@GravySleeve my 4g hotspot dropped yesterday when you were showing me your mall, because someone called me at that moment. Just wanted to say it looks pretty cool and looks large enough that we can fit a lot of cool "shops" in there! I was thinking of creating a Lidl store in there but I'll see when I get around to it.

Oh no! I don't have screenshots this week :( It has been a busy week and for the past two days I have been focussing on the chat mod I have been writing. So I guess I'll showcase that a bit more:

• Here you can see both the game and chat side by side
• I also implemented a favicon counter so you can see that people are talking even if you don't have the tab open
• Configuration of the port used is also available through mod menu

Some things I still want to implement:

• Timestamps
• A player list
• Showing player heads
• Storing chat history per server on the minecraft side and display those for the user on join as well. (I might be lazy and hijack chat patches history for that, but ideally I'd do it myself.
• Better reconnection options.
• Publishing on modrinth maybe? Not decided on that yet.

Feedback and testers appreciated

If you want to test it you can grab web-chat-0.0.4.jar from the latest release here. You will also need the following mods for stuff to work:

• YACL
• Mod Menu

Edit: Updated the version as I did release 0.0.4 yesterday. I also am in the process of publishing it on modrinth where the thing is awaiting review.

Hey @Evie! I saw you've been busy working in the mall lately! Great work as always! Love the lore! I need to utilize the naming of armor stands more. I haven't made any of mine "speak" before! I have, however, made one which will dance until the end of time. :D

Huehuehuehue...

There are now quite a few shulker shells in the community storage. (Like 2.5 double chests worth)

Hey @IsildursBane, I'm gonna add a shulker loader to the fireworks factory soon, and I'm considering having the shulkers be pumped over to community storage instead of the little shack cause there isn't much room there. I was thinking there could be a stack of chests hidden behind the wall at the end of the bulk storage hall with a dropper attached so you can press a button and get a full shulker of rockets.

Also, @teaearlgraycold, could I trouble you for some Dragon's Breath? The only way to obtain it is by respawning the dragon, but I don't want to make a mess of the end. Pretty Pleaaassssseeee!!!! It's for the new shop in the mall, Pinkerton's, they sell perfume and the lingering potion bottles look like perfume bottles. :D

Edit: New shop is completely done!
Edit2: Bane, I added the leftover Dragon's Breath in the potion donations box.
Edit3: Long day of minecraft today, started on another shop for the mall.

So I will probably not be on the server until the new year. Community Storage does not have working chunk loaders yet. If someone wants to tackle it, let me know and I can provide information of the current system, to make swapping it out easier. I already have a redstone line to turn the chunk loaders on/off and the three portals needed are already built.

@GravySleeve I'd like to claim 2 of the smaller stalls near the theater for a combo cookie shop and "dippin blocks" if that's ok. I have an idea that I think could work in the space. :)

I am considering building an enderpearl transport network, but I'm still working out exactly how much time it will take and playing with some designs in a redstone testing world. I don't want to promise anything yet since it might turn out to be prohibitively time consuming for me to do.

I wanted to put out a feeler before proceeding: How do people feel about turning off gamerule enderPearlsVanishOnDeath? This would keep the pearls around in the stasis chambers after dying, logging in/out, and server restart. If we don't have that off, there's not much point in creating the network at all. There are some potential lag implications whenever we update to 1.21.3 since ender pearls will act as chunk loaders. They would not load chunks after server restart until the ender pearl is loaded the first time, then those chunks would remain loaded until the server restarts again.

I also still need to do testing on Paper server before I can promise the redstone would work. From what I gather the setting disable-unloaded-chunk-enderpearl-exploit can cause issues; it would need to be false (as it is by default). I don't know yet if there are any other Paper issues with the wireless redstone but my understanding is it still works. I was going to run a simple test on the server this afternoon, and also test locally on Paper 1.21.1 and Paper 1.21.3 (in case we update any time soon).

Edit: Looks like ender pearls do remain in the world if the player logs out or after server restart in any case. For some reason I thought this also depended on the game rule. The only hiccup in all this is if the owner dies.