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I'm having an odd bug in ChromatiCraft. Sometimes, the crystal charger just doesn't draw power from the pylons. Normal behaviour is when you set it down, it starts to rotate, and if any power source is in range, or connected through repeaters, it draws power. Sometimes it doesn't start to rotate and does nothing else either. I couldn't reproduce it reliably but usually, when you re-load your world, it's gone.

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On topic, native Bedrock tools don't offer a pick without Silk Touch, which has been somewhat of an issue from time to time for me.

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...Am I the only one who uses TiC without ITT?

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Also, what are you talking about, "keeping the tool all the way through the progression"? I treat TiC tools as disposable and ditch them the moment I get better materials.

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OK, but that is hardly native TiC or something I would expect most people use.

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Which will immediately destroy the tool.

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You told him to not disable tools, because it would confuse people.
Now you implement a feature that people expect to behave in a certain way. It doesn't, thus causing endless confusion.
Seems rather contradictory to your normally observed behavior.
If issue with TiCon made basic tools is material cost, you can always tailor the recipe for parts to require more material, IIRC.
Othervise, I see no good reason to deny people making TiCon pickaxe from RC bedrock.

The Lumen Turret keeps disconnecting me from my server whenever it fires. All I see from the console is:

4:29:33 PM CONSOLE: thread/ERROR] [FML]: SimpleChannelHandlerWrapper exception

4:29:34 PM CONSOLE: thread/ERROR] [FML]: There was a critical exception handling a packet on channel ChromaData

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To me this means there needs to be a clearer explanation, not that the parts need be craftable.

Simply put, this:

Previously:

• People expect HSLA tools to be there, because they're in the book.
• I asked to disable the HSLA tools, in favor of the ExtraTiC tools, after fixing the material to better match steel.
• Your response was that while it did not interrupt the progression, you'd rather not do so because it would cause a lot of bug reports.

Currently

• People expect all the tool parts in TiC to be available for tool construction, because they have the molds and the parts are shown in NEI.
• You disabled certain tools from your own TiC compatibility layer.
• You're now receiving quite a few complaints and comments, just like you predicted with the above similar situation.

Am I telling you to do anything? No. It's your mod, you can do what you wish. I have no claim to you, nor you obligation to me.

I can only ask that the competing tool parts be allowed to be used, even if your vanilla-recipe tools are there. Heck, perhaps you can set the TiC material to only have the infinite durability feature, no built-in enchants or special abilities of your monolithic tools. If someone is playing a "disposable-tool" TiC game, then they will likely ignore the TiC replacements anyways and just craft the real things, since they'd be obviously superior. And those of us who are using the replaceable-parts TiC will at least benefit from the long and hard effort of following your mod's progression.

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To me this means there needs to be a clearer explanation

Yes, please expalin your objection against crafting the full range of TiCon tools from RC bedrock ingots.

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This is where you lose me. I have gazed into the abyss of how the majority play...

Speaking as a representative of the minority, I'm pleased to have this opportunity to present my side of the issue.

and I can tell you from experience that most everyone will use the TiC tools regardless of anything else because:

Most everyone? A good number of people, yes, but I seriously doubt the number is high enough to include the word "everyone."

1) TiC is familiar to them

...As opposed to vanilla?

2) TiC tools will be viewed as better no matter what, because that is what popular perception is

In the case of the plurality you speak of, this is probably a good argument, and I won't question it.

3) TiC tools are easier to make

You've got to be kidding. There's a reason I re-enabled vanilla wood tools in my modpack, and it's to allow a player to have a set of tools on the first day without spending the first half of it collecting wood to make the TiC tables and patterns, as well as collecting the materials needed to form the handles, bindings, and heads before assembling them into full tools.

4) Half of the players do not even realize the native RC ones exist.

Are you sure of that? After all, one of the big selling points of RoC are the bedrock tools. ITT progression notwithstanding, the idea that a player can have unbreakable tools is one of the main draws to RoC.

Also, the bedrock tools are not in the TiC book - I could not add them if I wanted to

I'm afraid you've lost me here... TiC book? Are you referring to player expectation? Because in that case, "book" equals "Not Enough Items."

...and I do not want to nerf the "intended" TiC tools like the hammer. I quite like its power.

Fair enough. And is there no way to nerf the competing tools, while keeping the intended abilities of the wanted tools?

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This is where you lose me. I have gazed into the abyss of how the majority play, and I can tell you from experience that most everyone will use the TiC tools regardless of anything else

That's not true. People who use TiCon are well capable of doing basic math. (Those incapable are using ITT, because it offers that exact "next one is better" solution. But we are not dicussing ITT here, are we?)

because 1) TiC is familiar to them,

That's not really an argument. If they are familiar with TiCon, they are familiar with vanilla crafting, and so on.

2) TiC tools will be viewed as better no matter what

Now, THIS is an extreme stretch.

because that is what popular perception is

Popular perception is that your mods are badly designed and corrupting MC code. So much for basing judgment on popular perceprions, right? "Popular" doesn't necessarily means "right" or "within intended design".
The TiCon design is not that "it is better", TiCon design is "distinctive choices". That is also why you can't enchant TiCon tools (normally). TiCon have its own means to the same extent, which are better blending with the rest of the mod.
You CAN say that "this is better" from the generic gameplay standpoint.
But if we take comparison on a point case basis, your native tools have properties, that are better left out from TiCon materials.

3) TiC tools are easier to make

Err. That actually depends on material involved.

4) Half of the players do not even realize the native RC ones exist.

90% Earth's population are morons. Doesn't mean you should cater to every moron in existence?

P.S.
If you want people know about "native" tools, make your "book" design actually usable.
Every time I open it, I want to break my monitor. It is worse than the "Achievement" UI most mods use for "documenting", which is a paramount of shame on its own.

And what do I set the coil to to get 2 mw for the heat ray?

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And what do I set the coil to to get 2 mw for the heat ray?

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I was not aware that the pick let you harvest spawners -- I thought that was the boring machine's specialty.