Sample datapack

Care For Them comes with a datapack of its own: seven social classes with their needs, jobs and structures. It's meant as an example to learn from and copy, more than as a balanced game; a modpack is better off with classes of its own. Every kind of need, job and structure the mod has is used somewhere in it, and so are most of the optional fields.

Its files are in the mod's jar, and in the repository, under data/cft/cft/.

The classes

• Settler and Mountain dweller upgrade to Citizen.
• Citizen upgrades to Artisan, Soldier or Patrician.
• Patrician upgrades to Noble.

Settlers and mountain dwellers are the two starting classes: they're the only ones that spawn on their own. The rest are reached through upgrades, and each one can fall back through downgrades. In game, press V to see this graph with the requirements of each step.

Settler

The first settlers of a place: they need a roof, water and simple food, and they gather what's around them.

• Needs: a home (settler_house), water, potatoes, bread, wood logs, other settlers nearby, sleep, and conversations.
• Jobs: hauler (wheat from the farm to the settler houses), builder (builds settler houses), flower gatherer and lumberjack (lumber_camp).
• Worth a look:
  • water_need: a fluid need (from a cauldron or any tank) with active_when: settlers drink rainwater, so it doesn't apply while it rains (cft:not and cft:weather).
  • sleep_need, with beds allowed in the settler_house.
  • conversation_need: a bonus socialize need.
  • gather_flowers_job: available_to_babies, so young settlers help too.
  • settler_builder_job: a builder that raises new settler houses by copying one already built, wherever the player places a door.
  • name_samples, as every class: each one has names of its own style.

Mountain dweller

The other starting class, for settlements high in the mountains.

• Needs: a home (mountain_dweller_house), potatoes, wood logs, mountain biomes, high altitude, and warmth.
• Jobs: quarry miner (quarry) and smelter (smeltery).
• Worth a look:
  • warmth_need: coal or charcoal, only at night or in cold biomes (cft:any_of, cft:time and cft:biome).
  • mountain_biomes_need and high_altitude_need: needs met just by where the Xoonglin lives.
  • quarry_miner_job: digs out its quarry, which isn't detected again while it's mined.

Citizen

The working town. Its upgrades lead to the three higher classes, each one through a different hidden need.

• Needs: a home (citizen_house), bread, coal, communion, a visit to the tavern, music, and the hidden terracotta, book, iron sword and fishing rod needs.
• Jobs: baker and cook (bakery), fisher, rancher (pasture), farmer (farm), tavern keeper (tavern) and trader.
• Worth a look:
  • citizen_terracotta_need, citizen_book_need and citizen_iron_sword_need: hidden needs that decide which way a citizen upgrades (artisan, patrician or soldier).
  • communion_need: a ritual need, held by a priest.
  • tavern_visit_need: a visit need that consumes honey bottles, takes them from the tavern's chests (use_supplies) and only counts while a tavern keeper is working there (requires_running).
  • music_need: a bonus hearing need, with its own icon.
  • tavern_keeper_job and trader_job: traders with a schedule of their own.
  • baker_job and cook_job: crafting and smoking in the same bakery.

Artisan

Craftsmen who make paper and copy books.

• Needs: a home (artisan_house), clay, terracotta, chicken, and reading.
• Jobs: paper maker (works at home) and scribe (scriptorium).
• Worth a look: reading_need, met with the books that patrician writers write and scribes copy.

Soldier

The settlement's defenders and healers.

• Needs: a home (soldier_house), flint, an iron sword, chicken, and access to a smithy.
• Jobs: guard, healer and enchanter (enchanting_room).
• Worth a look:
  • The class schedule: soldiers start work at 5, before everyone else.
  • max_health: soldiers are tougher.
  • smithy_access_need: a structure need that requires using the smithy (requires_usage).
  • guard_job: only works while the iron sword need is met (required_needs).

Patrician

The old families, who write and lead the rites.

• Needs: a home (patrician_house), gold nuggets, books, pork, a cat, and light.
• Jobs: writer and priest (temple).
• Worth a look:
  • cat_companion_need: a pet need.
  • high_lighting_need: a lighting need around the Xoonglin.
  • priest_job: an officiant that holds the communion ritual, and only while it's happy enough (min_happiness).
  • The upgrade to noble: a population requirement with a scope, so patricians must stay over half of the upper classes (patricians and nobles).

Noble

The top of the settlement.

• Needs: a home (noble_house), cake, diamonds, beef, a flower garden, and a visit to the village square.
• Jobs: blesser.
• Worth a look:
  • noble_house: a house with a lighting requirement.
  • flower_garden_need: a decoration need.
  • plaza_visit_need: a visit to the village_square, a compound that needs three settler houses and an obelisk (a monument) around it.
  • Two downgrades, to patrician and to artisan.

Examples outside the classes

Some files aren't used by any class, and are there only as examples:

• basic_energy_need: an energy need, which needs a mod with energy storage.
• two_storey_house and two_storey_stairs_house: multi-storey buildings, connected by a ladder or by stairs.

Where to find an example of...

Feature	File
Goods need with hoarding	need/bread_need.json
Fluid need	need/water_need.json
Energy need	need/basic_energy_need.json
Equipment need	need/iron_sword_need.json
Home need	need/settler_home.json
Structure need with requires_usage	need/smithy_access_need.json
Visit need with consumes, use_supplies and requires_running	need/tavern_visit_need.json
Social need	need/settlers_companions_need.json
Socialize need	need/conversation_need.json
Pet need	need/cat_companion_need.json
Lighting need	need/high_lighting_need.json
Decoration need	need/flower_garden_need.json
Altitude and biome needs	need/high_altitude_need.json, need/mountain_biomes_need.json
Ritual need	need/communion_need.json
Reading need	need/reading_need.json
Sleep need	need/sleep_need.json
Hearing need, as a bonus with an icon	need/music_need.json
active_when	need/water_need.json, need/warmth_need.json
hidden needs	need/citizen_book_need.json
Job schedule	job/tavern_keeper_job.json
Class schedule	social_class/soldier.json
required_needs and min_happiness on jobs	job/guard_job.json, job/priest_job.json
available_to_babies	job/gather_flowers_job.json
Population requirement with scope	social_class/patrician.json
name_samples	any social class
House with lighting	structure/noble_house.json
Enclosed building with its key block inside	structure/bakery.json
Multi-storey building	structure/two_storey_house.json
Open-air platform	structure/farm.json
Pasture	structure/pasture.json
Monument	structure/obelisk.json
Compound	structure/village_square.json