Pedestals - Core

Release 1.12 - The Design & Smoothness Update

This update gives pedestals a visual overhaul: new shapes and themes, a cleaner editor, smoother animations, and optional visual extras.

New Features

• New Shapes: Twelve more simple or unusual silhouettes (Plinth, Column, Obelisk, Spire, Altar, Ziggurat, Rustic, Verdigris, Ossuary, Geode, Bamboo, Cherry). The template menu is now paged so every template shows.
• New Themes: Nine built-in design themes (Minimal, Arcane, Nether, Frost, Gilded, Overgrown, Abyss, Ember, Void) are installed as templates (themes.install-defaults). Apply them from Design Templates.
• Name Without Recipe: Pedestals with no recipe now show their name/custom name hologram (toggle with show-name-without-recipe in config.yml).
• Optional Visuals (all off by default): New visuals: section in config.yml - ingredient progress bar, "ready to craft" banner, hologram pop-in, idle particles, ground ring, craft sequence, discovery reveal, and per-pedestal rarity tiers (Display Settings > Rarity Tier).
• GUI Sounds: Click, page-turn, save and delete sounds in the editor menus (gui.sounds).

Bug Fixes

• Theme Fix: Applying a theme no longer drops the item under the pedestal.

Improvements & Technical Changes

• GUI Cleanup: Tighter button layout, a dark interior inside the frame so buttons stand out, shorter button text, and on/off dots on toggles.
• Smoother Animation: Spin, pulse and orbital motion now use client-side interpolation (updates every 2 ticks) for smoother visuals with far fewer packets.
• Performance: Animations and text updates skip pedestals with no nearby players; hologram text is only re-sent when it changes; chunk checks no longer force-load chunks.