The Working Classes - 1.22 Compatibility and Bug Fixing Fork

<div style="max-width: 980px; margin: 0 auto; line-height: 1.62; font-family: inherit; color: inherit;"><div style="margin: 0 0 28px 0; padding: 28px 30px; background: #f7f9fb; border: 1px solid #dfe7ec; border-radius: 12px;"><h1 style="margin: 0 0 14px 0; color: #1f5f79; font-size: 32px; line-height: 1.15;">The Working Classes - 1.22 Compatibility and Bug Fixing Fork</h1> <p style="margin: 0 0 12px 0; color: #4b5963; font-size: 16px;">An independently maintained compatibility and bug-fixing fork of <strong>The Working Classes</strong> for Vintage Story 1.22.x.</p> <p style="margin: 0; color: #4b5963;">This fork preserves the original professions, classes, traits, recipes, assets, handbook content, and gameplay systems while correcting reproducible bugs, outdated content references, vanilla conflicts, and compatibility problems encountered on current Vintage Story 1.22 releases.</p> </div> <h2 style="color: #276f8b; margin-top: 34px; margin-bottom: 10px;">About The Working Classes</h2> <p>The Working Classes is an original mod by <strong>Vivi_IX</strong> which adds profession-based character classes to Vintage Story.</p> <p>It is designed around profession-based gameplay, giving different classes specialised strengths, weaknesses, traits, recipes, and crafting roles. The original mod supports both multiplayer cooperation and alternative single-player progression.</p> <p>This fork is based on the original project and is maintained independently. It is not an official release by Vivi_IX.</p> <h2 style="color: #276f8b; margin-top: 34px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Fork Status and Attribution</h2> <p>This is an independently maintained fork of <strong>The Working Classes</strong>, originally created by <strong>Vivi_IX</strong>.</p> <p>This fork should not be mistaken for an official release or continuation by the original author.</p> <p>All original concepts, professions, classes, traits, assets, recipes, handbook content, writing, and gameplay systems remain credited to Vivi_IX and contributors to the original project.</p> <p>The original project and its development history can be found here:</p> <ul style="margin: 16px 0 24px 0; padding: 16px 20px 16px 40px; background: #f7f9fb; border: 1px solid #dfe7ec; border-radius: 9px;"> <li><a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/theworkingclasses">Original The Working Classes ModDB Page</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ArmouryGaming/theworkingclasses">Original Source Repository</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ArmouryGaming/theworkingclasses/issues">Original Issue Tracker</a></li> </ul> <h2 style="color: #276f8b; margin-top: 34px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Purpose of This Fork</h2> <p>The purpose of this fork is to keep The Working Classes functional and compatible with Vintage Story 1.22.x while preserving the design and gameplay of the original mod wherever possible.</p> <p>Maintenance is intentionally conservative and currently focuses on:</p> <ul style="margin: 16px 0 22px 0; padding: 16px 20px 16px 40px; background: #f2f5f8; border-left: 5px solid #2998bd; border-radius: 9px;"> <li>Reproducible crashes and runtime errors.</li> <li>Recipes or assets broken by changes in Vintage Story.</li> <li>Conflicts with current vanilla recipes or content.</li> <li>Compatibility patches broken by updates to supported mods.</li> <li>Outdated content references inherited from earlier game versions.</li> <li>Packaging and metadata problems affecting current releases.</li> </ul> <p>This fork is not intended to rebalance, redesign, or substantially expand The Working Classes.</p> <p>Incomplete or questionable legacy content is investigated before being changed rather than being redesigned solely on assumption.</p> <h2 style="color: #276f8b; margin-top: 34px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Fixes Included in This Fork</h2> <p>The fork currently includes fixes for several reproducible issues discovered while running The Working Classes on Vintage Story 1.22.x.</p> <ul style="margin: 18px 0 24px 0; padding: 18px 22px 18px 42px; background: #f7f9fb; border: 1px solid #dfe7ec; border-radius: 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;"><strong>Whetstone / Anvil Crash</strong><br>Corrected the whetstone being defined as a forgeable metal ingot, which could cause client crashes during anvil interaction-help processing.</li> <li style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;"><strong>Copper Pan Recipe Conflict</strong><br>Corrected a crafting recipe conflict between the Working Classes Copper Pan and the vanilla Copper Roof Tip.</li> <li style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;"><strong>Alchemy Compatibility</strong><br>Updated outdated Alchemy compatibility recipe paths and outputs to support the newer Alchemy recipe structure.</li> <li style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;"><strong>Improved Crock Handbook Crash</strong><br>Corrected an obsolete vanilla crock wildcard which caused a reproducible client crash when opening the Improved Crock entry in the Survival Handbook.</li> <li style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;"><strong>Improved Crock Mechanics</strong><br>Version 1.0.12 restores the broken Improved Crock mechanics inherited from the original project and present in previous builds of this fork. The Improved Crock now uses corrected crock geometry and sealing visuals, supports 12 portions, preserves stored meal data and freshness when sealed, and either beeswax or the current Vintage Story 1.22 rendered-fat items are used for sealing.</li> <li style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;"><strong>Class and Trait Registration</strong><br>Removed obsolete pre-1.0.5 class and trait registration patches that were unintentionally included in versions 1.0.8 and 1.0.9. These legacy patches duplicated the newer Vintage Story 1.22 class and trait configuration and caused duplicate registration of all 10 Working Classes classes and 40 Working Classes traits.</li> <li style="margin: 0 0 12px 0;"><strong>Combat Overhaul Fork Compatibility</strong><br>Removed the obsolete compatibility integration for the original Combat Overhaul and added compatibility for Al