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Rampant does sound exactly like what I was looking for! But why does it have a -400 trending rate? Is something wrong with it?

From what I've seen, trending rates are the difference between recent average downloads and average downloads over a longer timespan. Popular mods will therefore always have larger fluctuations in trending than smaller ones, but on average the trendingness of every mod is zero. Trending has no correlation to the mod's quality.

Resolution:
import re
regex = re.compile("^(\d+)x(\d+)$")
match = regex.match(resolution_arg)
if match:
  width = int(match[1])
  height = int(match[2])
  # do stuff
else:
  # error handling

Framerate:
try
  framerate = int(framerate_arg)
  if framerate <= 0:
    raise ValueError()
  # do stuff
except ValueError:
  # error handling

Pixel format:
valid_pixel_formats = ["format1", "format2", "format3"]
if format_arg in valid_pixel_formats:

Filename w/ extension:
if filename_arg[-4:] == ".raw":

Audio codec:
valid_audio_codecs = ["codec1", "codec2", "codec3"]
if codec_arg in valid_audio_codecs:

Bitrate:
try:
  bitrate = 1
  if bitrate_arg[-1] == 'k':
    bitrate = 1000
    bitrate_arg = bitrate_arg[:-1]
  bitrate *= int(bitrate_arg)
  if bitrate < 0:
    raise ValueError()
  # do stuff
except ValueError:
  # error handling


The color scheme doesn't seem to match the Holey Brotherhood guy at all?

In DF I remade night troll's grinding vermins into paste as reaction usable by player, that taked few hours of testing and some minutes for writing (I mean all changing in raws). In RA2 I remade Forgotten from TS by few days.

Ah, I see. You figured out how to edit game data text files and now you think all modding works like that. Editing game data text files is incredibly easy. If any of the mod ideas you posted required only editing such files, I would have said "one hour or so" in my estimate. But I said stuff like "a year" and "six months", and there's a very good reason for that: your ideas cannot be implemented just by changing data files. All your ideas have some aspect to them that would require writing some Java code. Now here's the deal: writing Java code that makes Minecraft properly do what you want it to do is much much harder and slower than just messing with some data files, especially since Minecraft was not written with mods in mind, just like the skyscraper from my analogy wasn't built on rails.

Consider the Baubles mod, which does something very similar to the four-layer armor thing you suggested. Read through its several thousand lines of source code and commit history and tell me how anyone could write, test and bugfix that mod in under three months.

Here's another analogy until you get the point: If you went to the car repair shop and asked the mechanic "hey can you change my tires" he'd say "yeah sure, come back tomorrow and I'll be done, tires are designed to be easily replaceable". If instead you asked the mechanic "hey can you make it so my car can drive underwater," he'd start telling you why that's incredibly difficult for a large amount of reasons, and that you can't just quickly replace some car bits with submarine bits and add some duct tape. And you know what? The mechanic would be correct. He knows a lot about cars, more than you. You should believe the mechanic.

How much time would a full time modder (40 hours per week) require to implement your mod ideas? Here are some time estimates:

Mod that change inventory into infinite amount of cells (for using with mods that adds weight).

One year but it won't be compatible with any other mods.

Mod that absolutely remove XP and add skill system with training by actual ingame actions (that system also will be used for further mods)

Three months.

Mod that adds new equipping system, with four layers of armor and slots for jewelry.

Two months.

Mod with some special magic, where you train your powers in one of seven magic spheres by doing non-magical actions, but related with this spheres.

Scope is unclear, but at least three months.

Mod that adds cogs and more redstone functions to them.

One month.

Simple mod of some industry that not change worldgen at all (golden wires, uranium from redstone).

Six months.

Simple mod that adds coins for trading.

Two days.

Simple remodelling mod, that make horse model simpler and rework shields.

Three days if you only change the actual models. One month if you want to change anything about the animations.

Joke mod that add roaches (retextured silverfish).

One week.

Port of old TobaccoCraft from 1.2.5 version.

Two weeks.

WONNNH!

You can create to-do lists on the map by placing map markers.