Phase 8 begins: quest and JEI add-ons, checked against the pack

Adrian's Phase 8 answers (2026-11-03): Cobblemon tasks from Cobblemon Quests
Reloaded; JEI gets the Cobblemon Info for REI/JEI/EMI add-on, its spawn info
checked against the pack, plus our own pages; no quest rewards; quests
generated from docs/quests.yaml with in-game node moves read back.

- Cobblemon Quests Reloaded 2.0.2+1.8 (CF only, CC-BY-NC-4.0): declares
  Cobblemon 1.8+ and FTB Quests 2101+; adds cobblemon_tasks:cobblemon_task.
  Its bundled MongoDB client is an optional storage backend, off by default.
- Cobblemon Info for REI/JEI/EMI 2.32.14 (MIT, both sides): reads the live
  spawn pool, so it shows the zone pools' species, levels and rarity; it lists
  biomes, not zones (our pages will add the zone). Without it on the server a
  client falls back to Cobblemon's own spawn files.
- crosslink.py found the same Cobblebase and Cobblemon HMs files on CF.
- Self-tests quests_have_cobblemon_tasks and jei_addon_shows_island_spawns
  (every entry the add-on shows is one of the pack's, at the zone's levels,
  none missing). Smoke test, self-tests and the island check pass.
- Docs: design.md Phase 8 section and plan, checklists/phase-8.md,
  addon-status.md, licenses.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/design.md

@@ -298,6 +298,18 @@ Self-tests (`BossTests`): every guardian has a fight and a Cobblemon model; each
 
 **The End has Pokémon** (Adrian, 2026-11-02: it looked barren). The End is a zone of its own, "The End", Lv 50–70 (`world/zones.json` → `dimensions`; `Zones.at` returns it anywhere in the End). Every line Cobblemon spawns in End biomes spawns there too, on top of its home on the island: Beheeyem, Reuniclus and Metagross anywhere; Gothitelle and Sigilyph in End cities; Malamar and Unown with a Poké Snack. Gothita had no island home (it only spawns in the End), so it's new. Cobblemon has all of these uncommon or rare, and it rolls the bucket before the Pokémon, so in the End they move to the common bucket or the End would stay nearly empty; each line weighs the same, Metagross a fifth. Being a zone, the End also has level pressure (full experience up to Lv 75, like the Basalt Furnace) and the wild-Pokémon cleanup above Lv 80; Eternatus is exempt as an uncatchable boss. Self-test `end_has_spawns`.
 
+## Phase 8: questbook and drop sources (Adrian, 2026-11-03)
+
+Adrian's choices: Cobblemon tasks come from **Cobblemon Quests Reloaded** (a maintained fork of Cobblemon Quests for Cobblemon 1.8; the original is stuck on 1.7); JEI gets an add-on, **Cobblemon Info for REI / JEI / EMI**, checked against the pack, plus our own pages for the pack's sources; **quests give no rewards**; quests are written in `docs/quests.yaml` and generated, and node positions Adrian moves in the in-game editor are read back into the file (text and tasks stay in the file).
+
+**Add-ons checked** (2026-11-03). Quests Reloaded declares Cobblemon 1.8+ and FTB Quests 2101+, boots with the pack and adds the task type `cobblemon_tasks:cobblemon_task` (catch, defeat, evolve into, level up, obtain, seen, and more; filters by species, type, form, shiny, level, biome). Cobblemon Info reads the server's live spawn pool, so what it shows is the pack's own zone pools: right species, levels and rarity; the self-test compares every entry. It does not know the pack's zone rule and lists a spawn's biomes instead: a Southwold Pokémon reads as "plains", though it only spawns in Southwold's plains. Our own JEI pages add the zone. It must be on the server too (it is, side both): a client on a server without it falls back to Cobblemon's unmodified spawn files.
+
+**Plan** (in progress):
+- `docs/quests.yaml` → `tools/quests.py` → `pack/config/ftbquests/quests/` (FTB Quests 2101 format: `data.snbt`, `chapter_groups.snbt`, `chapters/*.snbt`, texts in `lang/en_us.snbt`). Quest ids are derived from the YAML ids, so they stay the same across regenerations and players keep their progress. `tools/quests.py --pull <instance>` reads node positions back from an instance's quest files first.
+- Flexible progression everywhere and no lock icons, so dependencies show as lines but never block; check FTB Quests 2101.1.37 for the soft-lock a fix mod reports for 1.20.1.
+- Chapters: getting started, one per zone, base building and Pokémon jobs, machines, bosses and the End. Tasks: Cobblemon tasks (Quests Reloaded), items (drops, materials), and the pack's own events (zone reached, guardian beaten, machine built) as hidden advancements the companion mod grants.
+- JEI: our plugin adds, per item, every place on the island it comes from that Cobblemon Info doesn't cover: guardian and End boss rewards, Sacrifice Altar tiers, ore veins by zone, pasture mining and finder tables by zone; and per Pokémon its zone.
+
 ## Open decisions for Adrian (proceeding with the default, flagged)
 
 | Decision | Default used for now |