Immersive Phototrophy

<p>Hate eating all the time? Think that hunger mechanics are more annoying than they are fun?<br />Become a plant. They can make energy from the sun, skipping the eating process completely!</p> <p>Simply type /photosynthesis to become a plant. If you type it again, you'll turn back into a boring mundane animal.<br />While a plant, you restore energy when in light. Not just sunlight, but also held light, block light, and even light coming off of entities.<br />Your plant skin will also generate sugar and inject it right into your blood, giving you lots of energy. The more light, the faster you go.<br />Not only that, but you can also sunbathe by sleeping out in the sun in order to gain food at the cost of daylight. Risk and reward!<br /><br />All values are based on real life. A lot of research and effort went into ensuring a perfect balance, backed up by real world values.<br />It's not all good though, there's downsides. Your heavy plant skin will make you 10% slower. Clothing and armor also blocks light.<br />This means that you'll have to put up with harsher winters, will be more vulnerable to enemy attacks, and will likely live in a greenhouse.</p> <p>By typing /exposure, you can get a quick look at how much energy you are producing and how much skin is exposed.<br />The more skin is exposed, the more energy you will produce and the faster you will go, negating the downside.<br />Even at maximum exposure, you'll still move slower than normal when relying on vanilla torchlight.</p> <p><br /><br />Here are the following traits you will gain upon typing /photosynthesis. I plan to add more in the future.<br />All these values assume the default plantlevel of 0.5, but will scale up or down if you adjust it.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color: #18bc9b;">+ Phototrophic:</span></strong> Generate saturation proprotional to light, allowing you to feed off the sun.<br /><strong><span style="color: #18bc9b;">+ Thick-Skinned:</span></strong> Damage from armor-blockable sources is divided by 1.5, stacking with armor.<br /><strong><span style="color: #18bc9b;">+ Oxygenic:</span></strong> Generate oxygen proprotional to light, directly restoring your stamina.<br /><strong><span style="color: #18bc9b;">+ Solar-Powered:</span></strong> Your move/digspeed is increased by up to +25% based on light level.<br /><strong><span style="color: #e74c3c;">- Relaxed:</span></strong> Life is good. Both move and dig speed is reduced by a flat -10%.<br /><strong><span style="color: #e74c3c;">- Sterile Gut:</span></strong> Saturation bar will no longer pause for a time after eating food.</p> <p>I've had a lot of time to playtest the system and it feels really balanced.<br /><br /><strong>New progression system: Plantlevel</strong><br /><br />No gameplay yet, but there's now an internal value called "plantlevel"<br />This level determines how strong the upside and downsides of the traits are.<br />It defaults at 0.5 (50%) so if you set it to 1 you'll move +40% faster in light and -20% slower in dark.<br />The same is true in inverse. At 0.25 you'll move 12.5% faster in light and -5% slower in dark.<br />You can change this value by typing /plantlevel [value] and it acts as a per-player config<br />The default value of 0.5 should give you the most balanced experience.<br /><br /></p> <p>Do you think torches are too overpowered? Nerf block light values by downloading <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/worldofdarkness">World of Darkness</a>!<br />Want a little more immersion? Look the part with some <a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/immersivephototrophyskins">Phototrophe Class (and skins)</a> for your character.</p> <p>Hopefully this passion project of mine makes for a unique and enjoyable experience for all who download.<br />Please leave feedback on the forum thread, and let me know what you think about the new mechanic:<br /><a href="https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/topic/5571-immersive-phototrophy/">https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/topic/5571-immersive-phototrophy/</a></p>