Phase 8 approved (2026-11-09). Adrian's Phase 9 answers: left-out Pokemon rare
in fitting zones; legendaries from crafted summons; no public release.
- Ore veins more sporadic but bigger: nodes about 40 % rarer, veins about 30 %
further apart, each one block larger in radius. 1.5-3x the ore overall; a
new island is needed to see it. World check on the regenerated island passes.
- The respawn block (Regenerating Ore Veins' regenerator): the aim passes
through it unless sneaking (mixin, the pack's first), so ore behind it can be
mined; much fainter glass through KubeJS assets. Self-test
regenerator_lets_the_aim_through casts a real ray.
- 31 lines (67 species) with no matching island biome, or no spawn data
(Rotom), get rare homes in fitting zones (world/zones.json -> homeless).
Existing spawns and guardians don't change. JEI data and quests regenerated.
- surface_nodes_lie_in_the_ground checks the node's centre column: a wider
node's edge can lie under a tree or a slope.
- Roadmap: every implemented Pokemon obtainable; Iris and Complementary
Reimagined as the default shader.
Self-tests and the island check pass.
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Adrian, 2026-11-09, after testing: he likes having both drop pages, but they
should look alike. Our JEI pages now use Cobblemon Info's look: its dark
panel and border, header with icon, title, accent tag and divider, its text
colours and spacing. Long text wraps instead of being cut off (a zone's
levels were lost). Shorter page names (Island Drops, Boss Rewards, Ore
Veins, Pasture Finds), since JEI cut the long title too. The line about the
Drop Synthesizer is gone; its core is the page's catalyst.
Roadmap Phase 9: every implemented Pokemon must be obtainable without
commands, even if rarely or through crafting. 95 of 905 implemented species
aren't reachable by a wild spawn or by evolving a wild line today. The
roster-size default changes to match.
Self-tests pass (drop_sources_match_the_server, jei_pages_build).
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Adrian, 2026-11-02/03: every item that can drop gets a JEI page naming its
sources, alongside the Cobblemon Info add-on (which shows drops and biomes,
not zones). The companion mod's JEI plugin (jei/DropSourcesJei.kt) adds:
- Pokemon drops on the island: 794 species of lines that live on the
island, with chances, amounts and the zones they spawn in (or where their
line lives); spawns with their own drops (Beheeyem in the End). The Drop
Synthesizer core is the catalyst.
- Guardians and the End boss; Sacrifice Altar tiers and specials; Rebirth
Chamber; zone ore veins with regrow times; Cobblebase pasture finds per
skill and zone.
JEI runs on the client, so the pages read assets/cobblesurvival/jei/
drop_sources.json inside the mod, written by tools/jei_sources.py from the
pack's files. Self-tests drop_sources_match_the_server (file vs live server:
drops, zones, own-drop spawns, guardians, End boss, altar) and
jei_pages_build (every page builds, every item exists). The ore a vein gives
moved into world/zones.json (ores -> item), shared with the quest book.
JEI's API (19.64.0.455) is a compile-only dependency from JEI's own Maven.
Self-tests and the island check pass.
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- tools/quests.py writes pack/config/ftbquests/quests/ in FTB Quests 2101's
format (data.snbt, chapters/*.snbt, texts in lang/en_us.snbt) with ids
derived from the YAML names, so progress survives regeneration. Flexible
progression, no lock icons, no rewards (Adrian, 2026-11-03). tools/build.py
runs it.
- docs/quests.yaml: 18 chapters, 74 quests. Getting Started; one chapter per
zone and the End from a zone template (reach it, catch three of its
Pokemon, mine its ores, beat its guardian) plus chapter extras (Mire
Waders, Eyes of Ender, Eternatus); Pokemon Machines; Base and Jobs.
- Node positions: --pull reads them from an FTB Quests folder into the
layout block (only moved nodes); tools/prism_instance.py pulls from the
instance before each sync and rebuilds if something moved.
- The pack's own events as hidden advancements (cobblesurvival:events/...),
granted by QuestEvents: zone reached, guardian beaten, machine filled, End
boss beaten.
- Self-tests quest_book_loads and quest_events_mark_zones; the guardian and
furnace tests check their events. Self-tests and island check pass.
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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.
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