New mod?

[Jadan1213]

@MommyHeather I Don't have another way to connect with you to ask this question, but would it be out of the realm of possibility to commission a mod? or to fork a mod? There's several mods that are available that kind of do what I want, but they don't work how i'd like it to work. Assuming I could afford your time and you'd be willing maybe?

[HeatherComputer]

Hi!

I can indeed take commissions - though, I'd need to know more about what you want to change / add to what mods before I can gauge whether or not it's something I'm actually capable of.

[Jadan1213]

Well I want a mod that force loads chunks, but with a craftable item and also requires an item cost to run. I don't want it to be a permanent always on thing, and allow a hopper in order to feed more items into it if i choose to.

The closes thing I could find is called "Chunk Loader" by 2mal3. But I had issues with the recipe not showing up, and when taken using the command to give the item, it shows up as a structure block, and is labeled dolphin spawn egg. When i place it in the world it will work, but if i restart the server or it runs out and the chunk unloads it stops working. I even had it change into a hopper looking thing lol. The mod (datapack?) theoretically does exactly what i want it to, but it just doesn't work right. I opened an issue about it not showing up as a recipe, but have gotten no responses.

[Jadan1213]

So here's the list of things: -Able to force load a single chunk -Has an inventory slot/slots for the item/s it requires (configurable in config w configurable item cost per adjustable amount of time) -Items can be fed into it via a hopper -Has a crafting recipe that is relatively expensive to make (we can come up with this later probably) -Has a limit to the number of chunk loaders that a player can have active in the world (configurable) -Can be placed into the world (obviously) -Can be turned off when given a redstone signal (like a lever) -Displays a message when activated/deactivated -Particle effect when active? maybe a sound? (not really needed but would be cool)

I think that's a good start.

it looks like the datapack just repurposes hopper coding?

[HeatherComputer]

Okay, that definitely looks doable. What version and modloader are you wanting this for?

I will say though, it's likely best if we move to a more suitable platform for this, such as discord if you have that.

[Jadan1213]

[Jadan1213]

Okay, that definitely looks doable. What version and modloader are you wanting this for?

I will say though, it's likely best if we move to a more suitable platform for this, such as discord if you have that.

I also had an idea... There's another mod i use called Elevator Mod, the block it uses has a basic texture and when you right click on the block, it clones the texture to look just like the block you used. this lets it blend in with wherever it's placed. Would that be doable with the chunk loader block?

[Jadan1213]

Oh, I'm on

Forge: 47.2.17 MC: 1.20.1

[HeatherComputer]

Closing this, moving to discord