Ore Detector and other configs

1. As far as I am aware coal is not an ore so the Ore Detector not being able to find coal makes sense. Coal is neither a mineral or rock comprised of minerals. Coal is actually composed of macerals which is the organic equivalent of minerals.

2. Okay you have done it!

3. The main files you want to edit are the database files and some JAR files. There are a lot of topics on this very subject on the forums. The Plugin Discussion forum would be my go to place.

4. Limitations are only to your imagination - and of course the API - https://javadoc.rising-world.net/

5. Yes, you could probably do this via the API. I would suggest you look at the PlayerDestroyTerrainEvent there is a method in there called getTerrainID

public int getTerrainID()
//Gets the terrain id the player is going to destroy.
//Returns:
//the old terrain id.

You could then work out if the terrain was an ore and then add extra ore to the players inventory (if they have space!).

Quote from Ash_lee

Could I make coal classify as an ore?

I don't know of any way. Someone else smarter might.

If you want coal to be recognized as ore by the ore detector, you have to change the game code. It's possible, but a bit complicated, especially due to obfuscation. The compiled ore detector class (which contains a list of all recognizable ores) is named h.class in the ab package (inside the "risingworld-core.jar"). You'll need a decompiler to open it. Basically you just have to add "coal" to the string array (and hash map inside the static constructor, with the according id [15]).

However, updating a .class file is a bit more complicated. You'll need to extract and decompile the whole .jar and add the required dependencies (almost every other jar file you can find in the game folder) in order to recompile it.

Another way could be to create a clientside plugin, then try to access and modify the class in question via reflection. Not sure if this works in this particular case though