Mapper Base is a library mod that provides basic elements and functionalities to my other mods.
While this mod is not intended to be used alone, it still provides many things for players:
- a new material, steel, with associated tool and armor sets. Steel is similar to iron in terms of efficiency but lasts longer.
- a new material, raw bitumen, that generates in the world and allows making asphalt.
- a new fuel, bituminous coal. Can be crafted by surrounding a coal with 8 raw bitumen in a 3x3 crafting grid. 8 pieces of bituminous coal will be created. 8 bituminous coals will smelt 10 items (2 more than one coal). This gives bitumen an alternative use as its abundance can quickly fill your chests if you mine all of it.
- asphalt blocks, a new decorative block to create very basic roads.
- concrete blocks, a new decorative block for buildings and roads.
Please only download this mod on CurseForge. Other sources like the mod rehost websites may host malicious contents in the provided files, along with wrong or mislabeled versions. They must be avoided for your safety.
How to craft steel
Crafting steel is a long and expensive process if you use the basic setup provided by Mapper Base. With other mods such as Immersive Engineering or Mekanism more complex but way more efficient setups are available.
The steps to produce steel ingots are:
• blasting iron ingots in a vanilla blast furnace (this consume a whole coal per ingot). This will produce ferrite.
• craft 3 ferrite into raw dust
• blast raw steel into a steel ingot (this consume ½ coal)
This only require a vanilla blast furnace. However each steel ingot requires 3 iron ingots and almost 4 coal and this is where setups from other mods are becoming interesting. Will you want a quick but inefficient setup or a more complex but way more efficient one from other mods? It's up to you!
Where to find bitumen
Bitumen comes in rarer but bigger pockets compared to regular ores. However they can only be found at sea level, in biomes that are not too hilly or mountainous.
The best way is to look around rivers or coasts, or search for caves close to the surface. Otherwise simply dig near the surface around sea level to find pockets.
Configuration
- mapperbase-client allows you to enable a Tag viewer: when enabled, hold CTRL while hovering an item with your mouse to see its tags in the tooltip (useful for modders and pack makers)
- mapperbase-common allows you to tweak raw bitumen generator parameters: you can increase / decrease vein sizes, occurrences or simply disable generation
Currently, the mods that require Mapper Base to be installed are EmbellishCraft and Road Stuff.
This mod is only intended to work with Forge. Fabric is not supported neither planned at this time.
Preciso do mapperbase 1.15.2-1.1 ou superior para o mod embellishcraft. Baixei a ultima atualização do mapper e não deu certo, meu forge é 31.2.0. O que faço??
In reply to lucianarg7:
Forge 31.2.0 não funciona, é preciso usar uma versão mais recente para corrigir o problema. Não sé qual versão minima funciona mas 31.2.21 funciona correctamente e as versões superiores devem funcionar também.
Preciso do mapper base 1.15.2-1.1 ou superior para o mod embellishcraft. Baixei uma última atualização e não deu certo. Meu forge é 31.2.0.
I'm having an issue with this mod, the game crashes on "Waiting for scan to complete" during the Forge loading. I've narrowed it down to this mod causing the issue, I've tried using multiple file versions, but it still crashes. Is there something incompatible that I'm using, or is it a bug?
Edit: I removed embellishcraft, got past the scan, and got to the finish screen with the error message: "Mapperbase has failed to load correctly"
Second edit: I added a different version of embellishcraft and made it to the "failed to load correctly" screen
Third Edit: Downloaded the April 1st version of Mapper and all seems to be in working order, the other files don't work for me
In reply to 16dragons:
Which Forge version is used? You probably need to use a newer one if you used 31.2.0. If you can also provide crash logs that would be helpful.
Can you do a video?
In reply to Gruiel:
There isn't really a point making a video for such a small mod. I should setup a wiki instead.
is there a config option to stop the bitumen ore spawning?
In reply to mercysplays:
In mapperbase-common.toml inside of the config folder. You can enable / disable generation, change parameters and whitelist / blacklist biomes where it will be generated.
can we get a config option to remove your mods steel recipe? a bit too easy.
In reply to IRonicGamingPro:
Recipes are now defined in json files so you can make a resourcepack to change it. This is a Minecraft feature.
can you do it for version 1.14.4?In reply to dogatr:
I have no reason to do it. Everything is already in the 1.14.4 versions of EmblellishCraft or Road Stuff, the only missing things being the steel tools and armors that another mod probably adds already.
how to generate raw bitumen in already created server?
Do we need to start a new world?
In reply to milovic:
You need to generate new chunks, so either exploring new terrain or create a new world. If you have a mod to create dimensions, maybe you can find some there as well but I can't confirm it will work.
I recently downloaded this mod and I can't find any resources stating how to get steel. I can only assume you craft it as there is no ore for it. How exactly do you acquire steel?
In reply to PandaBeer949:
You need to blast iron (either nugget, ingot or block) in a Minecraft blast furnace.
In reply to Mapper:
Thank you so much! :)