Silicon Age: From Wafer to ExoTech

New

Batteries and power

• Portable batteries in six tiers:

  Tier	Battery	Capacity	Output
  LV	Silicon Cell	40,000 EU	32 EU/t
  MV	Lithium Battery Pack	400,000 EU	128 EU/t
  HV	Crystal Accumulator	4M EU	512 EU/t
  EV	Quartz Capacitor	40M EU	2,048 EU/t
  QV	Quantum Cell	400M EU	8,192 EU/t
  XV	Exo Core	4B EU	32,768 EU/t

  • Detailed 32×32 icons change with the charge.
  • Sneak + right-click switches the mode: charge your armour, the held item or everything you carry.
  • Each tier is crafted from two of the one below, and their charge carries over.
  • They work with IC2.

• A battery slot under the energy gauge:

  • on machines, quarries, the Exo rig and the field generator the battery powers the block; modes "reserve" and "always";
  • on generators the output charges the battery; modes "surplus" and "always";
  • pipes put batteries in and take them out.

• A power switch and a redstone mode on machines, generators, storages, quarries and the field generator. A switched-off block takes no energy. A new machine is placed switched off.

Screens

• Holo screens for every machine and generator:
  • each has its own animated scene: crusher, washer tub, blast furnace, CVD, crystal growing, saw, stepper, implanter, turbines, engine, reactors, tokamak, solar panels, wind turbine, water wheel, RTG and more;
  • an energy gauge with the percentage;
  • full-size tank gauges.
• NEI pages in the same style.
• New screens for the quarry and the Exo rig: one row of tabs, cards, a live pit and beam scene. The field generator and the energy storages are in the new style too.

Field generator

• Rain shield: no rain or snow inside the field, no water freezing, lightning put out. Upkeep +25% in rain, +50% in a storm.
• New wireless charging modes: all at once, emptiest or nearly-full first, worn items only. There is now a "charge below N%" threshold.
• The "hostile and neutral" target pushes out every creature except players.
• 24 ready field colours.
• "No signal" by default: the field works while there is no redstone signal on it.

Energy storages and fluids

• Energy storages:
  • comparator output;
  • the output face turned with a wrench;
  • a discharge slot;
  • upgrades: transformer, capacity, overdrive;
  • up to 4 charge slots on the higher tiers.
• Buckets for all 22 of the mod's fluids. Fill machines and drain them with a bucket or a cell.
• A tank extension upgrade for machines and generators.
• Clearing a tank for energy.

Fixed

• Game crashes on chat messages: quarry warnings, area card, wrench, cable, fluid pouring.
• Energy network:
  • energy didn't flow through the network with IC2 and Industrial Upgrade;
  • machines exploded on strong lines;
  • the overdrive upgrade lost energy.
• Lost upgrades:
  • an explosion destroyed a machine, generator or storage together with its upgrades;
  • crafting a storage into the next tier lost its upgrades.
• Slots and access:
  • any item could get into a battery slot;
  • a stranger could take the battery out of a quarry;
  • hoppers pulled upgrades out of a storage;
  • switched-off storages and quarries kept working.
• Field generator:
  • the rain shield stopped the rain in the whole world;
  • a player's ice turned into water;
  • the shield flickered when short of energy;
  • the field switched itself back on when the master changed;
  • lightning struck creatures next to the field.
• Display:
  • the ×, ·, ÷ and ± signs showed as Russian letters;
  • the solar panel always said "Day";
  • the text under the upgrades ran into other elements.

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