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astraglossa

astraglossa

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Adds a tablet for very rudimentary transliteration intended for conlangs - supplementary learning material only!

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Minecraft: Java Edition

26.1.x

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Client and server

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Licensed EUPL
Published 3 weeks ago

Adds a somewhat-diegetic window-based user interface, accessed via a new block called a 'TabSlate' - providing supplementary learning material for constructed languages!

The TabSlate also has the ability to interface with your inventory, and has some extra capabilities that could be useful utility-wise - and a wearable form of said tablet for accessing windows when out and about.

A player standing among four 'tabslates', single blocks that have a lectern-like shape, with a pink glowing screen. The player is also wearing a miniaturised version of one on their head, retrofitted somewhat to look like a, somewhat cyberpunk-esque meets cute, headset, on account of the dispenser-like face on the front matching that of the tabslates.

Whilst still somewhat rudimentary, the aim is for the mod to be able to display useful information to the player on the go, as well as to add more supplemental language learning features, such as grammatical diagrams, and in-place transliteration of text. The key word is supplemental, however. This most certainly won't be able to replace dedicated resources for learning the relevant conlangs, but it aims to be somewhat of a reference, or to provide transliterations that may be hard to otherwise search for. Future features aim to lean into the UI being diegetic, as well, with the ability to save window contents as items, or pass a viewed dictionary entry to a friend.

Some windows can also have their contents saved to 'file' items to be kept safe, or shared with friends, or organised and colour coded!

A normal minecraft screenshot, but with additional information displayed on the HUD. The screenshot isn't in front of a block providing said UI elements, it's of the player on a walk outside. There are three windows, two of them are a view of the inventory, and of the hotbar. A third window is a dictionary, with 'computer' typed in the search bar (in this case, searching example sentences), the only result being the Lisatopan word 'paita' - showing the translation of said word into 'byte', the search having found the example sentence shown underneath that of 'I only have one gigabyte left in my computer capacity', linked to the Lisatopan transliteration of 'Palanempiso nakate kas nanas punusi kika-paita'. The HeadStele and TabSlate icons are in the player's hotbar.

Whilst intended for LΛMPLIGHT's Lisatopa Tatema - the dictionaries are server-side and datapackable.

Configuration

Datapacks can add new languages, or add to existing ones, through data/astraglossa/transliterations/languageNameHere.json - an example of the word format is provided in source.

Mixins

Mixes into ServerPlayer#tick, if a player has an equipped HeadStele providing persistent access to their windows, then it will broadcast changes to clients if the containers the windows have access to change.

Made for ModFest 26