CraftedStars

1.4.0
Fixed
- Stars are now applied to crafts that finish in the background. The mod previously
hooked only the crafting UI, so anything a workstation completed while its window
was closed came out with no stars at all. On a dedicated server without the mod on
clients, that meant it did nothing whatsoever. Reported on Nexus by two users.
- The star roll was not random. The mod created a fresh generator each time, seeded it
with a counter that stepped by a fixed amount, and took only its first value. The
first draw after seeding is a linear function of the seed, so the "random" roll was
really a sawtooth that stepped by a constant and wrapped at 1.0. Measured over 38
crafts: consecutive rolls differed by exactly 0.086 in 13 of 37 cases, the mean was
0.59 instead of 0.50, and stars landed 18.4% of the time where the config asked for
40%. This is why Advanced Engineering 5 felt like 10-20%. Now measures 47.7% over 44
crafts, within one sigma of 40%.
- The crafter's perk level is read from the entity that started the craft rather than
the local player, so it resolves correctly on dedicated servers.
Added
- 3, 4 and 5 star crafts, via a new <StarCounts> section in config.xml. Defaults
reproduce the classic 19:1 one-star/two-star split, so nothing changes until you
raise the higher weights. The count is capped by how many stat types the item
defines - most weapons define 5.
- Item modifiers can roll stars. The game only reads <stats> from items.xml and its
item modifier parser never calls it, so a <stats> block on an <item_modifier> was
silently ignored. The mod now calls the same vanilla parser for modifiers, which
makes such a modlet possible. Modifiers ship without <stats>, so nothing changes on
its own.
- modifierStats and backgroundCrafts config options.
- Debug logging now lists which stats received a star and the resulting multiplier,
which makes "it has a star but nothing changed" diagnosable at a glance.
Known behaviour
- On a dedic…