kris-patch-longtermfood

A small content-only fix for the Long-term food mod. Its files are labelled "pemmican", which is why that word turns up in the broken names below.

What it fixes

Long-term food adds potatoes, corn, sugar beet and sugar cane, along with plenty of things you can cook or press from them. Two of those come out with no name at all. Instead of a name, you get a line of raw code, something like "pie-single-pemmican:vegetable-potato-raw-perfect".

• Pies. Every pie made from the mod's vegetables shows a line like that instead of its name: potato, corn, chopped potato, shelled corn, pickled potato and chopped pickled potato, in all four baking stages. That is 24 different pies.
• Pressed mash. Squeeze potato, corn, sugar beet, sugar cane or healbulb in a fruit press and the leftover mash has the same problem.

Nothing is actually broken. The pies bake, feed you and keep exactly as they should. They simply have no name to show, so the game prints its own internal code instead. This patch gives all 29 of them the names they were missing.

Do you need it?

Install it if your server runs Long-term food and your players are seeing lines of code where a food name should be.

How to install

1. Put the mod file in your server's Mods folder.
2. Restart the server.

No configuration needed.

Please note: this needs to go in your server's Mods folder. It is sent to players automatically like any other content mod. Do not put it in the ModsByServer folder on a player's computer, because that folder is an automatic download from the server and is not the right place for it.

Requirements

• Vintage Story 1.22 or newer
• Long-term food, the mod this fixes. If it is not installed, this patch simply does not load and causes no harm.
• Because it changes what players see, it goes on the server and is sent to players automatically, like any other content mod.

Good to know

• It is safe to remove at any time. It only adds names: no code, no recipes, no items, and nothing at all written to your save or your world.
• Pies you have already baked get their proper name the moment the patch is in. The name is worked out fresh each time a pie is shown, so nothing needs re-making.
• It never renames anything that already had a name, and it does not clash with any other mod. Every name it adds is for something that had none.
• It covers the vegetable side of Long-term food. Pemmican itself, the medicines, the algae chain and the drinks were all named correctly already.
• One thing it deliberately leaves alone: roasted potato and corn sit at the wrong size when dropped on the floor. That is a typo inside one of Long-term food's own files, and the game will not let any patch touch that file until the typo is corrected. The only way round it would be to ship a copy of the whole file, which would quietly override Long-term food's next update, not worth it for a size difference. Better reported to the mod's author.

Under the hood, for the curious

A pie's name is not stored on the pie. The game builds a lookup key from whatever is inside it, the filling plus the baking stage, and for a filling from a mod that key keeps the mod's prefix. So a baked potato pie asks for a name under "pie-single-pemmican:vegetable-potato-raw-perfect", and that lookup has to match exactly. The wildcard shortcuts that work for ordinary item names do not apply here. Long-term food ships no pie names at all, so the key finds nothing and gets printed as it is. Every other mod that adds pie fillings (Wildcraft, Butchering, Primitive Survival, Ancient Tools) ships them. This patch supplies the 24 that were missing. A mixed pie led by corn asks for a "grain pie" name the base game never defined either, but Wildcraft Fruit already fills that one in, so it is left alone rather than overridden.

The pressed mash is a leftover rename: those items were renamed, while the mod's name list still points at the older wet and dry versions, so none of the five match. The ground-size bug is a single missing closing brace in one of the mod's cooked-vegetable files, which tucks the ground setting inside the entry above it where the game never looks. The game's asset reader tolerates the damaged file, but its patch system refuses it outright, so no patch can reach it.

Made by kristkos3. Tested against Long-term food 0.6.7.