CodeBadger: Skillsmith x Minecolonies

CodeBadger: Skillsmith x Minecolonies

Brings MineColonies into CodeBadger: Skillsmith: a Leadership skill for running your colony, and a colony that can only make what you could make yourself.

Without this addon, a MineColonies colony is a way around every Skillsmith lock. If you can't craft diamond armor, have your blacksmith make it. With it, your colonists are held to your skills, and leading a colony becomes a skill of its own.

Please report bugs and balance feedback.

Made for MineColonies 1.1.1403-1.21.1 only. The addon hooks into MineColonies' internals, so it won't load with any other MineColonies version, rather than risk crashing your world.

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The Leadership skill

A new skill on the Skillsmith screen. It makes colonies you own stronger:

Bonus	Per 2 levels	At level 40
Colonist work XP	+2.5%	+50%
Colonist happiness	+1%	+20% (still capped at 10)
Colonist damage	+2%	+40%

• Colonist XP helps every colonist learn their job faster. It stacks with MineColonies' own building, Intelligence and research bonuses.
• Colonist happiness is applied after research, and never goes past MineColonies' cap of 10.
• Colonist damage makes your guards hit harder, with swords and bows alike.
• Your colony keeps its bonuses while you're offline, using the levels you last had.
• Prestige (skill XP mode) adds a little more of each, permanently.

How Leadership levels: in vanilla XP mode it's bought like any other skill. In skill XP mode it trains by running a colony:

Action	Leadership XP
Founding a colony	10
A colonist joins (first settlers, born in the colony, or hired at the tavern)	4
The builder finishes a building or upgrade	3 per level (a level 3 upgrade gives 9)

Finished buildings also give a little Building XP. Resurrected colonists and ones spawned by command don't count, so there's nothing to farm.

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Your colony, your skills

• Colonists only craft what you could craft. If an item has a Skillsmith crafting lock, a hut's colonists won't make it until the colony's owner has the skill. This covers recipes you taught and the ones huts know on their own. The recipe stays in the hut, and colonists start making it once you level up. Until then, requests for that item go to whoever else can fill them, so huts don't waste materials or get stuck.
• You can only teach what you could craft. Teaching a hut a recipe for a locked item needs the skill, and you get the usual "Requires Smithing 10" message if you don't have it. That applies to officers too.
• Colonies never starve. Food is left out: colonists can always cook and bake anything, and anyone can teach a hut a food recipe. You still need Culinary to craft locked food yourself. Golden carrots and golden apples are the exception: they stay locked for colonies too.
• Works while you're offline. The colony checks the owner's last saved levels, and prestige ranks count in skill XP mode, the same way Skillsmith checks furnaces and other machines.

Both rules can be switched off in config/skillsmith_minecolonies-common.toml if you want colonies to be a way around skill locks in your pack.

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Hut locks

Crafting most huts needs Leadership: 41 huts, from Leadership 2 to 30. The locks follow MineColonies' own research order, so each hut unlocks about when a colony would reach it anyway:

• huts open from the start need 2 to 9
• huts unlocked by University research tier 1 need 10 to 17
• tier 2 research huts need 18 to 25
• the last research huts need 26 to 30

Leadership	Huts
2	Guard tower
3	Warehouse
4	Chicken farmer
5	University
6	Cowhand, shepherd
7	Swineherd, rabbit hutch
8	Tavern
9	Bakery, apiary
10	Composter, sawmill
11	Stonemason, smeltery
12	Blacksmith
13	Library, school
14	Graveyard
15	Hospital, chef's kitchen
16	Barracks, barracks tower
17	Enchanter, mystical site
18	Plantation, brick yard
19	Flower shop, crusher
20	Sifter, fletcher
21	Dyer, glassblower
22	Mechanic
23	Gatehouse
24	Archery, combat academy
25	Stable
26	Concrete mixer
28	Nether mine
30	Alchemist tower

Free, so a colony can always start and feed itself: town hall, builder's hut, residence, farm and field, plantation field, fisher, forester, mine, dining hall and courier.

In skill XP mode, these numbers are checked against prestige ranks like every other Skillsmith lock.

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For pack makers

Everything is a plain JSON file, copied into config/skillsmith/ the first time you load the game with the addon:

• skills/minecolonies.json: the Leadership skill
• perks/minecolonies.json: its perks
• xp_sources/minecolonies.json: where Leadership XP comes from
• gates/crafting/minecolonies.json: the hut locks

Change any number, move the hut locks to other skills, or delete what you don't want. The addon's readme in config/skillsmith/readmes/ lists every setting, and stays up to date with the addon.

The addon also adds three perk types for your own skills (colonist XP, happiness and damage) and three XP source types (colony founded, colonist joined, building completed). Give Leadership's perks to Building instead, or train Smithing from the blacksmith's hut being upgraded.

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Requirements

• NeoForge 21.1.1 or newer
• CodeBadger: Skillsmith 1.0.0-1.21.1 or newer
• MineColonies 1.1.1403-1.21.1, with its required libraries (Structurize, BlockUI, Domum Ornamentum, Multi-Piston)
• Required on both client and server

License

MIT. Modpacks are welcome.