Welcome to the first alpha release of Block Wrangler!

The few of you who followed the previous repository might be wondering why I started over like this.

There are a few reasons for this:

• I discovered that block.properties requires block IDs to be mutually exclusive, and the previous system wasn't capable of ensuring that.
  • In fact, changing the old system to be capable of this would have required a full rewrite anyways, so I decided to start over.
• The old system required me to write and maintain a custom code interpreter, which isn't ideal for a project whose goal is not to create a new programming language.

All that to say, I started over, and I'm pretty happy with the results.

In addition to rectifying those pain points, I also managed to squeeze out a few more features:

• I added the optional fuzzy_tags feature, which allows the library to tell you if you misspelled a tag, or if it's a tag that doesn't exist.
• It's now possible to import block types and tags from mods and new versions of the game using the data generator.
• Tags can now do things like include all blocks that have a certain property, or whose name matches a certain pattern.
  • ...as long as you've registered the blocks before you define the tag.
• better progress bars!

What's next?​

I have a few ideas on my wishlist for future releases:

• Improve the documentation for the project, of course
• Add one or more project templates to help shaderpack developers get started with Block Wrangler
• Add more preset tags for features that are commonly used in shaderpacks
• Numerical flags support (int emission_brightness(int block_id))