Arcforge 2.5.0

Added

• Machine control API for other mods (first used by Encoded Logistics). A new block capability,
  arcforge:machine_control, is on every Arcforge machine and on every block of a formed multiblock (resolving to its
  controller). Through it, other mods can:

  • read a machine's status, progress, current outputs and energy, items, fluids and heat;
  • insert into its input, fuel and catalyst slots and extract from its outputs, always through the machine's own
    rules;
  • change its redstone mode, sides or ports, auto-eject and machine-specific options;
  • read its statistics and listen for status changes, finished operations and faults.

  The API is published separately as net.zagdrath.arcforge:arcforge-api (interfaces only, with its own semantic
  version; this release ships 1.1.0). See docs/API.md. GameTests check it on every machine and every
  multiblock.

• Gas API for other mods (API 1.1.0). Other mods can now store and move Arcforge gases without sorting them from
  liquids:

  • a gas identity (Gas), with its id, name, colour, temperature in kelvin and steam grade, and a lookup of every gas,
    other mods' gases included, for search and display;
  • a gas handler block capability, arcforge:gas_handler. It is on every machine with a gas tank, on every block of
    such a formed multiblock, and on Pressurized Cylinders. It lists the gas tanks with their gas, amount and capacity,
    and inserts and extracts by gas and amount through each tank's own rules;
  • the same capability on Gas Cartridges and Jetpacks, so another mod's GUI can fill and empty them.

  Amounts are in mB, as for fluids. Gas colours come from a new synced data map, arcforge:gas_properties, which packs
  and other mods can add their own gases' colours to. GameTests check the registry, a Pressurized Cylinder, the Haber
  Reactor and Electrolyzer, the gas items, and that every machine a pipe can feed gas into has a gas handler.

• Machines can be switched off remotely. A mod using the API can switch any machine or multiblock off. It then
  stops as if its redstone mode stopped it, keeps its contents, and its GUI shows the new status Switched off
  remotely. Machines are on unless switched off this way, and the switch is saved with the machine.

• Machine statistics. Every machine now counts the operations it completes, the items and fluid it produces and
  consumes, and how long it has spent running and loaded. The totals are saved with the machine. For now, other mods
  read them through the API; the GUIs don't show them.

Changed

• Steam Turbine Array: a real turbine-generator set. Formed, the array hides its casings and glass and is drawn as
  one machine along its axis, from the steam end to the generator end: a steel plinth (a deck on stepped footings, or
  stepped columns when the structure is taller than the turbine needs); turbine casings on one shaft, each a round
  casing split along the middle by a bolted flange line, growing from high to low pressure (3 to 5 long one turbine
  casing; 6 to 9 high and low pressure; 10 to 15 high, intermediate and a double-flow low-pressure casing with a
  flanged crossover pipe from the intermediate casing's top into the middle of the low-pressure casing); bearing
  pedestals with the shaft and couplings between the casings; a steam chest, stop-valve housings and inlet pipes on the
  high-pressure casing; the low-pressure exhaust neck pointing down; and the generator (lighter steel, cooling ribs, a
  terminal box with FE-red bushings, an FE-red band). Casing diameters follow the cross-section's shorter side (the
  low-pressure casing nearly fills it, the high-pressure about half) and the sections share the length (about 15 / 20 /
  30 / 25%, the rest bearings and couplings); a cross-section wider than tall gets a walkway with railings along its
  front. Every casing has an inspection window on both sides with its bladed rotor behind it (more and longer blade rows
  as the pressure drops), turning with the rotor, so spin-up and coast-down show; the generator's coupling turns too.
  Ports get a nozzle from the machine out to their face; the fitted spots are on top over the steam chest (steam), the
  generator end (energy) and underneath the exhaust neck (Exhaust, where a Condenser Array can connect). Jade names the
  section you look at ("Section: Low-pressure casing") and the fitted spots. A new turbine now starts with a steam, an
  energy and an Exhaust port on those spots (move or clear them with the Wrench; turbines already built keep their
  ports). Unformed casings, the GUI and how the turbine runs are unchanged. The old see-through rotor, lining and steam view are
  gone.

Fixed

• Nether generation crashed with BetterNether (with WorldWeaver) installed: Feature order cycle found between
  minecraft:warped_forest and betternether:old_fungiwoods. Nether Sulfur Ore was placed in the same worldgen step
  as BetterNether's ores, which come after it in vanilla biomes and before it in BetterNether's own. It now uses the
  underground ores step, which nothing else uses in the Nether. It generates the same as before. A GameTest checks
  the step in every Nether biome.