Two news for you:
1. First chapter of TDC is completed. I’ll upload the remaining parts on a regular basis, it would be boring if I just give you the whole story at once, wouldn’t it? 😛
2. IC² 1.96 is coming out soon-ish. You don’t need to start mashing your F5 Keys yet (for those who still have functional ones), could take a few more days.
Sounds awesome
Am I right to assume that 1.96 will fix the most annoying (totally my own opinion, though 🙂 ) bug, which causes some errors with the energy grid on world reloads? You know, the one that causes the storage devices or generators to stop sending EUs to machines (link to the forums: http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=5940).
If so, bless your heart. 🙂
Had that happen to me all day yesterday ><
Me too. Fixed it by rotating some bat-boxes and mfsu’s around, then setting them back how they were. still annoying as balls, but least i know how to fix it now.
You know that happened to me today… Luckily my system is very simple for once. Lol playing around with red power 2 enough said :p
Well, fixing it is very simple. Sometimes it’s enough to just press the redstone button on the storage unit cycling until ‘nothing’ displays. If that doesn’t do the trick, destroying a cable and reconnecting it back is sure to fix the whole connected network. 😉
But in my world 4 quarries work constantly, powered by electric engines supplied with nuclear power. Then there are some forestry contraptions also powered by electricity. No to mention UU-Matter farm with recycler combo. 😉
Every reload I have to start by checking each of those power grids so that it doesn’t clog up because of energy lack. It only takes 2-3 minutes or so, so it’s not a big deal, but it is quite annoying. 😉
So I really hope this bug is squished without mercy. 😀
Albaka. I am detecting incoming awesome on a huge scale!! Can you confirm the OVER 9000 readings?!
Also, i need to know, are the [s]totally deadly defensive turrets aka[/s] “Special Projects” going to be added?
Because you see, we have some leftover people from the “Agriculture Day 343 Incident” that i think would gladly be volunteered to test them :3
Did someone say turrets?
no, no one said turrets,
Hope its just bug fixes 😛
i hope he will add some new stuff like a cool down system to the nuclear reactor like you do irl 😛 ^^ i next patch 😛 i know it not going to happen 😛 like cooling pipes into a nuclear reactor and make some steam engien to run on hot steam ^^ 🙂
No need for full automation systems.. Well unless you make them with Computers that is =)
Awesome idea! 😛
Should we start mashing our f5/ctrl+r’s now
Not quite yet.
Take time =)
Albla, just waiting on you so i can launch my server or cluster fucked awesomeness
RP2, BC, IC2, Forestry, Smart Moving
yeah, this is gunna be fun
These are all 1.2.5 compatible, including IC² since 1.95.
I have a macro to refresh the page constantly.
Mind giving me a copy? My F5 key doesn’t even have writing on it anymore.
Oh, Durped up
meeh!
So… 5/9. 5/9 what? Weapons perhaps?
“A few more days” It’s been like 3 weeks.
Yeah. It’s kinda of looong development. I think it must a new cool stuff, or big list of fixes, or…. “SON, I AM DISAPPOINT”
yeah… i know we’re not supposed to ask for release date but please give us at least some quick heads up on how updates are doing.
Slower then exspected.
How is Diablo 3?
very fun
Nice guess, but I don’t buy mainstream games at their full price. If it’s in for 10€ at Steam in a year or so I’ll grap it.
16 days 😛 still long though
Perhaps the update was contracted out to valve?
Oh, he was making IC3?
Alblaka, does Luminator’s hitbox have to be full block? I’m Constantly breaking it by accident, which is pretty annoying. Maybe you could change it with upcoming update, if possible? 🙂
Acquire that. I’ts no reason to make Luminators as a full block.
Well, considering the fact that they have different shape depending on direction, I thought this might have something to do with them being full blocks.
The weather is plainly awesome in germany for some time now. ‘nough said! 😀
Awesome story, your a really good writer. Just the kind of story I like. also props to you for being an awesome coder. 😀
Somebody said Beta test time!
This must be pretty big if it has taken this long, perhaps IC2 2.0?
It’s much more us being lazy, I guess. Or the fact we finally fixed Jetpacks for SMP :3
1.96 is a bugfix update currently in closed beta testing.
2.0 will have something more. Eventually, but not guarantueed / limited to:
-Pollution
-Research
-Reactor API
POLLUTION!!! YES!!! YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!
and jetpacks fix WOOT!
Woot!
The Multi Frequency Force Field System Addon went Open Source, the creator Thunderdark has not the time to update it anymore. How about adding it to IC2?
More like a re-adding….
Pollution… Interested to see how that will play along with Thaumcraft 2’s Vis and Taint levels…?
Alblaka, will this update fix the Construction foam bug with MFSU and cables resulting in chunk reset to seed default?
Hey Albaka, I’d like you to check out a potentially fatal bug on Agriculture forum section I posted before you finalize 1.96 build.
http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=6424
Thanks a lot.
What, high-growth plants spawn weeds? As the old saying goes, that’s not a bug, its a feature. I’ve heard Yahtzee Croshaw being called a professional troll; Alblaka is only one or two steps behind him.
Alblaka please give us a update it has been weeks almost a month since you have posted anything
it been 5 days sens Alblaka put an update on hear be carm and wate
Erm, it´s been less than a week since he gave an update, which states they are still bugfixing in closed beta.
It has been only five days since he posted. They’re doing beta testing right now.
im not talking about comments I mean posts on the main page
Whatever happened to AlBos?
still in development i guess because even eloraam took forever to release her computers
Running amok in my personal enrichment center.
Madness has overtaken ic dev’s…
Madness?! THIS IS- nope.avi
-quick idea about AlBos-
i know it isnt likely to appear in an ic2 update soon, but i still think its a good idea.
but i’d rather see a completely different computer than what computercraft/redpower computers are. computercraft offers an easy programming platform to control redstone/automate stuff(turtle)/and even simple networking.
redpower offers a PERFECT copy of an early age computer, specially designed to work with redpower wires and frames.
what i think ic2’s computer should do is offer a powerfull yet limited platform for reactor/energy management to allow making more complicated energy networks.
it would be amazing to see something like this in ic2 in the near future, but for me bugfixes are more important than new things (that most likely bring more bugs).
great work, thumbs up for the ic2 team.
I love a good read, any plans on future shipping to the Netherlands or a translation?
Doubt so. ^^’
Have to admit I’ve been neglecting IC2 in my play world due to the energy net bugs. No expansion at all since 1.95 came out and I never bothered to recraft all my tools after dying horribly to a pack of creepers in a dark tunnel miles from my base. Been mostly using Thaumcraft stuff instead.
I mostly just use nano/quantum armor and nano saber, which, btw, should really have a quantum upgrade… anyways, i find myself either using pickaxe of the core or dark matter pick. and defiantly the axe of the stream for wooding.
Mostly because i find that, and this includes the nano saber, that the tools take up too much energy, and the armor takes up too little, i can sit in lava for a good 10 minutes before my nano armor starts getting into the red zone, perhaps even longer, while my nano saber can only be left on for like, 5 minutes worth of fighting before i gotta take out my lap pack to recharge it.
It’s because of the bug in the armor code, it’s fixed in 1.96
Sorry I just tested it out and it said no such file 😉
the updates on status are here now? good to know
woot for 2.0 pollution(really wanted that one – now i can recreate 18th-19th century London with its corrosive environment. Gona need a lot of bricks)))))), woot for research!!! let there be science to be done!!!!!woot for bugfixes – always a good thing. WOOT FOR IC2 DEVELOPERS!!! YOU ARE THE MOST AMAZING BUNCH OF DEVS IN MINECRAFT UNIVERSE
Are we able to ask for a rough timeline? seeing as its been about a month since we last got one?
Yes a few days he said and hes no liar! Read above!
“could take a few more days.”
No.
seems like Alblaka started to use Valve time…
Thx for reminding me to kill my profile again. SMNC has an issue with friendlists if you dont make your profile public, forget to set it back to private again ^
err…
what?!
seems like someone actually brewed some dragonblood
You must be new with videogames.
Do you Reddit Al?
IC2’s devs are REALLY killing us with the waiting, considering this is supposedly just a bugfix update. Something is fishy about this. I hope everything is okay with them IRL!
I have a small suggestion. I don’t care if it takes 5 months but even my users are as bad as the kids on here. Accept if I ban them I will have no players left Al and the users you have not banned on here are to smart to join my server hehe.
Maybe just do a updates thread and then troll them with the same copy/paste as before haha. No but a thread on just reassuring that things are still going and such or if there not even. It helps bring more confidence in people.
Agreed. The last mention of any sort of progress was May 27th. Even just a post that says “still a few more bugs to crush before a release” would be kind.
On a side note… Alblaka, you seemed a lot more active on this blog when you were in school. It could be because now that it’s summertime, more people have bundles of free time, so this waiting seems that much more excruciating.
You know, I’m studying since 1 1/2 years now? That’s before we even started this blog. And since a weeks “school” aka university is running. I would dare to claim your argument regarding my activity to be invalid.
@Alblaka: Fair enough, my claim was inaccurate. I hope you can accept my apologies if for appearing rude or otherwise.
Aecnoril said it INFINITELY better than I did:
“you know many people love this mod and every bit of news relieves us from this frustrating feeling we get from waiting.”
Maybe you should write a chapter on that 😛
You thought this 79th comment was news, didn’t you!
Noope…
But on the account of many of us, we only got some vague hints that things -Might- not be going that well, or I misunderstood totally, small status update maybe? you know many people love this mod and every bit of news relieves us from this frustrating feeling we get from waiting.
though, if things really are going as bad as I thought, take all the space you need!
Just wanted to add my two cents (of European currency, mind you).
While I didn’t check the forums at all (shame on me!), I wonder if the reason for not getting an update lately be caused by devs waiting for MC 1.3 and the official API?
Isn’t the MC 1.3 update going to be released any day now (valve time)? 😉
I’m intrigued by the new stuff 1.3 brings, but then again, I’d really hate to have to start over on a fresh map. Not to mention to wait for the mod devs to release compatible versions…
Thoughts, anyone?
Alblaka is awesomeness! Leave him alone to work his magic you harpies!
I Agree
i second that
I find it hilarious I post this, and 2 days later an update is released. Maybe we just shouldn’t pester him EVER AGAIN, and just let him be totally awesome. 😉
Hey, question about one of the bugs. Will the whole “plants become invisable” in servers be fixed in 1.96?
Thats no IC2 bug, the server you are playing on has probably a Multiworld plugin installed.. Not matter wich of them it uses, they break Crops and Thermal Monitors for SMP.. Remove it and all will work perfectly again.
uhhh…. everyone still asking “is this going to be in 1.96?” its allredy released.. check the fourm 🙂
Where? I certainly couldn’t find it.
It’s on the main wiki now, update notes and all.
Patchnotes: Yes
Download: Dead link, may be there was a working Download before that has been pulled.
I was almost ecstatic when I saw the 1.96 release on the wiki. The missing download link and later the redirect to 1.95b dropped my mood a bit. I hope we don’t have to wait another one and a half months for the release…
Where are the patch notes? :S
Well beta guys are playing it 🙂
For how long if you don’t mind me asking. This been weeks or just recent?
Why no post is posted for the last month or so??
Because its all put into a chapter 🙂
There was an error that had to do with the Reactor Chambers, is this being fixed in this update? Sorry if I’m off topic here.
following Al’s request:
could you make a lightning rod?
…
I was actually going to suggest that too after hearing that comment. It would be rather neat to see a device that absorbed lightning during a storm. How much EU would a lightning bolt be?
Yes Al i agree with you ……………………
Thaumcraft 2 really is fun, isn’t it Alblaka?
Will 1.96 need latest version of forge(aka forge modloader)?
Is 1.96 a content update or only fixing ENET bugs? In either way i am looking forward to it 🙂
And dont let people nag you too much AL do your thing and when its done its done 🙂
1.96 is primarily a bugfix update. The ports to the 1.2 versions came almost instantaniously, were quite unstable and added more bugs with every update. It was just time to fix everything which is also why it took so long. 2.0 is expected to add new content as stated by Al’ in an earlier comment
Thanks for the info looking forward to it 🙂
Why do you post lightening rod comments but everything I submit does not show up?
Sorry Alblaka I know you have a lot of thing to do but under a few day almost pass 2 month. Good work takes time I know. But no offense you like the Blizzard “coming soon” but hopefully yo not going to pull tis for 2 year long 🙂
i dont care how long t takes just so long as he gets it done right. and as for the lightning rods comments just show them the shiny new Tesla coil in the back. its shockingly fun to play with. >:)
Usually, The longer the wait the bigger the surprise.
(Look at frames)
No, it is not. Look at the Planes mod.
Planes =/= IC/RP/w/e.
Alblaka, will this update fix the Construction foam bug with MFSU and cables resulting in chunk reset to seed default?
Don’t know of such an issue.