Updated maintainer for Growable/Garden Pots Mod

[NastyNate2612]

Added myself as a maintainer for the "growable pots" mod.

Summary

Summary: Mods "changed maintainer for Garden Pots mod"

Purpose of change

Gotta have a caretaker for the garden... Hey everybody! This is my first Mod im attempting to maintain, so please bear with me if i end up asking stupid questions. All I did this time was add myself as a maintainer. Next step will be to go through the list of seeds and add the ones that are not currently in the mod, adjust grow times to accurately reflect real growth times, and lower yields based on garden pot size. eventually add more sizes of garden pots. Im a farmer irl so indoor and outdoor gardening is something i practice on a regular basis and have a passion for. I didnt change the obsolete line because its missing 75% of the available seeds to plant, give me a couple days and ill have it up to par for now at least. I hope everybody likes the idea of still having movable garden pots and indoor gardening. My previous coding experience is practically non existent, but i will do my best. Starting with an easy mod thats already been written and reverse engineering it seems the best way for me to start.

Describe the solution

Ill Do it!!

Describe alternatives you've considered

not having indoor gardening sounds super lame, especially when theres soooo many zombies outside!

Testing

Changed obsolete line to false. Create new world, selected Garden Pots, notice addition of Nate's name to maintainer list

Additional context

[NastyNate2612]

Sorry for the long description. Im super excited to be helping work on this amazing game, my knowledge is limited now but i learn pretty quickly when its something im interested in.

[ymber]

The real problems with this and the hydroponics mod are deeper than the mod JSON. They'd be in core if their implementation wasn't such a hack. For them to be technically acceptable the plant growth code needs a fairly significant rework so data for content like this doesn't have to abuse item transformations.

[NastyNate2612]

yeah i noticed it was using "transform" to grow, im assuming thats a placeholder until the code for plants needing to be in a lit tile is required.

[I-am-Erk]

yeah, unfortunately I don't think this one is going to meet the basic requirements for inclusion as a mainline mod - we are steering away from mods that could be core features, because they tend to stop people from working on adding the features to core in a working way. I don't think anyone would have a problem with adding raised garden beds to mainline, though.

You could consider:

• taking this over as a third party mod, hosted on your own github and linked to something like the launcher
• working on a project to add indoor gardening to mainline with necessary code updates (oh god please choose this one and fix outdoor gardening while you're at it)
• for the vehicle components alone, you could think about getting them moved over to blazemod, the vehicle parts pack.

Growable pots as a mod isn't something we're keen on, but growable pots as a feature would be amazing.

[I-am-Erk]

I should add that if you decide to help with farming/gardening features in mainline, I'm pretty sure there are some coders that would love to help you get the C++ portion done, there are several of our more experienced code people that would be really excited to have farming work better.

[NastyNate2612]

Ouch! Well I dont have any knowledge on c++, editing json files is pretty much my extent as of now. Also I'm new to this community and I don't know anybody or know how to contact someone with the knowledge to do coding for this project. I appreciate the positive response but sadly I lack the ability to do any of those things. I'll just run the mod on my own local disk and add all the missing seeds and stuff for now. I'll keep an eye out on the changelog and if someone fixes the coding for farming I'll bring this topic back up. Thank u!

[I-am-Erk]

Are you on the discord by any chance? https://discord.gg/4dKtbC we could discuss there, if you like.

A good starting point would be to create an Issue outlining what kind of changes would be needed to make farming more reasonable, if we don't have something like that already. It's a bit tricky doing a good large-scale issue for the first time, but I could help walk you through it. Then step 2 is to get people excited about it :)