I'm sorry if this has been asked for or suggested before, but there are a lot of pages to read through and my eyes started glazing over pretty quickly. Anyway, I was wondering if "crafting" quest steps could be altered so they could be crafted the normal way through quest progression as well as also detecting the existence of the required item/ tool/ seeds in the player inventory and quietly unlock if they're already found.
I ask this because I play on a multiplayer server where "cheating" in quest completion is not really an option, but we've also been experiencing some frequent quest book resets (for whatever reason) and it's very annoying to go back and re-create flint tools/ tool stations/ furnace crucible/ etc. that I've already made and don't need another one of just so I can get to later quests I haven't done yet. It would be a great help for when the modpack updates as well because "detection" quests aren't nearly such a problem once you've got to that point. However I don't know if this is a realistic request or not since I know nothing about coding or the inner-workings of the mods in the pack.
Thanks for your time and I apologise if I missed this suggestion and answer somewhere in the mists of the early thread pages.
^ I play on the same server and have read the explanation of why this happens (too many players making quest book data by logging on the server, data corrupts because there's a hard-coded limit in HQM -> everything resets)
Even though I really would like this to be a thing, I'm afraid it's not nearly possible to execute as clean as the questbook is now, and would require a ton of extra time to be spent with the not so friendly questbook edit interface.
(believe me, I've tried making a quest modpack, I worked with that edit interface)
The only real option here would be that the mod Devs add a special quest type for this, but that won't happen, because there is a reason for the difference between crafting and detection quests.
tl;dr: I approve of the idea, since I basically ditched the questbook on that server now, but I'm aware that the chances of it happening are too small to hope for.