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Better Trial Chambers

Better Trial Chambers

BTC is a Minecraft mod that builds upon the vanilla Trial Chambers by incorporating ideas from the Portal and Minecraft Dungeons games, creating trials that focus on not just combat but also puzzle-solving.

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Licensed LGPL-3.0-only
Published last year
Updated last month
All versions

0.3.1-alpha+1.21.1

Alpha
0.3.1-alpha+1.21.16 months ago 20
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Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition
1.21.1
Platform
Fabric
Supported environments
Client and server

Required content

Any compatible version

Changes

Overview

Significant feature expansion including new dungeon mechanics (bonfires, key golems), wire infrastructure improvements, UI enhancements, and numerous bug fixes. All the features are in the process of being made to redo the "main" part of the mod (At this point the structure itself is a small part with all the stuff ive added), the trial chamber

New Features

Bonfire System

  • BonfireBlock: New block for setting local spawn points
    • Client-server synchronization via BonfireSyncPayload
    • Configurable radius per block (stored in NBT)
    • Renderer displays bonfire effect for saved spawn

Key Golem Entity & Related Blocks

  • KeyGolemEntity: New AI-controllable golem type
    • ReturnHomeGoal: Navigate back to saved home position
    • Persistent home location via NBT serialization
    • Mount state tracking to prevent incorrect initialization
    • Can be summoned/controlled via Pet Totem item

Door Enhancements

  • DungeonDoorBlock: New door type GOLEM
    • Opens when Key Golem on player's shoulder
    • Support for KeyGolem and locked door combinations

New UI/Block Elements

  • DungeonButtonBlock: Configurable pressure-sensitive button

    • 40 tick press
    • Directional output using IDungeonWire
    • Full redstone compatibility

  • ObsidianChestBlock: Personal loot chest system

    • Per-player inventory storage
    • Loot table generation on first open
    • Waterloggable
    • Animated block entity renderer

Pressure Plate Improvements

  • DungeonPressurePlateBlock: Enhanced with dungeon wire support
    • Accepts both PlayerEntity and TrialCubeEntity
    • Proper powered state management
    • Wire power emission on DOWN face

Dungeon Flame Blocks

  • Redesigned with Config interface for flexibility
    • Configurable damage, particles, and lighting
    • DEEP_FLAME: 2.0 damage, soul fire particles
    • FORTRESS_FLAME: Always lit (1.0/2.0 damage hybrid)
    • All support powered state toggling via dungeon wire

Architectural Blocks

  • Pilasters: Stone, stone bricks, cracked stone, chiseled tuff variants
  • Pillars: Polished tuff, tuff bricks, chiseled tuff variants
  • Power variants: PowerPilasterBlock & PowerPillarBlock with wire integration

Brazier Improvements

  • Added waterlogging support

Infrastructure & Refactoring

Wire System Overhaul

  • Deprecated interfaces: ICopperWireConnect, IDungeonWireConnect marked @Deprecated
  • New wire interface: IDungeonWire with power detection
  • WireBlockSlow: Renamed from WireBlock for clarity, as it is old
  • DungeonDoorBlock now uses dungeon wire for wired operation

Recipes

  • KeyDuplicateRecipe: Special recipe for key duplication
  • UnbreakableSmithingRecipe: New smithing recipe type with custom serializer

Components & NBT

  • Wrench system refactored:

    • WRENCH_DIRECTION component removed
    • WRENCH_TYPE now uses enum codec
    • Spell components unified

  • New Components:

    • STORED_MOB_UUID: Pet Totem binding
    • STORED_MOB_NBT: Pet entity data persistence
    • STORED_ENTITY_TYPE: Entity type reference
    • Corner position components moved to ModComponents

Pet Totem System

  • UseEntityCallback for pet binding
  • Supports TameableEntity and Tameable interfaces
  • Persistent pet storage in totem items
  • Invulnerability & persistence flags on binding

Gameplay Mechanics

Golem AI Integration

  • KeyGolemEntity attributes registered
  • ReturnHomeGoal pathfinding to home positions
  • Added mountDel flag tracking for entity mounting on KeyGolem
  • Home position relative offset calculations
  • NBT persistence for mount state recovery

Dungeon Door Wiring

  • Pressure plates trigger wired doors
  • Power movement through dungeon wire network
  • DoorType support for wired operations
  • Power pillar/pilaster blocks that are simple to build with and fully intagratable into the existing system.
  • Dungeon Button that fits onto the pillar and powers wires.
  • Interface IDungeonWire that allows for creation of blocks that power wires seemlessly, also a helper method in it that lets you check if it is being powered from an array of directions. Includes java docs for explanation.

Bug Fixes

  • Corrected relative offset initialization for mounted entities
  • Wire power state calculations in dungeon circuits
  • Door state propagation in wired configurations
  • Fixed pilaster collision shapes for horizontal faces
  • Corrected pressure plate redstone output

Configuration Changes

Build Configuration

  • Added access widener path to build.gradle

Block Naming Updates

  • COLUMN → PILLAR tag (better clarity)
  • cracked_stone_pillar → cracked_stone_bricks_pillar
  • Registry aliases for backward compatibility

Technical Improvements

  • Reduced commented debug code throughout
  • Better NBT compound handling
  • Improved component codec usage
  • Enhanced data generation infrastructure
  • Waterloggable support expanded to 5+ blocks
  • Proper FluidState handling on all eligible blocks