Why wasn't Java a good idea?
If you want to write optimal code for your application, you just simply can't do it in Java. You can get close in some circumstances, but it's way easier to write your app in C/C++ because it gives you maximal control over your code (meaning the code that actually runs ...

Just a little quality of life improvement I was thinking of:

If you are inside a vehicle and shift-click a chest, the items get transferred into the character's inventory by default. I would like to see a toggle-option to change this default behaviour, so that items are moved to the vehicle's ...

Yes, 0.13.18 is the current stable.

I also would like for the mod-updater to not update mods to an incompatible version.

Thank you a lot, working like a charm! <3

Yes the current version is broken, because Lua.

To fix it, in control.lua, line 90 change
return remove_bottle
to
return removed_bottle

What was happening is remove_bottle() returned itself instead of the local variable, and the expression that checks if a bottle was removed never evaluates to ...

You can always split a stack exactly in half when its size is a power of 2.
128->64->32->16->8->4->2->1
as opposed to
100->50->25->?