Better Than Wolves

August 30, 2011

• Added the Anvil.
• Added the Armor Plate as a new item.
• Added Plate Helm, Plate Breastplate, Plate Leggings, and Plate boots as new items.
• Added the Composite Bow.
• Added Broadhead arrow heads, and Broadhead Arrows.
• Added Coal Dust as an item (which can be made from both coal and charcoal)
• Added ability to cook Coal Dust & Hellfire Dust in the Cauldron to create Nethercoal (and removed the old crafting recipe to create Nethercoal). 1 unit of Coal Dust & 4 units of Hellfire Dust are required to create 2 pieces of Nethercoal.
• Added alternate recipe for the Gear Box using wood Panels instead of wood blocks.
• Added ability to melt down rails in the Crucible at 16 to 6 rail to iron conversion ratio.
• Added an option to the config file to disable the mod's minecart tweeks.
• Added ability for Detector block to "see" fully grown wheat occupying the block to the front and below it.
• Added ability for the Crucible to pick up loose objects on top of it.
• Added ability for items to flow over the top of the Cauldron if they can not be swallowed by it (same thing applies to the Crucible).
• Added ability to dye wool in a heated Cauldron at a ratio of 8 wool to 1 dye.
• Added ability to grind flowers in the mill stone to produce dyes.
• Added ability to cook cactus in the Cauldron to produce green dye.
• Added ability to cook sand and gunpowder into TnT in the Cauldron (complete with hazards).
• Added ability to cook string into wool. I'm not sure if this makes much sense, but neither does crafting spider silk into wool to begin with and I was sick of having to manually craft string into wool to save on storage space. Insert magical explanation for what happens to giant-spider-silk when you cook it here :)
• Added ability to render string and wool into glue, but it takes rather massive quantities.
• Added ability for Planters to sprout flowers if left alone without anything planted in them for a long while.
• Added recipe to make torches out of Nethercoal.
• Added Forge version checking. A descriptive error message will now be displayed if you are using an inappropriate version of the Forge with BTW.
• Changed name of the Refined Axe to the "Battle Axe" and increased the damage it does to mobs. The recipe also requires 2 more steel than previously (for the double head). It is now a combination tool/weapon (although not quite as effective as a Longsword as a weapon).
• Changed axes to be effective against cactus.
• Changed Detector Block recipe to use two pieces of lapis (NOT blocks) for the "eyes", instead of 1 block of lapis.
• Changed Cauldron to only produce foul food after the normal cooking time has elapsed (it's no longer instantaneous). This was part of the optimization process involved in the rewrite of the Cauldron code detailed below.
• Changed explosion size when overheating explosive elements in the Cauldron to be proportionate to the quantity involved.
• Changed Steel recipe in Crucible to require Coal Dust and Concentrated Hellfire instead of Nethercoal (this recipe will likely change once again in the future).
• Changed the Hopper filters to work properly on the newer items that I've added to the mod.
• Changed Hibachi recipe to require a piece of glowstone dust in the middle instead of smooth stone.
• Fixed the bouncing on items when they are resting on a filtered Hopper.
• Removed crafting recipe to convert Concentrated Hellfire into Hellfire dust. This was just a debug recipe I accidentally left in the last version.
• Removed ability to grind stone into panels in the Mill Stone, and moved that functionality to the Anvil. This will likely not be their final resting place in the tech-tree, but it's certainly better than them being in the Mill Stone.
• Removed delay for items being picked up on top of the Cauldron.
• Rewrote a lot of the Cauldron code to better structure it and make it easier to add new recipes. I mention this so that players can keep an eye out for any problems that may arise with this functionality. Please let me know if you spot any issues.
• Integrated Version 1.06 of the Forge, and eliminated a few base-class changes as a result. Note that 1.06 or later is required for this release of the mod to function