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More Accurate Trade Goods (version<=1.28.*)

It always bugged me that mineral resources were just as random as everything else, when their locations should be set hundreds of thousands to millions of years before the game starts. Instead, they are now in set locations using the latent trade good system. To actually exploit the resources, you need to put in some development (so I strongly recommend you own Common Sense and Rights of Man!). This is fairly easy for salt and a bit harder for copper, gold, gems, and iron. I have also added more coal and moved some of it around a little.

Some trade goods have had their spawning behavior adjusted. Coffee is now allowed to spawn in colonized African provinces. In addition livestock and coffee will not spawn in the new world unless the nation is from the old world or has discovered the old world; similarly, cocoa can now spawn in Africa, but only after contact is made. This is to represent that coffee is from East Africa and was imported to the Americas, that livestock animals (besides wool-bearing llamas) did not exist natively in the Americas, and that cocoa is native to the Americas and was imported to Africa as a cash crop.

If you have any corrections, please let me know and I'll get them fixed as soon as possible. If you have any suggestions, I'll take them into consideration for future updates.