- Button Isle is peaceful: wild Pokémon only fight a player who hit them first
(tuning/server.json peaceful_zones); its apricorns and coal make Poké Balls
(4 apricorns + coal or charcoal), and the world report checks it has enough.
- Quest book: no boilerplate; each zone page says what is particular to it, and
every zone that needs gear or a field move to be safe has its own quest. New
page on the bigger mods (Cold Sweat, Fight or Flight, Cobblebase, breeding,
veins, shared loot, maps and info).
- The Mire's poison stops 10 blocks below the surface.
- Player battles never cost a Pokémon (CobbleHardcoreMon config, mixins, and the
companion mod's own permadeath).
- tools/item_audit.py: every item with a use has a source on the island; new
sources for the gaps it found (species additions, three recipes).
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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: legendaries, mythicals, Ultra Beasts and Paradox Pokemon
come from crafted summons. 22 Sigils (Naganadel evolves from Poipole), one
item told apart by custom data, from world/summons.json through
tools/summons.py: late-game recipes in three tiers (Lv 70, 80, 90), each used
in a fitting zone. A summoned legend fights as a boss (area attacks by level
and type, arena 32, the Guardian's Ward) but can be caught; on capture it
loses every boss mark. One at a time within 96 blocks.
Quest book: a Legends chapter, one quest per Sigil (97 quests). JEI lists each
Sigil as its own item, and Island Drops says where a legend is summoned; drops
Cobblemon names but doesn't have (Ho-Oh's Sacred Ash) get no slot.
Self-tests every_implemented_pokemon_is_obtainable (spawn, fossil or Sigil for
every implemented species) and sigil_summons_a_catchable_legend. Self-tests
and the island check pass.
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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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