Minecolonies & The little things in life #2

As I wrote in #1 of this series already (here) we're currently focused to fix up small issues and to improve the gameplay and stability in general before we let the next big updates coming.

I, therefore, tackled 7 issues we had on our github to get our issue counter down a bit.
The pull request: https://github.com/Minecolonies/minecolonies/pull/2043
Let's run throught all of them like the last time.

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#1: https://github.com/Minecolonies/minecolonies/pull/2043

Besides the main buildings there are "secondary buildings" like the scarecrow which, until now, was placeable anywhere in the world, I restricted this to inside the colony since players had issues with it.

I basically only had to add it to the list of blocks we check before letting them add to the world.

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#2: https://github.com/Minecolonies/minecolonies/issues/2034

Some players were complaining that they thought a huge amount of raiders are falling into their colonies and only 2 arrived.

Therefore, we adapted the messages to give the player a feeling how many are coming.

So, I created 4 configureable categories of horde sizes which come with their own ID which toggle a different message.

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#3: https://github.com/Minecolonies/minecolonies/issues/2042

A player reported problems with the builder wand after placing the camps.

Since, the camp and the ship are placed through the same interface the problem was that we didn't reset the variables accordingly after leaving it.

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#4: https://github.com/Minecolonies/minecolonies/issues/1935

A player requested that there should be a more efficient way to access our workers inventories. At the moment you have to open their GUI and then click on the "inventory" button.
Now we detect if the player is sneaking (clicking shift) and then right clicks to directly open the inventories of players or buildings.

We get quite easily the value from the minecraft player object.

And then we just decide if we open the inventory or the GUI itself.

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#5: https://github.com/Minecolonies/minecolonies/issues/2044

This one was easy to resolve as well, players were experiencing issues with the cook which seemed to throw errors.

The issue was that the entities of minecolonies occasionally lose their data, since they unloaded and will get it back only a bit later. Therefore, it can happen that we query a worker occasionally and the data is null. Therefore, we have to add a few saveguards there.

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#6: https://github.com/Minecolonies/minecolonies/issues/1863

A player wanted a toggle all on or off button for the lumberjack GUI since else you have to click through all trees to activate or deactivate them.

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#7: https://github.com/Minecolonies/minecolonies/issues/1776

This one didn't even involve coding, I only had to rename the files since the names were switched.

Which involved adding a button to the GUI and a buttonhandler to the code.

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In the last issue I ran while debugging issue #6 after a restart I lost the permissions to access the colony. I found out that this was due to a synchronization error on the client side.

Therefore, I added to the code that besides "on change" it also randomly synchs every now and then.

Using a random variable to avoid that all colonies decide to do this at the same moment.

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We already launched those chances and they'll hit our official modpack in the next 1-2 days as well.
Additionally we ported them to 1.10, 1.11 and 1.12.

I hope you liked the selection of fixes and quality of live improvements.
I'll see you the next time.

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Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors

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