April 25 updates

Written by Tonius on Monday, May 7, 2018

On April 25, new updates were released for CoFH Core, the Thermal Series and Redstone Arsenal.

It took a while to update the documentation for these updates, which is why this post is also a bit late. The post for the next updates will probably be written before the docs are updated.

General

• Various refactors and bugfixes (see the issue tracker).

CoFH Core

• New potion types
  • Potion of Luck (applies Luck)
  • Potion of Misfortune (applies Bad Luck)
• Insight can be applied to bows.
• Infinity enchanted bows work without requiring a single arrow in the user’s inventory.
• All enchantments and potion types added by CoFH Core can now be disabled.

Thermal Foundation

• CoFH World is no longer a hard dependency. However, it is still used for the default world generation.
• Oil sand now has a red variant.
• Added recipes for potions of Luck and Misfortune.
• Tectonic petrotheum no longer applies Night Vision when touched.
• Elemental dusts (pyrotheum, cryotheum, aerotheum and petrotheum) are crafted with two units of elemental powder instead of one.
• New crafting materials: tool casing, drill head and saw blade.
• Pigments
  • Types of dye that can only be used for dyeing (unlike certain dyes like bone meal and lapis lazuli).
  • Obtained by recycling wool in a pulverizer or concrete powder in a centrifugal separator.
• Multimeters are crafted with gold gears instead of electrum gears.
• Slightly rebalanced tools and armor.
• Hammers and sickles don’t break multiple blocks when sneaking.

Thermal Expansion

• Factorizer
  • A device that combines and splits various items.
  • Works using ‘storage’ crafting recipes (storage blocks, nuggets, etc.).
  • Replaces the compactor’s Storage mode.
• Creature Encaptulator
  • A device that captures mobs in an area using morbs.
• Sawmills are crafted with saw blades instead of iron gears.
• Compactor changes
  • Removed Storage mode; this functionality is now handled by the factorizer.
  • The current mode can now only be set by installing specialization augments.
• Various minor tweaks to machine recipe energy amounts and secondary chances.
• Many recycling recipes in machines have been tweaked, moved or removed.
• Pulverizers can no longer produce cracked stone bricks, as they are now obtainable through smelting.
• Induction smelter recipe tweaks
  • Hardened glass can no longer be produced using lead ingots; only pulverized lead works.
  • Lapis lazuli ore can now be processed.
  • Processing redstone ore yields 8 redstone instead of a block of redstone.
  • Processing nether quartz ore is now done using regular sand instead of soul sand, and yields 4 nether quartz instead of a block of quartz.
  • Metal gears and plates can be recycled back into ingots.
• Magma crucibles can produce lava from granite and diorite.
• Fluid transposer elemental powder recipes changed:
  • Essence of knowledge is used instead of destabilized redstone.
  • Blaze powder requires 2 sulfur instead of glowstone dust.
  • Blizz powder requires 2 snowballs instead of 1.
  • Blitz powder requires 2 niter instead of sand.
  • Basalz powder requires 2 pulverized obsidian instead of 1.
• Active dynamos now have animated textures.
• Flux capacitors and reservoirs can be equipped as baubles.
• Flux capacitors, reservoirs and satchels can be dyed.
• Flux capacitors are now capable of charging a player’s entire inventory.
• Flux anodizers now work with any ore; not just ores that yield metals.
• Alchemical retort tweaks
  • Potions can be refined up to level IV instead of V.
  • Extended potions (brewed using redstone) can be refined to increase their potency to levels up to III.

Thermal Dynamics

• Dense and Vacuum Itemducts
  • These were gone for a long time, but they’re back now.
  • Affect item routing by dramatically increasing or decreasing the length of a route.
  • Can be used to prioritize certain destinations over others.

Thermal Innovation

• Fluxsaw
  • A Redstone Flux-powered axe and shears.
  • Much like a fluxbore, but for chopping wood.
• Alchemical Quiver
  • Stores arrows and can automatically imbue them with a fluid potion.
• Fluxbores can mine different areas:
  • Tunnel: 1x2
  • Area: 3x3
  • Area: 3x3x3
  • Area: 5x5
• Fluxbores don’t break multiple blocks when sneaking.
• Fluxomagnets have slightly reduced attraction radii.
• Hypoinfusers can be used manually by using them while sneaking.
• Fluxomagnets and hypoinfusers can be equipped as baubles.
• Updated various textures and crafting recipes.
• All equipment can now be dyed.

Redstone Arsenal

• Flux-infused hammers and sickles don’t break multiple blocks when sneaking.
• Flux-infused armor uses slightly more energy when hit.

Please report any bugs on the issue tracker.