Load data packs from a general datapacks directory #33
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Signed-off-by: liach <liach@users.noreply.github.com>
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In my opinion this is extremely out of scope. |
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well, modders definitely need this. can you put this up for a discussion? |
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well, modders definitely need this. can you put this up for a discussion? |
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Do they? Is it necessary for mods, or just for modpacks? |
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this is just like the resource packs folder. users do need this so that they don't need to copy their custom stuff into each world every time they create one. |
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The original Discord message says someone should make a mod to do it. I don't think this is something fit for Fabric main, since it can be done pretty easily without needing to put it in the main API. |
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Yes, precisely. This is an user-facing feature, not a modder-facing feature. It does not, as such, belong in the API. |
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well, one day people will finally see how important this ability is (e.g. tweaking loot tables when you have blocks or items disabled) |
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and this one line does not worth a mod. |
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Given its wide usage, should this be included in another mod in the fabric official set of mods, parallel to scala/kotlin support? |
this puts a lot of faith in Mojang's loading system that isn't exactly founded. |
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well, mojang code ain't that bad |
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I don't really see how it would hurt to have this in fabric API. It's not necessary, but it's an easy addition. So I'm on the fence. I think the better idea is allowing directories and zips to load as mods, that way a user could just make a mod without Java files |
That'd go to loader, not API. Whichever way you look at it, this isn't something for API to do. |
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honestly, the best way is asking mojang for this feature. mojang added data packs for map makers but modders want regular users to utilize data packs. |
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It is. Also, this could easily be expanded beyond one line; what if you had a datapacks/ folder, but during world creation you had a menu to choose which datapacks apply? Plus a way for mods to register their own "bundled sample datapacks" for the list. That'd be fantastic IMO. |
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I think this should be its own mod, The line has to be drawn somewhere. Like @asiekierka said there is quite a lot of other things that could be added around this that would not fit in fabric at all. By allowing this in it could start a slippery slope of adding extra bloat that isnt needed. |
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Make it it's own mod, than we can get our hands on it much faster. |
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I already made it. In theory, it works. In practice, one datapack worked for me which I tested. |
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The main thing is default data pack order, extra gui on world creation, and option to copy to the world for distribution. |
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Out of scope. |
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