Questown

Big new release for the new year. As always, no guarantees of backwards compatibility or stability at this point because so much development is happening.

Developer Functionality

• Added file-based jobs
  • No code required to add new jobs.
  • Adds the ability for other mods to define jobs for Questown
  • Custom status images and text can be added to these files
• Added support for jobs that start with itemless, toolless work

Gameplay

• Fleshed out "journal" tutorial and advancements to guide new players
• Changed Welcome Mat Recipe to use pressure plates instead of carpet
  • Easier to obtain in early-game
• Added a bunch of commands (all starting with /qt)
• Added "eat raw food" which improves hunger by half and adds more debuffs
• Villagers no longer need to go back to the job board constantly
• Made short-length gatherers get early-town supplies
  • More useful in early game
  • Long-length gatherers get other stuff

New Player Controls

• Added UI for seeing needed items
  • E.g. "Wheat was needed 10 times in the past 2 days"
  • Shows both on villager menus and the town flag menu
  • Helps inform player of what materials they should either find or add a villager to generate
• Added "all villagers" tab to the flag menu
  • See what villagers are working on
  • See what items villagers are holding

New Villager Jobs

• Added "organizer" job and clipboard
  • Place a clipboard (with an item request) in a chest, and the organizer will try find that item and place it in that chest
• Added "soup cook" job and "soup kitchen" room recipe
  • Good way to convert mushrooms (from gatherer) into food
• Added crafting jobs for stone, iron, gold, diamond tools

New Key Items

• Added "Town Wand" item which can register doors

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a game-breaking bug when two flags were present nearby
• Fixed bug where world-gen'ed town flags had zero quests after reboot
• Fixed bug where Job Board would ignore direction of placed sign
• Fixed bug where Job Board did not list all possible requests
• Fixed bug where tooltips were not showing on screen tabs

General Improvements

• Converted most existing jobs to be file-based
• Added tests for specific jobs
• Made "give up and try a different job" logic work better
• Improved villager navigation logic
• Added some status art tiles
• Made job selection code more efficient
• Updated roomrecipes dependency to get better room scanning performance
• Stopped text from showing on login/chunk-load
• Updated code for UIs to use standard layouts

Experimental / WIP

• Doctor, hospital bed, and villager damage system