The issue at hand is fixing impossible seeds generated by a lack of properly checking if the player can come back to its previous region after reaching for a new location, as reported here: https://discord.com/channels/731205301247803413/1050529825212874763/1050529825212874763
The previous attempt at checking for comeback was only done against "Landing Site" and the custom start region which is a partial solution at best. For exemple, generating a single player plando seed with a custom starting location at "red_brinstar_elevator" with a forced red door at "RedTowerElevatorBottomLeft" and 2 Missiles set at "Morphing Ball" and "Energy Tank, Brinstar Ceiling" would generate an impossible seed where the player is expected to go through the green door "LandingSiteRight" with no Supers to go to the only possible next location "Power Bomb (red Brinstar spike room)". This is because the comeback check would pass because it would consider coming back to "Landing Site" enough.
The proposed solution is keeping a record of the last accessed region when collecting items. It would then be used as the source of the comeback check with the destination being the new location. This check had to be moved from can_fill() to can_reach() because the maximum_exploration_state of the AP filler only use can_reach().
Its still not perfect because collect() can be called in batch for many items at a time so the last accessed region will be set as the last collected item and will be used for the next comeback checks.
This was tested a bit with the given exemple above (its now failing generation) and by generating some 8 SM players seed with many door color rando, area rando and boss rando enabled.
* added a fallback default starting location instead of failing generation if an invalid one was chosen
* added Nothing and NoEnergy as hint blacklist
added missing NoEnergy as local items and removed it from progression
* fixed generations failing when only bosses are unreachable
* - replaced setting maxDiff to infinity with a bool only affecting boss logics if only bosses are left to finish
* fixed failling generations when using 'fun' settings
Accessibility checks are forced to 'items' if restricted locations are used by VARIA following usage of 'fun' settings
* fixed debug logger
* removed unsupported "suits_restriction" option
* fixed generations failing when only bosses are unreachable (using a less intrusive approach for AP)
* - fixed deathlink emptying reserves
- added death_link_survive option that lets player survive when receiving a deathlink if the have non-empty reserves
* - merged death_link and death_link_survive options
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