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Released BTWTweak v0.9a! Even more fixes.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/798m8666w6283v6/BTWTweak_0-9a.jar

What's new in v0.9a:

- Fix vanilla issue (MC-12964) with chunk coordinates using
a bad hash function

- Fix vanilla issue (MC-92) with wrong lighting of partial
blocks when enclosed from top and sides with solid blocks

- Fix vanilla issue (MC-486) with zombies and skeletons not
burning on slabs when exposed to sun

- Fix vanilla issue (MC-3631) with creeper model appearing
floating

- Fix vanilla issue (MC-4855) with mob spawner spawn area
not being centered on the spawner

- Add ability to turn off gravestones by setting
gpeBlockGravestoneID to zero in BTWTweak.cfg

- Add hotbar cycling configuration, now adaptive by default

- If Deco Add-On v1.2 is found in the minecraft.jar, it
will be fixed and working with the latest BTW version!

Released BTWTweak v0.9b! Now with slings and return of the renaming ability.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/tqwdyyy612bp3cj/BTWTweak_0-9b.jar

What's new in v0.9b:

- Added a whole bunch of items to regain renaming feature:
Ink and Quill, crafted with glass bottle, feather and ink sac;
Writing Table, crafted with paper and planks;
Name Tags, created on the new Writing Table when there's
no item to rename. Those tags can be used to name entities.
Written Book recipe is also changed to require Ink and Quill.
Writing Table requires Ink and Quill, Paper and 1 experience level.

- Made Minecraft display BTW icon in the window title

- Fixed vanilla issue (MC-190) with misaligned textures facing
East and North on partial blocks

- Made wooden and stone pickaxes not break instantly when attacking
mobs; coincidentally, this also raises their normal uses to 2 and 7
respectively, which helps balance against random and reduced
output from breaking stone (in terms of cobblestone blocks)

- New sling weapon is now required to throw rocks. It is crafted with
a piece of cut tanned leather and two ropes on sides.

- Thrown rocks now inflict variable damage according to their velocity.
This makes slings more or less viable alternative to bows, albeit
at the price of exhaustion and leather.

- Rocks are now stackable to 64

I'm having my first playthrough with Hardcore Villagers. While not making solid conclusions, I like it so far.

Haven't tried to rush for a village right at the start and found it only when it became a progress blocker.

Structures being looted and abandoned inside Hardcore Spawn radius is up to interpretation, but the feature iself is self-consistent.
Changing the way villages generate would mean breaking that consistency, as well as creating many loose ends in gameplay that need to be solved.
I don't feel just putting the loot in chests and curing zombie villagers will be enough.
We need more stuff to explore, not less.

It is a major feature of the gameplay, that while you can build anywhere, you have to take surroundings in account. Make roads to valuable places.
If you feel discouraged in having to find a village from the beginning, then don't. Settle without.
Sometimes it's good to have a flexible strategy rather than configuring the game to your liking. =)

I don't usually store milk, but a chest of milk buckets seems good enough. Making milk more of a "real liquid" storeable in barrels raises many problems for little gain, so not worth it.

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I found your BTWTweaks a few days ago, I think you're doing great job with it. What do you think about tweaking Hardcore Buckets so it is possible to move water again, but in a restricted way? I suggested this solution on BTW forum some time ago - making buckets able to carry water, but create source block ONLY if another water source is neighboring in horizontal level. This way it would be possible to widen lakes and rivers, but not bring water up or down wherever one wants. It looks like ideal solution to me, but FC of course replied that it does not fit his idea of BTW... What do you think and is it doable?

Glad you're enjoying the mod mod!

Spreading water source in unlimited way on horizontal level sounds a bit too powerful. Which problem would that be aimed to solve? Keep in mind that you already can widen pools of water up to rectangular shape.

Quote from valiantus»

There is no problem to solve, current BTW design is ok from that point. However, a player in BTW is limited if it comes to water architecture he can do. You can not create water channels, connect rivers and seas and do similar things. I never understood what is so wrong with being able to spread water in BTW world, the original reason why FC introduced hardcore buckets was that they were too powerful in caves, it was enough to carry one bucket with you all the time, to be safe from lava falls, and, worse, one bucket of lava was a very powerful weapon. And both could be used over and over.

FC decided to remove placing water/lava source blocks completely, and as a ricochet a whole water building dimension of the game was lost. Enabling water buckets again in a limited way as I presented, would bring back this part of the game, while not interfering with FC's intention of limiting their power in exploring caves and placing water source block to ANY place in the world.

I hope I presented my point of view in a clear way. I will not insist anymore on it if you don't like the idea - thanks for taking it into consideration anyway.

I am all for implementing interesting and useful and fun ideas. The problem with this one is that it can severely devalue the pumps. Not being able to spread the water like you expect is a deeper limitation of Minecraft engine, where liquids are represented in quite abstract simple kind-of believeable way. Placing water source with a bucket was rather an exploit allowing to overcome that abstraction, and it's not the right way to turn the exploit half-way back on to somehow fix that, need to work on the abstraction. The buckets themselves don't have to do anything at all with this.
And then there comes another question, does that solve some problem? No, it creates a bunch. So I can't just go ahead and do it ingoring the loose ends it creates.
There is "Finite Water" mod that attempts to solve this problem, and I believe TerraFirmaCraft does something similar to that.

I could for example change the water source spreading logic: I could make it so water spreads in front of three source blocks. Like so:


If this is added to current corner-spreading, that still is open to exploits, like turning small water pools huge, even from desert wells. If this replaces the corner-spreading, then there's just not much distance you can spread the water, in fact it will be just current spreading rule turned 45 degrees.
If you can think of a non-exploitable way that keeps value of present mechanics without reimplementing the whole "finite water" concept I'd be glad to hear it.

Is it compatible with the small "b" version fix that was released?

Can you add localization possibility?

It should be compatible with any version of BTW from 4.8911 to the latest, which is "4.99999A0Fb Marsupial!?!?" at the moment.



Oh yes, BTW doesn't bother with localization, hardcoding many names in English. It is a good idea to change them to translateable strings. I've been planning to translate everything to Russian, eventually.

I'm really having trouble installing with the latest version of BTW "4.99999A0Fb Marsupial!?!?" and BTWTweak v0.9b.

When I try to run your java file against the "minecraft.jar" it just crashes immediately. I can play BTW with the minecraft.jar to which I'm trying to apply your patch.

Oh, are you using Java 8 by chance? It changed scripting engine, and the patcher is not compatible with it yet.

You can use Java 7 to patch and then play on Java 8 for now.

Edit: re-released BTWTweak v0.9b with the new patcher, that removes the limitation of running under Java 6 or 7.
Download by the same link!

Thank you! It worked! I am running Java 8.

Are you working on something new?

There's a bunch of things I'd like to do, here's a rough estimate:

http://grompe.org.ru/temp/btw_roadmap.txt

http://grompe.org.ru/temp/btw_ideas.txt

Although currently I'm taking a break from programming.

What does the patcher say for "current directory"? Is that the directory with minecraft.jar?

You can try making some temporary place and put minecraft.jar and BTWTweak.jar there and try again.

Odd that current directory isn't set properly. Will take notes for the next update.

You can do this, then: open notepad and paste:

@echo off
java -cp BTWTweak_0-9b.jar BTWTweaker minecraft.jar >_log.txt

save as tweak.bat, place it together with minecraft.jar and BTWTweak.jar and run the tweak.bat.

I'm not sure I want to redistribute Deco add-on files, but you are free to patch BTW + Deco v1.2 add-on with BTWTweak, and then take the patched files

Ginger.class
Ginger$FCItemDye_ColorPlus.class
Ginger$Util.class

back from it that make Deco work again. It was just a fun experiment to make it work, I prefer to play without it as it stands now.