1.2.5 came out as advertised, but what wasn’t was the Mod API. Jeb has lied to us and isn’t explaining why. Or maybe it was an April Fools joke.
However, this isn’t all bad. I’m getting reports that some mods for 1.2.4, work with the new patch. Unbelievable. Maybe Jeb does have a caring bone in his body by not doing alot of changes to the code.
But as I said, some mods work.. not all. Though I don’t know what does/doesn’t. So far, Mo’ Creatures, Rei’s Minimap, Zeppelin mod, and some others are reported working in 1.2.5.
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I also wanted to do a Map Spotlight. I’ve never did anything like this, but this map deserves to be talked about. Browsing this “1.2.5 Pointless?” thread, is a guy with a clickable sig about this ‘Iron Arrow Railroad‘. And to ‘click to take a ride’.
I did and I was presented with beauty. A monorail, sometimes a double track, going straight for 24km (13 miles).
All of what I saw was built by him and friends of his server, and he kindly had a download of his map for people to check out. Of course I did.
Now with map in hand, I’m blown away by the detail put into the map. It’s clear that they have no need to install Railcraft. Kinda wish they did, then I could really see how they did it with a monorail.
Also, it feels like the people of this server were inspired by the game; Trainz. Either that or Railworks.
The map has a defined Eastern Europe theme, yet the author claims this isn’t what they were going for. But from what I’ve seen, the towers the track goes through, and the guard towers, and the small towns; classic European theme. You don’t see that in the USA.
Anyway, I mentioned about the small towns. These towns are just randomly-placed houses that I swear they used MCEdit to place them. But this… this is something I should do for the W2TS as well, to make the map look like it has meaning (as in it serves invisible people instead of just myself).
Speaking of cities and back to this map, I went through two of them so far. Both are equally detailed, and I love the monument idea for each city. However, the ‘Sundial’ part of the monument seems to be off-center. It shows South actually being East, and then some. Not sure if this is just on my side, or if this is just an old map. The video description did say that the map started construction since the Halloween update. My map, World2, is somewhat older than that. Like 2-3 months older.
Also, this isn’t the only line. There’s several other lines, but they’re all unfinished (yet I think they’re there for more decor). Some are however used for their own purposes, like this one line that heads down all the way to the Bedrock layer. And this freight line called “Golden Arches”.
And that’s pretty much it. In ways, it puts my system to shame. But my system is pretty good too for what it has. And there’s things I got that are better;
1. Uses Railcraft.
2. Named lines.
3. Correctly-named signs (though I know he’ll fix those with time).
4. Signs that tell you the next station.
5. Cart Call/Storage system (see Railcraft).
6. A history of the line.
Yet there’s things he has than mine doesn’t;
1. Random cities.
2. Random small towns.
3. Had the guts to post his line on Youtube.
4. Has the guts to have the line on a server, even though it’s private.
5. …Has friends that follow the theme of the map (unlike angry).
6. Doesn’t seem to have a need for Railcraft.
7. Knows how to deal with idiot animals better than using fences. He knew how to make barriers actually look nice and functional.
8. Lines that serve purposes (the freight line for example).
9. Doesn’t care about how “boring” the landscape is. Knows how to make it look better.