dinsdag 1 mei 2012

Powercraft Guide



Power Craft guide 3.0 for 1.2.5

New types of Lasers & Automatic Animal Breeding added!

(display of all blocks in version 2.4 - newer blocks aren’t shown)


Table of contents




Information overview


Basic information
Created by
Sjibiti4
Minecraft version
1.2.5
Latest mod version:
v3-0
Requires
Mod Loader


Technical stuff (may be changed in the future versions)
Block IDs used
153-154 and 212-235
Item IDs used
approx. 19256-19261
Terrain sprites
0 (terrain.png swapping used)
Item sprites
5
Total classes
117
Code lines
over 19000
Downloads
over 70.000
(excluding downloads of separate mods)


Property files (for modules)
.minecraft / config / PC_modulename.properties

Read through the “PROPERTY FILES” chapter for more detailed info.

If you want to support me, you can Donate! I will appreciate it.

Download

Latest version can be found on minecraft forums.
This mod is also posted on PlanetMinecraft.com.

Installation

Requires Risugami’s ModLoader
Make sure Minecraft works with modloader, before you try to install this mod.
  1. Download the ZIP file of this mod.
  2. Place the file into .minecraft/mods (create if needed)DO NOT EXTRACT THE ZIP FILE!ModLoader will find it and load the mod from the zip, no need to edit your jar.
  3. Run Minecraft.

If you get Black Screen

Check ModLoader.txt for errors. ID conflicts are possible.
ID conflicts can be solved by editing the property files.
It is not recommended to use ID resolver!

Check the forums post at least once a week, updates are released very often, and they are sometimes really important!

What is PowerCraft?

  • Intuitive yet powerful industrial mod
  • Ideal for automatic farming and mob spawners
  • Easier than other factory mods

Modules

  • PowerCraft is modular - consists of plugins, and one Core module.
  • Because the mod is becoming really complex, modules no longer work separately.

General info, block placing, redstone powering

  • Hold CTRL while placing blocks to build in opposite direction.
  • I paid special attention to make it possible to build conveyors on top of other blocks, even if they have inventories. thus: You can’t open GUI with conveyor, gate or machine in your hand.
  • All blocks that react to redstone can be powered from either side, from above and even from below!
  • Some blocks use Tile Entities and items with metadata to hold extra information. That’s why you can’t cheat the from TMI.


Extra recipes added

  • PowerCraft’s core module adds few useful recipes to the game. It can be disabled using config file.
  • These let you craft wooden items back to sticks / planks, furnace back to cobble and sandstone back to sand.
  • You can also craft spawner:MSM
    S--S
    MSMM - mossy cobblestone
    S - iron ingot
  • Click spawner with activation crystal to set it’s mob type (pig is default).


Changelog

==== 3.0 ====
* Added support for custom (modded) crops, using XML config files
* After you run Minecraft with powerCraft 3.0 installed, go to
 config/PC_CROPS and you will find the default config file there.
* You should not edit this file, but rather create other files in the
 same directory.
* There don't have to be only crops, you can for example add the
 following "crop" entry, if you want harvested sand to sometimes
 drop gold nugget (like in real life). That, of course, will work
 only if harvested by harvester, not by shovel, for example. 50% of
 sand will be destroyed, because sand's count is set to 0-1.

<crop name='Gold in sand'>
   <block id='12' metaMature='-1' metaReplant='-1' />
   <item id='371' meta='0' count='1-2' rarity='100' />
   <item id='12' meta='0' count='0-1' rarity='1' />
</crop>


* Miner with bridge building enabled will now stop when it runs out
 of material, instead of falling down. After you insert some more
 blocks, it will continue.

* Right click mirror with power crystal to set it's color.
* Coloured mirror reflects only laser of the same color, while the
 other colours will simply go through.
* This can be used to separate laser beams combined by prisms - good
 for laser communication, you can transmit up to eight different
 signals by single beam!


TRANSPORT

  • Provides Conveoyr Belts that can move items and mobs.
  • Many types of conveyors let you separate, filter and sort items.
  • Chest and other Container blocks interaction is supported.
  • Automatic Crafting with Automatic Workbench.

Hold SHIFT (sneak) and you won’t get moved by belts.

Recipes


Basic belt can be crafted also from paper, but with fewer products.
Craft elevator with redstone in the middle -> DESCENDER. Goes down.

Brewing support

As of 1.4-A, conveyors can intelligently interact with brewing stand - fill it with ingredients, water bottles, eject final potions and failed ingredients. Grey belts can fill buckets from nearby water (since 1.4-C even on sides under the belt), fill nearby cauldrons with these buckets, and finally fill bottles from cauldrons.

Iron Frames

Iron frames are decorative blocks, crafted of iron ingots. They give more industrial look to your PowerCraft factories. You can put torches or ladders on them with no problem, and they look cool under conveyors.




Conveyor Belt

Moves items and mobs. You can build corners using two conveyors, one leading from side into the other.

Basic Conveyor Belt can store items into all Container blocks - on sides, above and under the belt. The only exception is Roaster, which can’t be filled from above (for a good reason). It can also fill furnaces: fuel goes into fuel slot, and all smeltable things go into the upper slot. You can eject items with Ejection Belt. Clever insertion also applies to brewing stands - ingredients to the top slot, water bottles to the bottom slot.
Belt can move MINECARTS! And store items into storage minecarts.

You can not pick up items from belts, except activated brakes.

Speedy Belt

Speedy belt works just like the basic belt, but is twice as faster.
It can’t store items, which is sometimes required.

Redirector

Redirector is a bit harder to understand, but it isn’t that complicated.
When it is not powered, it works just like the basic belt.
However, once you power it by redstone (even from below), it will try to redirect items to a side.

If there is no conveyor on either side, nothing will happen. If there is one side conveyor, items will be redirected there. And finally, if there are two side conveyors, items will by default go to left, and when powered, they will go to right. Nothing will go forwards in this case.

Item Ejector

When it’s powered by redstone, it ejects one stack from the nearby container blocks (chests, furnaces, dispensers, roasters etc.). It needs an impulse (button for example). Ejector can’t store items.
In the latest update, ejector can work with brewing stand. it waits for potions to be finished, and ejects all potions (not water buckets) and failed ingredients. Since 1.4C, ejectors work also for chest minecarts!

Brake Conveyor

This conveyor is very slow, and when it gets powered, it will completely stop the moved stuff. It can be used when you have problems with too high speed (from elevator, for example).
Brakes are very useful when your items keep falling off your belts.
Brakes are useful for conveyor-rail interfacing. It can store items into passing by storage minecarts - these with chests, while not moving them.

Active brake lets you pick up items.

Item, XP & Mob Separator belt

Separator is a selective item redirector (for filtering).
Right click your separator to open its sorting GUI. It consists of two 3x3 areas: items in these areas will be redirected to the sides (left and right). Not matching items will continue forwards.
NEW: Insert the same item in both halves to split stacks. 3 to left and 1 to right = ¾ of stacks to left, ¼ to right. You can chain multiple separators to get finer fractions.
Mobs can be separated using their primary loot: gunpowder, bone, slimeball, raw pork, raw beef, feathers, rotten flesh, string.
Use diamond to separate XP orbs (obtained using laser on roaster).

Detector Belt

Works just like the basic belt, but it has a pressure plate on it. You can use both pressure plate types in the recipe, it makes no difference.
Items and mobs are detected, and the signal goes to sides and downwards.

Automatic Workbench

AW is a machine, but since it requires conveyors for effective work, it is packed in transport module.
AW has a GUI, opened by right click. It is divided into two 3x3 grids. On left you can see a storage grid. What you want to edit is the right grid. you know this type of crafting interface from Workbench.The difference is that when you close AW’s GUI, the items will stay inside.
You can then feed your AW by conveyor, and once the recipe you inserted is recreated in the left grid, a product will be crafted and ejected through the “door”. Your recipe grid won’t be changed.

As of 1.5, if AW is built on stone bricks, it will hold crafting until a redstone signal is received (pulse). Then, one product will be ejected. This is useful for more advanced factories or shops with automatic supply.


Elevator

Item elevator is needed for vertical movement of your stuff. It can also carry mobs and players. Items can enter elevator, only if the tube continues at least one block lower, or if there is air under the lowest tube.
Elevator will try to eject items if there is a conveyor attached to it’s topmost block. If you want items and players to leave in the middle, you have to power the middle blocks by redstone. This lets you build intelligent elevators for your skyscrapers. Important: Conveyor belt is needed in all stations. At least one brake conveyor.

Descender

Descender can be obtained either by crafting elevator with redstone in the middle, or by crafting elevators with redstone on top. First option is obviously cheaper.
Descender is an elevator, which goes downwards. It takes care of items’ movements and forces them to stay inside while being moved down.
Bottommost descender won’t let items go any lower, and it will try to eject items to nearby conveyor. In fact, there is an invisible “conveyor belt” in the bottommost descender, which moves items to sides.

Descenders reduce fall distance and remove fall damage.
This applies also for elevators.

TELEPORTER!

Teleporters were added in version 2.7.
Crafting is as shown above. When you place a teleporter, you are asked whether you want SENDER or TARGET. Always build output first, its easier.

SENDER accepts entities, items, players and other entities, and sends them to TARGET piece. Output needs some space for output, and don’t put it into a small room, mobs & players will suffocate (need 2 blocks height).

You can connect more SENDERS to one TARGET.
They are compatible with conveyor belts (and they work really well together, for remote processing for example).

Iit is also easy to build a fast travel system of these - put one into your home room, name it “home”, and then put “home” SENDERS to some places on the map.

Teleporters look best with “fast” graphics.

As of 2.8, TARGET device renders with golden metal pad, which makes it easier to distinguish them.

Also since 2.8, teleporters have some checkboxes in their GUI, and because of this, old teleporters won’t work at first. Make sure the required teleportation functions are turned on in the GUI (right click them).





MACHINES

  • This module contains 3 useful machines, compatible with conveyors.
  • Stone Brick is used to determine the borders. (or obsidian)
  • Machine placed on top of stone brick has range limited to one block.

Recipes



Block Dispenser (and hoe + bonemeal machine)

Block Dispenser can build blocks. It will stop when it hits a Stone Brick.
Dispenser can use hoe and bonemeal, and some other items.
It can work together with harvester in a farm.
One dispenser can bonemeal a row of crops, not just one.
It can also place minecarts.

Block Harvester [+ automatic shearing machine]

Block Harvester can break blocks and harvest crops. Harvested crops will be replaced by the seeds.
Trees will be harvested completely (whole tree with one harvester), and replaced by sapling. Leaves won’t be removed.
Mushrooms on grass will not be harvested, so you can bonemeal them to get giant mushrooms. Giant Mushrooms will be harvested just like trees, and replaced by a small mushroom. Mushrooms on stone or other non-grass blocks will be harvested, making it possible to make a mushroom farm.

Harvesting minecarts

Harvester can harvest minecarts, and it won’t break rails / conveyors.

Extending harvester’s range

You can extend harvester’s range by placing LAPIS LAZULI in it’s way. It will then reach 20 blocks further, and it can be repeated infinitely. Or almost.

Shearing sheep

Since 1.8B, harvesters can shear sheep. It is extremely useful, because wool will regrow after some time.

Custom crops support

As of 3.0, harvester supports modded crops. The default crops config file is generated in .minecraft/config/PC_CROPS.

The config files are XML files, and I think all important is explained in the default.xml file. You can add more than one drop item to a crop block, set mature and seed metadata, and also set rarity and random count of the output items. it is really easy to configure.

After you make some config file, please post it on forums.

Roaster

Roaster can be used for grilling your chickens. You shouldn't think its unfair. Smelting items consumes twice more fuel than the normal furnace, and it consumes fuel even if it is just turned on (slowly). This is the price for smelting instantly.
If you place a conveyor on top of it, it will work as an industrial furnace.  It is best to use brake for this.

Conveyor on top of roaster can smelt individual items, and 3 items from each stacks. Brake can smelt up to 9 items in a stack.
You should get more roasters in a line, or use some loop with separator on top of them if you want to smelt whole stacks. Conveyors can’t store items into roasters from above.

Right click your roaster to open it’s GUI. Stack size is limited to 16, thus one Roaster can contain up to 16*8=128 pieces of fuel (two stacks). Fuel can be inserted by a conveyor from side or from below.

It can set mobs on fire, so it can be used in grinders.
Roaster does not emit light, so it won’t disturb mobs spawning.

Roaster with fuel inside is turned on by redstone (lever or wire for example), and it can be extinguished the same way.

Nether field

When roaster burns netherrack, it emits red particles in a great range (12x12x4). This area, called Nether Field, lets Nether Wart grow in the normal world (overworld), and it also turns gravel into soulsand.
This, however, takes some time and costs some netherrack. Nether wart has to be planted on soulsand.

Lasers

Killer beam

Put laser on top of an active roaster, and you will get a killer beam.
This beam kills any creature almost instantly, but be careful, this includes players and tamed wolves. If you turn the roaster off, the killer beam will be turned off as well. If you combine killer laser with a mob motion sensor from the Wireless module, it will turn on only if a mob approaches. You can also for this purpose use Sensor laser.

Killed mobs will drop 75% of their XP orbs (compared to zero if killed by lava). these XP orbs can be moved by conveyors. In separator, use “diamond” to separate XP orbs. XP can then be stored in an XP bank, or collected manually.




If you place laser somewhere else (not on roaster), this dialog will appear:

Sensor beam

Sensor is the well known detection beam, which works like a tripwire - if a mob or player enters the beam, the laser device will send a redstone signal. It can be used to control killer beam in mob traps, whatch sheep movement or anything else. It can, of course, work with mirrors and prisms.

Transmitter and receiver

Transmitter sends a green signal beam, which can, of course, be redirected or splitted by mirrors and prisms. When transmitter reaches a Receiver, it turns this receiver device on and makes it output redstone current.



Mirrors for lasers

Since 2.6, lasers can be reflected by MIRRORS.

Once the mirror is placed, use right clicking to rotate it. Hold shift to rotate it the opposite direction.

As you can see, laser going through Power crystal changes color, which can be used to organise signal beams (good for very long distances, where you may forget which of the many beams is which).

Also laser gains 100 extra blocks power when it goes through Power Crystal, so it can reach further. However, total limit of 2000 blocks applies here.

Prisms let you split the beam to more directions, and even upwards and downwards. Mirror in the way of vertical beam makes it reflect to 45% vertical angle and approximately the angle of the mirror, which is sometimes useful

When you place a prism, it is empty, and does nothing. Craft yourself few GLASS PANELS (thin glass), and attach them onto the prism from required output angles.Laser can’t go through the same prism twice, to prevent infinite loop and beam multiplication.Insane laser show at night.



Coloured mirrors (v3.0)

When you click a mirror with PowerCrystal, it will change color.
Coloured mirrors can reflect only beam of the same color, other beams will go through. These can be used to separate beams combined by prisms, as shown here:


XP storage (now with depositing!)

Compatible with conveyors. Laser on roaster kills some mob -> XP orbs are moved by conveyor -> separator can separate XP orbs (insert diamond in the separator - diamond means also XP here) -> This device will collect XP points.
Right click to withdraw few levels. Click again to get more.
When something is collected, it sends redstone signal.
SNEAK + right click to deposit XP points.
Dropping XP orbs on breakdown was removed due to a bug in original orb picking code. Just make sure the storage is empty before removal.

MILKING MACHINE (bucket in dispenser)

Put bucket into dispenser, it will be thrown and milk a cow. Its a new PowerCraft’s feature.


Automatic Animal Breeding

In 2.8, this item-throwing behavior was added to all kinds of food and wheat. I hope it won’t cause any troubles.
Anyway, the point is that thrown wheat can hit some animal, and activate it’s “love” mode. Some animals need special food, like fish meat.

LOGIC

Recipes


Logic module provides logic gates and 3 flip-flops.

Logic Gates

They are one-block “chips”, compact and powerful.
Red arrow is always output, purple are inputs.
D and RS flip-flops have two outputs, so you can use them in both directions.
All gates have one tick delay, which is needed for technical reasons.

T, D and RS flip-flop gates

These three integrated circuits are flip-flops.

T gate divides clock signal by 2, and has two reset inputs on sides. It can be used for counting, slowing down clock signal or other things.

D gate has 3 inputs and one output: RESET, DATA and CLOCK
  • CLOCK - when this turns on, DATA value is put to OUTPUT
  • RESET - sets output to zero and erases the memory
  • DATA - input data

It may look a bit complicated, but you can quickly learn how it works - put 3 levers next to the gate, and a indicator to output, and play with it.

RS is one of the most basic circuits. It has two inputs (green and red), which turn the output on and off. You can use it to control something by two buttons - start and stop.

Example of part of a 7493 integrated circuit (binary counter) built of logic gates: (next page)


One-shot circuit sends one short pulse once it’s input turns on. It lets you “convert lever into button”.
Since flip flops are triggered by rising edge, you need these NOT gates at output. That’s also why you need the “zero filling”. When Ts are resetted, they turn zero and all outputs (after NOTs) turn to ONE, giving you the highest possible number. If you send one clock pulse to the input (using the repeater here), counter will overflow and turn to zero.

You can also build linear counters and watchdogs with these circuits. They were strongly improved in 2.2.

PowerCraft’s Crafting Tool

Gives you all blocks
Right click this device, and a chest-like GUI will be opened. You can then take gates, redstone stuff, machines and belts out of this “chest”, and the materials needed for their crafting will be taken from your inventory. If you want to get negated gate, get first the normal gate and inverter - negated gate will appear.

You can enable “recursive” crafting, which will let you craft almost all the gates directly.
Recursive means that it will for example let you directly craft NAND gate if you can craft both NOT and AND. Its sort of more advanced and smarter, but in some rare situations it gives you fewer products than you expect - that’s why its disabled by default.
Just open config/PC_LOGIC.properties and enable it:
ENABLE_GateCrafter_recursiveCrafting=True
to enable cheating in survival, enable:
ENABLE_GateCrafter_cheating-in-survival=True



It’s in creative, that’s why everything is available.
In survival, only recipes you can craft of things in your inventory are shown and ready to be take-crafted.


Pulsar

Pulsar sends redstone pulses. Right click pulsar to set period (“Delay time”) and “hold time”. You can add one tick by right clicking pulsar with a stick. Sneak while stick-clicking to make delay shorter.


Special sensors (DAY, RAIN, Empty+Full Chest)


These special sensors will turn on when the condition becomes true.

Empty chest detector is very useful for larger factories. Its on when the nearby storage block is empty. Works also for roasters and machines. Craft Empty Chest Detector with NOT gate (on top) -> Full Chest Detector.













Special Controller

This redstone device can be crafted since 1.8A.

Pig spawner controlled                    Pulsar paused by controller
pecial controller can force nearby spawners to spawn a mob when it receives a redstone pulse. It also prevents them from auto-spawning.
Spawner won’t work if there’re too many mobs nearby.

Spawner can also PAUSE PULSAR, and then resume it.

WIRELESS (radio etc.)

  • Radio transmitter an receiver.
  • Portable transmitter (Radio remote).
  • Signal lights
  • Motion Detectors.

Recipes


Radio

Right click radio block to set it’s channel (use whatever you want).
You can build more radio devices with the same channel, the signal will be shared (OR gate).
Right click radio block with Remote to set the channel of remote. Each remote can have different channel.

Motion Sensors

There are 3 of them - for items, mobs and players. Mob detector detects all living creatures except Player - animals, monsters, NPCs.

Right click sensor to make the range larger. Right click while sneaking (holding shift) to make the range smaller. Left-click to print range.

Sensors send redstone signal when the entity approaches.

Signal lights (Control Lights)

Crafted of one redstone and one glowstone.
You can then dye them - with all dyes. Even black ;)
Lights can be placed on each side: on ceiling, on floor and on sides.
Light is almost as good as from torch.

Since 1.8B, they should be visible in TMI.



MOBILE module

This is one of the most modern and most complex parts of PowerCraft.

Power Crystals

Power Crystals, created of crystallized energy, can be found below map level 15. These crystals emit low jingle sounds when you are closer than six blocks, which helps you find them. There are 8 colors in total:
All colors of power crystals can be found in small like-colored deposits.
Crystals can be broken by anything you want, and you will get them as items.
Natural deposit of purple crystals.

Crystals let you craft:

Power Dust

Power Dust is a strong fuel. You get 24 pieces by crafting one Power Crystal. It lasts at least twice as long as fuel. You can’t get it if you have EasyCrystals cheat enabled.

Activation Crystal

Activation crystal can be used for these purposes:
  • Activating miner and fishing machine
  • Setting miner for keyboard control (and disconnecting from kb)
  • Changing spawner’s mob (see next page)


Spawner GUI

Shown after clicking spawner with activation crystal.


Mining Vehicle - “Bulldozer” or “Miner”

Miners are spawned in similar way to snowmen. You build 2x2x2 cube of Iron Cubes, except one upper side, where you place double chest. The whole structure is a 2x2x2 cube. You then insert some power crystals into the chest, and right click iron cubes with Activation Crystal. The structure will be transformed to Miner (entity).

How to use Miner

Miner won’t move or do anything until you insert some fuel into it’s chest. Power Dust is ideal.You can select one or more Miners for keyboard control - right click them with Activation Crystal.
Right click while sneaking to open programming screen.

Miners’ Keyboard Control

Numpad keys:
MINUS
Mine down.
7
Enable mining
8
Move forwards
9
Disable mining
PLUS
Mine up. Use followed by Forward.
4
Turn left
5
Turn around
6
Turn right
1
Turn into blocks
2
Move backwards
3
.
DEPOSIT into chest


O - Enable BridgeP - Disable Bridge
DELETE - reset code buffer, align and fix position, free allocated fuel.ENTER Run program and disconnect from keyboard.



Miners’ levels and special powers

Level = number of different crystals in Miner’s chest.
You can enable a special cheat using PC_MOBILE.properties.
This cheat, “EasyCrystals”, lets you craft crystals by smelting diamonds, and then alter their color by crafting them.

Here is a list of level specific super powers:
NUMBERMININGSuper powers
1all non-rock blocks.
2basic rocks, coal, iron
3gold, lapis, redstoneBridge building
Smart torch placing
4diamonds, power crystalsAnti-lava protection
5obsidian
6Anti-water protection
7
8bedrock (above level 0)(Won’t mine void hole.)


Bridge building builds bridge of contained blocks to prevent fall (into caves, for example. If you enable bridge for lower-level Miners, they won’t build bridge, but will “sneak” - stay at the edge.

Anti-lava protection fills nearby lava blocks with cobblestone or dirt from the internal storage. If any empty buckets are present, they will be filled with the lava before lava removal. Since lava bucket is great fuel, this can be used as an almost infinite fuel source in low map layers. Remember that if you turn Garbage destruction on, you may run out of cobble and lava fix won’t work properly. Anti water protection works exactly the same way - replaces water with stones and dirt from container.

Torches are placed - if you insert them in the chest - with 4 or 5 blocks distance. Torches are always placed on the right-hand side of mined tunnel if possible. Fallback is left-hand side and then floor.

Programming GUI

Right click your miner while holding shift - SNEAKING. You will get a programming GUI.
You can use the green line for smaller commands, while the upper text field will be saved when you close the GUI.
The upper text field is multiline - you can use enter to break lines, scroll using mouse wheel or with arrows. Home and End keys work too.
You can click into the text to set cursor position.
Mining enables block mining, Bridge enables bridge building. Lava and Water filling options enable replacing liquids with dirt/stones from the cargo storage. Enable Keep all fuel to prevent storing fuel (coal, wood) into chests.

Tick Destroy checkboxes to collect and destroy specified materials. They will will be collected as usual, but not stored into the cargo chest.

Compression automatically crafts sand to sandstone and diamonds and lapis to storage blocks.

Torch>floor forces placing torches on floor instead of walls. This is useful for very large rooms where miner breaks already placed torches, which results in a large dark room (monsters!).

Programming language for Miners

All spaces and white characters in program code are ommited while parsing, so you can format your code with them. There is no height limit - feel free to use ENTER and spaces for better code alignment.

PLAIN COMMANDS

Command
Action
F, B
Move forwards / move backwards
5, -5
Number of steps forward / backward
L, R
Turn LEFT / RIGHT
S, N, E, W
Turn to SOUTH / NORTH / EAST / WEST
U
Mine one step forward and up. It lays half step if something craftable to half step is inside. Cobblestone works best. If miner stands on half step and you execute Up, it will perform Forward command instead.
D
Mine one step down and forward, without movement.
If you want to make a descending corridor, repeat Down and Forward commands (DF)
Q, (deposit), (store)
Store contents into nearby chest. Q command can’t store buckets, power dust and power crystals.
If you check “Keep all fuel” in the Miner’s GUI, coal and other burnable items won’t be stored.
X, (halt)
Turn into blocks (iron cubes and chest with the contents).
(M), (!M)
Enable, disable mining. You can also write “(mining:on)”, or “(m:on)”. Or symbols * and %.
(B), (!B)
Enable and disable building bridge. (bridge:on) works too. Also with off, of course. And (br) works as well.
(L),(!L)
Enable and disable lava filling. Its recommended not to turn this off. (lava:on) works too.
Lava filling is available only for level 4+ miners.
(W),(!W)
Enable and disable water filling. Works for level 6+ miners. It does something very similar to lava filling.

There may be some secret commands, secret simply because I forgot to mention them. And some that are not worth mentioning.
Also there are lots of other aliases, such as (mi:on), (water:off) etc.

LOOPS

You can use simple loops with constant number of cycles.
You can also use variable (or formula with variables) as the loop count.
(loopN: …. )
Repeat …  N-times. Works for any positive number, even with more digits. Repeated code can contain loops or anything other.
(@N: … )
Shorter alias for loop.


Here is an example of loops:

(@50: 10L10R )

Longer syntax
(loop 50: 10L10R )

And with variable a:
(@a: 10L10R )
(@a+b: 10L10R )
(@a+15: 10L10R )
(@<a+15>: 10L10R )
< and > are optional in loop count.


VARIABLES

You can use variables in Miners’ programs.
Prior to any use of your variables, you must set it’s initial value.
<a=0>

Each variable operation must be enclosed in its own <> brackets.
<a=6> <b=15>

Supported operations:
+
add
-
subtract
*
multiply
/
divide and round to integer
%
remainder of integer division



You can then use three different kinds of variable statements.

1) Getting a value
<a> <a+15> <a+b>
You can use all supported operations here.

<RND*15> - get a random number from range 0-14.
<RND*15 + 1> - get a random number from range 1-15

2) Setting a value
<a=27> <a=b> <a=b+1>
<a=a+RND*17> <a=RND*17+b>
<a=RND*15+6>
All operations can be used in most cases.

3) Special syntax for setting a value
This is a bit C-ish:
<a+=b> - add B to A
<a*=2> - multiply A by 2
<a++> - add 1 to A
<a--> - add -1 to A
Note that ++ and -- operators can’t be used for getting a value.

Using variables in loops

As mentioned before, you can use variables in loops.
Variable as loop count
(@a: UF )
or (@<a>: UF )

You can use any value-getting syntax here, for example
(@a+b: UF )

Note that loop count is constant. You can not alter loop count from inside of the loop by changing the variables.

You can even use RND*N syntax here. In case of loops, you can even use RND*var.

IF-ELSE statement

The basic syntax of this statement is:
( condition ? true-branch : false-branch )
or ( condition ? true-branch )

Condition is typically a comparision of two values (numbers or variables). You can also use operators on both sides of the comparision.
Example:
( a>15 ? U : F )
(a%6 = b ? R )
( RND ? L )

This can be used for random mining with turns...
(RND*10>=4 ?
   <RND*10> :
   (RND?L:R)
)

You can use these operators here:
=
equal to
!=
not equal to
>
greater than
<
lower than
>=
greater or equal
<=
lower or equal


RND in if-else statement returns Boolean values if used alone, thus it does not require range definition.




Example program - spiral mining

Set A to number of cycles

<a=15>

(BRIDGE)(MINING)(WATER)(LAVA)

<b=0>
(@<a>:
  <b+=1>
  <b>L
)

Fishing Machine


How to make it

Read the instructions:

Fishing machine will rotate the “fish sucker” and eject fish through the wooden blocks. If there is a belt connected, fish will be thrown onto this belt.

One fish costs approximately one coal, but the catch time varies from 15 to 30 seconds.
This works only if there is enough water under the fisher - 3x3x10 is minimal, and if this area is filled by non-water blocks during operation, the machine will break apart. The same will happen if you break the fence or planks.

You can freely place torches or belts onto the Fisher’s blocks - they are still normal blocks, but are chested by the machine all the time.

You have approx. 15% chance to get ink sac instead of fish.

Programming the fish sucking screw a the net was great fun, I hope you like it :)


Ore Sniffer

If you want to mine safely, without risks from lava pools and monsters in caves, use this device. Right click ore sniffer on a wall, ground or any other face of some block, and it will tell you what blocks lay in this direction. Hold SHIFT for deeper (further) sniffing - this can reach bedrock from surface.


PROPERTY FILES

Power Craft is divided into CORE and 5 almost independent modules (LOGIC, MACHINES, MOBILE, TRANSPORT, WIRELESS).

Each module has it’s own property file, which makes configuration easier. These files are stored in ModLoader’s config folder:

.minecraft/config

Config files have “.properties” extension, but they are plain txt files, so if you have problems with editing them, rename the file to txt, edit it, and then rename it back to original name.

Here is a list of all config files with default setup (next page).
Important properties are highlighted.

PC_CORE

#PowerCraft global setup file
ReverseKey=LCONTROL
Hold this key to build gates, machines or conveyors in reverse direction.
Its shared by all modules.

PC_LOGIC

#PowerCraft logic plugin - setup file
ENABLE_GateCrafter_recursiveCrafting=False
Enables or disables recursive crafting. Recursive crafting is more advanced and more convenient, but sometimes it behaves strangely. See docs for Logic module for further info.

ItemGateCrafter_id=19003
device_LogicGate_Off=223
device_LogicGate_On=224
device_RedstoneClock=225
Block IDs. Range is 1 - 255, but first approx. 120 IDs are used by default blocks.

gate_on_BRIGHTNESS=8
indicator_BRIGHTNESS=12
You can set brightness of glowing blocks. Range: 0-15. This is a request feature.

indicator_Off=226
indicator_On=227
IDs of Control Lights.

PC_MACHINES

#PowerCraft machines plugin - setup file
machine_BlockDispenser=222
machine_BlockHarvester=221
machine_LaserGun=230
machine_Roaster=228
machine_XPBank=231
Block IDs. Range is 1 - 255, but first approx. 120 IDs are used by default blocks.

PC_MOBILE

#PowerCraft mobile [vehicles] plugin - setup file
BLOCK_PowerCrystal=232
ITEM_Activator=19001
ITEM_PowerDust=19002
ID numbers used in Mobile module.

KEY_Backward=NUMPAD2
KEY_BridgeOff=P
KEY_BridgeOn=O
KEY_CancelOp=DELETE
KEY_Deposit=DECIMAL
KEY_Down=SUBTRACT
KEY_Forward=NUMPAD8
KEY_Left=NUMPAD4
KEY_MiningOff=NUMPAD9
KEY_MiningOn=NUMPAD7
KEY_Right=NUMPAD6
KEY_RunProgram=RETURN
KEY_TurnAround=NUMPAD5
KEY_TurnIntoBlocks=NUMPAD1
KEY_Up=ADD
Keys used for Keyboard Control. Google lwjgl Keyboard for complete list of key names.

RECIPES_EasyCrystals_Enabled=False
Enables / disables easy crystal crafting.
You can get Crystals by smelting diamonds, and then alter their color using crafting grid when this option is enabled.

WORLDGEN_PowerCrystal_Enabled=True
Lets you disable generation of Power Crystals. This is a request feature, but may be useful if you don’t want natural Crystal deposits.

crystal_BRIGHTNESS=15
You can set Crystals’ brightness here. Range is 0-15.

PC_TRANSPORT

#PowerCraft transport plugin - setup file
conveyor=212
conveyorBrake=216
conveyorDetector=214
conveyorEjector=213
conveyorFilter=215
conveyorItemElevator=219
conveyorRedirector=218
conveyorSpeedBelt=220
machine_AutomaticWorkbench=217
Block IDs. Automatic workbench is closely related to conveyors, that why its packed in Transport module.


PC_WIRELESS

#PowerCraft wireless plugin - setup file
block_Receiver=154
block_SensorRanged=229
block_Transceiver=153
item_Remote=19000
Block and Item IDs.

Factory ideas

Most of these factories use Pulsar for timing. Wiring can be done under the machines, it works too.
  • Cobblestone maker
  • Flint maker (dispenser and harvester, connected with belts)
  • All smelting and crafting recipes can be automated with belts (and roaster, if you want).
  • MELON & PUMPKIN, SUGAR CANE, CACTUS, TREES, WHEAT, FLOWERS, MUSHROOMS (giant, too), NETHER WART
  • XP farming is now possible with lasers and XP storage.
  • Automatic potion makers
  • Vending machine with automatic goods refill and paying by diamonds
  • Storage Minecart filling stations
  • Automatic sheep shearing farms with coloured sheep -> you will save your dyes!
  • Automatic mining with programmed miners
  • And, of course, fishing machine!

Screenshots (older features)

Experimental alchemy lab (since 1.4A)

Mushroom factory Mushroom is on dirt, bonemealed and harvested.
Ejection from minecart (since 1.4C).
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