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Progression and Crafting Rules

PRG-01 - First-Day Resources

Configuration: Enable progression rules; Enable leaf stick drops; Leaf stick-drop chance; Enable leaf fruit drops; Leaf sapling-drop chance; Leaf fruit-drop chance; Leaf swamp no-drop chance; Use MITE gravel loot; Gravel special-drop chance (0-1); Chance to advance to the next gravel-loot tier (0-1); Grass worm base chance; Grass worm Fortune bonus per level; Grass worm rain bonus; Grass worm maximum chance

The opening loop begins with loose resources from leaves, grass, and gravel. Sticks, flint, food, saplings, and bait provide the path to the first tools without relying on bare-handed log or stone harvesting.

PRG-02 - Harvesting Tool Gates

Configuration: Enable tool gates; Require clear access to production blocks

Harvesting is decided by server-side rules rather than break speed alone. Protected terrain and production blocks only drop when the held tool satisfies the target rule.

PRG-03 - Tool Families and Material Tiers

Configuration: Require an axe for logs; Require a pickaxe for stone and ores; Enable metal tiers

Logs require a hatchet, axe, or battle axe; stone and ores require a pickaxe or war hammer. The tool material must also meet the target's tier, and strongbox ownership can impose an additional restriction.

PRG-04 - Portable Production Blocks

Configuration: Enable portable production blocks

Selected player-crafted production blocks can be recovered under more forgiving rules than natural terrain. This prevents progression equipment from becoming permanently trapped without weakening ordinary harvesting gates.

PRG-06 - Early Mining Sources

Configuration: Enable tool gates; Use MITE gravel loot

MITE does not track artificial tunnels as a separate system. Early mining is constrained by tool gates and depth-biased ore generation, while exposed stone, exposed ore, gravel, and surface resources provide the intended first materials. Ore distribution is controlled through world-generation data packs.

PRG-07 - Unstable Soil Collapse

Configuration: Enable unstable soil collapse; Soil collapse delay (ticks); Extra slope collapse delay (ticks)

Dirt and other tagged soils fall vertically after losing support. They can also slide sideways from an open ledge when the adjacent space and the block below it form a continuous opening, then continue falling down the slope.

Open-slope collapses wait for the normal collapse delay plus an additional delay, which defaults to 40 ticks. Closing the opening or adding scaffolding before the scheduled check prevents the collapse, giving players time to support a tunnel as it is excavated. Scaffolding directly below soil acts as stable support.

CRF-01 - Timed Crafting

Configuration: Enable timed crafting; Use MITE recipe difficulties when available; Minimum crafting time (ticks); Base crafting time (ticks); Crafting time per occupied ingredient slot (ticks)

Crafting takes time based on recipe difficulty, occupied ingredients, workstation, and player progression. Moving ingredients, closing the menu, or losing eligibility cancels or pauses work according to server state.

CRF-02 - Crafting Eligibility and Cancellation

Configuration: Crafting requires food energy; Control effects prevent crafting; Enable timed crafting

Food exhaustion and restraining effects can pause or reject crafting. Ingredient changes, closing the menu, death, disconnection, or changing to another menu safely cancel the active server task.

CRF-03 - Workbench Tiers and Recipes

Configuration: Require material-tiered workbenches; Disable vanilla equipment recipes

Recipes require workbenches made from suitable materials, from flint through advanced metals and obsidian. Equipment recipes that would bypass this ladder are removed from ordinary vanilla crafting.

CRF-04 - Equipment Quality

Configuration: Enable equipment quality; Automatically select the highest affordable quality; Charge experience for superior quality

Crafted equipment can receive a quality tier that affects its performance. Players may spend experience to select quality, or allow the game to choose the highest available tier automatically.

CRF-05 - Workstation Obstruction

Configuration: Require clear space above workbenches

Workbench use requires clear space above the block. Obstructed stations refuse to open or craft and report the reason to the player.

CRF-06 - Server-Timed Crafting State

Configuration: Enable timed crafting; Enforce server authority

Crafting progress is counted by the server and synchronized to the client HUD. The client may display or cancel a task, but it cannot claim completion, duplicate a result, or retain progress after an invalid state transition.