Minion is a small utility library for modded Minecraft. It contains a (thus far) relatively small number of helpers and APIs that I find useful and use often in my modding endeavours.
So, I'm sharing it here on CurseForge just in case it scratches anyone else's itch.
Dynamic Texture Generation
With thanks to Dynamic Asset Generator (DynAssetGen) - and a huge amount of gratitude to its author, of course(!) - Minion is able to offer a thin wrapper around DynAssetGen's multitude of image manipulation APIs. This started off as a single API to generate multi-layered, overlayed textures at run-time but it will surely grow more wrappers as time passes.
Custom Server-side Persistent Data
Vanilla Minecraft supports level-attached, saved data, giving modders the basics to save and persist their own game data. However its API is, at least to me, far from perfect. So I've tried to create a slightly improved server-persisting data storage API with a couple of new filesystem-storage backends including raw JSON (via codecs) and gzip-compressed JSON, which is very similar to Minecraft's own gzip-compressed NBT that is the backing store for vanilla's SavedData subsystem.
