Data Center in the Sky 1.4.2

The Data Center mod moves from 1.7.1 to 1.7.3. The mod list is otherwise unchanged. An existing world updates in place.

A spawn that teaches, and seasons

The server spawn is rebuilt around the question new players kept asking: what do I do now?

• The Academy is a loop of eight stands - first dollars, the Shop, building a server, the bays, power, mining, hosting, compute - each with a working demo and a board that explains it in full sentences. Yellow arrows lead there from the spawn point.
• Seasons. The spawn shows the season and how long until it ends: the day the in-world calendar runs out of real history. The best team and the best solo player of a season are kept, and their islands can be visited - look, don't touch - in the next one. /season shows where things stand.
• Discord is on a board at the spawn, as a link when you log in, and behind /discord.

Hold W to understand a block

With Create in the pack, every block the handbook explains now has a Ponder scene: hold W over a Rack, a Mining Rig, the Log Buyer, the Workbench, a cable, a Simulation Node, an ASIC and some thirty more, and a short animated build shows what it does and how to set it up.

Machines you can tell apart

Rack, Mining Rig and Hosting Rack were the same picture with a thin stripe of colour. They now wear their job on every side: blue for computing, orange for mining, green for hosting, with a chip, a coin or a cloud on the roof.

Fixes

• Server parts could be duplicated at the Workbench by putting two cases on it at once. Closed.
• Technicians trained to sell or refurbish never did. They do now, and they say why when they cannot.
• The Mining Simulator gives out diamonds you will actually see - about as often as emeralds.
• Racks, Mining Rigs and Hosting Racks share spare power with each other on every side, not only downwards.
• The FPGA and ASIC screen no longer draws text over itself.
• The Data Center Handbook can be crafted again - a book and a Y(ST)Y cable.

The full list is in the mod's changelog on its CurseForge page.