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Tekkit 3.0 and Technic 7.0.1 will both be released exactly 168 hours after the last time someone asks when either is going to be released. Any time the question is asked, the counter restarts from 0.

My points were very well-reasoned and thorough throughout this thread and elsewhere in other threads, thank you.

You can stop acting like it was actually intended behavior on Mojang's part and not yet another oversight due to convoluted and inefficient infrastructure, now. We get it: It's useful on a small friends-only server. That's still a feature that could have been added to the actual Ender Storage mod.

It's called "the benefits outweigh the detriments". And my problem with that was to do with Minecraft's convoluted-assed graphics substructure, not with the problem itself. So acquire it. We have an entire subforum dedicated to mod development, now, and I learned basic modding and base-class overriding in a month after having never seen a line of Java code in my life (though with experience with C and C++ coming in). You can't be serious. If Mojang were to just suddenly drop Minecraft entirely and become a developer of iOS word games (or if Mojang were to fuck up Minecraft enough that modders didn't care about it anymore), we would all just continue to mod the last non-fucked version for at least ten years after that (and that would be the most likely scenario to spawn a fork of Minecraft than anything). Just look around you, at all of the games (even ones made in the 1970s) that are still being played and developed, and you will realize just how ridiculous your statement was. If you think Minecraft would not survive abandonment by a bunch of short-attention-spanned children when no new types of planks and sandstone come out for a while, you have another think coming.

Eh, I don't think conversion to any other language is a worthwhile goal. Performance can be improved in Minecraft simply by rewriting some of its shittier internals still in Java, and Java itself (especially custom class-loading and reflection, and decompilation) is the major reason that modding is so practical and widespread, easy to pick up, and flexible. The performance benefit of native code is not worth the complication of modding, let alone the requirement of porting every mod to the new language, which is assuming you get people to agree on a language, and then agree on how to do the modding in that language, and even all that after you research how to do native code on eighty bajillion OSes (different Mac and Windows versions, GNU-based systems, Sparcs, HP/UX, Solaris, BSD, yada yada)... Yeah...no.

I've been doing a little more work on this, just for shits and giggles, and I'm interested to know what people think. (Use your browser's "View Image Directly" functionality to see them at full resolution.) These are still Minecraft Enhanced textures that I've modified with GIMP and Google Images. Coal, copper, tin, iron, silver, gold: [img width=400] Diamond, lapis, redstone, nikolite, ruby, emerald, sapphire (top): [img width=400] Cobbled basalt, smooth basalt, and bricked basalt: [img width=400] Smooth marble and bricked marble: [img width=400] Redpower rubber tree, external view: [img width=400] Redpower rubber tree, internal view: [img width=400]

You must be new around here.

Interesting. Well, in that case, neither what he is doing nor the entity-based method are anywhere near good enough to do what he wants it to, because Minecraft just isn't built with anything like that in mind. He's got his work cut out for him, gutting and rewriting the internals to massage it into a useful shape. But if he manages it, sounds like it'll be pretty amazing. I'm a bit excited now.

What is their current destructability? Having it as an entity would make it able to take damage like a mob and die, if that's what you mean (or be invincible and unhittable, if desired).

Well, the Zeppelin mod would work a lot better if he changed it to create a big entity and just updated the player's position like a flymod does. The only issue is he'd have to add code for collision detection while walking on the craft instead of using the game's default.

Pedantic nitpick time: "IP" stands for "Internet Protocol", so if you just say "his IP" instead of "his IP address", you are doing it wrong. *sigh*

Oh, that explains where all your money comes from, then: You must be a rich retiree living in a Virginia townhouse with two dogs and a view of the mountains. #andtheguessingcontinues

I would have assumed the mod just deletes the blocks from the world and creates an entity with a custom renderer, like frames. Is that not so?

The answer to this type of question should always be "because both exist". I will maintain respect for you if you never give in to the "A does it so we don't need B" small-minded mentality.

Post the launcher log.

I'm pretty sure TheGuy is somewhere around 14, if that explains anything.

TheGuy obviously doesn't understand how money works.

I must say, this is a healthy attitude, and much more calm and measured than mine. Good on you.

Go back and read what PsychoBob said that I'm referring to, because you're shooting arrows blindly into the darkness.

Oh, that explains a few things about you. It's a pity that most brain damage never heals.

Java can run quite nicely if used well. (Of course, native code will always be faster, but that doesn't mean Java is inherently bad.) The problem is, Notch is terrible at coding, especially in Java. His code is inefficient and redundant, doing all kinds of unnecessary calculations. He instantiates classes all over the place that serve no purpose, that would be much-better handled by simple static class methods. He uses very little caching and refcounting, instead doing deep calculation for every block during every tick, frequently unloading and reloading things multiple times in the same function. I guarantee you, Minecraft as it stands could run just as smoothly as Terraria, even in Java, had Notch actually known what he's doing.

Right; I forgot we're dealing with the Internet generation, here.

I would think it would be a lot easier to instead make upgraded versions of the [bat|lap]pack that can be used from the inventory or hotbar instead of needing to be worn. That would require patching IC2, however, whereas you could probably do just a Modloader+IC2api mod to create the new armour that acts as an electrical item.

Hey, this is neat. Now we have a stained-glass mod and this mod! Our forum is starting to pick up its pace delightfully. New best word of the day. EDIT: There, just posted on the IC2 forum thread. Let's see if my infamy has spread there, or if they're a little less prone to taking valid points and turning them into a flamewar than the rest of the Minecraft community.

How is painterly a mod?