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I entirely understand the course-load thing. I hope you can keep this up when Thaumcraft 5 comes out, as this is truly a well-done mod. I'd take it over if I didn't lack the ability to write code, understand code, or pretty much do anything except have great (okay, mediocre) ideas.

I appreciate the integrity of the mod in the relative nature it keeps the same grindy-ness of the two respective mods. Its a lot of work to get full systems,and I've gotten plenty of time under my belt getting there.

First of all, THANK YOU for eliminating warded jars from my life. You have no idea how my jar-less life been so much less cluttered (or maybe you do...you designed the mod).

I do have 2 suggestions for future changes, whether its you or someone else:

I'd like to fully automate alchemy like any other recipe in an AE system. Okay, its a first world problem, I'll admit. But the fact I have to go to the actual alchemical construct and tell it which item to make is just inconvenient in the relative scheme of things. This mod has removed arcane crafting and jar management, and removing this one other thing would really make it great. There could be a way to modify an alchemical construct to hold arcane patterns or something similar. Perhaps a storage space for an existing knowledge core, but only put alchemy recipes instead? The essentia provider is a great thing, but I still have to confirm any items I import and tell the system what its making.

Another idea I'd like to see would be a bus or similar device that connects to an alchemical furnace, and if I need Precantatio (or whatever), I can teach it to take blaze rods from my system. I would tell it the item, but if there's a need, it auto-sends items to be broken down that I've chosen. Yeah, I'm lazy, but I generally don't want to have to check my book for the correct item, then wait for it to burn. If the system could make what it needs (and I make sure I always have said Item) it'd help. Even better would be if it auto-burnt items if the essentia in the system dropped below a specified number.

Perhaps I just like my life easy, or maybe I'm full of good ideas. But having used most features of this mod, those are two more I'd like to see....if you (or someone) gets a chance.

Thanks,

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And a week later AE2 rv3 came out and breaks the addon mods.. :\

oooofff course

It did? I don't see it anywhere. Also, you don't have to update. I definitely won't, if it means removing TE

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The rv3 publications are alpha builds that are not supposed to be reported to be incompatible with other mods:

"These builds are considered unstable, they may contain item dupes, deletions or other world ending bugs these builds are for TESTING ONLY.
Rv2 Alpha is not compatible with any AE2 addons, do not request add-on authors or other mod developers to support these builds." ~ http://ae-mod.info/

Obviously, the "Rv2" in this quote should be "Rv3".

Ah, alpha stuff. I didn't even look there because I don't see any reason for actually using these for playing

It's starting to look like some addon-breaking API changes are in rv2 already. I pointed an essentia storage bus at a quantuim jar from Technomancy and the essentia terminal could not see it. I tried a void jar and it also failed. Import buses also fail despite having a 16k essentia cell installed.

What's going on?

he didnt stop he is paused due to heavy course load with the possibility of not being back till december on it.

Found an issue that I hope you weren't already aware of. I've been in the process of trimming down my mod load and was using up whatever items I could from one of the mods I was removing. I left a couple of those in the arcane crafting terminal before removing the mod. Now whenever I open the terminal it crashes my game :P. I think it should be a simple, one or two line fix to tell the terminal to discard any item IDs it can't find. For now, I'll just re-add the old mod long enough to take the items out of the terminal ^_^.

BTW, I love this mod! I can't imagine going back to the old storage methods for essentia ever again :P.

Oh, BTW, I'm using version 0.8.10.10 of TE (so if you fixed that issue in an update and I didn't know about it, sorry)

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Good call, but do you think mod authors should be spending their time and resources on situations that only happen if users actively change their mod setup within the same save file? It's something to think about.

I could say that I am not trying to be a smartass, but we both know that that is not true.

That's why my response wasn't, "OMG! Major game crashing bug! I can't play anymore because of this!" It's a minor issue which, coming from my knowledge as someone who has been programming in C++ for 13 years (C++ and Java are similar enough for that experience to count for something) should be a <10 minute fix (though I can't say for sure since I haven't looked at the mod's code). I reported the bug for when Nividica is ready to return to working on the mod and when they have time (if they even feel like fixing such a minor bug).

Try going through the list of extremely minor and circumstantial bugs that other mod authors (and even Mojang themselves!) fix between releases. You'll find that it's not uncommon for programmers to address these kinds of issues, no matter how minor.

I might just be blind (It's 5:20AM and I need to go to bed) but I can't find a way to make an interface crafting pattern for the production of an essentia type... If this is in the mod, could someone point me to it? And if not, count this as a suggested feature

But seriously, it would be quite nice to be able to teach the AE system what to drop into the alchemical furnace and/or advanced alchemical furnace to produce a given type of essentia.

Quote from GammaPaladin»

I might just be blind (It's 5:20AM and I need to go to bed) but I can't find a way to make an interface crafting pattern for the production of an essentia type... If this is in the mod, could someone point me to it? And if not, count this as a suggested feature

But seriously, it would be quite nice to be able to teach the AE system what to drop into the alchemical furnace and/or advanced alchemical furnace to produce a given type of essentia.

I believe that Computercraft and/or Automagy allow for checking aspect content of items and/or containers, but I have never messed with that myself. Considering the vast number of items containing each aspect, and the combinations, and varying amounts, you're better off finding the single best item for each aspect and working from that point onwards. Also, how would it know which items were expendable/renewable?

Example situations: You need Alienis. Will it drop in a few Ender Pearls out of your vast collection, or one of your precious Nether Stars? Need Praecantatio? Oh, there's Nether Wart in the system? Nah, let's use one of those fancy wands you have laying around here. You didn't need that, right?

That was actually my point... I want to be able to set a specific recipe, tell it that 1 mossy cobblestone = 1 praecantatio for instance, and then be able to hit craft for that, or set a trigger to do it automatically when the essentia storage for that drops below a certain level... Would be handy

I have quite a bit of essentia stored in quantum jars from Technomancy and I would like to import it into essentia storage. What's the best way to do it?

I've tried attaching import buses directly to the jars and to tubes... neither work,

So basically you want to set associations for aspects with certain items. It does sound useful.

So, here's something that I'm not sure if it's already possible. If it is, feel free to ignore this.

A way to craft phials of essentia within the system. Perhaps something as simple as an Essentia Bottler or Phial Filler or whatever.

what do you mean with substitutions? like, if you encode one type of ethereal essence, any type works?