Yeesh, who new changing the version slightly would cause so much anguish

reuploaded Tropicraft, Weather mod once again, and also Hostile Worlds due to a versionbounds bug in fml. Fixes issues connecting to server, both client and server will need to update.

It's bug hunting time! Just implemented 2 fixes for the 'entity stuck in a fence/gate/pane' issue mainly occuring in ZombieCraft but also all my mods. Going to start putting together a list of things to fix from posts in this thread today I think.

Regarding ZombieAwareness, 'Scent' entities are counted as normal mobs which interferes with mob spawning limiters like most servers are. I understand it would be complicated to replace them with another algorythm, it would be cool if we could adjust them like:
- refresh existing nearby 'scent' entity instead of spawning a new one (for example, when mining with a tinker's construct hammer, you will generate hundreds of scent entity in your trail)
- add an option to configure the life span of scent entity so they de-spawn faster
- add a console command to remove them (the existing /za command only works in-game, which is impractical for server maintenance)

That being said, I love the concept behind ZA and I'm eager to see more of it

Love your mods so far

I've having difficulties with some mods expecting entities to move vertically while your WeatherMod is simulating wind on them.
For example, the MeteorMod throw a light to the sky to activate its shield and it won't succeed unless there's no wind in the area.
Another case is a physics mod (namely EnviroMine) where the falling blocks are glitching around due to wind.
Could we have an entity black list for the Wind effect to avoid such effects?

The bouncing back into my programming grove continues!

@Mr_Kluczownik, I'm going to wait until forge is up to date with mc version, so most likely 1.8 or whatever.

@Reelzerz I want to make it so you have to pay at start of use of mysterybox yeah, given the design of ZombieCraft its difficult to make something liek that a quick easy update, still pondering what to do with ZombieCraft, a small bugfix update is pending though.



Also regarding some other stuff asked in most recent page, I'm planning on lots of rewrites, going to bail on ZA scents as entities at some point and make them just pure data for less issues with mcpc+ and so on (probably for 1.8 update push)

I'm also a week into a complete rewrite of weather mod (for 1.6.4, which is still the more popular to use mc with mods, will make updating a rewritten weather mod to 1.8 much less of a nightmare too), with a focus on localized weather, the better design will also let me make it more multi dimensional friendly (so you can choose what dimensions have what features), current 1.591 weather mods code is a huge mess (has remnants of code/bugs from pre client/server mc update)

Been able to code every day, my knee is considerably less b i t c h ­y, outlook for progress life and code wise is improving.

Random pic of me derping around with actual storm formations:



For good measure I'll reiterate my plans for weather 2:

Weather is going to become localized, not all across the dimension mc style. This means you will actually see a stormfront coming your way before it actually starts to rain and so on, hearing the rumbling of distant thunder from it etc (if its an actual thunderstorm type)

The progression and development of storms is going to be more comprehensive as well, ranging from a forming storm that does nothing, to rain, thunder, high winds (global wind flow + storm based wind for effect), hail, and the dreaded tornado if the storm gets spinny enough and has a touchdown.

To start im going to try to keep the 'weather system' as basic as possible and just have chance of stormfronts in a semi random manner, in addition to allowing tropical storms / hurricanes to form over ocean that might eventually hit land.

Going to do my best to profile the area around players so I can take advantage of oceans/lakes/rainforests for higher chance of formations, maybe deserts for killing them off (unless it becomes an annoying issue)

With my ability to override the default rain render I will use that to enable rain if an actual storm is overtop of you, and stop when it passes etc.

(I keep thinking of adding stuff like volcanoes for more crazy fun but no promises)

Back to the grueling task of converting over my funky tornado spin code!

Edit: hey that was easy! html5 link: http://gfycat.com/SardonicGrippingAfricanaugurbuzzard

Sounds interresting.
How do you plan to address the numerous existing mods that relies on the global raining attribute? For example, solar panels or plants growth?

@Knishes glad to hear it! Huzzah for unique mod features!

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Sounds interresting.
How do you plan to address the numerous existing mods that relies on the global raining attribute? For example, solar panels or plants growth?

Yeah, it's a tough problem, I'm going to start with a config that lets you choose if my weather mod will fully deactivate vanilla 'global rain/thunder', default will keep it off for both client side visuals and server side state (act of spawning mobs in storm and them not burning). Maybe a setting to not change the server side state, but having mobs spawn while it appears to be day doesn't make much sense...

In addition to that, to help curb the problem of mod compatibility I could perhaps provide an API that lets mods check the weather state at a specific location (as all the vanilla methods are global only), and hope that one day they choose to support use of the API, but I don't want to depend on that. Another option might be to submit a clever PR to forge that adds support for location specific data on raining/thundering with backwards compatibility, but again the other mods would have to still adjust their code for this.

It's not a huge drawback if it messes with mods, would just be always sunny to their mod. I always provide configuration for stuff like this so the server owner can decide whats more important, global rain on + my storm clouds causing more stuff wouldnt be all that bad, just less impressive :>