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>
Matt