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In earlier centuries, when the gold rush was going on, many gold hunters were tricked by pyrite, a material looking much like gold and found in similer places, but almost worthless in total. This material became famous under the name "fool's gold" and-

Nobody cares! Let's get into what the mod actually does!

When I was mining, I ran across some gold ore.

It looked a little different from that other gold that was nearby, I only barely noticed.

After smelting it into ingots in my furnace, it looked much more distinctly strange.

What's even stranger, is that I can't seem to build armor or tools out of it...

However, it does seem to be craftable into blocks. I can't even tell these apart from normal gold blocks! That's a very nice building oppertunity, seeing as my other mods add in a very large number of other uses for normal gold!

Later, in an ill-fated study of why golden apples were supplimental to my health, instead of damaging to it, I attempted to craft an apple with some of this fake gold.

And then I ate it.

Let's just say that I'm going to stick with normal gold for my apples from now on....

That's annoying as heck, but luckily I have an anvil for renaming items as well as a fairly stupid friend...

-Version 1.1-

I've had the chance to experiment a bit more, and have made an exciting discovery! Putting a Fake Gold Ingot into my crafting table now seems to give me nine "Pyrite Nuggets" (on the left in image below.)

What's Pyrite, you ask? Dunno. Sounds like "Pirate" and has something to do with Fool's Gold. Better actually look it up if you care, you should know better than to trust me.

Now, what about that melon? After studying the Glistering Melons I could make with normal gold, I got to thinking, what happens when I do it with these Pyrite Nuggets?

Yuck. Get a look at this thing. It's all dark and ominous. This is not a good sign. No, really, you can't use it as a sign. I tried. Those still seem to be a wood planks and sticks thing.

After a bit more investigation, I found that I can't make potions from this thing, but I seem to be able to eat it! Weird!

Wow. Okay. Eating this appears to be... Not good for my health... No potion effects, and it even adds some hunger, but it did three hearts of damage to me! I almost died, and it feels like the modder just basically reused the idea of the Fool's golden apple instead of making something new! Not cool!

There also seems to be some development stuff that I can get in creative mode:

There are also some Pyrite bricks afoot, with the actual work in progress abreviation in their name. They're a decorative block with a temporary, kinda ugly texture that will probably be changed later.

-Version 1.2-

I mentioned a fairly stupid friend a little while up. Well, they decided recently to go look for the farlands. I'm pretty sure they were patched out though. Whatever the case, this friend got bored quickly, but still explored some new places, and when I went to visit them, I made an exciting discovery! My friend was complaining about Iron not stacking with itself, in addition to gold! Clearly they were experiencing something new! When they were afk, I mined around beneath their house for a while, and found what I was looking for!

Smelting this stuff gave me yet another weird fake ingot, which I quickly discovered was called "Irony!" It seems to make normal-looking blocks as well. What's infinitely more facinating, however, is what I found out next, which also seems to work with fool's gold!

Then, I tried to combine the two dusts in my crafting table. Sure, I can smelt 'em back into ingots, but this was much more interesting.

That smiling dust is adorable! I can smelt it into ingots as well, but these feel a little more creepy to me...

And of course, some blocks of this "Happy Iron."

That's all well and good, but what about this smiling dust? Surely there's more I can do with it? Well, yes. It, some gold dust, and some fish, give me a weird crunchy snack. That miiight just not be a permenent texture...

Yum. I can also combine the smiling dust with a pumpkin, to make the pumpgrin, and then that with a torch for the Happ O' Lanturn. Creepy smiling pumpkins.

Now, Crafting an Iron-golemy shape with my fool's gold blocks and a pumpkin gives me an unsettling Totem. I'm a little worried about what will happen when I use an item like this...

Now, There's a freezer that turns Fool's Gold into Fool's Cold, or 'Cold Gold.' Thing is, I need Cold Gold to make the freezer. I can probably get the stuff another way. Anyway, this stuff seems to be about as good as diamond in the tools department! Woot! There are also some pretty neat decorative blocks

Now, making a sword with these gave me something with as much damage as a diamond sword! It also works as a shovel, and has more durability! The only problem I see is that I need to enchant it with books or it just gets shovel enchantments.

Now, the pickaxe is pretty normal. Pick shaped. Frosty. Hit things real good. Around as fast as diamond, slightly higher durability, enchantability, and damage.

There's also some apples. The blue one is weird, the grey and yellow one is weird for other reasons. Blue is unsafe to eat, Gray-Yellow takes skill to eat correctly. Want elaboration? Hah, nah. Use it ingame...

What an update!

- Version 1.3.0.0 -
Joke update for april fool's day

- Version 1.4.0.0 -
Added possibly even more than v1.2!
The doccumentation will roll out pretty slowly.

Whenever I right-click on a block with a GUI, the GUI sticks to my hand! It's a GOOEY GUI!
Those darn slimes :\
These things can be used to do the G.U.I's effect in a crafting table!
They work with both the gold freezer and the pancake flipper!

Old versions: (minecraft 1.7.10)

-Versions after 1.1.0.1 are available on curseforge, here.

-Version 1.1.0.1

-Version 1.0.0.0

To install, just drop it in your mods folder like any other forge mod. Seriously, do I still have to go over this?

ENGLISH:

Current:
None

Old:
Here's a spotlight by Max_the_Technomancer that covers everything in version 1.0.0.0 in fair amounts of detail.
Since that version, a lot has changed though...

SPANISH: (Espaniol?)
I know almost 15 words in spanish, so, needless to say, I have no idea what is going on in this one, but it seems to be almost current, and google translate sorta gets across something, so enjoy!

Future:

-Fix obvious issues in 1.4.0.0
-Add in False Emeralds, Called "Emery"
-Add in a contrapositive to fool's gold, "Bold Gold"
-Remove Herobrine
Version 1.4.0.0
-Re-implemented everything. That was dumb.
-Pancake Machines
-Pancakes
-Keeping it real
-Wait no nevermind
-Negative space
-Negative spade
-LOL IDK
-Removed Herobrine

Version 1.3.0.0:
-April fool's day update.

-Removed everything

-Removed Herobrine
-Added rotten flesh blocks

Version 1.2.0.1:
-Actually just a repackaged 1.2.0.0. Shhh.
Version 1.2.0.0:
-Cold Gold, Irony, & Happy Iron, along with blocks and some tools.
-Some brokenish stuff
-Decorative things
-Crunchier fish

-Smash those ores!

-Re-broke ore generation! (oops)

-Did I mention happy iron? That stuff is wonderful.
-Removed Herobrine!
Version 1.1.0.1:
-Fixed crafting recipe for Blistering Melon
-Fixed spelling in Blistering Melon's name.
-Fixed the crash when the thing happened with the stuff
-Removed Herobrine
Version 1.1.0.0:
-Remade entire mod's existing features from scratch, since I lost the original, and it wasn't hard.
-Pyrite nuggets
-Blistering melon
-Fool's Gold Dust
-Better ore gen? We hope?

-Fool's Gold Blocks are now able to be crafted back into ingots.
-Pyrite Bricks
-Renamed the mod in some of it's files to 'Better Gold,' just to toy with waila users. You're welcome :3
-Fool's Gold Block renamed to "Block of Fool's Gold" to fit better with the vanilla naming scheme.
-A few things optimised for hopefully better performence
-Removed Herobrine
Version 1.0.0.0:
-First release

Please do suggest things, I'm happy to hear them. :3

If you want to put this in your modpack, go ahead, just mention it here so I can keep track :3

If you want to redistribute this on some other website or claim it as your own, just bury yourself in compost and think about your life.

Mod by ArloTheEpic

Special thanks to MCreator for:
-No ore dictionary support! (in the 1.7.10 versions)
-Making the Golem summoning item spawn extra 'ghost golems' sometimes! (in the 1.7.10 versions)
-Making me have to make a Golem summoning item instead of just allowing it to work as a construct in the world

-Several things being in the 'food' tab for inexplicable reasons.
-The tools not being as cool as they could be!

-Some blocks like the pumpgrin and happy iron block facing in a specifc direction, rather than facing toward the player who placed them!
-I guess technically also this mod existing at all :\

Quote from AdminGamer101»

This is the best MCreator Mod I've ever seen

Congrats!

Quote from Xenocorpse»

Great mod! Can't believe I took something from this without knowing

Quote from cassarcat»

Best mod ever Could i use it in a mod pack?

Quote from Crappo331»

I like this idea

Quote from ransoshadofire»

Foolish gold, a marvelous invention!

Quote from afakeaccount

Th1s m0d iz dunb trash & the bottum comment in ur 'things people hav sayed' section isn't even a thing that anyb0dy ever said. 1 hate this m0d and 1 hate u for mak1ng it. Go bern in da Nether for etern1ty u pile of V1lloger dung, and 1 hope to nevah hav 2 c u again. Buttbreath.

• 'M' opens/closes the interactive map GUI.
• 'Spacebar' cycles through marker groups.
• 'Delete' deletes the selected marker.
• 'Home' centers map on the player.
• 'End' centers the map on the selected marker.
• 'N' selects next marker in current group.
• 'C' changes colour of the selected marker.
• 'P' write currently displayed area of map to PNG.
• 'T' teleport to selected marker or to cursor position.
• 'L' toggles map scaling filter between linear (blurred) and nearest (sharp).
• '1' toggles display of coordinates in game.
• '2' toggles rotating circular mini map mode.
• 'R' regenerates the currently displayed area of the map. Use after changing texture packs.
• 'Page up' zooms out.
• 'Page down' zooms in.
• Left click dragging the map pans the view.
• Mouse wheel zooms the map view.
• Right clicking the map sets a new marker.
• Left clicking a marker selects it.
• Left click dragging a selected marker moves it.
• Mouse wheel on the selected marker cycles the marker colour.
• Arrow keys pan the map.

####################
# options
####################

options {
    # Max number of steps you can zoom in. Does not affect performance.
    I:zoomInLevels=5

    # Max number of steps you can zoom out. Larger values decrease performance.
    I:zoomOutLevels=5

    # chunksPerTick sets the maximum number of chunks updated per tick.
    # increase if you find the map updates too slowly.
    I:chunksPerTick=3

    # The teleport command MapWriter uses. For some servers this may need to be
    # set to "tppos"
    S:teleportCommand=tp

    # Set to 0 to disable teleporting
    I:teleportEnabled=1

    # the square of the max distance from the player to map chunks at
    I:maxChunkSaveDistSq=16384

    # set to 0 to disable appending the port number to the world name
    # for multiplayer worlds
    I:portNumberInWorldNameEnabled=1

    # set to 0 to disable saving region files (mca files) in single player
    # or multiplayer.
    # Warning: without the region files you won't be able to regenerate
    # the map when the texture pack changes, or when the save format
    # changes in a future MapWriter version.
    # In single player it is possible to just copy the Minecraft region
    # files to the mapwriter directory to regenerate the map instead.
    I:regionFileOutputEnabledSP=1
    I:regionFileOutputEnabledMP=1

    # Override the directory MapWriter uses to store images and region
    # files. Not tested yet.
    S:saveDirOverride=
}

####################
# smallMap
####################

smallMap {
    # set to 0 to disable this map mode so that it won't appear
    # when pressing 'n'
    I:enabled=1

    # Map opacity. 0-100 percent
    I:alphaPercent=100

    # Width of the border in Minecraft screen units.
    I:borderWidth=1

    # Set to 1 to draw coords.
    # Toggled by pressing '1' in the map GUI.
    I:drawCoords=0


    # The map size as a percentage of the screen height.
    # Ignored if both Left and Right or both Bottom and Top margins set.
    I:heightPercent=30

    # Margin sizes.
    # If set to anything but -1 the map will snap to that margin.
    # If both the Left and Right or both the Top and Bottom margins are set
    # to -1 the map will be centered in that direction.
    I:marginBottom=-1
    I:marginLeft=-1
    I:marginRight=10
    I:marginTop=10

    # Set to 1 to enable circular map mode.
    # Can also be toggled by pressing '2' in the map GUI.
    I:circular=1

    # Set to 1 to rotate map with player heading.
    # Can also be toggled by pressing '2' in the map GUI.
    I:rotate=1

    # Player arrow and marker size for this map mode.
    I:markerSize=3
    I:playerArrowSize=4
}

block 37 * 60ffff00    # make dandelions yellow
block 38 * 60ff0000    # make roses red
blocktype 2 * grass    # grass block
blocktype 8 * water    # still water block

• Allow waypoint names to have spaces and other special characters (all characters except ":").
• If the teleportCommand in the MapWriter.cfg is set to "warp" teleporting to a waypoint will run the command "/warp <waypoint name>" rather than "/warp <x> <y> <z>".
• Hide waypoints set in a different dimension.
• Fix grey rectangles on nether map (caused by mushrooms growing above the ceiling bedrock!)
• Changing the dimension in the full screen GUI now causes the minimap to also display that dimension.
• Fix the overlays not working with the circular map mode.
• Fix mini map disappearing when chat is opened (jk-5).
• Slime chunk overlay now uses the "/seed" command to determine world seed (jk-5).

• Support for Minecraft 1.7.2 (thanks jk-5!).

• Added underground mode message under mini map when in underground mode.
• Back to the basic black border textures.

• Added minimap textures by LoneStar144.
• Fixed flickering block bug.
• Fixed blocks above 127 being rendered incorrectly.
• Port number in world name option should now work (not tested).

• Support for textures (borders, arrows, and background)
• Fix underground map mode crash in The End dimension (thanks to tterrag1098)
• Fix RuntimeException in BlockColourGen when used in combination with some mods

• Improved underground map mode, smoother updating, shading for regions too far below position, circular update area around player.
• Added key bind for underground mode ("U" by default).
• Added config file options regionFileOutputEnabledSP and regionFileOutputEnabledMP for disabling region file (MCA file) output in single player and multiplayer respectively.

• Fixed greyed chunks in the nether (and maybe in overworld as well?)
• Fixed help message overflowing width

• Merged ProfMobius's overlay API.
• Fixed extra utilities compatibility issue (thanks to taelnia).
• Added north arrow.
• Smaller coords font size (configurable in GUI->options menu).
• Started working on a replacement underground map (very buggy at the moment). Can be accessed by pressing 'u' in the map GUI. Only visible when zoomed in.
• Region files are now only used for regenerating the map.

• Death markers now work again (thanks to Christian Ehrhardt for the code).
• Added GUI option to configure max number of death markers (0-10).
• Death markers are now named the date that you died (e.g. 20130926_0956 for 26/09/2013 09:56).

• Fixed zoom level changing when entering/leaving Nether dimension. Now the zoom level will only change autmatically when you switch dimensions in the full screen mode.
• Made the map snap to the nearest pixel to prevent blurring.
• Added an option in the GUI to disable snapping to nearest pixel.
• Fixed map position option not changing underground map position.

• Added a configurable max chunk draw distance to limit the area around the player that is mapped. Can be changed through the Map GUI -> Options menu.
• Added options in the Map GUI -> Options Menu for configuring the map size and screen position. Now you don't have to edit the config file to move the map to a different corner.
• Fixed crash with Torch Levers mod (hopefully, haven't tested yet).
• Fixed freeze map colours button not regenerating block colours when required.

• Add support to 'freeze' the current map colours, so that you can change texture packs without the map colours changing.
• Fix the 'r' key for regenerating regions in the map GUI not working properly.
• Fix region file bug that caused non-empty sectors to be overwritten.

• Fixed dimensions other than overworld not being displayed.
• Fixed scaling problem with the large circular map mode.
• Changed the way chunks are loaded, hopefully it is more efficient.

• Support for Minecraft 1.6.2
• Added in game hot key for creating a marker (defaults to 'Insert').
• Restructured region code and added custom region file read/write implementation.
• Changed the location mapwriter saves marker configuration and explored map data for single player worlds.
• Map now tries to match the map view size in blocks to the map size in pixels.
• Added dimension field to markers.
• Disabled teleporting to markers that were set in another dimension.

• Fixed disabling maps in the config file.
• Fixed current map mode not being saved.
• Fixed texture scaling mode not being saved.
• Right clicking the player in the map GUI now creates a marker at the players exact location.

• Added an options GUI for configuring the map.
• Made it possible to change the map texture size at runtime.
• Added trail markers that show the path you have traveled in the last few minutes. Can be enabled in the new options GUI.
• Attempt at fixing conflict with shader mods. It appears that some shader mods expect GL depth testing to be enabled and don't enable it themselves, so now it is enabled after the map is rendered. Also changed the circular map stenciling code to not wipe the depth buffer every frame.

• Added rotating circular map mode. Press '2' in the Map GUI to activate.
• Fixed PNG "area too large" errors.

• Fixed chunks on borders of regions not updating.
• Fixed map regeneration not working.

• Fixed coordinate display (was broken in 2.0).
• Improved region management code.
• Fixed empty regions being loaded continuously.
• Regions now use SoftReferences for pixel data, so that loaded regions are kept in memory until the Java garbage collector closes them. This means that regions will be loaded from disk less often, and also reduce the risk of running out of memory for large texture sizes.

• Support for more zoom out levels ("zoomOutLevels" in config file).
• Support for increased map resolution ("maxTextureSize" in config file).
• Major code restructure and clean up.
• Regions and map texture now updated from background thread.
• Changed overlay size and position configuration options.
• Buffer for terrain texture now dynamically allocated.

• Fixed biome shading problem for biomes with ID greater than 127.
• The last teleport height entered is now used as the default height for future teleports.
• Removed blockalpha config file section, and added the 'opaque' block type instead.
• Added block type entries for some Biomes O Plenty block ID's to improve how leaves and foliage appear on the map.

• Updated for 1.5.2.
• Stopped using OpenGL FBO's for colour generation and zoom level scaling.
• Removed block generation exceptions.
• Added "teleportCommand" config option.

• Updated for 1.5.1
• Started modifying code in preparation for moving everything but rendering to background thread

• Map now generated directly from Anvil region files. Base level PNG images no longer needed. Images still used for zoom levels.
• Added code for chunk NBT decoding/encoding.
• Added map regeneration key.
• Added configurable block types so Biome colouring can be performed without using Minecraft code. This is so that the map can be generated from chunks not loaded into the world.
• Fixed coord display using incorrect texture.
• Fixed chunks not saving on exit.

• Fixed bug causing mini map to become tiny.

• Changed block colour generation and zoom level code to use drawing methods from Minecraft's Tesselator class.
• Made zoom level change when you switch between nether and overworld to match the scaling factor.

• Added square brackets around dimension selection box.
• Added group selection box in map GUI.

• Preliminary support for dimensions other than the overworld. Only tested with the Nether at this stage.
• Changed chunksPerTick default from 1 to 3.
• Added debugging info for block colour generation.
• Regression: Death markers no longer work. Need to find a different way to capture entity death events that works in multiplayer.
• Unfixed: Different overworld dimensions on multiverse servers write to the same map.

• Support for Minecraft 1.5.
• Changed from coremod to mod. Chunks now polled constantly rather than using a bytecode injection to hook the chunk fill method.
• Block colours now automatically generated from in game texture.
• Biome colouring.
• Improved region loading and rendering (regions now copied to large wrapped texture).
• Map now refreshes periodically and tries to detect modified blocks.
• Unfixed: Different overworld dimensions on multiverse servers write to the same map.

• Fixed crash on zoom level recreation due to concurrent file IO in different threads.
• Fixed crash upon selecting delete world after a death in hardcore mode.
• Mouseover box in GUI now scales with marker name length.
• Added help description for Page Up and Page Down keys.
• Right clicking a non selected marker now no longer creates a new marker on top of the old marker.
• Fixed large map borders not being configurable.
• Unfixed: Different overworld dimensions on multiverse servers write to the same map.

• Increased zoom out distance by 16 times. This required adding 4 levels of scaled images for each world. The scaled images should be generated automatically upon login.
• Z key in Map GUI now forces recreation of scaled images.
• Map size now scales directly with the screen resolution.
• Modified the code to support viewing the map in a rectangular window.
• Made the map GUI display a full screen map.
• Implemented better marker direction calculations when markers are outside of the map area. They should no longer group so tightly in corners.
• Home key now centres map on player, end key centres on selected marker.
• Added help messages for the new key binds.
• Made waypoints larger by default in the large and full screen map modes.
• Added border to small and large map modes.
• Added 'all' marker group which displays all markers.
• Death marker system changed, now only the 3 most recent deaths are marked.
• All waypoints are now stored in the world directory. The main configuration file only configures map options now.
• Added separate configuration options for large and small map modes.
• Marker size and player arrow size can now be configured.
• Map borders can be configured or disabled.
• Any or all of the small, large and underground map modes can be disabled in the config file.
• Removed creative mode check on teleport.
• Zoom level no longer shared between GUI and mini map.
• Unfixed: Different overworld dimensions on multiverse servers write to the same map.
• Unfixed: Null pointer exception on hardcore death when the player chooses to delete the world.

• Added interactive map GUI for marker management.
• Added configuration options for mini map size and position.
• Removed all chat commands (superseded by map GUI).

• Added /mwmerge and /mwmergearea commands.

• Images are now saved to the Minecraft saves directory rather than the 'mapwriter' folder in the executable directory. Users will need to move images they want to keep to the new folder.
• Multiplayer worlds are now saved to 'saves\mapwriter_mp_worlds\'.
• World names are now stripped of invalid characters to prevent mapwriter saving to e.g. '..\..\..\Windows' or similar. Users may need to manually rename their world folders.
• Restructured code to prevent some null pointer exceptions when components don't load in the expected sequence.
• Added death markers.
• Added black border around all markers to increase visibility.
• Added '/mwdelgroup' command.
• Made Glowstone and Giant Mushroom blocks show up on the map.

• Fixed map panning increment not scaling with zoom level.
• Zooming while map is panned now zooms to the centre of the view rather than to the top left corner.
• Fixed teleporting to waypoints created in the Overworld when the player is in the Nether.
• Fixed null pointer exception when the player is disconnected before the login packet is processed.

• Added key binds for zooming the map.
• Fixed an issue causing the map to flicker when used in combination with the Seasons mod. The GL colour was not being reset by mapwriter before drawing.

• Added configurable block colours in the '.minecraft\config\MapWriter.cfg' file.

• Fixed array out of bounds exception when switching to underground view mode in a map with extended block ID's.

• Added confirmation messages for commands and better error output.
• Updated class transformer for 1.4.6 obfuscation.
• Fixed '/mwcolor' command not working.

• Restructured class transformation code to allow for bytecode insertion into multiple base classes.
• Added chat commands.
• Markers now stored in a Forge configuration file rather than in markers.txt.
• Markers now have a settable name and group.
• Changed key functionality (comma changes marker group, period teleports).

• Single player worlds are now saved in directories with the correct world name, rather than using the default 'sp_world'.
• Image naming convention changed to match the Anvil region name convention, so '2.1.png' is the image for region 'r.2.1.mca'. Previously '2.1.png' would have been named '1024.512.png'.
• Mod can now be tested with the 'startclient.bat' script in MCP. Previously it would not work due to the ASM class transformer only working with obfuscated code.
• Commented some debugging lines that I accidentally left in 1.1.

• Converted mod to use the Forge API

• Chrixian for the code to get death markers working.
• ProfMobius for the overlay API.
• taelnia for extrautils compatibility patch.
• Ebayle for a lot of helpful suggestions early on in development.
• LoneStar144 for minimap arrow and border textures.

• Standalone utility (not a mod).
• Used to generate a map of a world from the Anvil (*.mca) region files. The map can be viewed using the included Google Maps viewer.
• Mostly intended for server admins with access to the world files, but also works with the region files saved by MapWriter in multiplayer.

java AnvilMapper "C:\apps\minecraft\mapwriter\multiplayer world.25565"
pause