I'm mostly pushing this so the Stripes webhost has actual docs

Nothing that huge, but the webhost-facing docs were not working or woefully out of date.

Logic updates

• update to make darkrooms more configurable and remove the dependency on Obscure for harder to navigate rooms (also updated tests and fixed a bug introduced by said update)
• refactored logic to shortcut evaluation more often and to use both the Events made for ER and state.can_reach(Region) when relevant
• set coins to progression_skip_balancing to hopefully run into less swap errors and have less coins filling up early locations.
• various ER support updates including interpret_slot_data for Universal Tracker support of tracking ER (note: it really does not like the 'bad entrances' that get generated when using ER without Generic ER, so uninstall the tracker if you are using that ER for some reason)
  • the Generic ER work referenced is being done at Generic Entrance Rando - Development and currently hosted at BadMagic's Github

Game Mod updates:

• updates to game mod to better handle: receiving items while dead, receiving unknown item ids
• added a feature to sync items on every Player respawn (including on save-load) to hopefully smooth out Player experience (this may be reverted if it causes issues, but most should be fixed so it's looking promising)
  • also, this may make the apItem at your current house obsolete, but did not want to remove it yet in case something goes wrong (or i revert the feature altogether)

Minor updates:

• minor repo cleanup of unneeded files and comments
• various minor docs updates to Options descriptions, Webhost clarity, wording consistency

Progressive Sword, Coin prompts, Goal locking, oh my

It's time for a hodgepodge update, did a lot of work on the ER branch to support the Generic Entrance Rando development, and with it also fixed / improved other things, so you're getting them all.

Biggest note: this now consolidates the Generic ER work being done, the Minit ER work being done (including the shuffled maps with no logic in the first ER update), and the existing randomization work.
Depending on if the Generic ER data is available in your install ER settings will either utilize them or fall back on map shuffle as before, but if you turn ER off they will act the same and not change the workflow

As for a real changelog, this pulls in a lot of work done to support Generic Entrance Rando, which includes:

• properly defining two-way static connections and their logic
• updating some missing entrances
• properly defining logic when two different directions of movement need different items (i.e. the box to miner's chest)
• properly defining all unrandomized door entrances for if they are ever added to the rando pool
• reformatted rules text to be inline with styling guidelines
• consolidated static connections
• added framework to define vanilla connections so er_rules and rules can be consolidated in the future
• fixed some invalid coordinates based on testing

Some refactors happened that should not affect gameplay

• events are handled more generically and some other things like the hotel residents and the bridge being turned on were added as events
• ER will try to be loaded and if it can't will fall back on map shuffling like the last release
• reused region/location setup info is handled in a common method
• flush goal is now handled as an event as well

And general cleanup of comments and TODOs that are not needed

And some things people will actually care about

Logic updates:

• Game gen will now detect a single player game and hint to the item shuffler to put a random choice of swim/wateringCan/Sword to lessen the chance that it runs out of swaps and fails
• ItemGlove now correctly is accessible with just swim

Some client updates:

• check the goal settings before marking a game as complete
• added proper handling of Progressive Swords (both forwards and reverse)

Some game updates:

• updates to correct vanilla stairs in certain locations, to reduce the amount of ER-Entrance and DeathPoll calls done when respawning.
• add coin popup when adding coins to inventory and handle progressive sword(s)
• adding progSword handler script that was missed
• updates to support goal locking
• remove debugging logging, leaving only useful log messages
• updating early fixes to despawns so they despawn again but only when already sent
  and removed lock on island shack now that die to dog house exists
• potential update to edge case where dying and picking up an item crashes the game

Entrance Rando... (kinda!)

With this update there is now support for an Entrance Rando*

some caveats:

• there is no logic related to the randomized map, things could be unreachable, darkrooms may be required, very likely you don't start with an available check, transitions that stop you in your tracks because they plop you into water
• like usual, no promises it has backwards compatibility
• there seems to be some bugs with the game not being sure which layer you should be on? please report if you find any of these

BUT, with ER off (a new yaml setting) nothing should be changed
with ER on, you will get a random map, and be able to traverse it (recommend cheating items in)
things to note about the ER decisions:

• doors/stairs that move you between layers (i.e. into houses, or into underground sections) are unchanged, i tried randoing these but they were too much headache so they're vanilla again
• the 'overworld' is not randomized, this is to enable things like baiting the sharks into allowing you to swim different locations, and to put the oasis, broken truck, thirsty man into reasonable locations
• some key regions are randomized together: the quicksand, the lighthouse, (really considering making dog house and the tile below it one as well..)
• land and water routes are split up meaning that some otherwise simple transitions become more complicated (i.e. south of dog house is three entrances, right of, left of, and the through the river) but if the water is split by land there is a water route and a land route (i.e. the bridge to lighthouse is one, and any water route west is a second one)

Deathlink enabled!

deathlink is now avaliable to all Minit players - yes it will count your manual resets :)
There is a new deathlink setting in the yaml in order to enable this and a deathlink amnesty setting to better tweak how many deaths you send to your friends.

There are some strange interactions currently with deathlink where

• sometimes deaths (rightfully earned) get stacked up and sent over time instead of sending as earned
• sometimes item pickups get delayed for a few seconds
• an unknown crash seemingly when receiving a deathlink after dying
• an unconfirmed issue where a location can get marked as sent locally but does not send the message to the client if picking up an item while dying

But if you turn deathlink off these should not show up.

other changes:

• a potential memory leak was cleaned up (which includes a new Generic Tracker apworld for integration)
• gamesaves now keep your sent locations, so loading the same save later will no longer respawn your previously checked locations
• included in the gamesaves update is a new targeting of the save file, this means that you will not be able to load vanilla saves in AP and vice versa going forward but this means that your game settings will reset (once because it loads an empty savefile)
• local collectibles no longer get granted twice (this means no more octopus needs -4 tentacles rip)
• fanfares now stop the clock again, allowing you more flexible routing and doesn't punish you for not mashing out of the fanfare asap

Tracker update!

Now the Minit client has integration with UniversalTracker!
this means that as long as you have UniversalTracker installed Minit Client will now also show you the tracker tab that UT adds. There is a specific setup for UT though, so be sure you:

• have the tracker.apworld installed into your libs folder (current version packaged here for convenience)
• have your current game's YAML is your Archipelago/Players file
• have the archipelago generator installed (this should be installed by default with Archipelago 0.4.4+ which is needed for minit post v0.2.0)

Other changes:

• there is now a respawn at Dog House! press Q on the keyboard to do so in order to unstick yourself if you are locked into a respawn point you can't travel out of. Note: the anti-softlock measures on island shack door are not removed.
• AP Sync no longer grants you items you already have, meaning that the save file percent will no longer inflate, syncing with the apItem pickup will take less time on average and will no longer drop duplicates of item pickups like swords or the watering can.

Options Update

Options are here!
Current options are

• EarlySword: which forces the ItemSword to be in Early Local Items, a good setting for players that want their early game checks to not stop at 1 and/or want an experience a bit closer to Vanilla.
• Darkrooms: which removes FlashLight as a required item from almost all checks even when the room is not visible without it (along with Obscure logic removed all requirements on FlashLight).
• Obscure: which adds extra options for considering a Location in logic and expecting the player to get it - options that are either not something a ordinary player would be expected to know or think to try, or options that are harder to execute (i.e. leaving you with <20 seconds on the clock when executed perfectly)
• ProgressiveSword: which changes BrokenSword, Sword, and MegaSword to be Progressive items which will grant the relevant sword option in a predetermined order instead of whichever you pick up first. This may be set to forward progressive where MegaSword is the last - an option meant to be paired with Boss Goal - or reverse progressive - an option meant to be paired with Toilet Goal.
• Goal: which sets the win condition for the seed to be either Boss (destroy the Factory machine and beat the Boss), Toilet (find the Broken Sword and flush it down the Factory toilet), or Any

*while these are all the supported Options in the APWorld, ProgressiveSword does not do anything as of now, and Goal is not enforced by the game yet.

This update is also using the Options update for Archipelago, which means that it will not work with v0.4.3 and under. If you need the v0.4.4 prerelease it is accessible in the Archipelago Discord's pins for the #archipelago-dev channel

AP Minit Stable Alpha

Stable alpha version of the game.

Changes to vanilla:

• Island Shack currently has an extra lock on it so that you cannot enter if you do not have the items to turn on the teleporter and leave so you cannot softlock yourself. This will go away with the inclusion of a respawn at doghouse feature.
• There is an extra location available: you can water the Dolphin NPC south of the Watering Can vanilla location to spawn a heart.
• Regardless of mode both Camera and PressPass will be treated as the same Location, but only PressPass is in the item pool.
• If you have received a remote item from the Archipelago Server, it does not sync automatically into your inventory. You are expected to pick up the Archipelago Item that spawns near your current Home to sync your inventory with the server. Local items will automatically be added to your inventory though.

Minor bugs:

• Save file percent gets inflated with item syncs.
• Fanfares can sometimes clip you into the terrain stopping movement.
• Non-AP saves can be loaded potentially corrupting your inventory.
• Item and location names are verbose and will be renamed in the future.
• Gameplay after credits hotel residents may visually show up in the hotel even when not saved.
• Hotel backroom coin can be picked up without breaking the pot.

Things still to implement"

• Add a warp back to doghouse to remove the possibility of softlocks.
• Options for:
• Vanilla sword start
• Obscure logic
• Specific goals
• Puzzle-less
• Darkrooms
• Progressive (and reverse progressive) sword

AP Minit Alpha build

many bugs abound, beware