Opinionated full lore entry rewrite (free for adaptation)

[sisby-folk]

Hello!

We maintain a modpack (Tinkerer's Quilt) that puts quite a lot of effort into explaining vanilla game concepts and content progression to the player. For this, we decided to write our own full set of descriptions that suit our own prose style.

You're completely welcome to use or adapt any of it piecemeal or wholesale if it helps you! We'll be putting it in our pack and we'll probably make a modrinth respack as well - if that's ever made redundant, let us know.

principles vaguely used:

• Tooltips should be short and easy to read.
• Tooltips should mostly make sense when read "[Subject Name], [Tooltip]"
• Tooltips should elide information available in EMI (+Trades +Loot +Ores) or WAILA unless they're essential or reflect the primary purpose of the subject.
• Tooltips should be aware of where they're likely to be first read. For example, natural block tooltips note alternate drops, because the player will see them first through WAILA.
• All april fools tooltips should include the word "strange" as early as possible in the tooltip, and no vanilla items should include that word.
• All entities follow A [adjectives] [thing] (found in [Place]) (that does/is stuff).
• All mobs should be described as passive/neutral/hostile mobs, and can use the qualifiers ambient, aquatic, flying ranged [hostile] undead unused

Thanks for the inspiration! And feel free to close this one any time.

[cassiancc]

This is a very interesting refactor. I had them shorter like this originally, but I went and expanded them later as I felt the sentence structure worked better - I hadn't thought of reading it like "[Subject Name], [Tooltip]". As you probably found, there's still one or two that are in that older style. Your principles are good, with your permission I'd definitely like to include something similar on the wiki.

I do feel like the loss of rarity as part of the description is a shame. Mojang's rarity system isn't very well communicated, so including the text of the rarity name would help... as soon as I figure out how to format that without the word "item" present.