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TopGsMod v1.9.0 — Server Stability, QoL & Compatibility Update

This update continues the expansion and cleanup of TopGsMod with a focus on 24/7 server balance, stability, compatibility, and player quality-of-life improvements.

New Items

• Added four reinforced wooden buckets.

• Added four reinforced wooden barrels.

• Added Shears on a Stick for extended tree trimming.

• Added custom armor created by AladarCZ for Duke.

Animal System Fixes

Breeder Healer

• Added tools for repairing broken pregnancy and breeding timers on animals transferred from older worlds.

• Added admin controls for enabling, disabling, and checking the system.

Baby Healer

• Added repair support for broken offspring growth timers after world transfers.

• Added admin controls for enabling, disabling, and checking the system.

Corpse Capture

• Added automatic inventory capture on player death.

• Added hotbar and backpack recovery.

• Added temporary corpse placement.

• Added owner-only recovery protection.

• Added optional public claiming after the configured protection period.

• Added corpse marker and HUD support.

• Added claim-distance safety.

• Added owner land-claim bypass support.

• Added dropped-item recovery for edge cases.

• Improved corpse placement when the original death position is obstructed.

• Added Shift + C to toggle the Corpse HUD.

Gameplay & QoL

Claim-Bound Flight

• Added claim-based flight validation.

• Added configurable resource drain.

• Added a grace countdown before flight is disabled.

• Added admin configuration and diagnostic support.

• Added protection against invalid flight-speed settings.

Starter Welcome System

• Added join information and community Discord messaging.

• Added support for configurable starter kits for new players.

Auto Pickup / Sneak Pickup

• Added Shift + V to switch between Auto Pickup and Sneak Pickup behavior.

Trash Filter

• Improved server-side trash filtering.

• Improved client inventory synchronization.

• Reduced unnecessary inventory updates.

• Added protection against filtered items being immediately recollected.

Automatic Fruit Press

• Fruit presses can now continue pressing after the interaction button is released.

• Added single-click automatic pressing.

• Preserved vanilla juice-production and completion behavior.

• Added Ctrl-click support for intentionally unscrewing the press.

XSkills Compatibility

• Expanded animal-capture compatibility to additional modded creatures.

• Added separate baby and adult capture rules.

• Improved capture scaling.

• Adjusted experience values by animal type.

• Updated both client and server behavior definitions.

• Disabled selected XSkills abilities identified as potential sources of excessive item multiplication or server load.

Server Balance

• Improved player pickup range.

• Improved pickup speed.

• Adjusted Shears and Scythes.

• Added extended-shears support.

• Rebalanced animal lactation, gestation, growth, and breeding cycles for continuously running multiplayer servers.

Fruit Tree Harvest Window Fix

Added a configurable prototype designed to prevent fruit from ripening and expiring entirely while players are offline on a 24/7 server.

Current implementation includes:

• Configurable harvest timing.

• Existing-tree support.

• Admin enable/disable controls.

• Manual scan support.

• Disabled by default pending final testing and cleanup.

Performance & Stability

• Removed unused variables and unnecessary assignments.

• Removed duplicate and obsolete logic.

• Reduced unnecessary server-side processing.

• Improved nullable-value handling.

• Cleaned up inventory-capture reporting.

• Improved client/server separation.

• Modernized Harmony patch organization.

• Reviewed high-frequency systems for runaway behavior.

• Removed selected high-risk XSkills functionality associated with item multiplication or server load.

Configuration

TopGsMod configuration is being consolidated under:

ModConfig/topGModConfigs/

• Improved configuration organization.

• Added migration support for several older configuration files.

• Improved server/client configuration loading.

Compatibility & Cleanup

• Improved internal feature organization.

• Expanded XSkills animal compatibility.

• Improved Trash Filter synchronization.

• Added Automatic Fruit Press support.

• Removed the previous FOTAS grape-bush patch.

• General patch and compatibility cleanup.