🎉 The 2021-2022 Senior Capstone year has come to a close! 🎉
With the 2.0 release of Electric Blocks comes many quality-of-life improvements and feature additions, as a culmination of ~9 months' worth of work by Greyson Biggs, Ryan Buckel, and Samuel Frederickson as part of the 2021-22 Senior Capstone course at the University of Idaho.
Several things have changed, so we recommend you read our updated website. The most important change for end-users is that the HWYLA mod is now required for EB to run. You can find HWYLA here. As well, because Electric Blocks still uses Minecraft 1.15.2, if you're hosting a multiplayer server, it is vulnerable to the extremely dangerous Log4j exploit. More about that and how to fix it here.
We highly encourage feature requests and bug reports in the discussion and issues pages. This is quite helpful for future teams. Thanks for using Electric Blocks!
Notes and changes:
- New textures for all blocks and items! For blocks, yellow borders indicate power blocks, and blue corners indicate multimeter interactivity.
- Added functionality to the Battery block. Refer to PandaPower documentation for how this works.
- Added the Electric Furnace. It smelts and cooks items! This behaves differently than the vanilla Minecraft furnace - you'll have to exit in and out of the Electric Furnace inventory menu for it to (instantly) smelt/cook items.
- Added three levels of Multimeter - Intro, Intermediate, and Advanced. Intro shows basic voltage and active power values, Intermediate starts adding reactive power, and Advanced shows everything.
- Added HWYLA as a dependency, with plug-in functionality for said mod. You can now hover over blocks to see their service status, inputs, and outputs, and can enable/disable the display of each of these in the HWYLA plug-in settings menu. You must have HWYLA installed for Electric Blocks to work now.
- Added an orientation map. Download below, or find it in the /saves/ folder in the source.
- Minor audiovisual tweaks and bugfixes.
- The Doks site has been updated. New installation procedures, project documentation, a handoff document for the next team, and edits for readability have been pushed.