Quantum Things

Quantum Things, a 1.12.2 continuation of Lumien231's Random Things.

WARNING: When upgrading from Random Things, make sure to delete the randomthings.cfg file, and re-check all config options. Some may have changed, been reset, removed or added

The majority of the credit goes to Lumien231, who created the absolutely monolithic Random Things (MIT). Additional credit goes to UniversalTweaks (MIT) for 3 of the bug fixes.

About Random Things

Random Things is a miscellaneous mod that adds a diverse collection of utility items, blocks, and gameplay enhancements. It includes features such as automated item collection, crop growth acceleration with Fertilized Dirt, a personal pocket dimension called the Spectre Dimension, Spectre Coils for wireless energy transfer, Divining Rods for locating ores, various redstone utilities, decorative blocks, and numerous quality-of-life improvements. The mod is designed to complement other mods by adding convenience features and new gameplay without adhering to a specific theme. To put it in Lumien's words:

Random Things is a collection of features that i thought would be neat. The mod doesn't really have a central topic so it's best played alongside other mods.

The goal of Quantum Things is to provide continued support for Random Things, such as new features, bug and crash fixes, and compatibility with other mods, while saying true to the original design goal and intent of the mod.

Changes and fixes

Changes

Added an ingame config menu.
Added the ability to configure the chances of certain plants, features and loot to occur.
Added the ability to configure Nature Core values (sand replacement, animal spawning, bonemealing, tree spawning, and shell regeneration chances/ranges).
Added the ability to configure values concerning the Lotus.
Added the ability to enable or disable the Spectre Sapling.
Added the ability to enable or disable the Spectre Dimension.
Added Thermal Expansion Insolator support for Spectre Saplings.
Added Bonsai Trees support for Fertilized Dirt as a Bonsai Pot soil.
Added a Quartz Divining Rod.
Added the ability to enable, disable, and add custom Divining Rods, and adjust the range.
Added Divining Rod support for NetherEnding Ores, Silent's Gems, Galacticraft, Galacticraft Planets, Advent of Ascension, Aether and DivineRPG.
Added Divining Rod sleeper support for Silent Gear, More Planets, Aether and Aether II. (Sleeper Support is for mods lacking oreDict. Does nothing by default, can be enabled by modpacks).
Gave Spectre Illuminator LOD levels.
Made Rain Shields be able to be placed on any block, similar to an end rod.
Added the ability to configure the Spectre Energy Injector capacity, Spectre Coil/Charger transfer rates, and whether the Genesis Spectre Coil generates energy or transfers it.
Made the ID Card crafting recipe shapeless.
Re-added Spectre Armor.
Added an Imbuing Station recipe for Spectre Armor, requiring a Diamond Armor piece and 3 Spectre Ingots (NBT is transferred).
Added the ability to configure the transparency effect of the Spectre Armor.
Re-added Biome Painter and Biome Capsule from 1.7.10.
Re-added Obsidian Stick from 1.7.10, now used for Spectre Tools and the Biome Painter.
Added the Spectre Hoe.
Added the ability to configure whether Golden Chickens should produce gold ingots automatically (legacy), or only when fed gold ore (current).
Added the ability to configure the maximum number of blocks a Potion Vaporizer can affect.
Reduced the number of particles spawned by the Potion Vaporizer by several orders of magnitude.
Changed the Ancient Furnace to change blocks in a circular area around it, rather than a diamond shape.
Added a Proportional power mode to the Entity Detector.
Added the ability to configure a blacklist of entities that cannot be captured by the Summoning Pendulum.
Creative players can now capture any entity with the Summoning Pendulum, bypassing all restrictions.
Added a failure sound when the Summoning Pendulum blocks the capture of an entity.
Added optional durability to Divining Rods, alongside Unbreaking and Mending eligibility (disabled by default).
Changed the Redstone Activator to emit a sided signal based on the block face clicked. (courtesy of ChaosStrikez)
Reworked the internals of the (Advanced) Redstone Interface/Observer/Activator/Remote. This should improve redstone performance, even if you aren't using any of these blocks/items in your world. (courtesy of ChaosStrikez)
Changed the Redstone Interface & Observer to only send/receive signals from their target(s) once the target(s) are loaded. (courtesy of ChaosStrikez)
Changed Time in a Bottle to store bottled time per player (in a global capability) instead of in the item's NBT. Time is no longer tied to the physical bottle. (This may break custom recipes or mod integrations that rely on the item's NBT. If you are a mod/pack dev, plan accordingly before updating.). A legacy mode is available to revert to the old per-item storage via NBT.
Re-used vanilla textures for the Potion Vaporizer and Block Breaker, instead of copying vanilla textures.
Added the ability to configure whether Ancient Brick blocks can be broken and will drop their item forms, allowing you to remove them, use them as decoration, or rebuild them elsewhere.
Simplified and improved the logic (and performance slightly) for checking if the Ender Dragon has been defeated. It should now also register the dragon death even when the mod is not installed.
Removed the unimplemented and unfinished RezStone (Blood Stone) item and the Revive Circle entity.
Added /rt timeinabottle <playername> <add|query|set|subtract> [number] commands for managing stored Time in a Bottle values.
Added the ability to configure the chance for a Spectre Leaf to drop an Ectoplasm.
Added ore dictionary support for various items and crafting recipes, improving compatibility with other mods and modpacks.
Added the ability to configure whether Spectre Tools should be disabled.
Added the ability to configure whether Luminous Blocks should emit light (disabled by default).
Added /qt as an alias for /rt.
Added /rt timeinabottle transfer <playername> <time><s|m|h|d> to let players transfer their stored Time in a Bottle value to other players.
Added the ability to configure whether Spectre Illuminators should be disabled.
Added Spectre variants of Stairs, Fences, Fence Gates and Slabs.

Fixes

Removed the unimplemented and unfinished Sekenada from worldgen.
Fixed item duplication using the advanced item collector (courtesy of UniversalTweaks).
Fixed anvil crafting voiding items (courtesy of UniversalTweaks).
Fixed teleporting survival mode players to the Spectre Dimension on servers could leave the player stalled out in the void (courtesy of UniversalTweaks).
Fixed Spectre Illuminator duplication.
Fixed Spectre Illuminator smelting full snow blocks.
Fixed Spectre Illuminator hitbox being inaccurate.
Improved Spectre Illuminator animation performance.
Improved Spectre Illuminator position finding performance.
Improved Spectre Illuminator isIlluminated() performance courtesy of Desoroxxx.
Improved Spectre Illuminator setIlluminated() performance.
Massively improved Spectre Illuminator performance and reduced overhead of the Spectre Illuminator system (even when there are no Spectre Illuminators in the world).
Fixed Nature Core being able to spawn underwater.
Fixed Nature and Water Chest not having breaking particles.
Fixed Magic Beans growing infinitely in Cubic Chunks worlds (limited to 512).
Fixed Divining Rods not having proper descriptions.
Fixed ConcurrentModificationException crash when using Redstone Interfaces.
Fixed a crash where the Redstone Observer tried to incorrectly access a block state that was not a Redstone Observer.
Fixed Fertilized Dirt not being recognized as farmland by villagers.
Fixed a crash where the Block Breaker tried to incorrectly access a block state that was not a Block Breaker.
Fixed an issue where it would rain in the Spectre Dimension.
Fixed Divining Rods not showing up in Creative Search.
Fixed torches and other attachable blocks being able to be placed on the side of the Rain Shield.
Fixed Rain Shield duplication.
Fixed a crash when Biome Stone tried to access a biome that was not registered with BiomeDictionary.
Fixed a crash when the Eclipsed Clock tried to access a font renderer that was not available.
Fixed Biome Sensor not working when held in off-hand.
Fixed plate item entities being way too large when dropped as items.
Fixed Golden Chickens being able to consume seeds, even though they cannot be bred.
Improved the performance of the Potion Vaporizer room detection algorithm.
Fixes various typos.
Updated the translation in the language files. (Machine translated, may contain errors, please report any issues)
Fixed Potion Vaporizer not dropping its contents when broken.
Fixed Custom Workbench dropping its item when broken in Creative Mode.
Fixed Runic Dust breaking all pieces at once in Creative Mode instead of one piece at a time.
Fixed Runic Dust dropping its item when broken in Creative Mode.
Fixed Precious Emeralds being removed from your inventory when giving them to villagers in creative mode.
Fixed beans not being able to be planted on non-vanilla blocks, even if the block could sustain plants.
Fixed the Imbuing Station not dropping its contents when broken.
Fixed a crash when the Chunk Analyzer tried to scan a block that doesn't have a valid metadata.
Fixed Entity Detector having no clear difference between Weak and Strong power modes.
Fixed Spectre Leaves having their Decay flag set to true when placed.
Fixed the Summoning Pendulum being able to capture entities that are targeting you, but are not classified as monsters.
Fixed a crash when the Item Filter tried to compare to an empty item stack.
Fixed Spectre Energy Injectors accepting infinite energy when confronted with high energy inputs, causing them to eat the energy.
Fixed Divining Rods being able to index-shift when adding or removing them, by flattening their registry names.
Fixed Redstone Tool sometimes showing ghost connections for Redstone Interface/Observers after being removed. (courtesy of ChaosStrikez)
Fixed various ConcurrentModificationExceptions that could occur when handling network messages. (courtesy of ChaosStrikez)
Fixed the Returning Block of Sticks not dropping its returning variant when broken.
Possibly fixed wavey tile entities when using Time in a Bottle (testing required).
Fixed a crash in the Debug World when it tried to render invalid rune textures.
Fixed Curse Of Binding enchanted items being able to be removed from the player's armor slots when using the Player Interface.
Fixed crashes and duplication issues when pistons moved tile-entity blocks with Quark movable tile entities enabled. Affected blocks: Advanced Item Collector, Advanced Redstone Interface, Biome Radar, Diaphanous Block, Entity Detector, Filtered Super Lubricent Platform, Iron Dropper, Light Redirector, Sound Box, and Block Breaker.
Fixed Diaphanous Block dropping its item when broken in Creative Mode.
Fixed not all Custom Workbench variants being visible in the Creative Tab and JEI.
Fixed a crash from CustomClassWriter on newer java versions. (courtesy of Leclowndu93150)
Fixed a crash when the Notification Interface was used in Multiplayer. (courtesy of Alternis)
Fixed a rare crash caused by the Chat Detector and Global Chat Detector trying to access a null world.
Fixed the Ancient Furnace being able to break indestructible blocks.
Fixed Magic Beans being able to resume growing when being interacted with with the Acceleration Wand (or any other item that would run updateTick()).

Reporting Issues

If you encounter any issues, please report them to the issue tracker. Do not report issues to the original Random Things repository. Lumien231 is no longer actively developing Random Things, and new issues on the original repository are unlikely to be addressed.