BlockByte Exchange 1.1.0

For Minecraft 1.21.11 on NeoForge. Worlds, balances, research and teams from 1.0.0 carry over, and old files are kept as .bak.

Highlights

• Your first mine needs no Chip Press: iron, copper, redstone, glass panes, a furnace and Data Cable.
• New picture handbook. Page 1 shows the four crafting grids for your first mine, and a small tracker shows your next step. Every recipe is in the recipe book.
• Solar Panels, plus real screens for the Basic Generator and Battery Cabinet.
• A power bar on the controller and the Power tab shows what your miners need and where it comes from.
• Co-ops: share machines, research, power bills and payouts with friends. Your machines stay yours by default.
• The money loops from 1.0.0 are gone, and power is no longer free.
• Quiet by default: no chat spam, and E closes every BlockByte screen.

New

• Solar Panel: up to 20 W at noon under open sky (half a Tier 1 miner), less in rain, none at night. Look at one to see its output.
• Generator screen (fuel slot, burn bar, output, status; any furnace fuel, hopper-fed) and battery screen (charge bar and rate). Spare power fills batteries for the night.
• The catalog has 94 items in 8 categories, with a cart and one checkout. Buying raises an item's price for a while, selling lowers it.
• Candlestick market chart with 1H, 1D and 1W views, a news ticker, and a Sell half button.
• Daily contracts from 15 companies, per player. Block finds: now and then a network pays out 10 minutes of output at once. Average income is unchanged.
• Leaderboard tab (top 10 and your rank) and new advancements, up to the 100,000 BCE Golden Rig trophy.
• Co-op tab and /blockbyte coop: invites, roles, a shared wallet, payout split (equal, by hashrate or to the wallet) and machine access (only me, co-op or public view).
• Send BCE with /blockbyte pay or the Bank tab, and print vouchers for any whole amount. Press P for your Hardware Wallet, or the handbook if you don't carry one.
• Thermal Gel can be used on a miner, mining earns Engineering XP, and overclocked miners can burn out above the heat limit (never destroyed).

Changed

• One codebase builds both loaders, all text can be translated, and every screen fits small windows.
• The controller screen shows a big status with the fix under it, then earnings and the power bill. Details are behind More and in tooltips.
• Power is used in this order: solar, generators, batteries, then the grid. Generators only burn fuel when something needs it.
• Market news, contracts and halvings stay in the news ticker. Only a bull run, crash or halving gives one line above the hotbar, and only to players who use the mod.

Fixed

• Buy-and-sell-back, craft-and-sell, coin, voucher and controller-click tricks no longer make money.
• Research bonuses and the Hash Optimizer module now work. Miners keep condition, paste and modules when picked up.
• Blocks and their contents drop when broken, and the Network Wrench recipe loads again.
• Other players can no longer use or break your machines, and touching cables no longer merge networks.
• Trading needs an open terminal nearby or a Hardware Wallet. Saves are written safely, and switching worlds no longer mixes up balances.

Balance

• Grid power costs 175 BCE per kWh, about a quarter to a third of mining income. Unpaid bills become debt and stop earnings.
• Tier 1 pays back in about 4 hours, Tier 4 in about a day. Tiers 2 to 4 cost about 0.015, 0.11 and 0.63 BBY.
• 25% catalog fee (halved by Wholesale Broker). Halvings stop after 3. Fuel lasts three times longer. Each extra coolant block helps a little less.