FotoGenic

## [1.0.0] — Full Frame ### Added - **Multiplayer photo sharing.** Photos now upload to the server when taken and are fetched on demand by other players, so everyone can see each other's shots, prints and wall-hung photos — not just the photographer. Image bytes are stored per-world and streamed in chunks. ### Changed - **Release housekeeping:** disabled the dev-only test-mob dependency, tidied the mod metadata (logo, credits), and added an MIT `LICENSE`. - **JEI documentation** now covers the newer content: info pages for the **Photo Album**, **Camera Recharge Station**, and **Master Photographer Trophy**, and the Digital Camera's page now explains its **battery** and the two item bars. - The **Photo Album** plays a soft page-turn sound when you flip between spreads. ### Notes - **1.0.0 — the first full release.** The mod is mechanically complete; the remaining work before wider distribution is final artwork and broader playtesting (especially the new multiplayer photo sharing). [1.0.0]: #100--full-frame

## [0.8.0] — Field Work ### Added #### Consumable trades - The Camera Technician now always stocks **film, photo paper, and blank SD cards**, so early-game supplies aren't a grind. #### Wanted creature - The technician posts a **daily "wanted" creature** — sell a photo of it for a bonus payout. The current target is shown each time you make a sale. #### More advancements - Six new entries in the Photography tab: **First Sale**, **Bounty Hunter** (sell the wanted creature), **Gotta Snap 'Em All** (100% dex), **Night Owl** (night photo), **Deep Dive** (underwater photo), and **Big Game** (photograph a boss). #### Best-shot photo of record - A creature's **photo of record** now keeps your **best-framed** shot — scored by how centred and how close the creature was in frame — instead of simply the most recent one. [0.8.0]: #080--field-work

## [0.7.0] — Field Notes Update ### Added #### Photo metadata ("EXIF") - Every photo now records **where and when it was taken** — the biome, the in-game day and clock time, and the block coordinates of the photographer — stamped at the moment of capture (for both hand-held and tripod shots). - A photo's tooltip now shows that metadata under its date: biome name, `X / Y / Z`, and `Day N · HH:mm`. - Edited copies made in the computer's Editor carry the original capture metadata forward. - Photos taken before this update simply show no metadata (nothing breaks). #### Photography advancements - A new **"Photography"** advancement tab, unlocked by taking your first photo: - **First Photo** — take a photograph with any camera. - **Golden Hour** — take a photo at dawn or dusk. - **Say Cheese!** — photograph a hostile mob mid-attack. - **Field Researcher** — catalogue 25 creatures in your Journey Guide. #### Capture polish - A small **sparkle at the lens when a photo lands** (when it's saved or a film shot finishes developing), with a faint blink for delayed film develops. #### Journey Guide - A **search bar** above the creature list — click it and type to filter the catalogue by name. #### Server config - New `fotogenic-common.toml` options for server owners: the **capture range** (how close a creature must be to be catalogued), the **XP rewards** for new creatures / baby variants / trade milestones, and the **Photo Hut spawn weight** in plains villages (0 disables it). #### Sell photos for value - Right-click the Camera Technician **with a photo in hand to sell it** for XP and iron salvage. The payout scales with the photographed creature's **rarity** (passive < hostile < boss/rare) and gets a bonus if you've already **catalogued** it — a money loop that rewards shooting even after the dex is full. - Photos now quietly record the **main creature in frame** at capture, which drives the scoring. #### More technician trades - The technician now also sells **lenses** (Prime, Zoom, Macro, Fisheye, Super-Zoom), unlocked at higher Journey Guide discovery counts (30 / 40 / 55 / 65 / 85) and priced in glass + salvage. #### Photo of record - Photographing a creature you've catalogued now files that shot as its **"photo of record"** — your Journey Guide entry shows your own best photo of the creature in place of the generic model, turning the dex into a personal portfolio. The latest shot of each creature wins. #### Completion reward - Cataloguing **every** creature awards the **Master Photographer Trophy**, a one-of-a-kind keepsake item (with a placeholder texture for now). #### Enlarger - The **Enlarger** now has a **Save** button (and Ctrl+S) that saves the framed crop — including the chosen aspect ratio — back onto the card as a new photo, like the Editor's Save As, instead of only printing it. The crop is non-destructive, so the original photo is untouched. #### Photo Album - A craftable **Photo Album** (book + leather + photo paper) that stores up to 128 photos so loose prints stop cluttering chests. Right-click to open a leather two-page spread showing **two photos at a time**, each in a white mat with a drop shadow and **translucent tape across its corners**. - **Collect loose photos** vacuums every photo from your inventory into the album; **shift-click** a photo to peel it back out as an item. Flip pages with the ← → glyphs or the arrow/strafe keys. #### Camera battery & recharge station - The **Digital Camera** now runs on a **battery — 50 shots** before it goes flat and refuses to capture. A **second bar** on the camera item (just above the blue SD-card bar) shows the charge, running red → green and hiding when full. - The **Camera Recharge Station** now opens a simple one-slot dock: drop a digital camera in and it trickle-charges **1 shot every 3 seconds** up to full, showing a live battery readout. (Still the Camera Technician's job site too.) ### Fixed - The **Polaroid Camera** now confirms its flash toggle on the action bar ("Flash: On" / "Flash: Off") — it has no viewfinder indicator like the digital camera, so the toggle was previously silent. - Removed a **duplicate Tripod information page** in JEI (the tripod showed two identical info entries). [0.7.0]: #070--field-notes-update

# Changelog All notable changes to FotoGenic are documented here. This update introduces the Journey Guide and a full creature-photography progression built on top of it. ## [0.6.0] — The Journey Guide Update ### Added #### Journey Guide (creature catalogue) - **Journey Guide** — a field-catalogue book item. Photograph creatures to fill it in, Pokédex-style. - Discoveries are stored **per player** and persist through death, so your catalogue is permanent. - **Capture detection** — when you take a photo with any camera, living mobs inside the viewfinder cone (within 16 blocks, with a clear line of sight) are catalogued. You must be carrying the guide. One new creature is logged per photo (a random undiscovered one in frame). - **Guide screen** — a scrollable list of every living-mob type (shown as `???` until found), with: - a **scrollbar** with click-to-jump, - an **All / Passive / Hostile** filter, - a **detail panel** showing the live mob model, temperament, health, and a description, - a **trade-progress bar** showing how close you are to the next Camera Technician part unlock. - **41 hand-written creature blurbs** (cows, wolves, the Ender Dragon, villagers, golems, Nether mobs, warden, and more), with a generic fallback for everything else — including modded mobs. - **Baby variants** — photographing a baby catalogues its baby form as a separate collectible, shown in the creature's detail panel. - **Rewards for photography** — +6 XP for each new creature, +3 for a new baby variant, and a +20 XP bonus when you reach a trade milestone. - **Milestone pop-up** — crossing a discovery threshold shows a "new technician trade unlocked" message with a level-up chime. - **Admin command** — `/fotogenic guide add|remove *` or `<creature>`, plus `add|remove baby *` or `baby <creature>` (operator only). #### Camera Technician & progression - **Camera Recharge Station** block — the Camera Technician's job site (now craftable: iron + redstone + copper block). - **Camera Technician** villager profession — sells the Journey Guide and, as your catalogue grows, the parts to build the digital camera and upgrade the computer. - **8 new parts**, each unlocked at a Journey Guide discovery milestone: - **Camera parts** — Camera Body (10), Image Sensor (20), Shutter Assembly (35), Lens Mount (50). Craft all four together to assemble the **Digital Camera**. - **Computer parts** — SD Controller (5), Memory Bus (25), Cache Module (45), Flash Array (75). Used to unlock the computer's SD-card slots. - **Discovery-gated trades** — the technician only offers a part once you've catalogued enough creatures; each player sees the set that matches their own progress. #### Computer SD-card slots - Computers now start with **1 card slot** and unlock up to **5**. - New **"SD Cards"** desktop app — shows each slot, the materials needed for the next one, and an Unlock button (free in Creative). - The unlocked-slot count is **saved on the dropped computer** when broken and **shown in its tooltip**, and restored when replaced. #### Compatibility - **Jade** integration — look-at tooltips for the computer (unlocked slots), tripod (docked camera), printer (paper / finished print), and ring light (brightness & facing). - **JEI** — information pages explaining what the camera and computer parts are used for (press `U` on an SD Controller to see it upgrades a computer slot). #### World generation - **Photo Hut** — a small building that generates in plains villages, complete with a Camera Technician and a recharge station inside. ### Changed - **Digital Camera recipe** — now assembled from the four camera parts instead of being craftable from raw materials, so the Polaroid carries the early game. - **SD-card slot upgrades** now cost the matching computer part (plus redstone) rather than diamonds. - **Technician trades use no emeralds** — the Journey Guide costs a book + 12 iron, and parts cost tech salvage (copper, iron, redstone, amethyst, gold, a diamond). - The Camera Technician is pinned to **Master level** (the tier is cosmetic here — trades are gated by discoveries, not by villager level). - **All blocks** (computer, printer, ring light, tripod, recharge station) now require a **wooden pickaxe or better** to drop. The wall-hung Polaroid stays hand-breakable. ### Fixed - The catalogue now includes **villagers, iron golems, and snow golems** (mobs that Minecraft internally files under the `MISC` category). - Fixed the Camera Technician **shaking its head with no trades** — its offers are now built directly on interaction, so being pinned to a high level no longer wipes the Journey Guide trade. - SD-slot unlocks now reflect **immediately** in the app (optimistic update + a server confirmation packet) instead of only after reopening the computer. [0.6.0]: #060--the-journey-guide-update