Drops Alex's Mobs from the pack (105 -> 103 mods total). The 4 AM-mob
bounty entries are replaced with vanilla 1.21.x mob bounties (Breeze,
Bogged, Evoker, Vindicator, Piglin Brute, Ravager).
Bounty board bug fix: KubeJS PlayerEvents.loggedIn now ensures the
daily pool is rolled on first login. Previously the pool only rolled
when a player ran /bns bounty list, so the bounty board screen showed
empty for anyone who'd never typed that command.
/bns tier upgrade now uses combined cash+bank deduction via
NumismaticsBridge.spend (Java). Players who've sold a fortune into
their bank can now spend it on tier upgrades directly.
Every player gets a bound white_card on first login — no more "I need
to craft + bind a card before I can spend at a Vendor block" friction.
bnstoolkit 0.6.2 -> 0.7.0.
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bnstoolkit 0.6.1 -> 0.6.2.
Journal (formerly Quest Log) reworked to be useful: active bounties
with progress bars, current Counting House rates per wealth-token,
owned plots. FTB Quests stays as a separate system (footer line
points players to their Quest Book item).
Back button: opens-from-Hub uses FTB Library's previous-screen
mechanism so Close becomes Back and returns to Hub. NPC-opened
journals (no previous screen) get a regular Close.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hub screen showed blank content area: title bar + 3 buttons rendered,
but the status panel in between was empty. Same latent bug affected
every screen with a sub-panel (Tier, Counting House, Bounty, Plot,
Quest Log).
Root cause: FTB Library's Panel.refreshWidgets order is
addWidgets → recurse-into-child-panels.refreshWidgets → alignWidgets.
So when the parent's alignWidgets sets a sub-panel's size, the
sub-panel's children have already aligned themselves using the
sub-panel's pre-size dimensions (0x0). Every Row got setSize(0, 12)
→ invisible.
Fix: size sub-panels BEFORE add() in the parent's addWidgets so the
recursive refreshWidgets sees correct dimensions. Parent's
alignWidgets now only positions the top-level action buttons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Major economy / spawn-design pivot.
## Removed: Create: Encased
The mod's `chorium_ingot` → `creative_casing` chain unlocked 60+
infinite-output creative-tier blocks via fully renewable inputs (rose
quartz + chorus fruit + lava). Single creative_mechanical_drill in a
player base would have produced enough diamonds to trivialize the
civic ladder. Removing the mod was simpler than KubeJS recipe overrides
since none of the mod's other content (wood-variant encased shafts,
coloured casings) was load-bearing for our pack.
Parallel audit of 14 other Create-family mods confirmed none have
similar exploits — only Create: Encased was the breaker.
## Counting House refactor
What used to be "Bazaar" became "Counting House" — a wealth exchange,
not a general shop. Conceptual model:
- Players accumulate diamonds / netherite / ancient debris through
adventure and mining (the wealth-store axis)
- Counting House converts these to spurs, credited directly to the
player's Numismatics bank account
- Iron / gold / coal / lapis / redstone are no longer here — those
belong on player-run Numismatics Vendor blocks at market prices
SellCatalogue cut from 9 items to 4 (diamond, diamond_block,
netherite_ingot, ancient_debris). Diminishing-returns floor tightened
50% -> 30%.
## Numismatics integration
NumismaticsBridge (reflection — no hard dep) wires up:
- ensureAccount on PlayerLoggedInEvent (every player gets a personal
account on first login)
- balanceOf / deposit / deduct for bank operations
- SpurBalance.totalSpurs = inventory coins + own bank balance, no card
lookups required
- HUD overlay now shows three lines: tier / cash on hand / bank
balance — total wealth visible regardless of cards
## /bns commands migrated to Java
`/bns sell` and `/bns wallet` are now Java-handled
(CountingHouseCommands.java). Bank credit happens atomically with
inventory pull. KubeJS `02_sell_shop.js` retired (.retired suffix
preserved in the repo as documentation).
## Hub status-only
Removed the Civic Tier / Bazaar / Bounty / Plot routing buttons.
Transactional screens are now only reachable via NPC dialogue
(`/bns open <screen>` from an Easy NPC COMMAND action). The hub
shows tier + cash + bank + total + slot caps; footer reads "Visit
spawn NPCs for trades, bounties, plots, tier upgrades."
This locks the spawn-as-civic-centre design: players have to travel.
## bnstoolkit jar
0.5.1 -> 0.6.0 (network version 0.4 -> 0.5; TierStateUpdatePacket
now carries cashOnHand + bankBalance separately).
## Pack manifest
102 -> 104 mods after Encased removal. Manifest republished on glados
(publish-pack.py) before restart so the wrapper's sync sees the right
target state. Without that step, the sync was reverting our changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every screen positioned its child widgets with setPos(getX() + offset,
getY() + offset) under the assumption that FTB Library uses absolute
screen coordinates. It uses PARENT-RELATIVE coordinates — the panel's
own position is added back at render time — so all widgets rendered
at panel-position * 2 + offset, shoving them off the right edge.
Fix: drop the getX()/getY() from every setPos. Now using plain
parent-relative offsets, which is what FTB Library docs + FTB Quests/
Chunks source actually do.
Affects: HubScreen, TierUpgradeScreen, BountyBoardScreen,
PlotPurchaseScreen, ShopBrowserScreen, QuestLogScreen.
Also fixed BaseBnsScreen.contentTop()/contentBottom() to return
relative offsets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Regenerates /srv/services/sites/bns/pack/manifest.json from
pack.lock.json + pack/overrides/, mirrors changed override files into
the Caddy-served web root, and atomically swaps in the new manifest.
Resolves a class of bug where the published manifest gets stuck at the
last Windows-side build and the launcher errors with "invalid hash for
<file>" on its next sync. Caught today because the manifest had been
serving v0.33.0 since v0.34.0 shipped — five missed publishes.
Run after every pack PR with sudo on glados:
sudo -n python3 scripts/publish-pack.py
Idempotent. Skips files whose hash already matches the served copy.
Special-cases bnstoolkit-*.jar (side: both — has client UI) so the
launcher doesn't refuse to install it on clients; brassandsigil_tweaks
stays side: server as the existing convention dictates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Create: Tracks+ 1.0.5 (Modrinth slug create-tracks+) adds Trackwork-
style caterpillar/tank tracks to Create contraptions. Fork of qwxon's
original Create:Tracks, the only 1.21.1 NeoForge port. Required deps
(Create, Create Aeronautics, Sable) are all already in the pack.
Use case: tracked vehicles / tanks built with Create — caterpillar
treads for moving contraptions over uneven terrain, military
aesthetic, or just heavy industrial movers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pre-wipe consolidation. After this, the seed pick is unblocked.
bnstoolkit 0.4.1 → 0.5.0 — village supply/demand throttle
- 64×64 block tiles each have a finite demand pool per cost item
- Spur-paying trades decrement their tile's pool; pool refills over 1
hour real-time (lazy refresh, no scheduled tick, no perf overhead)
- Saturated trades show vanilla "out of stock" in the UI until the
villager restocks AND the tile's demand has refilled
- ~150 spurs/hour cap per tile in a fully-stocked multi-profession hall
- 50-librarian-hall exploit dies; players who want more income must
build halls in distant tiles (overworld logistics) OR diversify
professions (each item type has its own pool)
- Anyone with /bns admin can inspect a tile's state — full picture
lives in server.persistentData.bnsVillageDemand
New worldgen mods (Modrinth — both NeoForge 1.21.1):
- Structory 1.3.16 — 15 small thematic ruins: chapels, graveyards,
fire-watch towers, abandoned camps, boats, outcast huts
- Structory: Towers 1.0.16 — 21 mid/rare-tier towers: lighthouses,
engineer's tower, ocean pillars, wizard towers, end towers
Density assessment (per earlier audit): pack goes from ~52 to ~88
generating structure types. Towers are mostly rare-tier (40-80 chunk
spacing) so they read as discoveries, not clutter. Loot is in line
with vanilla bastion/mansion tier — finite chest pool that the
diminishing-returns sell shop and village supply system already
balance against.
Pack mods: 102 → 104.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Post-review consolidation PR. All four open issues from the parallel
code/security/hotkey/NPC audits resolved in one ship.
Key user-facing changes:
UI
- Single keybind: B opens a hub screen with buttons to the 5 sub-screens.
- K/J/N/H/M direct shortcuts default to UNBOUND so they no longer
compete with the ~100 other mods. Rebindable in vanilla controls menu.
- M used to clash with vanilla Social Interactions + FTB Chunks
fullscreen map; fully resolved.
NPC dialogue + scripting integration
- New /bns open <screen> command. Easy NPC dialogue COMMAND actions
can now open any bnstoolkit screen on the clicking player.
- FTB Quests reward commands, command blocks, and /trigger objectives
can all route into bnstoolkit screens via the same command.
- config/easy_npc/security.cfg ships with executeAsUserCommandAllowList
.ALL=bns so dialogue-triggered /bns commands actually run.
Bug fix (this is the load-bearing item)
- Bounty board + plot office screens were reading NBT keys that don't
exist in KubeJS, so they always showed "no active bounties" and "all
plots free" no matter what was actually in the world. Fixed by reading
the real per-player keys (bnsBountyPool/Active/Completed) and the
server-scope bnsPlots compound via KubeJS' MinecraftServer mixin
(reflective, no compileOnly dep on KubeJS).
Hardening (no behavior change, defense-in-depth)
- Per-player token bucket on C2S packets (10/s sustain, 20 burst).
- All STRING_UTF8 codec fields capped at sane sizes (≤80 chars).
- Verb whitelist replaced with structured parse + per-verb regex
validation + rebuilt command. No prefix-startsWith surprises.
- Tier-upgrade in-flight guard closes the concurrent-packet
double-spend race window.
- Log lines sanitised to prevent control-char injection.
Plus the nits caught by review:
- Per-player tick counter for HUD push (was a shared static)
- VillagerTradeRebalance try/catch + null-cost-A passthrough +
round-to-nearest denom split (was floor — ~10% silent price haircut)
- SpurHud component cache (was allocating per frame)
- BountyBoardScreen dead branch removed
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The original handoff doc described an empty M0 scaffold with placeholder
screens to "discuss tomorrow". 0.3.1 actually ships the full UI plus
villager trade rebalance, so the doc now is a testing guide for the
working features rather than a discussion-points list.
Includes the architecture diagram for how Java + KubeJS interact, the
key bindings table, a step-by-step testing path, and a known-gaps list
for future iteration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit deleted 0.1.1 from the gitignored mods dir but
git swallowed the add for 0.3.1 because pack/overrides/mods is
ignored. Re-adding with -f.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bnstoolkit jumps from M0 (empty scaffold) straight to feature complete:
UI screens (all FTB Library widgets, opens via keybinds):
K Civic tier ladder + upgrade
J Bounty board (accept/cancel/turn-in)
N Plot office (buy/release)
H Bazaar sell shop (1/16/64 quick-sell)
M Quest log (status overview)
HUD: top-left tier + spurs balance overlay, refreshed 1Hz server-side.
Villager trade rebalance (NEW): the mod now hooks VillagerTradesEvent
+ WandererTradesEvent and swaps every emerald cost/result for the
Numismatics equivalent (1..7 emeralds -> spurs, 8..63 -> bevels, 64+
-> cogs). This was the blocked Modrinth dep — the third-party mod
options either required a NeoForge bump (numismatics-villager-currency
1.1.0 wants 21.1.230+, we're on 21.1.228) or hand-written JSON for
every trade (data-trades). The in-tree wrapper is cleaner.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Surfaces the server-needs-Start state and the fix details up top so
when matt wakes up he doesn't have to scroll past the M1+ planning
to find out the box is down.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
0.1.0 brought the dedicated server down during construct-mods because
the @Mod constructor called NeoForge.EVENT_BUS.register(this) without
any @SubscribeEvent methods on the class — which NeoForge 21.1 treats
as a fatal IllegalArgumentException.
Caught only after live-deploy (gradle build doesn't simulate the
construct-mods step). 0.1.1 removes the bogus register call. The
@SubscribeEvent listeners will come back in M1 alongside the first
real event handler.
Server has been brought down by the crash and is waiting for a manual
start via the web admin panel. The fixed jar is staged in
/srv/fast/brass-sigil-server/server/mods/ already.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ships the empty bnstoolkit companion mod (0.1.0) into the pack. The mod
loads cleanly on client and server with zero visible surface — it just
proves the deploy pipeline end-to-end so M1-M4 only have to add code,
not figure out tooling.
Per-milestone scope locked in docs/bnstoolkit-discussion-points-2026-06-07.md.
Source: http://10.16.5.102:3000/minecraft/bnstoolkit
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tomorrow-evening testing guide for the command-driven economy
shipped in PR #67. Covers: what works, how to test each system,
quick reference of every /bns command, what's deferred and why,
recovery steps if anything bricks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Foundation economy stack — fully command-driven, ready for the custom
UI mod to layer on top later. Built tonight as a single feature batch.
KubeJS scripts:
pack/overrides/kubejs/server_scripts/economy/
00_tier_system.js — 13-tier ladder + admin commands
02_sell_shop.js — /bns sell, 9 items, DR + tier-fee
03_bounty_engine.js — /bns bounty, 20 bounties, state machine
04_player_commands.js — /bns help, /bns me, /bns tier upgrade
plots.js: updated to support multi-plot ownership based on tier slots
- plotsOwnedBy() returns list, slot cap from TIER_PLOT_SLOTS table
- /bns plot release now requires plot id (multiple plots possible)
- /bns plot mine added
FTB Ranks server config:
pack/overrides/world/serverconfig/ftbranks/ranks.snbt
13 ranks with ftbchunks.max_claimed_chunks scaling per tier:
Peasant 9 -> Sovereign 1500 (chunks)
Peasant 1 -> Sovereign 200 (force-loaded)
Name format colour codes match the design doc.
Player command surface (everything callable from chat or Telegram bridge):
/bns help full command listing
/bns me tier, balance, plots, bounties
/bns tier upgrade pay spurs, advance to next tier
/bns plot list|info|buy|release|mine
/bns sell list|<item> [count]
/bns bounty list|active|accept|cancel|turnin|completed
/bns admin tier get|set|list (op level 2)
/bns admin info|waystone-*|reset-welcome (pre-existing)
Tier upgrade flow:
1. Player runs /bns tier upgrade
2. KubeJS takes spurs from inventory
3. KubeJS sets player.persistentData.bnsTier += 1
4. KubeJS runs `ftbranks add <player> <rank>` so FTB Ranks applies
the permission nodes (chunk allowance auto-flips)
Cross-file scope: KubeJS 2101 runs all server_scripts in shared Rhino
global scope. Constants (TIER_CONFIG, COIN_VALUES, bnsTier object,
shared functions like giveCoins/countCoins/takeCoins) are declared
once in their owning file and referenced from siblings. Don't redeclare.
Blocked tonight (deferred):
- Villager trade rebalance: KubeJS 2101.7.2 doesn't ship a
villagerTrades event. ServerEvents only exposes command/loaded/
recipes/registry/tags/tick/unloaded. Verified by grepping the
KubeJS jar's ServerEvents class. No KubeJS-villager-trade addon
on Modrinth for NeoForge 1.21.1. Either build into the custom
mod or add a third-party trade-overrides mod (research pending).
- Custom mod UI screens: no Java toolchain on host, and these
need visual iteration with the user anyway.
Verified live: server boots clean, all 4 economy scripts log loaded,
port 25565 binds, no EcmaError or EvaluatorException in KubeJS log.
FTB Ranks reload via rcon confirms "Ranks reloaded from disk!"
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KubeJS module that owns the 13-tier civic ladder per economy doc §4a.
Authoritative source for TIER_CONFIG (per-tier perks: cost, wilderness
chunks, plot slots, daily bounty slots, shop fee discount, chat
colour, join broadcast).
Player tier stored as int in player.persistentData.bnsTier; default
1 (Peasant), set on first login.
Admin commands (op level 2):
/bns admin tier get <player>
/bns admin tier set <player> <1-13>
/bns admin tier list
Module-local pattern (KubeJS Rhino runs scripts in strict mode -- no
globalThis, no bare-assignment globals). Other economy scripts will
duplicate TIER_CONFIG and use player.persistentData.bnsTier directly
to read tier rather than trying to import. See feedback-kubejs-rhino-
gotchas memory.
FTB Ranks will mirror this once the bnstoolkit mod ships -- ranks
will carry the FTB Chunks permission nodes. For now the NBT is the
single source of truth and admin promotes manually with /bns admin
tier set.
Verified: server boots clean, KubeJS loads with 0 errors. First-join
hook initialises new players to tier 1.
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Mods added (Phase 0a substrate for the bnstoolkit economy work):
- FTB Quests 2101.1.25 (progression quest UI for Phase 5+)
- FTB XMod Compat 21.1.8 (KubeJS hooks for FTB Chunks/Quests events)
- FTB Ranks 2101.1.3 (tier system via permission nodes)
Design revision: restrictive travel.
This is a Create Aeronautics pack — the journey is the point. Removed
all instant-teleport perks from the tier ladder. Players get one
starter Waystone and use it for spawn↔base; further travel means
building airships, trains, vehicles. Pressure on real movement is
intentional.
Removed perks: sethomes, /back after death.
Removed system: the full sethome subsystem (commands, SavedData,
cooldowns) from the bnstoolkit mod scope.
Tier table reduced from 10 columns to 8: cost, wilderness chunks,
plot slots, daily bounties, shop fee, chat colour, join broadcast.
Mod phasing collapsed from 7 phases to 6 (M2 sethome system removed,
later phases shift up).
Future perk dimensions list updated with two waystone-related
candidates (slot cap, XP cost reduction) as the natural travel-
progression hooks for later tier-perk revisions.
Verified live: all 3 mods discovered + loaded, port 25565 binds,
no FATAL/Crashed/Exception lines in startup log. Server resumed
to 0.32.0 cleanly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New companion-mod design doc covering:
Architecture
- Purpose & scope (what's in the mod vs what stays in KubeJS)
- High-level diagram showing client/server/KubeJS/FTB-stack roles
- Full Java package layout under uk.sijbers.bnstoolkit
- Six GUI screens specified individually with layouts + network calls
(Quest Log, Bounty Board, Tier Upgrade, Plot Purchase, Shop Browser,
Quest Progress HUD)
- Three mixin targets into FTB Chunks' ChunkScreenPanel (drawBackground,
ChunkButton.addMouseOverText, ChunkButton.onClicked) -- no FTB fork
- Network packet contract (7 S2C + 5 C2S packets, versioned)
- Data persistence model (SavedData for plots + sethomes, in-memory
for death locations, KubeJS for quest state)
- Two config files documented (tiers.json + plots.json) with example
JSON5 schemas
- KubeJS integration surface (8 /bnstoolkit_internal commands)
- Build & release setup (separate Gitea repo, standard NeoForge
ModDevGradle, semver)
- 6 mod implementation phases (M0-M6), each independently shippable
Detailed perk specifications
- Wilderness chunks: FTB Ranks permission node, native FTB Chunks
enforcement, no mod-side work
- Plot slots: SavedData-backed ownership tracking, 50% refund on
release
- Sethomes: full sethome system built in bnstoolkit (no other sethome
mod exists in pack). Per-tier cap, 30s cooldown, /sethome /home
/delhome /listhomes commands
- Daily bounty slots: enforced in KubeJS engine, UI greys Accept when
at cap
- Shop fee discount: base 25% Bazaar fee reduced by tier discount.
Only applies to NPC Bazaar shop, not player-to-player Numismatics.
Worked example showing -25% Sovereign = 0% fee = full 10 spurs/diamond
- Chat colour: full colour ladder per tier (grey to rainbow at
Sovereign with character-by-character cycling)
- Join broadcast: 6 levels documented (none, simple, fancy, epic,
epic+particles, epic+spectacular) with example ASCII
- /back after death: in-memory storage, 60s cooldown, dimension-aware
- Future perk dimensions: 7 candidates the schema supports without
code changes (particle trails, custom join sounds, custom title
prefix, priority bounty access, tier-gated vendors, daily login
bonus, keep-inventory chance)
Six open implementation questions flagged for resolution during
build, none blocking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tier ladder extended from 8 -> 13 tiers, with cleaner historical
progression. Replaces the previous Peasant/Citizen/Patron/Notable/
Baron/Noble/Lord/Sovereign ladder which mixed commoner-economic terms
with noble terms.
New 13-tier ladder (Civic + British peerage):
1 Peasant free
2 Farmer 200
3 Citizen 750
4 Merchant 2,500
5 Knight 6,500 (gentry threshold)
6 Baron 15,000 (lowest noble)
7 Viscount 35,000
8 Earl 75,000
9 Marquess 150,000
10 Duke 300,000
11 Archduke 700,000
12 Grand Duke 1,500,000
13 Sovereign 10,000,000 (apex, "finished the game")
Rationale:
- Yeoman -> Farmer, Burgher -> Merchant: both replaced with
recognizable terms while keeping the period feel.
- Earl kept as the British equivalent of Count (Viscount sits below
Earl correctly because Viscount = vice-count).
- Top tier extended above Duke with Archduke -> Grand Duke ->
Sovereign. Avoids singular-feeling Emperor/King/Prince titles.
- Sovereign at 10M is intentionally extreme -- months of dedicated
play to reach, properly mythical.
Full perk table updated to spread cleanly across 13 tiers:
- Plot slots: 0/0/1/1/2/2/3/3/4/5/6/7/10
- Sethomes: 1/1/2/3/4/5/6/8/10/12/16/20/unlimited
- Daily bounties: 3/3/3/4/4/5/5/6/6/7/7/8/10
- Shop fee: 0% down to -25% at Sovereign
- Chat colours: grey -> white -> yellow -> green -> cyan -> blue
-> purple -> gold -> orange -> red -> bright red -> rainbow
Knight (tier 5) is the gentry threshold -- the first meaningful
"I'm somebody" upgrade with colored chat, join broadcast, and /back.
Founder cosmetic flag added for matt (server owner). Permanent chat
prefix [Founder] alongside the normal rank. No gameplay perks; just
identification. Founder still grinds the regular ladder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Architectural revisions:
- UI approach: custom companion mod (working name 'bnstoolkit') built
on FTB Library's UI framework. Polished GUI screens for Quest Log,
Bounty Board, Tier upgrade, Shop browser, Plot purchase. Quest
progress as a custom HUD render layer (no stacked vanilla bossbars).
All player interaction through GUI + NPC dialogue, no chat commands
to memorise. FTB Library UI chosen for visual consistency with the
rest of the FTB stack already in the pack.
- Tier ladder locked: 8 tiers, Civic theme, starting at Peasant.
Peasant -> Citizen -> Patron -> Notable -> Baron -> Noble -> Lord
-> Sovereign. Replaced Burgess with Baron; reordered ascending.
- Tier perks: full table with chunks claimable, spawn plot slots,
sethome count, daily bounty slots, shop fee, chat colour, join
broadcast tier, /back access. JSON-configured at
config/bnstoolkit/tiers.json, hot-reloadable. Easy to tune any
column without code changes.
- Spawn plots clarified as distinct from wilderness chunk claims:
predefined regions at spawn, purchased individually for spurs,
primary use is shops, slot-limited by tier. Purchase happens
inside the FTB Chunks map UI via custom mod mixin. Plot data
lives in the custom mod, not in FTB Chunks.
- Wilderness chunk claims: tier-allocated, free within allowance,
refused above. NO per-chunk pricing (dropped from v0.2). Powered
by FTB Ranks -> FTB Chunks permission nodes.
- Phasing updated to add Phase 0c (mod scaffolding) and reorder
Phases 1-7 to fit the mod-supplied UI work.
- Implementation notes: KubeJS script layout, custom mod package
layout, state data locations, config file locations all
documented.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Final architecture for the economy + quest system. No more V1/V2/V3
iteration cycles. Resolved against actual mod source code and verified
APIs via research spike.
Key decisions locked:
- Bounty UI: custom (bossbar + /quests commands + Easy NPC dialog).
NOT FTB Quests -- it lacks per-player visibility, has no abandon
event, and cooldown is per-team. Confirmed via FTBQ source review.
- Progression UI: FTB Quests (right tool for long-form content where
per-team cooldowns and one-shot rewards are fine).
- Numismatics: direct Java.loadClass access (no events shipped, no
KubeJS bindings). Documented exact API surface and call patterns.
- FTB Chunks claim cost: FTBChunksEvents.before('claim') with
event.setResult() to refuse. Requires adding FTB XMod Compat.
- Tier system: FTB Ranks (CurseForge only) + permission-driven chunk
limits + KubeJS-mediated upgrades via runCommandSilent('ftbranks add').
- Per-player HUD: bossbars, not scoreboards. Vanilla scoreboards are
global; bossbars natively per-player.
- Custom mod for V1: NOT NEEDED. Re-evaluate if blocked.
Mods to add in Phase 0a (one PR before any implementation):
- FTB Quests 2101.1.25
- FTB XMod Compat (latest)
- FTB Ranks 2101.1.3
Phasing updated: Phase 0a (mod additions) blocks the rest. Phase 0b
(spawn build) is non-blocking and user-paced; all systems can be
built and verified before spawn exists.
KubeJS file layout documented for clean implementation:
pack/overrides/kubejs/server_scripts/economy/{01..99}_*.js
11 open decisions resolved. 3 remain non-blocking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three-layer visibility plan:
V1 (Phase 3): /quests, /quests info, /quests cancel commands.
Mobile-friendly via the bridge, no extra mods.
V2 (Phase 3.5): Quest Log book item with dynamic pages.
V3 (later): optional sidebar HUD via vanilla scoreboards.
3-slot active-quest cap so cancellation is a real choice:
- Prevents accept-all-then-cancel-easy-ones RNG shopping
- Keeps state files small
- READY frees the slot so turn-in backlogs are workable
State storage schema documented (active + completed/cooldown).
Phase 3.5 added to the roadmap for the book item.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full design for the unified spawn economy:
- Seven themed guild buildings (Adventurer's, Merchant's, Civic,
Library, Tavern, Foundry, Mint)
- Universal accept → complete → return quest pattern
- Villagers moved fully to spurs with rebalance principles +
initial price guidance
- Money flow architecture (bounded inflows, scaling sinks)
- Phasing plan (8 phases, each independently shippable)
- Mod stack confirmed (we have everything we need for V1)
- Risk register + open decisions to make before implementation
Status: design, not yet implemented. Phase 0 (spawn skeleton)
is the next concrete deliverable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stop hacking around the problem -- use the standard cross-recipe-
viewer hide convention that both NeoForge and JEI define.
Source-level confirmation:
mezz/JustEnoughItems @ 1.21.1
CommonApi/.../api/constants/Tags.java
HIDDEN_FROM_RECIPE_VIEWERS = c:hidden_from_recipe_viewers
Library/.../ingredients/IngredientVisibility.java
isIngredientVisible() calls
ingredientHelper.isHiddenFromRecipeViewersByTags(typedIngredient)
-> any item carrying this tag is hidden from JEI.
neoforged/NeoForge @ 1.21.x
common/Tags.java
Tags.Items.HIDDEN_FROM_RECIPE_VIEWERS = c:hidden_from_recipe_viewers
-> same tag, NeoForge agrees with JEI.
EMI / REI also respect this tag (common convention).
So the proper modpack-shippable fix is a single datapack file:
pack/overrides/world/datapacks/bns-fuel/data/c/tags/item/
hidden_from_recipe_viewers.json
{
"replace": false,
"values": [
"alexsmobs:shattered_dimensional_carver",
"alexsmobs:transmutation_table"
]
}
No mod, no KubeJS, no CraftTweaker, no Item Obliterator JEI integration
(which doesn't exist for 1.21.1 NeoForge anyway). Just the tag the
recipe-viewer ecosystem agreed on years ago.
Item Obliterator + Necronomicon stay in the pack for what they actually
deliver on 1.21.1: inventory-pickup block + villager-trade removal +
right-click cancellation. The Capsid recipe override stays too as the
creation block.
The full disable stack now:
- Tag (this commit) -> Hidden from JEI / REI / EMI
- Datapack capsid recipe -> Can't be created in-world
- Item Obliterator -> Can't be picked up / right-clicked
if obtained via /give or creative
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
I removed this datapack override in v0.31.0 on the (incorrect)
assumption that Item Obliterator would also handle Alex's Mobs'
custom capsid_recipes recipe type. It doesn't -- Item Obliterator
intercepts vanilla and some common modded recipes, but the Capsid
uses its own SimpleJsonResourceReloadListener bound to the
"capsid_recipes" folder, and that listener still loaded the
default shipped recipe.
The visible bug: a player could put a regular Dimensional Carver
into a Capsid -- the recipe matched, the Dimensional Carver was
consumed, and the Capsid spat out a Shattered Dimensional Carver.
Item Obliterator then refused the pickup. Net result:
- Player loses their hard-earned regular Carver
- Player can never pick up the Shattered one
- World has an unrecoverable floating item entity
Restore the override at:
pack/overrides/world/datapacks/bns-fuel/data/alexsmobs/
capsid_recipes/shattered_dimensional_carver.json
This swaps the recipe's input from `alexsmobs:dimensional_carver` to
`minecraft:barrier`, which is unobtainable in survival. The recipe
loads cleanly but can never match. The Capsid transformation for
the Shattered Carver effectively no longer exists.
Item Obliterator still handles the JEI / creative tab / inventory /
trade removal -- both layers complement each other.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the v0.30.x ad-hoc disable mechanisms (KubeJS server script,
datapack recipe override, KubeJS client-side JEI hide -- which was
broken on this KubeJS build) with a single proper tool:
- **Item Obliterator 2.3.0** + dep **Necronomicon API 1.6.0**
Declarative JSON config to remove items from inventories,
creative tabs, all recipes (including modded custom recipe
types), villager trades, and JEI. Exactly the missing capability.
Config: pack/overrides/defaultconfigs/item_obliterator.json5
Blacklists:
alexsmobs:transmutation_table
alexsmobs:shattered_dimensional_carver
Removed (no longer needed):
- pack/overrides/kubejs/server_scripts/disable_alexsmobs_features.js
(Item Obliterator handles transmutation_table recipe removal
and right-click cancel automatically)
- pack/overrides/world/datapacks/bns-fuel/data/alexsmobs/
capsid_recipes/shattered_dimensional_carver.json
(Item Obliterator handles modded recipe removal too)
Both items now correctly:
- Don't appear in JEI search / item list
- Don't appear in creative tabs
- Have no working recipe path
- Can't be right-clicked / used
- Get scrubbed from inventories on join
The Void Worm boss + regular Dimensional Carver still work --
nothing else in Alex's Mobs is affected.
Verified live: both mods discovered, Necronomicon read our config
file successfully ("File exists, reading config"), Item Obliterator
loaded with the blacklist.
Note: config schema is v2; v1 configs get overwritten by the mod's
default. Always write configVersion: 2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hide_disabled_items.js client script I added in v0.30.3 used
`JEIEvents.hideItems(...)` -- a namespace that does NOT exist in
KubeJS 2101.7.2 on NeoForge 1.21.1. There is no kubejs-jei bridge
mod for 1.21.1 NeoForge published on Modrinth at this time.
Client launchers were showing:
KubeJS client script errors
hide_disabled_items.js#8
ReferenceError: \"JEIEvents\" is not defined.
Removing the script entirely. The Shattered Dimensional Carver
still:
- Cannot be produced (Capsid recipe override with barrier input)
- Does nothing on use (server-side right-click cancel)
Tradeoff: the item will still appear as a recipe-less entry in JEI
search if players type its name. Cosmetic only; no gameplay path
to obtain or use it.
If a JEI-hide approach becomes available in a future KubeJS update
or via a new bridge mod, we can revisit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces v0.30.2's right-click intercept with two cleaner layers:
1. Datapack override of the Capsid recipe
pack/overrides/world/datapacks/bns-fuel/data/alexsmobs/
capsid_recipes/shattered_dimensional_carver.json
Changes the input from `alexsmobs:dimensional_carver` to
`minecraft:barrier`, which players cannot obtain in survival.
The recipe loads cleanly but never matches, so the item is
never produced through normal play.
2. Client-side KubeJS JEI hide
pack/overrides/kubejs/client_scripts/hide_disabled_items.js
Hides `alexsmobs:shattered_dimensional_carver` from JEI search
and the item list, so it doesn't appear as a recipe-less ghost.
The right-click intercept in server_scripts/disable_alexsmobs_features.js
stays in place as a safety net for /give cases. Transmutation Table
recipe removal also stays as-is.
Net effect: the Shattered Dimensional Carver effectively does not
exist on this server. Void Worm fight + regular Dimensional Carver
return-home item both stay intact.
Verified live: pack synced to 0.30.3, Alex's Mobs registered its
capsid_recipes datapack listener (which reads our override file).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
KubeJS server script that:
1. Removes the crafting recipe for alexsmobs:transmutation_table.
The Transmutation Table converts items freely with XP cost,
which competes with Ars Nouveau's depth and undermines the
Numismatics-based plot economy. No new tables can be made;
no existing tables exist on the world yet.
2. Cancels the right-click action on
alexsmobs:shattered_dimensional_carver. The item teleports the
user 1,000,000 blocks in a random direction -- breaks any
server-side world-boundary assumption, drops the player into
unloaded chunks far from the rest of the world. The item can
still be produced (the Capsid-shatters-Carver interaction is
a block reaction, not a recipe we can remove cleanly), but it
does nothing on use and sends an explanation to the player.
The Void Worm boss + regular Dimensional Carver (return-home
teleport) stay enabled. Players can still fight the boss and earn
the home-recall item, just not the world-bounding-breaking variant.
Verified live: KubeJS loaded script in 3ms, removed recipe at
recipe-event time, server bound to 25565.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Client launcher reported on startup:
Mod improved_village_placement requires lithostitched 1.4 or above
Currently, lithostitched is not installed
Cause: lithostitched was flagged side=server in pack.lock and the
live manifest, so the client launcher skipped it during sync. But
Improved Village Placement (added in v0.29.1) declares lithostitched
as a runtime dependency and IVP itself is side=both, so the client
loaded IVP and then failed the dep check.
Lithostitched is a worldgen library — many mods that use it need it
on both sides (client renders modded structures using its hooks).
Flipping to side=both is the safer default for any library mod.
The other server-side flagged entries (Yung's Better X, noisium,
async-locator, servercore) are genuinely server-only and stay as-is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the v0.30.0 combat-feel batch:
- Better Combat 2.3.2 -- directional attacks, multi-hit swings,
weapon-type animations. Data-driven attack profiles so Create,
CBC, Ars weapons all get appropriate swings automatically. No
new weapons or recipes -- pure mechanics overhaul. First-person
view fully supported as of 2.0.4.
- Combat Roll 2.0.6 -- dodge roll on double-tap with brief invuln
+ roll-related attributes/enchants. Same author and shares deps
with Better Combat, explicitly designed to work alongside.
- Alex's Mobs port 1.22.17 -- wide nature-themed mob variety
(~70+ creatures). Original mod stops at 1.20.1; this is the
community port for 1.21.1, 187k downloads, recently updated.
Deps added with the batch (all new to pack):
- Cloth Config 15.0.140 (BC + Combat Roll)
- playerAnimator 2.0.4 (BC + Combat Roll)
- Citadel port 2.7.6 (Alex's Mobs)
Verified live: 0.30.0 synced, all 6 jars discovered, BC registered
3007-byte weapon attribute table, Combat Roll loaded, Alex's Mobs
adding datapack listeners. KubeJS 0 errors, port 25565 binds.
The v0.31.0 batch (Twilight Forest + Aether) is parked for later --
holding until plot/economy work is running so players have reason
to leave spawn for those dimensions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds Improved Village Placement 1.1.1 (Modrinth). Forces villages
to spawn on flat terrain instead of clipping into hillsides /
floating mid-air on slopes. Tiny mod (34KB). Required dep
Lithostitched is already in the pack at 1.7.2.
Verified live: mod loaded, server boots clean, port 25565 binds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without this entry, lava buckets get the vanilla bucket-burn fallback
of 20000 ticks each — which made lava more powerful than refined
TFMG kerosene/naphtha despite being free and trivially obtainable.
Setting lava to 8000 ticks matches crude_oil exactly: both are the
raw entry-tier fuels you can scoop without any infrastructure, and
the player has to commit to a refining setup to unlock the higher
tiers.
Solid fuels (coal, charcoal, blaze rods, etc.) continue to work via
realisticTrains' chest/barrel pathway -- no datapack entry needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Revert the custom tier-strict + user-error-forgiveness tuning shipped
in v0.29.0 and use the mod's shipped defaults instead:
squibChance 0.0 -> 0.25
barrelChargeBurstChance 0.0 -> 0.2
interruptedIgnitionChance 0.0 -> 0.33
overloadBurstChance 1.0 -> 0.5
failureExplosionPower 0.0 -> 2.0
disableAllCannonFailure stays false. Tier balance is still preserved
(material maxSafePropellantStress is what gates overload). The
difference is failures are now probabilistic per the mod author's
intended balance, and the explosion has its default power.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two related gameplay tweaks:
1. Train fuel requirement (Steam 'n' Rails)
- Set realisticTrains = true in railways-server.toml.
Trains now consume fuel from a Fuel Tank (liquid) or solid fuels
in chests/barrels on the contraption. realisticFuelTanks stays
true so tanks won't accept water/junk.
- Ship a datapack bns-fuel/ that defines TFMG fluids as proper
liquid fuels at tiered burn rates:
crude_oil 8000 ticks/bucket (raw, abundant -- entry)
furnace_gas 12000 ticks/bucket (cheap by-product)
naphtha 24000 ticks/bucket (mid refined)
kerosene 24000 ticks/bucket (mid refined)
gasoline 36000 ticks/bucket (top refined)
diesel 48000 ticks/bucket (top refined, longest)
Vanilla lava bucket still works via bucket-burn fallback
(20000 ticks). Tier curve incentivises building a real refinery.
2. CBC tier-preserving cannon safety
- Revert the nuclear disableAllCannonFailure=true switch shipped
in v0.28 hotfix -- it killed the bronze/steel/nethersteel tier
balance because overloaded cannons fired without consequence.
- Per-lever config that protects against random RNG losses while
keeping the tier mechanic intact:
disableAllCannonFailure = false
squibChance = 0.0 (no random projectile-stuck)
barrelChargeBurstChance = 0.0 (forgive misplaced charges)
interruptedIgnitionChance = 0.0 (forgive gapped loads)
overloadBurstChance = 1.0 (TIER STRICT -- exceed your
cannon's rated propellant
stress = lose the cannon)
failureExplosionPower = 0.0 (no collateral blast when it
does die from overload)
- Effect: a cannon built to spec and used within its
maxSafePropellantStress is immortal. Overloading dies cleanly
per the material's failureMode, no fortress damage. User error
(squib/misplace/gap) doesn't destroy expensive builds.
Stress units NOT supported for trains: verified by inspecting Rails
and Create bytecode, nothing consumes SU for train movement. Liquid
fuel is the supported mechanism.
Verified live: server boots clean, port 25565 binds, KubeJS loads
0 errors, Minecraft auto-enables the bns-fuel datapack, Rails
initializes the LiquidFuelManager reload listener.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cannons are expensive to build; users were losing them to RNG
self-destruction (squib, barrel charge burst, overload, interrupted
ignition, catastrophic failure). Per-cannon failure is configurable
via a single master switch in createbigcannons-server.toml:
[failure]
disableAllCannonFailure = true
This zeroes out all six failure paths in one go. Applied to the live
server and tracked here under defaultconfigs/ so future server resets
preserve it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds two mods on top of v0.27.0:
- Create: Steam 'n' Rails 0.2.0+neoforge-mc1.21.1 (stable). The
official Steam 'n' Rails team skipped 1.21.1, so this is the
"Porters of Railways" community port — actively maintained,
310k downloads on the beta line and 0.2.0 just hit stable.
Brings train QoL: track tools, semaphores, conductor cap,
smokestacks, narrow-gauge tracks, etc.
- Copycats+ aeronautics weight 1.1.1. Small interop mod so
copycat blocks contribute weight to Create: Aeronautics
contraptions instead of being treated as massless. ~15KB.
All deps satisfied by mods already in the pack (Create, Copycats+,
Sable, Create: Aeronautics).
Tested live: server boots, port 25565 binds, KubeJS loads 0/0 errors,
aerocopycats logs HELLO FROM COMMON SETUP, Railways registers
55+53+238 entries across its three creative tabs. No new crashes.
Known noise: Steam 'n' Rails ships optional loot tables for tracks
of wood types from many other mods (TwilightForest, BYG, TFC, Blue
Skies, Hex Casting, BoP, etc.). Mods absent from this pack produce
~276 'Unknown registry key' ERROR lines once at boot. Harmless —
loot tables for items that don't exist just fail to parse and get
skipped. Standard behavior for Rails on lean packs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Now that v0.27.0 ships kubejs_create, the high-level
event.recipes.create.pressing(out, in) builder works, replacing the
raw event.custom({type: 'create:pressing', ...}) JSON shim we needed
before.
Verified live on the server -- recipe loads cleanly:
[bns/supplementaries_bridges] added flax -> string press recipe
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three small Create addons, no overlap with current 18-mod Create stack:
+ kubejs-create v2101.3.1-build.18
Recipe builders for KubeJS scripts. Will replace the raw
Create:pressing JSON in supplementaries_bridges.js with a
cleaner event.recipes.create.* call.
+ create-encased v1.8.1-ht1
Encased/cased variants of Create kinetic blocks (shafts,
gearboxes, cogwheels in compact casings) for cleaner builds.
+ bellsandwhistles v0.4.7-1.21.1
Train whistles, bells, signal lights, station decoration.
All three already deployed live; pack-version.json bumped, MC
server restarted to sync. No mod-load errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cold ZFS pool is a backup tier only — hot data (MC world, Gitea,
Directus DB, containers) lives on NVMe LVM, not ZFS. So ARC's default of
50% RAM was wasted: nothing it could cache was hot enough to matter, and
the ~16GB cache crowded MC out of RAM, pushing 2.4GB into swap.
This file lives in the repo for reproducibility; it gets dropped into
/etc/modprobe.d/ on the host and applied immediately via
/sys/module/zfs/parameters/zfs_arc_{max,min}.
Effect on glados:
before: used=27/31GB, free=748MB, ARC=15.6GB
after: used=~10GB, free=~14GB, ARC=1.0GB (1-2GB range)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The wake loop's daily-times branch was firing one missed slot per minute
on service restart. With a schedule like "00:00,04:00,08:00,12:00,16:00,
20:00" and a restart at 19:00, the wrapper would catch up by firing 5
backups at 1-minute intervals -- each a full-world zip of the same
in-memory world. Pure waste: the live world hasn't diverged across the
missed clock slots, the snapshots would be near-identical, and the rapid
save-off/save-on churn impacts player experience.
Source comment already documented the intended behaviour ("Doesn't catch
up if the server was off when a slot passed -- daily/interval backups
don't need replay logic.") but the code didn't implement it.
Fix: in Start(), pre-populate _firedToday with all times <= now so the
wake loop only fires future slots for the rest of today.
Tested live on glados: switched schedule to clock-aligned daily-times
after deploying the fix, zero catch-up backups fired in the 90s window
after restart (vs 5+ before the fix).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mods added (in lockfile):
v0.24.0 YUNG's structure mods (9):
- Better Dungeons, Better Mineshafts, Better Ocean
Monuments, Better Nether Fortresses, Better End Island,
Better Witch Huts, Better Desert Temples, Better Jungle
Temples, Bridges, Extras
v0.24.1 Create: Radars (Aeronautics-compatible from v0.4.5.1+)
v0.24.2 Ars Creo + Create Ars Compact (the latter removed in 0.25.0)
v0.24.3 FallingTree (whole-tree chop on axe hit)
v0.24.4 Copycats+, Create: Connected, Create: Interiors
v0.24.5 Create: Power Loader (Aeronautics-airship chunkloading)
v0.24.6 -- KubeJS bridges only (see below)
v0.24.7 -- Patchouli welcome book attempt 1 (kubejs/data) -- failed
v0.24.8 -- Patchouli attempt 2 (assets/data split) -- failed
v0.24.9 -- Patchouli attempt 3 (patchouli_books/ root path) -- worked
v0.25.0 REMOVED Create Ars Compact (broken sauce:source_fluid recipes,
no public tracker, half-finished compat layer);
added Create: Dragons Plus, Create: Enchantment Industry
v0.26.0 Sophisticated Core/Storage/Backpacks/Create-Integration,
Create: Additional Logistics
KubeJS additions:
- supplementaries_bridges.js: flax -> 2x string via Create Press,
Plunderer drops 1-3 spurs via EntityEvents.drops
- recipes_numismatics.js: renamed COIN_IDS -> COIN_RECIPE_REMOVE_IDS
to avoid Rhino global-scope collision with numismatics_tooltips.js,
added sprocket to the removal list (was missing)
- welcome.js: migrated from vanilla written_book (broken Filterable
codec in 1.21) to Patchouli book at patchouli_books/manual/
Patchouli manual:
- 5 entries (Welcome, Waystones, Money, Plots, Rules) under one
"Server Basics" category
- Lives at pack/overrides/patchouli_books/ (root path) -- this is
the modpack-author path per Patchouli docs, NOT data/+assets/
which is for mods bundled in jars
- Book id: patchouli:manual (default namespace in this mode)
All v0.24-v0.26 work has been live on the server and tested.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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