Immersive Rope Crafting

You ever wanted to sit with your bros, braiding rope by the fire, talking about whatever? Well now you can!

How to Start Braiding Rope:

This mod allows you to craft rope in world by first Shift Right-clicking a fiber source item onto a loose stone on the ground.

Fiber Sources:

Each fiber source has a specific amount of fiber they contribute to the rope. You can add fiber sources to an unfinished rope but Right-clicking the block with the item you want to add in your hand. The following are currently implemented fiber sources:

• dry grass => 2 fiber.
• thatch => 4 fiber.
• cattails => 10 fiber.
• wildvine => 15 fiber.
• flax fibers => 2 fiber.
• flax twine => 8 fiber.

 

In total you need 32 fiber to make a single rope. The values are made so that crafting rope this way requires less materials than if crafted in the grid.

This translates to the following amount per rope:

• 16 dry grass
• 8 thatch
• 4 cattails
• 2 wildvines
• 16 flax fibers
• 4 flax twine

 

You can mix any kind of fiber onto the same rope, but adding an item with more fiber than is required to reach 32 fiber will waste the unused fiber.

Braiding the Rope:

To create a finished rope item, you must braid the rope on the ground. To do this, the unfinished rope must have enough fiber to complete a step of braiding, and you must Right-click with an empty hand and with nothing in your offhand. 

By default a rope takes 16 braiding actions to be completed and each action takes 1 second. You can complete an action in half the time if you are sitting down.

You can change this in the config file located in ModConfig/ImmersiveRopeConfig.json to change the amount of seconds it takes to complete a braiding action ("secondsPerAction") and how many actions it takes to complete a rope item ("totalSectionsPerRope"). You can only choose from 32, 16, 8 and 4 actions per rope, or the default 16 is used instead. You also can't change the amount of seconds to a value larger than 10 seconds or else the default 1 second is used instead.

There is also an option to disable grid recipes for crafting rope ("disableVannilaRopeRecipes"), but this is not enabled by default.

Future Plans:

1. Adding an animation to the rope braiding action
2. Adding compatibility with other mods and other fiber sources