Better Than Wolves

October 9, 2012

• Added Hardcore Spawn as new optional game mode (off by default). This mode is largely intended for anarchy servers where it prevents such problems as spawn-camping, players immediately returning to cause problems after they are killed, and idiocy like intentional suicides to get back to original spawn. It thus makes traps and general base defense much more effective. Despite being primarily intended for anarchy play, it can also make for an interesting single-player experience for the more hardcore amongst us as it gives much more impact to player death and encourages player construction and exploration over a wider area. Note that with Hardcore Spawn enabled, spawn build protection is automatically disabled, as it becomes irrelevant.
• Added Hardcore Player Names as a new SMP server option. This is largely intended for anarchy servers, where player names act as a rather unfair way of detecting a player's location without line of sight, and of immediately identifying friend or foe (which eliminates a lot of potential tension in encountering another player). It totally disables player names appearing above a player's avatar, but may be disabled in the mod's config file.
• Added new cheat/server-op command "/loc" that will display current co-ordinates within the world.
• Added new usage case for the "/time" cheat/server-op command. Entering it without parameters will return the current overworld time.
• Changed endermen from being lame and annoying, to being cool and sinister.
• Changed maps so that they won't display your location, or draw in new terrain, while you are underground or inside (you have to have open sky above you).
• Changed the Stake so that it is treated as a block when filtered by a Hopper.
• Changed Rotted Arrows so that only 4 are required to break them down in a stoked Stewing Pot, rather than 8.
• Changed the way Planters display to hopefully resolve some performance issues on lower end systems.
• Changed the way Unfired Pottery displays internally to avoid code duplication with the display of the various cooked pottery types.
• Removed option for reverse Gear Box placement as it had become redundant due to the ability to rotate Gear Boxes after placement. Also, it was no longer working properly with SMP and thus was becoming more trouble than it was worth.