Posts by Alblaka

Don't worry all too much, 1.6 is up and running [in closed section, that is]. We have some reported issue with a few items that need to be fixed though, i think people will hate me if i release a version with infunctional QuantumSuit.

If you got Addon's consisting exclusively of CropCards (and items/blocks related to these crops), consider publishing it here. Will provide more organization.
All rules for publishing Addon's regarding the generic Addon section fully apply.

As well, the CropCard-API is MEANT to provide the possibility of easyly adding new crops to base IC².
I'll frequently check this section and, if permission is given, gladly implement useful crops into IC² itself.

You ARE permitted to create multiple threads if you intend to create minor addons composing of a set of crops and their items. If you just create single plants, you should rather use one collective thread to provide download for all CropCards.

Be advised this sections is NOT meant for any sort of discussion, not discussion related to how to create CropCards or issues with CropCars, either! Discussion regarding the creation of any sort of Addon belongs into the Addon Discussion.

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I see, sounds good.

I wonder if forge could be used to make all saplings use one ID?

Theoretically forge could be ue to bash vanilla into ~40 IDs. But it would require way too much rewriting, would cripple all present saves and be a pain to port after each release.

Questions & Answers

Q: What are some of the more interesting effects or products that we can expect from high end crops?
Redstone, Gunpowder, eventually even a fractal of a diamond. Plants creating energy and applying it to adjacent storage blocks could be possible, but given this would mean 4 plants per block kinda makes it worthless again. Probably some crops affecting mob behavior, not entirely sure whether this will work out. In any case, you will get alternative access to all plant-based brewing ingridents. If i get into implementing some sort of industrialized brewing, new components will most likely come from crops.

Q: How many crops are available for discovery right now? (V 1.62)
16

Q: What exactly can FAP do ?
It can add 100 Nutrient points to any crops Nutrient-Storage, if the given storage is <= 100.

Q: Do you really have the coding ability to create everlasting effects or screen effects? :3
Sort off. there IS a confusion-potion in the vanilla engine (which causes the screen to warp around) and some other neat effects i can apply to players. And of course i could give these effects a REALLY long duration.

Q: Will there be a way to prevent weeds growing in empty crops?
No, but I intend to implement some sort of Unkraut-Ex, which will make your crops permanently immune (until replanted) against weed-influences, whilst having a chance to permanently reduce their resistance-value > Plant becomes more dependant on chemicals.

Q: Will nether wart be able to be farmed like other crops?
Yes.

Q: How (far) do plants chceck for air ?
All surrounding 8 tiles, as well as a "straight line to the sky".
It's using the vanilly skymap, thus everyone complaining about "omg each crop iterates to sky, eats cpu" will be shot.
Surrounding tiles must be non-opaque and not crops to be considered air.

Q: How does nutrient-storage affect plants and what can change their nutrient-storage value?
Nutrient-Storage can be filled by applying Fertilizer via hand or automatized (machine to come) means.
The higher the Nutrient-Storage, the higher the Nutrients Quality rating of the crop, required for more advanced plants, as well as generally increased crop growth.

Q: wjat is the air quality?
A value ranging from 0 to 10, indicating the quality of air and the space the plant got to grow.
Influenced by height, obscuration (other crops around the crop in question) and obscuration (to sky).
Influences growth rate and is important for growth requirements of more complex plants.

Q: Are there certain Growth, Gain, Resistance (GGR) minimum values required to cross-breed to the 16 "exotic" plants, or can we cross-breed default 1/1/1 GGR plants like crazy to get exotics, and then try to boost them to uber status through breeding?
Not every plant can be crossed into any other one, but starting with basic seeds and some patience, it's possible to reach any plant. GGR-values do not have any influence on crossing (except for the GGR-stats of the new plant).

Q: What effect does the "HowToHex" have on plants?
It adds 100 points to the Hydration-Storage of a crop. A single cell of HowToHex should last approx 100 uses.

Q: Is it possible to cross any two crops together or will some crops just not cross?
If the crosscrop fullfills the growth conditions for these 2 crops, yes.

Q: Is it possible to get any type of plant from any plant(s) crossbreeding...?
No. Some plants have too many differences to be bred from each other. As well, lower-tier plants have trouble breeding into anything above their-tier+1.
Except for those two points, most plants can breed into quite a lot other plants.

Q: Are there any plants that look like weed in the early stages? (except for wheat)
No, weed has an exclusive texture. Probably takes a close look, but it can always be distinguished from normal plants.

Q: Do plants grow differently in different biomes? And if so, does each species of plant have its own 'preferred' biome?
Yes, a few biomes affect the Nutrition and Hydration quality of crops. No, though this is possible, as of currently, no plant required a special biome.

Q: A question regarding the terraformer. Will we get a machine to improve the conditions for certain plants? Like increasing humidity or something or may the terraformer will get other impacts on aggriculture in the future?
A machine for automatized Hydration and Nutrition will be added. That's all there is, Terraformers will not have special effects, though they could be used to prepare the ground before starting the cropping.

Q: Can all plant be grown at height 64, or some more exotic plant like diamond will require to be below level 16?
Currently no plant has a special height limit in either direction, of course such a condition is easyly doable.

Q: Do hydration and nutrition decay over time, and if so, by how much and under what conditions (IE: only when something is planted on the crop)?
"Hydration" and "Nutrition" are statistic values recalculated every few seconds, basing on crop placement and different influence factors.
Hydration- and NutrionSTORAGE are a basic point value which increases by applying fertilizer/water, influences the both stats mentioned above and decreases over time if there is a crop planted.

Q: Does Growth affect weed growth in adjacent crops when attempting to crossbreed plants?
Yes, a high Growth stat grants "Weed"-Attributes to any sort of plant, causing them to spread Weed to nearby empty/different crops.
As well, Weed will upon creation inherit it's Growth stats from nearby plants and thus grow and spread faster if high-growth plants are nearby.
Take note, crops capable ofproducing Weed are immune against Weed by default.

Q: is there any way at all to actually create more of a cross-bred plant you created?
Either pick the plant after fully grown, for a chance to obtain 2+ Seedbags, or crossbreed the plant with itself (or a different plant) to spread it further.

Q: Does Resistance affect chances to spread weed or crossbreed at all?
I know it makes the plant more resistant to weeds, but for example: A reed with 31 growth and 1 resistance will cause weeds to spread like wildfire, but will a reed with 31 growth and 31 resistance stop this effect?
High resistance morely makes a crop immune to weed and trampling. As well, it grants a big bonus on recovering at least a single piece of seed when picking the plant.
On the downside, a extreme resistance value will reduce the speed the plants crossbreeds at.
Resistance does not effect a high-growth-plants weed-spreading.

Q: How does Gain work, just an increased chance/number of drops? Are there any negative effects to having a very high gain?
Gain does give a %-increase of the overall chance to drop (multiple) instances of items upon harvesting.
A extremely high gain value will reduce the chance to get multiple seeds upon picking a plant, though it does NOT affect the "basechance" to get at least a single seedbag.

Q: How does height affect air quality?
Hight ~ Air Quality
40% of the whole Air Quality rating is determined by height, thus planting in the upper dozen layers is always a good idea.

Q: Is hydration storage related to the 'wetness' of a farmland block (ie, how close it is to water?)
Nope, it's a seperate value, not influences by nearby water or farmland bock wetness (metadata).
Hydration-storage AND block wetness (and other factors) do create the "Hydration Quality" value for a crop, though.

Q: Does Radiation create mutant plants, that eat Mobs and Animals?
Unknown, given there is no radiation in minecraft, so far. Only explosion.

Does position and quantity of crops while breeding affect breeding in some way ?
Crossing exclusively affects directly adjacent blocks.
Crossing more plants gives a boost to the stats.
However, there's a randomized chance each few seconds for crossstick to try crossing nearby plants, applied to each plant individually.
Thus even with 4 adjacent plants there's a chance only 2 ill actually crossbreed.
However, more adjacent crops > higher chances to get good croops.

Q: What is the highest tier plant currently in the game?
Aurelia.

Q: Do certain crops require low hydration quality to meet their growth requirements?
Currently, no.

Q: Does this mean Directly adjacent, where it's only the ones touching a side, or are you including diagonals in this as well?
Directly adjacent does not include diagonals.

Q: How breeding works ?
Each crop has a set of stats (0-5) as well a undefined number of attributes (String).
Upon crossing, a tabula (representing all crops) will be calculated, based on stats and attributes matching, a tabula entry will be set to a value. This is done for each of the participating crops.
Each crop gives huge bonus points to it's own entry. As well, tier differences influence the value negatively (there are subtractions if the tier of the possible crop is >+1 or <-3 in relation to the current one).
After all entries are calculated, a random element of the list is picked, it's chance to be picked is based upon the value in the tabula. Higher value > higher chance.
In effect, crossing certain plants has a much higher chance to result in specific other plants, though usually there's a high chance to get whatever plant is directly participating in the breeding (f.e. crossing 2 plants usually has about 45% for each of the plants to be the result).

Basic idea: I'll answer one question each day, by copying the questioning post into the 2nd post of this, answer it and delete the original question post. The answer will use values from sourcecode and I won't keep stuff back. As well wil try to keep the QA updated, in case some code changes and causes an answer to be outdated.

However, there are some rules regarding the questions:
-One Question per post.
-You may not post twice in a row. You may not post twice within 10 minutes, either. (> prevents abusive combo-spamming)
-Questions such as "What's the source code?" "How does it work?" etc will be deleted without answer.
-Trivial questions as "Which color does Wheat have?" and things already answered will be deleted as well.

edit:
Since you managed to loose the game (missing out a day to ask a question), i'm, from that point, in no obligation to keep answering one question a day.
You're free to keep asking though, may I will answer somewhen.

This announcement is directed at those people who prefer decompiling the SourceCode to discover every mechanic instead of just experimenting around:
You're free to do so, but revealing any sort of information gained by decompiling source code in the forum, blog or MCF will lead to an instant ban in this forum.
I will reveal background information of the mechanics over time (namely in the Q&A Thread), if you just drop in "x takes 56 ticks to do y" it eliminates the whole fun of the concept.
As well, please do not instantly put "Best design for crop x" templates everywhere, basing on information you found in the code.

I honestly hope people will hold back and instead mess around with the randomness of IC-Agriculture for their own fun :3

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The next version should be fully compatible with block ID extenders. I tested using Robinton's 4096BlockIDs but should work with any extender.

Originally it was intended to be this way, but i couldn't manage to tell MC to stop taking items out of the slot.
There ware major bugs, and replacing the stack in the slot with another one hold on mouse ALWAYS worked, regardless the code settings.

Thus instead the 2 slots aren't visible and instead a toString of the itemstack is (meant to be) displayed. Doesn't work all that well, though.

BlockMetal is a compound of all Metal Storage blocks (Tin, Copper, Bronze, Uran). Requested by community, done.
BlockRubWood cant be out-Id'd i don't have any other wood-type opaque block.
The ores CAN be unified... but it would break peoples saves, thus we're saving up on this one.

Will need to test stuff in that regard then. Last time we checked it it worked entirely fine.

OD Scanner rates the density of ore. This is the ratio between valuable and invaluable block.
I assume below the bedrock was an ore deposit.. the closer you went, thehigher the number got, given there was less smoothstone below you, compared to the ore still present.

Either you messed up installation by extracting the jar file or you grabbed a corrupted download.
Try redownloading the file and make sure you do NOT extract the jar, it's meant to go into the mod folder as whole.

Ow, before people start spamming this on servers:
This setup is VASTLY more CPU expensive then any other mean with equal energy generation. Don't kill your server by building hundreds of these contraptions please, killerbeez will either kill me or bug me to mod something against that.

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WHY????

Blow up a Personal safe .

Would be great if you could actually... now.. uhm.. ACHIEVE the achievement.

FYI, personal safes are indestructible.

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Isn't this something that could be done in a similar way to the pumpkin helmet? The means are already in the game, it's just a matter of finding the way to tie the recipe and item to that same effect.

Yes, pumpkin overlay is included as static hook in the basefile. Doesn't change much about the issue we cannot use the same hook, because it's an eclusive (if pumpkin then display overlay) thingy. With some creativity i could probably create an helmet inheriting the pumpkin class and messing and blahr and get something displaying the pumpkin overlay as well. Still not a nightvision, though.

I disagree with your value for wind energy. my 16er Farm delivers 38 EUt averagely :3

I'm fine with the idea of scrapping providing 2 EUt... Of course it's more then most infinite gens, but it's vastly more complex and justifys the gain.
Ntm hardcore solarist will claim you can place 20+ Solar panels in the space that contraption uses :3

Repair is disabled for most items in the current dev version. Same with a fix for the CFPack crafting issue. Await the next release :3

That's the deal with the chestpiece :3 Quantum armor does "only" make you near invulnerable...
If you give people one super-armor, it does make ANYTHING else obsolete and EVERYONE will EXCLUSIVELY use this super-armor, because it does everything.
Some may like the idea of being godlike with super.-everything-unlimited armor, but that's what Creative Mode is for, imho.

Quick guide on stuff you should never do on SMP, given it usually gets you banned:
-"Griefing" : Stealing or just removing blocks from someones building/house. Laying fire to forests or spamming TNT across the countryside is usually considered griefing, too.
-Killing other players, of course this doesnt apply on PvP, by any means. Most servers have direct damage disabled (you cant punch them), but placing lava inside of them isnt fun.
-Stealing ressources, from chests or drops of dead players.
-Begging for ressources/food all over the time
-Using other peoples Energy-Networks (IC only)
-Placing terraformers causing malforming of nearby buildings and stuff (IC only)

In question, always ask someone first, at best an admin or op (op = Operator, kinda like a Moderator, elected by server owners).

1. Sourcecode requests are meant to run via PM.
2. You can decompile IC²'s code via MCP.
3. Better then Quantum? You should just use Creative mode :O