1.0.0 — Full Frame

Added

• Multiplayer photo sharing. Photos now upload to the server when taken and are fetched on demand by other players, so everyone can see each other's shots, prints and wall-hung photos — not just the photographer. Image bytes are stored per-world and streamed in chunks.

Changed

• Release housekeeping: disabled the dev-only test-mob dependency, tidied the mod metadata (logo, credits), and added an MIT LICENSE.
• JEI documentation now covers the newer content: info pages for the Photo Album, Camera Recharge Station, and Master Photographer Trophy, and the Digital Camera's page now explains its battery and the two item bars.
• The Photo Album plays a soft page-turn sound when you flip between spreads.

Notes

• 1.0.0 — the first full release. The mod is mechanically complete; the remaining work before wider distribution is final artwork and broader playtesting (especially the new multiplayer photo sharing).

0.8.0 — Field Work

Added

Consumable trades

• The Camera Technician now always stocks film, photo paper, and blank SD cards, so early-game supplies aren't a grind.

Wanted creature

• The technician posts a daily "wanted" creature — sell a photo of it for a bonus payout. The current target is shown each time you make a sale.

More advancements

• Six new entries in the Photography tab: First Sale, Bounty Hunter (sell the wanted creature), Gotta Snap 'Em All (100% dex), Night Owl (night photo), Deep Dive (underwater photo), and Big Game (photograph a boss).

Best-shot photo of record

• A creature's photo of record now keeps your best-framed shot — scored by how centred and how close the creature was in frame — instead of simply the most recent one.

0.7.0 — Field Notes Update

Added

Photo metadata ("EXIF")

• Every photo now records where and when it was taken — the biome, the in-game day and clock time, and the block coordinates of the photographer — stamped at the moment of capture (for both hand-held and tripod shots).
• A photo's tooltip now shows that metadata under its date: biome name, X / Y / Z, and Day N · HH:mm.
• Edited copies made in the computer's Editor carry the original capture metadata forward.
• Photos taken before this update simply show no metadata (nothing breaks).

Photography advancements

• A new "Photography" advancement tab, unlocked by taking your first photo:
  • First Photo — take a photograph with any camera.
  • Golden Hour — take a photo at dawn or dusk.
  • Say Cheese! — photograph a hostile mob mid-attack.
  • Field Researcher — catalogue 25 creatures in your Journey Guide.

Capture polish

• A small sparkle at the lens when a photo lands (when it's saved or a film shot finishes developing), with a faint blink for delayed film develops.

Journey Guide

• A search bar above the creature list — click it and type to filter the catalogue by name.

Server config

• New fotogenic-common.toml options for server owners: the capture range (how close a creature must be to be catalogued), the XP rewards for new creatures / baby variants / trade milestones, and the Photo Hut spawn weight in plains villages (0 disables it).

Sell photos for value

• Right-click the Camera Technician with a photo in hand to sell it for XP and iron salvage. The payout scales with the photographed creature's rarity (passive < hostile < boss/rare) and gets a bonus if you've already catalogued it — a money loop that rewards shooting even after the dex is full.
• Photos now quietly record the main creature in frame at capture, which drives the scoring.

More technician trades

• The technician now also sells lenses (Prime, Zoom, Macro, Fisheye, Super-Zoom), unlocked at higher Journey Guide discovery counts (30 / 40 / 55 / 65 / 85) and priced in glass + salvage.

Photo of record

• Photographing a creature you've catalogued now files that shot as its "photo of record" — your Journey Guide entry shows your own best photo of the creature in place of the generic model, turning the dex into a personal portfolio. The latest shot of each creature wins.

Completion reward

• Cataloguing every creature awards the Master Photographer Trophy, a one-of-a-kind keepsake item (with a placeholder texture for now).

Enlarger

• The Enlarger now has a Save button (and Ctrl+S) that saves the framed crop — including the chosen aspect ratio — back onto the card as a new photo, like the Editor's Save As, instead of only printing it. The crop is non-destructive, so the original photo is untouched.

Photo Album

• A craftable Photo Album (book + leather + photo paper) that stores up to 128 photos so loose prints stop cluttering chests. Right-click to open a leather two-page spread showing two photos at a time, each in a white mat with a drop shadow and translucent tape across its corners.
• Collect loose photos vacuums every photo from your inventory into the album; shift-click a photo to peel it back out as an item. Flip pages with the ← → glyphs or the arrow/strafe keys.

Camera battery & recharge station

• The Digital Camera now runs on a battery — 50 shots before it goes flat and refuses to capture. A second bar on the camera item (just above the blue SD-card bar) shows the charge, running red → green and hiding when full.
• The Camera Recharge Station now opens a simple one-slot dock: drop a digital camera in and it trickle-charges 1 shot every 3 seconds up to full, showing a live battery readout. (Still the Camera Technician's job site too.)

Fixed

• The Polaroid Camera now confirms its flash toggle on the action bar ("Flash: On" / "Flash: Off") — it has no viewfinder indicator like the digital camera, so the toggle was previously silent.
• Removed a duplicate Tripod information page in JEI (the tripod showed two identical info entries).

Changelog

All notable changes to FotoGenic are documented here. This update introduces the Journey Guide and a full creature-photography progression built on top of it.

0.6.0 — The Journey Guide Update

Added

Journey Guide (creature catalogue)

• Journey Guide — a field-catalogue book item. Photograph creatures to fill it in, Pokédex-style.
• Discoveries are stored per player and persist through death, so your catalogue is permanent.
• Capture detection — when you take a photo with any camera, living mobs inside the viewfinder cone (within 16 blocks, with a clear line of sight) are catalogued. You must be carrying the guide. One new creature is logged per photo (a random undiscovered one in frame).
• Guide screen — a scrollable list of every living-mob type (shown as ??? until found), with:
  • a scrollbar with click-to-jump,
  • an All / Passive / Hostile filter,
  • a detail panel showing the live mob model, temperament, health, and a description,
  • a trade-progress bar showing how close you are to the next Camera Technician part unlock.
• 41 hand-written creature blurbs (cows, wolves, the Ender Dragon, villagers, golems, Nether mobs, warden, and more), with a generic fallback for everything else — including modded mobs.
• Baby variants — photographing a baby catalogues its baby form as a separate collectible, shown in the creature's detail panel.
• Rewards for photography — +6 XP for each new creature, +3 for a new baby variant, and a +20 XP bonus when you reach a trade milestone.
• Milestone pop-up — crossing a discovery threshold shows a "new technician trade unlocked" message with a level-up chime.
• Admin command — /fotogenic guide add|remove * or <creature>, plus add|remove baby * or baby <creature> (operator only).

Camera Technician & progression

• Camera Recharge Station block — the Camera Technician's job site (now craftable: iron + redstone
  • copper block).
• Camera Technician villager profession — sells the Journey Guide and, as your catalogue grows, the parts to build the digital camera and upgrade the computer.
• 8 new parts, each unlocked at a Journey Guide discovery milestone:
  • Camera parts — Camera Body (10), Image Sensor (20), Shutter Assembly (35), Lens Mount (50). Craft all four together to assemble the Digital Camera.
  • Computer parts — SD Controller (5), Memory Bus (25), Cache Module (45), Flash Array (75). Used to unlock the computer's SD-card slots.
• Discovery-gated trades — the technician only offers a part once you've catalogued enough creatures; each player sees the set that matches their own progress.

Computer SD-card slots

• Computers now start with 1 card slot and unlock up to 5.
• New "SD Cards" desktop app — shows each slot, the materials needed for the next one, and an Unlock button (free in Creative).
• The unlocked-slot count is saved on the dropped computer when broken and shown in its tooltip, and restored when replaced.

Compatibility

• Jade integration — look-at tooltips for the computer (unlocked slots), tripod (docked camera), printer (paper / finished print), and ring light (brightness & facing).
• JEI — information pages explaining what the camera and computer parts are used for (press U on an SD Controller to see it upgrades a computer slot).

World generation

• Photo Hut — a small building that generates in plains villages, complete with a Camera Technician and a recharge station inside.

Changed

• Digital Camera recipe — now assembled from the four camera parts instead of being craftable from raw materials, so the Polaroid carries the early game.
• SD-card slot upgrades now cost the matching computer part (plus redstone) rather than diamonds.
• Technician trades use no emeralds — the Journey Guide costs a book + 12 iron, and parts cost tech salvage (copper, iron, redstone, amethyst, gold, a diamond).
• The Camera Technician is pinned to Master level (the tier is cosmetic here — trades are gated by discoveries, not by villager level).
• All blocks (computer, printer, ring light, tripod, recharge station) now require a wooden pickaxe or better to drop. The wall-hung Polaroid stays hand-breakable.

Fixed

• The catalogue now includes villagers, iron golems, and snow golems (mobs that Minecraft internally files under the MISC category).
• Fixed the Camera Technician shaking its head with no trades — its offers are now built directly on interaction, so being pinned to a high level no longer wipes the Journey Guide trade.
• SD-slot unlocks now reflect immediately in the app (optimistic update + a server confirmation packet) instead of only after reopening the computer.