Differences from 1.12

The following is a non-exhaustive, unofficial list of important differences between the 1.12 and 1.18+ version of TFC.

For all things, the Field Guide should be consulted first, as that is what we actually maintain and update. This is more provided as a list for curious users, maintained by the community.

Farming

Crops

• Crops have nutrients again.
• Crops have a preferred nutrient, and when they get it, they drop more up to 5x more product, and grow faster.
• Crop data is viewed by hovering with a hoe, but isn't rendered in-world like 1.7. It is available for fruit trees and berry bushes as well, not just crops.
• Crops are watered up to 60% by ambient rainfall, and can be watered 0-80% by water source blocks. This means that crops can be grown in a variety of rainfall regions by using water sources, and in some cases they don't need water sources.
• Jute now fits in a single block.
• Wild crops and dead crops are now separate blocks
• Crops are fertilized with fertilizers. The most typical fertilizer is compost, made with the TFC composter.
• Rice grows underwater
• Pumpkins/melons are back

Fruit Trees

• Fruit trees now grow into a more dynamic-looking shape.
• Fruit trees fruit during their preferred season and appear dead during the offseason.
• Fruit trees grow more branches if they are 'spliced' by clicking with a sapling and a knife in the offhand.
• Fruit tree saplings can be spliced onto existing elbow branches to create mixed trees.
• Bananas have been separated to a separate kind of fruit tree that grows vertically.
• Fruit trees saplings can die if the climate is wrong.

Berry bushes

• There are three types of bushes
• Stationary bushes work much like the old bushes, but also duplicate themselves when they are grown
• Spreading bushes are larger structures that spread gradually over the environment
• Spreading bushes can be propagated via cutting canes off and planting.
• Waterlogged bushes are stationary bushes that are placed underwater
• Berry bushes fruit during their preferred season and appear dead in the offseason.
• Berry bushes can die if the climate is wrong.

Devices

General

• TFC 'lighting' mechanics are generic now, instead of being hardcoded to flint and steel.
• Actions like clicking with torches can't be used to light 'strong' fires like starting a forge, but can be used to relight other torches and other 'weak' fires.
• Many devices can take inputs via dropped items, such as forges and firepits getting fuel from dropped items.

Log Piles

• Lit log piles are a separate block.
• Log piles light instantly once one is lit.

Placed Items

• "Flat placed items" have been removed.

Pit Kilns

• Pit kilns heat gradually to the end temperature instead of instantly at the end.
• Pit kilns heat to 1400 degrees instead of 1600.

Bloomery

• No longer requires a charcoal pile in the bottom
• Recipes are generic to a unique fluid input + catalyst, instead of being hardcoded
• Blooms are always 100mB, and the rest is discarded.
• The bloom block is mined repeatedly to drop the bloom item (specified by the recipe)
• Everything iron melts into cast iron.

Powderkegs

• Can be placed in minecarts to act like TNT carts

Barrels

• Does better accounting for recipes with the same output/input fluid to make less voided fluid.
• Barrels can be placed sideways
• Sideways barrels can pour into a barrel directly below.
• Sideways barrels can be stacked vertically with use of a Barrel Rack
• Tannin requires 1 log per bucket

Sluice

• Sluices only take the last block of a water stream in the top.
• Sluices only work on gravel 'deposit' blocks, found in streams and lakes, and has nothing to do with chunk data.
• Deposit blocks convert 55% of the time into ore, and less often rocks, and much less often gems.
• The gems dropped are tied to the rock type of the deposit block.
• Deposit blocks are copper, gold, silver, and cassiterite. Platinum has been removed.

Pan

• Panning works the same as sluicing, but is slower and drops ore only half the time.
• The pan item now renders the contents more dynamically and has an animation.

Bookshelves

• Bookshelves work similar to the 1.20 chiseled bookshelves.

Lamps

• Lamps use the vanilla model and match the vanilla 'chain' blocks, which are also provided in TFC metal types.
• Blue steel lava lamps burn forever (like in 1.7)

Thatch Beds

• Thatch beds spawn feather particles when fallen on.
• Thatch beds can be configured to work like vanilla beds.

Nest Box

• Now renders the contents inside

Large Vessel

• Glazed vessels have unique textures

Sheet Piles

• Can contain multiple different types of sheet, or sheets of the same type that won't stack.

Ingot Piles

• Can contain multiple different types of ingots, or ingots of the same type that won't stack.

Pot

• Now a separate block (same with grill)
• Performs 'pot recipes', which can be item, fluid -> item, fluid or make soup

Firepit

• Fuel has a cleanliness parameter, with dirtier fuel smoking the fire higher.

New Blocks

Added from Vanilla

• Bells, Chains, Bars (limited metals)
• Lecterns, Signs (wood types)
• Cauldrons (fluids)

Decoration Blocks

• Chiseled stone bricks
• Cracked/mossy bricks
• Mossy cobble
• Candles/Candle Cakes
• Wattle, early game mud/stick dyeable building material
• Mud Bricks (vanilla-ish, requires drying the items by placing them in the sun)

New Devices

• Scribing Table (vanilla anvil GUI-based, for renaming items)
• Composter (makes compost)

Worldgen Blocks

• Icicles
• Calcite
• Sandstone
• Coral
• Mud/rooted dirt
• Groundcover blocks: loose rocks, small ores, twigs, fallen leaves bone, clam, dead grass, driftwood, feather, flint, guano, humus, mollusk, mussel, pinecone, rotten flesh, salt lick, seaweed, stick
• Ice piles: replaces floating/emergent plants in winter
• Snow piles: replaces surface plants in winter
• Magma blocks available in igneous intrusive rock types

Worldgen

Removed Features

• Removed rocksalt, replaced with salt licks in forests and halite ore
• Removed rock type sand, replaced with colored sand tied to rock type
• Removed dry grass, now rooted dirt

New Features

• More base land terrain types (biomes), including badlands, inverted badlands, mountain rivers/lakes, plateau.
• Rivers have current and flow from inland to the ocean, although without changing elevations. This may result in deep canyons or even underground rivers.
• There are more plants, and more plant types, including hanging/twisting vines like vanilla
• There are underwater plants including grasses, kelp, and tree kelp (like chorus plants)
• Edible cattail and water taro roots may be harvested with a knife
• Seaweed is edible if cooked
• Roofs of caves spawn with hardened stone, which doesn't trigger collapses
• Added icebergs
• Added frozen caves, and jungle vegetation caves
• Added volcanoes
• Worldgen follows a plate tectonics simulation
• Added the 'cave update' caves
• Veins spawn with mixed quality (poor, normal, rich) or even mixed with other minerals
• Previously spherical ore veins have more sophisticated shapes
• Deeper ore veins may be richer
• Hot springs can spawn 'inactive' (without water) in geologically dead regions
• In deep ocean trenches, magma hot springs spawn with bubble columns pushing upwards
• Added dead trees, as well as large 'old growth' trees that aren't growable.
• Soil depth is partially based on the slope of the terrain
• World extends from -64 to 256. Sea level is 63.
• Fresh water lakes may occur at higher elevations.
• Most areas have only two rock layers, with the top layer occurring in the mountains
• Igneous intrusive rock types do not spawn in the top layer
• Worldgen automatically simulates collapses and removes/collapses blocks to prevent lag on worldgen time
• Re-added sylvite for use as fertilizer
• Instead of flat placed items, groundcover blocks spawn.
• Fresh water is vanilla water
• Spring water is infinite

Entities

Basic Animals

• Some entities are missing, some entities are new.
• A lot of vanilla entities have had tfc versions added (pandas, rabbits, etc)
• Added aquatic mobs, including fish, jellyfish, shellfish, and orcas.
• Added the glow squid as the octopoteuthis, which drops glow ink. Added glow arrows. These entities actually glow in world.
• Squid can vary in size
• Predators/prey/livestock have much more sophisticated AI.

Livestock

• Donkeys/Mules can carry barrels
• Donkeys/Mules render their carried item
• Animals have genetic size
• Animals have sophisticated genetics
• Mules can be female
• Horses can be overburdened
• Livestock drop more based on size/familiarity/attack damage of killer
• Livestock become old based on being used (breeding, milking, shearing) rather than time
• Old horses are slow
• Animals have different food that they take. In general, it is much more broad and some animals eat rotten food.
• Added rats that steal food left in chests.
• Added cats and dogs, with a sophisticated commanding system. They are obtained from wolves/ocelots

Mechanics/Balance

Player

• Grass and snow slow the player.
• Added the exhaustion effect, for when you have 1 heavy/huge item. The overburdened effect is for having two.
• Heavy/huge blocks can be moved in minecarts (eg. barrels, anvils)
• Players lose thirst faster in hot regions.
• Skills are removed. See the prospecting, animals, forging, and crops sections for the replacement mechanics.

Mining

• Horizontal support beams support a 9x5x9(xyz) area
• Horizontal beams can be placed at any height instead of requiring at least three vertical supports.
• Collapses work differently. There are three categories of blocks: triggering, starting, and collapsing blocks.
• Ores can trigger, collapse and lose quality.
• Chiseled (smoothed) blocks can collapse.
• Particles drift down from unsupported collapse starting blocks.

Forge

• Forging bonuses apply to tools which are smithed using close to the fewest number of moves. Even poorly forged tools are better than cast tools.
• Small vessels keep internal track of their metal contents, allowing for alloying via melting ores in the forge and catching them in a side slot.
• Can pour one type of metal into a vessel holding another type
• Vessels will not allow access to items in their inventory if too hot
• Flux is available from some sea creatures

Prospecting

• False negative chance depends on the tier and quality of the tool.
• Prospecting results count only one quality of ore if in a mixed vein.

Recipes

• Too many to list.
• Bleaching/dyeing is cheaper (125mB -> 25mB)
• Many new vanilla items are craftable (eg. spyglass)

Spreading

• Plants spread to neighbors instead of in the spring
• In some areas, grass can respawn loose rocks.

Trees

• Trees drop leaves/sticks on the ground in the fall and when broken.
• Some trees change fall colors in the fall.
• Trees with more leaves drop fewer saplings per leaf but roughly the same per tree.
• Dead and fallen trees may spawn.

Gems

• Gem grades have been removed

Misc

• Hot items render a bar showing their heat level.
• Eggs render a bar showing their hatch progress.