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First off, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section or an irrelevant topic or inappropriate in some other way, I'm kinda new to this whole scene.
That said, I'm happy with my progress since first finding out about this game a couple of days ago, so I'd like to share it with you all

My plan is to eventually make a fully-fledged storage overhaul for the game, since I feel like things start getting way too cluttered on the map way too quickly which leads to many small annoyances, and a more efficient system is probably necessary if we hope to advance to some post-nuclear age. But I'm not quite there yet, so, baby steps.

For now the mod consists of two things: a small modification to how dropping stuff works (you can now switch the item in your hand for the item in a full container without having to put it down) and a new "backpack", the satchel (thank you jason for making it so ***** simple to add things to your game, you are truly a wonderful person.)

Here's a video of it in action (sorry about the weird aspect ratio, messed up my OBS settings), and a few of my thoughts on the whole process/future steps:

First off, I want to say thank you again to jason, the pleasure of modding this game is comparable maybe only to that of modding minecraft, and that's saying quite a lot. Because of how far in that direction you've already gone with your native tools, I assume I'm not messing with the vision too much with the changes I'm about to suggest. I'd like to have some sort of mod loading capability, just for new items. I feel like this would be fairly easy to program, considering that you can just add object, transition, and sprite files on both the server and client. This would be a very good way to make it more accessible and to get more awesome mods, as well as a very simple/cool way for private servers to differentiate themselves (imagine whole servers themed after different civilizations that you can switch between at the click of a button.) I'd also be more than happy to work on that, if it's something that would benefit the community. Ideally, I'd like to extend this to mods that change the core mechanics, but for many reasons that would be significantly more difficult (mostly cross-platform compiling, this is maybe the biggest benefit of minecraft being programmed in java that I can think of.)

Also a little note on swapping stuff from backpacks, is having to remove all the items to get to the bottom one an intended mechanic to add to the difficulty/realism? Because personally, I've only found it to be annoying, and it's something that would pretty simple to change in the code.

Finally, as for my future plans, in the immediate future (next couple of days) I'm going to try adding a tool rack to be able to organize that stuff a bit more, possibly change the way swapping stuff in your backpack works (it really does annoy me a whole lot), and mess around with some ideas for a large backpack (either for more items or simply larger ones.) I also might do some programming towards that mod loading thing.