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There are a couple of other changes, but these are the three that strike me as most important (at least they are the most important for me at my current stage in my game). Color-based magic (which is what this sounds like) is a great idea, and one that played a big part in a fantasy novel I read and enjoyed this last year by Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker. I like the idea and would have voted for it had I been paying attention to the poll on the FTB forums a few months ago. Note that when Reika updates to 1.7, the plan is to move the crystals from GeoStrata, his DyeTrees mod, and his Ender Forest mod into a single magic-based mod named Chromaticraft. Now, when fully grown they have a chance of dropping more shards of the crystals that you used to make their seeds originally. Up until this update, crystal plants were only decorative. You can break them into shards then use them potions, rebuild them as lamps, potion lamps, or pendants, or else you can turn them into seeds and grow crystal plants. These crystals, when you are near them, give you various kinds of potion effects. All the types of Micro Blocks from anticover to cover. Developed as an API to allow multiple miniature blocks in a 1 block space, there is already a huge amount of functionality to this mod. Not infrequently in caves and in the Nether, you will encounter crystals of different colors. Forge Multipart is a recreation of the RedPower microblocks, created by ChickenBones because RedPower has not been updated since MC 1.4.7. I haven’t talked about the crystal shards of GeoStrata, but they are a really cool feature of the mod. These pictures only showcase four of the 16 kinds of stone added by GeoStrata, but you can see how all the textures can be used to create increased visual interest and appeal for otherwise bland buildings. Here on top you can see ‘inscribed’ marble, ‘raised’ marble (on the floor), and nether quartz brick. Rather than building something from scratch, what I have done is taken a portion of a Testificate desert village and replaced blocks of vanilla sandstone with four different kinds of stone in 13 of the 15 textures (excluding cobblestone and smooth stone). Rather than just show a screenshot with these blocks in isolation, I think presenting them in situ might more effectively give you an idea of how cool this update is. These new texture types are: lined, embossed, centered, raised, etched, and cubed. More Stone PatternsĮach kind of GeoStrata stone now has six more textures for a total of 15 textures (counting smooth, cobblestone, and stone brick). Using Forge Multipart you can manually make these blocks, however (Carpenter Blocks might enable you to do this, too, but I haven’t tried it). Microbuilder currently supports 641 Minecraft blocks You can build with all full blocks, pillars, slabs, stairs, fences, walls, pressure plates, buttons, and much more. Using Forge Multipart with GeoStrata is important, because slab and stair blocks are not built into the mod. So now you can make covers, panels, and slabs without bothering with the config files. Before, in order to use Multipart with GeoStrata blocks, you would have had to list the block id numbers in the Forge Multipart config file. GeoStrata v25 has new stone block designs and default multipart support!įorge Multipart is now supported by default.
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