Pig Pen Cipher in Project Infinity 0.1

Pig Pen Cipher is a small, fun mod that adds the pigpen cipher to Minecraft as a new font. The cipher is a simple substitution cipher for the English alphabet, and you can use it for books, chat messages, tooltips and virtually any other text in the game.^[1]

This pack includes Pig Pen Cipher 15.0.3, built for Forge 1.20.1. It has been in the pack since 0.0.45.4 or earlier.^[2]

How the cipher works

The cipher is sometimes called the tic-tac-toe cipher, because its key looks like a tic-tac-toe board. Each letter is replaced by the lines that surround it. For example, A is a backwards L shape and E is a square. If the symbol has a dot, you use the version on the right, so a square with a dot inside is an N.^[1]

Commands

The mod comes with some handy commands. They work on a Forge server and also in single player.^[1]

• /pigpen say posts a message in chat using the cipher. All players can use it, and the plaintext version is logged in the server console.^[1]
• /pigpen hand renames the held item with the cipher. It is limited to level 2 ops.^[1]
• /pigpen book (encode|decode) rewrites a held book to use the cipher, or turns an encoded book back into a plaintext book. It is limited to level 2 ops.^[1]
• /pigpen tile (encode|decode) <pos> rewrites a tile entity such as a sign to use the cipher. It is limited to level 2 ops.^[1]

Vanilla commands

Any vanilla command that accepts a text component can use the cipher if you set the font ID to pigpen:pigpen in the text properties. The give and title commands are two examples.^[1]

In the quest book

Unverified The sources here do not show a quest book chapter or group for this mod, and they do not show whether the ATM Star path uses it. Check the pack's quest book itself for any placement.

This one is a little different from most mods in the pack. Pig Pen Cipher adds the pigpen cipher to Minecraft as a new font, and that font can be used for books, chat messages, tooltips and virtually any other text in the game. So there are no machines or tools to build first. Your first steps are about learning the cipher and trying out the commands.^[1]

Unverified No in-pack recipes, quests or config files for this mod could be confirmed, so there is no crafting order to follow and no recipe to show here.

Step 1: Learn how the cipher reads

The pigpen cipher is also called the tic-tac-toe cipher, because its key looks like a tic-tac-toe board. Each letter is replaced by the lines that surround it. For example, A is a backwards L shape and E is a square. If the symbol has a dot, you use the version on the right, so a square with a dot inside is an N. The eight lower characters follow the same rules: T is an arrow pointing right and W is an arrow pointing down with a dot in it.^[1]

It looks tricky at first, but it gets a lot easier with practice.^[1]

Step 2: Try the commands

The mod's custom commands work on a Forge server, and in single player too, as long as the mod is installed.^[1]

• /pigpen say posts a message in chat using the cipher. All players can use it, and the plaintext version is logged in the server console.^[1]
• /pigpen hand renames the item you are holding using the cipher. It is limited to level 2 ops.^[1]
• /pigpen book with encode or decode rewrites a held book in the cipher, or turns an encoded book back into plaintext. It is limited to level 2 ops.^[1]
• /pigpen tile with encode or decode and a position rewrites a tile entity such as a sign. It is limited to level 2 ops.^[1]

Use it in vanilla commands

Any vanilla command that accepts a text component can use the cipher if you set the font ID in the text properties. The font ID is pigpen:pigpen. For example, this title command shows Hello in the cipher: /title @a title {"text":"Hello","font":"pigpen:pigpen"}. The same font property also works in the give command for item names.^[1]

This mod works differently from most of the mods you'll meet in the pack. It adds the Pig Pen Cipher to Minecraft as a new font, and that font can be used for books, chat messages, tooltips and virtually any other text in the game. The sources I have describe no machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation for it, so I'm not going to invent any.^[1]

How the cipher works

The Pigpen Cipher is a simple substitution cipher for messages in the English alphabet. It's sometimes called a tic-tac-toe cipher, because the key used to encode and decode characters looks like a tic-tac-toe board.^[1]

To write a character, you replace it with the lines that surround it on the grid. The letter A is a backwards L shape and E is a square. If the symbol contains a dot, you use the version from the right-hand side of the key, so a square with a dot inside is an N. The eight lower characters follow the same rules: T is an arrow pointing right, and W is an arrow pointing down with a dot in it.^[1]

Commands

If the mod is installed on a Forge server, you get some custom commands to help you use it. They also work in single player when the mod is installed.^[1]

• /pigpen say posts a message in chat using the cipher. All players can use it, and the plaintext version is logged in the server console.^[1]
• /pigpen hand renames the item you're holding with the cipher. It's limited to level 2 ops.^[1]
• /pigpen book (encode|decode) rewrites a held book to use the cipher, and can also turn encoded books back into plaintext books. It's limited to level 2 ops.^[1]
• /pigpen tile (encode|decode) <pos> rewrites a tile entity such as a sign to use the cipher. It's limited to level 2 ops.^[1]

Using the font with vanilla commands

Any vanilla command that accepts a text component can use the cipher if you set the font ID in the text properties. The font ID is pigpen:pigpen. You can use it in the give command or the title command, for example.^[1]

• Give command example: /give @p stone{display:{Name:"[{\"text\":\"Hello\",\"italic\":false,\"color\":\"gold\",\"font\":\"pigpen:pigpen\"}]"}} 1^[1]
• Title command example: /title @a title {"text":"Hello","font":"pigpen:pigpen"}^[1]

For developers and scripters

If you're developing a mod or have access to code or scripting tools, you can apply the cipher to a text component by changing the component's style so it uses the pigpen:pigpen font.^[1]

There isn't much version history to tell for Pig Pen Cipher in this pack. Project Infinity 0.1 0.0.51.4-hotfix-2 ships Pig Pen Cipher 15.0.3 (the Forge 1.20.1 build), and the mod was already in the pack in 0.0.45.4 or earlier.^[2]

The mod's own changelogs for 15.0.3 and 15.0.2 both say that no changelog was specified, so they don't tell you what differs between those two releases.^[3][4]

Unverified Whether any Project Infinity release changed how Pig Pen Cipher behaves is not shown in the sources here, because they contain no pack changelog entries for this mod. Any such detail would be in the pack's own changelogs.