Skip to main content

Roadmap

warning

This project is in a heavy pre-production state. All information on this wiki is subject to change!

Please leave any feedback at https://discord.gg/archipelago (find us in #minecraft in the Minecraft Client 2.0 thread).

Feel free to suggest new feature ideas in the Archipelago Discord server. You can find us in the #minecraft channel's "Minecraft Client v2.0" thread.

info

This roadmap is a long-term plan, not a list of promises. All of this is free, and good software takes time to develop. Please be patient!

If you are interested in contributing, feel free to give us a hand.

Essentials​

  • Initial prototype/proof of concept
    • Multi-mod loader support
    • Multi-version support
    • Test APWorld
    • First connection from 1.21.8
    • First connection from 1.12.2
    • First item/location send
    • Fully modularized project structure

APWorld​

  • Initial APWorld template
    • Content pack system for APWorld templates
    • .apmcbundle generation
    • Basic headless server hosting

Core Client​

  • Initial Core Client (interfaces without Minecraft implementation details)
    • Location checking
    • Item receiving
    • Bounce packets
    • Death link packets
    • Gifting packets
    • Ring link packets
    • Implement the rest of the Archipelago server API

Vanilla​

Original Randomizer Parity​

Sanities​

  • Advancementsanity
    • Include legacy achievements
  • Createsanity
    • Craftsanity
      • More crafting unlock tiers/categories
        • Neat toggleable categories, such as "essentials", or more specific randomization options
        • Crafting table
        • Storage
        • Lights
        • Ore tiers (iron/diamond/netherite etc.)
        • Cooking
        • Logistics
          • Transportation
          • Redstone
        • Decor
    • Smeltsanity
      • Logic for all furnaces, including campfires
    • Enchantsanity
      • Cursesanity
    • Brewsanity
  • Mobsanity
    • Also randomize mob pools
    • Wither Skulls are items
  • Farmsanity
    • Cropsanity
    • Fishsanity
  • Exploresanity
    • Dimensionsanity
      • Lock nether and end access
    • Biomesanity
      • Biome compass
      • Exclude Rare Biomes
    • Structuresanity
  • Blocksanity
    • Block mining/block drops and gate them behind tools/tiers (fist, pickaxe, shovel, etc.)
      • Also lock by material type, such as iron, diamond, netherite, etc.
    • Also lock blocks from dropping
    • Also randomize block drops
  • Itemsanity
    • Discsanity
  • Animalsanity
    • Breedsanity
    • Tamesanity
  • Tradesanity
    • Trade slot lock

Gamemodes​

  • Huntsanity (like block/itemsanity but limited to a specific list of items)
    • Egg Shard Hunt
    • Item hunt
    • Block hunt
    • Custom maximum amount of items to find
  • Bingo
    • Customizable grid size
  • Nether spawnpoint/start

Traps​

  • Anvil trap
  • Potion effect trap
    • Poison, blindness, etc.
  • Mob trap
    • Bee trap
    • Creeper trap
    • Chicken jockey trap
    • Warden trap
  • Nighttime trap

Buffs and Filler​

  • Permanenent status boosts
    • Progressive health
    • Progressive inventory (9/18/27 slots)
    • Progressive speed
  • Various effects like Strength, Speed II, Haste III, etc.
  • Blocks
    • Dirt
  • Resources
    • Gold/iron nuggets
    • Bones

Goals​

  • Boss slaying goals
    • Ender Dragon goal
    • Wither goal
    • Elder Guardian
    • All bosses
  • Huntsanity: Find all items
  • Difficult achievements as goals
    • Netherite Hoe goal
  • Mob sending
  • Ring link (with experience points instead of rings)
  • Gifting API
    • Stardew Valley support
    • Timespinner support
    • EarthBound support
    • Lunacid support

Randomization​

  • Mob randomizer
    • Mob drop randomizer
    • Randomize mob spawns
      • Mob spawn dimension shuffle
      • Light level mob spawn shuffle
  • Recipe randomizer
  • Loot table randomizer
  • World generation randomizer
    • Structure randomizer
      • Structure compass
      • Chest lock for chests in structures
      • More randomized structures
        • Igloo
        • Ocean monument
        • Mansion
        • Ancient city
        • Mineshaft
        • Dungeon
        • Jungle temple
        • Desert pyramid
        • Modded structure support?
    • Place world generation features in random dimensions
      • Random naturals placement (ie. glow berries or moss in the Nether)
      • Random ore placement
      • Random geode placement

World Generation Options​

  • Seed
  • Superflat
  • Amplified
  • Large biomes
  • Random biomes
  • Equal biome chances
  • Structures in any biome

Custom Achievements​

  • Custom difficult achievements (which could also function as goals)
    • Furnace% tribute
      • 37 furnaces
      • 37 blast furnaces
      • 37 stacks of furnaces
      • 37 stacks of blast furnaces

Quality of Life​

  • Spawn all end gateways by default
  • Increased structure spawn rate
  • Increased Wither Skull drop rate

Mod Support​

  • Individual mod support for the vanilla APWorld via content packs
  • Vanilla backport to 1.21.1 to support major mods; option to choose version
  • KubeJS integration for Core Client
  • Documented API and modding guide

Backport Requests​

These backports should eventually become available when we stabilize the core and vanilla APIs.

  • Forge 1.16.5 + KubeJS Addon for Create Above and Beyond (@Treeways)
  • Cursed Fabric Loader 1.5.2 for Better Than Wolves: Community Edition (@Patchwork)
  • Forge 1.7.10 for GregTech New Horizons (multi-developer effort; we need to put together a team for this)

For Future Consideration​

  • APWorld: Template generator
  • Sanities: Biomesanity (cannot enter specific biome without its item)
  • DX: DSL for representing large logic chains in Archipelago worlds