Those images are ready whenever you'd like them!

Origin_Alpha_43 They're not the right entity type, and I haven't been able to find their actual entity name in the API docs. There are a few missing spots in the documentation that need to be sorted out in VS, and that's one of them. I have a few people to test effects with though. I'm interested to see what the server performance impact is with 64+ players though (I expect it to be very minimal, but won't know for sure until I can test with a big/full server).

does the playerbot actually work and appears as actual players while testing?

Origin_Alpha_43 I think I just fell in love with you, I didn't know those commands existed at all. That helps with testing so much!

in the subject of thumbnails/images
in creative it' actually quite easy to populate a world with playetbots
> stand where you need them > type /entity spawn playerbot 1
you can also dress them with whatever you want them to be dressed with
(crouch click to remove clothing/armor items, toss them the items to wear)
and give them animation through the /npc coomand
you may wanna check the assets folder to find all the animation players can do

to remove them, activate the dev options and the extended debug info
aim at the npc to find their ID, then type /entity removebyid ID-HERE

Vigilance Ideally, I'll be able to deliver on both, but for right now grand banquets are the goal. I really want this to scale right down to, 'Our little party stopped in a cave and started a fire to get out of the snow and eat some lembas bread, and it was a great morale boost'

Centerion I'm building it to be tunable in config files. Right now, it scales on BOTH (how much satiety did you gain, and how many of your friends were you carousing with?). Essentially, you'll see the same bonuses for eating a turnip with a ton of friends vs eating a huge cake with one friend ... but if a packed-full banquet hall serves a meat pie for everybody there, you'll see real bonuses. I love the idea of the feast pot or cauldron or similar, which could act like a giant crock and everyone fills their bowls from it. I'll add it to my roadmap, I like it!

So do the bonuses scale with the more people eating in the area? or is it based on the food that is eaten? 

another idea would be that say a larger food pot could be used within the space that gives a multipliyer for eating inside the zone, and food items not made inside this pot wouldnt give as big a multiple so it makes people want to utalize the larger (Feast pot) or something along those lines.

Okay, so less like "dinner time with the friends" and more like "It is time for a grand feast in my grand hall," gotcha. I think a variety of bonuses based on what the player consumes is definitely the most interesting path, although it would probably make balancing for server hosts less of an easy config as some people would get huffy about some options depending on how you set it up in the configs. I am interested, however, to see what you do.

BlackMoonHowling No rush, I appreciate whatever you want to offer. Discord will work fine, when we're ready to do the thing.

@Karch give me through the weekend and I'll have something for you then. Maybe discord? Unless there's another option

I don't care about anyone's feelings on AI generated content, I just wanted to be familiar with the screenshot upload process and needed a placeholder. If we're going to make a mess of the comments so I potentially miss good feedback on functionality, we'll just continue with no thumbnail. I'd really like to keep the comments here focused on features and functionality.

RubberEevee I'm not opposed to that, but I'm not going to spend time reaching out for permission (nor will I use someone else's content without permission).

Vigilance As I learn more about what I can access with the API, I'm seeing what I can do for fine-tuning. Right now, it looks like the best option would be to give different bonuses based on the type of nutrition (frit, vegetable, grain, protein, dairy) they eat. The other option is to just set defaults and let server owners tune the buffs/bonuses they want in the EatTogetherConfig.json file. As for timing eating, the real goal of this mod is to give players an in-game excuse to be more social, and to be excited for a shared meal together. I could be convinced otherwise, but for now I'm driving in that direction so getting groups of players who schedule feasts is inline with the goals.

BlackMoonHowling I'll take you up on that, and credit you for whatever you contribute that gets used. I don't know what communications options we have here, but consider me interested in your dining hall.

Just in case: you can use AI art for thumbnail just fine, you just need it too look good, then these ppl wont notice and hate it.

Great mod concept but the use of AI sucks, if you want an in game image of a dining hall I'd be more than happy to make one for you. I'm excited to see this mod stable so my dining rooms finally have purpose!

That image is insanely jarring. I would've really preferred some goofy programmer art or even a screenshot.

Perhaps you could tie bonuses to the type of food eaten, as well? Different satiation providing a different long-lasting buff, so stay at home villagers that wouldn't really benefit from HP can still opt for something else. I also worry about how sustainable it is to "sync" a hunger bar with your fellow players, I can't really think of a lot of cases I've been needing to eat at the exact same time as someone, and delaying eating until everyone can group up doesn't really work. I do really like this system as a concept, though. I'll keep an eye on it.

Really, AI slop that's badly generated?

Cool mod, but it's a shame to see AI art used. :cc 

Maybe feature some built up dining halls from builders in the community instead! Origin_Alpha_43 has one built, and it'd be a better repensintation of your mod that GenAI!!

finally, more haven and hearth mods

this is going to be awesome. nice job!

me who built a common eating area on my server. I'm hyped to see a mod being developed for such places. 10/10 will check back on it

Right now it doesn't work, it's still in heavy development. The ROUGH goal right now though:

When you eat, the game counts the players near you (within 14 blocks). For each player in that range:
* 1% walk speed increase for 300 seconds
* .1 max HP increase for 300 seconds

Once those work reliably and scale correctly (they don't right now), I can create additional effects, implement modconfig values that can be set per-server, and adjust times. The first theoretically-working test will be v0.1.0.

I don't play on multiplayer servers (at least so far) but I want to say I love this concept!

what are the effects? how does it exactly work? could you write all that in descripton?

does it function like a room ? (cellar, etc...dinning room ? ) or is it an objetc that you put on the ground. great idea anyway ! 

This sounds really cool! Can you give us more details on what the effects are, how long they last, etc.?

It's still VERY early, just testing in multiplayer now. I have big plans for making collaborative meals meaningful though!

Yess!!! ive been thinking about this for some thime and this makes me so excited!