I really appreciate your particles mods.

I was wondering if you would consider doing one for Fire Clay, or even all of the clays?

Buddy1913

That's OK. I would be more concerned if particles DID spawn with time paused :)

I'm glad you figured it out.

Malnaur, i profusely appologise, i am a collossal idiot.

so. the world i am using to test these things was a creative world...

PARTICLES DON'T SPAWN OR UPDATE IF TIME IS PAUSED!!!!

Buddy1913

Two more ideas:

1. Add another of my mods (like peat or meteoric) and see what happens if you place such blocks (or even hold one in your hand). The full blocks are needed, not the bricks from mining them.
2. Are you placing the raw soil blocks and not the farmland version (e.g., give yourself soil-high-normal)?

Other than those, I don't know how I would approach such a problem. I have an RTX2060 in my machine and it works fine for me and others. A screenshot might also help. Point at one of the blocks to display what it is and take the snap. Finally, check the log files to see if there is any clue there.

Malnaur, with nothing but the defualt 3 mods (and yours, obviously) that come with the game the particles still arn't spawning. standing still on the ground next to a placed patch of HF and TP soils.

Buddy1913

Hmmm. Do you have any of my other mods? Might you have a mod that is interfering? Are you flying around instead of walking?

The mod itself is very simple so there isn't much that can go wrong with it.

i cannot for the life of me get this mod to work, deleting the config and re-installing v1.3.0, clearing and cache unpack files there are still just no particles.

doesn't seem to be working on any version. last one i had working was v1.1.0 on #1.20.1

running on a RTX 2080 with highest default gfx settings on game version #1.20.7 to try and rule that out being a casue.

Malnaur

Can confirm, v1.3 works for high fertilily and terra petra 👍
Thank you for updating!

affensind

OK. Thanks for patiently working with me on this. v1.3 should now work for both high fert blocks AND terra preta blocks. You should delete your config file before running the update the first time.

Malnaur

The particles are working the intended way in the screenshot because I changed the config file. That's not the point of the screenshots though, I maybe should have been more clear about that.

The point of the screenshot is that you can clearly see that the block codes (top right corner - ish) are not the same as the block names (top middle) , which is what I was talking about.

affensind

Um... what the screenshots show is exactly as intended and the opposite of what you described. The particles are spawning over the HF block, not the TP block.

Terra Preta no longer spawns in the wild, Only High Fertility soil does. When you go out looking, HF soil is what you are looking for.

I'm afraid I don't understand your complaint.

Malnaur

That's at least what I see in my game. I'm playing on 1.20.7 and tested it on multiple worlds, creative and survival, local and on server.

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

Also, if you take a look at the wikis source, it's the same there.

https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Soil/en

If I remember the history correctly here, Terra Preta was originally soil-high and high fert blocks did not exist. High fert blocks were then added and shoe-horned in as soil-compost. Ultimately, this was 'corrected' when Terra Preta no longer spawned naturally (you have to craft it) and high fert was left as a natural spawn labeled soil-high, which made it consistent with the other fertility level soil block codes. Terra Preta became soil-compost to complete the migration to a rational naming system and give me a headache. Legacy worlds that survived through all of this might have a mix of blocks/codes that further complicates the matter. I'm not sure about that last part but the game does not seem to clean up after itself for such changes as that would lower performance.

affensind

Not sure you are correct. I believe the block codes are the opposite of what you state and my testing in a brand new 1.20.7 world showed detection of high fertility blocks worked fine.

Are you running 1.20.7? Are you using a legacy world save that would already have spawned blocks with different codes?

Finally, what are you seeing specifically?

Malnaur

Currently, the mod doesn't work. Well, at least not the the way it's intended to work. It creates particles for Terra Petra blocks, not High Fertility blocks.

This is because the naming/block codes are inconsistent. 

The block codes for Terra Petra blocks are "soil-high-*" and the ones for High Fertility blocks are "soil-compost-*".

In the meantime, until the mod is updated or the devs fix the block codes, users can simple edit the config file accordingly.

Cheers!

Novadegree Tanihk

I have updated the mod. Let me know if you still encounter problems.

Note: This release changes to detect the newest tags for high fertility soil. It NO LONGER detects legacy tags like "Terra Preta" or the interim version of HF soil (soil-compost).

@Malnaur it works in 1.20,4 . idk bout any other updates.  Oh in the new updated chunks not out of the chest. 

Tanihk

A quick test using hi fert blocks pulled from a chest works fine in 1.20.7. I will roam around for 'wild' blocks when I have a chance.

Tanihk

A quick test using hi fert blocks pulled from a chest works fine in 1.20.7. I will roam around for 'wild' blocks when I have a chance.

Tanihk

I check here infrequently. I will look into this soon.

Doesnt seem to work in 1.20.5

confirmed working with 1.20pre4

Idan

It has not needed updating. It works with 1.19.8 stable/ The current version.

Hey, can you please update it to the latest version? <3

I've dug around ruins and come up with no bony soil enough times that it would certainly be useful to know that there's something to find near a given ruin. Though maybe I'm just having bad luck :).

Echoweaver

You're welcome. The mods do work for near surface blocks like meteoric iron. Bony soil is somewhat different since it's around ruins. Not sure you would save much by getting a particle cloud there. I have not played VS for a few months after running out of things to do that interest me.  When the next story dungeon drops I may return. If I have time, I will consider a bsoil mod.

ChandloFunkbun

I have no way to modify the visibility distance. Check your graphics settings for things like render distance. Otherwise, you can edit the config file for color, etc.

Thank you so much for NOT combining all your tweaks. I know it's an additional hassle to maintain them all separately. Your hassle is saving us from our hassle. 

Are the particles visible for blocks that are not on the surface? If so, would you consider doing one of these for bony soil? 

Is it possible to increase the range at which particles are visible? You gotta be pretty close to see them...

@malnaur I was just curious if it was possible to adding them into the system ^^" 

The_True_Goo

There are no png images involved. Don't know what you mean. You can control particle dynamics and color but that's it.

sorry I didn't get any notifications about your reply. 
I'm pretty sure I did but I'll just do a fresh install to be safe. 

Also what's the process of adding custom png images to the config?

I just tested this again and I do not see the rewrite happening. Did you accidently install v1.0.0 instead of the newer v1.1.0?

Hi there. I just would like to mention that the issue of rewriting the config is still present. is there anything that can be done on my end to fix this?

Malnaur Thanks for the suggestion. And yeah, with that mod I was indeed able to find some. It seems my "issue" is that I switched to smoother terrain gen from Plains and Valleys (or now Vanilla Plus testing) and it so happens that most of those patches are almost or entirely surrounded by other soil, so that there's no exposed sides to it. So unless I read the tooltip of every block I walk on I'd never even see it because the grass on top is of the same color than for other soils. I guess it would've been cool if the game would have some color differentiation of the grass depending on the soil type, or have maybe some little flowers spawn on top of high fertility soil or be part of the grass texture on them, or something else that would subtly indicate its presence. Your mod would definitely be too cheaty for my tastes. :P

DarkThoughts

The mod is not designed to work with movement as rapid as flying. The combination of processing all neabry blocks and the fairly slow generation of particles means you won't see them as you zoom around. Sorry.

Try "blocks overlay" with a large radius. If you stop and go, you will find what you are looking for far away and can then fly to it.

darkthoughts 
I am unsure of Malnur's mod but using Dana's mod if you move by too quickly, the particles don't have time to start.  I typically run about 15 blocks and pause to give the particles time to materialize.  They only start when you are nearby.

Thanks for making this.

Unfortunately even with this mod and flying around with speed 5 I still cannot find any high fertility soil. Terra Preta was rare but not THIS rare. Are there any mods that could conflict with generating this? At first I thought it was the Plains and Valleys mod, even though I doubted that terrain gen mod even touch the blocks / materials itself, but even after flying around in the ugly vanilla terrain I could not find anything. I'm really at a loss now.

Levion

Good catch. This was a bug inherited from the parent mod. Fortunately it was corrected there as well so I could make a speedy fix which seems to now work as expected. Let me know if it's still a problem.

Great mod, but I've got one problem. For some reason, the Config.json for it resets after Leaving a world (I think this is when it's happening at least)
So I'm able to configure it to be just right for me, and play with it functioning fine, but the next session with it I have to reconfigure it.

You're welcome. Happy hunting.

Thanks for this man. You're a real one