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Allrighty ... Megistus' Mod Support Pack 1.7.10 Update 2 is now available. There are now new links on the OP, I just simply updated the file.

Quote from Mattcraft4472»

mind blown ,but why is the smoke box gold?

Simple answer ... contrast. Just liked the idea of a shiny brass bit on the top. Other then that, no real good answer.

Quote from MegistusEligius»

Simple answer ... contrast. Just liked the idea of a shiny brass bit on the top. Other then that, no real good answer.

That made me chuckle. Me like shiny brass too...needs no other reason than just being brass...and shiny!

I've gotta have some pics of that station for the fan gallery. I'll use what you've just posted here, but have you got any more views I can choose from? Also have you any other views of stuff that's different than what I included with the mod section stuff that I can use for the gallery?

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That made me chuckle. Me like shiny brass too...needs no other reason than just being brass...and shiny!

I've gotta have some pics of that station for the fan gallery. I'll use what you've just posted here, but have you got any more views I can choose from. Also any other views of stuff that's different than what I included with the mod section stuff that I can use for the gallery?

I will take some more screen shots later for you. Fortunately I have cheats enabled so I can do a bit of flying. Problem I have with mods and SSP... is that mods sometimes choke and need a bit of creative correction. I'll post a link for you as soon as I can.

Here you go Glim:

Quote from Mattcraft4472»

ill take screen shots with shaders! of my city railway spacee scfi steapunk thing!

Ooo! Please do. It will be nice to fill out the gallery with a greater selection of more recent material. I might be a bit picky though.

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Here you go Glim: see Imgur gallery above ^.

Nice one!

There's so much to choose from there and so many excellent buildings and tweaked textures. I'll choose my favorites and put them in the 'official' (sounds a bit grand, eh!?) gallery and if you want to add any descriptions or titles let me know, otherwise I'll label them with your name. I don't want to guess what a building is and end up calling something a 'station' when it might turn out to be a 'grand hotel'.


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I really need to look back through the thread here for those recent airship pics and use some of asikar's airship pics and hope he doesn't mind me including them in my own Imgur gallery here, without his direct permission.

The more images of constructions, Victorian architecture, architecturally correct ways of building appropriate structures, the better for all concerned.

Also folks, don't forget to offer up suggestions to the list of 'steampunk' buildings I have at the bottom of the OP. I'm sure what I have there is missing some very obvious things that I haven't thought of.



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New vid inbound ...just to bore you all with random stuff! I'm just winding up the Youtube crank to see if I can make the upload go any faster!

.....GSv.17 Vid.3 - New Flint Cobble & Lots of Extra Junk


Glimmar's Steampunk v.17 Update, available soon!




Taster Vid 3: 'New Flint Cobble & Lots of Extra Junk'

Included in this video are lots of pics of random junk items to be found in dirt, sand and gravel. Gravel not only has lots of rare junk items, but also a greater variety of rock sizes that help it's juxtaposition with stone, dirt and sand and other materials.

The landscape is more interesting for these extras, but I am aware that the frequency of such random elements is a delicate matter...too much and the whole world can easily look like a junk yard and my pack is designed for creators of ordered retro-future worlds, not post-apocalyptic wildernesses.

The new double slab flint cobble wall texture only requires the use of MCPatcher/Optifine...which everyone uses, right? It is a perfectly legal block and doesn't use any outdated meta number jiggery pokery...just the cobble double slab. It is designed to be a nice bridging block between stone bricks, stone and normal cobble, but will also have many other uses I'm sure.


Anyway, have a look at the video and see what you think.


Thanks for watching.

Music and Sound Credits - please click the spoiler:

Quote from Overjay»

By the way, Megistus. I've found a bug in your download. Tinkers Construct's molten metals have the default textures in your newest pack.

oops .. upload with those textures are now back up.

Quote from Glimmar»

There's so much to choose from there and so many excellent buildings and tweaked textures. I'll choose my favorites and put them in the 'official' (sounds a bit grand, eh!?) gallery and if you want to add any descriptions or titles let me know, otherwise I'll label them with your name. I don't want to guess what a building is and end up calling something a 'station' when it might turn out to be a 'grand hotel'.

Choose what you like No worries on the labeling ... The rail station is just what it is. The other buildings is my power park. Grow and harvest trees, turn them into charcoal and run the steam furnaces for power That is what I really like about the mods is the ability to not only create buildings, but, to create them for specific functionality.

Quote from Overjay»

Well, that is pretty nice! Awesome details, as usual, Glim





Btw, about metadata. Does somebody know, if leather armor changes it's metadata when dyed? I'd like to try creating a set of skins for it, so each color would have it's own texture. Is this possible?

Thanks, mate, glad you like.

As regards item metadata I'll have to pass on that as I've absolutely no experience in that area. I could only suggest asking the same question on the MCPatcher thread. Sorry not to be more helpful.

Quote from MegistusEligius»

Choose what you like No worries on the labeling ... The rail station is just what it is. The other buildings is my power park. Grow and harvest trees, turn them into charcoal and run the steam furnaces for power That is what I really like about the mods is the ability to not only create buildings, but, to create them for specific functionality.

Great stuff! I shall make all the changes when working on altering things in the OP for the GSv17 update.

Haha! I understand what you mean with regard to the functionality of mod use. I am both jealous of the extra blocks that mods provide, but if I can't make my own textures for them due to lack of time it becomes a frightening negative for me. I love the idea of the processes of manufacturing and progress in survival MC with ever more realistic functionality, but have to admit that it's the creative aspect of designing buildings that appeal and after 5 years maintaining GS and still trying to advance Newglim with less and less free time I suppose I've long since lost the patience to do it the hard, but none-the-less satisfying, survival way.

I've become a tinkerer in my old age and it's deeply annoying to me at times, especially given the number of survival games now appearing since the success of Minecraft. Sadly each one I've looked at only holds my attention for a short period of time. I guess as my spare time is whittled away with more work and family matters, it has the knock on effect of dulling my attention span. In the short periods of time I have, it's difficult to get into that creative mood, or even properly organise the time to progress things at a steady pace, my mind ends up drifting from one thing to another.

Anyways, I realize that wittering on here is not going to get the rest of the 1.8 stuff or the rest of the 32x to 64x upgrade work done.

I have an amazing-looking airship I've made with Asikar's edit of this pack... I'll get some screenshots of it for your gallery (and my wall )!

Quote from Alex33212»

I have an amazing-looking airship I've made with Asikar's edit of this pack... I'll get some screenshots of it for your gallery (and my wall )!

Excellent! I like the sound of that!

In the past I've just not been very good at picking up user screenshots, mainly because re-arranging the OP is such a pain, but these new-fangled Imgur albums are a great way of collecting material to show.

Quote from Shadow_Forge_Master»

Glimm, I'm really licking the new cobble, sand&gravel. But about the wools. I'm not biggest fan of recoloring, as nice as it looks, though. At least some of them would be more personal, like wallpapers, retro sofa blocks, e.t.c. How bout' that? Otherwise your work is just impressive

Ooo! I agree and spoke about this a few pages back.

After seeing what Megistus had done with one of the wools (at least I assume it was wool) making a rather nice traditional red carpet design, I realised it was possible to have some distinctive pattern on some of the wool or wool carpets and yet still keep it functional for construction purposes.

So long as the pattern isn't a really bold 60's style floral bouquet I think it might be possible to have a little more variety for carpets and interior walls that still looks acceptable as airship canvas, etc. How does that sound? It will take time, because obviously everyone is waiting up on the 1.8 stuff and I have my own little areas of interest too and very little time, but at least you know the direction I intend going in with some things. Also, like I've already started doing with the stained clay, using ctm on certain wool blocks I can add different designs top, bottom and sides where appropriate making them much more versatile.

Speaking only for myself, but I'm sure it applies to many others artists around here, re-colors of things usually happen because time is limited and making individual wool color patterns adds a whole lot of extra work and/or as many people who like variety there will be an equal number of users who will like sets of the same recolored block for building purposes. Vanilla Minecraft keeps things simple that way too, as do many other popular packs. For me it definitely was due to lack of time and partly keeping airship construction in mind back when wool first appeared.

Hope that puts your mind at rest.

Should be uploading GSv.17 today, if all goes well with the OP and the Curse upload.

.....GSv.17 Update Has Arrived!

Go check it out in the newly edited OP. You rail fans might like the new rail tracks and the like.

Lots of new pics in the Fan Gallery. Don't forget to post some pics of your own builds and I might be able to use them in the Gallery too.

Righto...back to work. I just realized I forgot to stick some new mutton in there, so I'll have to have a session updating items next...and of course the rest of the 1.8 textures.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I'm off to build some extra things on our RL rabbit house!

ps. let me know of course if something has gone wrong with the Curse/Forge download. I easily forget all the things I'm supposed to do over there when editing my page and uploading stuff!

@Megistus: I wished I'd looked through your mod pack properly before uploading...I could have used those gold and diamond tool re-colors. Gah! I'll use them in the next update until I think of something else.

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Also I'm going to have to do some shameless inspirational copying of some of those girder block arrangements you've done. You've managed to combine parts of my iron block and the lead parts of my stained glass in wonderfully useful ways.

With my nose down in the sand, gravel and dirt for so long I haven't had a chance to really mess with the remaining unrefined hastily made blue red and yellow stained glass and to make them more useful, so those will probably be next on the list.

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@Megistus: I wished I'd looked through your mod pack properly before uploading...I could have used those gold and diamond tool re-colors. Gah! I'll use them in the next update until I think of something else.

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Also I'm going to have to do some shameless inspirational copying of some of those girder block arrangements you've done. You've managed to combine parts of my iron block and the lead parts of my stained glass in wonderfully useful ways.

With my nose down in the sand, gravel and dirt for so long I haven't had a chance to really mess with the remaining unrefined hastily made blue red and yellow stained glass and to make them more useful, so those will probably be next on the list.

By all means my friend Though, while I did retexture the Gold tools, I did leave alone the diamond animated tools. The pics I put up of the tools are those from tinkers construct.

As per the wool ... I am certain you are aware, but, in case you are not. All I did was retexture the carpet block, leaving the wool blocks untouched. I was not sure how I personally felt about retexturing the wool blocks, especially if wanted to use them for some other mechanical situation. Ah well.