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Can you confirm that that wind affecting players mechanism is disabled for everyone before I dig deeper? I think it was disabled by default in the latest release.

Jakecool's "Useful Stuff" mod has one fyi

Yes, my bad. Sorry! When I was doing some final testing of slippery fish on a trotline/limb line, I had it set to 100% slippery. And I forgot to change it back. I'll post a new release shortly. And....posted v2.6.2 on the ModDB.

I have a theory: The Google execs are trying to slow down Bezos' profits so that they can get into space before him.

@Pamela Wild Yeah I commented on that right next to the download. It's not my mod, it's EVERY mod on the forums, and it's intermittent. Maybe use a different browser like Firefox or Edge, or wait a while. This exact same thing happened a few days ago and I reported it to Tyron. He started an investigation but I don't think he could figure out what was going on. I mean, it *looks* like Chrome security is just getting beefier, but I could be wrong. The forum host (Amazon aws) doesn't have a great track record security-wise, so it could be related to that.

Bump: See original post for download. Version 2.6.1 Updates - testing performed under v1.15.0-pre.12 (unstable) Tweak: Minor change to slippery fish to hopefully make it more predictable (spawnitementity) Fix: Cooking fish eggs death loop fixed - Once again, many thanks @Lisabet

Thanks again Lisabet. With all of your hard work, you should be given the "official VS bug finder" title! Most of my testing was done on pre10 and earlier versions, so I'm beginning to think that there was a serious change in pre12. I'll test tonight and see what happens.

You downloaded Primitive Survival v2.5.6, left it zipped, and placed it in your Vintagestorydata/mods folder, correct? Your logs\server-main.txt probably says why it's not loading, so if I could get a look at that file...

Thanks for the report! I'll see if I can recreate that and sort it out.

New version. Bump! See original post for more info. New: Switched lure, hook, and spike plate molds to the 1.15 pit kiln method New: Added chisel -> metal bits grid recipes for hooks, lures, and bed-o-nails (but not metal bucket handles or metal buckets). New: Added new wood types to raft recipe New: Common configuration file ..\VintagestoryData\ModConfig\primitivesurvival.json to configure raft speed, prevent altars from dropping gold, customize traps and fishing, and more - thanks @Tech_Rabbit @Quixjote New: Fish chunk depletion/repletion, thanks @goxmeor New: Filleting fish sometimes drops fish eggs, either raw or ovulated. They can be eaten raw, cooked, or salted to make caviar. Ovulated eggs can be thrown into water to replete fish stocks in that chunk. New: Slippery fish are back, but a lot less slippery. If they land in water, they will immediately escape and replete the chunk. New: Fish can be thrown in water to replete the chunk. Might make sense for smaller fish (release and catch something bigger). New: Fish eggs can be used as bait. New: Decreased default raft speed New: Polish translation courtesy of @qexow New: Refactored code/leveraged Capsup's VS Mod Template: https://gitlab.com/vsmods-public/foundation/vsmodtemplate - - Thanks @Capsup New: Right click pick up raft - thanks @Papa Cheddar New: fish fillets as bait for traps and fishing - thanks @Ketrai New: more sound effects for fish traps and raft New: Added blood block/portion - creative only item for now, intended for worldgen New: Bald cypress, Larch, Redwood, Ebony, Walnut, Purpleheart wood lantern Variants Fixed: Bug in German language file - thanks @Kiava Fixed: Raft not always reverting to default orientation (raft-north) when you break it - Thanks @goxmeor Fixed: changed POI on pit traps like I did to snares/deadfalls to eliminate the farm life conflict - thanks @Thranos Fixed: Reworked lantern recipe so handbook links would function correctly Fixed: fishing hooks and lures dont smelt back into the original materials but some sub labeled material... (and wont stack with actual metal) - thanks @Tech_Rabbit. Note: This does not apply to the 1.15 releases at all (because of metal bits). Tweak: Added a couple of new configurable behaviors to traps (bait stolen and tripped) to make them less effective (if that's desirable) - thanks @Thalius Tweak: Made it so butterflies can not trip deadfalls, snares, and pit traps Tweak: Made deadfall and snare traps easier to tear down Tweak: Removed Nails and Spikes and everything related to those unused blocks Tweak: Chunk system not unloading the fishing trap block entities correctly - fixed MAYBE? - thanks @Capsup Tweak: Different fish stack sizes - catfish = 16, bass,bluegill,mutated = 64, the rest = 32. Thanks @l33tmaan Tweak: Double the monkey bridge recipe output (yet again) - thanks @Quixjote Tweak: Reworked fillets/fish jerky because fillet satiety in meals too low, fish jerky satiety too low - thanks @l33tmaan, others Tweak: Changed mold descriptions to like Raw blah blah instead of blah blah (Raw) as per game molds

New version. Bump!

New version. Bump!

Yes, that sounds even better (less performance intensive) than adding a listener - just adding more possibilities of what happens when an entity collides with a trap. I'm on it - thanks again!

Hi Pamela, For Windows, you'll have a folder up one level from your mods folder called ModConfig i.e. C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData\ModConfig In that folder you should see several .json files, and maybe some folders (depending on which mods you have installed). The names of the files/folders will be a dead giveaway as to which mod they belong to. You can edit those json files with your favorite text editor (notepad?), since they are really just text files. A few caveats - don't change the overall structure of the files or remove or add rows, only change the assigned values. i.e. You could change a true to a false, or an integer to a different integer, or a decimal to a different decimal. For example, a number like 0.3 could be changed to 0.5 or 1.0, but don't change it to .5 or 1 - keep the overall "look" of the number the same. Likewise, don't change a number like 5 to 5.5 or 6.0, it's probably expecting a whole number like 6. If things go awry, you could delete the file completely, and the next time you start the game the file will be recreated in that same location with the original (default) values.

Thank you for the kind words and the valuable feedback! I have indeed made fishing highly customizable and I believe that any concerns you've had in the past related to that have been addressed (although finding the *best* settings for your world might be a bit of a challenge) . The chunk based depletion/repletion system will help a lot, as will the reintroduction of slippery fish and their ability to immediately escape. Traps are a different story entirely and are a little harder to reign in because they're simply blocks that damage entities that collide with them, so they depend mostly on what's going on in the surrounding area. An entity would rarely collide with an unbaited trap, and almost always collide with a baited trap because a baited trap is simply a point of interest (like a trough full of food, except that all entities are attracted to it). They seem to be either highly effective or highly ineffective, depending upon what creatures are normally spawning in that area (I'm looking at you, butterflies!). I have added a few customizations for each of the trap types, so simply decreasing the maximum amount of damage they inflict *may* be enough to help balance that out. I'll give some thought into adding a (configurable) percentage chance that bait can be stolen from traps as well. That may really help out with their effectiveness. I will elaborate on some of these configuration settings soon, and others are pretty self explanatory. "AltarDropsGold": true, "DeadfallMaxAnimalHeight": 0.7, "DeadfallMaxDamageSet": 10, "DeadfallMaxDamageBaited": 20, "FallDamageMultiplierWoodSpikes": 25, "FallDamageMultiplierMetalSpikes": 80, "FishBasketCatchPercent": 5, "FishBasketBaitedCatchPercent": 10, "FishBasketBaitStolenPercent": 5, "FishBasketEscapePercent": 15, "FishBasketUpdateMinutes": 2.2, "FishBasketRotRemovedPercent": 10, "FishChanceOfEggs": 20, "FishChunkDepletionRate": 5, "FishChunkRepletionRate": 1, "FishEggsRepletionRate": 10, "FishRepletionMinutes": 15, "FishChunkMaxDepletionPercent": 95, "LimbTrotlineCatchPercent": 5, "LimbTrotlineBaitedCatchPercent": 10, "LimbTrotlineLuredCatchPercent": 10, "LimbTrotlineBaitedLuredCatchPercent": 15, "LimbTrotlineBaitStolenPercent": 5, "LimbTrotlineUpdateMinutes": 2.4, "LimbTrotlineRotRemovedPercent": 10, "RaftWaterSpeedModifier": 0.2, "RaftFlotationModifier": 0.03, "SnareMaxAnimalHeight": 0.8, "SnareMaxDamageSet": 12, "SnareMaxDamageBaited": 24, "WeirTrapCatchPercent": 5, "WeirTrapEscapePercent": 10, "WeirTrapUpdateMinutes": 2.6, "WeirTrapRotRemovedPercent": 10, "WormFoundPercentRock": 6, "WormFoundPercentStickFlint": 16

I made some changes to the pre-release, as outlined below (mostly for my own reference) - Testing under 1.15.0-pre.6 unstable: New: Added chisel -> metal bits grid recipes for hooks, lures, nails, spikes, and bed-o-nails (but not metal bucket handles or metal buckets). New: Added new wood types to raft recipe New: Default raft speed modifier from 0.5 -> 0.2 wth? Fixed: Recipes for new lantern wood types New: Added raft recipes for new wood types Fixed: Eating fish eggs/caviar was a bit of a hot mess PrimitiveSurvival-2.5.7-unofficial2.zip

For anyone who's feeling brave/bold, here's the pre-release of the next version. I'm going to test it over the next week or so and then release something official. PrimitiveSurvival-2.5.7-unofficial.zip What to expect - nothing terribly exciting: Version 2.5.7 Updates - testing performed under v1.15.0-pre.3 (unstable) New: Common configuration file ..\VintagestoryData\ModConfig\primitivesurvival.json to configure raft speed, prevent altars from dropping gold, customize traps and fishing - thanks @techrabbit, @Quixjote New: Fish chunk depletion/repletion, thanks @Gox New: Filleting fish sometimes drops fish eggs, either raw or ovulated. They can be eaten raw, cooked, or salted to make caviar. Ovulated eggs can be thrown into water to replete fish stocks in that chunk. New: Slippery fish are back, but a lot less slippery. If they land in water, they will immediately escape and replete the chunk. New: Fish can be thrown in water to replete the chunk. Might make sense for smaller fish (release and catch something bigger). New: Fish eggs can be used as bait. New: Decreased default raft speed New: Polish translation courtesy of @qexow! New: Refactored code/leveraged Capsup's VS Mod Template: https://gitlab.com/vsmods-public/foundation/vsmodtemplate - - Thanks @Capsup! New: Right click pick up raft - thanks @PapaCheddar New: fish fillets as bait for traps and fishing - thanks Ketrai New: more sound effects for fish traps and raft New: Added blood block/portion - creative only item for now, intended for worldgen New: Bald cypress, Larch, Redwood, Ebony, Walnut, Purpleheart wood lantern Variants Fixed: Bug in German language file - thanks @Kiava Fixed: Raft not always reverting to default orientation (raft-north) when you break it - Thanks @Gox Fixed: fishing hooks, lures, nails, spikes dont smelt back into the original materials but some sub labeled material... (and wont stack with actual metal) - thanks @TechRabbit Fixed: changed POI on pit traps like I did to snares/deadfalls to eliminate the farm life conflict - thanks Thranos! Fixed: Reworked lantern recipe so handbook links would function correctly Tweak: Chunk system not unloading the fishing trap block entities correctly - fixed MAYBE? - thanks @Capsup Tweak: Different fish stack sizes - catfish = 16, bass,bluegill,mutated = 64, the rest = 32. Thanks @l33tmaan Tweak: Double the monkey bridge recipe output (yet again) - thanks @Quixote Tweak: Reworked fillets/fish jerky because fillet satiety in meals too low, fish jerky satiety too low - thanks @l33tmaan, others Tweak: Changed mold descriptions to like Raw blah blah instead of blah blah (Raw) as per game molds

Well thank you! And thanks for braving the uncharted waters of 1.15 pre-6 with my mod.

Hi Pamela, I've done only limited testing with 1.15.3 and the only issue I found was that wooden lanterns for the new wood types were...odd. Not game-breaking, just not displaying properly. I'd like to think that other than that the mod would work ok with the 1.15 releases, as I've built it to be fairly resilient and it survived the transition from 1.12 -> 1.13 -> 1.14 quite nicely. Having said that, I'm finishing up some last minute changes this week for the new release, and will be doing a lot of testing with the latest 1.15 release next week, so expect to see a brand new version in about 10 days.

Let me talk briefly about debugging. In the first example (where you put your mod directly in the mods folder), debugging is hard. Either the game crashes and you get a pop-up explaining why, or the issues are logged into C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData\Logs, or both. I always start by looking at server-main.txt In the second example, the VSModLauncher intercepts a lot of that stuff and pukes it out into the Output - Debug window, so you can see what's going on behind the scenes while the game is running. That's really all that VSModLauncher is doing which is why you can promptly ignore it. You can add logging to your own code as well, i.e. System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("This variable:" + thisvariable);

I'm back. So then the question becomes - where do I go for the deets? If the class view - object browser isn't up your alley, you could look here instead. http://apidocs.vintagestory.at/api/index.html A lot of my learning is by example, so I've looked at a lot of vanilla code, and often the survivalmod, so I search here https://github.com/anegostudios and/or downloaded the code and search it offline. Other mods have helped tremendously, as well as searching the Discord. Oh, and autocomplete. In my mind, a guide for code mods can't exist because it's pretty limitless as to what you can do.

Here's a clue: The TrampolineBlock iinherits Block public class TrampolineBlock : Block And then we are overriding OnEntityCollide... public override void OnEntityCollide So if you search for onentitycollide in the Class View, we can get the deets...

I know you were asking for a lot more than this, but I'm missing the hockey game!

So let's talk about the trampoline mod in particular. At the bottom of that page, download the for VS v1.9 version of that. Now you can drop that zip file directly into your mods folder (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData\Mods ) and take it for a spin, but since the code isn't compiled (no .dll files), I like to unzip it first and drop THAT unzipped folder into the Mods folder instead. Fire up Vintage Story, check the Mod Manager to ensure that the Trampoline mod has loaded successfully. Start a new Single Player game (creative world), grab a couple of Trampolines and try them out. Since the folder is unzipped, it's easy to point your favorite editor at that folder (Visual Studio Code works great for this), and quickly make changes to code, assets, whatever, save them, and see what happens when you restart the game. CTRL-F1 for a quick restart. Sometimes I save and exit to retain the stuff that I've been mucking with in game. You can do almost anything imaginable with code, so I can't possibly dive too deeply into that. But a common use for code is attaching it to assets, just like the trampoline does. If you look at trampoline.json, there's a class:"trampoline" that links the TrampolineBlock class to the trampoline.json asset. That link is finalized by registering the class (usually in the Start function) api.RegisterBlockClass("trampoline", typeof(TrampolineBlock)); In the json file, not only can you specify a class, but you can also link an entityclass, and one or more behaviors if need be. Those all need to be registered in your Start function, but slightly differently depending on what they are, i.e api.RegisterBlockBehaviorClass("RightClickPickupSpawnWorm", typeof(RightClickPickupSpawnWorm)); api.RegisterBlockEntityClass("bedeadfall", typeof(BEDeadfall)); api.RegisterItemClass("itemcordage", typeof(ItemCordage)); api.RegisterEntity("entityearthworm", typeof(EntityEarthworm)); The wiki talks about the purposes of these different classes so I'm not going to go into that. ---------------------------------------------------- If we want to migrate this trampoline mod into Capsup's template (so we can do a deep dive into the code, use modern c#, debug, automatically create deliverables, and more)... https://gitlab.com/vsmods-public/foundation/vsmodtemplate 1. Setup Visual Studio as per Cap's instructions 2. Start a new project using his template 3. I like to use a location that's not nested so deep, so like C:\repos 4. Go with the defaults after that. 5. Once the solution is loaded up, it might be easiest to close Visual Studio and use File Explorer to move the stuff in. In this case it's really only the contents of the assets folder. So move the trampoline folder from C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData\Mods\Trampoline_vs1.9_v1.0.0\assets to C:\repos\Trampoline\Trampoline\assets The folder structure inside of assets has lots of naming conventions. See the wiki for that, or look at the the folder structure of the vanilla survival mod, or any other mod. 6. Copy the trampoline.cs file from C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData\Mods\Trampoline_vs1.9_v1.0.0\src to C:\repos\Trampoline\Trampoline\ModSystem The structure of your c# files has no rules. You can put all the code in one file (like the trampoline mod does), but I like to break it up into a bunch of files, and even nest some of those files into folders based on what the code is doing. 7. Now delete the entire trampoline mod (Trampoline_vs1.9_v1.0.0) from your mod folder C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData\Mods If you leave that in there, or ever have two copies of the same mod accessible to the game at once you're in for a world of hurt. 8. Fire up Visual Studio again and open your trampoline project. You might see two projects (Trampoline.sln and Trampoline1.sln). Remove that Trampoline1.sln from your recent list. I don't know what the hell that is. My Visual Studio looks like this. I've expanded a bunch of folders on the left so you can get a look at what's where. 9. The first thing I *like* to do is tidy up RedirectLogs.cs so it doesn't complain about anything. Then I collapse the VSModLauncher folder structure and never look at it again. All of the "issues" are highlighted. Visual Studio can walk you through most of the changes (i.e. hover, click on "show potential fixes", go with the first option). Here's the result after the cleanup. No more green squiggles. Save that. namespace VSModLauncher { using Vintagestory.API.Client; using Vintagestory.API.Common; using Vintagestory.API.Server; /// <summary> /// Redirects all log entries into the visual studio output window. Only for your convenience during development and testing. /// </summary> public class RedirectLogs : ModSystem { public override bool ShouldLoad(EnumAppSide side) { return true; } public override void StartServerSide(ICoreServerAPI api) { api.Server.Logger.EntryAdded += this.OnServerLogEntry; } private void OnServerLogEntry(EnumLogType logType, string message, params object[] args) { if (logType == EnumLogType.VerboseDebug) { return; } System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("[Server " + logType + "] " + message, args); } public override void StartClientSide(ICoreClientAPI api) { api.World.Logger.EntryAdded += this.OnClientLogEntry; } private void OnClientLogEntry(EnumLogType logType, string message, params object[] args) { if (logType == EnumLogType.VerboseDebug) { return; } System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("[Client " + logType + "] " + message, args); } } } 10. A bit of an aside. Before you click the "start-debug-in-game" button to test things out, make sure that VSModLauncher is selected (see picture below). Never change that dropdown. Also, when you are ready to create your deliverable to share with the world, change the Debug dropdown to ReleaseAndZip. Then when you click the "start-debug...." button it will create your finished product (trampoline.zip) in the folder C:\repos\trampoline\trampoline\bin\ReleaseAndZip 11. Alright! The only thing left to do is to tidy up the c# code. I prefer to leverage Capsup's existing file for that, and always have more than one code file, so I'll rip the start function out of trampoline.cs and stick it into TrampolineSystem.cs, Here's my finished TrampolineSystem.cs: namespace Trampoline.ModSystem { using Vintagestory.API.Common; public class TrampolineSystem : ModSystem { public override void Start(ICoreAPI api) { base.Start(api); api.RegisterBlockClass("trampoline", typeof(TrampolineBlock)); } } } 12. Now trampoline.cs is a bit of a hot mess, but it only represents one thing - the block class for the trampoline. So I'm renaming it arbitrarily to blocktrampoline.cs, giving it the same namespace as the one autogenerated by Capsup's template, and tidying it up a bit. Now it looks like this: namespace Trampoline.ModSystem { using Vintagestory.API.Common; using Vintagestory.API.Common.Entities; using Vintagestory.API.MathTools; public class TrampolineBlock : Block { public AssetLocation tickSound = new AssetLocation("game", "sounds/tick"); public override void OnEntityCollide(IWorldAccessor world, Entity entity, BlockPos pos, BlockFacing facing, Vec3d collideSpeed, bool isImpact) { if (isImpact && facing.Axis == EnumAxis.Y) { world.PlaySoundAt(tickSound, entity.Pos.X, entity.Pos.Y, entity.Pos.Z); entity.Pos.Motion.Y *= -0.8; } } } } 13. Click "start-debug-in-game" and with any luck it will just work! In my case (because I'm running Vintage Story 1.15.3) I needed to make one more change (I mentioned it on Discord) Right click on VSModLauncher - Properties - change the Target Framework to 4.6.1 Now the real power of Visual Studio comes from the Class View and Object Browser and the Output window, autocomplete, and more, but I'm probably not the best person to explain all the intricacies of Visual Studio.

Just a brief update that is somewhat related to the OP fishing - in the next release, everything related to catching fish will be customizable (frequency and odds). In addition, there will be configurable chunk based depletion/repletion rates for fish.