Its DONE 🥳Devlog#6(Last One)

UPDATE ON MY STATE OF MIND:

• Silly me was putting myself in pressure thinking curseforge takes unspecified time to review files, but github release is also an option 😭i found it very late while going through stardance-help in slack!

SUMMARY:

1. Playing Mechanism is DONE:

• Added the while playing GUI, having the current scores, required to win and form of player, then implemented tabletop placement of cards. Gambler also plays smartly depending on the difficulty:
• Easy: Gambler plays card at random, if ur luck is bad, easy aint easy for u too 😭
• Medium: Gambler have 50-50 chance to either play randomly or smartly via preserving cards and playing with effects, say we got shields so will play first so have a strong hand at the end, u can see in video why in end he had such cards
• Hard: Fully smart play

2. Small Interactive mod testing minecraft room:

• Made a small room having mini-games features to be tested, more information i will provide in the ship! truly excited

3. Creative Tab Optimization:

• Added Mini-Games tab in creative tab and moved that to page 1 so items could be instantly picked and moved building blocks tab on page 2 to optimize space

4. Miscellaneous:

• Added loading page consisting of progress bar and mini games logo for entering the codespace, its a feature i planned to give instant demo but wont be possible in stardance but soon will continue!

The NERVES 😭 Devlog #5

WHAT’S THE REASON??

• Stardance ending in 2 days and still my work aint done and curseforge atleast takes one day to review the mod file, so basically i m left with 1 day and full round mechanism and recipes stuff in middle of my school 😭

WHATS’ NEW:

1. While sitting and interacting with table opens a new GUI consisting following tabs:

• Game : Have a bet meter to decide the bet to place and a card selector to decide how many cards will be used in game showing via fanned cards!
• Rules : Consist of the rules and how to play instructions!
• Advanced : Settings to change the game difficulty which will actually decide how competitive game will be. It has a sheet of emerald textures which i got inspiration from sevtechAges game progression!

2. Game Initialization:

• Smaller part of devlog, but made random cards drawn when clicking Start Play! after checking if the player got the emeralds in inventory he has choose to bet for!

Actual Game MECHANISM is Here 🎰 Devlog #4

SUMMARY:

• Its enough that cards can only be used to throw and fan in hand, from now, cards can be used to play with a gambler. I know its near end of stardance and i just finished my exams so it wont be possible to launch full features but will try to make a functional MVP

HOW IT WORKS??

Currently two suits - Swords ⚔️ and Shields 🛡️ having special influence along with that, numbers 1-10 are there in the pool!

• It features a priority order that if out of two cards played each by gambler and player, the highest suit on priority order will have its effects in the round:
  currently Swords ⚔️ > Shields 🛡️

Shields 🛡️:

• If it got priority, lower the number of the card is of any of the played card, the one gets the points of the round

Swords ⚔️:

• If it got priority, higher the number of the card is of any of the played card, the one gets the points of the round

MORE BREAKDOWN:

1. Gambling Table and Stool 🪑

• Added simple models for table and stool. Table features a finite random pile of cards from where cards can be drawn normally while not playing. The deck only appears after gambler has occupied a seat adjacent to table.
• The table features two parts of 40% and 60%, smaller one being pile area and bigger one is playing area where cards will be thrown!

2. Card Front Face with Pip system ♠️🔟

• A solid white background card front face was made featuring suit pips in middle and numbers on top left corner as upright and inverted on bottom right corner!
• Shift + Right click stack in inventory while not playing also make the random cards fan with numbers and suits, swords have odds to get lower value while shields have tendency to get higher(yes, its opposite to the winning numbers, its done to make game competitive)

3. Gambler Basic Functioning

• Gambler seeks nearby stool and takes seat to challenge players and can sit up from table when right click is done on stool
• Gambler holds card fanned in his hand too when he sits near table and ready to challenge
• Removed jacket of villager while sitting so it doesn’t collide with stool and give realism!

4. Miscellaneous:

• Added msgs over hotbar while sitting on stool to instruct that if the stool is fine to play or we have to sit across gambler
• Added a table-playing state so its easy to manage behavior in playing state

Mini-Games(Animation is Here 🎴Devlog #3)

Summary:

• Finally, Throwing Card isnt anymore plain and boring as now gets a Wrist Flicking animation. Any other person in Server/multiplayer can now see player holding cards and throwing em. Made Commands such as /minigames help and /minigames config and its further commands to set desired variables!

Breakdown

1. Server Side Visibility

• Player in F5 mode or other players can see the following actions:
  ✅ Cards Fanned in hand like a map
  ✅ Player Throwing A card
  ✅ Player Taking the Stance to Throw the card
  ❌ Private shuffled deck of a player(can only see the back as the front too)

2. Config System for Server OP’s

/minigames help or /minigames for help
/minigames config and its further uses as:
/minigames get, /minigames reload, /minigames reset, /minigames set [option] [val]

• despawn <seconds> (or -1 for never)
• damage <amount>
• pickup <true/false>
• gambler <true/false>
• crafting <true/false>
• maxcards <1-9>

3.Client Side Animation For Throwing A card

• Player throwing Card can see the card pulling back and the wrist flick at the impact of throwing card!(animation is perfect, just the card positioning is irritating me, so leaving that for now) There is a FOV zoom and shaking just like the bow too!

4.Controls & Minor Tweaks

• Toggle Hand: Press [O] (customizable in Options → Controls → Key Binds) or Shift + Right-Click while holding Tavern Cards.
• One can fan his cards by shift + right clicking the stack of cards available in their inventory and same for exiting the state
• Card Stack is capped at 9 cards so it can fit in hotbar directly!

Mini-Games (Throwinggg Cards 🃏Devlog #2)

Like For Even What??

Playing Cards is cool, but cooler when thrown!

What was added:

• Now cards can be thrown with holding right click, and have different appearance 🤔on how it hit the block, more holding means more power to go far
• Thrown cards SPIN while in air
• Fixed card Despawn time at 5 mins which can be tweaked later on
• Fixed lighting flicker on thrown card which took several time to find problem
• Cards centering mechanism in hotbar and rest items are preserved but cant be seen in card state
• Just Right Click makes the card lie flat on ground while in range
• Sitting mechanism for next upcoming thing 🤫
• Entity to play with, just the mechanism of approaching to play to the playing table
• Thrown cards can be picked via right click and breaks when the supporting block is broken

I’ll love more suggestion from y’all onto the different ranks of cards as its difficult to make 52 different to manage and on what games could be played with it??

Mini-Games (Devlog #1) ♣️♦️

Whats This??

• A Minecraft Mod which adds bunch of different mini games(yayyyyy) like dice games 🎲, cards🃏 and much moreee….

Breadown

• Made Initial Card Texture for its Back
• Developed a command to temporarily view cards fanned in hand
• Made Rendering System where cards can be seen held in hand as in item and upto 9 cards can be seen
• While in card held mode, one can scroll to select a card out of it while the regular hotbar items vanishes and only appears when this mode is exited!

Ancient Craft - Making City’s Tavern 🍻 (Devlog #3)

Summary

Started working on a gigantic city, firstly making its heart - the Tavern 🍻 Did environment upliftment with huge villager additions, custom AI, and props. Also published our previous spyglass addition as a standalone mod live on CurseForge & Modrinth!
Took this much Time as implementing new mechanics in vanilla villagers were tough and full of debugging so at last created a new entity with same model and most of it was learning creating 3d models🫡

Breakdown

• Town Guard Model: Started learning developing 3d models so its a basic model inspired from KCD just starting so its gonna be improved
• Interactive Talking Tavern Villagers: Added an overhead comic-style speech bubble system with custom audio dialogs (.ogg) for greetings, being attacked, and drawing weapons near them! Kept normal villagers vanilla so the tavern locals feel unique.
• Ambient Tavern Banter: Seated tavern folks periodically gossip about beer prices, weather, blacksmith rates, and suspicious adventurers.
• Intelligent Sitting AI: Tavern villagers now seek out benches, sit down, face adjacent tables, and stay seated naturally before standing up to roam around.
• Connecting Furniture: Added modular Tavern Benches and Tables with dynamic multi-block connectivity (single, left, middle, right parts).
• Clean Dismount & Sit Heights: Calibrated sit heights for both players and NPCs, plus added smart floor dismount detection so you never clip or sink into furniture. (Also enabled sitting on vanilla stairs & slabs!)
• Gambling Mini-game Prep: Added the Gambling Stool and functional Gambling Table (currently refining the model & mechanics).

What’s Next

Will finish the dice gambling mini-game mechanics and build a full tavern structure before moving on to the rest of the city. Will also add tabletop props like mugs, food, or Farmer’s Delight integration!

Ancient Craft- Devlog 2

Summary

Idk how to tell😭but porting from fabric to others like neoforge is painful . Really took vanilla spyglass to a new level and made unnecessary additions to previous weapon- slingshot. Imma bundling this spyglass addition into a separate mod - Insight Glass, u can checkout at Modrinth . Its a client side mod(under review at time of posting) and is made for vanilla, for its usage in my ULTIMATE mod, its gonna be modified and implemented with more stats and new item.

Changelog

Added- Spyglass

• Creature tracking via ray casting in vanilla spyglass(will make custom spyglass for this).Also made a custom but simple HUD Overlay to display stats.
• Detailed stats along with armor(showing dmg reduction too), hp, effective hp(combined with armor), owner name for all mobs and jump height and speed for horses. HP have dynamic progress bar too.
• Glowing boundaries as the spectral arrows give but w different colors, red for aggressive mobs, white for neutral, green for passive and pink for tamed ones.
• Miniature 3d rendered portrait of creature along with its armor and held item.(had to check almost every creature from ghast to tadpole to make everything fit in frame😖)
• Spyglass Zoom ranging from 0.5x to 2.0x. Can detect creatures within 100 blocks. 🫡
• Can represent model of any player too along with creatures from any Mod.

Updated

• Now pebbles thrown from slingshot can destroy crops, grass, flowers and similar items while travelling in air.(Extraaa Realism🗣️)
• Now Poison Pebble is obtainable from ground having a chance of 30% of being a poison pebble instead of normal one. It can be multiple drops too(btw Poison pebble name is so weird to me, please suggest a good one)
• Now one can throw vegetables too from slingshot 🫡specifically beetroot, potato, carrot and poisonous potato, ofc poisonous one has special effects
• Now can also throw clay ball, snow ball too.
• Now pebbles can break glass windows, not the tinted ones(Double Extraaa Realism 🗣️)

Im open to suggestions, help to make this a popular one and any suggestion for name of poison pebble, its model is there in my previous devlog, the one with lush cave texture. Btw this wasn’t all i done as i m making a server type thing where users can actually test my mod without any setup and directly on browser so i will soon update when it will be done!

Ancient Craft-Devlog 1(making slingshot and pebbles as first weapon)

Summary

Started the project with lots of wasting time in tweaking code, downloading stuff and figuring how mods in Minecraft are made. Still the logic is clear and is done with textures being left which is the the harder part. Added functional slingshot mechanics, realistic projectile arcs, custom ammo variants, and natural world generation for ground pebbles

Breakdown Of What’s Done

• Made Custom Pebbles along with few having textures and few placeholders.

1. Normal pebble: Obtainable from ground.(model done)
2. Poison pebble: Pebble giving poison(model done)
3. Soporific Stone and Fire Stone with placeholder Models.
   NOTE: Recipies and Text are pending and now only available through creative and command

• Implemented Logic where pebbles can be found on ground and right-clicking it will give 1-3 pebbles of normal type in overworld.
• Implemented Slingshot Logic and physics with placeholder texture for now.
• White Streak trail for throwing normal pebble(those of end rod, will make a custom soon).

Next Plans

• Pending Textures of pebbles and Slingshot and model for pebbles found on ground
• Recipes for other pebbles and there effects on impact such as poison.
• Custom Trail while throwing different pebbles
• Sound Effects for landing
• Breaking grass and crops on Interaction with pebbles

Please Drop any suggestions to make this mod more enjoyable and giving out more ancient vibes!