Vaettir

Vaettir

Plant an ancient seed in the Black Forest and it grows on greydwarf deaths instead of on a timer. When it opens, a forest spirit rises out of it and folds itself into a heartwood you carry away and build into a stowing post: a shallow container that hands its contents to the chests around it, sorted by rules you set on each chest.

The same DLL also carries two mods that used to ship separately: Stow, which is the post and the chest sorting, and Furrow, which is the cultivator's planting grid and area harvest. Wild plant transplanting and a bonemeal recipe are here too.

Features

• Ancient sapling. Planted with the cultivator, fed by greydwarf kills within 24m, and it

calls greydwarfs to itself in waves while a player is nearby. It has 500 health and can be destroyed.

• Forest spirit and heartwood. One spirit per sapling, one heartwood per spirit.
• Stowing post. A 6x2 container on the hammer's Furniture tab. Drop things in, close it,

and a spirit flies them to the chests that asked for them.

• Chest rules. A Holds… button in every chest window. Chests hold groups (ore, fuel,

seeds, building materials) or single items, and can refuse things.

• Post upgrades. Two pieces you build on the ground beside a post, the way a chopping

block stands beside a workbench. A creel rail makes it hold what a reinforced chest holds and carry 20 items a trip, and a spirit perch flies a second spirit.

• Hod jib. A piece that stands on its own and lets crafting stations and the hammer use the

chests within its reach. Jibs built on each other's edge extend the reach.

• Planting grid. From Farming 10 the cultivator's ghost snaps to a lattice so hand-placed

beds come out in rows. A ring shows whether a sapling will actually have room.

• Area harvest. From Farming 15, Shift+E on a ripe crop picks its neighbours too, reaching

further as Farming rises. Plain E still picks one.

• Transplanting. Dig up wild berry bushes, thistle, dandelion and mushrooms with the

cultivator and carry them somewhere else. Gated on Farming, one plant at a time, and the world's plant count never changes.

• Bonemeal. Two bone fragments and an entrail make five at the workbench. A fed crop

yields three times when picked and trains Farming.

• Multi-seed sowing. Sow a row or a circle per click, scaled by Farming. Off by default.

The ritual

1. Kill greydwarf brutes and shamans until one drops an ancient seed. Vanilla loot, and

nothing here changes the drop.

1. Plant it with the cultivator, in the Black Forest, at least 5m inside the biome and

outside anybody's base. The refusal message says which of the two stopped you.

1. Kill greydwarfs within 24m of it. Greydwarf 1 point, shaman 3, brute 4, greyling 0, and

50 points opens it. Only the nearest sapling is fed by a kill.

1. You do not have to go looking for them. A planted seed calls greydwarfs in from 25 to 40m

out, 2 to 5 at a time, every 20 seconds falling to every 6 as it fills. Everyone within 48m is told once that the forest is enraged. It only calls while a player is within 48m, and it stops calling if a base grows around it.

1. Defend it. 500 health is about ten hits from a brute, and the seed is not refunded if it

dies. It says when something is hitting it and when it is gone.

1. When it opens a forest spirit rises out of it. Press use once and it folds itself into a

heartwood.

1. Build a stowing post: 40 fine wood, 20 bronze nails and 1 heartwood, hammer, Furniture tab.

Taking the post down gives the heartwood back.

The sapling's hover text carries its stage and its exact count, so rooting ( 18 / 50 ) tells you what is left. It looks the same the whole way through, so the hover text is the only thing that reports progress. It is pinned on your own map while it stands, and the pin comes off when it opens or dies.

The stowing post

The post is a real container, 12 slots, and it empties when you close its window rather than continuously, so two half-stacks dropped in can merge first. A spirit then carries the contents out 10 items per trip, flying in an arc over whatever is in the way, and re-checks every three seconds until the post is clear. Turn CarrierEnabled off and the post moves everything the instant you close it. The sorting is identical either way.

Anything with no home stays in the post. Its hover text separates the two cases: waiting means a home exists and the spirit has not got there yet, with nowhere to go means no chest in range wants it.

Telling a chest what it holds

Chest windows get a Holds… button in the row of the game's own Stack all, to its left, and under the lowest row of slots when that row has no room. The post has no button of its own because it distributes outward, so the rules live on the chests. The panel offers groups and single items, a search box for naming an exact item, and a Learn from contents button that reads the chest's current contents into a rule. Clicking a group cycles it through ignored, holds and refused, and shift-clicking a search result refuses that item instead of holding it, so "ore, but never tin" is two presses. A chest with a rule says so in gold in its hover text.

The rule is stored on the chest itself, so it saves with the world, travels to everyone on a server without any syncing of ours, and disappears when the chest is torn down.

Groups are derived from the game's own data at runtime, not from a list in the mod: