Changelog for BuildCraft 6.2.0

Additions:

  • Pipe improvements!
    • Clay Transport Pipes - insertion pipes, now in official BC!
    • Diamond Liquid Pipes - sort liquids.
    • Emerald Liquid Pipes can now filter liquids as an option.
    • Sandstone Kinesis Pipes, which offer more throughput but do not connect to machines.
    • Rebalanced liquid pipe capacities.
  • Charging Table - charge RF items with lasers!
  • Engines do not explode anymore! They now overheat - hit with a wrench to fix! (Explosions can be restored via config)
  • Huge networking code improvements!
    • Major rewrite of networking - instead of 3 networking subsystems, we now only use one.
    • Small improvements in packet size.
  • Quarry changes!
    • Quarries and Mining Wells now dynamically calculate the energy required to break a block based on its hardness.
    • They also render a fancy block breaking animation when breaking a block.
    • Quarry arms move slower in rain, unless the rain is covered by a roof.
  • Stirling engines can now burn paper at 1 RF/t.
  • Engine centipedes are back! You can now connect engines to each other.
  • Improved error messages for Schematics (CovertJaguar)
  • OreDictionary support for almost all BuildCraft recipes (ganymedes01)
  • Robot Miners respect BlockBreakEvents now (useful for MCPC+/Cauldron)
  • Updated RF API to latest version (discerns between Providers and Receivers)
  • New APIs for modders:
    • IEngine - send energy between engines!
    • IHeatable - control the heat of a block!

Bugfixes:

  • [#2236] Tanks consume water bottles and don't support IFluidContainerItem (asie)
  • [#2225] Crash with blueprints (asie)
  • [#2222] Add support for Blocks that use a color multiplier for rendering (nulano, asie)
  • [#2218] Can't dismantle Landmarks (Gyro)
  • [#2213] Message for receiving an invalid IMC is not formatted (asie)
  • [#2210] Crash when changing dimensions with robots (asie)
  • [#2208] Server-side crash when opening BuildCraft list (asie)
  • [#2199] Pipes call interface methods on invalid tiles (asie)
  • Fix builder packet spams (asie)
  • Fix gate powering causing crashes (asie)
  • Fluid pipe multipliers now respect fixing the travel delay as well (asie)
  • Important severe blueprint bugfix! Server admins - this is SERIOUS! Update!