3.1.1-7.5

For The Lost Cities 7.5.1 to 7.5.5, on Minecraft 1.20.1 and Forge 47+.

Everything since 3.0.0-7.5. Two import fixes found from a pack in the wild, two faults found by running the build, and the supported range extended to 7.5.5.

The 7.5 file is now ahead of the 7.4.12 file. Nothing here is in 3.0.0.

An import now reads the profile, not only the world style

Generation starts from a profile. The profile picks the world style, and it can also name a cityStyleAlternative that no world style mentions, entered whenever a city's factor falls below cityStyleThreshold.

An import walked only the world style's own citystyles list, so every asset living under that second style was invisible to it. The pack came into the workshop looking smaller than it is, and nothing said why.

Every profile pointing at the world style being imported is now walked as well.

This affects Lost Cities' own pack. The shipped largecities profile names citystyle_border at a threshold of 0.4, so that style was never imported either.

Measured against ChaosZPack, whose world style lists one city style while its profile names another: 84 assets arrived that previously did not, among them the mall, the school and the row buildings.

An alternative style left at the default cityStyleThreshold of -1.0 can never be reached, because no city factor falls below it. It is imported anyway and the import says so, rather than leaving a pack that looks correct and generates nothing from that style.

An export puts the style back where it came from. It is kept off the world style's citystyles list, because listing it there would weight it against the others and roll it for ordinary cities, and the profile written beside the pack points at it under the pack's own namespace.

Multi-building footprints are no longer capped at 10 chunks

The catalogue stopped at 10x10, which is the largest footprint the default multisettings.areasize can place. A pack may widen that area and ship a bigger building, and packs do. An import had no plot for those, so it dropped the largest buildings a pack had.

There are now two ways to get a plot for one:

ChaosZPack sets areasize to 16 and ships an 11x8 walmart and a 4x11. Both now import; before, both were dropped.

Rows are appended in the order they are first seen and that order is saved with the world, so a build after a restart puts them back in the same place. Nothing that was already laid out moves to make room: measured at 388 plots before an import and 390 after, none of them moved.

A footprint past 64 chunks is refused and named. At that size it is a typo in dimx rather than a building.

One row will not cover more than 4096 chunks either, counting plots times footprint. The old limit was 512 plots and said nothing about how big each was, which was harmless while nothing exceeded 10x10 and is not once a row can be 64x64. Asking for more says how many would fit instead of painting them.

The workshop said a version that was not the one running

/lcdev workshop go printed Workshop version 7.5.4. That number came from the shipped catalogue, which is generated against one Lost Cities jar at build time, and it said 7.5.4 whichever version was actually installed. Labelled "version" with nothing to say which version, it read as the mod reporting what it had found.

Every place that shows one now names its subject, and says plainly when the reference is older than the game:

Workshop  catalogue for Lost Cities 7.5.4
! This reference was generated for Lost Cities 7.5.4 and this server runs 7.5.5.
  Anything 7.5.5 added is not described here, has no plot in the catalogue, and is
  not written by an export.

The world registry records both, as catalogueForLostCities and runningLostCities, because they are two facts.

Supported range

Now 7.5.1 through 7.5.5, closed at the top.

Every mixin injection point was compared across 7.4.12, 7.5.1, 7.5.2, 7.5.3, 7.5.4 and 7.5.5, by exact descriptor and by counting every redirected call inside its target method, with 7.4.12 as a control. All nineteen hold on 7.5.5. 7.5.5 changes 45 classes and adds one, and none of them is one this mod patches.

The range is closed rather than open to 7.6 because an open bound bets that a patch release moves nothing, and 7.5.5 moved 45 classes. A version that does not exist yet cannot have been checked.

Known gap on 7.5.5

The key reference this mod ships is generated from 7.5.4, and 7.5.5 declares six keys it does not:

Nothing here throws and no pack is refused: the asset check has no list of permitted keys, so a 7.5.5 pack using them loads and generates normally. What is lost is the authoring support for those six, on 7.5.5 only. The workshop now says so on screen rather than leaving it to be discovered. Regenerating the reference needs the same per-version pass every other version had.