Changelog

All notable changes to FotoGenic are documented here. This update introduces the Journey Guide and a full creature-photography progression built on top of it.

[0.6.0] — The Journey Guide Update

Added

Journey Guide (creature catalogue)

• Journey Guide — a field-catalogue book item. Photograph creatures to fill it in, Pokédex-style.
• Discoveries are stored per player and persist through death, so your catalogue is permanent.
• Capture detection — when you take a photo with any camera, living mobs inside the viewfinder cone (within 16 blocks, with a clear line of sight) are catalogued. You must be carrying the guide. One new creature is logged per photo (a random undiscovered one in frame).
• Guide screen — a scrollable list of every living-mob type (shown as ??? until found), with:
  • a scrollbar with click-to-jump,
  • an All / Passive / Hostile filter,
  • a detail panel showing the live mob model, temperament, health, and a description,
  • a trade-progress bar showing how close you are to the next Camera Technician part unlock.
• 41 hand-written creature blurbs (cows, wolves, the Ender Dragon, villagers, golems, Nether mobs, warden, and more), with a generic fallback for everything else — including modded mobs.
• Baby variants — photographing a baby catalogues its baby form as a separate collectible, shown in the creature's detail panel.
• Rewards for photography — +6 XP for each new creature, +3 for a new baby variant, and a +20 XP bonus when you reach a trade milestone.
• Milestone pop-up — crossing a discovery threshold shows a "new technician trade unlocked" message with a level-up chime.
• Admin command — /fotogenic guide add|remove * or <creature>, plus add|remove baby * or baby <creature> (operator only).

Camera Technician & progression

• Camera Recharge Station block — the Camera Technician's job site (now craftable: iron + redstone
  • copper block).
• Camera Technician villager profession — sells the Journey Guide and, as your catalogue grows, the parts to build the digital camera and upgrade the computer.
• 8 new parts, each unlocked at a Journey Guide discovery milestone:
  • Camera parts — Camera Body (10), Image Sensor (20), Shutter Assembly (35), Lens Mount (50). Craft all four together to assemble the Digital Camera.
  • Computer parts — SD Controller (5), Memory Bus (25), Cache Module (45), Flash Array (75). Used to unlock the computer's SD-card slots.
• Discovery-gated trades — the technician only offers a part once you've catalogued enough creatures; each player sees the set that matches their own progress.

Computer SD-card slots

• Computers now start with 1 card slot and unlock up to 5.
• New "SD Cards" desktop app — shows each slot, the materials needed for the next one, and an Unlock button (free in Creative).
• The unlocked-slot count is saved on the dropped computer when broken and shown in its tooltip, and restored when replaced.

Compatibility

• Jade integration — look-at tooltips for the computer (unlocked slots), tripod (docked camera), printer (paper / finished print), and ring light (brightness & facing).
• JEI — information pages explaining what the camera and computer parts are used for (press U on an SD Controller to see it upgrades a computer slot).

World generation

• Photo Hut — a small building that generates in plains villages, complete with a Camera Technician and a recharge station inside.

Changed

• Digital Camera recipe — now assembled from the four camera parts instead of being craftable from raw materials, so the Polaroid carries the early game.
• SD-card slot upgrades now cost the matching computer part (plus redstone) rather than diamonds.
• Technician trades use no emeralds — the Journey Guide costs a book + 12 iron, and parts cost tech salvage (copper, iron, redstone, amethyst, gold, a diamond).
• The Camera Technician is pinned to Master level (the tier is cosmetic here — trades are gated by discoveries, not by villager level).
• All blocks (computer, printer, ring light, tripod, recharge station) now require a wooden pickaxe or better to drop. The wall-hung Polaroid stays hand-breakable.

Fixed

• The catalogue now includes villagers, iron golems, and snow golems (mobs that Minecraft internally files under the MISC category).
• Fixed the Camera Technician shaking its head with no trades — its offers are now built directly on interaction, so being pinned to a high level no longer wipes the Journey Guide trade.
• SD-slot unlocks now reflect immediately in the app (optimistic update + a server confirmation packet) instead of only after reopening the computer.