Better Than Wolves

October 26, 2011

• Added Wool Slabs, both as an aesthetic block and as a method of providing color-coded off-bits when using the Block Dispenser as a ROM. They are fully functional with regards to the various dying methods in vanilla Minecraft and the mod, and may be created using the same standard "3-blocks in a line" recipe used for other slabs in the game. They can also be created by placing a wool block in front of the Saw.
• Added optional "Hardcore Bucket" mode (off by default...can be turned on in the config file). This basically prevents the player from being able to transport water & lava source blocks and is a mode intended to make fluid flow (and by extension, the generation of mechanical power) far more interesting without causing additional performance overhead, by requiring the player to actually build canals and such to have access to liquids. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
• Added Hard Boiled Eggs as an item.
• Added ability to render eggs into Tallow at a 4 to 1 conversion ratio.
• Added Potash as an item.
• Added Soap as an item.
• Added Saw Dust as an item.
• Added the ability to smelt ore and produce charcoal in the Kiln.
• Changed the number of wood planks produced when using the Saw on a log to 5 instead of 6.
• Changed the Hopper "filler" item to be brick instead of clay balls. This is to aid in automating production of Pottery.
• Changed Unfired Pottery to no longer use a tile entity. This means that it can now be pushed by pistons.
• Changed the Kiln to be an actual block. This change is invisible to the player but allows the Kiln to be far more flexible in its functionality. Unfortunately, this has also required changing the time it takes Pottery to cook and may mess with existing auto-Kilns as a result.
• Changed high-efficiency Saw recipe for the sign to use 1 Moulding and 1 Siding.
• Changed amount of Rotten Flesh required to render into glue from 2 units to 4.
• Changed trap door filter on the Hopper to allow narrow objects (bones, arrows, sticks, etc.) to pass through (instead of items that stack up to 64) as the old functionality was no longer really useful with the changes made to stack sizes in 1.8.
• Changed the Hopper filters to properly process new items added in 1.8 (pumpkin/melon seeds, ender pearls, etc.).
• Changed the way the Hopper processes items slightly (a larger refactor is coming for the API), so as per usual with such changes, let me know if you spot any oddities with the Hopper filters over the next little while.
• Changed the Wicker and Rollers Hopper filters to not allow Ink Sacks to pass through (they previously could because the Minecraft code considers them to be "dye powders").
• Changed the Block Dispenser to be able to pick-up vine blocks and tall grass.
• Changed the Block Dispenser to place clay blocks if it contains 4 or more clay balls to aid in the automated creation of Pottery.
• Changed the Block Dispenser to have 16 inventory slots instead of 9 to facilitate its usage as a ROM. This also makes some sense considering the BD doesn't really have any kind of internal mechanism taking up space, unlike the regular dispenser.
• Changed the Axle recipe to be horizontal instead of vertical, as it's far more intuitive.
• Fixed problem with the Saw cutting saplings when it's not supposed to. Also applied this to Melon & Pumpkin stems.
• Fixed problem that would sometimes cause Stoked Fire to periodically go back to being regular fire even though it was being continually blown upon by the Bellows. Stoked fire should be much more consistent as a result.