Cure Firewood (make aged firewood)

<p><strong>Hello there,</strong></p> <p>I suppose there are quite a few mods out there, that may feature some form of 'upgrading' firewood, even add new types of wood but I couldn't find anything that simply cures firewood into aged fire wood</p> <p>by letting it season for <strong>a long time </strong>on the ground&nbsp; - so i made my own. (What is my very first, btw 🙃)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The mod itself is pretty simplistic, basically it's using the same mechanic like curing oiled hides - drop on a ground, <strong>wait</strong>, ... profit.</p> <p>Also wanted to use existing in-game mechanics &amp; items w/o introducing even more mods that may add more items that also have to be maintained.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I've actually no clue how long woods needs to season in real life, but after a short research I came up with 6-24 months, depending on wood type &amp; climate.</p> <p>While realism is desired -&nbsp; felt making it season 6 in-game months is a fairly good balance between realism &amp; gameplay fun.</p> <p><strong>Thereby firewood takes 54 days to season (equally 6 standard months with 9 days).</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Of course aged firewood will have benefits - like a slightly increased burn temp 700C to 800C and a drastically increased burn time (225sec)</strong></p> <p>There are no other benefits on purpose. The increased burn time makes it a wonderful, still efficient fuel for your fireplace w/o breaking the fuel economy too much.</p> <p>(Feel free to change my mind tho)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>I like a crackling fireplace in my base but I don't want to deforest everything around me nor hire someone to produce digital firewood for me, ha.</strong></p> <p>In my opinion it's way more immersive felling a few trees in a nearby forest, build a few basic shacks &amp; leave it there to dry/season for a while.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The burn time of 225 seconds per log equals 2 (real life) hours of burn time per stack (32 logs).</p> <p>That should be long enought for your adventure, still you may come back to your cozy base with a fire still lit.</p> <p>... maybe threw a few logs more into the fire, eh? 🔥</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Important:</strong></p> <ul> <li>You may remove the mod from your save all the time - at least I didn't notice any issues while testing this several times.<br />The logs will just loose the cure status &amp; revert back to their original burn duration. If you re-activate the mod it seems to continue the curing process.</li> <li>The logs won't loose their curing status when being moved around, however merging stacks in the inventory may reset parts of the curing process and/or merge to an average of all logs in the stack.<br />Merely for immersive reasons it's not advised to move the logs around constantly anyways, till they are cured. 😌</li> <li>Been testing it on 1.22.0-rc6 - 1.22.0-rc10 as well as the recent 1.22.0 (full release)<br />Suppose it's down- &amp; upwards compatible to all 1.22.0 versions tho!</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Optional(!) ConfigLib / ImGui support:</strong></p> <p>If you don't use Config lib / ImGui <span style="color: #d35400;">nothing will change for you</span> - i wanted to keep this mod very lightweight.<br />Even with those installed it only creates a config file that sticks to the default values.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>You have to download &amp; install <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/configlib">Config lib</a> as well as <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/imgui">ImGui</a> to set custom values tho.</p> <ul> <li>If you want to change burn time, burn temp or cure duration you may do that after you downloaded the newest version (1.0.1). It should generate a config file (<em>curefirewood.yaml</em>) for you.</li> <li>If you change values with ImGui (ergo in game) you need to reload the word to make the changes happen!<br /><br /></li> </ul> <p>Please make sure to read apply the 'safety checkbox' before you set custom values ing will change. - Even if you change the sliders, this is by design ;)<br />It's not recommended to change it constantly since cure duration of existing firewood won't change retroactively, only applies to new logs!&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Future plans:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Figuring out, if it may be possible to stop the curing process, if the logs are exposed to water / wetness. So you have to cover the top layer to some point or build a firewood shack.</li> <li>Figuring out, if it's possible to speed up the curing in a cellar with heat-source. (kiln-dried&nbsp;wood)</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <hr /> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>DISCLAIMER</strong></p> <p>This is <strong>my first mod</strong> without prior experience of creating mods for Vintage Story. Been testing it for a while on my own game &amp; my server. Noticed any issues (yet.)</p> <p>To be fair I've no understanding of the game-engine - so maybe gazillion of logs curing at the same time may cause lag? 🤕</p>