xSkills Fork Changes

The last update to this chapter was in version 1.0.88. I won't be updating it anymore, since hardly anyone reads it anyway.

xSkillsFork

xSkillsFork is a major overhaul of the original mod, focused on compatibility, bug fixes, multiplayer stability, skill balance, and integration with major content mods. The mod has been updated for Vintage Story 1.22+ and migrated to .NET 10 for significantly improved performance.

Technical Improvements

• Fixed numerous critical crashes and startup issues.
• Improved multiplayer synchronization and overall server stability.
• Added additional null checks for entities from other mods.

Gameplay & Skill Changes

A large number of broken or unfinished mechanics from the original mod have been fixed and completely reworked.

Fishing

• Added a fully featured Fishing skill tree and the new Fisherman profession.
• Includes the core fishing perks: Nimble Hands, Bait Master, Double Hook, Magnetic Hook, Experienced Butcher, Strong Line, and Good Bait.
• Added the Fresh Fish perk, increasing the shelf life of freshly caught fish.
• Added Ancient Mariner (from Panda XSkills Rework), reducing hunger drain while holding a fishing rod.
• Added Ice Fisher (from Panda XSkills Rework), reducing the effects of cold while fishing.
• Added Moonlit Waters (from Panda XSkills Rework), increasing bite chance at night.
• Added the mutually exclusive perks River Specialist (increases bite chance in flowing freshwater) and Coastal Master (increases bite chance in saltwater), both from Panda XSkills Rework.
• Fixed fishing rod durability loss logic and added configurable loot tables.

Smithing & Metallurgy

• Added the Safe Quenching perk. Failed quenching no longer vaporizes your tools—they now simply become damaged or break.
• Restored the original smithing quenching mechanics.
• Added the Bit Forging perk and the Divine Quenching perk (disabled by default).
• Added a second level to Bloomery Expert, allowing all metal bits to be smelted in a bloomery.
• Expanded Automatic Smithing with additional perk levels.
• Added a 15-second delay before workpieces begin cooling.
• Replaced xSkills metal bits with the vanilla equivalents.
• Added an option to disable metal bit forging for compatibility with SmithingPlus.
• Fixed Heating Hits to apply the correct temperature values.

Cooking

• Fixed cooking experience gain. Players now also gain experience when cooking with cauldrons from A Culinary Artillery.
• Added a fourth level to Happy Meal, preventing poisonous ingredients from being added to meals.
• Added the Refined Dilution perk, allowing Dilution to affect non-edible processing liquids as well.
• Improved Dilution support for different food property formats and reworked fractional liquid output bonuses using probabilistic rounding.
• Reworked how Well Done interacts with liquid products in containers.
• Fast Food and Well Done now affect stew recipes from Expanded Foods.
• Fixed the Longlife and Cheeeese perks.
• Cooking perks now work correctly with A Culinary Artillery cauldrons, StoneBakeOven, and Art of Growing campfires.

Survival, Combat & General

• Added the Hunter Bag perk, providing an additional hunter bag slot. Rebalanced weight distribution so animals inside the bag now slow the player correctly.
• Added the Swift Spear perk, increasing spear aiming speed.
• Added the Careful Reader perk, giving a chance not to consume an experience book. Books are now studied instead of being eaten.
• Restored the original behavior of Abundance Adaptation, causing food to be consumed faster while increasing healing efficiency.
• Rebalanced the movement speed penalty from Heavy Armor Expert.
• Fixed the Cat Eyes night vision and Panning perks.
• Restored experience gain from berry harvesting.
• Removed profession selection restrictions, including for Allrounder.
• Added a configurable option to lose all experience on death.
• Improved perk descriptions to display dynamic values.
• Added a hotkey (default: J) to toggle the Steeplechaser ability.

Mod Compatibility

Built-in support has been added for many popular mods. Dozens of issues have been resolved, including asset loading errors, rendering conflicts, salt evaporation problems, support for new crops, panning compatibility, and crashes caused by custom entities.

Officially supported mods:

• Combat Overhaul
• Feverstone Wilds
• Fantasy Creatures
• CAN Crops and New World Crops
• A Culinary Artillery
• Knapster and Material Needs
• Attribute Render Lib / Attribute Rendering Library
• Blush and Bins
• Orchardist + Tree Shaker (1.1.1)
• Expanded Foods
• Electrical Progressive (including cooking pots and the juice press)
• StoneBakeOven
• Art of Growing
• Toolsmith
• Item Rarity
• Immersive Mining
• Ithania Canned Goods
• Simple Pottery Wheel
• OrekiWoof's Simple Immersive Beehive
• GlooMeClasses

Localization & Community Contributions

International language support has been significantly expanded. New or updated translations are available for:

• Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Spanish, French, and Swedish.
• Chinese, Japanese, and Czech.
• Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Romanian.

Special thanks to the community contributors:

• Aimli — for improving compatibility with cooking mods, enhancing the Refined Dilution perk, balancing changes, and updating the Chinese localization.
• Pandarific — for providing the Fishing, Sailoring, and Tailoring perk code from Panda XSkills Rework.
• JakeWags — for implementing compatibility with Blush and Bins.
• Zackreaver — for implementing compatibility with GlooMeClasses.