New Release! (BTW V4.20)

[FlowerChild]

Version 4.20 of Better Than Wolves is ready for download!

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-Added the Stake as a new block type. It is crafted with a string on top of a wood Moulding.

-Added Hardcore Bedding as a new mod feature. This effectively disables beds as a means to set spawn position and to skip the night. This was done to encourage construction (especially of rail networks), restore the balance between day and night activities within the game, restore the impact of weather on gameplay, and to give player death more consequence. Beds are just a bad feature, mkay?

-Added Hardcore Info as a new mod feature. This removes any information in the debug menu that can be used to gain an in-game advantage, while leaving in place any info that would be used for tweaking performance and such. It also adds a new display for how close the player is to a chunk boundary, since this can be used to workaround bugs in redstone circuits due to how block updates work in vanilla, while not providing cheaty info about which direction the player is facing. Long story short: no more in-game GPS :)

-Added ability to cut wood stairs with the Saw.

-Added recipes to melt the Ocular of Ender, and Ender Spectacles in the Crucible.

-Added Hardcore Chests to the options that are displayed when a player joins a multiplayer server.

-Added a new aspect to Hardcore Chickens.

-Changed Pedestal placement so that it works more like vanilla slabs.

-Changed (refined) the tests that the Ender Spectacles use to determine if mobs can spawn somewhere to provide more accurate results. This will resolve problems like them not indicating snow as a valid spawn location.

-Changed the Crucible so that gold items are melted before iron.

-Removed vanilla recipes for turning red & yellow flowers into dyes as part of Hardcore Grinding. This may be done in the Millstone.

-Fixed problem with arrows bouncing off of mobs.

-Fixed problem with mooshrooms wearing breeding harnesses having mushrooms poke through them. Mooshrooms now convert to regular cows when you put a harness on them.

Enjoy! :)

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[HavokSCOUT]

You sneaky bastard+ trying to release an update while I'm asleep. Good job as always

[morvelaira]

-Added recipes to melt the Ocular of Ender, and Ender Spectacles in the Crucible.

Ah Mah Gawd YES! *squee!* I was really dreading having to go out and find endermen when my spectacles broke as it looked like they were about to do soon. Crucible here I come! :D

[DaveYanakov]

Just barely got a chicken farm of a sort up and running on the server so I look forward to being able to experiment on this one. This actually seems like it will be a more useful F3 in the long run since I tended to always end up off by a meter or two when trying to use the straight coordinates to find chunk boundaries without ice blocks being available.

[TheGuy]

-Added ability to cut wood stairs with the Saw.

Thank you

-Added the Stake as a new block type. It is crafted with a string on top of a wood Moulding.

Really liking this feature.

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At first I was looking for a gauge or something, but the low tech way of counting what's leftover was really interesting.

Great job as always

[Detritus]

*squee*

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I am assuming the stakes are used for measuring distances when building? if yes, do we use them with string like the tripwires?

[TheLordOfDerp]

No more beds?
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Oh noes...
But what are beds for now, hmmm??

[DocHussey]

Oh noes! No more breeding harnesses for my Mooshrooms! Great update man!

[FlowerChild]

No more beds?
...
Oh noes...
But what are beds for now, hmmm??

Silly rabbit! Didn't you know? Beds are for banning.

Oh...and you can also fling them and wave them about.

[destineternel]

love the new stake block!
+1 for Hardcore Bedding.

Thanks for the update Flowerchild. :)

[finite8]

Hardcore + Beds

I think there's some videos about this.

[Mr Scratch]

While I like the hardcore bedding feature, I wouldn't go as far as to say they are a bad feature. It can be viewed as a cheat to some, and I would have understood if it were a nerf to them resetting spawn. However was it really necessary to disable their ability to turn night to day? Its one of those features which are so easy to ignore and play normally, yet people blow the issue out of proportion. However I AM glad that you seem to be keeping the ability to use these as a high power explosive in the end, as that was my main use for beds anyways.

[FlowerChild]

While I like the hardcore bedding feature, I wouldn't go as far as to say they are a bad feature. It can be viewed as a cheat to some, and I would have understood if it were a nerf to them resetting spawn. However was it really necessary to disable their ability to turn night to day? Its one of those features which are so easy to ignore and play normally, yet people blow the issue out of proportion. However I AM glad that you seem to be keeping the ability to use these as a high power explosive in the end, as that was my main use for beds anyways.

Thanks for stopping by.

[BobSlingblade679]

Thank you SSOOOO much for fixing those bouncing arrows! :D

Now I gotta figure out what happened to my precious chickens.

[CycloneSP]

Oh dear! I was not expecting a new update so soon, let alone such a huge number jump(from 4.16 to 4.20) Would this be due to the fact that you have included 2 hardcore features at once?

[TheYaMeZ]

Oh dear! I was not expecting a new update so soon, let alone such a huge number jump(from 4.16 to 4.20) Would this be due to the fact that you have included 2 hardcore features at once?

I think it goes up by 0.1 when a new block is introduced and by 1 when a major feature or system is added.

[darahalian]

I just discovered the new hardcore chickens feature.

My thoughts: ... OMFG!! O.O ... LMAO

[CycloneSP]

Ooo, you found out already? Think it would be okay to start a new thread discussing it? I am quite intrigued as to what it may be.(can't play atm, game only works on library comps :( )

[Longlay]

I was skeptical about hardcore beds, but now I'm curious as to what affects this will have on my gameplay. I've never really had to make a railway, so I'll see what comes out of this.

And as for the stairs, I was just thinking how useful it would be to be able to cut them, and I look and now I can.

So all in all thanks Flower!

[FlowerChild]

My thoughts: ... OMFG!! O.O ... LMAO

You have no idea how much I laughed while testing and fine-tuning that feature today ;)

[Sarudak]

It's good to see hardcore beds and info. I suppose I can remove my mod thread since now everything is in BTW lol. :)

Funny I thought the bouncing arrows was a vanilla 'feature' so you could recover your arrows... :P

[Rianaru]

My roommate saw the thread title, and the only thing he remembered about this mod is hemp, so he's gone for a while to celebrate...*sigh*
Anyways, I can't wait to get on tomorrow and discover this new hardcore chickens feature and if there's anything more to hardcore bedding than meets the eye(at least that I can find).

Keep up the great work FC! :)

[Coexist]

-Added the Stake as a new block type. It is crafted with a string on top of a wood Moulding.

Awesome.

[FlowerChild]

Funny I thought the bouncing arrows was a vanilla 'feature' so you could recover your arrows... :P

I actually thought it was a vanilla bug for the longest time, finally decided to fix it, and pulled a face-palm when I realized it was due to an if statement I had accidentally copy-pasted twice :\

[Indras]

-Fixed problem with arrows bouncing off of mobs.

Woot! Hopefully I won't have to worry about catching myself on fire with my flame aspect bow anymore. Also, makes feathers valuable again, since arrows will be consumed properly!

Excellent release!