Plethora is a ComputerCraft peripheral provider for Minecraft 1.8.9+. It aims to provide both metadata and peripherals for vanilla Minecraft and most mainstream mods.
Plethora also adds a series of "modules" to the game. These modules can be used by the player with varying success. They really come in to their element when put in a manipulator, providing a series of methods which allow interacting with your environment. This includes:
- Introspection: investigating the current player's inventory (and ender chest)
- Scanner: scans blocks in an area, gathering metadata about them and allowing wrapping peripherals remotely
- Sensor: scans entities in an area. Like the scanner this allows getting metadata and wrapping them as peripherals.
- Frickin' laser beam. It fires lasers.
If you've ever wanted to embed a computer in your skull then today is your lucky day. Plethora provides a neural interface which can be attached to your head, or some unsuspecting animal or monster. Right clicking the entity with a neural controller allows you to interact with it. You can insert modules (which will be wrapped as peripherals) and manipulate them with the built-in computer. Building a cyborg army has never been so easy.
You can also add a kinetic augment to the neural interface. This allows controlling the host entity in various ways.
"Oh, cool ... OK, neat. OK, that's a thing".
- Direwolf20, 2019 in a tenuously related clip
Documentation
There is pretty comprehensive documentation on the Plethora website. This contains tutorials, explanations of several fundamental concepts and thoroughly explained examples.
You can also create a HTML dump of all methods by running the command /plethora dump out.html. When run in a single player world this will save a file in the active directory (normally .minecraft or your modpack's folder). This documentation is also available online.
Images
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have
sharkssquid with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
Various modules available
Sorry if this is a noob question, or not the right place to ask.
How would I access the data in nbtHash from getItemDetail(). I've tried getnetatable, and a bunch of other stuff, but I am hitting a brick wall.
In reply to heckinmeow:
The NBT hash is pretty much only intended to tell if two item stacks are equal or not - you're not meant to be able to extract data from it. Plethora doesn't expose raw NBT, instead we supply information about specific items. If there's items which don't supply information you'd like, please put something on the issue tracker and I'll endeavour to add it!
In reply to SquidDev:
Thanks for the reply! That makes sense. No need to endeavour please! I will work with what is available.
Thank you for the amazing addons too! <3
Hey there,
does this have a chance of being ported to MC 1.15.2? Already happy about CC:T, but this would definitely make my day :)
hi,
i just start with cc and try to get a Monitor for my ME System (ae2).
target:
*see some Items with there count (check, its done)
*see some fluids (can it be in some way? didn't find something about that)
*see current crafting jobs - but the only i can get is to see is a crafting cpu busy or not
short: would love to see more interaction with the me system ;)
thanks
draddy
can i use this in a modpack?
If a mod is on CurseForge, then you're generally OK to assume the answer is "yes". :)
In reply to thefrizz21:
Some tips on that:
Read the mod page first if it's going to be a public pack. There may be a license that requires some sort of attribution statement.
If a mod isn't on CF, get it DIRECTLY from the mod author, and check that website for a license.
If this is the case, let the Twitch App know that this cannot go in the manifest file, if it can't recognise.
From a fellow Modpack Developer,
thebloxxer11
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In reply to MrRupert:
to add on: once in range of 32 it just says no viable path
im getting into all this computercraft stuff and i gotta say CCT is pretty amazing. however i was trying to make a sorting system in MC 1.14.4 using CCT and i found out that i need this mod. i wanted to know whether or not if you have any plans to port this to 1.14. either way thanks for all work with the mods.
In reply to 0NvD0:
I'm currently in the process of updating it, so hopefully they'll be a release soonish. I'm afraid I can't really given any estimates of when though, as there's been a lot of changes to Minecraft, so lots of things are currently broken.
In reply to SquidDev:
alright, thanks a lot for the reply. thanks a lot for your hard work. take your time.
Direct link to changelog: Release notes can be found on the GitHub repository (https://github.com/SquidDev-CC/plethora/releases/tag/v1.12.2-1.2.1).
Does not work
In reply to techniumunlimited:
It should be up now. Sorry, I tend to write the changelog after pushing to curse, so there's normally a few minutes delay between the two.
In reply to SquidDev:
not a problem :) just letting know
Maybe I'm using a older version without realizing it, but does plethora support EnderIO capacitor banks as peripheral energy storage devices, cause from what my little test shows it works with thermal expansion, but not EnderIO.
edit: I am using 1.2.0 so it is the most updated version.
In reply to VileStorms:
EnderIO breaks a couple of assumptions Plethora makes about how capabilities work (see this issue). There's a couple of workarounds I might be able to implement, but can't promise anything.
Ah damn, that sucks... too bad really. I know open computers and the now defunct "open peripherals" had that feature, lets hope theres a way in the future.
I like the EnderIO guys less after those snippy comments in that issue.
I’m expecting a no, but do you think you could make a version for this for OpenComputers?