alttpr-python/RELEASENOTES.md

New Features

Pottery Lottery and Key Drop Shuffle Changes

Pottery

New pottery option that control which pots (and large blocks) are in the locations pool:

• None: No pots are in the pool, like normal randomizer
• Key Pots: The pots that have keys are in the pool. This is about half of the old keydropshuffle option
• Cave Pots: The pots that are not found in dungeons are in the pool. (Includes the large block in Spike Cave). Does not include key pots.
• CaveKeys: Both non-dungeon pots and pots that used to have keys are in the pool.
• Reduced: Same as CaveKeys but also roughly a quarter of dungeon pots are added to the location pool picked at random. This is a dynamic mode so pots in the pool will be colored. Pots out of the pool will have vanilla contents.
• Clustered: LIke reduced but pot are grouped by logical sets and roughly 50% of pots are chosen from those group. This is a dynamic mode like the above.
• Nonempty: All pots that had some sort of objects under them are chosen to be in the location pool. This excludes most large blocks and some pots out of dungeons.
• Dungeon Pots: The pots that are in dungeons are in the pool. (Includes serveral large blocks)
• Lottery: All pots and large blocks are in the pool

By default, switches remain in their vanilla location (unless you turn on the legacy option below)

CLI --pottery <option> from none, keys, cave, cavekeys, reduced, clustered, nonempty, dungeon, lottery

Note for multiworld: due to the design of the pottery lottery, only 256 items for other players can be under pots in your world.

Colorize Pots

If the pottery mode is dynamic, this option is forced to be on (clustered and reduced). It is allowed to be on in all other pottery modes. Exception "none" where no pots would be colored, and "lottery" where all pots would be. This option colors the pots differently that have been chosen to be part of the location pool. If not specified, you are expected to remember the pottery setting you chose.

CLI --colorizepots

Shuffle key drops

Enemies that drop keys can have their drop shuffled into the pool. This is the other half of the keydropshuffle option.

CLI --dropshuffle

Legacy options

"Drop and Pot Keys" or --keydropshuffle is still availabe for use. This simply sets the pottery to keys and turns dropshuffle on as well to have the same behavior as the old setting.

The old "Pot Shuffle" option is still available under "Pot Shuffle (Legacy)" or --shufflepots and works the same by shuffling all pots on a supertile. It works with the lottery option as well to move the switches while having every pot in the pool.

Tracking Notes

The sram locations for pots and sprite drops are not yet final, please reach out for assistance or investigate the rom changes.

Restricted Item Placement Algorithm

The "Item Sorting" option or --algorithm has been updated with new placement algorithms. Older algorithms have been removed.

When referenced below, Major Items include all Y items, all A items, all equipment (swords, shields, & armor) and Heart Containers. Dungeon items are considered major if shuffled outside of dungeons. Bomb and arrows upgrades are Major if shopsanity is turned on. The arrow quiver and universal small keys are Major if retro is turned on. Triforce Pieces are Major if that is the goal, and the Bomb Bag is Major if that is enabled.

Here are the current fill options:

Balanced

This one stays the same as before and is recommended for the most random distribution of items.

Vanilla Fill

This fill attempts to place all items in their vanilla locations when possible. Obviously shuffling entrances or the dungeon interiors will often prevent items from being placed in their vanilla location. If the vanilla fill is not possible, then other locations are tried in sequence preferring "major" locations (see below), then heart piece locations, then the rest except for GT locations which are preferred last. Note the PoD small key that is normally found in the dark maze in vanilla is move to Harmless Hellway due to the placement algorithm limitation.

Major Location Restriction

This fill attempts to place major items in major locations. Major locations are where the major items are found in the vanilla game. This includes the spot next to Uncle in the Sewers, and the Boomerang chest in Hyrule Castle.

This location pool is expanded to where dungeon items are locations if those dungeon items are shuffled. The Capacity Fairy locations are included if Shopsanity is on. If retro is enabled in addition to shopsanity, then the Old Man Sword Cave and one location in each retro cave is included. Key drop locations can be included if small or big key shuffle is on. This gives a very good balance between overworld and underworld locations though the dungeons ones will be on bosses and in big chests generally. Seeds do become more linear but usually easier to figure out.

Dungeon Restriction

The fill attempts to place all major items in dungeons. It will overflow to the overworld if there are more items than locations (e.g. Triforce hunt.) This fill does attempt to run the GT trash fill when possible. Seeds are typically very linear but tend to be more difficult.

District Restriction

The world is divided up into different regions or districts. Each dungeon is it's own district. The overworld consists of the following districts:

Light world:

• Kakariko (The main screen, blacksmith screen, and library/maze race screens)
• Northwest Hyrule (The lost woods and fortune teller all the way to the rive west of the potion shop)
• Central Hyrule (Hyrule castle, Link's House, the marsh, and the haunted grove)
• Desert (From the thief to the main desert screen)
• Lake Hylia (Around the lake)
• Eastern Hyrule (The eastern wild, the potion shop, and Zora's Domain)
• Death Mountain

Dark world:

• East Dark World (The pyramid, Palace of darkness, and Catfish)
• South Dark World (The dark lake, swamp area, to the dig game)
• Northwest Dark World (Village of Outcasts, to the Dark Sanctuary and screens in between)
• The Mire
• Dark Death Mountain

These districts are chosen at random and then filled with major items. If a location is part of a chosen district, but there are no more major items to place, a single green rupee is placed in the extra to indicate that as a placeholder. All other single green rupees are changed to be a blue rupee in order to not give false positives.

In entrance shuffle, what is shuffled to the entrances is considered instead of where the interior was originally. For example, if Blind's Hut is shuffled to the Dam, then the 5 chests in Blind's Hut are part of Central Hyrule instead of Kakariko.

Note: Bombos Tablet, Lake Hylia Island, Bumper Cave Ledge, the Floating Island, Cave 45, the Graveyard Cave, Checkerboard Cave and Mimic Cave are considered part of the light world region rather than the dark world region you mirror from.

In multiworld, the districts chosen apply to all players.

CLI values:

balanced, vanilla_fill, major_only, dungeon_only, district

New Hints

Based on the district algorithm above (whether it is enabled or not,) new hints can appear about that district or dungeon. For each district and dungeon, it is evaluated whether it contains vital items and how many. If it has not any vital item, items then it moves onto useful items. Useful items are generally safeties or convenience items: shields, mails, half magic, bottles, medallions that aren't required, etc. If it contains none of those and is an overworld district, then it check for a couple more things. First, if dungeons are shuffled, it looks to see if any are in the district, if so, one of those dungeons is picked for the hint. Then, if connectors are shuffled, it checks to see if you can get to unique region through a connector in that district. If none of the above apply, the district or dungeon is considered completely foolish. At least two "foolish" districts are chosen and the rest are random.

Overworld Map shows dungeon location

Option to move indicators on overworld map to reference dungeon location. The non-default options include indicators for Hyrule Castle, Agahnim's Tower, and Ganon's Tower.

CLI --overworld_map

Options

default

Status quo. Showing only the prize markers on the vanilla dungeon locations.

compass

The compass item controls whether the marker is moved to the dungeons locations. If you possess the compass but not the map, only a glowing X will be present regardless of dungeon prize type, if you only possess the map, the prizes will be shown in predicable locations at the bottom of the overworld map instead of the vanilla location. Light world dungeons on the light world map and dark world dungeons on the dark world map. If you posses both map and compass, then the prize of the dungeon and the location will be on the map.

If you do not shuffle the compass or map outside of the dungeon, the non-shuffled items are not needed to display the information. If a dungeon does not have a map or compass, it is not needed for the information. Talking to the bomb shop or Sahasrahla furnishes you with complete information as well as map information.

map

The map item plays double duty in this mode and only possession of the map will show both prize and location of the dungeon. If you do not shuffle maps or the dungeon does not have a map, the information will be displayed without needing to find any items.

Restricted Dungeon Items on Bosses

You may now restrict the items that can appear on the boss, like the popular ambrosia preset does.

CLI: --restrict_boss_items <option>

Options

none

As before, the boss may have any item including any dungeon item that could occur there.

mapcompass

The map and compass are logically required to defeat a boss. This prevents both of those from appearing on the dungeon boss. Note that this does affect item placement logic and the placement algorithm as maps and compasses are considered as required items to beat a boss.

dungeon

Same as above but both small keys and bigs keys of the dungeon are not allowed on a boss. (Note: this does not affect universal keys as they are not dungeon-specific)

Notes and Bug Fixes

Volatile

• 1.0.2.6
  • Fix for Zelda (or any follower) going to the maiden cell supertile and the boss is not Blind. The follower will not despawn unless the boss is Blind, then the maiden will spawn as normal.
  • Added a check for package requirements before running code. GUI and console both for better error messages. Thanks to mtrethewey for the idea.
  • Refactored spoiler to generate in stages for better error collection. A meta file will be generated additionally for mystery seeds. Some random settings moved later in the spoiler to have the meta section at the top not spoil certain things. (GT/Ganon requirements.) Thanks to codemann and OWR for most of this work.
  • Fix for Waterfall of Wishing logic in open. You must have flippers to exit the Waterfall (or moon pearl in glitched modes that allow minor glitches in logic)
• 1.0.2.5
  • Some textual changes for hints (capitalization standardization)
    • Item will be highlighted in red if experimental is on
  • Bug with 0 GT crystals not opening GT
  • Settings code fix
  • Fix for pottery not counting items in certain caves that share a supertile with shops
• 1.0.2.4
  • Updated tourney winners (included Doors Async League winners)
  • Fixed a couple issues with dungeon counters and the DungeonCompletion field for autotracking
• 1.0.2.3
  • Fix MultiClient for new shop data location in SRAM
  • Some minor text updates
• 1.0.2.2
  • Change to all key pots and enemy key drops: always use the same address
  • Don't colorize key pots in mystery if the item is "forced"
• 1.0.2.1
  • Fix for paired doors
  • Fix for forbidding certain dashable doors (it actually does something this time)
• 1.0.2.0
  • Updated baserom to bleeding edge
    • Pottery and enemy SRAM re-located to final destination
    • Bulk of work on new font
    • Updated TFH to support up to 850 pieces
  • Fix for major item algorithm and pottery
  • Updated map display on keysanity menu to work better with overworld_amp option
  • Minor bug in crossed doors
  • Minor bug in MultiClient which would count switches
• 1.0.1.13
  • New pottery modes
  • Trinity goal added
  • Potential fix for pottery hera key
  • Fix for arrows sneaking into item pool with rupee bow
  • Fixed msu resume bug on patcher
  • Bonk Recoil OHKO fix (again)
• 1.0.1.12
  • Fix for Multiworld forfeits, shops and pot items now included
  • Reworked GT Trash Fill. Base rate is 0-75% of locations fill with 7 crystals entrance requirements. Triforce hunt is 75%-100% of locations. The 75% number will decrease based on the crystal entrance requirement. Dungeon_only algorithm caps it based on how many items need to be placed in dungeons. Cross dungeon shuffle will now work with the trash fill.
  • MultiServer fix for ssl certs and python
  • Inverted bug
  • Fix for hammerdashing pots, if sprite limit is reached, items won't spawn, but error beep won't play either because of other SFX
  • Arrghus splash no longer used for pottery sprites (used apple instead)
  • Killing enemies via freeze + hammer properly results in the droppable item instead of the freeze prize
  • Forbid certain doors from being dashable when you either can't dash them open (but bombs would work) or you'd fall into a pit from the bonk recoil in OHKO
  • Logic refinements
    • Skull X Room requires Boots or access to Skull Back Drop
    • GT Falling Torches requires Boots to get over the falling tile gap (this is a stop-gap measure until more sophisticated crystal switch traversal is possible)
  • Fixed a couple rain state issues
• 1.0.1.11
  • Separated Collection Rate counter from experimental
  • Added MSU Resume option
  • Ensured pots in TR Dark Ride need lamp
  • Fix for GT Crystal Conveyor not requiring Somaria/Bombs to get through
  • Fixes for Links House being at certain entrances (did not generate)
• 1.0.1.10
  • More location count fixes
  • Add major_only algorithm to code
  • Include 1.0.0.2 fixes
• 1.0.1.9
  • Every pot you pick up that wasn't part of the location pool does not count toward the location count
  • Fix for items spawning where a thrown pot was
  • Fix for vanilla_fill, it now prioritizes heart container placements
  • Fix for dungeon counter showing up in AT/HC in crossed dungeon mode
  • Fix for TR Dark Ride (again) and some ohko rules refinement
• 1.0.1.8
  • Every pot you pick up now counts toward the location count
  • A pot will de-spawn before the item under it does, error beep only plays if it still can't spawn
  • Updated item counter & credits to support 4 digits
  • Updated compass counter to support 3 digits (up to 255)
  • Updated retro take-anys to not replace pot locations when pottery options are used
  • Updated mystery_example.yml
  • Fixed usestartinventory with mystery
  • Fixed a bug with the old pot shuffle (crashed when used)
• 1.0.1.7
  • Expanded Mystery logic options (e.g. owglitches)
  • Allowed Mystery.py to create BPS patches
  • Allow creation of BPS and SFC files (no longer mutually exclusive)
  • Pedestal goal + vanilla swords places a random sword in the pool
  • Rebalanced trash ditching algo for seeds with lots of triforce pieces
  • Added a few more places Links House shouldn't go when shuffled
  • Fixed a bug with shopsanity + district algorithm where pre-placed potions messed up the placeholder count
  • Fixed usestartinventory flag (can be use on a per player basis)
  • Fix for map indicators on keysanity menu not showing up
  • Potential sprite selector fix for systems with SSL issues
• 1.0.1.6
  • A couple new options for lighter pottery modes (Cave Pots and Dungeon Pots)
  • New option for Boss Shuffle: Unique (Prize bosses will be one of each, but GT bosses can be anything)
  • Support for BPS patch creation and applying patches during adjustment
  • Fix for SFX shuffle
  • Fix for Standard ER where locations in rain state could be in logic
  • Fix for Ice Refill room pots, require being able to hit a switch for bombbag mode
• 1.0.1.5
  • Fix for Hera Basement Cage item inheriting last pot checked
  • Update indicators on keysanity menu for overworld map option
• 1.0.1.4
  • Reverted SRAM change (the underlying refactor isn't done yet)
• 1.0.1.3
  • Fixed inverted generation issues with pottery option
  • Moved SRAM according to SRAM standard
  • Removed equitable algorithm
  • Upped TFH goal limit to 254
  • Cuccos should no longer cause trap door rooms to not open
  • Added double click fix for install.py
  • Fix for pottery item palettes near bonkable torches
  • Fix for multiworld progression balancing would place Nothing or Arrow items
• 1.0.1.2
  • Fixed logic for pots in TR Hub and TR Dark Ride
  • Fix for districting + shopsanity
  • Hint typo correction
• 1.0.1.1
  • Fixed logic for pots in the Ice Hammer Block room (Glove + Hammer required)
  • Fixed logic for 2 pots in the Ice Antechamber (Glove required)
  • Fixed retro not saving keys when grabbed from under pots in caves
  • Fixed GUI not applying Drop shuffle when "Pot and Drops" are marked
  • Fixed dungeon counts when one of Pottery or Drops are disabled

Unstable

• 1.0.0.3
  • overworld_map=map mode fixed. Location of dungeons with maps are not shown until map is retrieved. (Dungeon that do not have map like Castle Tower are simply never shown)
  • Aga2 completion on overworld_map now tied to boss defeat flag instead of pyramid hole being opened (fast ganon fix)
  • Minor issue in dungeon_only algorithm fixed (minorly affected major_only keyshuffle and vanilla fallbacks)
• 1.0.0.2
  • Include 1.0.1 fixes
  • District hint rework
• 1.0.0.1
  • Add Light Hype Fairy to bombbag mode as needing bombs

From stable DoorDev

• 1.0.1
  • Fixed a bug with key doors not detecting one side of an interior door
  • Sprite selector fix for systems with SSL issues