Build: every tool pinned (JDK, packwiz, Gradle plugins, Python packages), exports
normalised, tools/check_reproducible.py proves two clean builds are byte-identical.
Server-side balance: a server can load config/cobblesurvival/datapack.zip in place of
the jar's data, /reload applies it, tools/server_update.py packages it and refuses
when a client change is needed. JEI drop pages are sent by the server. Code-held
balance numbers moved to tuning/server.json.
Performance: spark in the pack (server only), tools/perf_test.py with fake players
whose chunks really are active, docs/performance.md.
Adrian's feedback: default keys R, U, J, §; drop pages link to Cobblemon Info and show
real chances; bosses only hurt in battles; battle XP halved; channels between the
islands low level; temperature ×3 with insulation doubled; hazards start at once; no
item dots on the map; a wild attack starts a battle; the starter only faints; quest
book on join with a basics page and an HMs page; regional forms obtainable.
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Adrian, 2026-11-09: set up the shader but keep it disabled by default. Iris
1.8.14-beta.1 (built for the pack's Sodium 0.8.13) and Complementary Reimagined
r5.9.3, both client only and fetched from Modrinth. Default Options' extra
folder ships config/iris.properties with shaders off and Complementary
preselected, copied only when a player has none. Toggle Shaders is on M, the
only free letter; Iris's other keys are unbound. tools/build.py fails if the
settings name a shader file the pack doesn't install.
Smoke test passes; client dependencies are satisfied. Not launched on a client.
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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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Adrian (2026-10-31): a Large Furnace where a Fire Pokémon heats real
furnaces (hoppers in and out), our own Electric generator, no upkeep;
then a drop synthesizer (FE into full drop rolls, looting tiers), a
sacrifice altar (level tiers, rare candies only from Lv 80) and a
rebirth chamber (Lv 100 -> shiny Lv 1 first stage, three perfect IVs,
moves kept, Ability Patch so the hidden ability is optional).
- machine/: data-driven 3x3x3 shells (window spots for glass, free
spot under the core), checked in four rotations; the Pokémon walks in
from the party and lives in the core; breaking core or shell sends it
home (party, else PC, offline too); a real Cobblemon entity copy is
shown in the chamber (no AI, invulnerable, uncatchable, never saved).
- Heat Core keeps vanilla furnaces lit and faster; Dynamo Core makes
and pushes FE; Synthesis Core takes FE and rolls drops into a hopper-
extractable buffer; Altar Core sacrifices on a confirmed sneak-use;
Rebirth Core runs on server time.
- Recipes, casing tags, block loot, textures (tools/machine_assets.py),
models, blockstates, names.
- Self-tests: in/out, refusal, shell and core breaks (PC when full),
chunk unload, server restart, and each machine's work.
- Docs: design, balance table, Phase 6 checklist; Phase 5 approved.
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Adrian (2026-10-31): add Cobbreeding without a gate; only Ditto should
be rare, in an endgame area or gated behind something else.
- Cobbreeding 2.4.1 (Modrinth only) and Cloth Config (client) in the
pack; Cobblebase's hatchery takes Cobbreeding's eggs.
- Ditto moved from Button Isle to the Deep Dark with both of Cobblemon's
entries (rare in slime chunks, ultra-rare elsewhere): zone_spawns.py
pins take {"zone", "all_entries"}; Deep Dark target +1, Button Isle -1
so no other line moved; Southwold and Frostpeak guardians pinned (they
tie on base stats and flipped between runs).
- HMs' Trainer Ditto is made uncatchable; it still trades.
- check_deps.py skips other-side dependencies; Cobbreeding's harmless
client-mixin log line allowlisted.
- Self-tests cobbreeding_eggs_fit_the_hatchery, trainer_ditto_cant_be_caught;
docs, balance table, Phase 5 checklist.
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From Adrian's Mining test (2026-10-31):
- A gated job assigned to a pastured Pokemon that doesn't pass its gate
is taken back at once (BaseManager assignment cleared, Cobblebase's
assignment sync sent, owner told what the Pokemon needs), so it no
longer sticks or shows under Buffs -> Active.
- Mining, Ore Finder and Evolution-item Finder only give the ores and
evolution stones of the pasture's zone: new loot condition
cobblesurvival:in_zone, the pack's versions of the 12 Cobblebase
tables (tools/cobblebase_loot.py), Cobblebase's built-in copies
removed at server start (ore/BaseLoot.kt). Mining adds quartz and the
evolution stones, drops the type gems.
- Mining's loot reaching the chest needs an Item Gatherer in the same
pasture (Cobblebase's design); documented, not changed.
- Self-tests gated_jobs_are_taken_back, base_jobs_dig_their_zones_ores;
docs, balance table, licenses, Phase 5 checklist.
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Adrian (2026-10-31): HMs abilities stay open; the ones that get around
zone hazards get soft gates (materials or a high-level Pokemon, never
flags; gifted Pokemon and materials count the same); party passives from
shoulder Pokemon; Cobblebase skills and the Power Block move to soft
gates too.
- Gates: a zone gate passes at the top of the zone's band or while the
Pokemon holds the zone's material (or a harder zone's). Cobblebase
skills check the pastured Pokemon and tell the owner once what it needs.
- Progress record, guardian unlock messages, the Power Block placement
gate and /cobblesurvival progress removed; the Power Block's recipe
already needs Jungle redstone.
- HmsGate: switches off gated HMs auras (Flash, Dive, Mist, Rock Climb,
Magnet Rise, Lucky Chant, Lava Plume) whose Pokemon doesn't pass.
- ShoulderPassives: type-based effects from shoulder Pokemon, hazard
ones (warmth, frigidness, water breathing, night vision) gated.
- Self-tests for all of it; docs, balance table, Phase 5 checklist.
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Adrian (2026-10-31): use Cobblemon HMs; mining ore is the one hard
requirement, furnaces get lit by a Pokemon inside a Phase 6 machine.
- Cobblemon HMs 4.1.0 in the pack (Modrinth), default config.
- Self-test rock_smash_mines_veins: HMs' Rock Smash breaks a
regenerating vein, the ore drops and the vein becomes a regenerator.
- HMs' Trainer Ditto (a wild Ditto underneath) is exempt from the
hostility scan and the stray despawn (world/SpecialPokemon.kt).
- Docs: licenses, addon status, design, balance, roadmap note,
Phase 5 checklist with the open questions for Adrian.
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Adrian (2026-10-30): Cobblebase's skills stay in but gated behind
progression, power from an existing mod (Poke Power) also gated,
evolution stones as ores fine for now, balance fine and configurable.
Progression is the zones whose Alpha guardian a player helped beat
(Progress saved data; a guardian win records it and lists the unlocks).
The gate table is data (progression_gates/base.json): each of
Cobblebase's 44 skills needs a zone (or none), the Power Block needs the
Verdant Jungle. The companion mod wraps every Cobblebase skill executor
in a gate by reflection; a skill missing from the table stays off.
Operator command /cobblesurvival progress. Cobblebase's and Poke Power's
configs ship in the pack. Self-tests: gate coverage, a locked skill only
runs after its guardian, the Power Block waits for the Jungle guardian,
a guardian win counts as progress.
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Regenerating Ore Veins 1.4.0 (CurseForge only, MIT). tools/zone_ores.py
writes its config from world/zones.json: surface zones as boxes from the
zone grid, cave tiers by cave biome, 21 tiers including Cobblemon's
evolution stones (their natural ores are off). The world report now
allows ore only in tracked veins inside their tier's zone. Self-tests:
a mined vein regrows after its chunk unloads and after a restart (new
after_restart pass in selftest.py and quick_check.py). make_world places
showcase veins.
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Free NeoForge 1.21.1 modpack on Cobblemon 1.8.4 built with packwiz, plus
the Kotlin companion mod (cobblesurvival) and its built-in data pack.
- Phase 0: packwiz pack with Modrinth/CurseForge cross-links, build and
export tooling, Prism instance sync, test server with smoke checks.
- Phase 1: Poke Ball shaped island (WorldGen Editor preset, seed isle-26),
Adrian's biome list, no natural ore, structures without ore or vanilla
mobs, no Nether portals, world template builder and world report.
- Phase 2: permadeath (CobbleHardcoreMon plus the companion mod's gap
fixes), Revival Charm, expensive Healing Machine, Lootr refreshing
loot, in-game self-tests on Minecraft's GameTest framework.
- Phase 3 so far: 14 zones with their own spawn pools and level bands
(tools/zone_layout.py, tools/zone_spawns.py, "zone" spawn condition),
Cold Sweat heat and cold as gates with boss-drop insulation recipes,
spawn survey and hazard self-tests in tools/quick_check.py.
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