Changes:

• Is now designed for Minecraft 1.21 and 1.21.1!
• Added 113 new recipes to the Stonecutter! Here are the highlights:
  • The Crafter can now be salvaged for parts!
  • Cut Copper can now make Copper Grates.
  • Chiseled Copper can be cut back into Cut Copper.
  • Copper Bulbs can be salvaged.
  • Copper Door, Copper Grate and Copper Trapdoor can be cut back into Ingots.
  • Tuff, Polished Tuff, Tuff Bricks, and Chiseled Tuff can be cut into eachother.
• Experience Orbs and Vexes can no longer be cut by Stonecutters.
  • The reasoning for these 2 is kinda similar, but I'll let you figure it out.
• Villagers now resist all damage dealt by Stonecutters.
  • They still act as if these actually hurt them though, because I find it funny.
• New in-game Settings for Sawblade Damage:
  • Damage Dealt: Damage dealt per Stonecutter slice.
  • Villager Damage: Damage dealt per Stonecutter slice on Villagers.
  • Damage Cycle: The time between each Stonecutter slice.
  • Damage Knockback: If this damage knocks you away from the Stonecutter.
  • Death Message: If the Death Message is announced when someone dies to a Stonecutter.
• New Presets:
  • Classic: Sawblade Damage, as it was designed.
  • Instacutter: Instantly kills most entities with a hit of the blade.
  • Bouncy Blades: All living things damaged by Stonecutter now bounce around like maniacs. Bouncy castle anyone?
• Sawblade's Death Messages are now more traceable in the server logs.
  • Makes things easier to track what happened if you had to look through that thing.
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a bug that caused Stonecutters to not deal damage in Peaceful.
  • Fixed a rare bug that caused Stonecutters to announce death messages before the victim actually dies.

Extras:

• Added Admin Commands! To use these commands:
  • Simply type /function tdp., and the game should give you suggestions on what to use.
    Side note: Any suggestions with underscores followed by numbers are for internal use only and won't work if run on their own.
  • Only those with the "Allow Commands" permission can use Admin Commands.
• A lot of filenames have been changed to properly organize everything.
  • IDs have been removed and is now replaced by code names.
  • The format is now tdp:code_name/data, to reserve the old names for Admin Commands.
• After 6 years of making datapacks, we finally have icons now!
• Improved the look of info text messages.
• Text files have been merged into one single Interactive Help File.
  • I have to learn 3 new languages to get all this to work as well as it did.
  • Not the best at it yet, but it works well enough for now.
• The master background has been updated for major releases as always.
• Codebase now uses Scripter 4.

Notes:

• I have considered cutting Copper Blocks into Doors/Trapdoors, but ultimately backed out on it.

  • If the Stonecutter has more recipes like this, you'd lose gameplay value in having the Crafting Table and its upgrade, the Crafter.
  • Also because it doesn't make much sense logically - Stonecutter can cut it to make it look like Doors/Trapdoors, but looks aren't everything.

• I personally wouldn't consider Tuff to be something one can finely turn into Gravel, even though it would be consistent with the existing logic.

  • In Vanilla, Tuff isn't renewable, so converting it into something that isn't Tuff just means that eventually you'd have no Tuff left.
  • Even if Tuff is pretty common stuff, this is still a possibility I needed to consider, and for options that have a potentially damaging application, it's best to not be the one who made that happen, ya know?

• An application of the 1.20.5's internal changes makes it possible to cut blocks into smaller versions of itself (displayed as heads), but that's not a part of Sawblade.

  • Sawblade aims to improve the existing items' relationships by adding recipes that makes sense based on the game's logic, and making new head items and adding that here doesn't make a lot of sense.
  • I'm still doing something like this though as a separate pack later on down the line. It'll be a pretty interesting challenge, for sure.

• I tried to make it so that the Stonecutter only hits if you're actually standing on the Saw bit.

  • Problem with this is that all the methods I got doesn't perform that well when scaled up. The performance loss would always prove too much to make this mechanic worth implementing.
  • I'll be back to this some other time, but for now implementing it is more trouble than it's really worth.

• Here's the real secret: I've been doing all this since 2018, but ad revenue alone is tiny compared to the time it took to research, develop, test, and maintain all this for free.

  • As a result, most of my days are swallowed by other work just to keep the lights on.
  • With your help though, I'll be able to go full-time: Faster updates, better tools, and many more features.
    Together, we don’t just keep this going, we build it into what it was always meant to be.
  • So help me keep the lights on here, and have fun with Sawblade!

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