Posts by mak326428

Quote from Ook

Personally i've never liked the idea of enchanted drill much. Mostly because it's an enchant once and never do it again sort of thing, the tool never wears out.

Enhancement vs. Enchantment.
Enchantibility for the Enhanced DDrill can be turned off in the config.
Just for the record, my drill didn't have any enchantments on it.

EDIT:
Had 45 FPS. Added 15 geothermals + 15 fluid pipes + 15 gold cables. Have ~90 FPS. Dafuq? Is that kind of new mechanics of IC2?
If so, i'll add 100 more geothermals. Will see how it works out.

Once again, playing in my 1.6.2 world, found what a nice of a mining tool Enhanced DDrill is (coal... coal... everywhere):

All the things here were mined for ~20 minutes.

Although it was a lot of fun, i doubt about balance.. What do you make of it?

Quote from Epic Lulz

No.

I stand against having IC2 being EE2.

Seriously, letting ores reappear after you mine them? In 20 - 30 minutes, without any effort?

Somebody hand me a nuke please.

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Quote from AGKz

He might be talking about retro-gen. If you install the mod after you have already explored the world, then it automatically adds the IC2 ores to the already generated chucks. It only replaces stone with the ores on the first load of that chuck and never again.

It's just a way to add a mod after loading the world so you can still mine around your home and not have to travel to new chucks.

There's MystCraft for that purpose.
When I add a mod with worldgen, I always create a new miningworld with denseores and just put 5-6 quarries there. It seems to be a pretty good solution for that kind of problem.

Quote from GregoriusT

You dont need to add that Tooltip. It is added automatically.

You forgot to say that it does so when NEI IS INSTALLED.

Quote from LinusPhoenix

Then something messed that up, because it isn't. The Shears have a durability bar which gets depleted by the current dummy method but there is no tooltip when hovering over its icon. Also, the tool is destroyed when its durability is depleted.
I took a quick look at IC2's coding of the ElectricWrench and did not notice a significant difference or any methods which hint that I have forgotten something.

And good too see Greg joining the mortals

EDIT: The second problem has most likely to do with me messing around with the methods of ItemShear, so nevermind. The only problem is the Tooltip.

He is mortal too BTW
That is what you think. ~Greg
No! That's not what I think! That's what nature thinks!
According to statistics, if I take the times I died, and put them together with the times I didn't die, the probability of Death decreases every Day I stay alive. Also only 93% of all People died so not everyone dies.
Wrong Math! Waaaaaay wrong! *shakes head in disapproval*
The Math was right, just the interpretation could need some more citation

Install mystcraft and use /myst-regenchunk <radius> command.

Quote from LinusPhoenix

1) I do this in the main class of my mod, in the load method
2) Corrected.
3) I did not use a Batpack in my test world, but silly me was in creative mode all along. In Survival it drains properly. Now it works correctly.

4.1) My mod so far only registers items, loads recipes, registers icons, has some constructors and stuff to do with the config file in the preinit method of my main class..these don't need the !world.isRemote check, do they?
I see why other methods, such as destroying a block or shearing a sheep would.
4.2) I really have not planned to take on new machines or GUI as long as I don't know what I am doing (well I won't 100% know what I am doing on my first try, but you know what I mean), will look into a tutorial and source code and mess a bit with it to see what everything does.
5) Will use it for other electric items in the future, thanks.
6) Well now I feel like an idiot always crafting my shears Then I might need to add a little goodie, such as a random chance of dropping Unidye when shearing a sheep

Thanks for your reply and help!

P.S. Oh, one question: If both world.isRemote and FMLCommonHandler...isClient() do the same thing, why use the longer one? There must be a difference

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@Why use longer form:
There is no difference between them at all. (like at all), however there are some situations where you don't have an access to World, and that's where you want to use it.
If it's too long for you, just create a simple utility method your modclass.

public static boolean isSimulating() {
     return !FMLCommonHandler.instance().getEffectiveSide().isClient();
}

1) Don't forget to register your item in MinecraftForge tooldict.
Just add this:

MinecraftForge.setToolClass(this, "shears", 2);

To your item's constructor.
2) Your onItemRightclick is incorrectly coded. You check for !world.isRemote after you drain energy from your electric tool, however you MUST do it the other way around.
Better solution:

public ItemStack onItemRightClick(ItemStack itemstack, World world, EntityPlayer player){
     if (!FMLCommonHandler.instance().getEffectiveSide().isClient()) { // FMLCommonHandler.instance().getEffectiveSide().isClient() is equivalent to world.isRemote
         if (ElectricItem.manager.canUse(itemstack, 100)) {
                ElectricItem.manager.use(itemstack, 100, player);
                // add code for when your item has enough energy and it was properly consumed
         } else {
              // add code for when your item doesn't have enough energy.
         }
     }
     return itemstack;
}

3) If it still doesn't appear to drain energy, take off your lappack/batpack. ElectricItem.manager.use() checks for Lappack/Batpack existence before draining energy from electric item and if lappack/batpack exists and has enough energy, it drains energy from batpack.

4) Some basic tips on modding, solution for problems you will most likely struggle with in near future:
1. ALWAYS check for !world.isRemote/!FMLCommonHandler.instance().getEffectiveSide().isClient() (if you don't, it will do SO weird things that you won't even be able to tell what's going on)
2. Don't mess with GUIs without making your mod @NetworkMod (if you do not do this... once again weird things will happen)
5) Highly recommend looking at https://github.com/mak326428/L…em/ItemBasicElectric.java
6) Why do you need to add electric shears? Chainsaw already has that functionality!

Quote from SpwnX

Or just Spam click with tunnel range 1.

Also by your formula, if random > 0 and tl > 0, damage > 0 , therefore you can theorically take damage with tunnel length 1.

No. random(0) = 0. Well, not zero really... Exception, but let's take it as zero.
random(floor(tl / 4 * 1.5)) = 0
random(floor(1 / 4 * 1.5)) = 0
random(floor(0.375)) = 0
random(0) = 0
That "floor" part is important.

@Spam click with tunnel range 1:
It will be really annoying and it is just simpler to click 1 time with 32-tl instead of 32 times with 1.

Quote from FrozenElite30

What????Atomic Disassemblers can deal damge? and it will kill all kind of mobs instantly? including BOSS? and could u tell me how to use AOE KILL function from Quantum Ring and ForceField ChestPlate?

In case you didn't know, Atomic Disassemblers have "tunnel length" property. (which is power of two, i.e. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 )
You can increase (and shift to decrease) tunnel length for Atomic Disassemblers via pressing "Range key" (standart minecraft keybinding, which is defaulted to V key)

On least (which is one) tunnel length, there is no way you can get damaged.

The formula for damage (which ignores any protection except for Quantum Ring) you get from it is:
TL - tunnel length
random(tl /4 * 1.5)

Which is random at all times, so theoretically you can get 0 damage even with 128 tunnel length.
So, on 128 tunnel length, you get 48 maxdamage, which grants you more than 50% chance of death upon use.
On 64 length, you get 24 maxdamage, which is still dangerous.
So, following this simple logic, use Atomic Disassemblers with 32 tunnellength, after you get damaged, wait a bit to regen health and do the same again.

@Ook:
I meant minecraft-packets. Minecraft still wraps its packets into a header+content form. So, instead of sending 1000 packets with 1000 headers, it sends 1 big packet with 1 header. Much more efficient, right?

Quote from SpwnX

The mod is about "control", so controlling its fuel and other components (coolant or vents) is also part of it :3

That also allows anyone to manage reactors without even knowing what they are doing, really.
"Find a good looking design, input materials, run it!"

If you still think its OP, making the reactor safe is already somewhat OP , because self management is not hard to do with GregTech.

It's not that difficult without GT too.. AE FTW!

Playing in my legit IC2_experimental 1.6.2 world (with a ton of mods, including LS), I figured out what things you don't want to do (bitter experience):
1. Don't click with Atomic Disassemblers ANYWHERE near your machinery. You'll cry a lot.
2. Don't use Atomic Disassemblers with charge > 32. You risk to loose your life (on >= 64 max damage = 24 = 12 hearts, on 32 - 12 - 6 hearts).
3. Watch your healthbar when using Atomic Disassemblers. ALWAYS.
4. Don't punch enemies with Atomic Disassemblers. Yes, it will kill mobs instantly, but at the same time it will drain 16 000 EU. After 8 or so hits, you will significantly lower your mobilepower and will need to run to your base AGAIN.
5. After dying more than 6 times, consider switching config option "atomicDisassemblersEnableDamage" off.

EDIT 2:
What the heck happened just now? WHHHAAAAAAAT?

Client> 2013-09-19 19:11:58 [INFO] [Minecraft-Client] [CHAT] Giving mak326428 1 of Electric Lighter
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] net.minecraft.util.ReportedException: Ticking player
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.network.NetworkListenThread.func_71747_b(NetworkListenThread.java:63)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.server.integrated.IntegratedServerListenThread.func_71747_b(IntegratedServerListenThread.java:109)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.func_71190_q(MinecraftServer.java:689)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.func_71217_p(MinecraftServer.java:585)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.server.integrated.IntegratedServer.func_71217_p(IntegratedServer.java:175)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:482)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.server.ThreadMinecraftServer.run(SourceFile:582)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] Caused by: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(Unknown Source)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at java.util.HashMap$EntryIterator.next(Unknown Source)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at java.util.HashMap$EntryIterator.next(Unknown Source)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at makmods.levelstorage.registry.FlightRegistry.tickEnd(FlightRegistry.java:77)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at cpw.mods.fml.common.SingleIntervalHandler.tickEnd(SingleIntervalHandler.java:34)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at cpw.mods.fml.common.FMLCommonHandler.tickEnd(FMLCommonHandler.java:141)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at cpw.mods.fml.common.FMLCommonHandler.onPlayerPostTick(FMLCommonHandler.java:389)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer.func_70071_h_(EntityPlayer.java:407)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayerMP.func_71127_g(EntityPlayerMP.java:319)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.network.NetServerHandler.func_72498_a(NetServerHandler.java:304)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.network.packet.Packet10Flying.func_73279_a(SourceFile:136)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.network.MemoryConnection.func_74428_b(MemoryConnection.java:89)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.network.NetServerHandler.func_72570_d(NetServerHandler.java:141)
Client> 2013-09-19 19:12:01 [INFO] [STDERR] 	at net.minecraft.network.NetworkListenThread.func_71747_b(NetworkListenThread.java:54)

That must be random.
If anybody has a guess what happened, tell me. Would really appreciate it.
I hereby officially declare: Electric Lighters and Flight Registry are not relative in any way, shape or form. Not in the slightest.
And why CME? Usually in Minecraft it happens when some fellow modder forgets to check for !FMLCommonHandler.instance().getEffectiveSide().isClient(), however I have a TickHandler there which is registered only on Server (simulating) side. And ticks() function returns EnumSet.of(TickType.SERVER). There is no way it can happen. Just no way. Only if in java, following some voodoo magic you can call 1 function in the same time (which is theoretically impossible without threads and even in later case it is highly improbable it can happen)

EDIT 3: i am adding breaking particles for Atomic Disassembler. After making one tunnel, it sends ONE (instead ~1000, which was planned initially) packet, but the problem is that packet's size is ~66 kilobytes). And that's really not that bad. I'll go with it.

I've been working for an hour on this faithful texture:

How do you like it?

Could anybody describe how exactly new UUM system works?
How do we get iridium? How do we craft stuff with UUM?

Known issue. The reason is incompatibility with Advanced Solar Panels. Go to config and turn option "addIridiumOreToIngot" off.

Quote from Kris

hm your mod level storage crash me mc

Like ChickenBones said:
Logs or it didn't happen.

Quote from JZTech101

Wait so it works with IC2_Exp? :DDDDD (I know that without a update it, IC2_Exp energynet will crash with Ic2_lf machines.)

Actually I've already uploaded some devbuilds for IC2_exp. List through pages of this thread.

EDIT: right here [Addon v1.118 for MC 1.6.2] LevelStorage v0.9 - Adding a ton of End-Game targets & Level-Up-ing max tier of IC2

Quote from JZTech101

Any ETA on an IC2_exp compatible update? I'm really desperately in need of Wireless Power Synchronizer.

The previous update has pretty much fixed WPS [i did some minimal testing with it, it behaved rather well]. My current problem is the following:
[IC2 API] injectEnergyUnits() ignores the return value.
If Player/any IC dev fixes it, i'll work hard and maybe during day or two fix all the other problems.

Quote from SpwnX

Boom.

Yes, and that was terrible. And shameful. And all the bees that Sentimel was working on during the whole day were close to Austere bees. And they all fell into the void. And Sentimel had direct access to filesystem of the server...

Basically, title says everything.
IC2 API's javadoc says that this function should return "Energy not consumed (leftover)".
I'm not sure if that's bug or feature.
Object lesson:

@Override
public double demandedEnergyUnits() {
    return 512;
}




@Override
public double injectEnergyUnits(ForgeDirection directionFrom, double amount) {
    return 500;
}

The results are that 512 EU/t freely enter the device, however ideally only 12 should be permitted to do so.

Quote from SpwnX

GregTech is the limit, with the awfully expensive but high return fusion reactors.
You should consider playing it again with the newest version.
Or even join kane hart's server where i am playing alongside some other forum users.

I'm always watching Kane (he makes some really good videos, maybe even close to dw-level) and like the server and all that, but GT is just not my style. I love watching people suffering from it (and especially liked that moment when Kane understood that generator now is crafted from Steel Machine Hull instead of Machine Block and shouted "Oh Greg!". I laughed so hard...).
I've played FTB (1.2.5 insanity) with Sentimel and... when we hit bees stage, i log onto the server and suddenly went close to Austere bees... Oh that was terrible... Don't ask me what happened there.