Why wait until gameplay to start the fun? The React‑o‑Pun Screen greets players before the title menu with a randomized pun and a flurry of animated reactions. Of course it's not just a useless and cringy screen! It’s a grandiose stage for wordplay, whimsy and maximum enjoyment for everybody! 

• Randomized Puns: Each visit serves up a fresh pun, ensuring no two intros feel entirely the same. May contain traces of nuts.
• Reactions: From neat to absolute cringe, the possible set of reactions lets you “respond” to the pun with an impactful click. Embrace the puns and the cringe!
• Dynamic Animations: Buttons wobble, spin, and scatter with parabolic motion, while shockwaves ripple outward when pressed, making every reaction feel alive.
• Cinematic Flair: Fading backgrounds, easing curves, and shake effects give the screen polish worthy of a comedy show intro.
• Unskippable Charm: ESC won’t save you, as you’ll have to face the pun head‑on. It’s pun‑ishment with style. Trying to excape the machine this way will just result in more magnificent puns, haha!

The React‑o‑Pun Screen sets the tone for the entire mod: playful, maximally polished, and impossible to ignore. It’s the perfect warm‑up act before diving into the pun‑filled chaos of the game.

Command and Configuration Guide

Overview

The Puns mod displays interactive question/answer screens at specific moments (before the title screen or during world loading) and allows players to react with neutral, positive or negative votes. All reactions can be recorded and used to compute statistics (positive points, negative points, total votes, and approval rating).

Since custom entries can now be created freely, the content is no longer limited to puns. Any question/answer pair can be used, turning the mod into a lightweight in-game polling, questionnaire tool or whatever you decide. Server administrators can distribute questions and review aggregated player feedback via the remote statistics backend or local files.

Commands

All commands are registered under /puns. Regular players can use the basic send sub-command; all other features require permission level 2 (default for operators).

Player Commands

• /puns send
  Sends a random active entry to all players and opens the voting screen.

• /puns send <players>
  Sends a random entry to the specified players.

• /puns send <players> <color>
  Same as above, but forces the text color (any ChatFormatting color name, e.g. gold, dark_purple).

• /puns send <players> <color> <bold> <italic>
  Full style control (bold and italic are true or false).

Administrator Commands (requires op level 2)

Vote Commands

• /puns vote
  Opens a random entry for all players.

• /puns vote <players>
  Opens a random entry for the selected players.

• /puns vote <players> create <question> <answer>
  Immediately creates a new custom entry and opens the voting screen (targets all players if no target specified). <answer> is fully optional.

  Example:
  /puns vote create "Do you like the new spawn?" ""

• /puns vote <players> byID <id>
  Opens the entry with the specified ID for the selected players.

Search and Open Specific Entries

• /puns vote <players> find fuzzy any <search term>
  Fuzzy-search (ignores punctuation) in question or answer, picks one random match, opens voting screen.

• /puns vote <players> find fuzzy question <search term>
  Fuzzy-search only in the question.

• /puns vote <players> find fuzzy answer <search term>
  Fuzzy-search only in the answer.

• /puns vote <players> find exact any <search term>
  Exact substring search in question or answer.

• /puns vote <players> find exact both <question part> <answer part>
  Exact substring match on both parts (either part may be empty).

<players> is optional and defaults to all players. Search types: fuzzy or exact. Modes: any, question, answer, both (for exact only).

Management Commands

• /puns add <question> <answer>
  Adds a new custom entry to custom_puns.json and reloads the list.

• /puns remove <id>
  Removes the custom entry with the specified ID and reloads.

• /puns reload
  Reloads the pun list from files/remote (syncs to all clients).

• /puns list
  Prints the full list of active entries to the server log (or client console if executed by player).

File Management Commands

• /puns deleteFile
  Deletes puns.json (falls back to bundled/remote/custom).

• /puns clearFile
  Clears puns.json to an empty array.

• /puns clearCustom
  Clears all entries in custom_puns.json.

Configuration Options (config/puns-common.toml)

Option	Default	Description
enableDebug	false	Prints extensive debug information to the log. Only enable when troubleshooting.
enableOnline	true	Master switch for communication with the external statistics server. When false, reactions are stored only locally/in-memory.
enableLocalStats	true	Enables hybrid statistics mode (recommended). Custom entries use local stats; remote-matching entries use the backend.
onlyPuns	false	If true, after voting the client immediately shows another random entry (continuous pun mode). Only for pre-title screen.
enablePunsBeforeTitle	true	Shows a pun entry immediately before the main title screen.
enablePunsDuringLevelLoad	false	Replaces the normal world-loading screen with the interactive voting screen.

Setting up different usage scenarios

1. Use only the official remote dataset (default public server behavior)

• Leave puns.json and custom_puns.json absent or empty in <game_dir>/puns/
• Keep enableOnline = true
• The mod automatically downloads the authoritative list from the remote server

2. Use only a personal curated list (no remote data at all)

• Place your own puns.json file in <game_dir>/puns/ (this file is authoritative)
• Create a custom_puns.json unless you want additional entries, though this is not necessary in this scenario
• Set enableOnline = false (recommended)
• All statistics are stored locally in <game_dir>/puns/local_stats.json

3. Curated list + allow runtime custom entries

• Provide base list as puns.json
• Optionally pre-fill custom_puns.json
• Keep enableOnline = false (or true if you still want remote stats for matching entries)
• Use /puns vote create … to add new entries at runtime

4. Questionnaire / polling setup

• Delete or leave empty the default puns.json
• Set enableOnline = false and enableLocalStats = true
• Populate custom_puns.json with your questions or use /puns vote create
• Responses are stored locally in <game_dir>/puns/
• Statistics can be retrieved from local_stats.json in <game_dir>/puns/

By combining file-based lists, config options, and in-game creation/management commands, server administrators have full control over content and statistics behavior; from classic pun delivery to fully customized in-game surveys and polls.