HIT Console Patch

Disclaimer/transparency: This was made using Claude, with informed human QA, for internal/testing purposes for a small private server of two. This is being published for use with the ModDB API. All mods are property of their original owners and/or creators. There should be no assumed support obligation in using this mod, though it may receive periodic updates.

 

HIT Console Patch

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Harper's Immersive Tools (HIT) has, for some time now, left some debugging logging code in build 2.4.3. Every time your inventory updates, which is something that is happening constantly as you're clicking around, it prints "test1" follow by the full contents of each hotbar slot, and prints this out to the server, which spams the console considerably.

 

This mod is designed to silently fix this at runtime, without touching HIT's files of course. It requires no configuraton, and doesn't produce any visible changes beyond the lack of "test1" spam in the server's console.

 

If HIT is absent, updated, or already fixed at some point in time, this mod will detect that, and do nothing, so it's safe to leave installed throughout an eventual HIT update that fixes this.

 

Technicals: When VS starts, it calls Start() on ever loaded mod. HIT Console Patch uses AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() to grab the type of Ele.HIT.PlayerToolWatcher and it's UpdateInventory method by name, but if any of these lookups return null/nothing then it basically logs a warning and exits. Once we've got the methodinfo for UpdateInventory, it goes off to Harmony, and is applied via a patch, which doesn't wrap or replace the method, but instead intercepts the instruction list prior to the compiler, and then rewrites the bytecode directly. Within HIT's source compile, the part of the code that causes the "test1" spam is contained with the UpdateInventory loop body, so the patch walks the instructions back whenever it finds Console.WriteLine(string) and then traces back to where the argument expression starts. Intead of deleting anything in terms of the isntructions, it replaces each occurrence with a "no-operation" so that it's gentler with everything. So, the compiler never sees the Console.WriteLine's, because they've been replaced beforehand, UpdateInventory runs just as it did beforehand, just without all the test1 debug spam. (Perhaps the technical term for it is 'a doozy' lol)

 

Note: This is my second ever attempt at C# with a Claude workflow. Because this includes compiled source code for it, I'd like to convey the idea that this is a fully open-source mod, of course, and thus the source code is linked in the attached github repository for your viewing/editing/curiousity/verification. 

 

This may or may not receive updates, it's designed to just not do anything if/when this is ever fixed with HIT.

If there are issues with the mod, please feel free to report them in the comment section, via the Vintage Story discord at "Ms. Deni" (blkdnm), or via the github repository.