The low capacity of the prospector turned out to be annoying, while the
other limitations do not substantially detract from fun. Also adjust
recipe to include a blue energy crystal, to explain the source of the
charge capacity.
Use silver instead of gold in the recipe for the red energy crystal,
and mithril instead of gold in the recipe for the blue energy crystal.
This provides more appreciable steps in the expense of the upgrades,
which were too similar, and in particular makes the blue energy crystal
less ridiculously cheap.
LV cables are now paper-insulated, rather than uninsulated (which made
no sense). MV cables are rubber-insulated as before. HV cables are now
plastic-insulated (which they already visually appeared to be). MV and
HV cables are still crafted by adding insulation onto lower-tier cable,
rather than by insulating raw copper; this matches the way machines are
upgraded between tiers rather than crafted afresh.
All electric machine recipes now include cable of the appropriate tier
as the bottom-middle ingredient, immediately below the casing ingredient.
Many LV machines were using a copper ingot in that location.
The casing is intended to be an ingredient in craft recipes for machines.
It isn't actually used in any recipes yet. Although mainly a craft
item, it is defined as a node type, mainly to get an appropriately cubic
inventory image. It is incidentally possible to place it as a node:
this makes some sense, although the empty machine casing isn't actually
useful as a node.
The new tool will say whether a target block type is present in a
specified region, to allow for more targeted digging. It is deliberately
quite weak, with several limitations: only stores enough charge for a
small number of shots; target can only be set by pointing at an example
node; range is limited; accuracy is less than 100%. Some of these
limitations should probably be ameliorated, but not entirely eliminated,
in the future when we have a better idea of game balance.
The inventory image is only a placeholder.
Commit ee0765804c broke the fuel-fired alloy
furnace, by removing the definition of its formspec that it requires to
set up the form upon construction.
A typo in commit d55ecc39f9 made recipes
for alloy cooking, compressing, and all other craft types sharing that
machine code, to be shown with three ingredient slots instead of the
correct one or two.
The size configuration is no longer cleared when exiting the dialog with
<esc>. The enable/disable toggle button now indicates the current state.
The name of the toggle button now varies according to state, so that
pressing the button multiple times in one state (which can arise due
to lag making the user unsure about whether the first press registered)
only makes the state change that the user requested, rather than toggling
repeatedly.
A fix for https://github.com/minetest-technic/technic/issues/137
Chainsaw drops are forced to pop above ground. Also, as asl suggested,
they must not end up too high on a ledge or a pillar.
This also cleans up the code style of chainsaw.lua.
If a mining drill is apparently applied to a non-pointable node, do
nothing rather than drilling as normal. This situation usually arises
from lag, where the news of a node having been drilled didn't reach the
user quickly enough and the user thereby applied the drill twice to the
same node. The second drill attempt would formerly consume charge and
then find that all the nodes it wanted to dig had already been removed.
All electrically-powered machines now consistently indicate their
tier (supply voltage) in their names. As this implies that they are
electrically powered, the furnaces no longer have "Electric" in their
names. The fuel-fired equivalents of electric machines, which exist
for alloy furnace and furnace, now say "Fuel-Fired" to distinguish them.
(The fuel-fired alloy furnace used to say "Coal", which was inaccurate
because it uses any fuel. The fuel-fired furnace, from the default mod,
used to just be called "Furnace", which is ambiguous.)
Electric power generators now consistently indicate their tier and have
the word "Generator" in their names. This makes their purpose much
clearer, and makes obvious craft guide searches produce useful results.
The fuel-fired generators, previously just (ambiguously) called
"Generator", are now explicitly "Fuel-Fired".
To support the glooptest mod (successor of gloopores), define the
gloopores lump->dust grinding recipes if either of the mods is available.
(Formerly only "gloopores" was supported.) Define kalite dust item,
which was previously missing. Make gloop ingots grindable to dust as the
non-gloop ingots already are; incidentally refactor this to automatically
make ingots grindable whenever the ingot can be made by cooking dust.
Add textures for all the gloop dusts. Do the "Steel"->"Iron" renaming
for glooptest-defined tools and items.
The size configuration is no longer cleared when exiting the dialog with
<esc>. The enable/disable toggle button now indicates the current state.
The name of the toggle button now varies according to state, so that
pressing the button multiple times in one state (which can arise due
to lag making the user unsure about whether the first press registered)
only makes the state change that the user requested, rather than toggling
repeatedly.
The quarry was digging via dig_node and also manually putting the node's
drops into the tube system. This assumed that dig_node would attempt
to put the drops in the player's inventory, doing nothing if there is
no such inventory. With the item_drop mod installed, dig_node would
instead turn the node into an item entity, so the quarry's strategy would
duplicate the item, making it appear both as an item entity in situ and
as an item in the tube. Instead, the quarry must use remove_node when
it manually processes the drops, just like the pipeworks node breaker.
Override the default mod's iron/steel substance, replacing it with three
metals: wrought iron (pure iron), carbon steel (iron alloyed with a little
carbon), and cast iron (iron alloyed with lots of carbon). Wrought iron
is easiest to refine, then cast iron, and carbon steel the most difficult,
matching the historical progression. Recipes that used default steel are
changed to use one of the three, the choice of alloy for each application
being both somewhat realistic and also matching up with game progression.
The default:steel{_ingot,block} items are identified specifically with
wrought iron. This makes the default refining recipes work appropriately.
Iron-using recipes defined outside technic are thus necessarily
reinterpreted to use wrought iron, which is mostly appropriate.
Some objects are renamed accordingly.
Rather than use the default steel textures for wrought iron, with technic
providing textures for the other two, technic now provides textures for
all three metals. This avoids problems that would occur with texture
packs that provide default_steel_{ingot,block} textures that are not
intended to support this wrought-iron/carbon-steel/cast-iron distinction.
A texture pack can provide a distinct set of three textures specifically
for the situation where this distinction is required.
Incidentally make grinding and alloy cooking recipes work correctly when
ingredients are specified by alias.
Supply the on_refill hook for power tools and cans, to perform appropriate
charging. This is to be used by unified_inventory's creative-mode
refill slot.
The tool workshop is meant to repair mechanical damage to tools, so
is at risk of `repairing' tools that use the wear bar to represent
something other than mechanical wear. It had special-case recognition
of the water and lava cans, which use the wear bar to represent how much
content they're carrying, and wouldn't repair them. But it didn't avoid
`repairing' RE chargeable items, which use the wear bar to represent
how much energy they have stored. It would modify the wear bar without
actually affecting the charge, so the wear bar would jump back to the
correct place when the next charging or discharging event occurred.
To genericise, introduce a new item property, "wear_represents", which
indicates how the wear bar is used for this item. Currently defined
values are "mechanical_wear" (straightforward damage to tools that
start out perfect), "technic_RE_charge" (electrical energy, canonically
represented in the meta rather than the wear bar), and "content_level"
(how full a container is). For backcompat, nil is interpreted as
"mechanical_wear". The tool workshop will only repair "mechanical_wear"
tools. As a bonus, set_RE_wear() will only set the wear bar for
"technic_RE_charge" items: this means developers will notice if they
forget to declare wear_represents, but also means that with no further
changes it's possible to have an RE chargeable item that uses its wear
bar to represent something else.
The injector was in no groups, and therefore not breakable by ordinary
means. This was because the code referred to a defined variable that
went away in the course of a rewrite of the chests code.
These two tools wouldn't discharge all the way to zero through use,
unlike most chargeable items.
Incidentally remove a duplicate of the check_for_flashlight() function.
The flashlight was lighting the wrong node, 1 m east of the player's lower
half, thus getting no light if the player is adjacent to an eastern wall.
Restore the old 1 m above, that coincides with the player's hands.
There was a problem with light from the flashlight getting stuck in
the map. This arises because the flashlight's light value was 15, the
reserved value that the engine uses for sunlight. Moving the flashlight
upwards, by jumping while it is equipped, would cause the node below it to
acquire a bogus sunlit state. Fix this by reducing the flashlight's light
value to 14 (LIGHT_MAX), which is the maximum permitted for non-sunlight.
The light_off node type is not required. With the light value limited
to 14, mere removal of the light node suffices to correctly recalculate
lighting.
The drills weren't taking the variable usage cost into account (either
the per-type base cost or the per-mode multiplier) when deciding whether
they have sufficient charge to use. This could cause them to overshoot in
charge usage, although they would then clamp to zero rather than record
negative charge. Also, for the Mk1 drill where the cost was assessed
correctly, the drill would refuse to discharge to exactly zero charge.
The message to "hold shift" makes an unwarranted assumption about the
user's keybindings. Messages from the server should refer to a key's
game function, rather than its extragame identity.
the first-seen tier for which the machine was registered. So the
switching station, which is uniquely registered for all tiers, would
only visually connect to LV cable when placed, not to MV or HV cable.
(It would function nevertheless, and cable would connect to the switching
station if placed later.) Change to consider all tiers. Incidentally
avoid a gratuitous iteration through all registered machines.
Commit a6dae893d6 introduced per-version
charge cost for firing mining lasers, but applies this in addition to
the old fixed cost which it was meant to replace. Fix by removing the
application of the fixed cost.
The same commit did successfully change the check for a laser having
sufficient charge to fire, so that's based purely on the variable cost.
As a consequence, firing a laser that has just enough charge to cover the
variable cost could cause its charge to go negative. (For example, by
fully charging a Mk1 laser and then firing it until it empties, resulting
in a charge of -400.) It turned out that set_RE_wear handled that badly,
producing an over-100% wear value that would wrap to a *low* wear value,
leading to the laser's wear bar looking as if it's fully charged.
To protect against silly wear values, make set_RE_wear clamp the wear
value to avoid wrapping. Handle specially the case of a fully-discharged
tool, where there was desirable wrapping to zero.
Disable the flashlight by default.
Use itemstack:{get,set}_{metadata,name,wear,...} rather than {to,from}_table.
Improve the style of part of the code of mischelaneous tools
The idle condition for mv mashines is changed to what it should be
because sending items into the tube is done in idle, so we only care
if there is something left in src
Theyre already tiered with Mk1-3 (at least drill is, more in the future).
Tools can be considered as designed for different tiers of circuits thx to their power needs.
For example Mk3 will require ages to load in LV batbox.
Batboxes load tools timining: LV standard (1000EU), MV 4x faster (4000EU), HV 16x faster (16000EU)
Also since 1EU is the same in any circuit it is possible to move energy from one to another with portable devices like crystals.
Other changes:
- moved charge/discharge functions to battery_boxes_commons.lua
- added UI style backgrounds for all the batboxes
Still needs some work. I am pushing it to get ideas and feedback.
Also fix some bugs in the LV coal generator that were found while making
the nuclear reactor.
Conflicts:
technic/init.lua
An electrical network now requires a switching station to work. This statin is the one
resolving the network collecting power and distributing it again.
Added up/down converter. It is kind of finished. It can be updated with a slot for an upgrade
but so far it works without by resolving the types of wires above and below the box.
Tool and machine registering changed to use a table with key+value instead of the iterative method it used to have.
The power radiator changed to be able to send up to 3000MV EUs in a radius of 6.
This update will most likely require existing networks to be dug up and placed again. Also the
switching station must be added.
Doing that required some changes to the batteries in that they have new meta data
aligned with the other machines.
I also added a BA type machine in addition to the existing PR and RE types.
This way it is easy to find he batteries on the network.
Added transformers for all voltage tiers.
I changed the recipes for solar panels to make them less expensive.
I also changed the output of the individual panel and made the arrays provie the real "oomph" :-)
Solar panels and arrays are dependent on light level, time of day and height abive ground (0) for output and cheating with torches and stuff.
Textures added.
Fixed bugs in the hv battery box. It was not working at all. I don't understand the hv box top texture though???
I have a sense that all machines connected to the battery boxes are taking the same amount of juice from the box.
A method of taking a little or a lot would be nice.
Now the API is open for adding new nodes and inhibiting some nodes for some materials.
No more recipes outside of the CNC machine.
Code length also greatly reduced.
