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I tried to make a huge village once. I couldn't sit on top of a mountain and look down upon my minions. They stopped moving if I got too far away. They all wanted to live in the same house. I fought the game mechanics for a while, and they won. So I changed them.

This is the result.

Render distance before & after:


Mob crowding before & after:


Village before and after:

Cave Villagers:

In for the night:

In love, awww:

Villagers on roofs:

Features
- SMP/LAN compatible.
- Highly configurable - be sure to check Revamp.cfg.
- Mobs are visible when you're far away, will still be active at farther distances, and will wander more often. (Is more CPU intensive.)
- Mobs won't stare at you when you are invisible.
- Can apply name tags and leads to adult villagers, or tempt them with an emerald.
- Villager path-finding range increased from 16 to 40. Zombie path-finding range REDUCED to 3/4 of the villager path-finding range (so down from 40 to 30 by default). This was primarily to fix the performance problems that occur near villages at night (with or without the mod!).
- Villagers don't derp around as much at night, the new long-distance pathfinding code gets applied to them so they can better escape the zombies. (NOTE! Can be memory-intensive!)
- Villagers won't open doors for zombies, and can "hear" them (no line-of-sight needed) -- survive those zombie sieges!
- Villagers can climb ladders! Mostly. They climb with their arms crossed, so they're pretty clumsy. You can help them, though! See tips section below.
- Villagers make better use of the doors around them and spread out around the village. They will try to return to the same house night-after-night (assuming no zombies start chasing them..) With a pre-existing village, this may take a few in-game days or require you to manually move villagers to abandoned parts of town.
- Villagers take advantage of bigger houses and spread around inside instead of clustering near the door.
- Villagers are better at finding new doors and ignore those they can't actually get to.
- Villagers require light to stay in a house.
- Villagers can establish homes underground. If you have a door that cannot see the sky for the 5 blocks on either side, and has a roof of 6 solid blocks, this counts as an underground house. At night, the testificates will move toward the side of the door with the most light (using the same 5 blocks in front and behind the door). Breeding and everything else works just like a regular village.
- Villagers can have twins.
- Villagers in non-raining biomes (eg, desert) will not move indoors when it rains during the day.
- Doors-per-villager setting. No more tacky doors everywhere!
- Villager-per-Iron Golem setting. Every villager can have a personal body guard! (Requires 21 doors for first golem to spawn.)


Thanks Garrett for the mod showcase!

Installation:
- Requires Forge
- Put Revamp.jar into your mods folder
- Tweak .minecraft/config/Revamp.cfg as desired

You may include Revamp in your modpack without explicit permission. Dropping me a note to let me know you're doing so is appreciated, though.

Current Download:

version 1.7.10

Old Downloads:

Tips for ladders & trapdoors:
- Villagers can get stuck on ladders if the hinge of a trapdoor is on the same side as the ladder. Putting the hinge opposite the ladder works best. If you find one that keeps getting stuck, try changing the orientation, or just ditch the trapdoor.
- Be sure the ladder at the top is surrounded on the 3 adjacent sides or they're likely to jump down instead.
- They need to exit the ladder in the same direction they climbed onto it. This breaks default houses with ladders, but can be fixed by removing the fence adjacent to the ladder.
- Doors immediately adjacent to ladders tend to go a bit crazy as the villager comes near. You can avoid this if you put the door one space away.
- Villagers will jump down 3 blocks - so be sure your rooftop decks are safe or are high enough from the ground. They will jump down, even if zombies are around (for now).
- They will not use trapdoors that are placed on the top of blocks, only ones placed at the bottom.

Compatibility:
- View and tracking distances will apply to most mods that add creatures.
- MCA, Millenaire: Fully compatible, but AI routines (climbing ladders, door selection) will not be applied to the mods' villagers. I do not think you can create an MCA village undergound, but someone should try.
- Village-up: Compatible with Forge version.
- Defensive Villagers: Partially compatible. Must set B:useCustomBreeding to false in Revamp.cfg. This also disables the villagers-per-door setting.

Plans:
- Pin villagers to beds
- Revisit door linking for cleaner code, more accuracy, and better performance
- Make villagers "roof" and "basement" aware and have them seek shelter from zombies there instead of just inside the house to help with Hard-mode zombies)
- Make iron golems smarter
- Nether/End villagers?

Known Issues:
- Sometimes villagers stay out longer at night until they get to their door. If you find your villagers running around a lot at night, check the light level in your houses or reduce the minimumHomeLight value in Revamp.cfg.
- Cave villagers being chased by a lot of zombies will lead to a lot of lag! I think this is exacerbated by the general performance issues in 1.6.2.
- Villagers yo-yo on ladders, like spiders do on walls.
- The opening of the trapdoors needs some work, they get stuck a little too much.
- Cannot disable villagersUseLadders without also disabling avoidZombies.

Change Log:

Special Thanks:
- My wife, for her infinite patience while I work on this.
- aspade01, SVGK, SirTulip - great suggestions!
- valakas46, providing a test world.
- WildBamaBoy (author of MCA), providing code.
- chicken_bones, AtomicStryker, denoflions for providing open source code for their excellent mods.
- trunkz for his Villager Info mod and IronMagus for his excellent post on villager mechanics.
- Numerous other posters across the forums who posted the tidbits I pieced together in making this.


Legalese:

Quote from Penguino»

I think im getting a crash from this mod when moving to and from the nether. All my crash reports are pointing to this mod. Is it an incompatability or something? In the mean time ill need to remove this from my modpack until i can get an answer as to what could be going on here. Thanks.

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=sxY0hLrS

What version of Forge? Any mods that add Nether mobs? Full log could be useful.

Quote from 64M3_4DD1C7»

Too bad this mod is dead.

Not dead.. Just in a coma..

Quote from susanneisdead»

why wont mca villagers climg ladders though?

MCA Villagers have their own path finding, I only replace vanilla path finding.

*sheepishly pokes head around the corner*

Revamp 1.3.1 is out!
- Fixed iron golem spawning bug

- Fixed villager swimming bug

*runs away*

Quote from BlocklockCity»

Dang, I was hoping it wasn't a conflict. I'll go through them too and see if I can find the problem mod.

EDIT: Loading a new world with a villager in it with no other mods loaded throws the same crash. Resetting the config fixed it.

Quote from SVGK

why do they need to differentiate using roof thickness?, i thought they decided based off of if there was sky light on either side.... unless that would cause problems with other AI somehow....

also, i have a couple of suggestions, about the iron golems needing 21 doors, how could it be that hard?, i'm certain the code is in either the village code, iron golem code, iron golem spawning code or the door code, really could only be one of those.

the other suggestion is that they should only make their derpy sounds while they are within 2 blocks of you and they are looking at you (you will still hear the sound sfrom 16 blocks away, but they won't make the sounds unless you are being looked at by them), trading with you or chatting with another villager, or being hurt, i suggested this mostly because it's silly how these semi-intelligent guys talk to themselves all day long.

Quote from lolmon12

Can I use this in my Modpack?

Quote from beckyh2112

This works with 1.6.4, right? I don't see any reason why it shouldn't, but just want to be sure before I go about upgrading.

Quote from SVGK

i have an idea, how about you make it so that each zombie villager has a separate skin, and that villagers "remember" what profession they were before being infected?, the naturally spawned zombie villagers would be randomized and the villagers that are infected will not despawn.

they need not remember their trades really, and each zombie villager type would have a different skin, for instance, a priest zombie will always turn into a priest, and a librarian will always become a librarian zombie.

and i have an idea that you may like, perhaps when you open a door at night and go in the house, leaving the door open behind you, the villagers will go up and close it?, and i have i question, there is a mod called "The Twilight Forest", it has a feature where it's always twilight, do you know how villagers behave here?, i ask because here you can sleep in beds, and they do work, so i don't know what they do.

and why do ceilings need to be 6 blocks thick?, i don't see why they can't even be just one block thick.

Quote from AUS_Doug

This looks brilliant, as soon as Optifine and Forge are playing nicely again this will be my first download.
A question: Will this affect the AI of villagers already in the world? Or will I have to spawn more?

Cheers,
AUS_Doug.

Quote from Waffeleisen666

But they don't breed anymore/more than before? I have 140 Houses (looked it up with "Village Info") but only 45/49 villager. I thought, that the 49 would stay because village info doesn't know that I have a mod with 1 villager per door installed, but the amount on the left side should rise? Waited one night and still - No villager/door :-(
Some of them enter the "mate mode" but then, they move very slow and never mate with another villager.

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Overview

EnderStorage is a mod that offers a means to store your items in The END, causing them to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. All EnderStorage makes use of the magic of colors to link storage with its little piece of The END. Any EnderStorage with the same color code share inventory (even across dimensions). Currently there are two types of storage, EnderChest and EnderPouch.

EnderChests are a stationary type of EnderStorage. You can use dye on the wool pads on top of the chest to alter its color code. As an alternative, you can craft an EnderChest with three dyes to change the color code as well. EnderChests work as any other chest for the purposes of blocks that manipulate chests contents. This makes EnderChests an ideal way to transport items over vast distances in an instant.

EnderPouches are a mobile type of EnderStorage. You can use an EnderPouch on any EnderChest to change the pouch color code to match that of the chest. EnderPouches access the same inventory as their EnderChest counterparts, allowing easy access to your base resources right from your inventory.

As of 1.2, Using a diamond on the latch of an Ender Chest will move it to a seperate network for the player that used the diamond. This allows each player to have acceess to all 4096 frequencies without conflicting in SMP.

Screenshots

Videos

Mod Spotlight by Direwolf20
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Overview

In its simplest this is a mod that allows you to transmit your redstone state wirelessly. Even if you dont use redstone this mod could still be for you. Found an awesome landscape you'd like to mark, a cool cave to explore, or keep losing your way from base to base? Ever wished that compass pointed somewhere else or there was a way to mark things on a map. Well now there is. With the wireless addons component of this mod you can use wireless signals for navigation.

The signals are synchronised in a dimension called the Redstone Ether or REther. This dimension has no physical form and purely stores signals. It can be accessed by combining the Interdimensional properties of Obsidian, Glowstone and EnderPearls from the OverWorld, Nether and Ender with redstone to enter the RedstoneEther. There are 5000 different frequencies storing independent state, name and colour. Due to the dimensional nature of the REther signals sent in the nether will translate into the OverWorld and vice versa.

Differences from the original mod

Now you're probably thinking, I've seen a mod like this before. What makes this one so much better? For a detailed explanation read on. A simple list is below.

Changes:

• Advanced GUI
• Triangulator vector based
• No GUI to use remote just hold right click. Remotes also set frequencies
• Fancier block models integrated with RedPower Logic
• Sniffer fades out and shows frequency with mouse over

Additions:

• Frequency Naming
• Coloured Frequencies
• Jamming
• REP
• Wireless Map
• Addons for SMP
• SMP frequency permissions and Private Sniffer
• Interdimensional Ether
• Trackers

Videos

A nice mod spotlight by Direwolf20.
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A mod spotlight by pcmaster highlighting a few more of the applications of WR-CBE.
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Detailed Information Core

GUI
As you can see the gui has had some serious advancements.

Simple
Yes the simple gui is still there

Colour
A frequency in the REther can be made to resonate at a speed equivalent to the wavelength of a certain wavelength of light. You may set the colour of a frequency in the advanced gui by pressing the Phase Shift Button. The colour is a purely aesthetic effect used by the addons for identification in inventory or on the map. The slot above the Phase Shift button will cycle through the items in your inventory. By default the colours are the dyes and redstone is the resetter. Black and white cannot be used. If RedPower is installed the colour setters are the different coloured lumar and white is reset. Note: Colours are purely for easy identification on the addons. They provide no technical properties.

Naming
The much requested feature to assign names to frequencies is here. It's fairly intuitive, just look at the screenshot above.

Transmitter
The transmitter is simple. Power it with redstone and it will broadcast to all receivers on that frequency.

Receiver
A receiver will power connected devices if there are any transmitters currently active on its frequency.

SMP permissions
There is a fairly complicated permissions system in place for SMP management.

The /freq command can be used to manipulate various cofigurations. Use /freq help to learn what they are and how to use them.

It is advised that the Private Sniffer from the addons module is used for managing private frequencies, as this does not require the player to be an OP.

Frequencies are split into three ranges; public (0-1000), shared (1001-5000) and OP managed.
Public frequencies are there for anyone to do whatever they want with.
Shared frequencies are like public frequencies, however use of the private command a frequency can be locked to just one player.

These ranges can be changed through the freq set and get commands. Also the freq jam/open commands and the freq scan command can be used to allocate ranges of freqs specifically to certain players.

Anyone who doesn't have permission to access a freq will be shown a greyed out square on their sniffer. They will be unable to set any device to that frequency. However they can still use devices set by other players.

Bolt Effect


What more can I say, Epic huh.
The Wireless Bolt is generated by jammers and REP's. The bolt will "jam" any devices nearby preventing them from working. Transmitters will stop transmitting, receivers will stop receiving and any devices a player is carrying will no longer work. Dont worry the effect lasts for a limited time period. For some reason cognitive processing causes a detectable effect in the Redstone Ether and a the bolt will also seek out nearby mobs and players dealing damage in the process. Fortunately more intense cognitive abilities provides some resistance to the effect, so players wont take as much of a blow as that sheep over there. Wreak havoc on your fellow player's wireless contraptions or make a visually entertaining mob trap.
For those who are intirested, L-Systems.

Addons

Remote
The remote is a handheld transmitter operated by holding right mouse. The frequency change GUI is opened by right-clicking while sneaking. If a remote is used on a wireless tile it will change the frequency of the tile to that of the remote, useful for setting the frequencies of multiple devices quickly.

Triangulator
The triangulator is essentially a wireless compass. It will point to the nearest transmitter on the frequency its on. The frequency change GUI is opened by right-clicking while sneaking. If there are no active transmitters in this dimension or you are using a remote at the same time the triangulator wont know where to point.

For the techy guys the triangulator doesnt actually point to the nearest transmitter, rather it adds all transmitters on the frequency based on their distance to the player in the ration 1/d therefore if you have 3 transmitters 20 blocks east and 1 transmitter 10 blocks west it will point east. So if you want to confuse someone using a transmitter to mark their way home put 5 somewhere nearby.

Wireless Sniffer
The sniffer is a device that can detect which frequencies are on and show them to you. Incidentally It will also show you which ones you dont have access to in SMP.

Private Sniffer
The private sniffer is an upgraded version of the normal sniffer. It has main purpose in SMP where you can click on a frequency that is shared to make it private. Private freqs will show as green.

Wireless Map
The wireless map is pretty self-explanatory. Any transmitters on any frequency will show as beacons on the map, even if they are not visible from the sky.
There is a green beacon in the desert, an orange beacon in the forest and three red beacons near the center. And yes I'm in a plane.

While it would be great to simply make your old maps wireless, problems with the map system make that near impossible. I may make a cartographer mod for copying maps and setting different scales.

Wireless Tracker
The wireless tracker is a throwable device that will stick to entities and transmit a signal. Use Sneak+Right Click to set the freq and then throw it. You can then use the map/sniffer/triangulator to track down your target at any time.

These guys will even stay stuck to players through portals and between logouts. However if an entity is 'unloaded' or a player is logged out the tracker will dissapear until the entity returns.

Trackers can be removed from an entity by pulling them off with a sticky piston or by melting the adhesive with fire. Once the tracker is no longer sticky it will spin like an item and can be picked up. Note that the tracker will quickly cool down and revert to it's normal sticky state.

REP
The Redstone Ether Pulse or REP is essentially the redstone version of an EMP. It is a throwable device that will generate the jamming effect apon impact. A second click with one in hand will detonate an aerial REP. The resulting energy wave will prevent further REPs from being thrown for a few seconds.

Logic

Formerly known as WR-CBE Redpower, this module contains the blocks of the mod. It requires ForgeMultipart, an open source multipart library to be installed and allows the tiles to be placed on walls and ceilings with covers and other multiparts.

Note the jammer is supposed to be disabled when powered.

ComputerCraft Integration
Wireless Recievers and Transmitters can be used as a computercraft peripheral when placed next to a computer. Use them like you would any other peripheral. The methods are setFreq(frequency) and getFreq()

Credits Aliaz - Original Wireless Redstone mod.
Danny494 - Textures for REP, Sticks, Bowl, Map, Sniffer, and a lot of texture drafting\base textures.
Alexandria, madindehead, Kenny - Beta Testing.

Overview

As you all should know, the minecraft world is seperated into chunks. 16x16 areas that are loaded depending on how close a player is to them. If you have machines or plants or anything that does something in a chunk that is not loaded because there are no players nearby nothing will happen.

This mod adds a block called a chunkloader, when placed it will keep chunks around it loaded even if no players are nearby or even online. So now your plants can grow and your automatic quarries can run, even when you're not around.

What makes my chunkloader better

So you've seen a few of these things around before, Teleport Pipes has one, Railcraft has two. Immibis has one. Here's a short feature list.

Features:

• Will reload chunks after a server restart
• Works with frames
• 100% not buggy guarantee (I'll fix it if you find a bug).
• External viewer for seeing the loaded chunks and making sure everything works.
• Server owners can set the number of loaded chunks per player, per dimenion and globally.
• Will load and unload mystcraft dimensions as needed.
• Server Operators can set them to only work when a player is online.

Detailed Information

Simply place the chunkloader down and open up the Gui. It now belongs to the person who placed it and chunks that it loads will count towards their limit. You can only open the Gui if you own the chunkloader.

The radius determines the number of chunks to load around this one inclusive.
The shape is either Circle, Square, LineX or LineZ all of which are self explanitory. A radius 3 with square will load a 25x25 chunk area.
The number of chunks loaded is shown below the radius.
The total number of chunks you have loaded out of the amount the server has allowed you is shown at the bottom.

The show lasers button will show some spinning lasers that border on the loaded chunks for easily seeing if your blocks are in the loaded area.

ChunkViewer
Using the command /chunkloaders will activate the ChunkVeiwer if the server has allowed you to.

It will be centered on the player in the current dimension when first activated. You can move it around by dragging it with the mouse.
The Red blocks are loaded chunks.
The Yellow blocks are chunkloaders.
The Green blocks are chunks that are being held by a chunkloader
The Blue blocks are players.
In the top left the number of ChunkLoaders, Held Chunks (by Chunkloaders), Loaded Chunks and Players in this dimension are shown.
The numbers on the axis are the coordinates in blocks. The Horizontal is the x axis and vertical is the z axis.
Mousing over a chunkloader or player will show info about it as a tooltip.

You can see three sets of chunks, one around the player, one around the spawn point and some around a chunkloader.

The Gui will close if you leave the server.

Server Config Options
The server operator can set the number of chunks per player, per dimension and overall that are allowed to be force loaded.
The server can also add player names to a list to have chunkloaders only work when the player is online.
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Screenshots

Credits MouseCop - Art.

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Special Mobs

Have you ever felt that your Minecraft monsters lacked variety? Randomized textures not enough? Well, we have the solution! Introducing: the Special Mobs mod!

In short, this mod introduces variants to your default Minecraft mods, such as creepers with fiery explosions, skeletons that shoot poisoned arrows, and zombies that reel you in with fishing rods! In addition, it makes many minor tweaks to vanilla mobs, such as giving baby monsters drops and making endermen drop their held block on death.

Each mob added by this mod has an adjustable rate that affects how common it is, from never appearing to being the only mob that ever appears! The properties file is generated in the 'config' folder in your .minecraft directory.


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Utility Mobs

Got a mod that makes monsters attack your base? Ever feel a bit spread thin trying to defend all 360 degrees, one degree at a time? Wish your crafting table could walk? Here's the solution: Utility Mobs!

This mod adds additional golems built in the same fashion as vanilla golems, plus turrets, together forming the base of a good defense! Turrets and even certain golems can be upgraded to improve their effectiveness!

Each golem and turret's building "recipe" can be disabled in the properties file! Also, you also can turn your (non-vanilla) golems and turrets hostile towards you! Build a fortress and try to get past your own defenses!


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Lava Monsters

If you've ever found yourself bored once you mine down to lava because it stops hostile mobs from spawning, then this is the mod for you!

This is a small mod that adds a new hostile monster to the game that spawns in lava and spits fireballs at you.

Lava monsters' spawning conditions can be adjusted in a handy-dandy properties file!


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Lost Books

Are you glad that books can finally be written in, but upset that there aren't any to read? Well, good sir or madam, download Lost Books and get ready for fun - with books!

This mod adds a chance for monsters to drop randomly books out of a set of books that anyone can create with ease! Books can even support randomized words for books similar to automatically generated Mad Libs! In addition, the mod offers some additional utilities for reading longer books as well - it keeps your place in books and prevents the game from pausing while you read!

Every single book, word, drop rate, and some drop conditions can be customized in some handsome properties files! The properties file is generated in your .minecraft/config directory and book files can be found in the .minecraft/config/LostBooks directory.


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Deadly World

Ever thought the world was just a little too nice to you? Have you ever wished mining was more dangerous and exciting and dangerous? Look no further!

This mod adds a few world generation features that make living more difficult and interesting! These features include landmines, silverfish veins, lava pockets, and things that shoot arrows everywhere, all using blocks and features included in vanilla Minecraft!

The frequency of features and mobs in mob spawners (as well as nearly everything else) can be adjusted in a super-duper properties file! The properties file is generated in your .minecraft/config directory.


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Custom Chest Loot

Have you ever wanted to customize your bonus starter chest, see mod items in dungeons, or simply wanted to make your Minecraft's trunks full of junk? If so, we have the solution for you: Custom Chest Loot!

This tiny mod simply allows you to customize all randomly generated container (chests, dispensers, etc.) content and the number of items generated in those containers.

All container categories (including ones added by mods, if any) are completely customizable in the properties files! This mod will do nothing if you do not edit its properties. The properties files are generated in your .minecraft/config/CustomChestLoot directory.


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Natural Absorption

Felt like armor just isn't doing the job for you? Tried disabling your health regen, but just found it too unforgiving? Well, Natural Absorption will solve your everyday needs and even do your laundry for you! (Warning: does not do your laundry.)

This small mod gives you permanent absorption health that regenerates over time. The shield is not a potion effect, and will therefore stack with the absorption potion effect! In addition, it adds a new enchantment you can get on your armor to increase your max absorption health! You even replace armor's reduction entirely with absorption (disabled by default).

There's a properties file that allows you to change just about everything relating to natural absorption, from how much you start with and the max you can earn to how quickly it regenerates and how much you lose on death! If you want to disable the enchantment or even restrict it to only the enchant, you have that option as well! The properties file is generated in the 'config' folder in your .minecraft directory.


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I AM THE CACTUS LORD!
What exactly does this mod do?

First off, when you spawn, you'll notice you have two yellow hearts (by default) on top of your health bar. That is your absorption health. Absorption health is always damaged before regular health, unless you fall out of the world.
Whenever you take damage, your shield is disrupted and won't regenerate absorption health for some time (default: 10 seconds). After that time is up, your shield will start regenerating fairly quickly (default: 1 heart/sec).

Your natural absorption health stacks with the absorption potion effect. This mod changes the effect of absorption potions (by technicality) to simply increase your maximum natural absorption.
That means absorption health from potion effects (only golden apples in vanilla) will now regenerate with the rest of your shield! You could even set players' starting and max natural shield to 0 just to use this mod as a buff to absorption potions, so they behave much closer to the original absorption potions that completely refilled every 30 seconds and were actually useful.

Two hearts? Are you trying to kill me?
Well yes, but that's unrelated to this mod.

In addition to your base absorption, you can also have additional max absorption health through enchanted equipment. Any armor can be enchanted with Absorption, which will increase your max absorption when worn.
If armor replacement mode is enabled in the config (it is not by default), all damage dealt to players will ignore armor. Instead, players' armor points will contribute to their maximum absorption health based on the multiplier set in the config.

You are able to increase your base maximum absorption health through infusion.
Be careful, however; dying will reduce your maximum absorption!
Check the spoilers below to find out more about these two features:

Increasing Max Absorption
Several things are required to infuse yourself with natural absorption energy:
* A book
* Gold
* Apples
* Gold
* Experience

Books have long been known to contain arcane powers, such as the ability to hold powerful magics. Using this trait, you can bind the magical energy of golden apples - the only known source of absorption - to a book, which allows those energies to be controlled and refined.
As usual, infusing the magical properties from a book comes at a cost. You must provide experience as fuel and the book will ultimately be consumed in the process.
However, you do not need an anvil to use this book. You're not enchanting an item; you are infusing this book's power into your very own flesh and blood.

Increasing your maximum absorption is a two-step process:

The first step is to make yourself a Book of Absorption. The default crafting recipe for this book calls for one book and eight standard golden apples.
Yes, eight. To clarify, that's one leather, three sugar cane, eight apples, and one full stack of gold ingots (64).
Simply surround your book with golden apples on the crafting table, and out comes the precious Book of Absorption!


Alternate Recipes (to replace the above, set in config):

The recipes are broken into ids in the config file. You may choose whichever best suits you by setting it in the config.

In addition, you have to option to make the recipe require a book and quill instead of a regular book. This is mostly for compatibility reasons, but you may just want to force people in to needing more random things!

0 - No recipe.
Books of Absorption will not be craftable if the recipe is set to 0.

1 - Simple (shapeless)

Total cost (excluding book):
* 1 apple
* 8 gold ingots (0.9 blocks)

2 - Easy

Total cost (excluding book):
* 4 apples
* 32 gold ingots (3.6 blocks)

3 - Default

Total cost (excluding book):
* 8 apples
* 64 gold ingots (7.1 blocks)

3 - Medium (shapeless)

Total cost (excluding book):
* 1 apple
* 72 gold ingots (8 blocks)

5 - Hard

Total cost (excluding book):
* 4 apples
* 288 gold ingots (32 blocks)

6 - Ridiculous

Total cost (excluding book):
* 8 apples
* 576 gold ingots (64 blocks)

Player Heads

If you've ever killed a player and thought, "Gee, I really wish I could pull that player's head off of his dead body and mount it on my wall," then come on over and get this mod on your server!

This is a very tiny mod that simply adds the ability for players to drop their own heads.

The drop rate and conditions can be customized in a nice little properties file!


Download the latest version!
Check out this mod on its main page for more info.

Mob Properties

Think zombies are too slow, skeletons are too strong, or creepers simply don't drop enough cookies? Well, all you need to do is configure them the way you want them - with Mob Properties!

This mod allows you to customize all mobs, vanilla or otherwise, with completely configurable drops, attributes, equipment, potion effects, and even NBT data. To top it off, many properties accept number ranges for values, and are randomized for each mob!

Everything in this mod is completely configurable! This mod will do nothing if you do not edit its properties files. The properties files are generated in your .minecraft/config directory.


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Download the latest version!
Check out this mod on its main page for more info.

Dungeon Crawler

Ever wanted to be that one guy that survives by using paper clips? Well fret no more! This mod may not include paper clips, but it does include just about everything you need to survive in a world without the comfort of having a home. The mod also includes a variety of explosives you could use for some kind of demolition game or just to blow up sheep!

This mod uses a meager 14 item IDs for the 57 new items it adds. Items added include weapons, armor, traps, mines, and improvised explosives! There are also new recipes to salvage materials and make old items in new ways.

There's a properties file that allows you to change any item IDs or disable any or all items added by the mod! The properties file is generated in the 'config' folder in your .minecraft directory.


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Mod Showcase by Dunstan Omega Zebulon!
I don't have time to describe this well currently. If I don't update this with more information soon, please mention it in a comment and I'll get right to it! The video above covers just about everything, though.

New Items:

Weapons:
Five new weapons:
* Knives
* Sharp sticks
* Bone clubs
* Rockshots
* Pebbles

Knives:
More of a tool than a weapon, these are created by placing one of your material of choice on top of a stick. These are the best tools for breaking crafting tables and webs. Craft them with rotten flesh or a spider eye to make more edible food! They can also be used in some crafting recipes to make them shapeless or get more/better salvaged material (see the knife section in crafting). They will eventually be throwable.
Rule number one about survival: you need a knife.

Sharp sticks:
Can be made by crafting a stick with a knife. It's basically a stick that deals extra damage, but it breaks after 16 hits and cannot stack. Can be used to craft spike traps.

Bone club:
Made by crafting a bone on another bone or by a bone with a knife. Weaker than a wooden sword, but lasts longer.

Rockshot:
Ever wished you could use those stacks of cobblestone in some way? Shoot them at stuff! Craft any valid block with gunpowder and a rockshot and fire away! Needless to say, you'll need to recraft after every shot. Valid blocks/items:

This one is really fun in creative mode.

Pebble:
Craft a block of gravel, get pebbles, throw pebbles. Crafting with a knife yields more pebbles. Each pebble is effectively a snowball, except it actually deals one damage (half a heart).
Armor:
One new armor set:
* Bone armor

One new armor ingredient:
* Chain links

Bone armor:
Armor made from bones. Less protective overall than leather, but has additional armor against projectiles.

Chainmail armor:
Want armor better than leather or bone, but only have a little iron? Each iron ingot can be crafted into three chain links, which can be used to craft chainmail armor.

Leather armor:
Rotten flesh and cooked meat can be smelted into leather, just make sure you don't starve yourself!
Bombs:
Three types of bomb:
* Improvised
* Fire
* End

All bombs come in three sizes - small, standard, and large. Crafting two of the smaller size together makes the larger, and crafting one of the larger size makes two of the smaller.
Bombs can be placed in the world by right-clicking - just be aware that they will explode in four seconds!

Crafting a bomb with a pressure plate on top results in the mine counterpart of the bomb.

Improvised:
Your standard explosive. The medium size is crafted by a string above two gunpowder (like an upside-down sword). All bombs are improvised, but these are the only ones that get the title.

Fire:
These are the same as standard improvised bombs, only fiery. Crafted by a string on gunpowder on blaze powder.

End:
These teleport all entities in the blast radius. Deals 5 falling damage to all teleported entities, regardless of their proximity to the blast. Tends to put sheep in trees. Crafted by a string on gunpowder on an ender pearl.
Mines:
Four types of mine:
* Improvised
* Fire
* End
* Gas

These can be placed in the world and will detonate when hit, touched, or even just shaken a bit too hard. They can be disarmed by right-clicking them with shears or a knife.
All mines have a one-time trigger effect and are then gone forever, but can be placed quickly and easily.

Improvised:
Your standard explosive. Crafted by placing any pressure plate on an imp bomb of any size.

Fire:
These are the same as standard improvised mines, only fiery. Crafted by placing any pressure plate on a fire bomb of any size.

End:
These teleport all entities in the blast radius. Crafted by placing any pressure plate on an end bomb of any size.

Gas:
These explode into a cloud of choking gas. The cloud lingers for ten seconds and, obviously, impairs vision and suffocates entities nearby.
Grenades:

Traps:
Seven types of trap:
* Spike
* Poison
* Fire
* End
* Screamer
* Launcher
* Crippling

These can be placed in the world by holding down the right mouse button on a block and will trigger when walked on. They can be disarmed by right-clicking them with shears or a knife.
All traps must be reset by right-clicking them (some require a specific item) each time they are triggered before they can be triggered again.
In the trap pictures, the trap on the left is set, and the trap on the right has been triggered.


Spike Your standard trap. Deals damage and gives mobs a little bump.
Does not need an item to be reset, but can only be triggered sixteen times.


Poison The poison trap is a spike trap, but with poison on it! Yay?
Does not need an item to be reset, but can only be triggered sixteen times.


Fire This trap sets the ground around it on fire when triggered!
Uses coal or charcoal to reset.


End Contrary to popular belief, the end trap does not end you, it just teleports you somewhere random, which might end you.
Uses ender pearls to reset.


Screamer Also known as a ghast trap, this trap is not made for trapping ghasts. Instead, it just screams like one when triggered, using sugar cane whistles. It doesn't do much else, apart from slowing and weakening anything in close proximity.
Uses sugar cane to reset.


Launcher Known in some nations as the "piston trap", the launcher trap throws entities into the sky! Twelve blocks into the sky, to be exact.
Does not need an item to be reset.


Crippling This is not what the trap looks like now. (It looks a lot better.)
Based on a trap made for the mythical creature "bear", the crippling trap really hurts the ankles of whatever is unlucky enough to step on it.
Does not need an item to be reset.
Crafting:

New Recipes:

Arrows and flint and steel can be made using quartz in place of flint. Might be very helpful in the Nether!

All knives, swords, axes, pickaxes, shovels, bows, arrows, arrows, torches, and fishing rods may be crafted with bones instead of sticks. This feature can be disabled.
Examples:

Knife crafting:

(All shapeless!)

Sharp stick:


Bone club:


Imp bomb:


Fire bomb:


End bomb:


Large imp bomb:


Spike trap:
(just three sharp sticks anywhere, plus a knife)


Pebble x 6:


Stick x 2:
(to make sticks with only one block of planks)


Raw pork:


Arrow x 4:
(a bone can be used instead of the stick, quartz can be used instead of the flint)


Wooden sword:
(a bone can be used instead of the stick)


Stone sword:
(a bone can be used instead of the stick)

Knife:
(a bone can be used instead of the stick)


Rockshot:
(a bone can be used instead of the stick)


Loaded rockshot:
(shapeless, any ammo)
ammo:

cobblestone, dirt, torch, redstone torch, gravel, sand, netherrack, arrow, fire charge, splash potion, TNT, soul sand, mossy cobblestone, glowstone, stone brick, iron block, smooth stone, grass

Chain links:
(only used to craft chainmail armor)


Chainmail armor:
(crafted like any other armor, only helmet shown)


Bone armor:
(crafted like any other armor, only helmet shown)


Imp bomb:


Fire bomb:


End bomb:


Smaller bomb x 2:
(any standard- or large-sized bomb)


Bigger bomb:
(any two standard- or small-sized bombs)


Mine:
(any pressure plate, any bomb)


Gas mine:
(any pressure plate)


Grenade:
(any button, next to any bomb)


Spike trap:
(actually just uses three sharp sticks, picture is old)


Poison trap:


Fire trap:
(any pressure plate, coal or charcoal)


End trap:
(any pressure plate)


Screamer trap:
(any pressure plate)

 -<br>*#*<br>

- = pressure plate
* = ghast tear
# = sugar cane


Launcher trap:
(stone pressure plate only)


Crippling trap:
(stone pressure plate only)


Flint:
(shapeless)

Salvaging:

Many items can now be salvaged into some of the materials used to craft them. In general, these recipes include a single ingredient. Salvaging can be disabled in the config file.
Wood and food salvage recipes (and a couple special recipes) can also optionally include a knife - this will roughly double the amount salvaged or provide different/better materials.
Note that this is not a comprehensive list and is also slightly out of date. Some of these recipes may be inaccurate.

Sticks:
special stick recipes
(from saplings, knife recipe is shapeless)


(from cacti, knife recipe is shapeless)


yield - salvage materials
1 - ladder
2 - fence
4 - painting



Planks:
yield - salvage materials
1 - wooden slab x 2, wooden stairs, wooden pressure plate, fence gate
2 - crafting table, bed, piston, trapdoor
3 - wooden door, boat
4 - chest, note block, jukebox



Cobblestone:
yield - salvage materials
1 - stone pressure plate, cobblestone stairs, mossy cobblestone
4 - furnace


Stone:
yield - salvage materials
1 - stone brick


Stone bricks:
yield - salvage materials
1 - mossy stone brick, cracked stone brick, stone brick stairs


Iron:
yield - salvage materials
3 - iron door


Redstone:
yield - salvage materials
1 - redstone torch
3 - redstone repeater


Other:
(pistons)



(saddles)

(snow, same as breaking placed snow with a shovel)

(melons, breaking a placed melon will average 5 slices)


(clay, same as breaking placed clay)

(bookshelves, same as breaking placed bookshelves)

(wool, color doesn't matter)

(dispensers)

Leather:
Any cooked meat (or rotten flesh) can be smelted into leather.



Flint:
So you don't have to place/break gravel a million times.

Loot Mod
(BETA) 0.1 for MC 1.2.5

Tired of every single weapon, tool, and piece of armor being exactly the same? Think it would make more sense if there was some variation? Well, fret no more! We have what you need: the Loot Mod!

This mod introduces "upgrades" that are innately applied to weapons dropped from mobs (currently only swords)! Mobs don't drop weapons, you say? Well, this mod takes care of that, too: it gives all hostile mobs a chance to drop equipment!

The equipment drop rates can be adjusted in a convenient properties file!

Download the latest version!
Check out this mod on its main page for more info.


Discontinued Mods:

Health Bars
1.0 for MC 1.5.2
Want you or your players to be more informed? Need to know how dead things are? Well, this might be what you are looking for!

This is a pretty small mod that adds customizable health bars to mobs.

The health bars' looks and information can be customized in a nice little properties file! The properties file is generated in your .minecraft/config directory.

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Terms of Use:

Banner:

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1. Part 1: Introduction
• Why does Minecraft crash?
• Minecraft didn't crash, it only blackscreened. What Do I do?
• The META-INF folder
2. Part 2: Getting a crash report
• Minecraft output
• Crash txt files
• Command line
• McPatcher
• Bat script
3. Part 3: Reading the crash report
• Crash report structure
• Header
• Stack Trace
4. Part 4: Common crashes
• java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ...
• java.lang.NullPointerException
• Block ID conflict
5. Part 5: Posting Guidelines
• Checklist
• Posting

Note: This topic is not for you to post your crash reports. This is for you to understand and hopefully fix your crashes yourself. As a final options you should always post the crash to the mod responsible for the crash (the final section of the topic suggests what should be included). I will not be fixing your crashes

Why does Minecraft crash?

In my experience there are a couple of main reasons minecraft crashes

1. Improper installation of a mod or API
2. Incompatibilities between mods
3. Some sort of bug in a mod
4. Pre-existing bug in minecraft

There can be other "fringe" cases of crashes (eg faulty hardware or not enough RAM) but the above will cover 99% of crashes encountered.

Now I just want to say, please don't "blame" anyone for a crash. If it is due to an error in the modder coding (eg 2 or 3) cut them some slack. Most modders are not professional coders, they make mods for fun. If it is due to 1 (i.e. you made a mistake) just take a breath and re-read the installation instructions for both the mod and any APIs (as well as the rest of this guide).

Minecraft didn't crash, it only blackscreened. What Do I do?

I want to start with the TL;DR version black screen = crash.

Sometimes rather than coming up with a nice little crash report, Minecraft will just show a black screen (Possibly flashing up "Saving Chunks" first). This is also a crash, and you should follow Part 2 of this guide. Crashes are generally caused by either exceptions or errors. These may or may not be caught by Minecraft's internal error logger. If the error logger does catch it, you will be displayed with the minecraft crash screen, if not just a black screen. There are ways to obtain the crash report as detailed in Part 2 below.

The META-INF folder

I just want to digress a bit to discuss what the META-INF folder is. Essentially all you need to know is this needs to be deleted if you want to mod minecraft. If you don't really care why then feel free to move to the next section. If you are curious, read on.

A java jar file is just a zip file with an optional META-INF folder. Because jars are not just a collection of .class files and resources, extra information is sometimes required (or desired) by application developers. The META-INF folder is a place to store package and extension configuration data, including security, versioning, extension and services. In Minecraft the security is the reason it must be deleted. The META-INF contains a file called "MAJONG_C.SF". This file contains a little code for each file within the jar which can be used to check if any file has been modified or corrupted. Therefore this file must be deleted to prevent the security check if you want to edit any of the files within the jar.

Now this is a very basic description of the META-INF folder as I was trying to make it as easy to understand as possible. If you are still interested look up the .jar file documentation on the java website

Crash txt files

Both Modloader and Minecraft Forge try and output any crash reports into folders. This should be the 1st place to check. Now you do have to be carefully because occasionally I get people posting the contents of one of these files that doesn't actually contain the crash log (i.e. not helpful). Don't worry if this is the case, I will detail in Part 3 how to read the crash report meaning you will know if you have the wrong file. If this is the case, try another method described below.

Note: When I refer to directories in this section, everything is relative to the .minecraft directory. I will assume if you are installing mods you already know how to find it (It is dependent on your operating system)

BroTip: In windows the directory can be easily found by pressing the windows key + 'R' and typing "%AppData" (without the "'s) in the run dialog and pressing Enter. This should bring up an explorer window withe the .minecraft directory somewhere near the top.

Modloader
Modloader generally tries to output it's crash reports in a file called "Modloader.txt". The file should be located in the ".minecraft" directory. This will only be from the last run of minecraft (i.e overwritten on each run). This obviously will only be present if you have modloader installed (Minecraft Forge has a different way of reporting crashes).


BroTip: If posting from the Modloader.txt file make sure it actually contains a crash, I couldn't tell you how many times people post me the contents of their Modloader.txt file when there is no crash in there.

Minecraft Forge
There is a folder that Minecraft Forge creates devoted to crash logs. The folder is located in the .minecraft directory and is called "crash-reports". Each crash will display the date/time of the crash as well as the describing if the crash was in the client or server. Another thing that should be mentioned about this file is that it is set out differently to other crash logs. The Forge crash logs will have the stack trace at the top and the header information below it (they also contain a "witty" comment).

BroTip: Try to avoid opening the forge crash logs with notepad on windows. Notepad does not recognise the newline character used (because it is quite crappy). Try opening it with wordpad instead (right click, go to open with and selected wordpad or "other programs" and find it).


Command Line

Now because you are hear I am going to assume you are not very technically minded, therefore using the command line may scare you a little. I want to start with, don't be scared, the command line is a very powerful tool. Of course there are more "user friendly" ways, but the command line is quick and does not require downloading on any extra files. Now these do depend on your operating system so only read the relevant one below

Windows

1. Open the command prompt by pressing windows key + 'R' and typing cmd in the run dialog (and press enter)
2. Type "cd %AppData%" and press enter
3. Type "cd .minecraft" and press enter
4. Enter the following command

java -Xms1G -Xmx1G -cp Minecraft.exe net.minecraft.LauncherFrame



Brotip This can be pasted by right clicking on the command line window and pressing paste

5. Login, start minecraft & re-create the crash. The crash should be displayed in the command line window.
6. Highlight the crash report in the window, right click and press copy.

Note: for this to work you must have java as an environment variable. Read more here

OSX
Warning I do not have an Mac computer so I have not tested this and do not know how user friendly the method is. These instructions are from the Minecraft wiki page

• Go to Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities and open Console.app
• Run minecraft and when it crashes the java log will be added to the console, which you can then select and copy

Linux

• Open a terminal (on distributions such as Ubuntu/Linux Mint, this is done with Ctrl + Alt + T)
• Run

java -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -jar minecraft.jar 




• Watch the console output. You can select and copy it after making the game crash.

Note: Your current directory MUST be wherever the minecraft.jar file is. If you are using linux I am going to assume you know at least basic command line functions.

MC Patcher

MC Patcher can be a great tool for obtaining crash reports (personally I don't like it for it's HD patching capabilities because i don't like it's methods but that's just me). Start by downloading mcpatcher from here

This is what the default interface should look like.



For this purpose I recommend unticking all boxes before proceeding and DO NOT hit patch. Hitting patch will make MCPatcher run through it's patching routine, problem is this has been known to interfere with the proper running of some mods including Minecraft Forge. Pressing "Test Minecraft" (Red Arrow) will launch minecraft in offline mode. Recreate the crash. The output will be displayed in the "log" tab (Red arrow in the picture below)



Now the great thing about mcpatcher is that it actually tries to give you the deobscurificated class/method/field names in the crash report. This can be an unbelievable help to the author of the mod if you have found a new bug or incompatibility.

Bat script

Windows Only

I have also developed a bat script to assist in the gathering of crash logs. Unfortunately I found a bug in it. I will correct the bug and upload it at a later date.

Now right away from this we can see that this user is using the 1.3.2 version of minecraft, has minecraft forge installed, is using Mac OS X (64 bit) is using java 1.6, has 2 mods other than Minecraft Forge/FML both of which were loaded successfully (in this case they are both 2 parts of the same mod). Furthermore because the author (me) is so awesome and put the version of minecraft required in the zip name, we can tell that he is using a mod that is designed for the minecraft version he is using. So far everything looks great.

Brotip: If you are super worried about privacy and do not want to post your username, remove that section of the crash report or start it out like I did above.


The Modloader styled headers are slightly different, However I do not have access to one on hand right now (I only mod with forge) but they also generally show similar information. Crashes may occur without either modloader or forge (jar mods only or bugs in the vanilla game), again these should show the minecraft version/java version/os etc but for obvious reasons will not show loaded mods.

Stack Trace

The stacktrace is the main technical part of the crash log.

Here is an example (in this case it is the other half of the header posted in the above section)

Stack traces are always printed from most recent to the least recent step in the trace (kind of like your browser history is ordered from most recently visited sight to the site you viseted a long time ago). The first line will describe the type of error. Take note of this, it can help you diagnose most of the problems. In the example above this is

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: paulscode/sound/SoundSystem

I will go into more detail about this error in the next section as it can be a common crash.

Brotip: When dealing with this remember "Google is your friend" googling the 1st part of the error "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError" can help you diagnose the general cause quite easily. Going to the 4th result (which is the java documentation tells us that this means "Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine or a ClassLoader instance tries to load in the definition of a class (as part of a normal method call or as part of creating a new instance using the new expression) and no definition of the class could be found.". In other words something that minecraft or the mod thinks is there is not actually there. This could be improper installation or a corrupted file, but right away we know quite a bit about the error.


Under the error name is a whole heap of at (classname).(method).... These can also be quite important to modders as it gives us a way to backtrack through the error to hopefully find the root of it. Again the most recent is at the top and least recent is at the bottom. This can be handy for those even without a background in programing. Sometimes you can find the culprit quite easily by scanning through the trace. For example if you see "mine_and_blade" in any part section, it is a good chance that the Mine & Blade mod is likely the source (In one way or another) of the crash.

For those who have a bit of programing experience what the above trace tells us is that the method a in ayq class had an error, it was called by the a method in the Minecraft class which was called by the next one down and so forth.


Now when we see a "Caused by" that means what we have is a "Chained Exception". This is important because it is often the case that one of the fundamental exceptions underlying the last encountered exception is the real culprit that must be appropriately addressed. So in other words, these secondary exceptions may be just as important. I can not tell you when they are and when they are not because it really depends on the particular error report.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ...

I wanted to start with the error I have been using in the examples above. Here is the full crash report

A NoClassDefFoundError is thrown whenever a java program can't find a particular class that it thinks should be there. The class will be displayed after the ':' as well as the package/folder it is contained in. In the example above that means that the class that cannot be found is called SoundSystem and it is located in the paulscode/sound package.

There are 3 main reasons this can occur listed below

1. You have not installed a required dependency. This is probably the most common cause of this error. Most of the time you can guess the missed dependency by looking at the classname/package. One common one I have encountered is when people forget to install PlayerAPI. In this case the crash will display java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: PlayerBase. Always go back and make sure you have installed all dependencies for a mod
2. The next most common reason I have seen for this error is due to a corrupted file. This happens occasionally while downloading mods. Just try and re-download the mod or API and try again.
3. The mod auther has not packaged a particular class file. This will generally mean that part of name/package will have something to do with the mod. Now this is more rare than the other 2 above because if a modder does make a mistake such as this they will generally address it quite quickly. Also remember that your 1st assumption should be a corrupt download (2 above) so try to re-download the mod 1st.

Now the error posted above was actually due to a corrupted download of Minecraft Forge. After the user re-downloaded Forge everything worked again.

java.lang.NullPointerException: ...

The dreaded null pointer exception. The most common cause of this doosy is due to modder error. It can also be caused by incompatible mods or knock on effects from other errors but generally its because of dodgy code. Null pointer exceptions occur when java tried to access an empty object. Because the object doesn't actually exist, java will have a cry and break down. Mostly this can't be fixed by anyone other than the author of the mod(s) in question.

The only recommendations I can say for this is to

1. Try and work out the mod causing the error by looking at the stack trace.
2. Make sure you don't have mods that are known to be incompatible installed
3. Check the forum page to see if anyone else has already posted this error, if so there may already be a solution in the works and there is little point in re-posting the same error (maybe just a "I got the same error as x") but there is really no point in posting the exact same error log

Sorry I don't have an example right now, but these errors can be quite varied. If anyone really wants one I will find one later (or generate one myself) and post it.

Block ID conflict

This happens when you install a mod that is trying to use the same block ID as another mod. They can be identified by the first error being java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Slot xxx, where xxx is a number.

Here is an example

These are generally easy to fix, most mods have some sort of config file (generally in the config directory of the .minecraft folder) that is generated the first time a mod is loaded. A mod can customise the block/item ids used in this file. So your best bet is to find the offending block id and change it in one of the mods and try again. You may have to try a number of times to find free block ids. Also minecraft does have a limited number of block IDs available for vanilla/modloader the limit is 255 (the 1st ~ 150 or so are taken up by normal blocks) while Forge has increased this to a bit over 4000. I believe vanilla will increase this to 4000 but I don't think it is currently implemented.


Just a note, conflicting Item ids will not cause a crash, but these can be identified by items randomly changing to another item on startup/crafting.

Brotip 1: A tool such as TMI can be used to help identify free block ids. The TMI side bar interface displays the block id used by whichever block you are overing over.
Brotip 2: If you can help it, always change the block ID of the most recently installed mod. Blocks in your world will also change.

1. Obtain the crash report
2. Make sure it is actually a crash report (i.e. has a java stack trace)
3. Do basic diagnostics yourself (read the thread)
4. Make sure it is not one of the common crashes seen here
5. Identify the mod causing the error
6. Try the mod on a fresh jar with only the required APIs, this will help determine if the problem is caused by an incompatability.
7. Read the Troubleshooting/FAQ section of the Mod page to make sure it is not a common problem that can be fixed
8. Read the known bugs on the Mod page to make sure your are not-reposting a known bug
9. Read the Incompatible mods section to make sure that you are not using incompatible mods
10. Read the last page or two to make sure someone hasn't recently posted the same report (no point in reposting unless you have more information to add)
11. Do a quick search on the forum topic using the most recent error (eg java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: paulscode/sound/SoundSystem) as someone else may have already posted the same error a while ago and it has since been solved.
12. Post your error using the guidelines below.

Always remember that posting the error should generally be your last resort. You will generally solve the problem quicker yourself as a modder is not always online to answer questions. You may not get a response for a few days and you can't blame the modder for this. It is therefore in your best interest to at least try and solve it yourself.

Posting Guidelines

Now before I start, if a modder has another way they like to describe an error report follow theirs. This is just a suggestion.


When posting an crash report having as much detail as possible is the key. If you write stuff that's not needed, who cares? But not having enough detail can be very annoying for those trying to help.

At minimum you want

1. The crash report (the most important part)
2. A detailed description of your problem (when did it crash, what were you doing in game etc). Again the more details the better, even if you don't think they are relevant. Better to be safe then missing an important detail.
3. A list of mods APIs and patches used, sometimes this may not be needed as the might be displayed in the crash log, however sometimes not all are displayed. This includes APIs such as Minecraft Forge & PlayerAPI as well as patches like McPatcher or jarmods like Optifine.
4. Generally the OS that you use is not needed, java is generally cross platform. Although some mods may not like some OS because of the way certain features are written. Use your best judgement on this (especially considering it may already be in the crash report).
5. Any other mod specific information that might be required. This one really depends on the mod you are using and will mainly apply to very special cases\
6. Be Polite, as a modder I am much more likely to be more helpful to someone who has both been polite and actually tried to do a little homework (i.e stuff on this post) then to someone who as not.

Brotip: Crash logs can be quite long. Always put them in a spoiler as this will tidy up the post a bit. A spoiler can be made like this

[spoiler]
Paste crash log here
[/spoiler]

If you do do this it might also be a good idea to also write what the crash was somewhere outside of the spoiler so it can be search for by other users easily.


An example post might look something like this

ExtrabiomesXL is a collaborative open source mod for Minecraft which adds new biomes and an assortment of natural blocks and items that enhance gameplay and make exploring fun and interesting. Keep up-to-date on the latest development news and general interest regarding ExtrabiomesXL on http://extrabiomes.com/. ​The official ExtrabiomesXL wiki is the best place to read any kind of information regarding ExtrabiomesXL.


Prerequisite
ExtrabiomesXL 3.16.3 was tested using Minecraft Forge 10.13.4.1481, which can be found here.

Downloads

ExtrabiomesXL Universal 3.14.1 backported to MC 1.5.2

ExtrabiomesXL on CurseForge;quot;]


• Google Drive folder of all ExtrabiomesXL versions

Installation
ExtrabiomesXL is delivered in a single universal download which can be installed on clients and servers alike.

1. Install Minecraft Forge
2. Drag the ExtrabiomesXL download into the mods folder (Don't unarchive it)
3. Enjoy!

Resource Pack Support
A list of resource packs and texture packs which support ExtrabiomesXL can be found on our wiki. We can't guarantee all of these will be up-to-date, however.

Additional Content
ExtrabiomesXL team member gwydion0917 has utilized Custom Stuff 2 to add special red rock versions of furnaces, buttons, pressure plates, etc. It can be found here.

Changelog
The changlog can be found on our Wiki.

Community

• EsperNet IRC: #Extrabiomes
• Blog: http://extrabiomes.com/
• ExtrabiomesXL on Twitter: @ExtrabiomesXL

Localization
ExtrabiomesXL is currently available in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.As ExtrabiomesXL updates with new content, however, we can't guarantee these localizations will remain up-to-date. We'd greatly appreciate any assistance in ensuring all of ExtrabiomesXL's localizations are up-to-date and accurate. A list of the localization files can be found here. Always feel free to add new languages! Our localizations are done by hand, by speakers of the select language for utmost quality, so please no Google Translate. Thank you!

Modpacks
You are free to distribute ExtrabiomesXL in your modpack, so long as it's not being used to make money.Credits

• Original mod by MisterFiber
• Development, design, quality control, and artwork by the ExtrabiomesXL team
• Plenty additional contributions by open source contributors

Support
If you have any problems or questions, please ask in the forum. Be advised, however, that we can never diagnose or fix anything without a complete log file. You should post your complete log (ForgeModLoader-0.log, or ForgeModLoader-client-0.log) on pastebin (or any other similar text sharing service) and then post a link to it here in the forum. The community around this thread likes solving support issues and the most important step you can take is posting your complete log file. Any support requests should be handled publicly where everyone can benefit. Please do not PM the team members with support requests!

Note: Failure to post complete log files using the directions outlined above severely reduces the likelihood that you will achieve a successful outcome to your support your support issue. How to receive support if you do not have a crash report. In the event that Minecraft didn't crash and you did not get a crash report, don't worry. Crash reports are not helpful or wanted. To receive support for your issue, post a complete log by following the above instructions.

FAQ
A list of frequently asked questions is available on our Wiki.

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