Bug: Diamond mining drill not seen as a pickaxe Buildcraft 2.1.1

1st Official Post

    Hi. I'm running Forge 1.0.6, Buildcraft 2.1.1 and IC2 .90.


    Specifically, when I place buildcraft pipes and attempt to use the diamond mining drill to remove the pipe it goes slower than it should and yields no pipe (like I was using my hands). However if I use a bronze pickaxe (IC2 specific) the destruction goes as quick as you'd expect and yields a pipe back.


    Since this functionality was there in IC1 and the bronze pickaxe works correctly I have to assume that it's a property of the diamond mining drill.


    EDIT


    Just wanted to ad that this caries over to machines as well, not only pipes.
    Another edit but someone had already posted this as a bug to which the response was


    "Not much of a bug. Of course other mods will not recognise this mod's tools as valid tools. Nothing can be done about that." by Alblaka.
    If that is the case then why did the mining drill get reconized as a pickaxe in IC1, and why does the bronze pickaxe (also a completely new tool) also get recognized as a pickaxe by mods? I'm wondering if it's a baseclass modification change and the switch to Forge has something to do with it, but again it must be possible to get it reconized simply because the bronze pickaxe yeilds pickaxe results in mods.

    And you can't mine cobblestone stairs via any drill. Stairs destruction takes a lot of time and doesn't drop anything - just like using hands. Laser works with all of this stuff (Buildcraft blocks and stairs), but it doesn't mine bricks and destroys lazuli block with no drop.


    But laser is cool - especially low-focus mode.

    Cutiemark crusaders - engineers, Yay!
    Blown up: Industrial Blast Furnace, Industrial Wiremill, Singularity compressor, Extractor.

    as i know MCF allow setup of tools, if mod dont use hardcoded check for item type it will work fine with iseffective class method.


    may be this is problem of buildcraft, dunno, but ic1 worked fine with buildcraft pipes.

    • Official Post

    I've uploaded a change for the next version that will fix this. Our drills will now be effective against anything made of rock or iron, like standard pickaxes are. (This has the unfortunate side effect of making drills very effective against machinery. Keep that diamond drill in your inventory when you're wandering around your factories!)

    Quote from Drashian

    I've uploaded a change for the next version that will fix this. Our drills will now be effective against anything made of rock or iron, like standard pickaxes are. (This has the unfortunate side effect of making drills very effective against machinery. Keep that diamond drill in your inventory when you're wandering around your factories!)

    Excellent. Thanks for the response.