this implementation is working, although incomplete:
- The shulker close sound should not be played until the end of the shulker closing animation, which takes approximately 1 second.
- An open shulker box has a different collision box than a closed one - it should be +0.5 in whichever direction the shulker is facing. (During the animation, the bounding box also dynamically changes size - you can see this in vanilla by shooting an arrow into the top of an open shulkerbox facing UP, and then closing it - the arrow will fall and collide with the lid multiple times.
However, resolving both of these issues requires significant internal changes which are beyond the scope of this PR.
the intent of these hacks was to break cyclic references to avoid having objects lingering in memory. However, all of the stuff that's being removed in this commit no longer has any effect anyway, due to the fact that these things don't circularly reference each other anymore. Notably, Tile inventories now keep Position instead of a Tile ref.
originally I introduced this to make it easier to implement the various APIs addPattern removePattern etc, but those were later removed in favour of simple getPatterns() and setPatterns(), allowing plugin developers to use ext-ds APIs to manipulate patterns.
However, ds poses a number of headaches because of mutability combined with by-ref semantics, which make it a pain to use these on the APIs because we can't guarantee that they won't be modified.
As much as arrays suck, they have two significant advantages over ext-ds: 1) they have copy-on-write semantics, and 2) they support PHP 8.0 without any extra work from me.
in pretty much every case, these usages really wanted to read the tag's contents anyway, which can be combined with a getTag() and instanceof call for more concise and static analysis friendly code.
In the few cases where the tag contents wasn't needed, it still wanted to check the type, which, again, can be done in a more static analysis friendly way by just using getTag() and instanceof.
I'd like to have this directly provided to Furnace, but I don't know how to short of making into a singleton. Since I want to have per-furnace recipe managers (e.g. for stuff like blast furnace vs regular furnace etc), a singleton isn't really an option.
