Loam & Vessel

Loam & Vessel 2.4.1

The Exposure Update

Your photographs can now go on your pot inlays.

• Photograph inlays. Right-click any face of a pot with a developed photograph to set it into the inlay panel. Plain and aged photographs both work.
• Photos keep their shape. Each photo is fitted to the panel at its true proportions, never stretched or cropped, with the pot's own clay showing in any margin.
• Camera as decor. The Exposure camera can sit in a pot's decor slot alongside heads and effigies, perched a little higher so it rests above the soil.
• Fully optional. Exposure is not required. When it's installed, Loam & Vessel detects it at startup and turns photograph support on. When it isn't, nothing changes and nothing extra loads.
• Update-safe. Built against Exposure 1.9.x. If a future Exposure update changes something this depends on, photograph inlays switch off with a single warning in the log instead of crashing your game.

More Inlays

The inlay panels now take more than blocks:

• Paintings, sized to the pot. Planter pots take 1x1 paintings and tabletop pots take 2x1. Paintings from other mods work too. The wrong size or a blank painting gets a short message explaining why.
• Pottery sherds. Sherds take on the color of the pot they're set into. Right-click a sherd face with dye to tint it, and dyes blend together the same way they do on leather armor. Dye is used up when applied, and a removed sherd comes back plain.
• Maps. Filled maps display on the pot and stay up to date as the map is explored.

Terracotta, glazed terracotta, and concrete inlays work exactly as before.

Compatibility

• Existing worlds are safe. Pots placed or picked up in earlier versions keep all their inlays. They convert to the new format automatically the first time they load.

Performance

• Inlay panels now do their lookup work once per frame rather than repeatedly, keeping frame times steady around pots with photographs.