Ceramic mold unnecessary step

[cpy 3]

Why can't you just pour ceramic vessel directly into tool mold (like you would do in real life) but you pour into some ceramic mold and then to tool mold. Why like that? Then different tool could even use different amount of metal. Like small knife can use less than big pickaxe.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Why can't you just pour ceramic vessel directly into tool mold (like you would do in real life) but you pour into some ceramic mold and then to tool mold. Why like that? Then different tool could even use different amount of metal. Like small knife can use less than big pickaxe.

 

Honestly? it's because the metal-filled molds use the item's damage value to determine what type of metal is in them; ie if the damage is 1 it's copper, 2 is bismuth bronze etc (don't think those are the real values btw, just for example). When said mold is crafted (breaking it to obtain the shaped metal), the recipe checks the damage value of the filled metal mold to determine which tool head it should give you. However, ceramic molds and the vessels use damage values to track how much liquid is in said mold in 1/100th units. When the ceramic mold is in the slot in the vessel GUI, it slowly fills with molten metal. The tool molds would not be able to do this and therefore can't be filled directly from the vessel/crucible.

 

Bottom line: we know it sucks, but it's not because we think it's logical and fair, it's because the two items behave differently.

[transcengopher 349]

Can you add useless toolheads that would be produced if player aren't using the correct metal maybe? And that way bring the behaviour of all molds to the same denominator? I would also like to see toolheads that need to cool down before you can extract them, and this might help achieving that.

[cpy 3]

Oh it's technical. DAMN!

[wyrmofvt 14]

Uhh... you don't have to use the damage value to track how much metal a mold contains. IndustrialCraft 2 keeps track energy in a rechargable tool in an NBT value separate from damage, although it does use damage to show how much charge the tool has left. I know this because on one of his server-plays, Direwolf20 was wondering out loud why one of the blocks from Ars Magica (which repaired damage) wouldn't recharge his beloved IC2 tools, and it was explained that the IC2 damage value was only a proxy to the real value tracking charge.

[cpy 3]

So lack of clay is due to balance issues so people will be forced to make their tools in anvil to save clay?

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

So lack of clay is due to balance issues so people will be forced to make their tools in anvil to save clay?

 

what? no.

[Timeslice 2]

So lack of clay is due to balance issues so people will be forced to make their tools in anvil to save clay?

 

What lack of clay? I can't swing a dead cat in my world without hitting a block of clay. While looking for your graphite I wouldn't be suprised if you literally came across 100+ deposits of clay.