Archimedes' Ships/Changelog

On this page, the changelog for the mod Archimedes' Ships can be found. It can also be found on the mod Minecraft Forum thread. This page is almost a direct copy of the changelog on the Minecraft Forum thread, although it has been formatted and properly linked for the wiki.

1.7.2

1.7.1

• Updated to Minecraft 1.7.10.
• Added mass property to the Helm GUI.

1.7.0

• Floating mechanics now depend on the density of the blocks and materials on the ship. Configurable in the config file.
• Removed advanced floating mechanics, since it's now always enabled.
• Added a new algorithm to assemble ships, which allows for larger ships but could be a heavier load for CPU. Enable it in the config file.
• Patched up all chat commands. Changed /asdismount to /asdisassemble and /askill to /assdisassemblenear.
• Ships now bank when making turns. Banking multiplier configurable.
• Entities do not escape from crates anymore.
• Right click an entity to release it from a crate.
• Crates can now only be placed on top of another block.
• Fixed dead entities not being removed from crates.
• Added safety for Tessellator not being ended.
• Added Dutch translations.
• Modified English translations, stopped using the words 'compile' and 'decompile', which are rather programming terms.

1.6.1

• Fixed server crashes.

1.6.0

• Added a crate block to transport mobs and some other entities.
• Changed engine name to Steam Engine.
• Enhanced engine texture.
• Added steam engine block crafting recipe and full implementation.
• Added Error safety in network pipeline.
• Added Russian translations.
• Added a whitelist of blocks to the config file.
• Improved client-side tile entity instance cleanup to possibly fix world leaking.
• Improved synchronization of tile entities.
• Increased floater floating capability.
• You can now remount a ship even when any block meta data has changed.
• Fixed a huge network leak where a lot of useless information is sent to the client.

1.5.2

• Fixed max entity boundingbox check radius increasing with every ship built.
• Fixed server crashing when dismounting ship.

1.6.4

1.5.1

• Removed /asalign command.
• Fixed passenger seats not working.
• Fixed pilot seat in wrong position for very large ships.
• Fixed pilot seat in wrong position after loading the world.
• Improved synchronization for unmounted ships.
• Readded readme file to the download.

1.5.0

• Added a compile status GUI to the helm block. The latest compiled ship is now saved in the tile entity.
• Added a GUI to the ship entity.
• Added the possibility to name a ship.
• IMPORTANT Pressing shift to dismount a ship no longer decompiles it, but keeps the ship as an entity. This can be re-enabled through the config file.
• Made Helm and Seat flammable.
• Added a keybinding to decompile the ship: backslash '\'
• Added keybinding settings to the config file.
• Increased base turn speed.
• Improved alignment.
• Improved parachute.
• Improved gauge render performance.
• Implemented usage of Forge built-in block rotation method.
• Added language file support.
• Removed right click dismount setting.
• Removed mrot reload command.

1.4.5

• Renamed the ship marker to the 'ship's helm'.
• Removed 'remount on decompilation fail' setting.
• Fixed decompilation fail mounting issues.
• Fixed entity disappearing when decompiling above world.
• Fixed /asinfo command rounding balloon percentage.

1.4.4

• Added version check for default.mrot file.
• Fixed ships colliding with squids.
• Fixed item duplication bug on ship compilation.

1.4.3

• Fixed tile entities not rendering properly.

1.4.2

• Fixed parachutes crashing server.

1.4.1

• Fixed ships could not be larger than about 1000 blocks.

1.4.0

• Added passenger seats with built-in parachutes.
• Added more information to the /asinfo command.
• Added compressing of ship data before sending to increase max blocks on ship.
• Added shore buffer blocks which don not connect to ships.
• Added coloured balloon blocks.
• Added piston, trapdoor meta rotations.
• Added engine block functionality. (Not finished & craftable yet)
• Added buffer block.
• Improved dismounting.
• Decreased balloon block hardness.
• Fixed bounding box rotation.
• Fixed not all signs on ships synchronizing text.

1.3.6

• Moved textures to the assets/archimedes/textures/ folder.
• Fixed huge lag caused by splash particles.

1.3.5

• Fixed empty spaces being replaced with water on decompiling.
• Fixed being seated on wrong position on ships larger than 16*16*16 blocks.

1.3.4

• Fixed server giving an error when creating a ship.
• Increased ship size limit to 3400 blocks.

1.3.3

• Added a keybinding to align the ship to world grid without rejoining, can be used instead of the /asalign command.
• Added the detection of empty space blocks on a ship where no water can come, improving the floating mechanism.
• Improved mobile chunk connection algorithm performance.
• Fixed aligning a ship not rounding its position.
• Fixed balloons causing ships to sink much deeper.
• Fixed taking falling damage when landing with an airship.
• Removed the useless pack.mcmeta file from the download, fixing crashes with third party launchers.

1.3.2

• Right clicking a mounted ship will dismount you again.
• Fixed landing on top of the ship or in the water after dismounting.

1.3.1

• Added speed limit setting to the config file.
• Decreased default speed limit by 25%.
• Removed airship balloon ratio limits.
• Changed keybinding names.
• Fixed being able to dismount a ship by right clicking it.

1.3.0

• Added airships, including a functionality for balloons.
• Added the possibility to build ships larger than 16*16*16 blocks.
• Added a functionality for floaters, making ships floating less deep.
• Added brake control to the control scheme, 'C' by default.
• Added the up and down controls to the control scheme, respectively 'X' and 'Z' by default.
• Added bed meta rotations.
• Added an option to the config file to change the turn speed.
• Added the blocks IDs to the config file which can be overwritten by a decompiling ship.
• Added an option to the config file to change the synchronization rate of ships between server and client.
• Added an option to the config file to determine if the player should remount the ship if decompilation failed.
• Added more options to the config file along with the new airship features.
• Added extended gauges, showing height and vertical velocity beside the standard gauges.
• Changed the look of the compass gauge.
• Made gauges not render pointers when player is further than 16 blocks far.
• Decreased base turn speed.
• Made ships turn more smoothly.
• Player will not get inside an opaque block anymore when mounted on a ship.
• Improved performace, especially for large ships.
• Fixed ships gaining huge vertical momentum when in a waterfall or lavafall.
• Fixed blocks from other mods that act as air blocks not being added to the ship.
• Fixed certain blocks dropping as items on rejoining with the world, like beds, doors, torches and ladders.

1.2.0

• Changed the ship controls.
• Added a property to the config file to change ship control type.
• Changed the speed limit from 43.2 km/h to 144 km/h.
• Added a white south pole pointer to the compass gauge.
• Made ships move more smoothly -> increased sync rate to 1 per second again.
• Ships can now contain multiple ship markers.
• Added the /as (OR /ashelp OR /as?) command, listing all AS commands.
• Added the /asdestroy [range] command, killing the nearest ship in range. Dropping items if it can't decompile.
• Added the /asalign, aligning the ship you're riding on to the grid, without rejoining with the world.
• Fixed ship splash particles.
• Fixed ships not being influenced by liquid streams.
• Fixed ships being blocked by squids and other mobs.
• Fixed very thin pointers on gauges when mounted on a large ship.
• Fixed torches and ladders dropping of the ship when rejoining with the world. (Still ladders & signs still happening)
• Added crash-safety at the renderers when a block from another mod cannot render on ships.

1.1.2

• Fixed sometimes not being able to dismount large ships.
• Fixed certain tile entities not meta-rotating.
• Fixed signs not being displayed on ships.

1.1.1

• Added meta rotation of furnaces, dispensers and chests, redstone repeaters, levers, buttons and doors.
• Added tall grass to the forbidden blocks.
• Made the player stand behind the steering wheel.
• Fixed the server crash on startup.
• Fixed some large ships bugs.

1.1.0

• Added a list of forbidden blocks to the configuration file.
• Added soul sand to the forbidden blocks.
• Added a fileloader to read meta rotations from the .mrot files located in the .minecraft/config/ArchimedesShips/ directory.
• Added ladder and fence gate meta rotations.
• Tileentities are now saved between games.
• Readded pushing between boats and ships.
• Increased the server-client sync rate of ships when playing singleplayer or in a LAN world.
• Changed the command names.
• Added a parameter to the asdismount command to overwrite world blocks with ship blocks.
• Changed the display name of the gauges block to Measurement Gauges.
• Changed the gauges tileentity tag to fix compatibility issues with other mods.
• Fixed crashes with ships with leaves.
• Fixed crashes when creating a ship larger than 16 blocks wide, deep or high.

1.0.0

• Initial release.