v0.4.0
Pre-release
Pre-release
A quest book you can follow, and mounds that grow back.
Added
- A quest book with something in it. Two chapters and 21 quests, from your first Block of
Garbage to your first Bucket of Water. Welcome covers what this world is, what spawns here,
where the water is, and the fact that coarse dirt takes green ground back. Salvage runs the
whole early game: the trash tools, Bulky Waste, food, storage, the Sorting Tarp, the Workbench,
and the two lines that meet at a bucket, one through a found Pump and rain, the other through the
Burn Barrel and copper. - The Salvager's Manual is handed to you on the first quest instead of being something you have
to work out how to craft. - Quests pay XP, weighted by what they ask. Ten for something you only have to read, a hundred
for the Bucket of Water. - FTB XMod Compat, which is what lets JEI work inside the quest book.
- Mounds grow back. Recompile 0.7.0 makes a quarried mound rebuild itself toward the footprint
and height it had, delivered as garbage falling out of the sky, so you can see across the plain
which ones are refilling. It never grows past what it was and never seeds a new one. - Healing a mound retires it for good. The dark earth under a footprint is Mound Ground, and
greening it with the Grass Spreader ends that mound permanently. A regrowing mound is income and
healed ground is not, so the trade the pack is named for is now a decision you make rather than
one the world makes for you. - Gems, out of the demolition yard. Recompile 0.6.0 adds Mechanical Waste and the Separator, a
multiblock that pulls amethyst, diamond and redstone back out of industrial scrap. The ratios are
the gate: 12 quartz grit for an amethyst, 16 spent abrasive for a diamond, 16 magnet scrap for
redstone. Magnet scrap is the rare one, so redstone is the thing you work toward. - The Separator also sorts garbage unattended, at exactly the Sorting Tarp's rate. It runs while
you are elsewhere; it does not yield more. - Printers turn up in Bulky Waste. Tearing one down gives paper, plastic, scrap, an ink sac, and
about half the time a lapis lazuli. Ink is the only black dye in this world, so printers are the
only route to grey and black beds. - Shears, flint and steel, and a spyglass now turn up in the dump, already worn.
- Cats, dogs and pigeons live on the plain, rarely. A pigeon will walk to a pile of garbage and
peck something out of it, without wearing the pile down.
Changed
- Bare hands no longer carry a pile away. A Block of Garbage or Stone Rubble wants a shovel,
Mechanical Waste wants a pickaxe, and a Compacted Bale wants the Scrap Knife. Any vanilla shovel
or pickaxe does. Swing without one and the pile stays put and tells you what it wants. Sorting is
untouched: every pile still picks through bare-handed at the same rate, so sorting is free and
hauling is not. Trash Bags still come up by hand. - A Dirty Mattress is spent by sleeping on it. It survives one night and breaks when you get up.
Sneak-right-click to set spawn without burning it; setting spawn is not sleeping. - A pickaxe returns a Steel I-Beam instead of destroying it, so a girder can be moved.
- Leads are Rope and bundles are Luggage, with new art. Searching JEI for "lead" or "bundle"
still finds them. - Shift-clicking a craft no longer empties the Scrap Network. One shift-click is one batch.
- FTB Chunks, FTB Library, and FTB Quests moved up a patch version each.
Heads up if you already have a world
Mound regrowth needs a new world. The memory of what a mound was is written into the ground when
the world generates, so a save made before this update has none and its mounds stay finite. Nothing
breaks; the mounds simply do not come back.
Dirty Mattresses now wear out. Nothing breaks, but a mattress you were treating as a permanent bed
will be gone after one night.