BREWING PLUGIN | PLUGIN CONCEPT & YOUR VIEW

[The60th 1448]

BREWING PLUGIN

Concept Feedback & Your View

 

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New plugins and ideas are constantly proposed and tossed around by the player base and if proposed and thought out thoroughly sometimes will come to fruition. This post serves to share a popular plugin proposal going around recently and open up a medium for player feedback and constructive criticism. It has always been a priority of the Tech Team to create these plugins that enhance the user experience while staying true to the LOTC mission statement and goal…

 

 Roleplay. 

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More than a bottle.

[Plugin Concept]

 

 

Since LOTC’s creation, taverns, brewing and drink serving have always been a popular choice of roleplay among players. It is undoubtedly one of the largest niche’s on LOTC which typically goes overlooked on a daily basis. After a large proposal was made by some players, we concluded it needed a major upgrade – so working alongside some of these people and staff we bring you this concept:

 

 

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Recipe to success.

[Plugin Mechanics]

Preparing

The player will have to put specific items into a cauldron (following a server-provided recipe), this mix will have to sit there and cook for a set time depending on the type of beverage. Once the cauldron is done cooking, the player may transfer the basic brew to an aging cask using a bucket so the aging process may start. 

Aging

During the aging process the player will be able to customize their beverage to the fullest (similar to the current /edit) method. They will be provided a GUI similar to this:

 

 

The Book: Players can assign the cask a description and name, the result of this will be a permanent tag on the cask (unless changed) which eventually further down the process will output exactly into your Keg / Bottle. Renaming an item through this method will not ask for a rename token to be consumed.

 

The Barrel: Information about the barrel (Cask name preview, Cask description preview, time aged, beverage type, potion effects)

 

The Dye: Color of drink once a bottle is used on it.

 

Quality

The quality of the batch is determined by how well the player followed the recipe in regards to time aged and ingredients. It will also determine the duration of added effects such as blindness, slowness or nausea.

 

The quality of a batch is one of the following: 

[★☆☆]

[★★☆] 

[★★★]

Serving

The aged beverage can be taken out of the aging barrel using a serving keg. A keg will take all of the contents out of the cask and at which point all previous data which could’ve been altered (name, desc, color, etc.) can NO LONGER be changed. Instead, that information is imprinted onto the Keg permanently.

 

Upon being placed down, the keg allows any player to right click the tap (tripwire hook) with a glass bottle to take out a single serving (1 bottle [1/64]). This bottle will have the exact data the player imprinted on the cask previously: changed name, description, color, and all.

 

GOAL

 

Overall the goal of this plugin will be to enhance Roleplay from the players perspective by making an interactive and immersive tavern environment. Being able to sit on the other side of a bar while the tavernkeep hand pours your drink is the vision of this future QOL plugin. 

 

It has been recognized that the folly of past plugins is that they create these mandatory systems that players must abide by – yet we’re deciding to take a different approach. Making drinks the current way will still be entirely possible with /edit and the cost of an edit token. Albeit you will miss out on the brewing mechanics, potion effects, the possibility to store it in a Keg, and hand pour the item. 

 

So for those who want a quick drink, /edit will be your friend. For those who wish for some deep immersion and neat mechanics – we hope you’ll like this plugin.

 

ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGE

 

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What’s next? As an individual on LOTC what plugins could help enhance your roleplay experience and overall quality of life while playing the server. The replies below are your stage and we only ask that you thoroughly think through and develop an idea before suggesting it so it is possible that more plugins like the Brewing Plugin above may come to light.

 

If you have a plugin idea / concept, fully think out the complexities and functionalities of it – even if you’re questioning its possibility. We should all collectively aim to work together to make LOTC a better roleplaying environment and we hope this platform can help inspire some people with some creativity to do so.

 

 

Want to know more about upcoming projects?

 

Join the discord:

https://discord.gg/HnXdaj3ZAU

 

Check out the Roadmap:

https://github.com/orgs/Lord-of-the-Craft/projects/3

 

Happy drinking, 

Tech Team

[The60th 1448]

Just to add without drawing attention away from the point of the post, NPC's and the Head's plugin are fixed and just awaiting approval and to be put in with the next push. Likewise, Limited Creative and Purchase Fly are also in the works and hopefully should be done soon!

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Mickaelhz 3752]

Don't even talk to me unless you can pour out a [★★★] Ferrymead right now...

[ReveredOwl 5314]

Can you get like barley and stuff by using a sickle like we had in the past?

[Traveller 2105]

I LOVE TECH TEAM I LOVE TECH TEAM I LOVE TECH TEAM I LOVE TECH TEAM I LOVE TECH TEAM I LOVE TECH TEAM I LOVE TECH TEAM I LOVE TECH TEAM I LOVE TECH TEAM 

[bickando 3385]

I love the Tech team

[MailC3p 1143]

ngl 60th when i first read this i thought it was making shit like Alchemist fires  a mechanical thing again and not just a more detailed way to make alcoholic drinks lol

[wowj 2740]

just dont do this for alchemy. this is fun tho i like this

[Nikachu132 50]

I was hoping this was about an Alchemy brewing system ... maybe one day?

 

That said, I like this idea a lot.

[Kel 12]

luv alcohol nuff said +1

[TreeSmoothie 4855]

YESSSSSS

Luv this

[wowj 2740]

2 minutes ago, Nikophos said:

I was hoping this was about an Alchemy brewing system ... maybe one day?

 

That said, I like this idea a lot.

NO ALCHEMY PLUGIN NO NO NO NO NO

[Tabby64 1295]

Yes +1 also WHEN COOKING PLUG IN?!

[Traveller 2105]

Just now, Tabby64 said:

Yes +1 also WHEN COOKING PLUG IN?!

based idea, maybe not alchemy plugin but a COOKING plugin sounds very cool

[Valannor 6344]

4 minutes ago, Nikophos said:

I was hoping this was about an Alchemy brewing system ... maybe one day?

 

That said, I like this idea a lot.

Keep your filthy pinktag hands off my warcrimes.

 

+1 60th, based plugin from a former tavern owner.