Better Than Wolves

February 10, 2012

Note: This release is NOT compatible with the 2.X versions of Better Then BuildCraft. If you are using that mod, please upgrade to the 3.x branch of BTB. A new release of BTB will be coming out shortly after this release of BTW to handle this incompatibility issue.

• Added the Lens as a new block type (finally). I'm not shitting you. I'm not trolling. This is for really real time.
• Added a new variety of the Planter that may be created by placing soul sand in an empty Planter, instead of dirt (no bone meal is required). This allows for the growing of netherwart and Bloodwood trees, but will not allow for maturation of these plants outside of the Nether. Bloodwood saplings can plant themselves on these blocks just like with regular soul-sand.
• Added the ability to power mechanical devices with a Hand Crank sitting on top of them.
• Added internal hooks for the swallowing of BC pipes by the Block Dispenser for use in Better Then BuildCraft.
• Changed the way Wheat grows so that its growth rate will be at maximum if growing in a Planter, regardless of the status of neighboring blocks.
• Changed the Rollers recipe to use 4 Moulding instead of 9, to fit the recent changes to Wicker & Grates.
• Changed the size of the collision volume on a Hopper without a filter, to match that of one with a filter. This resolves a number of issues with items falling through the cracks between blocks in certain setups, and makes Hopper behavior more consistent overall. It should also now be possible to flow items over a Hopper without a filter in the same way as one without.
• Changed the way Urns render so that they appear directly beneath a Hopper if they are placed under one. This makes the whole bottling of souls process look better and makes it a tad more intuitive.
• Changed the Planter with soil recipe to include bone meal in between the dirt and the Planter.
• Changed the Crucible so that overheating combustible ingredients within it will have the same unfortunate consequences as with the Cauldron.
• Changed the way the Detector Block handles the detection of wheat growth internally. This is so that beams from the Lens aren't blocked by the block above fully gown wheat. There should be no noticeable change to how this works with the DB, but I mention it just in case problems crop up. Please let me know if they do.
• Changed the communication layer with Better Then BuildCraft to make future version of the two mods less dependent on each other.
• Fixed problem with Plate Armor not returning enough Soulforged Steel when melted down in the Crucible.
• Removed ability to convert Urns to Soul Urns within the Hopper inventory. Now, the Urn MUST be placed beneath the Hopper in order to do this. This is to avoid confusion with what is essentially duplicate functionality that was causing people to not even realize the process could be automated. It also serves to encourage automation of the simplest portion of the overall process of creating Soul Urns which will hopefully lead to players deciding to undertake other aspects of it as well.