Posts by Alblaka

Quote from Mensrea

What really blows my mind is how a bunch of overworked, unpaid volunteer modders are basically fixing minecraft and making it a great game while the guy who makes millions of dollars off of it does virtually nothing (nothing good at least).

So much for the profit motive.

Long live the community!

That's what they call commercialism. Doesn't matter who works, it's the one grabbing the chair first, who wins.
Notch copyrighted Minecraft = Cash. Bill Gates copyrighted the most basic element of Windows = Ultimate Cash.

But hey, i got other projects i will later on try to make money of, with my own ideas :3 And if i got a fanbase of multiple thousand people following everything i create either way, that shouldn't hurt.

Quote from jfelten

I guess you could create a "magic paint bucket" that automatically topped off any painter in use regardless of color X times. I don't think players getting "free dye" will have much negative impact on the game. Perhaps crafted from 3 uu-matter in a V shape. That uu-matter is amazingly versatile stuff after all.

How about a backpack that produces infinite dye from stored UUM? :3

edit: waitwaiwait! Even better: Painting boots! They eat up UUM/energy, "power" painters (just like batpack > tools) and additionally PAINT FLOOR BELOW YOU if you're holding a painter equipped.
This could be the start of a new generation of Paint Wars :3

Quote from MJEvans

The only way I see this actually working is to assign every item possible an energy cost. Said energy cost would be based on the ingredients and permutations required to construct the item. For all of the normal minecraft and IC2 items this could be pre-calculated; I'd highly recommend adding buildcraft and RP2 items to the built in list too. For any other items it would have to work backwards through possible recipe paths until it hits known cost ingredients. The cheapest path should become the price.

Said price could be paid directly in energy (built in UUM creator that never exposes it) or in energy and UUM (works sort of like scrap does in the mass-fabricator; but reflects the high power of UUM) (also at higher speed here).

Ahem, if i write a recipe-reading code capable of calculating costs based on recipes, why don't i just use same one for the basic IC recipes as well? Redundancy much.
Wouldn't work, however, because any sort of refillable item would instantly cause a lockup.

Quote from darenton2k7

map corrupts when u mine cable still, with miner, was first thing i checked

While you're mentioning it, it's not on the changelog either, thus i assume it got lost somewhere, thanks for mentioning it.

edit: It's on the list, just wasn't in this release yet. gonna mark it in bold.

Jep, but that's up to him then. Needs some retweaking though, because defining any value but 100 has some quite negative effect on the CPU-usage of a Solar panel per tick (dunno how big that one will strike, though).

Now, with the next update it doesn't matter anymore. Recycling will be degraded to a fun randomness-thing or Mass-Fuel.
But you won't get enough valuable stuff to actually make it a serious productive business :O

Quote from MagusUnion

Update Madness indeed... I feel sorry for Jeb for having to work with the guy almost..

Another load of hooks? I'm guessing more cross-functionality or more ability to overlap features than previous?

More basehooks = More modification possibilitys that previously would have required basefle modification :3

Quote from killerbeez

-CF Sprayers can now be used to "fill up" Scaffolds by rightclicking them. The foam will EXCLUSIVELY fill the scaffoldblocks (will drop scaffold). Easier to use for building stuff.

Coolest change imo.

Jup, decided to implement that one after building a small foam-house.
Took me about 3 times longer then building it with basic material.

No 1.9 either way. We either stick with 1.8 or move to 1.0 if other mod developers do as well.

Eloraam and Player are quite happy about the upcoming "release", as they want to stuff in another load of hooks within MCForge without being afraid of another update frenzy.
I seriously doubt the title "release" will change anything about Notch's update-madness though.

SpaceToad claimed he would push a release asap >.>
And that was 3 days ago.

http://www.mediafire.com/?p5zhay0e21efm

Quote from HeadHunter67

Many people don't know that they can... and of those who do, some simply don't know how. I would have presumed that only certain people could update it, as I don't see any edit links on the page.

I think there's an assumption among Wiki veterans that everyone knows how to edit a wiki - that's not true. Many people who use it as a reference source have no idea what they are able to do, what they are permitted to do, or how to even go about it.

Definition of wiki is a library anyone can edit.

Don't call me a wiki veteran, i can't exactly write wiki syntax either. But i know it's possible :O

Links & log added, get moving :3

Note: ofc you don't need to test the performance notes, unless they were related to a critical CPU-eater previously.

This is ADLMDD Alblaka, requesting all Beta-Testing units on standby, copy that, over.

We have a new version inbound, all soldiers arm the fighting stations, get your consoles locked'n'loaded and polish the keyboards.

Operation "v1.3" will require a fully fledged testing assignment. I exspect 120% from everyone, the enemy musn't prevail.
Your secret tasks, codenamed "Changelog" will be assigned with this briefing, ensure to checkup every single of then to provide this operation with maximum debugging effectiveness.

Changelog:

-Reactors shouldn't redirect BC-Pipe input into invalid slots (causing stuff to be ejected right away) anymore 
-Same for Mass Fabricator
-Performance fixes for ElectricBlocks
-NPW crash fix for Reactor
-Overhaul of Scrapbox procentages, gl trying to farm diamonds
-Recyclers can recycle any material again
-Suddenly... HOES!
-Increased stability of the Enet.
-Tools now no longer use up remaining points of energy if the energy is to low to actually perform an action (mainly applyable for mining laser)
-Chainsaws and miners can harvest String from web.
-Breaking the Tip of a miner's mining pipe will now drop mining pipe and not the invalid tip-block.
-Fixed wrenches causing obscure drops upon apllying to cables.
-Increased SMP-network efficiency
-Fixed bugs causing nearby Quantumsuits to influence each other in SMP
-ElectricBlocks display now doesn't exceed the exspected values (since they actually CAN store slightly more energy then maximum displayed)
-Added fix for equipped pumpkin crashes
-Nuclear Reactors don't access diagonally adjavent chambers anymore (damn bugs)
-Teleporting costs are now slightly less influenced by range.
-PersonalSages will now give out text messages if you cannot access them, as well as being unwrenchable if there is still content within (to prevent accidental losses)
-Fixed rare "Unlimitd Battery" bug
-Theoretical support of lang-files for translations
-Optimized teleportation code in regard of server loading chunks
-Trade-O-Mat is now easier to use
-Solar Panels are now far less CPU-costly while determining sun visibility
-Solar Panels are now aware of weather influences
-Solar Panel recipe was changed to use Circuits insteadof Cables again
-Nuclear Reactors now provide 2x the energy
-Water Buckets are much less powerful cooling ingridents for reactors now
-HDs won't sit on their last point of damage forever anymore (making them craftable after cooling down, again)
-You don't take falldamage anymore if you have RubberBoots equipped and fall into a ladder
-Running Macerators give off smoke particles
-Compressors can now be combined with Pumps to create snow from infinite water sources.
-Watermill recipe now gives 2 Watermills (as it was actually intended in first place)
-Generators and GeoGenerators now consume fuel(and produce energy) x2 as fast
-Fuel was recalculated and should be actually a valid way of increasing energy gain
-Using saplings for crafting plantclumps gives 2 of them (to compensate for the amount of energy saplings can produce by burning
-You only need 1 plantclump for a fuel cell anymore
-Fixed Quantum Helmet recipe
-Added config toggle for CTRL or WW Quantum Speed
-Fixed Electrolyzer GUI
-Backpacks shouldn't be accounted as armor by minecrafts engine anymore (Do not absorb/take damage)
-Mining Laser got slightly rebalanced (will probably get a more intensive redo in future). Most modes use less energy now.
- CF Sprayers can now be used to "fill up" Scaffolds by rightclicking them. The foam will EXCLUSIVELY fill the scaffoldblocks (will drop scaffold). Easier to use for building stuff.
-You can now use Sand (rightclick) to instantly those pesky foam blocks who continously deny to harden.
-Painters now have 32 uses total (with no increase in dye costs).
-UUM Recipes for black/borwn dye and resin added.
-QunatumSuit Speedboost is now capped (still extremely fast, but cannot become faster then the speed at which the engine loads chunks)
-Mining Pipes don't suffocate anymore
-New config options to modify all generator outputs (either with direct numbers (EUt) or %)

New Stuff:
CF Backpack - As the name implys, carries loads of CF-pellets to make spraying easier. Requires a canner to be filled.

Your weapons can be found here:
http://player.to/ic2/dev/industrialcraft-2-client_1.30.jar
http://player.to/ic2/dev/industrialcraft-2-server_1.30.jar

You will require the casual ML/MLMP gear, take note: The new army uniform "MCForge" now comes in 1.1.3 format, go for it accordingly.

Over and Out.

PS: Ignore the military language, probably played too much ArmA II in the last few days.

Quote from Girlinhat

A large chest of stone at 12.5% scrap rate would turn 54 stacks of cobblestone into 6.75 stacks (432) of scrap. Through the conversion to glass and panes, you get 18 stacks (1,152) of scrap, over 2.5x returns.

I hate Glass Panes.

Quote from darenton2k7

alblaka that was a complete and utter quote fail

Gotta agree on that :3 Makes posts look amusing, doesn't it?

Quote from MJEvans

Wait, it counts every item instead of 'the stack' as one item? I haven't actually set this up.

There's also the fact that I can't seem to figure out how to 'side down the pole' in SMP. (Boots off == me fall and die. My pole /is/ abusing the space between it and RP2 tubes for my movement though... is open space outside the pole block required?)

If you're sitting in between two blocks, it may happen to only trigger the collision code of one of both, not sure about that. But it COULD cause you to fall like described

A full rubber suit was already meant to be coded, but i may turn it into this as well, not that much difference.

I'm not sure what exactly you try to express, but i assume you meant something like "Items can have 32k valus, why don't you combine color & damage information into that, f.e. 0-16 = Red, 17-32 = Blue, etc?"
Because that would screw up the damage bar :3

As well, the rubber tree growth code (from sapl > tree) is exactly the vanilla one.

I assume that was a nuke set to maximum :3