My Enternia 2.3.4e: Alta Cafe & Monster Buffet
This patch focuses on fixing a critical bug with one of the weapons found in the Koywa biome and a cape in a Stardust Merchant's shop (no more Tool Mimic errors).
It also introduces a new food balancing system called Alta BGMR2.
Finally, the patch prepares the game for the 2.4 update.
Main
- added support for Many Tabs:
- fixed some critical and other issues.
Alta
- updated icons for Alta Tier 0 Pad, Gyera Loot Crate and Haven Loot Crate;
- updated rent loot for most Alta Tenants to make it level-dependent and more related to their character/profession;
- updated prices and rarities for most codexes;
- updated Alta Datacenter to depend on discovering blueprints:
- all codexes now discover themselves and other items.
Translation
- fixed typos in the Ayaka Tree sapling description;
- fixed typos in the Tavriya Codex and Alta Lab Tanks;
- moved food aging strings from
items/generic/food/ct_ionic_rotting.config:rotTimeDescriptionstoitems/buildscripts/ct_texts.config:aging.descriptionsand made them adictinstead of alist.
Dev
- added a new consumable item balance system - Alta Bromatology, Gastronomy & Medicine Regulation M2, or Alta BGMR2 for short:
- it calculates food value, rot time and effect time based on several values that keep items of the same level roughly similar in power;
- updated default values for food, prepared food, drinks and cooking ingredients;
- updated existing shop items, produce and cooking ingredients to reflect these changes;
- unified and refactored food build and aging scripts;
- improved expiry/aging/fermenting messages:
- made them more granular (
5->20messages) divided into 4 categories:- Fermenting (up to 30 minutes);
- Fresh (up to 8 hours);
- Preserved (up to 2 weeks);
- Unexpirable (up to 256 years).
- gave them a broader range (
300 - 999999seconds range to10 - 8078579712, or10seconds to256years); - moved them to a shared translation file and made them easier to translate.






- made them more granular (
- added
alta_lootandalta_ancientrecipe groups for items that normally can only be found through loot and item anvil upgrades; - added Alta Universal Information & Knowledge Accumulation, or Alta UIKA - a generated
.jsondocument:- contains information on how to obtain & use all items in the mod;
- can be used by items in the game to access enhanced information without having to calculate it on the spot;
- can be used for generating the wiki.
- updated Steam and Starbound Forums descriptions;
- updated the README by adding alternative text and lazy loading to images.
Other
- decreased Yaara Heart's object collision from 8x8 blocks to 7x7 blocks and added gaps in it to make it easier for world gen to spawn it;
- fixed incorrect item mimics in the Koywa Chest and in the Stardust Merchant shop;
- updated colony tags on crops;
- minor bug fixes.

