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Quote from Brona Pretolus

Very cool texturepack, dude. Although, I admit the fuel description bugs me a bit: dark matter just doesn't fit as fuel in my mind. Maybe the 'coal' is evidence of an even older, more advanced race: "Careful study of Elios IV's regolith and surface matter has revealed the presence of billions of dormant nanotech machines. Although apparently non-functional, their power sources are still potent enough to provide a viable source of energy, although in most samples they do not occur densely enough to be useful"

"Higher density" deposits could perhaps appear as silvery nodules in the rock, like if floating mercury droplets were solidified in place and encased in stone.

Good luck with the texture works, dude

Well first off it's been used in Futurama and to a certain extent Mass Effect as a fuel source. I wrote "the element referred to as Dark Matter" or something similar with the intention that it wasn't actual Dark Matter, that was just a nickname because of its appearance. I like your idea, but I'd really like to think of something that is used for fuel across the universe, and not just on this planet. That would simplify things.

FORUM UPDATED WITH XIO'GENI PARASITE BIO. (Codex > Species)

Quote from Brona Pretolus

Nice work on the silverfish re-skin, it looks really cool

Thanks. I'm taking a screenshot of the new skeleton right now, then I'll upload a new codex page. Next up I'll probably work on the zombies since I haven't entirely figured out what the spider-robot will look like.

Quote from RjNext

Awesome! I just can't wait for this to be released as soon as possible! Keep up the good work. =)

Are you changing 100% of the default Minecraft texture?

Yes, when I'm finished there will be no default textures. Also, I can't wait for this to get released either

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Codex Updated with Vannix Trooper (Codex > Species)

The silverfish can't fit on the zombie's back so Im going to make the one on the back of the zombie a little smaller than it actually is.

Quote from RjNext

If you don't mind asking, what program are you using to create this texture pack? Because I would like to change somethings on the default texture for personal purposes by now. =P

I'm using GIMP 2.7 because it allows me to use layers, gradients, magic wand, etc. It's like a free open-source version of photoshop. May I ask what you are changing?

http://www.gimp.org/

Quote from ElementalChaos

I absolutely <3 this. Can't wait to read all the lore!

Glad somebody feels this way, it takes a lot of time and effort coming up with all this stuff!

Quote from Cryght

can we get a download that doestn require us to download and install sumthin to get the texture pack?

If you are referring to the adf.ly link, don't click the ads! They are ads. I don't want you to download anything from them. Skip it after the 5 seconds is up. If that is too much for you there is quite clearly a non-adf.ly link below...

I didn't work on this too much last night, I played lots of Halo: Reach though I am almost finished with the spider and I have started on the zombie, I hope to add both of those to the codex today. Once again the mobs are being released in three updates---Hostile, Nether, and Peaceful---with Hostile being the upcoming update.

Quote from OneWingedPie

Liking the new stuff! But maybe the skeleton face could have a but more shading... Apart from that I'm loving the imagination going into this!

Yeah it doesn't have as many features as say the chest so it's harder to shade. Plus the outline that goes around the glowy bits wouldn't fit around the eye without it being too big or too small. I'll have another go at it though. Thanks.

Soooooooooooooo I've been thinking and I don't really have any humans on this planet. I came up with an idea that the humans and the Armada are locked in a brutal war for resources on the newly discovered construct-world of Elios IV. Problem with that is there aren't any humans....villagers maybe? I was at first going to make villagers a monk-type race that dedicated their life to studying the artifacts of this planet. I could make humans villagers, but then theres that wierd arms-in-sleeves thing, plus I don't really like the idea of humans not having weapons or being able to defend themselves. I wanted a military-type race. My third option was that maybe zombie pigmen are humans since The Nether is going to be one of Elios' moons. I'm not sure though.......any suggestions at all?

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EDIT: Maybe villagers AND zombie pigmen are human? The zombie pigmen are military and the villagers are scientists and miners and such. But why did the military leave them behind? I can't get anything to fit together. Note that this directly ties into the mob I make for zombie so I can't push this update out till I get this resolved.

Quote from RjNext

Yep, I agree of zombie pigmen being the militaries and the villagers being scientist, researches and such. The military left them behind to look for any kind of harmful creatures on Elios' moon, to be safe that when the scientists comes to the moon, they won't need to worry for any attack and be able to search the place for any new discoveries.

I don't really think zombies should be humans, although they could be humans that got lost from the group, and maybe got infected by some sort of virus that made they still like humanish but are afraid of any creature that comes on their direction.

Don't really know all the lore behind it, so, I don't know how to tie all these together in a better way. =/

Okay yeah, I can use this. I didn't mean to say make humans zombies, I said whatever I decided depends on what the zombie is because the zombies are Xio'Geni Parasite infected versions of whatever I decided to make humans and zombie pigmen.

Quote from DemonButter

I'm going to keep a close eye on this :D. Gonna slap it on to my Minecraft and check what my world would be like as Elios IV. Thanks for the effort, bro. Keep it up.

Glad to hear it! Although when its finished it will be more geared towards starting new levels. I'm not entirely sure what you'll find when you hit that play button

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With my problem solved, I'm hoping for today to be a productive day. It's been a long time since the last update.

Also, I shall retexture golden swords to be some sort of rifle maybe. Overworld mobs like skeleton will never spawn naturally in the nether, so I don't have to worry about the aliens not attacking humans, or that the gun doesn't shoot.

New spider added to codex under Species!

I'll have to edit that category's title later to encompass robots as well.

I started an awesome drawing of Elios IV for it's own codex page. However I need to get water and grass color sorted out before I can go any further with it. I'm working on the zombie now.