Finite Liquids Mod Support For 7.0.1 SSP Dev Build

jakj · May 8, 2012

Now available: Patch for Technic dev build to make the Finite Liquids mod work.

Technic SSP 7.0.1

Finite Liquids 5.6

Installation: After installing Finite Liquids into modpack.jar, copy agh.class, ame.class, bb.class, pb.class, and vd.class into modpack.jar. Copy TilePump.class into the Buildcraft factory zip, and Utils.class into the Buildcraft core zip.

(Added mini-mod to add recipes to make water and lava cells using FL buckets.

Known issues:

Occasional crash saying cannot cast ame to sn. Cause unknown; sporadic.

Underground lava pools use "ocean" blocks instead of normal Finite blocks, so they simply disappear instead of flowing.

When a flowing pool is near-empty, some small remnants may be left behind when the ground is dry directly under the pump. Use a bucket to collect those bits and place them under the pump's spigot to get it to suck them up.

Pumping flowing pools is slower than in vanilla because it does bits at a time instead of always one full block.

(Buildcraft is open-source, so nobody start bitching about including the source files. No source provided for the Finite Liquids fix because I didn't change any code.)

A little interesting info about Finite Liquids

First, there are two types of blocks: normal, and "ocean". The normal ones dynamically flow, acting exactly like real water (except with no momentum, so no waves). The "ocean" blocks replicate themselves while still connected to the ocean, but if any ocean is cut off from the source (it tracks the shoreline), all of the ocean blocks are turned into normal flowing blocks. (This ocean business is necessary because your computer would melt if you took a bucket of water out of the ocean and it then had to recalculate the flow of the entire ocean.)

When you use a bucket on the ocean, it fills the bucket but leaves the water there. When you break a block on the shoreline (thereby receeding the shore), it advances the waterline to fit the shore.

May 13 Edit:

Patch now updated to fix a slight bug in the mod I discovered, and also to include support for the 4096 blockfix patch. Everything in the FiniteLiquid5.6TechnicPatchMay13.zip still goes in modpack.jar, after the 4096 fix is installed. (The patch should in theory work even without that fix installed, but I haven't tested it.)

IMPORTANT - The 4096 patch is still not 100% perfect, nor is Finite Liquid, and I have discovered an incompatibility: If you use block IDs above 255 for Finite Liquid blocks (in this specific crash, the oceanic lava block), Minecraft will crash during dungeon generation when getting the materials for nearby blocks. (I tried to track the issue down, but I had no success, because I started getting deep enough into Minecraft internals that I got overwhelmed and pulled back out. But basically, for some strange reason, the ID is getting its bits chopped off above the last eight. I think it has something to do with how Minecraft stores block IDs in chunks separated by the last 8 bits and the first 4 bits. I just don't know.)

For now, you must allocate Finite Liquid block IDs below 256. All other mods seem to work fine with the 4096 fix, though, so you can just move some out of the way to make it work.

The Merchant of Menace · May 8, 2012