Expanded Materials - Stones and Mortars | Development #2

Hi there, folks! I know I haven't posted much around since a while. Blame school... Luckily this is the last year and I still have at least some time to keep planning things and slowly develop mods, plus I'm gathering some new ideas and learning coding on the meanwhile, so I'm not inactive at all.

For now, I decided to bring you a small update on the development of Expanded Materials - Stones and Mortars, which will be the third mod of the series and personally one that I have been willing to make since long ago.

Developing Progress

As you may already know, the mod will include things like sand, adobe bricks, cement (which will be properly patched to not overlap with the one added by EM - Metals) and some other stuff as well.

I'm currently struggling a bit with the Harmony patches I have written to make some of the mod's features, such as stone chunks dropping you different amounts of clay or cement independently. It seems this code is conflicting with the normal recipe code and some vanilla features like butchering are being heavily affected, like they don't drop leather anymore, which is not necessary to mention it's not a good thing by any means.

Since this is some sort of development journal, I might as well share the code with you. It makes for a more complete post and there's also a 14.32% chance anyone who sees it may help me solve it xD (Don't worry, I will ask for help elsewhere anyway)

Content being added

I'm also working on some new content, such as clay and sand letting you make sculptures, which will be shown as made of ceramic and glass respectively, and I'm also playing around with the idea of adding glass walls. Maybe even making a whole add-on based on glass. I'll let you give your suggestions on that and I'll be happy to read them for sure!

Porcelain is also a new thing I'm adding, which will let the player build beautiful decoration and make amazing pieces of art.

Porcelain will be made from cooking clay in this special oven. It will not be extremely difficult to make, although I'd like it to be balanced so the player won't be able to easily make a lot of wealth out of it.

So this is pretty much it. There's not many other things aside from bugfixing or ideas. I wanted to make this small post to keep you updated and let you know what I'm doing. I hope you enjoy the mod once it's done and have a nice day!

As always, thank you so much for the support <3 See you!