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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.

What did I change? More than I probably should have....sorry! Including some pretty irrelevant stuff at this point. I kept some notes: - added lang file (en.json) - added creative mode "Bloomeries" tab and assets to that tab (this just makes it easier to test in creative mode) - added -north to bbbase recipe output (and had to rework that output after rearranging variantgroups - see below) - removed game: prefix from some things, most notably behaviors - because it was throwing errors - rearranged variantgroups in betterbloomerybase and everything related to that (quite sure horizontalorientation has to be the last variant in order for that to work). It was certainly crashing the game prior to doing so. - not sure exactly what was preventing the code from working (needed to be in a src folder? class registrations not quite right? I don't know for sure) You'll see that I removed a bunch of code and tidied a bit up in order to simplifying troubleshooting and get things "functional" quickly. Obviously you've got a ways to go! With any luck you won't need a custom entity class for that base, but I didn't look at that code too closely. You *might* need a custom block class for the chimney in order to match tiers...maybe. Or just let players mix and match tiers when placing blocks, but prevent interaction with the base (in your existing base block class) if the chimney is the wrong tier...if you catch my meaning. FYI: When it's referencing .Code.Path in the c# code it's talking about the blocks json "code" (+ variants) i.e. "betterbloomerychimney-tier1" or "betterbloomerybase-tier1-north". BetterBloomeries2.7z

Your code is looking really good and nothing obvious stands out (other than a few minor things that likely need to be tidied up). Can you upload the entire mod so I can take it for a spin and maybe get a handle on what the problem is? PM it to me if you don't want to share it with the world.

I started with the modding section (bottom half) of the wiki. Worked through it pretty much end to end. Lots of info and good examples there. https://wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php?title=Main_Page

Sorry I’m only on my phone for a couple days so I’ll be brief. If you use the original vanilla classes and place a vanilla chimney on top of your new bloomery base, does it work? I’d verify that first before testing your new class(es). Then focus on what the server-main.txt log is complaining about to work the bugs out of the new class

At a glance... You shouldn't need the game: in there, but looking at the BlockBloomery class I immediately came across this line: if (aboveBlock.Code.Path == "bloomerychimney") Which could be problematic for sure. It's expecting a block with the exact code path of "bloomerychimney". So the vanilla chimney. Anyways, you might have to make your own clones of the classes (BlockBloomery.cs and BEBloomery.cs) to make this work for you. https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aanegostudios+bloomery&type=code

Yes, you can place rocks and then find worms under them. That’s the reason why the odds of finding something under them is so much lower (to minimize the cheese). You can’t place a stick or flint once you pick them up.

Side note: If you're just wanting to use them for fishing bait, then use something else: grain, berries, mushrooms, veggies, etc.

That's intriguing. During playtesting I was consistently finding one per real life minute when I focused my efforts entirely on finding earthworms. In my current survival world, I generally come home with 1/2 dozen every in game day that I'm out exploring (although I'm quickly running out of quality places to look). I've brought more than 100 home, although they eventually die off or escape. I'm starting to think that my temperature queries aren't always returning the correct temperature. I believe that there's a 20% chance of an earthworm being under a stick or piece of flint for example (if the other conditions are met) and a 5% chance with a regular stone. You'll never find a worm under a stone with minerals (i.e. quartz, copper).

It's a little tricky. Run around and pick up sticks and rocks (especially flint, but other rocks too) that are lying on a grassy surface (namely: soil). By pick up, you need to actually pick them up (like right click, NOT break them and pick them up). Also, the temperature needs to be between 0-30C. If all those conditions are met, you should find several worms under those sticks and rocks in short order! If you're hoping for even more earthworms, take @Quixjote's Richer Than Dirt mod for a spin, which will let you pan up worms o' plenty! https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/326

Having seen this in action already, let me just say that this mod is a thing of beauty. Such attention to detail!

I'm assuming you've seen this, but if not... https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/463

I panned for a minute, once.

Wooyaaa, I don't think that you're going to be able to fully recover from the situation you're in. Block/Item ID's are assigned dynamically for each saved game (so, basically randomly when you generate a new world or add a mod), and if I remember correctly the saved games are SQL Lite or some such so there's not a lot I can do to help. So sorry. You *could* try putting the betterstairs mod back in, but I think this will just make things worse (unless the very last thing you did was remove it). I've heard of this happening to people a few times in the past (where block/item mapping became corrupted), and I don't think any of them were able to recover from this situation. The only takeaway for them was to back up their saved games once in a while.

It should be relatively easy to keep earthworms away from farmland in the interim. They can't climb at all (so even a simple 1 high block wall should keep them out) and do not spawn naturally, only when you pick up a rock or stick. And of course you can just pick them up if you happen to see one. It also takes quite a while for an earthworm to convert farmland into worm castings. Side note: I've made a number of changes to Primitive Survival to make it Carry Capacity friendly, so these sorts of issues seem...inevitable.

I did not know the answer to either of those questions @Papa Cheese, but you had me curious so I tested it out. The results: I'm both happy and disappointed to report that no, you cannot use hoppers or chutes to remove fish from any of my traps. I was quite surprised that this didn't work (because they are all basic inventories much like a chest), and if it did it would have also removed fishing hooks, bait, and lures. You *might* consider using a similar technique (with chutes/hoppers/chests) to keep troughs full for some livestock (i.e. chickens) so that lots of chickens are readily available for new players. I've heard that that this trough automation works. Cellar mechanics do indeed appear to work though, so if you're catching fish in a cellar you can expect them to last a lot longer (maybe twice as long?). My only other suggestion is to simply have a bunch of trotlines setup, since fish (1) can't escape (2) will rot on the hooks, but will eventually disappear completely, and then (3) will be replaced by more fish. I'm not sure how effective this would be, but one would expect to always find a mixed bag of raw fish, rotten fish, and no fish on a series of trotlines.

Hey now, quit playing around with the fish! I'm over on discord telling people that I'm pretty much done with fishing as they're proposing even more changes to it. Kidding aside, that sounds like a reasonably easy fix and a good idea, so I've added it to my to-do list. Thanks @l33tmaan!