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I wondered why the chat box didn't close after typing lol...

Minecraft version, forge version?

2.0 works like a charm and looks and plays better than before. Nice job.

Quote from TheMasterCaver»

In older versions you get about half the maximum damage when they explode by walking up to you and stopping while you are standing still, so this suggests they still do around 40 damage, compared to 73 before (on Hard; when armor penetration is factored in diamond armor lets you survive up to 26 damage, so this is still a one-hit kill in unenchanted armor).

This is something that I thought that they should have done and have even added to one of my mods (which nerfed armor, but without the damage penetration mechanic, done long before 1.9 was in the works in exchange for better durability), making it so that on Normal creepers deal up to 30 damage point-blank (49 in vanilla) - but the damage falls off much slower and is still 6 at the maximum blast damage radius of 6 blocks (this is twice the explosion power). With maxed-out armor a direct hit deals about the same amount of damage as in vanilla but up to 10 times more at the maximum distance:

D    V (20%)    M (33.3%)      Ratio
0   49 (9.8)   30 (10.0)    0.61 ( 1.02)
1   37 (7.4)   26 ( 8.7)    0.70 ( 1.17)
2   27 (5.4)   22 ( 7.3)    0.81 ( 1.36)
3   19 (3.8)   18 ( 6.0)    0.95 ( 1.58)
4   11 (2.2)   14 ( 4.7)    1.27 ( 2.12)
5    5 (1.0)   10 ( 3.3)    2.00 ( 3.33)
6    1 (0.2)    6 ( 2.0)    6.00 (10.00)

(D = distance in blocks, V = vanilla, M = modded, Ratio = modded / vanilla, ( ) = damage after max armor, Easy = 0.5x damage, Hard = 1.5x damage)

Note that this also suggests that they stop more than 0.8 blocks away, closer to 2.5 (I believe the actual damage on Normal was 22, just enough to kill an unarmored player).

Of course, I also made it so creepers keep moving as they count down so try to walk right into you - a feature lost in Beta 1.8(?) which would help balance out the damage nerf if it were re-added - a direct hit is guaranteed to kill unless you have armor or are on Easy (and you may still die from fall damage since you are likely to be thrown high into the air). Not sure why they removed it since I only had to change a single line of code (some AI functions are set to override any other functions, this is also why skeletons stopped moving when shooting before 1.9 - I believe this was also lost in late Beta-early release).

Another thing to note - the Wiki claims that difficulty affects how far you have to be from a creeper ("3-5 blocks") for it to cancel its countdown but that is not true as of 1.8 - it is a fixed 7 blocks (7*7 = 49) regardless of difficulty, so unless they was recently changed it may be another thing that was lost sometime in the past and should be re-added (and also made to account for their actual explosion power/entity damage radius; 6 for normal creepers and 12 for charged creepers):

else if (this.swellingCreeper.getDistanceSqToEntity(this.creeperAttackTarget) > 49.0D)

That said, I personally think they should remove the armor penetration mechanic from most damage sources (excluding those that ignore armor) and reserve it for special weapons; e.g. like how axes disable shields (maybe even return axe damage to the original values and make axes penetrate armor), Guardians can also already (as of 1.8) penetrate armor.

There is no way he should of survived that...

Quote from sp614x»

Resource pack?

Hey sp614x, this issue with HD packs is that the side of items are transparent and seem to be caused by Optifine. Here is vanilla 1.8: http://imgur.com/4rCHK6j and here is modded 1.8 with Optifine_HD_U_G9 with forge and liteloader combined: http://i.imgur.com/CmFZsAp.jpg . I'm not 100% sure it's caused by your mod but please take a look. Oh, and this is with just the Optifine profile: http://imgur.com/iXc9GqM

Quote from Ringoster»

Correct, but the diamond tools have never had that issue IIRC, and they said that the issue only happens when using optifine...

I'm also wondering why the sword looks so blurred. Can I ask what versions of Triton you are using when this happens?

Quote from Mikabella6»

Loving this pack!

Not sure if it was just me but the blue orchid flower was just a bugged texture when i downloaded the snapshot c:

Also, i've been having an issue where the diamond items such as the sword have missing side textures. Only happens when im using optifine.

Example

If anyone knows how to fix this, other than not using optifine, id love to know

My personal favorite new addition(s), is the mob ai. I absolutely adore the skeleton strafing.

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Where can I download Forge 1591?

Quote from xfish2002jx»

umm.... i didn't get any fps boost, i'm downloading from here: http://optifine.net/downloads can anyone help?

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I would also really love support for Minecraft 1.8.8, take your time though I appreciate your hard work :3

The cape server seems to be down? Just curious since it's not showing up on my character is all.