Mellifera

Mellifera 0.3.0

⚠️ Still early and still buggy. This is a work-in-progress release: expect rough edges, unbalanced numbers and things that break. Do not use it on a world you care about, and please report anything you hit.

Power of your own

• New machine: Engine. A generator that burns what the bees make: liquid honey out of its tank or peat out of the slot. 40 FE a tick, which is four machines' worth. A bucket of honey is 40 000 FE and a peat is 16 000. It burns one fuel at a time, honey first, and it will not burn into a full buffer - an idle engine spends nothing.
• New block: Cable. Copper and beeswax, six to a craft. It holds no power at all: a push into any part of a run is handed straight on to every machine that run reaches, so there is no charge in a wire to lose and no delay down its length. It connects to anything that takes Forge Energy, this mod's or another's, and wears a brass collar where it clamps onto a machine.
• Everything still runs unpowered at an eighth of the rate. The Engine makes the bench faster; it does not gate it.

The honey now has three ends

• The Carpenter spends it on frames, the Engine burns it, and one bucket of honey rafts into a Vanilla honey block - the bucket comes back, so a Crafter can run it.
• Honeydew presses in the Squeezer, at 125 mB against a honey drop's 250: eight to a bucket. It was a centrifuge output nothing in the mod took back.

The other leftovers found uses

• Propolis - four make a slime ball.
• Ice shards - four make ice.
• Peat - burns in a furnace for 1600 ticks, the same as a coal, as well as in the Engine.

Balance

• Frame repair is now a quarter of what the frame costs to build, not a flat 200 mB. The flat rate said the right thing about a Luminous frame at 1000 and the wrong thing about a Terminator at 250, where repairing was a new frame with an ash saved.

JEI

• A page for the Engine, listing both fuels with what each is worth in FE.
• The Squeezer page lists honeydew beside the honey drop.

Fixes

• The seven frame recipe-unlock advancements were left pointing at recipes that moved to the Carpenter in 0.2.0. Removed, and the Carpenter, Squeezer and Tank got the advancements they never had.
• Squeezer and Infuser were missing from the pickaxe tag and could be broken by hand.