1.0.5

Functions splitted in 2 Mods

Other Mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create-advanced-computer-technic/preview

A real desktop with windows, a simple control computer, a power grid that keeps running without you and a flare stack – the nuclear part is gone, and radio, TV and cameras moved into their own addon.

⚠️ Removed: Nuclear Power

• The RBMK reactor and everything that belonged to it is gone: reactor columns and covers, control desk, fuel loading crane, core mimic panel, rod storage, steam connector, both steam turbines, the condenser and the cooling tower.
• The uranium chain is gone: uranium, lead and fluorite ores (no longer generated), uranium converter, gas centrifuge, UF6, all powders, pellets, cladding tubes and fuel rods.
• Radiation is gone: Geiger counter, radiation sickness, RadAway, iodine tablets, fallout, corium, reactor debris, radioactive water, the meltdown, the mushroom cloud and the explosion effects.
• Protective gear is gone: gas mask with filters, hazmat suit, lead armor and lead.
• Deco from the nuclear set is gone: lab tiles, vent, steel beam, radiation/hazmat/high voltage signs, waste barrel and the depleted uranium block.
• The reactor module for computers and websites, its help pages, Ponder scenes, JEI pages and advancements are gone too.
• Existing worlds: removed blocks disappear and removed items vanish from inventories. Ores that were already generated turn into air.

🔊 Sounds

• New sounds for switches, breakers, relays, blowing fuses, the telephone bell and hanging up, keypad beeps, the printer, computer start-up and valve motors.
• All old sounds rebuilt: alarms, siren, blast door, radio and electric arcs – with room reverb, several variants for short sounds.

💻 Computers: Radio & Devices → Advanced Computer Technic

• Computers, servers, laptop, USB stick, PC parts and the assembly bench stay here. The communication devices moved into their own addon, Advanced Computer Technic: radio, frequency tuner, satellite dish, radio tower, TVs, security cameras (also SecurityCraft), WiFi router, telephone with voice chat, printer, keypad and parcel station.
• Without the addon, computers and servers work on their own and over data cables (programs, desktop, files). With it, they get radio, internet, WiFi, TV and all devices again – everything works as before.
• Existing worlds: computers, server racks, laptops, USB sticks and parts from 1.0.3 are kept (same IDs). The devices of the addon get new IDs and are not carried over.

💻 Computers

• Boot screen: computers and laptops show a loading screen for about 15 seconds when they start – the CogOS logo with a spinning cog, a progress bar and start-up messages (bootScreenSeconds in the config, 0 = off).
• Cable network without the addon: without Advanced Computer Technic there is no radio and no WiFi, so computers and server racks connected by data cable form their own network – chat, rednet / radio.send messages, server programs, websites and rack connect (by domain, name, server1 or slot number) work over it. A server rack connects the computers wired to it like a switch. The chat stays usable even when nobody is connected yet.
• With Advanced Computer Technic everything runs over radio and WiFi exactly as before.
• Servers send over radio: server programs (rack run) have their own radio number (radio.id()), can send to everyone or to one computer (radio.send(msg, protocol, to)), answer with radio.reply(m, answer), and computers reach a server directly with rednet.send(serverId, ...). radio.receive unpacks tables and can filter by protocol.
• Desktop windows: run several apps at once – drag them by the title bar, minimize, maximize and close; every window has a taskbar button.
• New flat PC monitor with thin bezel and stand – it now updates by itself for everyone nearby, no right-click needed.
• Case fans in the PC tower: two intake fans at the front, one exhaust at the back, spinning with an LED ring in the colour of the CPU tier.
• Restart is now visible (the screen goes dark and boots again).
• Shut down: "Herunterfahren" in the start menu, the shutdown command or asking the helper ("fahr den PC herunter") turns the computer off. It stays off until someone right-clicks it (or its monitor).
• 3D USB stick: real model with plastic case, metal plug, LED and key loop. Plugged in, it sticks out of the USB port at the front of the PC tower or on the right side of the laptop (the LED blinks while the computer is on). The PC tower has two front USB ports.
• Server rack glass door: open it before you insert or pull out servers; it swings open in the model.

🖥️ Control Computer & Data Server

• Control computer: a simple control panel without programming. It finds fuse boxes (each of the 4 circuits), light switches, emergency stops (trip only – reset on site), control panels (not when locked with the key), electric valves, valve actuators, flow meters, flare stacks and solar panels within 24 blocks, shows their state, load and flow, and switches them with one click.
• Data server: records the readings of all devices nearby every 20 seconds (the last 20 minutes) – the control computer then shows a history graph for the device you click.
• Both need power on the + / − terminals at the back (8 and 10 FE/t; range and consumption in the config).

⚡ Power Grid

• Power without players nearby: wires, HV pylons, connectors and laid cables keep their chunks loaded across chunk borders, also after a server restart (gridChunkLoading in the config).
• Utility poles: 32 wires per insulator and several lines between the same two poles.
• Visible terminals on every device: flow meter, valves, control computer and data server (and PC tower, laptop and the devices of Advanced Computer Technic) have real screw terminals on a terminal strip (red +, blue −, copper = data). Holding a wire spool makes all ports nearby glow.

🔥 Flare Stack

• Flare stack: burns flammable fluids – diesel, biodiesel, gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, LPG, ethanol, crude/heavy/plant oil (Create Diesel Generators, TFMG, Crafts & Additions and more, configurable). Pipe the fuel into the base, stack flare stack pipes on top (with ladder, up to 24 high); at the red-white tip burns a realistic flame made of many soft, glowing flame puffs: white-yellow and hot at the nozzle, orange above, dark red at the frayed top, with licking tongues, swirling, breathing and bending in the wind (blue base for ethanol and gas). Smoke rises from it – thick and black for oil and diesel, lighter for gasoline, almost clean for ethanol and gas. The flame lights up the area at night, roars and sets on fire whoever gets into it. Up to 100 mB/t.
• Extras: a redstone signal shuts the flare off, a comparator reads its fill level, Create goggles show fuel, flame and height, and JEI has an info page.

🏆 Advancements & Ponder

• Advancements in their own tab: from "Let There Be Light" to "Flared Off" with "Hello World" for the first computer (Advanced Computer Technic adds "On Air").
• New Ponder scenes (hold W over the item): laying power cables, the electric valve and the flare stack.

📖 JEI

• Recipes for the Electronics Workbench (boards and every hardware tier) and the Assembly Bench (PC, server, laptop), info pages for the flare stack and blown fuses.

🔧 Other Changes

• Smaller light switch.
• Visible flow: while a flow meter or electric valve moves fluid, the fluid is shown flowing through the Create pipes on the way (visible in glass pipes).
• New ceiling lamp for living rooms: round opal glass dome with a brass ring, powered and switched like a light bulb (light bulb + 2 glass panes + gold nugget).
• Less FPS cost: terminals are only drawn up close.
• Removed: one-way glass, projection glass and the room projector.

🐛 Fixes

• Steel, lab and bunker doors could get stuck (e.g. with a redstone signal nearby) – they now always open and close by hand.
• Server programs received computer tables only as packed text, and messages meant for one computer reached every server.
• The PC monitor still had the big hitbox of the old CRT monitor.
• Desktop windows stay on screen after changing the resolution.
• A PC that was picked up and placed again showed the frozen picture of its old desktop on the monitor (keyboard and Ctrl+T seemed dead) – the screen now always shows the real state.
• Flow meter and electric valve now let fluids through like a pipe: in both directions, and also when a pump sucks from behind them (before, fluid only went in at the back and out at the front).