after completing recipe, e.g. floating ent
- Make all recipes include some pummel factor?
- Door press recipe limitations
- Node-placing recipes don't work with itemstacks
- Tool and torch making don't work
- We should be able to detect failed-catapulting for this
- Stackapply recipes
- Needed for automatic eggcorn planting
- Health system slot bias should be a bit stronger
- Consider making offline (e.g. soaking) growth rates sublinear
with time, e.g. diminishing returns for offline time, to create
incentives to build nearby
- Stone softening rates feel off.
- Once first stage of stone softens, others follow really
quickly (exponential runaway basically).
- If you leave stone soaking for a while, it looks like it
basically softens all or nothing.
- Can we smooth this out and make it less jarring?
- Item ent fixes
- Make crush damage use velocity relative to player,
not absolute velocity, to calculate damage
- A way to visualize the infusion rate effects would be nice
- Particles don't work due to semitransparent liquid
- Add a way to extend wandering generations
- For glass, heat sources
- For concrete, moisture sources
- Rakes should probably not charge durability for digging first item
stack, or should charge reduced wear for item stacks.
- Tarstone should produce coal particles consistently when broken back
down to regular cobble, but it only works with the base node, not the
etched ones.
- Valleys mapgen rivers seem to rely on having an actual separate
river water registration with a specific liquid range.
- Door-wheels do not affect attached glyphs...
- Consider changing wet/dry stack splitting
- Currently, original stack remains in place, wetted/dried
stack jumps out to new spot.
- Instead, maybe wetted/dried stays in place and original
jumps out (unless there's an adjacent wetted/dried stack to
reuse).
- More similar to the way flammable stack ignition works
- Just meaner overall
- Consistentize soaking/offline mechanics
- Use a DNT to make check regular for things actually soaking
- To consider:
- Tree growth
- Compost
- Sponge expiration
- Torch expiration
- Leaching
- Repacking
- Concrete
- Lux renew
- Logic: Action by a living thing (i.e. presence of player or
microorganisms) is what keeps time ticking...?
- Be more consistent with some non-offline mechanics like
fire fuel consumption
- When we did torches via expiration metadata, the reason at the
time was that there was no way to get them to tick reliably like
we can with nodes; with AISMs this is no longer the case.
- Repose changes
- Staves/rods should repose a lot less or not at all.
- Rework repose to be based on amount of loose material below, not
amount of distance available to fall? repose only needs to have a
particular angle as measured on flat land?
- Tote issues:
- Consider updating tote recipe.
- Totes should do face-connected search for totables; don't pick up
shelves only touching via a corner.
- Flammables should respond via AISM when bathed in fire or igniting
liquids like molten glass or rock.
- Should there be pockets of softer stone at depth, like there is gravel?
- Register ores for softer stone of each level
- Maybe some ores for cobble and/or loose cobble?
- Maybe ores for dirt, sand?
- Consider checking for a nearby active player before running
"fast-evolving" ABMs that don't normally work offline, like fire
extinguishing/spreading?
- This would make gameplay more fair for those who tend to
go AFK suddenly and can't return for a long time.
- This would reduce the gap between things that support the offline
mechanic and those that don't between MP and SP.
- Make separate walkable/non-walkable stack nodes.
- Should sticks and eggcorns be non-walkable?
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