Instacraft v0.4 Ever wish there was a more physical purpose to the workbench and furnace other than crafting and smelting stuff? Well now there is! Introducing Instacraft, the plugin that lets you do basically anything you can already can do with your tools, but with a workbench and furnace! Video courtesy of powerpawn! Features: - Directly "mine" wood (log), stone, ores, and obsidian simply by putting a crafting table on them! - Smelt ores into ingots instantly by setting a furnace atop them! - Melt ice instantly with a furnace on it's head or morph it into a drop with a workbench! - Water + workbench = ... - Many more to come and discover! Changelog: V0.4- Added enchantment for the other ore blocks as well!; Jack-o-Lantern + a burning furnace = ; Added returnable glowstone! v0.3- Added instant enchantment! Place an enchantment table on a gold block and see what happens!; Added space for a whole lot of future additions! v0.2- Modified item drop behavior; Edited how Lapis behaves w/ a workbench on top of it; Added some minor extras for hopeful future updates! v0.1- Initial release Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20985653/Instacraft.jar Taylor Shuler (c) 2011 @T145
Wot? Placing a workbench instantly breaks and drops the item beneath it? Sounds sort of like a game-breaker...
Ya, I don't have a YouTube! If you or anyone else would like to make a video review and/or demonstration and post the URL to the video in a comment, I'd be happy to watch it then add it to the main thread! A game-breaker as in revolutionary or a game-breaker as in breaking the game?
More like a game-breaker as in being pointless. Why should I place a crafting box on top of a block to mine it instead of breaking the block itself directly?
Because this eliminates all waiting time entirely (as well as adds some extra, fun features to a server!). I don't think I know anyone who actually enjoys waiting an eternity to destroy obsidian!
Ok maybe for obsidian it would be faster, but really for wood or stone? Place the box, block of wood below gets mined, remove the box again, place on next block of wood... Way slower than just breaking the wood in the first place I'd say. Other than that I really think you should add a video, because just from the description it sounds mostly.... useless. I (and probably most other people) don't bother to download and install a plugin just to figure out what it actually does.
For your first point, I'm planning on adding a feature that activates a sort of chain reaction when a workbench is placed on the top of a tree, instantly and automatically crafting each wood block into sets of wooden planks! And to the video, I agree. The only problem is that I need the YouTube account, recording software, time, etc., that I just don't have at the moment. As I said previously, if you or anyone else would like to make a video review and/or demonstration and post a link to your video in a comment, then I'd be more than happy to add it to the main thread!
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Thanks a bunch! If you feel as though you want to remake it, then feel free to do so! Do you like it? I've added a new video! EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
Personally, I don't see the point. If you want to break obsidian instantly; creative mode. If you want to play in survival then you want to play legitimately, in which case... play legitimately and put up with the wait time that is there for a reason... The golden apple feature is the only real feature I see a use for. Having a set of tools made is a nice feature that saves a few seconds, but that's about it... If you can make it do the whole tree at once, or mine an entire ore vein in one the it will have functionality that is something a mod should be written for.
Yes, that's what I'm planning for the future! But who actually wants to spend the time to type in /gamemode username 1 (unless other installed plugins change that of course)? The whole point of it is just to provide a tool that's easy to use, fun, and to add a new experience to an otherwise normal server. I've played on a couple of server's that run several of my plugins and everyone seems to enjoy it! If you don't like it or find it pointless, it's not like your being or will ever be forced to change your bias. I've already predicted that some people love it, and some people won't. That's just life for a developer. The trick is to see how someone can improve something to point where everyone likes it, and that just isn't possible. If you like it, that's cool. If don't, that's okay. The best thing you can do is to keep giving me constructive criticism on how to improve the experience for everyone! Because while I may not be able to make it so that everyone who's tries it likes it, I can still always shorten the number of people who don't!
Exactly, that's why I post. I'm not trying to flame you or just bash it, I was aiming to point out that as a plugin it's functionality is fairly limited, and that whilst it saves time it only does so for the smallest amounts of time, and only in certain situations. Please do continue to improve it, just the tree thing would help (maybe make it drop leaf blocks as well as wood? As if you'd used shears?) but adding other functionality would be fantastic. What would be fantastic is if you could use it and a piston to push blocks under it, and have it break them. You could use that on a server to set up a cobblestone generator that uses a stream to push the dropped blocks into a pit. Every 3 minutes you walk along and pick it all up.
I whilst improve! And for the generator, I believe it should already have the ability to destroy a block into a drop through the means of a piston already, but I haven't tested it quite yet due to lack of time.
Hey guys I was away. Glad you liked my video pROFailure. And also Im confused. Do you want me to remake it? Was it bad quality? If so then I will remake. Thanks!
I'm planning on adding nodes! The only problem is that permissions seems to bring a bunch a trouble wherever it goes, so I'm working on my own version, Acquiescence!
cool its a great plugin btw i have it on my server sorry if i sounded rude didnt mean too and thanks for the plugin