Questown

Final 1.18 Release

• Aside from bugfixes and the occasional backport, this will be the last update to 1.18
• 1.19 is the new reference version for Questown

The "Productivity" Update

The goal of this version is to make villagers more efficient at their jobs, whether via new blocks, tools, jobs, or better code.

Features

• Added "bowl rack" which players and villagers can use for aesthetic storage of bowls
• Added "food display" which can be used for strategically placing food storage
  • Villagers prefer taking food from displays over chests
• Villagers can work in any room that is a "superset" of their job's "worksite"
  • For example, a crafter can make sticks in a forge, because it has a crafting table and a torch
• Adjusted bread maker jobs and worksites
• Added to the "soup cook" job tree and room recipes
• Added "Seed Bin" for farmers, so they can easily keep seeds nearby (more than a chest can hold)
• Farm Recipes are now a thing, in addition to Room Recipes
• Added "weed" job for farmer, where they will remove tall grass from inside a farm's walls
• New quest selection algorithm which generates quests based on what rooms are needed by villagers. So now quests should feel less random.
• Added "no work possible" status to help players understand why a villager is not working
• Fixed rotation of job board when sign is placed facing south(?)

Bug Fixes / Improvements

• Fixed bug where players could not stack items that villagers put in chests
  • Only fixes newly-deposited items
• Reduced amount of messages that show up in chat from Questown
• "No Jobsite" status was buggy. It's better now.
• Made faces on quest screen use correct skin for quest owner
• Fixed rare bug where town might not have quests after server reboot
• Lots of additonal screens on the job board to help players learn how to play Questown
• Added "item jobs" screen which can be opened from the job board or from the economics screen
  • This helps players understand what jobs they should assign to villagers if they want certain items
• Campfire quest no longer causes a bunch of log spam on the server side
• Improved villager navigation
• Improvements to prevent crafters from not doing their work
• Tweaked basic crafter jobs to be faster
• Added item weights for several room recipes to increase quest batch variety
• Fixed game-breaking crash when chests are destroyed
• Generally cleaned up logging

Developer Notes

See GitHub Release Notes