Rooted Forests 0.1.3

Changes & Fixes:

• Reworked how Rooted Forests handles water around naturally grown trees. (Bald Cypress immersion stuff lol).
• Restored normal solidity behavior to grown logs. Trees no longer need to pretend they're globally non-solid just to make water render correctly.
• Water rendering around voxel trunks is now handled separately from the tree's actual block solidity.
• Naturally generated trees can still coexist with water, while water placed afterward will no longer freely flow through the trunk.
• Reworked moss rendering so it once again follows the actual voxel trunk and root geometry instead of rendering around an invisible full block.
• Moss and other surface decor now use their own rendering exception rather than changing the tree's solidity for everything.
• Internal moss faces between connected trunk sections are still hidden.
• Fixed terrain interactions that could cause missing terrain blocks underneath naturally generated trees.
• Placed voxel logs keep their existing water behavior and /rfharvest support. (Kept in mind for those that build docks & fishing villages.)
• Cleaned up several parts of the C# code left over from earlier compatibility work.
• Added a new modicon.png.

Removed:

• Removed old debug/logger code that could produce unnecessary log spam.
• Removed the old global SideIsSolid = false workaround from naturally grown logs.
• Removed the old custom liquid-barrier workaround for grown trees.
• Removed RF's old reflection-based compatibility handling for PlaceOnSlabs.
• Removed the artificial stump-filler system and its voxel-log-stumpfill.json shape.
• Removed the old vertical stump/root mesh compensation used for slab terrain.
• Removed the old moss/decor Y-offset workaround.
• Removed the decor-tracking code that was only needed by the stump-filler system.
• Removed several old workarounds that were no longer needed now that water, moss, terrain, and block solidity are handled separately.

Entirely removed the old Terrain Slabs / PlaceOnSlabs compatibility system. Further testing found that the special slab handling was unnecessary—the terrain issues were being caused by Rooted Forests reporting grown logs as non-solid, not by PlaceOnSlabs itself. Sorry about that; please forgiveth me, for I am learning. RF is now less invasive and behaves much more like vanilla.

Restoring normal solidity fixed the underlying terrain behavior, which meant the old slab detection, reflection, stump filler, and mesh-offset workarounds were no longer needed.

Terrain Slabs Users Updating from RF 0.1.2:

Please fully restart Vintage Story after installing 0.1.3. I found during testing that swapping versions without restarting the game can cause errors. A clean restart fixes this.

If you're using Terrain Slabs, trees in chunks that were already loaded/generated with 0.1.2 may still sit on top of half slabs. Unfortunately, those trees were already generated under the old system, so 0.1.3 can't magically correct their placement without messing with existing world blocks.

New chunks are fine. Once you explore into new terrain with 0.1.3 installed, trees generate correctly on slab terrain using the new fix.

I'm intentionally not adding a world scanner or trying to move old trees/terrain around. I'd rather leave your existing world alone than have RF start poking at blocks trying to repair an old visual issue.

If you do find a floating tree in an old chunk above a half slab, especially if it's near your forever base, you can simply place a solid terrain block underneath it to replace the half slab.

0.1.2 Additions & Fixes.

• Fixed a visual gap on generated trees growing over half-slab terrain when using Terrain Slabs + Place On Slabs. This compatibility fix is only active when the required slab behavior is present; otherwise, it remains dormant for vanilla-generated worlds. If you've had Terrain Slabs installed alongside Rooted Forests, you'll know exactly the floating-log appearance I'm talking about. This fix doesn't change anything within Terrain Slabs or Place On Slabs; Rooted Forests simply adjusts its own visuals to work with the terrain those mods generate. To summarize this: trees generated over half-slab terrain now visually extend to meet the upper grown log through the half slab gap. The filler is purely visual and does not alter the physical placement or coordinates of the vanilla tree blocks. This avoids having to recreate or interfere with vanilla tree placement logic while keeping the fix lightweight and preserving vanilla behavior.

• Regarding what is stated above, known diagnostic: A rare moss-rendering issue on grown trees over Terrain Slabs half-slab terrain (within Rooted Forests' adaptation) was observed during development but could not be reproduced after repeated fresh-world testing. Additional diagnostic logging is included in 0.1.2. If you encounter moss rendering below a rooted tree, please send a screenshot of the moss if desired and more importantly your client-main.log. Do not reload your world until you post the client-main.log, because when you restart your world the rare sentient moss encounter becomes fixed. This is safe for existing worlds and new worlds btw. IF it happens, it's typically only noticeable if you're actively searching for it. I do want to clarify, this issue resolves itself on reloading a world. This is only an issue I'm trying to fix during new world generation, but the moss seems to know I'm actively trying to fix it. So if you see it, post your client-main.log before you reload your world :)

• Fixed moss placement on grown logs. Moss no longer renders across internal top/bottom faces between connected grown logs, eliminating the occasional moss "sliver" visible between trunk segments. If you noticed this small visual problem, the logs would look like they had an extremely tiny off center "gap" or "alignment", this was caused from an exposed moss mesh rendering on the ends of the internal logs where the logs connected. Hence why I called it a sliver.  Exposed log ends continue to receive moss normally. If you haven't noticed this visual problem, you most certainly will never come across it now :) Except maybe with the occasional leaking resin log, even then it's hard to notice the little tiny outward sliver where the logs conjoin. All is visually functional and functions like vanilla.

• Fixed moss placement on rooted stumps, allowing it to conform naturally to the stump geometry.

Dev note: I'm really excited to announce to be working on Redwoods for the next update. Thank you all for being patient with this. Currently I will be designing a root JSON specific for redwoods to match with its iconic 2x2 trunk. This new root will not have the same cube pattern that's used for standard 1x1 trees and possibly will be integrated with the 2x2 oaks and 2x2 maples you sometimes stumble across. I wanted to fix the visuals and bugs first before taking this on so that it has a clean slate to work with :D Having these bugs & visuals fixed, I can really take my time with this too. I do not have a current release date, I only wanted to communicate on what I will be currently working on for the next future update. This may take a good chunk of time to account for their root design... And how the roots "follow" with the terrain... Wink wink. Also on the side, I am going to attempt some compatibility additions to work with specific tree adding mods.

p.s. The Terrain Slabs compatibility detection came first because vanilla trees & other future tree mod compatibility fixes still have to work with that terrain if the player has it installed. I wanted that foundation working correctly first before moving onto individual tree compatibilities. Can't have a good lookin tree if its not generated properly on a half slab! 😄

Happy harvesting 🌲

- Herbst

Rooted Forests — v0.1.1 Changelog

Added

Water & Bald Cypress Fix

• Fixed water interaction issues discovered around bald cypress trees growing in water.
• Added complete water immersion support for Rooted Forests voxel logs.
• Water can now occupy the same block space as voxel logs, preventing unnatural air gaps around the recessed corners of trunks.
• Works with both upright and horizontal voxel logs.
• Improved behavior for partially and completely submerged trees.
• Reworked voxel logs to cooperate more directly with Vintage Story's native fluid system.
• Removed the previous automatic chunk-wide water repair/scanning system in favor of localized, native fluid behavior.
• Reduced unnecessary background processing associated with the previous water-repair system.
• Added block-attachment support to fluid-compatible voxel logs, allowing normal block attachments to continue functioning despite
• the changes required for proper water immersion.
• Improved fluid preservation when switching harvested logs between vanilla and voxel forms, reducing the possibility of creating empty water cells during a style change.

Harvested Log Style

• Added the new /rfharvest command system. You can find these commands in the Zip file too.
• /rfharvest — displays the currently selected harvested-log style.
• /rfharvest vanilla — harvested logs use vanilla cube geometry.
• /rfharvest voxel — harvested logs use Rooted Forests voxel geometry.
• The selected style is saved and persists between sessions and world reloads.
• World-generated trees remain voxelized regardless of the harvested-log setting.

Fixed

• Fixed root z-fighting with placed slabs.
• Fixed resin placement/positioning on voxel logs.
• Fixed water leaving empty pockets around voxel log geometry.
• Fixed attachment behavior caused by making voxel logs non-solid to the fluid system.
• Strengthened root detection for naturally grown trees, reducing incorrect root/stump rendering when evaluating terrain beneath a trunk.
• Improved handling of horizontal harvested logs when using voxel mode.

Changed / Improved

• Improved internal handling of voxel ↔ vanilla harvested-log conversions.
• General internal code cleanup and stability improvements.

Known Issue:
When using /rfharvest voxel, player-placed voxel logs on land directly bordering water may cause a flowing-water visual effect around the recessed edges of the log. This visual effect is specific to voxel-mode placed logs and is not present when using /rfharvest vanilla.

This is currently a visual/neighbor-fluid interaction associated with voxel-mode placed logs and does not affect normal world-generated tree behavior.
This edge case is known and will continue to be investigated in a future update.

Editor's Note: If you're constructing land-based pools out of voxel logs—specifically birch voxel logs—you're fired.

Waldheil und Waldherz. ↟𖠰˚☀︎ᨒ↟𖠰

Rooted Forests v0.1.0 — Initial Release

• Added version number to the ZIP filename (Still initial release)
• Added handcrafted voxel models for vanilla tree logs.
• Added rooted bases to naturally generated and sapling-grown trees.
• Added matching horizontal log models.
• Added support for resin and harvested resin log variants.
• Vanilla tree chopping, drops, growth, and other mechanics remain unchanged.
• Debarked logs, quad logs, and redwoods are currently left untouched.

Tested on Vintage Story 1.22.3. Other listed 1.22.x versions are expected to work but have not been fully tested.