Posts by Geo Terra

  • Minecraft spawn machanics

    Quote from SpwnX

    I think it is because mobs need a player around to spawn.
    There might be chunkloaders with fakeplayer but i'm not sure.

    Pretty much, I believe mobs will only spawn in player/fakeplayer-loaded chunks, there used to be a distance-from-player limiter that defines a "safe" area around the player that mobs could not directly spawn in.


    Also, I'm pretty sure that there are a few chunkloader mods that use fakeplayer, but last I heard, there was a bug with it that either rendered it useless or caused a crash. The Forge devs have probably fixed it since, but do be careful.

  • Don't expect mods for 1.7 for a long time, says cpw

    Quote from SpwnX

    The addition of enderdragon turned MC into a RPG with an objective, although you can still keep the sandbox style after you defeat it.

    Not in the strictest sense SpwnX. You don't HAVE to go and defeat the Enderdragon, it's just something ~99% of Minecrafters do. I, personally, have decided to try to avoid the End just to make obtaining Ender Pearls harder for me.

  • Experimental Build 259

    Quote from TuxedoSteve

    Trust me, I am fully aware of that. :P

    Well... That's if you use the vanilla Minecraft enchanting system. I don't know if you're already aware of this, but there is a mod called "Enchanting Plus" that adds an upgraded version of the vanilla table (the author grew tired of overriding the vanilla one) that will allow you to actually flat out choose what enchantment you want for a tool that is eligible for it (fe. Efficiency on a pickaxe). I've been using it for a while now and I adore it as I grew tired of the vanilla system.


    Link: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1528282-

  • [Addon][1.6.2+] Unidye - Get more awesome for your IC²!

    Quote from LinusPhoenix

    Released Version 1.1.3. 1.6.2 Version is now compatible upwards to the 1.6.4 version too, no need for a fix.


    Changed the Unidye Recipes so it is not possible to get Dyes you don't have yet, changed recipes to use the OreDict, removed exploits, removed options to toggle the exploits back on again.
    I am afraid the youtube mod spotlight is already out of date (damn my random motivational and productive boost), will provide my own soon (or Geo Terra might forgive me and do another one, sorry)

    *sigh* I'll forgive you Linus only because I'm a really good-natured guy and making that video was good exercise for me. I'll make a new one either later today (no guarantees as it's Canadian Thanksgiving today) or tomorrow. Also, this'll be a good opportunity to figure out how to use Linux to record videos for when I start my LP when Mystcraft updates for 1.6.4 (I switched from Winblows as it was getting to me and Linux (Xubuntu) is a much better mod dev environment than Windows)
    And yes, UniDye WILL be installed for my LP, I frigging love this mod.

  • [Addon][1.6.2+] Unidye - Get more awesome for your IC²!

    Quote from LinusPhoenix

    I am genuinely confused. That's all I can say. In my developer environment (for 1.6.2 as well as my new one for 1.6.4, they include IC², CCC and NEI), using my 1.6.2 release, I cannot recreate the error, everything starts up normally, etc. But once I put them into an actual minecraft installation, this weird error shows up, calling me out on using a method that does not exist, something to do with ItemHoe.. Which has nothing to do with the constructor of ItemWoolPart nor setting its unlocalizedName. Just...what? I really have no idea how this could even be remotely related. If someone is less confused than me, here's the source code:
    Unidye
    ItemWoolPart



    Regarding the exploits: Like I said, these were not really in my mind since you don't really use them too often, at least in the modpacks I play, I will take the exploits out then. Another thing I would be really interested in are your opinions on balancing my mod. On my GregTech Survival World, I gathered some sheep early and used the wool in the generator instead of coal (those went into Coke Ovens) or Wood/Charcoal, which I thought was pretty handy..maybe a little too handy? But that's just GregTech, in normal IC² I doubt wool farming would be a viable early game energy generation.

    What's the version of Forge in your workspace? I can't find anything wrong with the code myself by reading through it, so I'm thinking something MIGHT be derped inside Forge itself.


    With the exploits: I'm sorry to say, but it's kind of goes without saying, you would have to eventually take into account, when making a mod, the users eventually WILL find an exploit using the tools (Read: mods) at their disposal, for balance's sake; I actually find it kind of fun sniping loopholes in my own code.

  • (sry if posted in wrong place) ic2 crashing at mojang screen :(

    Quote from monkeybee11

    slowpoke said in the stream that forgecraft3 is for public releaced mods so extrabee shoud be in 1.6.4 S: but the websight is down

    Yeah, the EB/ET site is down, fortunately for you I remembered a link posted in the MCF thread for Extra Bees, here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/…e__st__2480#entry24751136


    It is a dev version though, so it SHOULD work, but bee (see what I did there?) careful. (To be honest I can't remember if it works in 1.6.4, but it's worth a shot)

  • [Addon][1.6.2+] Unidye - Get more awesome for your IC²!

    The previous night (Oct 9) as I was setting up to do a spotlight on this mod, I dropped IC2 and this mod into the mods folder, launched Minecraft with the instance I had created for it and it crashed before I got to the menu screen.


    EDIT: Odd thing is, it only crashes with Unidye being the only other mod in the mods folder outside of CodeChickenCore, NEI, and IC2. Otherwise, it works fine. While you take care of things on your end, I'll quickly update my Forge install, see if something broke there.


    Update: Okay, I quickly installed build 1.6.4-9.11.1.923 and it's a no-go, still crashes with the same error report.

  • [Addon][1.6.2+] Unidye - Get more awesome for your IC²!

    Quote from TuxedoSteve


    1.If you fully read the OP it gives an example that 8 green wool gives 1 green mesh, which gives 1 cactus green when extracted.
    2.Yes, that would be an almost identical exploit to the blue wool-lapis one, so that brings me to this suggestion.


    Suggestion: Add a white dye, like the blue dye, as to prevent bone meal exploiting.

    Not to argue, but I did read it, but my interpretation of the pictures threw me off. It's all good now though.

  • [Addon][1.6.2+] Unidye - Get more awesome for your IC²!

    Huh, this is probably one of the "better" IC2 add-ons that I've seen. I've been trying to figure out a way to comfortably farm wool and being able to convert the wool to wool meshes and then turn that directly into dye or take an extra step to get slightly more dyes, is brilliant!


    A couple of questions though:
    1) Does extracting the Wool Mesh return one or eight dyes of that colour? (I ask as I'm looking at the screenshots that you've provided and the one of the Extractor with 7 meshes in the input and eight orange dyes in the output and its confusing me a bit)
    2) Wouldn't this be considered an exploit to obtain bone meal?

  • IC2Ex - Canning Machine and Nuclear Fuels.

    Quote from TuxedoSteve

    I'm pretty sure he meant pellets as in "Pellets of RTG Fuel".

    Just to clarify for anyone who gets confused by this conversation:

    • The equation controlling the RTGen is 2^(# of RTG Fuel ITEMS (red canisters)-1) EU/t
    • As of the current version (2.0.239-Experimental), crafting these RTG Fuel items requires 3 "chunks" of Plutonium per; so to obtain the full 16EU/t, you require 5 RTG Fuel which would result in a cost of 15 Plutonium and 30 iron ingots


    And now a question from myself, according to Omicron above, it's possible to convert my U-238 (Breeding Uranium) to Plutonium by roughly halving my initial Plutonium stock obtained by processing the U-235 into Depleted Uranium and turning that half into MOX Fuel which can be used in conjunction with my U-238 to produce even more plutonium, is that correct?

  • IC2 Expermental Feature Discussion

    Quote from TuxedoSteve

    You need to use 3 small piles of U235, and 6 U238 to make 1 enriched uranium nuclear fuel which you run through the canning machine with a fuel rod. Although it seems like it uses a lot of U238 you will actually have some let over even if you have used all of your U235 possible. which can then be used for MOX cells, as well as the U238 you get from centrifuging the depleted uranium cells.

    Thanks man.

  • IC2 Expermental Feature Discussion

    Just to clarify, to process uranium, the process is:
    Ore -> Macerator -> Ore Washer -> Thermal Centrifuge which results in U-235 and U-238, which one needs to be put through the Canning Machine to create the fuel rods? I'm betting 235 is the one I want.


    I would test it myself but I'm not at my main machine.