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[TehKrush]

TehKrush's Mods

Common Sense said:

If you have an error with any of my mods, always post an error log. Krush can't help you if you say "i crashed, fix your shit krush".

Also, when posting an error report, surround it with /code/ (square brackets, not slashes) tags please. And READ THE README! (TehKrush is not responsible for destroying your saves)

Before you PM me, YES, you CAN put my mods in your mod packs. I'm completely fine with it.

Updates:
04/04/2012 - Timber 1.2.4 works with 1.2.5. No need to update it.
29/03/2012 - Updated Timber for 1.2.4.
06/03/2012 - Updated Timber for 1.2.3.

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Table of Contents:
Minecraft Mods
- PlasticCraft
- MineFactory Reloaded
- PowerConverters
- HiddenDoors
- NetherOres
- Portable Workbench
- Squirrels
- Timber!
Other Links
- Donate/Support
- Legal

MINECRAFT MODS

PlasticCraft

PlasticCraft adds a new technological tier to Minecraft: Plastic! The mod adds a variety of new items to the game, such as water bottles, microwaves, rubber trampolines, and even plastic shovels.

Video: Courtesy of ctye85.


Recipes: Link

Download
PlasticCraft v3.0.2 Client | PlasticCraft v3.0.2 Server

Requires ModLoader, ModLoaderMP, and MCForge.

Old Versions
PlasticCraft v2.3 for 1.0.0 (requires ML and MCF)
PlasticCraft v2.1.3 for b1.7.3 (requires ML)

Misc. Links
How to install PlasticCraft

MineFactory Reloaded

This is a continuation of powercrystal's MineFactory Reloaded, which is also a continuation of MineFactory. So yeah. Here's powercrystal's summary on MFR, since I didn't want to type it out again.

Go to the wiki for all the information on MineFactory Reloaded!

Download
Click here for all the current downloads

Requires ModLoader, ModLoaderMP, and MCForge.

Old Versions
Go here for all the old versions.

Power Converters

This is a continuation of powercrystal's PowerConverters, a bridge-mod between BuildCraft and IC2.

powercrystals said:

Spoiler

This adds several new blocks designed to make BuildCraft and IndustrialCraft2 interact better.

Direwolf20 has an excellent showcase video for this mod:


The Engine Generator takes in BC power (from an attached engine or power pipe) and generates EUs. It comes in LV, MV, and HV variants:



(LV, MV, HV variants shown in that order)
It converts at a 1:1 ratio, based on coal output in a generator vs in a steam engine. You may not see an exact return for a given size input if it doesn't have enough in its small internal buffer to form the next output pulse.
Note that all three have an input cutoff higher than the output of a single redstone engine, much like how some of the BC machines work. If you want to use redstone engines, you'll need to construct a whole bunch of them and link them via power pipes.

The Energy Link takes in EUs and produces BC power directly into pipes. It will connect to wooden power pipes, or directly to machines, making it equivalent to a theoretical "electric engine":

It converts at slightly over 90% efficiency (the extra loss is a bug in BuildCraft that should be fixed in 3.0). It can run on HV with no problems. Note that it will only provide power to wooden conductive pipes (or machines) but not stone or gold conductive pipes, just like a regular engine would.
Also, if you use a wood pipe to capture the output of an Energy Link, you cannot use that same wooden pipe to connect to a machine, there must be another pipe in the chain first, so like "energy link -> wood pipe -> quarry" is invalid, but "energy link -> wood pipe -> stone pipe -> quarry" is. This is a BC design choice, not part of my mod.

The Oil Fabricator produces oil when powered. Like a Mass Fabricator, it will take an insane amount of power to run at any meaningful speed:

One oil bucket is worth 50,000 EUs. Again, it does not care about input voltage. Best to not ask how the TNT is used in the process of creating oil.

You can also now fabricate lava!

The rules are basically the same as the oil fab as far as input voltages go.

Have you ever wanted an easier way to generate EUs from lava? Well, now you have a modified geothermal generator that will run on lava that is piped directly into it:

(recipe is shapeless)
No more do you need to mess with buckets and cells and autofillers and other such nonsense; just connect your pump to this wonder and watch the EUs roll in!

Water?

Yep, covered. This machine actually serves two functions - it generates EUs from water, and it acts as a passthrough for liquids that aren't water, for when you are pumping oil out of a sea deposit but water gets in your pipes. Just connect your oil pipeline to this wonder and the oil will come out the opposite site (it must be the opposite side, not just any other connected side) and the water will be consumed for EUs. If it can't consume water fast enough, or you want to use it as a filter but don't want to deal with wiring an output wire, just provide it a redstone signal - it will then destroy any water that won't fit in its storage.

Sure is a shame that you have these fuel-based jetpacks that can't run on fuel, isn't it?

Craft one of these and while holding it rightclick on a tank containing fuel. Presto, your jetpack is refuelled. For safety reasons you must unequip your jetpack and be carrying it in your inventory prior to use.

And if you want to can fuel?

We got that covered too. As always, the empty bucket is returned afterwards. The reverse recipe is not provided because the BC bucket is worth far, far more than the IC can.

Notes/FAQ/known issues/etc

My energy pipes are bleeding power!
This is most obvious if you run an MFE to another MFE via an energy link. This is due to a bug in BuildCraft that should now be fixed in BC 3.0.

On balance, math, and other numbers

The "Correct" values may change whenever IC2/BC updates, but I can't change the defaults if you've already set them in the config - check back here occasionally!
A particularly "hot" topic about this mod in the thread is balance - everybody's opinion of it is different. The mod provides the ability for you, the end user, to edit the config file to change the values used by each of the converters. I will now explain each of the settings, what they do, which machine uses them, and how the default was derived.

First, some primers:

• The IC2 unit of energy is the EU (I don't think it has an official 'full name').
  
• The BC unit of energy is the MJ (Minecraft Joule).
  
• There are 1000 "units" of liquid per bucket.

Onto the numbers:

Scale.BCtoIC.Denominator=2
Scale.BCtoIC.Numerator=5

These two numbers are used by the Engine Generators (all three of them; they're the same thing underneath anyway). These two form the ratio of EUs you get from each MJ - if you've forgotten your fractions, EU = BC * Numerator/Denominator. Two integers are used instead of a decimal to avoid floating point rounding errors which can be fairly nasty to small numbers.
The actual ratio comes from the output of a single piece of coal - in a steam engine, you get 1600 MJ. In a generator, you get 4000 EU. 4000/1600 = 5/2.
To add inefficiency, decrease the numerator or increase the denominator.

Scale.ICtoBC.Denominator=5
Scale.ICtoBC.Numerator=2

These two are the reverse of the above, and are used by the Energy Link. Note that due to a bug in BuildCraft (current as of 2.2.5), some energy will always be lost in power pipes even if it's a single gold pipe. All comments about the above two are the same here, except that these go in the other direction.

Scale.EUGeneratedPerLavaUnit=20

This is the amount of EUs you get from a single lava unit in a Geothermal Mk2. BC 2.2.5 has made this value incorrect. In an IC2 Geothermal, you get 20 EUs from a unit of lava (or rather, 20,000 for a bucket as IC2 does not have BC's concept of liquid units). In BC 2.2.4 and earlier, lava was worth 2,000 MJ or 5,000 MJ. In BC 2.2.5, lava was changed to be worth 20,000 MJ or 50,000 EU - if you're on BC 2.2.5 you want to change this to 50. If you want the Geo Mk2 to be less profitable, decrease this number.

Scale.LavaCostInEU=20

Same as the above, except this applies to the cost of the Lava Fabricator. Again, if you're on BC 2.2.5 you want to change this to 50. If you want the Lava Fab to be less powerful, increase this number.

Scale.OilCostInEU=50

This is the cost to produce oil in the Oil Fabricator, and the most controversial setting in this thread. The default of 50 is based on the energy gained back from oil - a bucket is worth 20,000 MJ or 50,000 EUs. However, some people think that this should also consider the gain from refining fuel. It costs 10,000 MJ to refine a bucket of fuel, and that bucket has a yield of 250,000 MJ. Using this system, the Oil Fabricator should cost 190,000 MJ to fabricate a bucket of oil, or 475 EU per oil unit.
Why not set that as the default? I am of the opinion that though you can use this to generate a free energy system, you can also do that with far less difficulty by just using a solar/wind/water/redstone engine farm, or even an automated treefarm to produce charcoal and a normal generator. I know my opinions aren't everybody's, but I have to pick a default somewhere.
As with the lava unit cost, if you want the Oil Fabricator to be less effective, increase this number.

Scale.EUGeneratedPerWaterOutput=1
Scale.WaterConsumedPerTick=2

This is the amount of power you get from the Water Strainer. Because the smallest value of EUs per water unit (1) would still yield 1000 EUs per bucket of water, I expect a number of people to find this too high for their tastes (this is actually the amount IC2 gives you per bucket of water). Increasing WaterConsumedPerTick essentially divides the 1000 by that number.

Scale.JetpackFuelFilledPerFuelUnit=468

A jetpack is fully fuelled via 6 coalfuel cells in a can; each piece of coal is 4,000 EUs. This is a total of 24,000 EUs. A jetpack has 18,000 fuel units (based on damage value), so 1.3333... EUs per fuel unit of the jetpack. Based on BC fuel's unit value of 625, a single unit of BC fuel will thus fill 468 (rounded down) jetpack fuel units.
This makes jetpacks incredibly cheap to run on fuel; some people may not like that, but honestly given how much easier it is to just use the electric one, I'm fine with this the way it is. If you're not, just change this number. A smaller number will make fuel less effective at refilling jetpacks.

Rate.GeoMk2EUPerTick=20

The EU/t output from the Geothermal Mk. 2. Note that if you set this to a number that 1000 * EUGeneratedPerLavaUnit is not an even multiple of, you wouldn't completely drain the generator's internal buffer completely for each bucket you put in it. Probably not an issue, but noting this here in case you are testing it and you get a number that isn't what you expected.

Rate.WaterStrainerEUPerTick=2

The EU/t output from the Water Strainer. See notes on the Geo Mk2's EU/t rate, they apply here.

Enable.FuelConversionCrafting=true

If you don't want to enable BC->IC fuel crafting (which is incredibly lossy), set this to false, since there's no way to set the relative values of either.

Enable.EnergyLink=true
Enable.(...)=true

For each of these, if you set the value to false, that machine/item will not be craftable. Any already produced (or spawned in via TMI or ops in SMP, etc) will function correctly.
Warning for SMP: if you disable a recipe but the client doesn't, they will still see the machine in the output but won't be able to "take" it. It will work correctly, but you may get confused questions.

Downloads
Click here for all the current downloads

Requires IndustrialCraft2, BuildCraft v2.X (not v3.X!), and all the things that they require.

Old Versions
Go here for all the old versions.

HiddenDoors

HiddenDoors adds a hidden door that takes on the texture of whatever it is placed on top of.. if you make one of these hidden doors, and put it on top of golden ore, it would look just like golden ore!

Video: Courtesy of CocoSmackdown.


Recipes:

= Hidden Door


Screenshots
- Closed stone door.
- The stone door is now open!

Download
HiddenDoors 1.1.0

Requires ModLoader.

Old Versions
HiddenDoors 1.0.0
HiddenDoors b1.8.1

Nether Ores

A mod by powercrystals that adds overworld ores to the nether.

powercrystals said:

Spoiler

This is a fairly basic mod. It makes the six "ores" - coal, diamond, gold, iron, lapis, redstone - spawn in the nether so that you have a reason to go there. In version 1.0.2 and higher, it also now includes copper and tin (see below). These can make you quite rich, but beware, the local inhabitants don't take too kindly to people stealing their resources, and ages of being exposed to the hostile environment of the nether has left these ores somewhat unstable...

Once you harvest one of these, you must smelt it into the drop you'd get from its surface form by cooking it in a furnace. Nether Iron gets you an iron ore block, Nether Redstone gets you redstone dust, etc.

Notes/FAQ/known issues/etc
"Lit TNT" warning sound does not play in SMP?
I'm aware of this. Sounds in MP is weird; MFR suffers from this same issue. I want to fix it eventually, but it's a fairly low-priority issue.

How do copper and tin work with IC2 vs RedPower World?
While loading, Nether Ores looks for other mods setting up tin and copper. The first one to load "wins", and nether copper and nether tin smelt into that mod's ores. If no mod registers copper or tin, the blocks will still be visible in TMI, but they'll be useless and won't appear in newly generated nether chunks.

The ores are hard to spot!
This was a deliberate choice. The nether is supposed to be hostile, after all.

Old Versions

Downloads
Click here for all the current downloads

Requires ModLoader, ModLoaderMP, and MCForge.

Old Versions
Go here for all the old versions.

Portable Workbench

Craft it, and right click while it's in your hand, and you'll open a 3x3 crafting window. Much better then carrying around workbenches. You can change the ID of the Portable Workbench in /.minecraft/config/mod_PortableWorkbench.cfg. This mod is originally by Kingbdogz.


= Portable Workbench


Download
Portable Workbench 1.1.0

Requires ModLoader.

Old Versions
Portable Workbench 1.0.0
Portable Workbench b1.7.3

Squirrels

The Squirrels mod adds cute little rodent squirrels to your Minecraft. They run away from you and act cute as they climb things.

There are 8 squirrel types during the day, ranging from normal squirrels to special squirrels.

Screenshots



Download
Squirrels 1.1.0

Requires ModLoader & AudioMod.

Old Versions
Squirrels b1.8.1
Squirrels b1.7.3

Timber!

Timber! makes all the logs in a tree break when you hit the bottom block of the tree with an axe of any type. You can toggle this effect to safely remove logs by holding down C while chopping logs with your axe (configurable in /.minecraft/config/mod_Timber.cfg).

Axes added by other mods will not work by default, you will have to edit the Timber! config file (see above) and add the ids for the mod axes manually. The ids for the vanilla axes and the PlasticCraft axe is included by default.

Video

Another fun video:

Download
Timber! 1.2.4 & 1.2.5

Requires ModLoader.

Old Versions
Timber! 1.2.3
Timber! 1.1
Timber! 1.0.0
Timber! b1.8.1
Timber! b1.7.3

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License/Legal Stuff

Spoiler

Quote

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
0. USED TERMS
MOD - modification, plugin, a piece of software that interfaces with the Minecraft client to extend, add, change or remove original capabilities.
MOJANG - Mojang AB
OWNER - Zachary Campbell (TehKrush), original author of the MOD(s). Under the copyright terms accepted when purchasing Minecraft (http://www.minecraft.net/copyright.jsp) the OWNER has full rights over their MOD despite use of MOJANG code.
USER - End user of the mod, person installing the mod.

1. LIABILITY
THIS MOD IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITH NO WARRANTIES, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE. THE OWNER OF THIS MOD TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES INCURRED FROM THE USE OF THIS MOD. THIS MOD ALTERS FUNDAMENTAL PARTS OF THE MINECRAFT GAME, PARTS OF MINECRAFT MAY NOT WORK WITH THIS MOD INSTALLED. ALL DAMAGES CAUSED FROM THE USE OR MISUSE OF THIS MOD FALL ON THE USER.

2. USE
Use of this MOD to be installed, manually or automatically, is given to the USER without restriction.

3. REDISTRIBUTION
This MOD may be redistributed freely, as long as no money is gained from the mirror/packaging of the MOD.

4. DERIVATIVE WORKS/MODIFICATION
This mod is provided freely and may be decompiled and modified for private use, either with a decompiler or a bytecode editor. Public distribution of modified versions of this MOD require advance written permission of the OWNER and may be subject to certain terms.

[Samiam22]

How good exactly IS the plastic shovel?

And what about other uses for plastic?

[TehKrush]

I still haven't decided how good exactly it'll be yet, I keep modifying the code to see what feels right. And I have no other uses for plastic yet, because I don't have many ideas >.>

EDIT: My main idea for the plastic shovel, is it to be weak, but give a bonus when shoveling snow..

[Eylk]

Plastic Armor +1
Increases Defense by somesuch points!
Increases Wedgies by 8 points(towardsyou)!
Increases Self Esteem by -28 points!

[Ghostboxer]

Samiam22 said:

How good exactly IS the plastic shovel?

And what about other uses for plastic?

what if you used plastic with already crafted objects to create replicas that could be placed down as displays or decorations. ... like a iron sword surrounded by plastic blocks = Iron sword replica, which you could hang on a wall or shelf or something

[Kira]

You could have Plastic Never despawn when dropped.

[BOOMcow]

I liek plastick. It sounds awesome.

[irishladdie727]

I like this idea a lot, mainly because for some reason I find the plastic shovel very visually appealing. Go ahead and make plastic version of all the tools. The shovel and the hoe could be decent to bad, the axe, sword, and pickaxe can't do shit... But have more uses than diamond/ are indestructible. Actually that's fairly balanced. Plastic tools are really really shitty, maybe even shittier than wood, but they never break. What do you think? And no, it doesn't make much sense that diamonds would be more brittle than plastic, but this mod is powered by imagination.

[BOOMcow]

The recipie for recycling bin would be 2x2 plastic blocks. It would be the "anti-workbench".

EDIT: Once Notch adds dye make it with blue plastic blocks

[BOOMcow]

Also make each plastic ball cost at lest 1 coal.

Go talk to the creator of the Capitalism Mod and see what he thinks. He is working in the same general area of development.

EDIT: By this I mean that he is adding endgame-type items and objectives and may help you may or may not be able to collaborate.

[BOOMcow]

IDEAS

_________________________________________________________________________________________________

"The Unbreakable boat" - boat made with plastic blocks instead of wood.

"Creeper Resistant shielding"- Plastic blocks have explosion resistance of adminium.

"TNT Proof Pants"- Plastic armour made from plastic blocks: is weak but explosion proof.

[TehKrush]

BOOMcow said:

Also make each plastic ball cost at lest 1 coal.

Oh it does, the picture just used more then one coal because the coal and stuff disappears once the item is made and I wanted the items to show up in the screenshot still >.>

And good ideas. Plastic Blocks shall be invincible to explosives!

One more thing, I couldn't think of a good texture for plastic blocks, so I just used the default Diamond block texture and recolored it. Anybody wanna try and make a better one? xD

[Atkana]

I was going to post a suggestion of anti-crafting benches but it seems you beat me :/
Good ideas but isn't Minecraft built on some sort of realism? Surely plastic would be weak against explosions.

Also a suggestion, replace sand with plastic in the TNT recipe and you get, wait for it... PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES! Dun dun chhh!

[irishladdie727]

Em0srawk said:

I was going to post a suggestion of anti-crafting benches but it seems you beat me :/
Good ideas but isn't Minecraft built on some sort of realism? Surely plastic would be weak against explosions.

Also a suggestion, replace sand with plastic in the TNT recipe and you get, wait for it... PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES! Dun dun chhh!

[Atkana]

irishladdie727 said:

Em0srawk said:

I was going to post a suggestion of anti-crafting benches but it seems you beat me :/
Good ideas but isn't Minecraft built on some sort of realism? Surely plastic would be weak against explosions.

Also a suggestion, replace sand with plastic in the TNT recipe and you get, wait for it... PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES! Dun dun chhh!

Do you have any proof that doesn't work in real life? Also SOME sort of realism, obviously creepers and zombies aren't real (Slimes are, I met one once)

[TehKrush]

Ok, I have water bottles working, gooey plastic blocks that slow mobs/players, and C4 plastic explosive..



C4 has double the radius of TNT, and also a longer fuse so you can get away from it.

[TheAlienAdventures]

yay i post

[Pewman]

TheAlienAdventures said:

yay i post

no


damn it, i was just about to give you the plastic explosives idea!! D: now i don't have any ideas for plastic.

[LD300]

May I ask... why do you need an egg for making the plastic ball?

[TehKrush]

LD300 said:

May I ask... why do you need an egg for making the plastic ball?

Eggs used to be ingredients in plastic, and still can be used (but not as much anymore). They were replaced by gelatin (an item I plan on adding to replace eggs).