Core · 1.4.0 · Added

A mod can declare the prefabs it puts into the world, through Suite.Owns, and anything can read them back with Suite.OwnedPrefabs. This is the one fact about a mod that nothing in the game can answer: ZNetScene holds a name and a GameObject, ObjectDB the same for items and ZoneSystem the same for locations, and not one of them has ever recorded who added it. The consequence is worse than it sounds - a mod that failed to register looks exactly like a mod whose piece you have not found yet, and the two want opposite reactions.

Nothing has to be written to get this. Prefabs.Keep in the shared registrar declares every name it is handed, so the mods using it carry the list without a line of their own; the call is soft in the usual way and a mod running without Core loses the declaration and nothing else.

Attribution is by the calling assembly's build fingerprint rather than by a guid argument, which is what lets the shared registrar make the call - it is compiled into each mod, so the caller is the mod and there is no guid in scope to pass. Declarations arriving before the mod registers are held and drained at registration, because whether Keep runs above or below the Suite.Register line is an accident of how each plugin was written, and dropping the early ones would have made this work in four mods and silently not in the fifth.

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