Better Than Wolves

Version 4.66

April 17th, 2013

• Updated the mod to version 1.5.1 of Minecraft. Note that as part of this process, I ripped out almost all the new features that Mojang added as most of them serve to imbalance, are primarily useful only for their exploits, and/or don't fit well with BTW. Some of that functionality may be reactivated in future releases, but I want to give myself proper time to consider each individual feature and its impact on the game before making them a part of BTW, instead of rushing those decisions as part of the update process. My apologies, but vanilla design has gotten so substandard/random/absent that I am no longer comfortable just integrating anything new they put in by default, as it risks severely degrading the quality of the mod. From this point forward I intend to hold vanilla features to the same design standards that I apply when adding new features to BTW (in other words, if I wouldn't want to add it to the game myself, I won't include it in BTW), and will be referring to BTW as a "total conversion" (instead of a "mod") to reflect that. The one exception I'll be making to this is features that affect world generation (like nether quartz), as I don't want to leave holes in people's worlds by disabling them.
• Added Crucible recipe where two trip wire hooks can be melted down into 1 iron ingot.
• Added high efficiency recipe for the Turntable using smoothstone siding instead of blocks.
• Added "on" textures for both wood and obsidian detector rails, to match the vanilla stone one.
• Added crafting recipe to convert web blocks into string.
• Changed the Block of Flint to use the vanilla bedrock texture, as was originally intended.
• Changed nether quartz to better fit with BTW and the nether.
• Changed the clock, redstone repeater, and Turntable recipes to all use nether quartz instead of redstone dust. Otherwise, the recipes remain unchanged.
• Changed picks to be effective versus Hand Cranks, levers, glass, glass panes, stone buttons, pistons, and glowstone.
• Changed axes to be effective versus wood buttons and ladders.
• Changed shears to be effective versus wool and leaf blocks.
• Changed the drops on boats when they are destroyed to better match the high efficiency recipe.
• Fixed problem with filled buckets and maps returning iron ingots when melted in a Crucible, instead of iron nuggets.
• Fixed problem with lit Mining Charges sometimes visually disappearing before they exploded.
• Fixed problem with the player moving excessively slow from side to side while climbing vines.
• Fixed vanilla problem where torches couldn't stick to the sides of redstone blocks.
• Fixed vanilla issue that was causing rendering glitches on lit TNT/Powder Kegs.
• Removed the string drop when you destroy a web with a sword. Axes and swords are still efficient at cutting through webs, but if you want the string from them, you'll need to harvest with shears, then use the above listed crafting recipe to convert it to string. Note that this makes shears an effective way of gaining access to string with which to make a bow in the early game.
• Removed vanilla method of repairing items through combining two of them in the crafting grid. It was nigh useless in general play, never made a whole lot of sense, and was creating exploits involving wither skeletons and stone swords.
• Removed the mod's automatic disabling of spawn protection with Hardcore Spawn enabled, since vanilla allows server operators to turn that off themselves now.
• Removed the mod's "reliable block update" functionality, as this now seems to be provided by vanilla.
• Removed BTW's code for preventing compasses and sundials from displaying correct information in the stats page due to the code for them changing completely. I'll reimplement that feature in a future release.
• Removed the Stoked Fire custom texture as the new vanilla system no longer supports procedural textures. For now I'm just using the regular fire texture once again, but will create a new custom texture for a future release.
• Removed the dispenser's ability to place minecarts and boats as that functionality better suits the Block Dispenser.
• Removed the dispenser's ability to place and remove water or lava buckets, even when HC Buckets is turned off. This functionality simply does not suit the block.
• Removed all the fetid and lingering remnants of the horrid monstrosity that is the Forge from the mod as part of the update to 1.5.1, since all the functionality I was still using is now provided by vanilla. Huzah! :)