Adds "Resource Scanner" item, that allows to locate resources. This will help players to find rare resources more easily, allowing take a short play sessions, still craft everything that this wonderful game proposes. WARNING - mod is beta quality, not tested with large number of mods, performance impact not known. Please, follow bug tracker to ask questions and report issues.

Features

scans resources in range of 16 blocks(spherical scan mode)
- use while in hand, to switch to circular scan mode(doubles scan range, but scans only one block above\below player position
shows horizontal direction to nearest block, as well as indicates if block is higher or lower relative to player
same scanner can scan multiple resources simultaneously(max 5 resources)
limited scan time, scanner need to be charged with respective resource
- one single item charges scanner for 1 minute(diamond, coal, redstone dust, etc.
- resource block(Block of Iron, Block of Diamond, etc.) charges scanner for 9 minutes
- smaller items(Iron Nugget, etc.) charges scanner for 1/9 minutes
- once charge for specific resource is gone, you can charge scanner with same or another resource
configurable - default config file will be generated on game start
does not allow cheating, requires mod to be installed on server side

Crafting

Charging

Recipe is shapeless. Charging will eat whole stack of items, so stack of diamonds will charge scanner for 64 minutes of diamond scanning. Scanner can be charged by ingots, diamonds, emeralds, coal, and respective blocks. See generated configuration file for full list of items to charge.

Cool Resource Finder