Tj Pepler - Critcher

go to my site, https://www.critchersmods.ca click on VS mods then Mod Maker, just make a simple mod and adjust the light level of lanterns, create the mod and when you download it, unzip it and read through the complete .json it will explain everything.

I love it I have been using your version whenever I'm not in the game for a while and I love it! And you were honestly my biggest inspriation so thank you so much for keeping at it! If anyone want's a handy version to use in game I have one, but this version is nice to have for when you're not playing and stuff! My in game version is at In Game Ingot Calculator

Sorry, you are correct. I was wrong to say vibe coding is not real, I meant you can't get a quality application as a result of vibe coding and, that the only people who can actually make real use of the tools are people who already understand programming, so I think we're agreeing here

I will be a man of my word, my latest mods now carry this icon and everything I do from now on will have it. If anyone want's to use it feel free But this is it, if you see this and you want to avoid AI, consider this fair warning! BTW : I still love you even if we disagree

Just a little add from personal experience for anyone who's interested in the whole thing. "Vibe Coding" is not really a thing in reality, if you don't know how to code and clean up behind the robot you will have nothing but a steaming mess. The reason is very simple, coding is a mathematical process and the best LLM is only 90% accurate with all maths functions!!! What does work, and every code monkey I know does it is we check with AI for answers if we're stuck, even then they are wrong as often as not but it can help to bump your brain to remember stuff yourself. Making semantic changes across the codebase is simple with AI who can edit 100 files in seconds, of course right! The AI is very good at recognizing what you are working on and suggesting code improvements, but lacks the ability to implement them perfectly so you HAVE to fix it by hand anyways. AI Slop to me is the result of someone saying, 'Hey robot make me a new app, also do some art and a themesong, and then make a post about it' That kind of nonsense only leads to pain and badness. Agentic coding however is taking a tool, recognizing it's strengths and weaknesses and applying the tool where appropriate. Anyways, I'll finish with saying this, I use AI for all sorts of tasks while developing, from research to error checking and, as I stated before I even use it for placeholder images and for personal fun I sometimes like to write lyrics and have the robot make it into a song for me. But I in no way think an AI should ever be in charge of anything or trusted to release a final product, that seems crazy. Anyone who is opposed to the use of AI as a tool in the creation of mods please consider this fair warning that I do in fact use these tools and I will keep using them in my own controlled and overseen way. My only goal is to share things I find fun with community members that are interested in them. I don't want anyone who has such strong convictions to feel tricked into using an AI product unknowingly, I am even going to make a point to add a note to all my releases later and have a warning on each one.

That's my point, LOL, it really doesn't matter what camp you're in, if you choose to follow General Lud and destroy the textile mills or you embrace them is irrelevant because AI is here, it's not going anywhere and everyone who makes statements that they refuse to engage with AI, yet they use their windows PC to post it are maybe not as well informed as they need be. Now as for me, I think it's a tool that is not yet mature, like the first chainsaws that ripped the hell out of logs, made a terrible mess and killed a few loggers, a good tool once it's been worked on for a few years but dangerous and destructive potentially at first. I also think that the current way we build AI with ridiculous data scraping techniques that cause so very much garbage to be baked into AI needs to change. I also feel that AI should be heavily regulated and certain tools and models shouldn't be publicly available, but that is simply mho. But more than anything I think the biggest mistake currently with AI is trying to build a person to talk to, why would we want that? that only leads to trouble. The only speech from an AI should be the answer to your question, it's a robot, it doesn't have an opinion and it has nothing to add to a human conversation, it has no life or experience or anything real to share with anyone. If we stopped treating the robots like people and more like hammers that would be a very strong start in the right direction. But in the end I am very hopeful that we will be able to harness it properly and learn to use it as the tool it can be one day in the near future. So I'm on team hopeful optimist

@8bit You should keep going, and good for you for keeping at it when you were faced with a difficult challenge. I think we should reword your story a little, you were an artist in your soul and you had ideas that you wanted to freely share with the world, you tried and tried but it was very difficult, you didn't give up however, you found tools that could finally be the extension your mind needed to release your ideas. And then you worked at that, maiking it better day by day, asking for feedback from the community and working for free to make things better for them. You wanted to share things with people to make their lives better and, you succeeded!!! Don't you dare ever feel bad or anything, you are a good one and you should never feel bad for doing good things. Maybe the haters should consider that you offered all of this to them out of the goodness of your heart. You rock

I want to make a quick point for anyone who may not be aware. I am not picking a fight or anything of the sort, this is fact only. In several of my working environments across many different companies I work with and meet many different programmers from various fields and across many languages. The one thing that is a certain fact in the real world is every one of them uses AI to an extent in their day to day work, all of them. In many companies now agentic programming skills are required or at the least strongly encouraged. If Vintage Story was being developed without any AI tools whatsoever I would be utterly amazed. Any company not using AI now in their workflow is a rare snowflake in the desert. I am not saying good or bad, I don't care any more about peoples personal opinions on AI any more than anyone actually cares about mine, but know that the reality is, you are not avoiding it, if you run Microsoft, Amazon, Google, or any other modern service whatsoever you ARE using AI and are part of the system. That is the way it is now.

I think though that we do need to value the artists time though and maybe a nice way to do it would be the modder can post her mod and post the art that they would like, then the artist could look at the mod and even the author and see if they want to support the project. But the modding forums are weird sometimes and so many posts are in between right, so that's why I keep coming back to a seperate forum, that is just specifically for the one case, because I'm sure that a lot of modders would love to be able to show off their hard work in a shiny wrapper and that would make it a nice one stop shop for that purpose. (I think there needs to be a bit of restructuring in a few other places too, LOL)

So this is my point though https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/forum/34-mod-requestsideas/ My case was just if it's ok to expect the modders to produce code and models and everything out of the kindness of their heart, and /or commision work, why couldn't we have an equivalent forum titled art-requestideas and be able to have a place to request help from people as well. You are correct that some people do try and take advantage but I assure you I have had my share of PMs asking for free total conversions of the game I guess I'm just hoping that there are artists with the same sense of sharing and giving that would like to contribute to mods and I would like for them to have an official place to exist.

Just sticking my nose in, I started using the google robot to draw my thumbnails because I really can't draw but it was wildly unpopular for many reasons listed here already. So I did what I thought was the next best step and I started looking for someone to do art for me and the honest truth is, donations like, never happen OK, like never, and the artist, a real human who needs food charges 100 dollars to do your images for you, very cheap for 5 hours work, but still, the problem is where does the money come from? So my only remaining option is an ugly screenshot and some text from Gimp. And so that's what I do now. If someone wanted to make a real difference how about this, maybe some artists or artistically capable people could volunteer their skills for free to the developers that freely make them all their favorite mods. Maybe we have a whole forum for artists offering their services to modders, modellers too!!! Does that seem fair?

Take it for a test spin : Only for players currently testing the 1.22.0-rc.x releases https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/44977 Please let me know if you have any issues or suggestions @ijkdenem This is your request buddy so this is your chance to get it just how you imagined it, let me know if this is it, or if you would like to see any changes

After a little more messing around...

Oh no worries folks, you can stop anywhere while climbing up and down and build and use tools and everything while your on the rope, you can place blocks as well. Talk about it on Discord

***The LESS UGLY update*** Been spending many hours moving cubes around and I'm pretty satisfied with the results. Would love any feedback and suggestions on tweaks and stuff