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This main post describes the latest 1.12.2 version.

For changes in the 1.13 / 1.14 read here: Link

Description:

Water Strainer adds the possibility to filter water for common resources.
A strainer catches general items (such as Sand, Gravel, Sticks, Clay, ...) while it's inside water.
They are breakable, but can be build out of different materials to increase their durability.
The idea is to get some common resources while you're busy with something else.
Water height/flow and biome type will influence the efficiency.

Durability, idle time, loot tables and more are customizable.
Water Strainer can also be used for skyblock maps.

How to start:

(1) Craft a strainer base.
(2) Craft any type of strainer.
(3) Place the strainer base inside a pool of water (the base needs water on top).
(4) Put your strainer into the base
The strainer will now filter the water for items. The list of items depends on the strainer type.
Items can be inserted and extracted from the bottom part of the Strainer Base.

Make sure to read about the Efficiency System (section below).

Strainer Types:

There are currently three different types of strainer:

Fisherman's Strainer: Collects all kinds of fish, junk and treasures (Requires Bait)

Survivalist's Strainer: Collects general items such as Stone, Sticks, Clay, Planks

Survivalist's Strainer (Dense): Collects general small-sized items such as Sand, Gravel, Dirt, Nuggets

Idle Time & Durability:

The Strainer Base will attempt to catch an item every 25-35 seconds (by default).

Depending on the efficiency (section below) the idle time will increase or decrease.

Catching an item will damage the Strainer and use up 1 durability.

A higher tier strainer does not have a higher chance to catch something, it will just last longer.

Better ones also receive additional bonuses like efficiency or enchantability.

Efficiency System:

Your strainer's efficiency is based on its placement and increases/decreases the idle time (if enabled).

You can craft an Efficiency Meter to measure the exact percentage. The strainer is currently influenced by:

Still water / flowing water:

Still water (a water source block) will give you no bonus.

Flowing water on the other hand is more efficient and will increase the efficiency by 10%.

Water height:

A lower water level means less efficiency.

If your Strainer Base is more than 1 block away from a water source block, the efficiency will drop by 3% for each block. Which means if your Strainer is at the very end of a water stream (8th block) it will lose 6*3% = 18% efficiency.

So make sure your strainer is as close to the water source as possible, but not directly on the source to benefit from the flowing water bonus.

Adjacent Strainer Bases:

Every Strainer Base in the adjacent 8 Blocks will lower the efficiency by 15%.

So if you plan to make a "farm" make sure to leave 1 block free between each Strainer Base.

Biomes:

If you build your Strainer Base in a specific biome the efficiency may differ.

The Strainer Base itself needs to be in that biome, not the water. Biomes that matter are:

+10% Bonus - (Deep) Ocean

+15% Bonus - Beach

+20% Bonus - River

Configurating the LootTable:

The loottable config is located at config/waterstrainer/waterstrainer_loottable.cfg

Syntax: strainer_name | CATEGORY | modid:item_name | metadata | quantity | rarity

- You can add multiple metadata by separating them with comma (Example: 0,1,2,3)

- Higher rarity = Increased dropchance

- All items in a category share the same dropchance

- If you need help finding the modid and itemname use advanced tooltips (Press F3+H in game)

- Use the category and item name BLANK to decrease the chance of every other item in the loottable

Examples:

1x Ender Pearl from Minecraft with a rarity of 10:

strainer_survivalist | PEARL | minecraft:ender_pearl | 0 | 1 | 10

5x Cheese from Pam's Harvestcraft with a rarity of 5:

strainer_survivalist | FOOD | harvestcraft:cheeseItem | 0 | 5 | 5

1x Manyullyn Ingot from Tinker's Construct [Meta 2 = Manyullyn Ingot] with a rarity of 1:
strainer_survivalist | INGOT | tconstruct:ingots | 2 | 1 | 1

2x one of all 16 possible wool colors from Minecraft with a rarity of 5:
strainer_survivalist | WOOL | minecraft:wool | 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 | 2 | 5

Automating & Compatibility:

The Strainer Base can easily be automated.

Attach any kind of hopper or item pipe to the bottom block of the Strainer Base to insert and extract items.

You can add any kind of items and blocks from other mods to the loottable - for example iron-or aluminum nuggets.

(Does only work if the item doesn't need any kind of NBT data).

Crafting:

Screenshots:

Download:

Changelog:

Modpack Policy:
You're allowed to put the mod into any modpack. You are not allowed to sell the mod or contents of the mod (like items).

Interesting. I am going to download this and take a look at it.

Quote from Torojimanext
- how can I switch on the fish?

What do you mean ?

Quote from Torojimanext
- if I break the thing, I'll only get the strainer on top, the base will be lost. Is this intentional?

Try breaking it with an axe.
I just uploaded a hotfix to correct the material issue.
You can now use the hand or other tools, but the axe is still more efficient.

You're using the wrong strainer type.

The Survivalist's strainer has 3 different types.

- Normal

- Tight

- Wide

The normal one catches the following items (by default):

- Sand

- Dirt

- Sticks

- Gravel

- Clay Balls

- Stone

- Planks

- Fish

- Gold Nuggets

The wide version will only catch bigger sized items from the same loottable. By default:

- Sticks

- Clay Balls

- Stone

- Planks

- Fish

The tight version will only catch smaller sized items from the same loottable. By default:

- Sand

- Dirt

- Gravel

- Gold Nuggets

So you're probably using the tight version. Make sure you use the normal one.

Just install a mod like JEI, hover over the items and hold shift to display the loot table and chances.

Oops, my bad.

I'll recompile it for MC 1.9.4. That one should be compatible with 1.10+

OK I uploaded a 1.9.4 version. It should be compatible with 1.10 so try that one.

Changelog: v1.0.1:

-> Added: Loottable entries can now have multiple metadata
-> Added: Added Raw Salmon, Clownfish and Pufferfish to the Raw Fish loottable entry

-> Fixed: Fixed the loottable config path on linux servers (The loottable is now in the config folder, instead of the root folder)
-> Fixed: Fixed duplicates in the loottable - You can no longer list an item twice
-> Fixed: Strainer Base name in the GUI is now localized

I'm really enjoying using this mod as part of my Survival setup. Straight-forward to use and easy to tweak in the config - I tried adding lily pads to the loot table. Thank you for your work!

Have you thought about making a similar item for use on dry land, that might be used as an animal trap or something?

Nothing like that is planned.

Do you mean trapping the animal itself or just collecting their loot ?

Either way, there are already some mods with animal traps out there.

I meant to just collect their loot and / or other miscellaneous items. There are other mods out there that do this, but I do prefer mods that add specific things rather than a ton of features that I don't want - unless there's one I've missed? It just seemed that your Strainer might be tweak-able to become some kind of land trap - perhaps just a config entry to toggle whether it needs water above the base? However, if you have no interest in such a thing I shall simply continue using your fine mod as is.

I mean you could always edit the loottable to generate mob loot and pretend it's an animal trap.

You can also place it on land it does only need 1 block of water above it.

Quote from Rubironi»

I mean you could always edit the loottable to generate mob loot and pretend it's an animal trap.

I'm doing exactly that right now funnily enough, and it's working beautifully! I shall use it like this and simply place a trapdoor above the water.

There's currently a bug which prevents you from adding items with a higher metadata than 15.

Will be fixed in the next update.

Install the mod and start minecraft once.

After that you can find a file named waterstrainer_loottables.cfg in your .minecraft/config folder.

There's a little explanation at the top of the file. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.

I like this mod..

What I really like about this mod Is the fact that the strainer is in the water block and not replacing it.

And on that note I have an idea for you would it be possible to make a mod that all the default fences gates doors etc etc actually have water flowing in their block and not a big whole in the water. I would love you if you could lol

Interesting mod.

Does it catch all the other fish types too, or just the normal fish?

It catches every vanilla fish by default.

The default strainer id's for the configuration file are:

• strainer_survivalist
• strainer_survivalist_tight
• strainer_survivalist_wide

Optional you can set individually loot tables for:

• strainer_survivalist_solid
• strainer_survivalist_reinforced
• strainer_survivalist_tight_solid
• strainer_survivalist_tight_reinforced
• strainer_survivalist_wide_solid
• strainer_survivalist_wide_reinforced

But you need to make sure to set miscShareLootTable to false in the main config.

A lava strainer is already in consideration. But it will be more expensive and will only work in the nether.

It will have a different Strainer Base and only one strainer type made out of blaze rods.