* An option was added to enable or disable the pilgrimage, and it defaults to disabled. When disabled, the client will prevent you from performing a pilgrimage (i.e. the yellow border will not appear when you enter the 1 sunwarp). The sun painting is added to the item pool when pilgrimage is disabled, as otherwise there is no way into the Pilgrim Antechamber. Inversely, the sun painting is no longer in the item pool when pilgrimage is enabled (even if door shuffle is on), requiring you to perform a pilgrimage to get to that room.
* The canonical pilgrimage has been deprecated. Instead, there is logic for determining whether a pilgrimage is possible.
* Two options were added that allow the player to decide whether paintings and/or Crossroads - Roof Access are permitted during the pilgrimage. Both default to disabled. These options apply both to logical expectations in the generator, and are also enforced by the game client.
* An option was added to control how sunwarps are accessed. The default is for them to always be accessible, like in the base game. It is also possible to disable them entirely (which is not possible when pilgrimage is enabled), or lock them behind items similar to door shuffle. It can either be one item that unlocks all sunwarps at the same time, six progressive items that unlock the sunwarps from 1 to 6, or six individual items that unlock the sunwarps in any order. This option is independent from door shuffle.
* An option was added that shuffles sunwarps. This acts similarly to painting shuffle. The 12 sunwarps are re-ordered and re-paired. Sunwarps that were previously entrances or exits do not need to stay entrances or exits. Performing a pilgrimage requires proceeding through the sunwarps in the new order, rather than the original one.
* Pilgrimage was added as a win condition. It requires you to solve the blue PILGRIM panel in the Pilgrim Antechamber.
Despite earlier efforts, there were still rare fill errors when door shuffle and color shuffle were on and early color hallways was off, because sphere 1 was too small. This turns "Starting Room - HI" back into a location, which should give the algorithm more room.
The "forced good item" pool has been reconsidered. The problem with the specific item that caused the recent failure (Welcome Back - Shortcut to Starting Room) is that it only provided one location when color shuffle was on, which is a net of zero considering that the GOOD LUCK check was forced. It will no longer show up as a good item unless color shuffle is off. On an opposite vein, Rhyme Room Doors will now show up even if color shuffle is on, because it gives color hallways access by itself.
A good item will only be forced onto GOOD LUCK now if there is more than one player.
## What is this fixing or adding?
- Roof MASTERY panels are now technically in individual regions with more descriptive names, so they can be displayed better on the tracker.
- Orange Tower Seventh Floor - Mastery has been renamed to simply Mastery.
- The Optimistic is its own region now.
- The misnamed CEILING in Room Room has been fixed.
- The misnamed CHEESE in Challenge Room has been fixed.
- The misnamed SOUND in Outside the Bold has been fixed.
- "The Bearer - Shortcut to The Bold" is now "The Bearer - Entrance".
- HUB ROOM - NEAR, FAR and the Warts Straw and Leaf Feel Areas have now been semantically combined into the "Symmetry Room". They are still logically three separate regions.
- The FACTS chain in Challenge Room has been reindexed, and the full chain panel is now indicated as such.
- The Room Room floors have been reindexed.
- Panels in The Observant are now named by their questions, not answers.
- Added a (1) subscript to several panels in Orange Tower Fourth Floor, Outside The Initiated, and The Seeker.
The validate_config.rb script has also been updated to check that all items and locations have an ID.
This change should not impact generation logic at all. It is just changing item and location names.
The final stage of Progressive Art Gallery opens up the four-way intersection between the Art Gallery, Orange Tower Fifth Floor, The Bearer, and Outside The Initiated. This is a very useful door, and it would be cool to be able to open it without having to get five progressive items. The original reason this was included in the progression was because getting into the back of Art Gallery early would cause sequence breaks. At this point, the way the client handles the Art Gallery has changed enough that it does not matter if the player can go through this door before getting all progressive art galleries.
The static class with the "disable forced good item" field is gone. Now, certain tests that want to check for specific access progression can run a method that removes the forced good item and adds it back to the pool. Tests that don't care about this will collect the forced good item like normal. This should prevent the intermittent fill failures on complex doors unit tests, since the forced good item should provide enough locations to fill in.
Almost all of the events have been eradicated, which significantly improves both generation speed and playthrough calculation.
Previously, checking for access to a location involved checking for access to each panel in the location, as well as recursively checking for access to any panels required by those panels. This potentially performed the same check multiple times. The access requirements for locations are now calculated and flattened in generate_early, so that the access function can directly check for the required rooms, doors, and colors.
These flattened access requirements are also used for Entrance checking, and register_indirect_condition is used to make sure that can_reach(Region) is safe to use.
The Mastery and Level 2 rules now just run a bunch of access rules and count the number of them that succeed, instead of relying on event items.
Finally: the Level 2 panel hunt is now enabled even when Level 2 is not the victory condition, as I feel that generation is fast enough now for that to be acceptable.
Star Rauchenberger