Created by [email protected].
This mod is in Beta: Use at your own risk! (make a backup of your data before you update). You will likely need to generate a fresh config file.
World Advancement and Progression lets you fine tune world settings. Ideal to use on multiplayer/RP (roleplay) servers to control world advancement.
NOTE: This mod is under heavy development and is not finished. All pre-releases are intended for those interested in helping test new features until the first official release.
The main feature of this mod is to have an easy way to fully customize the world difficulty. Set the difficulty of each biome by using the automatic scaling system or by defining your own custom scaling. Configure all creatures and items automatically with the auto-scaling feature. This mod will dynamically create a game balance that is very different from the Vanilla gameplay experience!
By default this mod will prevent/block public keys from being added to the global list. BlockAllGlobalKeys is true by default; To use Vanilla behavior change BlockAllGlobalKeys to false. Configure AllowedGlobalKeys or BlockedGlobalKeys lists to allow/block keys ONLY depending on the value of BlockAllGlobalKeys. To see details generate the config file. These keys are case sensitive and MUST match the value exactly or it will not work. This feature will work with other mods that add in custom keys.
Examples of Vanilla Public Keys:
Planned features include: Implementing a player key system separate from the global key system. For developers: define your own player keys and use them in your mods!
Customize skill drain by turning it off entirely, setting to an absolute number, or using a comparison to choose the lower/higher skill drain. See options in the config file.
Planned features include: Implementing a skill floor and ceiling controlled by public and player keys.
The world is scaled according to the natural vanilla game progression by default. To customize the built in automatic scaling feature you will have to have a basic understanding of linear and exponential scaling. Set the type of scaling and the rate in the config files. Disable/Enable the scaling feature for Creatures/Items individually in the configs.
Linear scaling by default is a 75% growth (0.75). This means your 1st biome (Black Forest, Meadows is 0th) will have a scaling factor of 1.75, and 7th will be 6.25 for calculations. All items naturally found in these areas will have this scaling applied to them.
To use Exponential scaling (the ideal scaling method in my opinion) more care must be taken with the config in order not to generate huge numbers that break everything. Given that there are by default only 8 biomes to scale, the maximum scaling value you can input is roughly 21 without blatantly breaking the code generating the values (for 12 biomes this number is about 6). However, 21 is a much, much bigger number than you could ever want. Recommended values for exponential scaling are in a range of 0.25 - 1 (if only using 8 biome difficulties). For example, an exponential scaling of 0.75 will set the 1st biome to 1.75x harder, 7th biome to be about 50x harder than the base biome. This is in stark contrast to the values set by linear scaling and is the ideal way to naturally enforce "Biome Locking" (which is the main reason why this mod exists).
Planned features include: Finishing the auto scaling to work for all aspects of the game balance (creatures, armor, weapons, etc).
Planned features include: Define your own biomes and add them to the scaling system by using any int value as a key that is not used. This mod's default values can be overridden to set custom scaling after initialization. (Again, please use caution with the Exponential scaling feature configuration)
Examples:
Biomes are given the following int codes:
All issues can be reported on the project Github. To report issues please be as specific as possible and provide the following:
All feedback, ideas, and requests are welcome! You can message me at my discord Venture Gaming.