Breaking Change: New API #673
Description
The existing API for Cooking for Blockheads has not aged well. While originally completely based on slots, it has undergone one non-breaking refactor since that allowed it to work better for non-inventory item providers like the sink or ice unit.
However, the overall design and implementations still make it essentially impossible to interact with an item provider without relying on some form of slots, and has grown to be needlessly complex. This resulted in hard to debug issues with kitchen falsely reporting missing ingredients, as well as an inability to support Fabric's ItemStorage providers, limiting extensibility.
To solve this, a new API is being planned that will massively simplify the current code, while also allowing for much greater compatibility. This new API is already being implemented and tested in the unreleased spinoff mod Crafting for Blockheads and the relevant classes can be found here:
Some things not covered by this new design yet:
- Fluids
- Smelting (or more general: Processing?)
- Returning items to storage (KitchenItemReservoir?) - required for Some way to make items go back into the kitchen when created #150
- Counting possible crafts - required for Show possible craftable amount #81
- Priorities for ItemProviders (e.g. Salt Filter should only craft salt from water if there's no salt present elsewhere)
- Something to allow for cacheability in IngredientToken - required for Improve Ingredient Scanning for better performance #676