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Some suggestions:

paver or asphalt spreader and steam roller for building roads

salt truck or snow plow to clear snow (maybe pack snow layers into blocks ahead of the plow, then move the blocks ahead and pile them up as the plow pushes forward to form snow banks)

logging equipment (clamp to trunk, cut leaving stump, lift whole tree above cut point (you could use the MovingWorld API to handle moving the tree around), use another machine to strip off leaves and cut the trunk into manageable lengths, then load the trunk onto a flatbed truck and tie it down, sawmill cuts trunks into long runs of planks for rapid construction)

construction equipment (drill/post hole digger, pile driver, crane, cement mixer, ... construct large buildings quickly by lifting logs/beams into place)

hey techstack, I love your mod! it is perfect for construction, agriculture and mining in minecraft! I saw one of you videos on youtube of you showing the screener and the new machines in the mod.

you said that you may make a tower crane in the future and I think that is a great idea to do!

I want to help with texturing for this, the textures in it now are alright but need more detail... I read through the forum here i see you have multiple other "Maybes" for this so i don't know if you have this covered, either way ill try to produce something out of blender (cause that's where the model files are. even though I have never used blender before) . Minecraft mostly has simple textures so i was planning on something simple (but not as simple as they are right now)

Everything is in spoilers because of size and not everyone scrolling through wants to see all this

A great mod to go with this would change world generation to make ores form in veins. (I dont know if there is a 1.8 one yet but soon there will be if not). So that the machines can help you find the veins faster.

How I see it:

I'll Update this with updates on progress:

Textures

Let me know what you think and whether or not i should continue.

Parts will get moved to photo bucket, after full texture is complete. Will post Blend file and Pngs in this spoiler of complete textures

http://s356.photobucket.com/user/Wurank_Vashmilla/library/?sort=3&page=1 : for all unused textures

I'm currently attempting the Grey/ Unpainted Bulldozer;

Dozer Front Grate and Headlights

Dozer Core Texture

Maybe the texture could be different on components on the machinery. For example, the engine on the loader would be grey and the shock absorbers could be yellow like the real world. Also the fertilizer spreader on the current tractor could look like it is semi transparent like the real fertilizer drums in the real world and you could see the fertilizer inside the spreader.

@Bulldozerboy903 #77

"dyed so you can have a nice magenta tractor or red, green, blue and so on." (@Wurank_Vashmilla #76)

In other words you can dye it yellow if you want or any other colour. how ever some parts won't get paint applied to them and will stay gray or their base colour because you don't paint certain parts that would be bad (Such as the shock absorbing parts so they don't jam up or grind together, overall this wont affect it but if you don't want the first nasty part then don't paint it ). Depending on where it is.

I am not sure how to do semi transparent exactly right now, but i could figure it out. And seeing fertilizer in the spreader, how would we want that just bone meal inside it or some other way of seeing it (Liquid/Solid and all that stuff).

Or we could just have one colour but i feel customization of the colours is better cosmetically. I plan to make the not dyed ones more plan and dull (Many shades of gray) to make people more likely to paint their vehicle to yellow, or green or so. The reason behind this is not all tractors are green, and not all machines are yellow so why not just expand it to colours like magenta as well.

Edit: I looked and only some tanks are transparent, mainly the plastic one. Unless someone has a glass one... The metal ones however are not and the current recipe for the sprayer is metal, so ill leave it non-transparent. (Until or if the recipe is changed to plastic later transparency could be added).

Wurank_vashmilla, I like your idea. Not every bulldozer is yellow and not every tractor is green. You could add brand names into the texture like farming simulator but the names should be changed to have minecraft names. Here are some names, instead of John Deere, you could put jokey shear, new blockland instead of new holland, grassy brickerson instead of massy ferguson, and techex instead of terex. New blockland would be on the loader, tractor. The tractor with the new blockland livery would be red or blue., techex focuses on earthmovers. The excavator in the game should be white because terex excavators are white and their bulldozers are green. G.b or grassy brickerson would be on tractors too. J.s or jokey shear

would make bulldozers, excavators, combines, loaders and tractors. The agricultural machines j.s are green and the construction ones are yellow. You could also add random livery colours for all the machinery like the real life companies do.

For #80

Never thought of branding them but yea that sounds like a good idea

you don`t have to brand them though.

cool mod

WHOA! Minecraft just got real son.

mine craft did get real!

Are you still working on your mods?

yeah! there is no point in me putting any heavy equipment ideas here if tech stack isn`t working on this mod. please keep working on this mod and updating it techstack.

Quote from TechStack»

Hey guys sorry about not posting lately been crazy IRL with moving etc.. So I haven't had time to work on the mod lately.

Feel free to post ideas & I'll consider them when i return to a more normal life & have time for modding again.

Thanks for taking the time to respond to us, glad to know your still working on the mod!