Immersive Tanning 1.3.0

This update completely overhauls the tanning and leatherworking experience, replacing traditional minigames with hands-on interactions, cinematic workstation views, improved visuals, and more immersive crafting mechanics. It also introduces extensive Genetic Animals compatibility, new leatherworking features, and numerous quality-of-life improvements.

What's New and Improved

• Completely Redesigned Tanning: The Tanner's Rack, Tanner's Vat, and Leatherworker's Bench now feature physical, hands-on interactions instead of traditional minigame screens. Scrape hides, prepare leather, cut materials, assemble equipment, and stitch everything together directly at your workstations.
• Cinematic Workstation Interactions: Get an up-close view of your work with smooth camera transitions, visible hands and tools, and interactive workstation components. Reduced-motion and stationary camera options are also available.
• Hands-on Hide Scraping: Physically scrape raw hides using the Tanner's Knife, removing material wherever the blade touches. Scraping direction affects efficiency, and you can finish a hide early at the cost of quality. Partially scraped hides retain their progress, even when removed from the rack.
• Improved Tanning Vat: Add water, bark, and hides directly to the vat, monitor their progress, and retrieve finished leather using the hook. You can also stir the tanning mixture with a paddle to slightly accelerate the process.
• Interactive Leather Finishing: Choose between Supple, Harness, and Hardened finishes by adjusting the rack's tension lever. Each finish now has its own physical treatment, including smoothing, tightening cords, and burnishing.
• Completely Redesigned Leatherworking: Craft equipment through a multi-step process at the Leatherworker's Bench. Select a pattern, cut leather panels along their outlines, position and rotate the pieces, stitch individual seams, and tie everything together to finish your creation.
• More Meaningful Stitching: Stitch quality now depends on how accurately you work. Poorly tensioned or uneven stitches affect workmanship, while mistakes can be corrected before completing the piece.
• Improved Crafting Patterns: The Leatherworker's Bench now features a searchable pattern book with categories, favorites, material requirements, and clearer crafting information.
• Persistent Crafting Progress: Unfinished leatherworking projects can now be carried between benches without losing progress. Materials can be recovered when cancelling work, and completed equipment and leftover scraps remain available for collection.
• New Leather Repair System: Repair damaged leather equipment directly at the bench using Leather Scraps. Repairs preserve existing quality, finishes, enchantments, dyes, and maker information.
• Expanded Genetic Animals Compatibility: Added comprehensive support for Genetic Animals, allowing its cows, sheep, pigs, rabbits, llamas, and other supported animals to provide appropriate hides. Hide drops respect the mod's existing loot behavior and Immersive Tanning's configuration.
• Improved Animal Hide Drops: Fixed issues where Genetic Animals mobs dropped incorrect materials, failed to produce hides, or caused errors on death. Animal inventories and equipped items are now properly distinguished from their natural drops, preventing accidental conversions or duplication.
• Genetic Animals Leather Equipment: Leather collars and bridles can now be crafted at the Leatherworker's Bench. Equipment placed on animals also preserves its original quality, finish, name, color, and enchantments.
• Improved Genetic Animals Trading: Updated compatible villager and wandering trader offers to properly recognize Binding Leather while preserving existing trade properties.
• Improved Multiplayer Crafting: Players can watch each other's workstation interactions, share tanning vats, and hand unfinished projects over to another player. Work remains safely stored when someone leaves or disconnects.
• Improved Animations and Sounds: Added new workstation sound effects, improved tool movements, more natural material interactions, and subtle visual feedback for scraping, cutting, stitching, and finishing.
• Expanded Accessibility Options: Added customizable controls, larger interaction targets, improved visual guides, left-handed support, adjustable tool sensitivity, assisted crafting options, and clearer feedback throughout the crafting process.
• Improved JEI and Jade Integration: JEI now provides more information about leatherworking patterns and crafting steps, while Jade displays workstation progress, drying times, and tanning requirements.
• Better Datapack Support: Added customizable leatherworking patterns, allowing modpack creators to define cutting, assembly, and stitching requirements for different recipes.
• Improved Save Compatibility: Existing worlds and equipment remain supported, with workstation data automatically migrated to the new system. Stored materials and unfinished work are preserved or made available for recovery where applicable.

Additional Improvements

Numerous fixes and improvements have been made to workstation interactions, crafting quality, material handling, animal loot compatibility, multiplayer synchronization, inventory management, and overall stability.

Immersive Tanning is now a much more hands-on crafting experience, taking you through every stage of leatherworking, from scraping your first hide to stitching and finishing your equipment.

Important Update Information

• Multiplayer: Both clients and servers must update to version 1.3.0 due to network protocol changes.
• World Compatibility: Existing worlds are automatically migrated. Previously started stitching minigames cannot be resumed, but materials held by the bench are returned to its output area.
• Genetic Animals: Compatibility has been verified against Genetic Animals 0.11.12. Other versions may behave differently.
• Configuration: New settings are available for workstation cameras, controls, accessibility, crafting behavior, and Genetic Animals integration.

As always, backing up your world before updating is recommended.