Tobacconist

Update 4.0.0 - The Tobacco Industry Update

Tobacconist 4.0.0 is released for Minecraft 1.20.1 Forge and Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge with the same intended gameplay and feature set. Loader/API differences are implementation details and are not separate feature versions.

Major Changes

• Greatly expanded optional Create integration for factory-scale tobacco production while keeping the normal hand-crafted progression fully usable.
• Reworked flavoring around the full Aqua Vitae → Flavoring Essence → Aromatic Tobacco / Flavored Molasses → Shisha chain.
• Expanded metadata-aware automation so variety, quality, cure, cut, age, fermentation, flavor, blend identity, and other tobacco data survive processing.
• Added broad tag-driven flavor compatibility so supported ingredients from other food/farming mods can participate without hard dependencies.

Create Processing & Automation

• Added Mechanical Harvester support for mature two-block tobacco crops while preserving normal quality and seed behavior.
• Added Deployer + Chaveta cutting: Cured Leaf → Rough → Ribbon → Shag.
• Added Mechanical Press support for Flake and for finishing the dedicated Cigarette/Cigar production lines.
• Added Mechanical Mixer support for metadata-aware blending, Aqua Vitae, Flavoring Essence, flavored molasses, Shisha, and bulk leaf-quality homogenization.
• Added dedicated automated Cigarette and Cigar assembly using Deployer → Incomplete Product → Mechanical Press while preserving full product quality.
• Added automated Tobacco Box packing and reusable Brass Label application.

Leaf Quality Homogenization

• Added Basin-local bulk homogenization for compatible raw or cured tobacco leaves.
• Homogenization requires multiple quality values and uses a count-weighted average that rounds down, preventing processing from creating quality points.
• No redstone signal targets 64 leaves; signals 1–14 select progressively larger continuous batch sizes up to 576 leaves.
• Signal 15 performs a one-shot finish of the compatible tobacco currently in the Basin, with a 16-leaf minimum.
• Pending homogenizer inputs are protected from generic extraction, and full uniform batches can pass through safely to prevent factory deadlocks.
• Homogenizers can be chained into larger downstream batches for more consistent bulk grading.

Curing & Storage

• Rebuilt the wooden Drying Rack as a one-block, 16-leaf rack with live load/progress visuals.
• Wooden Drying Racks accept valid input from the top or horizontal sides; bottom insertion is blocked and bottom extraction is available only after curing finishes.
• Added traditional Hanging Tobacco Bunches for curing, decoration, and storage.
• Added Tobacco Crates that losslessly store nine matching tobacco units while preserving each unit's metadata.
• Added the Industrial Drying Rack, a two-block, 32-leaf Create factory rack with shared inventory and validated top/side automation.
• Industrial curing requires matching airflow across both rack levels from two distinct Encased Fans; Air, Sun, Fire, and Flue curing remain environment-dependent.
• Added Create-assisted curing and tobacco-smoke ventilation using Encased Fan airflow.
• Added redstone pause control to the Flue Firebox; powering it pauses heat/fuel consumption and preserves the remaining burn time.

Factory Logistics & Monitoring

• Added validated Mechanical Arm support for Drying Racks, Tobacco Barrels, Flue Fireboxes, and Hookahs.
• Expanded support for Funnels, Chutes, Belts, Depots, Packagers, Stock Links, filtered automation, and package routing.
• Expanded Create Attribute Filter support for tobacco identity, cure, cut, flavor, blend data, exact quality, quality tiers/bands, and aging data.
• Added tier-aware Factory Gauge/Frogport matching while preserving meaningful tobacco identity.
• Expanded Display Link information for Tobacconist processing blocks and homogenization.
• Added the Production Monitor for non-invasive factory throughput tracking:
  • Counts Items, 64-item Stack equivalents, or successful Transfers.
  • Supports normal item filters plus Create Filters/Attribute Filters.
  • Configurable target behavior: Keep Counting, Stop Counting, or Reset Count with overflow preservation.
  • Output modes: None, Pulse, or Hold; also supports comparator output and optional rising-edge external reset.
  • Exposes live count/rate/status through its UI, Tobacconist's Spectacles, Create Goggles, and Display Links.

Automation Quality

• Hand crafting and the dedicated Deployer → Incomplete Product → Mechanical Press Cigarette/Cigar route retain full quality.
• Generic crafting automation while Create is installed applies a configurable quality penalty to Cigarettes/Cigars; the default is 10 raw quality points on the underlying 0–120 scale.
• The automation penalty can be configured down to 0.

Aqua Vitae, Essences & Shisha

• Added Aqua Vitae as the extraction/crafting spirit used for Flavoring Essences.
• Added Flavoring Essences for all supported flavor profiles.
• Standardized Tobacconist processing bottles to 250 mB per bottle-equivalent.
• Create Spouts use 250 mB Flavoring Essence for aromatic casing.
• Flavored Molasses uses 250 mB Plain Molasses + 250 mB Flavoring Essence per bottle-equivalent.
• Shisha can use suitable loose tobacco cuts or blends, retains cut-dependent quality, and supports multiple flavors.

Flavor Compatibility

• Flavor ingredients use shared Tobacconist flavor tags, common c: tags, and compatible legacy forge: tags where useful.
• Added broad optional ingredient mappings for Farmer's Delight, Farmer's Respite, Fruits Delight, Croptopia, Neapolitan, HerbalBrews, Expanded Delight, Rustic Delight, Coffee Delight, Create Confectionery, and other correctly tagged mods.
• Added 24 new flavor profiles:
  • Coffee, Vanilla, Strawberry, Banana, Mint, Lime, Grapefruit, Cherry, Grape, Coconut, Blackberry, Raspberry
  • Cinnamon, Caramel, Apricot, Plum, Dragonfruit, Marshmallow, Tea, Hibiscus, Lavender, Peanut, Brownie, Custard

Secret Blends

• Expanded hidden named blend support so recipes can require exact varieties plus minimum quality, cure method, and aromatic flavor.
• Added configurable per-blend visual styling with automatic fallback tinting.
• Added rare configurable built-up smoking bonuses for a small set of legendary secret blends.
• Create blending preserves component identity so qualifying secret blends remain detectable after mechanical processing.

Ponder, JEI & Manual

• Expanded Create Ponder coverage for wooden and Industrial curing, homogenization, cutting/pressing, blending, Aqua Vitae, flavored molasses, Cigarette/Cigar production, Production Monitor use, and factory logistics.
• Expanded JEI coverage and cleaned misleading/fake processing representations.
• Updated The Tobacconist's Manual for current curing, automation, flavoring, monitoring, quality, and factory workflows.

Visuals & Quality of Life

• Added per-flavor Flavoring Essence bottle colors while retaining the bottle-style appearance.
• Added/refined dedicated textures for Rough, Ribbon, Shag, and Flake tobacco cuts and refreshed multiple tobacco/processing items.
• Updated Drying Rack, Industrial Drying Rack, and Hanging Tobacco visuals to better represent load, cure progress, and tobacco variety.
• Improved Spectacles, Hookah, and other item/block visuals and cleaned obsolete or unused resources.

Fixes & Compatibility

• Fixed multiple crop loot, automation, Drying Rack, Hookah, Tobacco Barrel, tobacco-quality, recipe, model, tag, and rendering issues found during the 4.0 development cycle.
• Fixed Double Apple, Double Golden Apple, and Double Royal Apple Create recipe selection/production.
• Prevented Blended Tobacco from entering single-variety quality-averaging recipes, preserving blend identity.
• Hardened optional integrations so Tobacconist remains usable without Create, Curios, JEI, Patchouli, or supported food-mod integrations installed where those dependencies are optional.
• Standardized Tobacconist's Spectacles around the Curios Head slot with the vanilla Head slot as fallback; Curios Mouth-slot smoking remains available when Curios is installed.

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Update 3.0.0 - The Processing Update

Major Additions

• Complete Tobacco Processing System

  • Tobacco now follows a full pipeline: grow → cure → ferment/age → cut → craft
  • Final product quality now depends on the entire process

• Growth Quality System

  • Each tobacco variety now has unique growth preferences
  • Inspect crops with Shift + Right Click to view growth quality

• Curing System

  • Added Drying Rack
  • Tobacco leaves can now be Air, Sun, Fire, or Flue Cured
  • Curing quality is tracked and carried forward
  • Mixed leaves average their quality when crafted together

• Fermentation & Aging

  • Added Tobacco Barrel
  • Manage temperature, humidity, and light to ferment tobacco
  • Aging improves quality over time (up to a limit)

• Tobacco Cutting

  • Added Chaveta cutting tools (Stone → Netherite)
  • Tobacco can now be cut into multiple styles:
    • Ribbon
    • Shag
    • Rough
    • Flake

New Content

• Drying Rack block
• Tobacco Barrel block
• Chaveta tools
• Loose tobacco variants
• Japanese Kiseru pipes
• New tobacco-themed paintings
• New advancements

Integration & Quality of Life

• JEI integration for custom recipes
• Curios mouth slot support
  • Smoking items equipped in the mouth slot can be used with empty-hand right click
• Optional Patchouli guide book support
• Molasses flavorings now have 4 uses instead of 1

Balance

• Nicotine effect now grants small mining speed and movement boosts

Fixes

• Improved hookah textures
• Fixed JEI compatibility for custom recipes

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Update 2.3.1

Fixes:

• Ornate hookah recipes work
• Fixed iron/copper pipe recipe bug
• Fixed hookah stacking bug

Update 2.3.0

New Features:

• NEW! Added additional types of ornate double-high hookahs
  • Ornate Copper hookah
  • Ornate Iron Hookah
  • Ornate Gold Hookah
  • Ornate Diamond Hookah
  • Ornate Amethyst Hookah

Changes:

• Base hookah is now colorless and can be dyed with any dye (including glow ink sacs)

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Update 2.2.0

New Features:

• NEW! Curious API Integration!
  • Wear your pipes, cigars, and cigarettes in your mouth when using the Curious API mod!
• NEW! Added bamboo charcoals and support for charcoal in hookah
  • Smelt bamboo in a furnace/blast furnace to produce bamboo charcoals
  • From best to worst hookah fuel: bamboo charcoals > normal charcoals > coal
• NEW! Added new types of smoking pipes (visual differences only, just for fun)
  • Gold smoking pipe
  • Netherite smoking pipe
  • Diamond-encrusted smoking pipe
  • Emerald-encrusted smoking pipe
  • Lapis-encrusted smoking pipe
  • Gem-encrusted smoking pipe
  • Emerald Aztec smoking pipe

Changes:

• Updated some item textures
• Upped pipe uses from 20 to 40 per tobacco
• Changed duration of normal coal in hookah to be a bit worse

Fixes:

• Fixed pipes stacking bug
• Hookahs only except water now
• Hookah fuel is properly consumed
• Hookah burn duration is stable
• Hookah fuel texture indicator now works