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Quote from Wyr3d»

I think a lot less people would keep asking this question if the thread title was altered to something like:

Better than Wolves Stand Alone Conversion for 1.5.2 ONLY

Of course, that's assuming the even read the title - they sure don't read the previous posts.

Quote from Lianite»

EDIT: I retract my question. Was looking back for some information on additional hardcore mods since the last time I played and came across a post from FlowerChild stating his reasons. My apologies for asking stupid repeat questions.

Quote from SheikHylian»

I wonder why people in general are incapable of using the "search" feature on the website to answer their own questions, seeing how this is asked so often it's ridiculous.

Simple. Why spend 2 minutes on google when you can post in 30 seconds? human laziness knows no limit.

Quote from pjkbd»

Wait is this for 1.7.10? I downloaded it and went into the readme and is said compatible with minecraft 1.5.

Quote from Mason11987»

Almost as if you can't have everything at once immediately in BTW

Quote from kazerima»

Pretty sure it's a troll, only 1 forum post.

Quote from cookface00

well when it comes to playing it like this once you die you're basically starting over. In my opinion the only way you can actually make it mid to late game is if you dont die within the first few nights and survive to make a shelter

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P.S. I know what literal means it basically means in you aren't exaggerating

Quote from hardcorerobot

As if something like that is even enforceable in a court.

Quote from slango20

I was heading up a vertical tunnel at the time, so I tried to move fast to avoid an ambush, then I noticed the dungeon at the top

Quote from slango20

what I meant was similar to what you said, you didn't include code to make it incompatible, you just didn't add the code required to make it compatible. or if my understanding of how modloader works is correct, you used the vanilla method for adding blocks and items over the modloader method, and never actually included code to make it incompatible. Example of deliberately including code to prevent it from working: what sengir did with bees and the techicpack launcher, those were some fun times!

Thanks for the kind words guys. Very cool to hear you're getting such enjoyment from the mod.

Quote from Koward»

IMO, not really. These days all mods are like libraries with sets of functions applied on MC and their effect is undefined and depends on billions of config options as parameters. Beside the obvious overhead forced on the programmers by this, it means that those who actually define the game (and whether it will be fun or not) are people who sets those parameters. Nowadays it's mainly modpack authors.
It's a bit weird to say but I think in modern-MC-modding language, BTW is not a mod, but a modpack using only custom in-house mods.

I think you're bang on with that. I've thought about it in similar ways in the past where modern game design within mods seems to be left to modpack creators, where mods themselves are largely about the raw feature set which is used to create those designs.

Since I'm interested in both design and programming, it has resulted in BTW occupying a strange (strange for modern modding anyways) middle ground between mod and modpack.

In all honesty, performance in Minecraft is really hit-and-miss. Minecraft Forge with mods tends to be the worst case scenario, whereas vanilla is the best. Even Optifine can't help my hunk-of-junk PC whenever I'm using lots of mods. However, when class files are imported directly into the jar, there is not as much (if any) performance hit, it seems.

Of course, if chunk generation, graphic detail, or etc. is changed by the mod then it is safe to assume there would be a noticeable difference in performance, whether good or bad. Which is what I like about BTW, it's a clean mod, both in-game and during installation, no "rough edges" bull.

As for relative performance to new versions of Minecraft? I don't play new versions unless I'm forced to... although I can't tell much of a difference. At one point, I couldn't play Minecraft without my display driver crashing every few minutes.

Quote from Higgs_Bonbon»

Better than Better than Wolves

Well, I don't think anyone has ever mistaken 4chan for a bastion of creative genius

[**** NEW RELEASE ****]

Version 4.A Dingo of Better Than Wolves is ready for download!

Download Link

This release contains the following changes:

-Added Hardcore Slime.

-Added conversion recipes between some of the vanilla slabs and their full blocks. This applies to cobblestone, brick, stone brick, and the various wood planks, basically covering any of the stock slabs that are made out of "parts" (like individual rocks in cobble) that you could see being easily recombined back into the original.

-Changed (increased) the despawn time of fired arrows stuck in blocks to be equal to the regular item despawn time (5 minutes instead of the previous 1) for consistency and due to the increased value of arrows in the early game.

-Changed animals to be a little more nervous.

-Changed brown mushrooms so that they'll only spawn deep down in the earth (or on mycelium), to make their initial acquisition more interesting, and to prevent swamps being a horn of plenty. I figured out a way to do this without messing with overall worldgen so this and the following changes shouldn't cause seams in existing worlds. Note that this also applies to the nether as I wasn't down with free food being everywhere in hell

-Changed brown mushrooms to also require complete darkness (or mycelium) in which to grow to make farming them a little more interesting. The growth conditions remain otherwise unchanged.

-Changed reeds to only spawn in swamps, for similar reasons.

-Changed pumpkins to only spawn in plains biomes, and reduced the size of clusters in which they appear.

-Changed swamp biomes to only spawn pigs and chickens (no cows and sheep), and reduced the overall number of animals found there, to make them a little less zoo-like and more distinct.

-Changed chickens to avoid water when possible to reduce the number that would be found floating around off shore.

-Changed chickens to be visible from further away as they tended to pop-in quite close to the player.

-Changed cows to not get jiggy with the hoofsies while wearing a breeding harness.

-Changed Bloodwood Saplings to render as items rather than blocks when in item form. This changes the look of them slightly to be more consistent with other saplings as well as fixes a problem where they'd display oddly in item frames.

-Fixed problem where the player would appear to be falling in empty sky upon a hardcore spawn, and (hopefully) where they would sometimes spawn in solid blocks. You'll likely notice increased time in the "loading terrain" screen upon respawn, as this fix revolves around waiting for more of the terrain to buffer before putting the player into the game world. Let me know if you see any more instances of spawning in terrain, as while I ran numerous tests, this is the kind of thing that's rather difficult to be certain of since it was sporadic in the first place.

-Fixed problem where creatures would still attempt to path over some of the fences the mod adds (eg. stone brick fence) as if they were regular blocks.

-Fixed particle effects not appearing at all on smashing pumpkins. Also fixed both pumpkins and melons not displaying particle effects when dropped on invalid blocks like torches or slabs.

-Removed the vanilla wood fence, fence gate, trap door, and door recipes. This means that you'll need a Saw to craft these items.

-Revised the install instructions in the readme to reflect the process with the "new" launcher. If anyone spots any errors, please let me know.

Enjoy!

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If you'd like to say thanks for this release and help contribute to the further development of Better Than Wolves, please consider making a donation:

Quote from thekillman»

I can confirm. It was a major reason for me to settle in the desert, until i realized that it was literally the worst biome to settle in every other way.

I don't know what you mean by "joke", this looks pretty legitimate to me. Maybe you just haven't spent enough time crawling around the ocean depths to find it? I mean, nobody really seems to go looking down there, I bet there's all kinds of things down there nobody ever goes looking for.

Quote from mkomko7»

And they really do it

Along with encouraging player to go and taste every feature scattered around the world (Temples, Fortresess, Villages etc.), but have You noticed that there is still one absolutely no-go region? I mean that player probably won't never ever there - to Ocean Depths.

What ever happened to that old post about my adventures in the BTW underwater temples? They had diamond saws, steam power, and bootsies for the wolfsies feetsies.

Quote from mnky_moonbane»

wow. i dont particularly like the new changes. apparently im so terrified of some slight darkness that i start bleeding internally? lame

Quote from AllenWL»

Anyways, a question. When exactly does 'dawn' and 'dusk' start/end?