Mods / Seamarks -- Beacons & Lighthouses
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- Author:
- Fowl
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- Both
- Created:
- Jul 8th at 1:59 AM
- Last modified:
- Aug 25th at 1:33 AM
- Downloads:
- 6087
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Recommended download (for Vintage Story 1.22.0 - 1.22.7):
seamarks_1.0.1.zip 1-click install
This mod allows players to create beacons (including lighthouses) that are visible outside of normal render distance to help navigate around the world. It's intended to help players who play without the vanilla map (and with great mods like Frontier's Map) to better navigate oceans and may eventually be a handy world building feature for RP servers. These beacons produce blips of light that persist even after the chunk containing the beacon is unloaded or the world restarts
The mod introduces two types of beacons: fire pits and oil lamps. Fire beacons are fueled by wood/coal/peat and can be seen from a few hundred blocks away. Lamp beacons (based on Argand lamps used in lighthouses) are fueled by oil (linseed and olive oils in base game, other modded oils should be compatible) and can be improved by lining the reflector with plates (similar to lanterns) or by adding a Fresnel lens overtop to produce light visible from up to thousands of blocks away.
Lamp beacons only point in one direction but they can be mechanically powered like querns to spin and be seen from all angles.
View distance, fuel efficiency, and other settings are configurable and can be tuned live with Config Lib
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Chunk-independent rendering of the beacon blips is modeled on Farseer's far-terrain renderer
QoL animation trigger when staring at a lamp beacon inspired by Salty's Sun Gaze
| Mod Version | Mod Identifier | For Game version | Downloads | Released | Changelog | Download | 1-click mod install* |
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| 1.0.1 | seamarks | 1588 | Aug 25th at 1:32 AM | seamarks_1.0.1.zip | 1-click install | ||
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| 1.0.0 | seamarks | 1974 | Aug 1st at 7:15 AM | seamarks-1.0.0.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Feature-complete v1.0.0 release
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| 0.0.3 | seamarks | 1324 | Jul 22nd at 1:41 AM | seamarks-0.0.3.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Another interim release so folks can test out the new beam visuals while I work towards an acceptable v1.0.0. Oil lamp beacons now render a shooting beam of light when they're lit. The beam is a short, wide cone when the beacon is without a lens and gets longer and thinner/more concentrated with the prism attached. The beam fades in and out with the sky's light level. /seamarksbeamwidth <beam> <width>: Set the degree width of a specific beam (accepts 4-90 but beam widths will max out at 20-24 degrees when it's implemented) | |||||||
| 0.0.2 | seamarks | 244 | Jul 19th at 7:34 PM | seamarks-0.0.2.zip | 1-click install | ||
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This is just an interim release to address some big issues (fueling and blip reliability) while I work on the bigger visual update. | |||||||
| 0.0.1 | seamarks | 957 | Jul 9th at 12:43 AM | seamarks-0.0.1.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Initial release | |||||||
small wish: feature to use fat too besides oil for oil lamp beacon🙏
Hi. I can't figure ouy how to make the Temporal Lenses as it requieres a stack of two Temporal gears and you can't stack those. Any help would be appreciated.
use Pink Stacks Mod, and it should work
I can't figure out how to make the oil lamp beacon spin. Putting it on top of an axel does nothing, gears don't connect to it, not sure what the heck I am doing wrong. It can be lit, and it's not throwing any obvious errors in my logs. Help?
Also, I can attach silver plates to the housing, but not lens panels?
Edit, okay, I figured out how to add the lenses to the optic housing, but only if the optics housing is on it's own. If I fit the housing over the oil lamp, the option to open the lens slots isn't available.
Edit 2: Solved my problem, here's the answer if anyone else is stumped:
The oil lamp only rotates if it's placed on a powered axel and is lit
You have to set the optics housing on the ground, install the lenses, pick it back up, and then install it on the oil lamp
thanks for adding the temporal lens :D looks fantastic on my clock tower, lighting up the clouds from below!
some of the textures on the oil beacon and the beacon optics housing (when it is placed on the beacon) are broken. for some reason they are showing plant textures
Thanks for letting me know, will be fixed in the next update either tonight or tomorrow đź‘Ť
no worries, thankyou. any chance of adding another colour of lens? would be cool to have the temporal gear teal colour!
Good idea!
Is there a way to add new oil codes for the oil lamp and not the fire lamp? When I add for example "game:item-fat-rendered" to the extra oil codes, it only works for the fire beacon and not the oil lamp.
I'll update the oil lamps to accept non-liquid fuels that have been added to the config in the next release, it currently only takes liquid portions. Rendered fat works with the fire beacon by default since it's a solid with burn time.
I see I see, look forward to it allowing non liquids!
Oh woah the governor can be used for any mechanical power, allows you to control the speed of how it spins, that could be very handy. People have been asking for a mod that does that for ages, you could probably release that on it's own and it would be super popular lol.
Interesting..🤔
3 Type IV Green Lens Pannels and 0.5 RPS makes me long for the unachiavable american dream for some reason...
(peak mod)
Getting some errors in latest? Seems to be related to missing files.
Ah that's from the Glassmaking mod compatibility. They're harmless and everything should still work properly without Glassmaking installed but I know it's a bit annoying. I'll get them hidden in the next update.
Oh, how do you go about hiding errors for an optional mod compat? I'd like to know for myself. c:
I used the game's patch dependsOn field plus a runtime IsModEnabled check. For patches, I condition them on whether the other mod is loaded:
{
op: "remove",
path: "/class",
file: "blocktypes/customblock.json",
dependsOn: [ { modid: "othermod", invert: true } ]
}
invert: true means “only when the mod isn’t installed”, I use that to remove class fields that depend on the other mod which avoids the “no such class registered” spam. For things like recipe swaps or hiding creative items I check api.ModLoader.IsModEnabled("othermod") in AssetsFinalize.
Cheers! I'll find some way to apply this. :p
Does this involve havin' to touch C#?
I cannot for the life of me get the oil lamp to spin. From the back, the top, the side, the bottom... It doesn't seem to take power to spin. How does it work?
Nevermind. XD
DAMN This is amazing! The light is kinda small when far away, is there going to be a config or way to make it bigger? It is kinda hard to distinguish for stars, only if you know it is there, you will see it. Maybe allow to make Lenses from different colors? Is there going to be a way to make it spin faster?
Oh God.. Is it bad im Hearing One of the Ultrakill Levels with that Skybox and Lighthouse Animation
Love the new model, and I really wasn't expecting to see light beams so soon! The way particles shimmer in the beam is a really cool detail, great stuff!
I see there may be an update in the future so this may not be relevant for long and it may be a mod conflict on my end but how do you add oil to the lamp? I have buckets of various oils (olive, flax) but I can't seem to figure it out.
Edit: Oil appears to be a mod conflict, will report back if I figure out which mod.
EditEdit: All the oil Expanded Foods adds don't work but vanilla Linseed and Olive Oil does. There are Expanded Foods versions of these oils as well which is why I got tripped up.
Nice, I've been wondering how no one made a mod for light houses up till now.
Tbh, I was tempted to make one myself, but you've beaten my procrastinating ass.
Thanks all for trying the mod. Now that I've finished most of what I wanted to do with my other mod I can put more focus into this one. I'm taking everyone's feedback into consideration, the next release is already going to be a substantial improvement.
If anyone wants to go into specifics on a suggestion or otherwise follow along with the work on the next release (which hopefully shouldn't take me too long) feel free to join the Discord, I can post updates. I posted a preview of what I have so far in the description.
The gas lamp light looks so cool! I would love to see some sort of fire animation & sound for the fire beacon though, along with a brief smoking period before it catches alight like the normal firepit has.
linked video doesnt work for me, did the link break?
Looks like it's weird on some browsers and on mobile, thanks for letting me know
Hello! Me and my friends have been using this mod in a server of ours and having a lot of fun with it.
Is there any chance you'd be able to make the oil lamps compatible with the oils from Vintage Engineering? It'd be a huge bonus for people wanting to use that mod for a high-tech server.
Thank you if you see this!
Cool Mod, love the idea, works decently well.
Small problems:
Oil lamp seems to turn off randomly
The Astigmatism / Light ray effect is a bit too strong on weaker light sources.
Oil Lamp rotation seems inconsistent with input RPM. Assume this is something just not yet implemented.
Other:
Highly recommend looking into how Frenel Lenses can be made into distinctive patterns IRL. would be cool
Cool mod! keep it up!
Does this add the effect to all light sources? A friend is running a server and I'm trying to see if I can figure out a way to disable it as on all lights the effect can be a little overwhelming lol
I've been wanting to see working lighthouses in these block games for years, delighted to see someone come up with a solution!
After some testing I can say I'm pretty satisfied with the effect, though I did double the default ranges - I usually run at 800 view distance, meaning I can see the object of the fire beacon and the blocks around it long before I see the glare from it's light. The range of the oil lamp seemed perfect for the islands I was testing on, but I doubt I'll be unhappy about seeing it from twice as far away.
Speaking of, the fire beacon doesn't seem to be working quite right, the beacon effect often going out despite being fuelled, and still casting local light.
Configlib support would be nice, and I'm looking forward to the beacons getting bespoke models in the future. A good start for a great mod!
I'll definitely double the ranges of the beacons before the next release. The oil lamp will probably start at 1000, go to 1500 after adding the lens, and go up to 2000 with 4 electrum plates added.
I'll also check out the fire beacon, I probably messed something up when I made it extinguish in the rain. I just figured out ConfigLib support for my other mod so that should be easy to integrate before the next release as well. I plan to look for a really talented VS modeler to commission for the two beacons and lens models. I might attempt to make my own crude placeholder models until then.
Thanks for the feedback!
Will this conflict with ChunkLOD, which is a fork of Farseer?
In my testing it works and even properly occludes so a beacon behind a ChunkLOD mountain shouldn't be visible as expected đź‘Ť
Sounds awesome. I'm playing with a custom mod which disables player icon on map, as well as map auto-movement or re-centering, so finding my way back if I decide to take a boat trip might be challenging. Going to try this
whats the performance impact like?
It's pretty light weight, I haven't noticed any drops in performance at all in testing.
Neat I was just thinking how I needed a working lighthouse for my current game which has me using the the Frontier's map mod installed and I spawned in on a island chain that I made my base on so this was needed.
Great!