Templates 2

• Fix messed up Fence Template and Post Template items from last update.
• Add a tooltip to the Slope and Tiny Slope templates reminding you that they can be placed sideways on walls by holding Shift.
• Retexturable models (for "json" and "auto" types), as well as item model overrides, can now be loaded out of a resource pack.
  • See the json files lurking in assets/templates/.
  • This isn't too useful, since the models only make sense when applied to a block from Templates.
  • The existing code-registration API still works. These are dubbed "permanent" mappings (since they aren't cleared on resource reload).
  • Permanent mappings can be overridden with resource-pack ones.
• More datagen.
• Potential ABI break: Use fabric-block-view-api-v2 instead of the deprecated fabric-rendering-data-attachment-v1.
  • This means I use RenderDataBlockEntity instead of the deprecated RenderAttachmentBlockEntity to read information about templates from the world.
  • If you implement ThemeableBlockEntity, please implement ThemeableBlockEntity2 instead. However, the old interface has been changed to extend the new interface and forward calls from fabric-rendering-data-attachment-v1, so addons should still work.
• Potential ABI break: Use fabric-model-loading-api-v1 instead of the deprecated fabric-models-v0.
  • Due to shortcomings of this API (no ability to directly set an UnbakedModel for items), Template items now need an arbitrary json item model to suppress "missing model" logspam.
  • In the future I intend to make fuller use of the features afforded by this library.

• People were rightfully wary of my sketchy TNT data-tracker mixin, so I put a priority on it. It should hopefully apply in a consistent ordering and not cause problems.
  • Please remember to apply this update to the client AND server
• TNTemplate now feels more like a tnt block (breaks instantly, etc)
• Fix recipe unlocking! It now only unlocks when you get bamboo for the first time. Nobody noticed.
• A significant portion of the mod's assets and data files are now automatically generated. Let me know if something feels off.

Old changes (~2023, unreleased until now):

• Start sketching out an API, accessible through TemplatesClientApi.getInstance()
  • (Note from the future: This API will break hard in 1.21 due to Mojang fuckery)
• Code cleanups that hopefully didn't break ABI compat
• Remove some unused stuff from the jar
• Vertical slab placement is a little better
• Fix a bug where templates that look like blocks with randomized models, such as stone, could reroll their blockstate on every resource load
  • Forgot to specify a random seed.
  • Templated blocks always use the same model -- templated stone will still not be randomly rotated/flipped -- but at least now it uses the same same model.

New changes:

• New template: "Post Cross" - a plus shape that fits squarely on fences or the Post template. Can be placed in three different orientations.
• New template: "TNTemplate". This will end well.
• Connected textures should work! I tested with Chisel Reborn. Other blocks should be OK as long as they implement FabricBlock#getAppearance.
• Mushroom blocks now work (as well as any other blocks with "multipart" models).
• Very slightly reduce memory usage of TemplateAppearance?
• Only declare dependencies on the Fabric API modules I actually use.

TODO list:

• I still depend on two deprecated modules, fabric-rendering-data-attachment-v1 (has ABI implications) and fabric-models-v0 (the replacement seems to be fabric-model-loading-api-v1, and this also has ABI implications)

Enable ambient-occlusion (and "smooth lighting") on all Templates except for the slopes, which are still buggy with it

• new Template: Vertical Slab
• new Template: Tiny Slope
• Significantly reduce size of Template block entity NBT tags
  • Blocks will be automatically upgraded when loaded, creative ctrl-picked templates from before this update will not, and may act funny
  • "BlockState" -> "s", like 5 separate boolean flags -> a single bitfield "b"
• Reduce memory footprint of Template block entities
• Respect doTileDrops
• Improve creative ctrl-pick behavior on glowing Templates
• Adding a Barrier block to a Template makes it invisible (does NOT make it unbreakable btw)

Add more block tags, and add item tags

• Add doors and iron doors
• cool rivulet

• Add an Iron Trapdoor template
• Fix mod metadata and add more metadata

Thanks Patbox for noticing/suggesting

First public version. (2.0.0 was yanked for a duplication glitch.)