Gil

I watched Flora's side of the video this morning. Good stuff man

I do like the idea of bonemeal only improving one kind of nutrient, along with two others. Charcoal pits would do all three.

Here's a good tutorial reference on random textures. I don't think I've seen anyone do more than a few. It would be awesome if you did a variation of, say 16 textures per block. That way, no repetition, ever.

If you need more help setting it up, feel free to ask.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1475255-texture-packs-random-textures-for-blocks-241012/

Ssshhh... go to sleep....

Yeah, sure, finding water is fine too, but in most cases, you can't find water for your sluices in the exact spot you want. Also, and this is more important: sluices require access to the sky, so if you want them near a vein, you have to dig out a tunnel to the surface.

Compare the depth of the cobble to the door planks and wall. I think that's the main issue for me right now, getting the depth consistent to be believable. Apart from that, I love it all. One thing that might be fun is trying to apply a global filter to all these, so they come closer together, but I haven't figured out how to properly do it myself. I can't even explain what I mean

Well maybe when skeletons get moved underground with zombies the bone meal would be a luxury to have ! I was considering the future! LOL

In my actual game, I found my first Sphalerite visible vein in a cave system. The other times I found some was in creative.

I also found a HUGE area of Sphalerite mixed with Limonite. The vein is so messy, all made of small pockets of 1 to 4 block of ore. With the technique 1 I was able to get to the general area, but the vein is so hart do work with.

I never got anything else than Cassiterite, Bismuthenite and Sphalerite in a sluice. Do you know if they can pick something else ? If they can, I may try them in a underground cave.

In fact, some people don't ever use their pickaxe, preferring a system of tons of sluices. If the sluice picks up too much useless junk, you can clear that with your pickaxe. That way, you can set up a bunch of sluice stations near a Galena or Garnierite vein and get infinite of those resources.

Yea i agree with Gil , another way is to utalize bonemeal to give some type of nutrient back to the ground.

Bonemeal should increase nutrients a tiny bit, while making a charcoal pit should be more interesting, bigger rewards.

Ah yes, emboss and fake AO should be fine. I guess you need to find the right balance. Here's some pointers:

Different surfaces have different light diffusion. For highly diffuse surfaces (say, dirt), apply blur to the highlights.

Rough surfaces might require a shadow blur (dirt again?)

Sometimes highlight or shadows look better with certain blending modes. In Photoshop, there's a lot too choose from. Try to make the contrast pronounced enough, while avoiding the "look, it's an emboss filter" look.

When I get home, I might try a few examples. Is there a texture you felt like you were struggling with? I could take a look at it and offer some options.

in the past few week I've developed better lighting tricks then I had when I was working on the bricks and will come back to them.

Haven't had time to check it out (at work). I watched a minute or so.

Video quality is good, though a bit low-contrast (washed out)

Resolution goes up to 1080p (great)

Texture pack is lousy, looks like one of those dreadful vanilla-style 32x packs, that end up looking worse than vanilla. If you go higher res, I'd go for maybe John Smith or similar, or stay vanilla.

I saved it on my to-watch list, will check it out later.

I like this idea, except for all the "realism omg" parts.

Maybe we can make it so you put a charcoal pit on top of your farmland. That way we can kill two birds with one stone and players will be encouraged to do both.

My idea:

"When you make a charcoal pit on top of farmland, the soil regains nutrients"

That's it. Keep it simple. Having to shovel the stuff and wait before it cools adds no gameplay, just tedium.

When you put Forge in the minecraft.jar file, don't forget to delete META INF folder. VERY important or it wont run.

Most of these textures seem to be made for normal maps and provide no clear highlights/shadows. The smoothed limestone is an exception and looks way better. I propose you choose a light source (say, up-left, like the limestone) and shade everything accordingly to make it look less flat.

Apart from that, I do like the textures, they look a lot better than I first expected, that's why I asked for screenshots .

The cave textures are fine btw, loving those.

1) It ran a bit slow on my i7 laptop with 2GB RAM with mobility radeon, but it runs fine on my i7 desktop with 6GB of RAM and Radeon HD5850. Allocating more RAM to Minecraft also helps with game performance on my laptop.

2) I install with MultiMC. Drop Forge and PlayerAPI into the JAR mods, TFC in the mods folder, done!

3) I update by just replacing the TFC mod file in the mods folder with MultiMC and then deleting the configs in the instance folder

4) I've heard good things about Roanoke

Actually, all it would take is to add this code to EntityHurtHandler.java

else if(event.source == DamageSource.explosion)		{			event.ammount = 500;		}

500 being the damage to any living entity.

edit: you could make that to "+= 500;" , that would add 500 damage to vanilla damage, that way TNT would also work properly ....that is if we had any

Is EntityHurtHandler a TFC class? If it's a vanilla class, then that wouldn't work.

Can we get some in-game screenshots too?

1. I would not call it "my" technique, but... anyways. I think it would also work in deeper level.

2. Finding nuggets was more efficient than sluice for me.

3. Maybe, but I explored a huge cave system and almost never saw visible vein. I guess I would have to check at the optimal level.

5. In deeper level with more interference, I am wondering how it would work. Will have to test it out. And yes, one problem of this technique is if the vein is made of pockets of ore, then you will only hit one pocket.

TIP: Don't try to smelt anything but tier one metals in a firepit with peat. I tried doing this with copper, and even with a bellows, it didn't get it above orange*.

A few pointers:

1) Your ore finding technique only works for surface ores, so it only works for zinc, bismuth, tin and copper, which are all useless ores that can be found literally everywhere.

2) Sluices check for ores to about 60 blocks below them and 100m around, so they can be used as a stronger, yet less accurate version of spotting for surface ores (there's more to sluices than that, but there's multiple threads about it already).

3) Checking for ores in caves is even easier. Find a cave, spot ores sticking out or use the prospecting pick randomly at the floors/walls to find a vein. The level at which caves spawn, usually means that there's not just surface ores, but all kinds of ores down there.

4) If an ore is not a surface ore, the LAST place you want to look for it, is a biome that has the surface rock type that the wiki claims contains the ore. Why? Because the top layer of rock doesn't contain anything, but surface ores and when you go down, you'll end up in a different rock type.

5) The level change technique works really well for isolated veins, like the surface ores, but can be pretty useless once you go deeper to mine. At optimal mining levels, the vein you are looking for is surrounded by tons of other ores, so the pro-pick readings will be all over the place and pin-pointing the spot where the reading changes will be impossible. On top of that, there's certain kinds of veins that are more scattered in formation, which require you to use a branch-mining technique, after you get a few readings and can guesstimate what direction you have to dig in.

Yeah, there's a few weird quirks about placing sluices. The devs could make that a bit more clear.

So, Avidavi of Simply Horses is working on Simply TerraFirmaHorses. That'll be fun.

Holy hell necro lavawane360!

The author is now working on Simply Terrafirmahorses, there's already an alpha release.

on to business: Other weapons, tools even. How does/could it apply?

Breaking: even the best smith makes shit weapons, and you can lose a weapon this way.

Reforging(repairing said broken weapons): this a thing, or you just sticking with immortal steel?

What I was thinking is that you start with a blunt tool and you have to sharpen it. Sharpening it means the durability goes down and the tool becomes sharp. That way, any tool has a limited amount of times you can sharpen it.

It's not very realistic and it's not very well thought out, but I saw your post, so I thought I'd share in case it results in meaningful discussion .

Is there a reason why you want to improve the prospecting ability? In my experience, the current pro-pick is already VERY accurate (only 40% false negatives) and dead easy to use. If you're looking to upgrade it, it's far more likely that you are not using it correctly.