October 1 updates

Written by Tonius on Monday, October 1, 2018

On October 1, new updates were released for Redstone Flux, CoFH Core, CoFH World, the Thermal Series, the Vanilla+ Series and Redstone Arsenal.

Changelogs on GitHub

General

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

CoFH Core

• Vorpal now has a visual effect when dealing increased damage.

CoFH World

• World generation files may contain a string value namespace to avoid feature name conflicts between files.
• New distribution types: sequential and custom.
• New feature types: spout, structure, sequential and consecutive.
• These will be properly described in CoFH World’s documentation, which is currently being rewritten. For now, you’ll have to ask Skyboy on the Discord server.

Thermal Foundation

• Excavators
  • Like hammers, except they’re shovels.
• New gear types
  • Wood, stone, diamond and emerald.
  • These aren’t used for anything by default, but they can be used by modpack developers.
• Gear crafting recipes no longer use a center ingot.
• Increased the amount of dirt that can be crafted using pulped biomass.
• Added an example configuration for generating platinum ore (disabled by default).

Thermal Expansion

• Machines no longer abort processing immediately when deactivated by a redstone signal.
• Pulverizer recipes tweaked:
  • cobblestone is processed into gravel and sand;
  • gravel is processed into sand and flint;
  • stone is processed into cobblestone;
  • stone requires less energy to process.
• Sawmills can recycle saddles.
• Induction smelters can recycle iron bars, iron trapdoors, minecarts and rails.
• Steam dynamos can use pulverized coal and pulverized charcoal as fuel.

Redstone Arsenal

• Flux-infused excavator
  • A powerful excavator powered by Redstone Flux.
• Fluxed electrum gears no longer require a center ingot to craft.

Vanilla+ Tools

• Excavators
  • Like hammers, except they’re shovels.

Please report any bugs on the issue tracker.