Changes

• Updated to 1.21.5-1.21.10
• Complete rewrite of the data pack
• Completely overhauled drones
  • Rewrote drone AI
  • New drone model
  • New sound effects
  • Drone lasers now have a custom model
  • Tweaked recipe
• Improvements to turrets:
  • Turrets now rotate around two axes of rotation
  • Turrets can now be placed on any side of a block
  • Turret lasers now have a custom model
  • New sound effects
  • Reduced recipe cost to be more in line with that of drones
• Improvements to force field projector:
  • Tweaked texture to show directionality
  • Can now be placed in any direction
  • Added brief shield raising/lowering animation
• Improvements to laser projectors
  • Greatly increased range of laser projectors
  • Laser projectors can now be blocked by solid blocks
  • Laser projectors can now be placed vertically
• Removed drone control tower and drone control tower upgrade, as they are now obsolete. Use the legacy wand to return materials
• Changes to upgrades:
  • Upgrades are no longer mutually exclusive on drones/turrets
  • Durability upgrade can now be stacked up to 3
  • Added turret/drone range upgrade (can be stacked up to 3)
  • Added new textures for upgrades
  • Flamethrower upgrade now causes drones to shoot fireballs, instead of lighting the ground underneath their targets on fire.
• Added container key
  • Brings container locking to survival
• Keycards now come in sixteen new colors
• Tweaked base keycard recipe to be slightly simpler
• Changes to keycard readers:
  • Keycard readers are now full blocks
  • Now emit a redstone signal when they detect a valid keycard
  • Changed recipe to require fewer types of materials
• Adding a code to big buttons is now optional
• Changed klaxon recipe to require fewer types of materials
• Tweaked mob detector recipe to allow more item substitutes
• Added new alarm sounds to the klaxon
• All recipes now use the crafting table, now that vanilla supports custom components in recipe outputs
• Removed the secure crafter and secure recipe book, as they are no longer needed. Use the legacy wand to return materials
• Text now uses translation keys instead of being hardcoded

Migrating Legacy Machines to Release 3

• Added legacy wand for updating old blocks/items to their R3 equivalent
• Right-click wand to update all legacy items in your inventory, as well as whatever legacy device you're looking at

• Updated to 1.20

Changes

• Updated datapack to 1.17!
  • Note: release 2 is not backwards-compatible with 1.16
• Added drone control tower
• Entity detector no longer detects players
• Added drone/turret upgrades:
  • Control tower upgrade (drone only)
  • Durability upgrade
  • Flamethrower upgrade
• Buffed turrets slightly:
  • Increased firing range from ten to fifteen blocks
  • Decreased reload time from 2 to 1.5 seconds
  • Tweaked recipe to be slightly less expensive

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where unencoded drones would target the player anyways until reaching firing range.
• Fixed bug where the keycard reader triggered if an out-of-range player held a matching keycard while an unauthorized player stood in-range.
• Fixed bug where devices would receive a wireless signal from an out-of-range transmitter if a different (unpowered) transmitter was closer.
• Fixed bug where player detector could detect players in spectator mode
• Fixed bug where the recipe book did not function properly in multiplayer
• Fixed bug where the encoder and crafter didn't work if another player (besides the one using it) was nearby.

• Fixed a bug where the recipe book disappeared on use in survival

• Fixed a bug where the blocks/devices weren't placeable in survival