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Adds three tools--the excavator, the hammer, and the greataxe. These are 3x3 versions of the shovel, pickaxe, and axe, respectively. The greataxe, when used on a tree, will fell the entire tree at once.
Each tool comes in iron, gold, and diamond variants. Their recipes match their vanilla equivalents, but use blocks instead of ingots for both crafting and repair. Recipes will be added to your vanilla recipe book as you acquire the appropriate ingots.
The greataxe boasts a more accurate tree detection method than I've seen in previous mods, and should never leave floating treetops.
Inspired by the many mods that implement these tools in previous versions of MC, my goal was to make 1.14 a little less vanilla so mod-addicts like myself can finally explore the new features added since 1.12!
NOTE: I have playtested extensively and feel that the durability on the tools is well-balanced for how powerful they are. However, if you feel that they break too quickly for your taste, the config file allows you to tweak them to break more slowly.
Was the "center block is being destroy" issue ever fixed? I'm having that issue as well. Running the Vanilla Induction modpack that includes this mod. LOVE THE MOD btw. Just would like to see this little bug fixed. TY!!!
In reply to BRiM4799:
That bug is fixed in the latest version of the mod, yes. I took a look at that modpack and it says they updated Practical Tools in their latest version so maybe that includes the new fix? If not you should be able to just manually throw the new version into your mods folder and get rid of the old one without any problems.
The normal vanilla axe cuts down entire trees/wood pillars made by players. I don't think it was supposed to do that, I think only the greataxe has to act like that. Please look into it. Thanks!
My game crashes every time I use the Greataxe to topple a tree, and I see one other person has the same problem as I do. The only mod in my mods folder is Practical Tools (as well as Optifine, but it doesn't work or show up in the mod list in-game) and it was when the crash happened.
Also, when using the hammer, only 8 blocks drop, as I'm sure you already know, haha.
Here is the Great Axe crash report! http://txt.do/11hbh
Hope this bug gets fixed soon! I'd love to be able to topple annoying trees.
Edited to say the Great Axe works properly when destroying a 9x9 area of wood.
In reply to readyforit423:
I figured it out! The damn dev for Forge made some huge changes to the API, so that different versions of "Forge for 1.14.4" are vastly different and require a completely different mod. Should have a fix posted for this by tomorrow afternoon.
In reply to neurodr0me:
Fix is done and posted! It should be reviewed and ready for download within 15 minutes. Please let me know if you still have any issues (also make sure you update Forge for 1.14.4).
In reply to neurodr0me:
Woohoo!
In reply to readyforit423:
I'm guessing it worked :D
My game crashes every time I use a greataxe. Here's my crash report.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12bbeJ0nHwHJviD8FkOs0J2jKXfTqQoi3/view?usp=sharing
In reply to BallzD33p_69:
Well that's a strange one, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I see in that report you have a few other mods running, would you be able to confirm for me whether or not you crash when practical tools is the only mod you're using? Obviously you'd wanna do this in a new world, not your existing one.
In reply to neurodr0me:
Fix is done and posted! It should be reviewed and ready for download within 15 minutes. Please let me know if you still have any issues (also make sure you update Forge for 1.14.4).
Love this mod and I recently only started involving mods into my game! I do have a tiny bug in 1.14.4 with this......It's when I mine something I only get 8 blocks instead of 9. That's the only thing but other than that I f**king love it! 10/10
In reply to MOREELemonPledge:
Oh, what, really? 1.14.4 made some weird changes to how Forge works, I thought I tested for this... I just saw this and it is unfortunately too late to look into right now but tomorrow afternoon I'll look into it and get a fix posted. Thanks for the tip off!
In reply to MOREELemonPledge:
Hey there, I'm unable to reproduce what you describe. I just tested pretty extensively, and all 3 tools consistently produce the correct number of block items. Can you give me some more details regarding your exact situation? Do you have other mods in place maybe? I still want to fix whatever you're experiencing--if it's a mod compatibility issue or something like that, it's still an issue I need to fix.
In reply to neurodr0me:
Ok so just so that we have all the info.....I'm currently running Forge 28.0.14 and yes I have six other mods (and I also have 3 datapacks) running too. I have removed one by one (mods) and started minecraft up and same result only getting 8 blocks. I then tried removing practical tools starting up world, save and quit, install mod again and load it up and again same result. Now I must say that I haven't tried removing one specific mod because I don't want my game screwing up but that is only "Useful Backpacks" and it also requires "U Team Core" to work. These are the mods I currently have:
- FastLeafDecay-v16
- FleshToLeather-1.14.3-1.1.0
- practicaltools-1.14.4-1.3b
- speedyhoppers-1.14.4-1.0.1
- u_team_core-1.14.4-2.6.1.126
- useful_backpacks-1.14.4-1.7.0.34
I just copied and pasted their name here. All of these are working perfectly for 1.14.4 except practical tools. I hope I have given you enough information to go one but if you still want to ask anything I will happily do my best to answer!! thank you for everything!
In reply to neurodr0me:
Ok so today I tried something a bit radical and I uninstalled Minecraft and got rid of everything to do with it and then reinstalled it again absolute vanilla like. I then installed the latest version of Forge (28.0.29) and then installed practical tools by itself but still the same result (8 blocks instead of 9).....I then did a bit of testing of my own (in game) and saw that if I tried mining just one block by itself it would destroy it and drop nothing....so I think the tools are destroying the 1 center block and dropping the 8 around it....I also did some testing on cutting down a tree and it gave the correct amount. so overall my problem lies in the 3x3 mining area. Hope this helps?
In reply to MOREELemonPledge:
Hey, sorry for the late reply, been a busy week for me.
What you say in your second message is what I suspected--that the 'missing' block is the center block. And what that means is this problem is caused by something else. The way my mod is coded, it doesn't change anything that can affect the center block. Everything my mod does occurs AFTER the center block is broken. As far as the game and other mods are concerned, a Diamond Hammer is really just a Diamond Pickaxe with some extra code that runs after each block-break. You break the center block, it drops an item, and in that same instant, the hammer breaks the surrounding 8 blocks and they also drop items. That means that there's something wrong with one of the other mods you are using. You can confirm this by removing all the other mods and trying without them. One of them must be doing something foolish with the base code in a way that is not friendly to other mods.
If you collect any more info I'd be happy to hear it, thanks again for taking the time to bring this to my attention!
In reply to neurodr0me:
Hi thank you for all your help but unfortunately I still have the same problem even after removing all mods and just keeping the tools mod! I seriously have no idea what to do! I might just revert back to 1.14.3 for a bit.....thank you for everything though!
In reply to MOREELemonPledge:
For real? That is super strange. Are you trying this on your existing world file or a new clean file?
In reply to neurodr0me:
It is indeed strange! I have tried it on both an existing world and a brand new one! Also a little side note this mod is working perfect for 1.14.3! so I don't really miss 1.14.4 haha!