Better Than Wolves

September 13th, 2013

• Added a few aspects to Hardcore Wood to make tree farming in general more interesting and a larger part of the game. First, all overworld saplings (not Bloodwood which remains unchanged) have 4 individual growth stages which vary in appearance. The time it takes for saplings to grow into trees has greatly increased (they should now take longer than any other plant to grow), meaning that particularly in the early game, the player will be much more dependent on existing forests for wood, surviving in an area devoid of trees will be much more difficult, and tree farms will need to be much larger to keep up with the same demand. Given Bloodwood is not affected by these changes, it also serves to further increase its value for automation later in the game.
• Added Jungle Spiders as a replacement for the cave/Vioki spiders that were previously spawning in jungles. They have their own texture, unique attributes, and spawn conditions now which are left for the player to discover.
• Added a new edible Cocoa Bean item that is separate from the old one. Old bean items will be converted into Cocoa Powder, which may be created by grinding the beans in a Mill Stone, and which may be used as dye in the regular manner. Note that while Cocoa Beans are edible, Cocoa Powder is not unless it is used as a cooking ingredient to form other foods.
• Added the Chocolate Milk as a new food item. It is created by mixing Cocoa Powder and a milk bucket in the crafting grid. In addition to boosting the food value of milk buckets, Chocolate Milk also retains milk's poison neutralization effects.
• Added Chocolate as a new food item. It is created by cooking Cocoa Powder, sugar, and a milk bucket in the Cauldron. Similar to other desert items it may be eaten even when the hunger meter is full in order to build up fat.
• Added "Pigs Will Eat (almost) Anything!" as a new feature. This changes pigs so that they'll eat, follow, and breed with any of the domesticated crops be that wheat, carrots, or potatoes (cooked or raw). Coincidentally, they also love to eat chocolate (go figure) which means that in some cases they may be bred slightly earlier in the tech tree. Note that they can still also be bred with Kibble, but will still not follow it (it still doesn't taste THAT good).
• Changed the growth and drop rates of cocoa plants to make farming them more interesting and balanced given their new role as an early game food source.
• Changed (reduced) the growth rate of sugar cane to better fit the balance of the rest of the mod.
• Changed the recipes for cookies to replace the cocoa beans with Chocolate. The recipe is now two flour with Chocolate in the middle, in a horizontal line.
• Changed (increased) the hunger restored by drinking milk slightly.
• Changed spawn restrictions on mobs in general in jungles so that they can no longer spawn on leaves, basically reversing the change I had previously made to the vanilla spawning behavior. This was done because of how other mob spawns now relate to Jungle Spiders.
• Changed some code internally to consolidate how animals are tempted by various items to reduce on the associated performance overhead. I just mention this in case it causes any problems with which items tempt which animals.
• Fixed problem with hat damage being reduced by armor (it wasn't supposed to be).