Andrea's Sprinklers: Revived

HytaleSprinklers — Changelog 1.6.0 → 1.6.16

New Features

• Hoe Tilling (Tool_Hoe_...): Interacting with the funneled sprinkler while holding a hoe tills all Soil_Dirt_... blocks (excluding half-block/slab variants) and Soil_Grass_... within the perimeter into Soil_Dirt_Tilled. Consumes 1 hoe durability per tilled block (can be disabled via config).

• Crystallization with Tool_Fertilizer_Crystal: Converts tilled soil (TilledSoilBlock, both dry and wet) within the perimeter into Soil_Dirt_Crystal. Consumes 1 crystal fertilizer from the stack per block (can be disabled via config).

• Fertilization with Tool_Fertilizer: Sets setFertilized(true) on tilled soil within the perimeter (both dry and wet) and wakes up the tick of the block (and the crop above, if present) so the engine actually applies the state. Consumes 1 tool durability per block (can be disabled via config).

• Berry Bush Planting: Items of type Plant_Crop_Berry_Block (which do not have a SeedId and were previously not recognized as seeds) can now be planted via the funneled sprinkler just like standard seeds.

• Planting on Soil_Dirt_Crystal: Allowed exclusively for a whitelist of seeds (health/stamina/mana, tiers 1-3); planting on all other soil types remains unchanged.

• 3 New Configuration Settings: Added to SprinklerSettings (in the same sickle_config file as before): HoeDurabilityLossOnTill, FertilizerBagConsumedOnUse, FertilizerDurabilityLossOnUse — all set to true by default.

• Funnel Interaction Text: Updated to explicitly mention hoes/tilling and seeds/cuttings: "Press [{key}] to activate / with hoe to till dirt / with seeds or sapling to plant them / with sickle to harvest".

Bug Fixes

• Seeds/Cuttings Never Planted (pre-existing bug in 1.5.2): The check verifying if the cell above the soil was empty relied on the literal string "Empty" instead of the game's BlockType.EMPTY constant — causing the check to never evaluate as true. Watering and harvesting were unaffected.

• Planting Silently Failing due to Wrong Reference: tryPlaceSeed passed a chunk-level reference to BlockPlaceUtils.placeBlock instead of a section-level reference as sectionReference, triggering a silent internal failure; additionally, original code ignored the return value of placeBlock and always reported success. Resolved by retrieving the correct section reference via world.getChunkStore().getChunkSectionReferenceAtBlock(...) and returning the actual outcome.

• Wall-Supported Seeds (e.g., Bloodrose/Plant_Seeds_Health3) Planted Only by Chance: Certain BlockTypes declare a required lateral support (RequiredBlockFaceSupport) that depends on the block's placement rotation; the code was hardcoding rotation None (index 0), causing seeds to root only when a wall happened to be on that specific side. BlockOperations.testPlaceBlock() (used in an initial fix attempt) turned out not to validate support at all — it constantly returned true even without adjacent walls, leaving real validation to the next engine tick inside BlockPhysicsUtil, which immediately broke the freshly placed block and dropped its drops (causing seeds to "vanish"). Fixed by directly calling BlockPhysicsUtil.testBlockPhysics(...) — the engine's true validation logic — via a custom SupportReader (SprinklerSupportReader, new class) that bypasses internal tick-cycle accessor requirements; it iterates through each rotation (0-3) until a valid one is found.

• Crystallization Working Only on Dry Tilled Soil: The block-type validation compared block IDs using startsWith("Soil_Dirt_Tilled"), an assumption about the wet variant's ID that did not match the actual engine ID — effectively excluding wet soil. Resolved by employing the base game's actual verification method (BlockEntity.declaresComponent(blockType, TilledSoilBlock.getComponentType()), confirmed via decompiled bytecode), which behaves consistently across tilling, planting, fertilization, and crystallization.

• Planting/Harvesting Impossible on Soil_Dirt_Crystal: callForPerimeter explicitly requires the TilledSoilBlock component, which Soil_Dirt_Crystal (a base game block) never declares — discarding those cells before any whitelist could even be evaluated. Introduced a callForPerimeterBlockType variant (a new BlockTypeFunction helper) operating directly on raw blocks instead of requiring that component, utilized for planting, harvesting, tilling, and crystallization where needed.

• Unreliable Sprinkler Periodic Tick: The engine's ticking mechanism based on BlockSection.forEachTicking() / internal ticking bitsets failed to reliably reschedule future tick requests (BlockSection.preTick() was only invoked during initial chunk loads) — an engine bug, not a mod bug. Bypassed by directly tracking active sprinkler block indices per section in a static map (ACTIVE_SPRINKLER_SECTIONS), checked on every section tick rather than depending on the engine's bitset; entries are cleaned up upon sprinkler removal.

• Sprinkler Reloaded with Expired nextRun: A sprinkler whose persisted nextRun timestamp (from a previous session) ended up in the past relative to current game time could become stuck without ever being rescheduled; it is now recalculated in this "stale" state, rather than only when null or marked forNext.

• Water Particles Never Visible: Calls to ParticleUtil.spawnParticleEffect (both for ground splash effects on wet soil and the 4 jets from active sprinklers) were passing an empty target player list — leaving the internal loop sending the SpawnParticleSystem packet with no clients to dispatch to (producing a silent no-op instead of an exception). Fixed by leveraging ParticleUtil's automatic nearby-player collection for splashes, and implementing an equivalent manual collection (collectNearbyPlayers helper) for jets, where rotation handling is also required.

Technical / Internal Changes

• SprinklerHelper.getGlobalPosition and scheduleTick updated to use blockStateInfo.fillWorldPos(...) / getSectionRef() instead of the legacy getChunkRef() + BlockChunk pattern, matching updated server APIs.

• FarmingUtil.harvest(...) is now invoked with the chunk store's ComponentAccessor<ChunkStore> rather than the World directly (reflecting a server-side method signature change).

• SprinklerTickHandler rewritten to use BlockComponentSection instead of BlockComponentChunk / BlockTickStrategy (removed), keeping it in line with the new ACTIVE_SPRINKLER_SECTIONS tracking model.

• SprinklerLifecycleHandler.onEntityRemove is no longer a no-op: it purges the sprinkler index from ACTIVE_SPRINKLER_SECTIONS upon removal (safe local bookkeeping at that point in the lifecycle — unlike destroy(), which is deliberately omitted here to prevent known chunk-unload deadlocks).

• manifest.json: ServerVersion updated from >=0.5.0 <0.6.0 to >=0.6.0 <0.7.0; mod version bumped from 1.5.2 to 1.6.16.