Tinkers Construct

General

• New piggybackpack recipe
• Glows are now replacable with blocks, like tall grass
• Clear glass blocks now prevent fluid drips
• Work around a spectator crash with custom chests

Tools

• Removed kama heads, kamas now use sword blades to craft, and mattocks pickaxe heads
• Kamas and scythes can now disuse tripwire. Update forge to at least 36.1.15 for best behavior
• Rebalanced many tool stats, should help the weapons stand out better individually rather than one being strongest
• Fix critical hits happening when tools are not fully charged
• Fix some tool AOE breaking bedrock
• Fix scythes not working to AOE slimegrass

Materials

• New slimesteel textures (credit to LethalChicken)
• Slimesteel blocks are now bouncy
• Pig iron's trait now allows you to eat the tool instead of being random
• Iron now has the sturdy trait instead of reinforced, steel has a new ductile trait that boosts damage, durability, and mining speed at a lesser amount
• Average strength of some traits lowered. Before traits averaged at +10% (+30% overall), now they are +5% (+15% overall)

Modifiers

• New glowing modifier: allows tool to place a glow on sneak + right click
• New tilling, stripping, and pathing modifiers: grant the block transform behaviors from tools
• Tank modifier: adds a fluid tank to tools allowing them to transport fluids
• Melting modifier" melts dropped items and attacked mobs
• Bucketing modifier: allows tool to pick up and place fluids in world

World

• Congealed slime is now bouncy on the side
• Fix shovels not breaking congealed slime faster
• Fix some slimy grass behavior being inconsistent with vanilla

Smeltery

• Removed the requirement that the smeltery contains fluid to melt mobs. For a safe smeltery, have no fuel
• Fix filling and emptying tanks not making sound
• Fix coagulated blood not melting into blood
• Fix wall crafting producing too few walls

Books

• Add content to Material and You, this book should have all information up until the melter
• Melter and smeltery content will be later books
• Mighty smelting now discusses the 3 main ways to get molten blaze
• All book tooltips now contain the word book to help with searchability
• Fix a textless tooltip when hovering over "no stats"

API

• Add new modifier tooltip hook
• Add hooks for modifiers to change right click behavior
• Overslime modifier API changed a bit, should be easier to extend for a similar modifier