Tepiltzin
Terrarian
Like how an item you have not researched yet has pink text in its tooltip which says "Research x more to learn", it would be nice if the "Material" part of the tooltip would be that same pink colour if the item crafts something you have also not researched.
For example, if you have researched everything made from iron ore except iron bars (why haven't you researched iron bars yet, silly), the "Material" in the tooltip of the iron ore would be in pink text. Once you research iron bars, the "Material" text on iron bars would become white.
This would only go one 'layer' deep. So even if you had unresearched things made from iron bars, iron ore's "Material" text would be white.
Like this:
This would be very helpful for completionists who want to fill out their Journey Mode log. And because the process of watching the water bucket's "Material" text turn from pink to white because you've made the final sink variant would be very satisfying.
I don't know the Terraria codebase but I also know saying "this should be easy to implement" is highly ignorant. One blocker I see occurring is the many lookups required to determine what is a product of what and if that item is researched could have a performance impact - especially on items with many products such as stone. But the existence of the Guide's recipe lookup mechanic gives me a glimmer of hope this QoL addition could become a reality.
Thank you for reading
For example, if you have researched everything made from iron ore except iron bars (why haven't you researched iron bars yet, silly), the "Material" in the tooltip of the iron ore would be in pink text. Once you research iron bars, the "Material" text on iron bars would become white.
This would only go one 'layer' deep. So even if you had unresearched things made from iron bars, iron ore's "Material" text would be white.
Like this:
This would be very helpful for completionists who want to fill out their Journey Mode log. And because the process of watching the water bucket's "Material" text turn from pink to white because you've made the final sink variant would be very satisfying.
I don't know the Terraria codebase but I also know saying "this should be easy to implement" is highly ignorant. One blocker I see occurring is the many lookups required to determine what is a product of what and if that item is researched could have a performance impact - especially on items with many products such as stone. But the existence of the Guide's recipe lookup mechanic gives me a glimmer of hope this QoL addition could become a reality.
Thank you for reading
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