Nookworks

Nookworks 0.7.0 (beta)

Worlds from 0.6.x load as they are. One thing works differently: a Motor turns the Hand Quern only from above or below now, and the Oil Press, Rice Polisher and Noodle Maker only from a side - a Motor set elsewhere against one of them stops turning it.

New

• Drive Wheels: one Motor turns up to eight hand-worked machines. Put a Drive Wheel on a Motor's shaft and one against each machine, then use Rope (up to 8 blocks) or Thin Chain (up to 16) on one wheel and then another: the belt is tied taut round both, and wheels, belts and handles turn together. 20 FE/t for each machine at work.
• Thin Chain: Thin Rope in iron. It ties to fence posts, bars, rods and Hooks, strings between them and carries everything a rope carries; it rattles and swings a little when something goes through it.
• The Precision Sorter can keep out a whole tag or mod: tick it in the Tags… picker and press Keep these out.
• Two more posters, Fox (2x2) and Desert Cactus (3x4): 57 designs.

Changed

• The Hand Quern is made over: two millstones in a wooden frame, the upper one on a spindle, turned by a bar on top - or by a Motor above or below it.
• A Motor's shaft goes round while it runs, and the machine it drives turns with it, axle and handle. The Motor is in the machines' dark steel, with its coil glowing in the dark while it runs.
• The Repair Box is a tool chest in navy enamel and aged brass; open, the gear lies inside under the liquid experience, which glows. A tool done mending rings once.
• New icons for the Velarium tools; the Oil Press's grip no longer goes through its crossbeam.

Fixed

• Things that went missing: a Lode Pearl thrown just before its thrower went far off hung in mid-air out there; one coming back to a full inventory was thrown over the edge; one landing while its thrower slept or had died was lost. Magnets drew drops through lava. A sorter put what it could not pass on into a Trash Can on top of it, or held for good what its outlet would never take.
• A Generator on a light load flickered between Running and Fully charged.
• The Destination Panel's hint was cut short in every language.