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The obsidian has two alternatives for those who think the default looks strange. In fact, sometimes when I make alternative textures, I like the alternatives better than the original. In this case, my favourite obsidian texture is the firey one, rather than the default shiny one.

There's a high possibility of there being bugs in this version, so be sure to report any you find. I'm away for the weekend, but I'll get back to them on Monday.

v0.3 release!

You will still have to place the config file manually in this install, due to errors stated above, so sorry about that!

New to v0.3:

• Lamp Blocks will turn off when given an electric current
• Uranium Blocks that damage entities (including the player) on contact
• Quartz Blocks that are semi-transparent and slightly slippery
• The ability to place torches of all kinds on half blocks and stairs
• The ability to push Batteries with Pistons
• Receivers, Cast Iron Blocks and Volucite Blocks cannot be pushed by Pistons, being too heavy. ;D
• Steam Furnace now only smelts faster than a regular Furnace if stocked with water
• Chemical Furnace now requires two different fuels to smelt
• Nuclear Reactor may explode if it gets too hot
• 2 new achievements!
• Electric Lamps now have a model!
• A few minor graphical changes
• Phosphate Ore is now slightly less abundant.

Without further a due, here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?sk27w1ekzef8a3r

I highly recommend you remove any Electric Lamps in your world before updating. Any placed Lamps will appear invisible until they are broken and replaced.

Having a bit of a problem getting the config file to write itself once I've obfuscated. It worked fine in MCP, but once it's put into Minecraft, it breaks down.

I don't have time to fix it if I want to release today, so I'm just going to release it, and you'll have to make do with another version with a 3 part install. Sorry!

It'll be a few days. I still have a few lamp bugs to iron out, and I'm going away for the weekend.

EDIT: Lamps are finally working properly! I had all sorts of problems because I was using the metadata value 0 for the hanging Lamp. Unfortunately, this meant I had no check for if metadata had been set, so I changed it to 6, and a lot of things got better.

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i think you will get more downloads if you put up the crafting recipes on your page as well as tell us how long each fuel burns in each furnace all on the first post and what each tool dose as well as other things like what it takes to mine each ore

These are all included in the download, but I may edit the second post of the thread to include such things.

Not sure... something in BetterThanWolves is breaking it.

Could be an incompatibility somewhere.

Since I'm going to release Steamcraft v0.3 soon, I'll try and update the textures for this to fit with that before I release the next version.

Chainmail is done, as are most of the Aether items. I now have Aether mobs and a couple more random Aether graphics to do before I can release the next version. Sit tight.

No. It should all work. You may have to break invisible lamps and re-place them, though. Not sure if they will update automatically. 0.3 will also have very slightly edited ore generation, but nothing worth starting a new world over.

I will warn you that the texture packs won't work on any of the new content until they are updated, though.

Time for a new update!


This is the new look of the Electric Lamp! Now with a 3D model!


This is the new icon for the Electric Lamp. It still overwrites a terrain sprite index (to save another ID being spent on making a Lamp item), and it is still very subject to change.


This was the main reason I wanted to change the rendering of the Electric Lamps. They looked so wrong when put on the side of a block using the torch render. A nice wall bracket makes all the difference.


Not only do they have new models, but they have a new feature too! You can now place them on the underside of blocks!


When placed underneath a block, as above, you can power them by powering the block they are placed on, just like usual!

And that has taken 3 days to get right. I'm so glad that's over.

A little bit of help, and a ton of trial and error. ;D

Lamps are now rendering AND activating. I just have to sort out the models so they aren't upside down, fix the metadata so that they place correctly, and, of course, program the texture switch so that they light up when activated.

I got something to render! Unfortunately, the block is now broken and doesn't light properly. Once I have the model sorted, I'll get to fixing that.

I'm on the IRC at the moment, seeing if I can get help.

Why make two items? Why not just change the render for when you place it on the ceiling?