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This mod was made out of my obsession for immersion.
Not only I hate carrying a lit torch in my inventory everywhere, I also hate having to keep replacing a drill firestarter everywhere, everytime. And since this game has a variety of great environment mechanics that would fit perfectly for fire-starting survival mechanics, I combined both!

If you crave for survival mechanics, realism and immersion as much as I do then this mod is for you!
Salty's Firestarters adds new methods for fire-starting for early and late game and overrides the vanilla methods with some cool challenging mechanics.
No new items are added, no GUI´s. Everything stays vanilla. All methods can be used to set grass or other combustible materials on fire, or ignite any block entity (firepit, forge, etc..).

You can find all information below in the handbook in-game.

Clear Quartz mechanic / early game:

Requires: Clear Quartz.

Usage: Sneak and hold right click.

Environment checks: Sky access, Time of day, Temperature, Rain, Cloud Density and Wind.

Clear quartz can be used as a magnifying glass. It uses the sun light to heat a single spot!

It's slow and it needs specific environment conditions to work properly.

Bow drill / early game:

Requires: crude bow in the main-hand, firestarter in the off-hand.

Usage: Sneak and hold right click.

Environment checks: Rain, temperature and Wind.

Uses a firestarter but is effective in harsh environmental conditions, much quicker and reliable.

A bow combined with a firestarter, designed to create fire more efficiently and quickly. It consumes one duraility from the firestarter upon use.

Spyglass mechanic / mid game:

Requires: Spyglass mod / Spyglass item.

Usage: Sneak and hold right click.

Environment checks: Sky access, Time of day, Temperature, Rain, Cloud Density and Wind.

Faster than clear quartz, usable at lower temperatures, and with a more forgiving time-of-day window for fire-starting.

Flint & Steel / late game:

Requires: Flint in the main-hand, steel ingot in the off-hand.

Usage: Sneak and hold right click.

Environment checks: Rain and Wind.

A classic and reliable survival tool.

Fast, fiery and fancy. Still depends on a few environment conditions:

Torch / Vanilla:

Requires: Torch.

Usage: Sneak and hold right click.

Environment checks: Rain, temperature and Wind.

Can still be used for all it's vanilla purposes but now with environment conditions!

Torches will extinguish in the player’s hand during heavy wind and automatically if placed in the backpack inventory. This is configurable.

Firestarter / Vanilla:

Requires: 2 sticks and a dry grass.

Usage: Sneak and hold right click.

Environment checks: Rain, temperature and Wind.

Can still be used for all it's vanilla purposes but now with environment conditions!

Environment conditions:

Sky Access:

With this condition you cannot start a fire if the block doesn't have direct access to sunlight.
This means you cannot start fires inside your home or inside a cave.
This is not configurable.

Time of day:

Sun position Matters!!
With this condition you can only start a fire during the sun's peak hours: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM for clear quartz and 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM for the Spyglass. This is fully customizable.

Temperature:

with this condition the environment needs to be warm enough!
This means no fire-starting in freezing, snowy areas.
The default value is temperature above 10ºC for quartz and vanilla firestarter, 7ºC for Spyglass and 5ºC for the torch and bowdrill. This is configurable!
This condition is only applied if you're outside.

Rain:

I think this one speaks for itself. You can disable this, but it will break my heart.
This condition is only applied if you're outside.

Cloud density:

There’s no use for the sun if it’s hiding behind a giant cloud with a fancy nimbus name. With this condition make sure you have direct access to sunlight rays! You can disable this.

Wind:

You ever tried lighting a fire in the middle of a storm? Yeah, it’s not gonna happen. You can disable this.
This condition is only applied if you're outside.

Configs:

Search up for the folder Firestarter inside ModConfig. There's a .json for each tool.

You can also:

• Enable debugging logs.
• Disable warnings for environment conditions.

Roadmap:

-Quartz method: Time of day and the sun’s position influence how long it takes to start a fire. / Ability to use other items for magnifying, even modded items. (I was thinking about SpyGlass mods spy glass).

-Flint & Steel: Add config option to set a chance of breaking the flint on use. / Add config option to ignite based on a chance value instead of immediately. / Add outdoors temperature environment condition. (would this be "over-capping" a late game mechanic?)

-Torches: Torches go unlit when stored in inventory. (backpack inventory, hotbar is fine).

Handbook: Update items description to mention possible fire-starter method.

-Add more cool firestart methods. (Iron method? Bow drill?)

-Override Vanilla methods to respect Environment conditions. (First on the list)

-Environmet conditions affects held items: Torches unlit with heavy wind.

This mod also lets you hold ingots in the off-hand now... so there’s that.

Credits:

Thanks DanaCraluminum for code consultation 😆

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