The purpose of Rockhounding Chemistry is to assembly and maintain an industrial area in which several machines handle various types of ingredients (solid, fluid and gaseous) to produce advanced material for mid-late game stages. It also leads to several features, functional applications and experiments.
Each machine can be also integrated with custom recipes, allowing to freely reassess the working chain, or to use each machine on its own. The mod brings a set of machinery which can interact with eachother, working as parts of a unique factory. It also aims to involve the player in the production chain, planning how to efficiently prioritize the resources.
By default the mod features a tech tree running through the processes which bring a mined undefined mineral to be analyzed, acknowledged and treated to become chemical elements.
The goal is to acquire several elements and material by using a progressive manipulation, to turn the raw mineral into the final dust form.
This mod could be useful in expert or long term tech packs. To be profitably used, it is highly recommended a deep CraftTweaker integration, eventually with customized paths other than the default tech tree.
- 1.10.2 Mod Wiki. 1.12.2 wiki is inside the ingame Guidebook.
- Forum thread
- CraftTweaker Scripts: 1.10.2 - 1.12.2
Dependencies
This mod requires a library module to work.
It also requires some additional dependencies. Thanks to their developers for the great job.
- Bookshelf by Darkhax
- Redstone Flux by CoFH Team
- Guidebook by gigaherz
Additional tools
- Forge by Forge Team
- Model Creator by MrCrayfish
- JSON Model Animator by Fizzy81
Credits
Thanks to al132 for a lot of valuable coding help and motivation in the early 1.10 days.
Thanks to psewd0n1m for the russian localization and guidebook translation.
Thanks to the authors of the mods that have been integrated here.
Thanks to anyone who provided support, feedback and suggestions to improve the mod.
Modpacks
Feel free to add it
Hello, the mod is excellent! Models of machines are fascinating, textures are accurate, the functional of the mod is unique!
But there is one drawback, maybe this only complicates me. But why is the number of slots in Fluidpedia and Elements/Material Cabinets limited by the size of the interface window? Is it possible to add scrollbars? The fact is that in Fluidpedia I ran out of space for a certain letter and I just do not have the opportunity to see liquids that turned out to be outside, and as a result I can not fully install the filters.
And also, if the modpack is quite complicated, may need to add a number of elements to the cabinets that do not fit into the number of slots.
[Sorry for my bad English]
Hi. How do you extract the brine from the evaporation tank? I tried a bucket and a pump/valve.
Well I tried to add this mod in a modpack and so I had to use Redstoneflux. Adding Redstoneflux in a modpack crashes the game (it is stated in the page of Redstoneflux in Curseforge).My question is: Can I use something else instead of Redstoneflux?
In reply to daveplayer258:
Did it actually crashed? I think that message was related to using the API classes inside the mod, not as a separate mod. I didn't got any report like this so far. Eventually, if it crashed, did you added all the required dependencies (Core, Bookshelf, Guidebook)?
In reply to globbypotato:
Yes I added all the dependencies.All the mods started loading normally but when Redstone Flux started the game crashed... I added CodeChickenLib in the modpack and reading the crash report I think those two mods together might have a problem. It also said that in order to prevent the crash I need to add a specific code (something like oldApi=false) to the Command line Arguments but I don't know what this is... Could you help me?
I cannot for the life of me get the gas purifier to function. Heres a screenshot. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.
In reply to RoraxPlays:
Hi, it is correctly assembled and should be ready to work.
Eventually, is that a solar panel producing RF? The Fuel Mode means you need to provide common fuel like coal, burnables or lava. RF is needed when the other mode is active. If you have access to the Induction Heating Interface you can also convert RF into fuel power as well.
In reply to globbypotato:
I tried it with both burnables and RF, neither worked.
I did however finally get it to work when I pressed the "RF Generator" button. This is also true for the heat exchanger setup I later created.
In reply to RoraxPlays:
that's an odd behaviour. The RF generator works if you want to use the power station to power other blocks like a normal RF generator would do. The multiblock should automatically inhibit it. I see no problems with it so far, will check it deeper.
does this mod work fine with the classic mods like Mekanism, Imersive Eng and such?
In reply to gustavowizard1234:
I guess so. Anything oredicted is shareable. Fluids and stacks are common to forge standard if integrated.
<3 this mod.
Suggestion - GT:CE ores (and similar) integration out of the box. Specifically, I'd like to be able to process common ore dictionary ores, into their related Rockhounding components, without having to CraftTweaker them all in. I'm not confident that I have enough geology/chemistry knowledge to be able to do it properly, and I'm sure a lot of other players would appreciate it too!
I'm going to make an uneducated attempt at a crafttweaker script in the mean time. Wish me luck.
In reply to ThatMechGuy:
CE stands for Community Edition or Chill Edition?
I see GT has a similar aproach at getting dusts from compounds. The problem can be that overriding their process line wouldn't sound that fair by me I guess since it's a lot of stuff. It's more something players add via crafttweaker by their liking.
In reply to globbypotato:
Oh right, I forgot about Chill Edition. I was talking about Community Edition.
Anyway, yes, GT has a more or less similar approach. But it's a lot less technical. In GT you pretty much.. mine an ore, throw it in a grinder, wash/purify/centrifuge the resulting dust, and you're done. There are occasionally extra steps you can take for specific materials that will increase yield or byproduct a little (and are optional), or required extra machines for key materials (such as requiring a blast furnace for higher tier alloys/ingots). But most of the balance progression in GT is getting the resources to build/power the needed machines, and using deep nested crafting recipes to craft them. Once the machines are made, the process is pretty easy and straight forward.
Rockhounding Mod Chemistry, on the other hand, seems to be a lot more involved. The machines themselves aren't as expensive, but you need a lot of them to produce all the chemicals and what not needed. Then different machines for different materials. You can't really use the same production chain for everything. In my eyes, the balance is already fairly similar (if not Chemistry being more difficult), and it'd be easier for a player to use crafttweaker to make minor balance chances to existing compatibility, rather than adding functionality from the ground up, if that makes sense. Especially considering your average player likely won't know the proper chemical interactions or related geology to setup their own crafttweaker chain properly.
For example, if RHMC already had built in compatibility and proper progression with these ores, but I decided that RHMC makes something more difficult or easier to do, I can use crafttweaker to tweak the yield or tweak the material requirement, or even the machine recipe, and quickly get the modpack's balance to where I want it, fairly easily. Or vice versa, if I want to change GT:Community Edition or any other mod, to be balanced more in line with RHMC, I can tweak some of their progression to route through your machines to get a specific material or something.
As it is currently however, I'd have to manually create all of the starting points for interaction, and I'd most certainly miss some things. So I'll stick with my suggestion and hope that you can see my point of view. :D
In reply to ThatMechGuy:
Your point makes sense, but I don't know if the GT devs agree with this kind of integration, I'm not really into the MC community. The best I can do is to create myself an external crafttweaker script with all the recipes properly spreaded through the RH machines, so players can use and tweak it straight away to their balance. It would be more efficient than adding code that players will have to remove and re-add.
How does it look this way?
In reply to globbypotato:
Well.. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't care, as we're talking about integration in your own mod and not talking about you removing other mod's recipes. That's kinda the point of the ore dictionary.. to allow multiple mods to use the same ores generically. As far as GT goes, GT is one of the biggest mods when it comes to integration with ore and stuff from other mods, so it would be pretty funny for a dev from any of the GT versions to not want other modders to do the same. I understand your concern though, and it's kinda refreshing to see a dev be this concerned about balance.
As far as a minetweaker script to enable interaction with GT ore dictionary names (and/or other common ore dictionary entries), I'd be totally happy with that, and I'm sure other players would love the support coming straight from you so we know what your intended balance is. Although there might be an easier option. If you included built-in support in RHMC for applicable ore dictionary ores, but included a config entry that enables/disables the added cross-mod ore interaction, would that be easier or more difficult than providing a minetweaker script?
In reply to ThatMechGuy:
Sounds fair then.
For me the easiest way is to distribute a separated script. It changes nothing about learning from GT but prevents me to add extra code into the mod. From the player side, having it built-in means that if you don't like a specific recipe you many need to use crafttweaker to remove it and make other scripts to add it again. Having the script to read, you do the job once.
I need to figure out the various stages of the processing (crushed/impure and so on) to see how do spread them, they make an interesting use of the various stone. I'm currently finalizing the release version with fixes and cleans, will give it a try right next.
In reply to globbypotato:
This is why I suggested a config entry in rockhounding_chemistry.cfg to quickly turn on/off mod interaction. But...
You do make a good point. Being able to see your script, using it as an example to learn from, and being able to comment out individual stuff as needed, would make more complex configuration a lot easier. And if a crafttweaker script is easier for you, than I'm all for it.
Either way, thanks for entertaining the idea. I'll wait patiently to see what you come up with. :)
Hi, would it be possible to make the chemistry machines compatible with other mods pipes and energy conduits (thinking of Immersive Engineering here specifically, but also maybe Thermal Foundation and / or Buildcraft)? From what I got I need Ender I/O to connect the machines but the mod is too OP for my survival server.
Enjoying your other Rockhounding mods very much so far (for example all the different (decorative) rock types etc.)!
In reply to Railion:
Hi, any fluid/item/energy pipes should already work fine.
EnderIO is only suggested because advanced enough for complex connections.