I can't seem to recall correctly the cause of that crash but you can do some tests and we might figure out the problem.
1. Let the drone runs until it runs out of battery (without monitoring it whichever way and its inventory empty), you can put it on hovering and check the Estimated Fly Time, return after it is depleted. If it crashes here then never let your drone's battery depleted, which means kill it before it runs out of battery.
2. Put ingots, diamonds, emeralds in the drone's inventory to see when it is out of battery and tries to recover using those items will the game crash. (without monitoring through controller or drone screen) then same as test 1
3. Test monitoring the drone with controller or drone screen, both when it runs out of battery with and without any recovering items in it.
If the game crashes on the "without" then it's the problem with the GUI screens opening when drone is depleted. Then dont open them then.
If the game crashes on the "with" but not the "without" then it's the problem with recovering battery when GUI screens are open. Then dont open screens then.
Those are all I can think of right now. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience and thank you so much for your patience and modesty.
I understand. Will there at least be bug fixes? Or in particular this devastating bug? Have you had a report of it before and do you know offhand what is the cause? I can submit more info if needed. Best regards.
That crash is code-wise, there's no way for it to not happen, unfortunately. Hopefully Thaumcraft will update soon
Do you plan to roll in the changes fin 1.5 to the 1.8.9 MC version? I was enjoying playing with this mod until I had a very serious crash while monitoring the battery via the update screen. When the drone ran out of juice the world crashed and got corrupted. I resolved it by removing the mod, which took out the blocks and items. I also backup regularly.
I have to play 1.8.9 because this is primarily a Thaumcraft world and the drones are great for messing with the Crimson Cult
Hoping to see this mod keep moving forward.
There actually are things that are not available in 1.8.9 so the backward porting is very troublesome, so unfortunately I won't be developing for older MC versions
i tried to change the spawn rate to low but dosent work i made them all same to the big baby dron ( 1 , 1 , 1) can make disable or enable option this will be easier for me (sorry i have issues with numbers lol) thanks i love this mod that's why i am feeding back this mode adds more fun to the game
i have suggestions for the future update :
1- Drone stations so so the can have there own AI so the unload or load things or auto charge
2 -Drones for specific jobs like in Sim city 5 cities of tomorrow drones ( you can make A.I modules for example (security AI , Fighter AI , Agriculture AI , etc..) for that you need to craft a communication tower and Yes! if you can Make it Runs on RF power it will be awesome!!!!!! more RF more drones you can control
I hope this feed back is not annoying and i hope you like it
Best wishes
Nice suggestions
I'm actually considering the same thing.
Looks like no matter what i do setting the spawn rates of drones insanely low (big=1 wild=2 baby=5) and towers at like 1000
after enough time the mob spawn count gets high enough no monsters spawn in my worlds.
i am using the up to date version as of 9/1/2016 any way to stabilise the mob spawns ? maybe limit the drones to spawn only in the day and despawn at night O_o cause i gotta be honest i really love this mod but for some reason no matter what i do this mod seems to outspawn default minecraft mobs
hi nice mod indeed i love it i have noticed issue while trying this mod the camera keeps shaking (even in minecraft LOL) in preset mode if you can add option to disable drones from spawning in the world and and enable crafting recipe for the bites it will be better because i didn't find option for that more options means the more balanced game , its good to see that you can change the rarity of the drone tower i suggest to make the drones spawn only in the towers the drone tower is huge thanks for you reading this long feedback .
Removing the drone spawn and enabling bits recipe will just ruin the reason I made those drones anyway. Though you can change their spawn rate to be very low.
It looks a great mod, but i cant make the drone move. I link the controller and the drone, but i dont have any more options than the hovering mode. What can i do?
You need to craft a movement module, install to your drone, and then you will have other flying options
Hi William, very nice and interesting Mod!!, A quick question, is there any way to "disassemble" a drone? (or to exchange modules?)
You can open the drone's inventory, and press "Itemize" to "disassemble" a drone.
But to change modules you have to go to the "Remote screen", choose a module, and press uninstall.
Just downloaded the latest version and found a very significant change in recipes : Drone Bits... Seems like is easier now to create drones, I did my first one with a bunch of ender pearls.... :-(, but.. JEI does not show the drone bits recipe... so, I'm stuck!, please help..
PS Now I see, the bits are from those little wild drones... never mind, I'll go hunting!! :-)
As it turned out, mob spawns were not directly affected by the mod, code-wise, but they just don't spawn because baby drones are spawning too frequently and there's like a limit to how many mobs can be in 1 chunk xD
Fortunately for the next update, I've found a way to make mobs spawn again with this mod, and also drone rendering performance will be increased about x4~x5
I see, killing them with bow & arrow works for me, can't hit them with my sword though.
There is some weird incompatibility going with your mod and hostile mob spawns. With Custom Drones enabled I don't have any mob spawns at night - when I disable it everything is ok. I'm using the mods Rough Mobs and No Mob Spawning on Trees, which is probably causing the interference.
Sorry I can't seem to replicate this bug, mobs still spawn at night for me. There's probably some other incompatibilities
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I've fixed that problem with version 1.5.0, are you sure you have the latest version?
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That is not a bug
You need to install modules into the drone for it to be able to move
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It's ok if you translate the lang file, it's there so that you can change it.
What do you mean by using I18N class?
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I can't seem to recall correctly the cause of that crash but you can do some tests and we might figure out the problem.
1. Let the drone runs until it runs out of battery (without monitoring it whichever way and its inventory empty), you can put it on hovering and check the Estimated Fly Time, return after it is depleted. If it crashes here then never let your drone's battery depleted, which means kill it before it runs out of battery.
2. Put ingots, diamonds, emeralds in the drone's inventory to see when it is out of battery and tries to recover using those items will the game crash. (without monitoring through controller or drone screen) then same as test 1
3. Test monitoring the drone with controller or drone screen, both when it runs out of battery with and without any recovering items in it.
If the game crashes on the "without" then it's the problem with the GUI screens opening when drone is depleted. Then dont open them then.
If the game crashes on the "with" but not the "without" then it's the problem with recovering battery when GUI screens are open. Then dont open screens then.
Those are all I can think of right now. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience and thank you so much for your patience and modesty.
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That crash is code-wise, there's no way for it to not happen, unfortunately. Hopefully Thaumcraft will update soon
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There actually are things that are not available in 1.8.9 so the backward porting is very troublesome, so unfortunately I won't be developing for older MC versions
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Nice suggestions
I'm actually considering the same thing.
I'll see to the problem
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Removing the drone spawn and enabling bits recipe will just ruin the reason I made those drones anyway. Though you can change their spawn rate to be very low.
You need to craft a movement module, install to your drone, and then you will have other flying options
Please do
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I'll see to it. Thanks for the report!
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Making models are actually not my strength xD And since i'm opting for performance, too complex models are quite out of the question
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Update 1.5.0 is out!
Adds
-Added Drone tower
-Added UFO and Fighter drone model
-Added gun upgrades
-Added achievements
Fixes
-Painter and Screw no longer crash
-Drones flying entities around no longer push them underground (for "targeting" mode only)
-Drone spawn no longer blocks mobs spawn at night, or anytime at all
Tweaks
-Wild items can now hold mods and gun upgrades
-Lowered health and attack of Big baby drones
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You can open the drone's inventory, and press "Itemize" to "disassemble" a drone.
But to change modules you have to go to the "Remote screen", choose a module, and press uninstall.
Glad things worked out xD
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As it turned out, mob spawns were not directly affected by the mod, code-wise, but they just don't spawn because baby drones are spawning too frequently and there's like a limit to how many mobs can be in 1 chunk xD
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Fortunately for the next update, I've found a way to make mobs spawn again with this mod, and also drone rendering performance will be increased about x4~x5
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Sorry I can't seem to replicate this bug, mobs still spawn at night for me. There's probably some other incompatibilities