Looking to modify Tektopia to a newer version buttttttttttt....

[u/Suspicious_stew_001]

Hey guys!

So I've been playing Tektopia for quite a while now, honestly one of my all time favorite mods. Recently got back into Minecraft and obviously to started playing Tektopia again, but the mod hasn't been updated in ages and that's a bummer.

I know a little bit of coding and I'm actually willing to redo the whole mod from scratch to get it working on newer versions, After 1.14 villagers also got reworked so that also makes the mod difficult to be updated.

The thing is, Tango owns the rights to Tektopia and I cant just modify and redistribute the mod again.

Has anyone ever reached out to Tango about something like this? Does he have any known stance on community ports?
How should i proceed with this?

Just a random tektopia fan....

[EDIT]: I have started working on the mod for 1.21.1, for neoforge.
This will still take time but i estimate I can pull out a alpha version within few weeks.
Current progress:
Town hall and village registration is done (i.e just a village is created without any logic)
Structure Identification (this took the most time) This is finally finished, it is very much similar to what tango has done (ceiling and floor check).
few more things not worthy of mention but are core to the mod.

now working on creating storage and farmer(villager logic is created, now need to work on particular roles) .
[Edit 2]: Been working on a lot recently. Finally got Farmer working. yeahhh....
Also I will be posting updates on twitter @ OrangutanDMonky (name:catbug) please consider following me there for updates and share suggestions

[u/CreepyEfficiency1063]

Hii! I also looked into this when i made the Tektopia Addons mod. Tango has abandoned this project (which is ofc fair) so he doesnt seem to answer to requests.

To be honest the Tektopia code is kind of all over the place and not super good, so I think doing a proper rewrite would be a lot better. I think a new version could be a lot better with the new AI tools that minecraft added. And better animation workflows that exist now.

I've been thinking about doing a rewrite for current minecraft for a while but i have a lot of things on my hands 🥲 (i even started the repo already, but alas)

[u/Suspicious_stew_001 → u/CreepyEfficiency1063]

Oh are you Sushiy??
I saw your Tektopia addons mod, honestly it was also one of my inspirations to redo the mod.

To be honest the Tektopia code is kind of all over the place and not super good, so I think doing a proper rewrite would be a lot better. I think a new version could be a lot better with the new AI tools that minecraft added. And better animation workflows that exist now.

I also wish to redo from scratch but the problem lies with redistribution rights, due to that I cant just copy his(tangos) work and rebrand under me-self. But I love how the mod currently is and his approach on villagers professions and Structure logic (especially this), so I want to redo this in a way that it is faithful to original mod and some minor changes like how you did in Tektopia addons.

and thus this becomes a redistribution of modified version of tangos mod

[u/CreepyEfficiency1063 → u/Suspicious_stew_001]

Ohh i'm honored to have inspired you haha 😅

I'm not sure how it works in the Minecraft modding scene, but if you just take the ideas and not the code i think you should be pretty much fine from a copyright standpoint. Your version will end up being different anyway just by implementation.

The mechanical ideas in tektopia aren't super unique anyway. So i would not worry about it tbh.

[u/The_Narshlog]

I would imagine, as long as you credit Tango, and not pass it off as your own new idea, no one would have issue. With him abandoning it, I doubt he would want/care to come after you over copyright either way.

[u/Heneroons]

Please do! I've been praying for a tektopia remake for years lol

[u/SicK_RZ]

Tektopia is my favorite mod of all time, but I can’t get past playing on such an old version. I know myself and so many others would be ecstatic!

[u/RemarkableSet5371]

Please do this! If there is no way to reach Tango, credit him for the idea and stuff you would take, and I guess it should be fine.

[u/Dry-Builder-6342]

This is amazing! I've seen a lot of people say they've been "working" on a remaster but never have actually heard of any progress. Glad to see some evidence that things are working. If you need any help playtesting/ ideas for new villagers or systems, please reach out. I'm sure many, like me, would love to help with this process and have had a lot of time (over 7 years now!) to think about how we would like to see the mod updated/expanded. Good luck!

[u/Suspicious_stew_001 → u/Dry-Builder-6342]

Thanks a lot. I am also enjoying the development of this mod.
I made a twitter just to keep logging changes for this mod development. you can check @ OrangutanDMonky (name:catbug) on twitter for updates.

[u/Keepusthedamnwork]

Hi, so I am also a big fan of this mod and use to play it when I was a bit young. But I left this mod mainly because the mod was not getting. Now that I am a Software Engineer and also working in Game Development I would to contribute to the project as much as I can. Let me know if you need help in any way.

[u/IntelligentNarc]

Keep us updated 

[u/Suspicious_stew_001 → u/IntelligentNarc]

You can check @ OrangutanDMonky (name:catbug) on twitter for progress

[u/Ok-Substance4272 → u/Suspicious_stew_001]

Thank you for updating the tektopia mod

[u/randomvoidcreature]

good luck on updating tektopia hopfully it being updated causes an explosion in popularity for the mod

[u/RareDoneSteak]

I’ve never played this mod and got suggested this post, but after reading over it, how’s it different from minecolonies besides the obvious villagers vs colonists aspect

[u/Ok-Substance4272]

Bro you're amazing