So many Balancing Improvements, New Features, and of course, Bug Fixes Galore!

Featuring: Usable Cells, All Fluid Containers in Crafting, Nuclear Balancing (no more Meltdowns!), Tritanium Balancing, and HUGE Solar Performance Improvements!

Warning

Please DO NOT revert any saves that have been loaded in this release to 1.7-beta-5c, 1.6.1b, 1.6.1a, or prior!

See the Full Changelog for all changes!

Major Changes Since 1.7.3

Balancing Changes:

Both Modes:

• Misc NuclearCraft Balancing Tweaks (#1188) - @IntegerLimit (1599568)
  • Uranium 238 from Renewable Red Granite has been buffed to 1% (+1%)
    • Uranium 233 Fuels are now Passivable, with TBU Breeding!
  • Thermal Centrifuge Times for Prepared Thorium have been reduced by ~14%
  • Yields from Depleted Fuels have been increased by 10%
• Misc Thermal Expansion Improvements (#1127) - @IntegerLimit (9474cca)
  • Streamlines Portable Tank Upgrade Recipes
    • Now takes Upgrade/Conversion Kits instead of Custom Materials
    • Portable Tanks could be Upgraded with Kits as Placed Blocks Previously
• ...and more!

Hard Mode:

• Rebalancing of Various Thermal Dust Related Recipes (#1187) - @IntegerLimit (b975f34)
  • Crafting Recipes for Thermal Elemental Dusts have been REMOVED!
  • Changed Thermal Powder -> Dust Recipes to Not Need Redstone
  • Added an Alternative Elemental Reduction Fluid Recipe, Designed to be Passivable
  • Changes the Carbon + Sulfur Chem Reactor Recipe for Blaze Powder to MV
• Add Tritanium Recipe to Universal Crystalizer (#1184) - @IntegerLimit (aacc143)
  • Excluding Parallels and OCs, the recipe is 21.6x faster than a Fusion MK III!
• ...and more!

Performance Improvements:

• Update Alfheim Lighting Engine to v1.5 (#1227) - @IntegerLimit (1d2257f)
  • Fixes Lighting Issues Across Chunks (Usually Experienced While Mining)
  • Increases Stability of FPS
  • Potentially Slightly Reduces Memory Consumption
• Greatly Improves Solar Panel Performance, especially in Grids (#1216) - @IntegerLimit (136d2d0)
  • Up to 60-70% Performance Improvements for Solar Grids!
  • Solar Grids now perform BETTER than Solar Towers!
• Change Labs' GT Recipe Search to Fast Discarded Tree (#1168) - @IntegerLimit (0f0d022)
  • Slight Improvement in Game Loading Time! (Around 4%)

Feature Additions:

• Allow Usage of Any Fluid Container in Crafting (#1142) - @IntegerLimit (86cb1fb)
  • Allows using ANY Fluid Container (GT Drums/Cells, EIO Tanks, Thermal Tanks, etc.) in Crafting Recipes, Substituting Filled Buckets
  • Also adds Crafting Recipe for Obsidian (Water + Lava)
• Update Nomi-Labs to v0.11.0 (#1126) - @IntegerLimit (37bbdfe)
  • Add Bronze Cell (Capacity: 8B)
  • Increase Steel Cell Capacity to 16B (From 8B)
  • Allow GT Cells to Place/Collect Fluids
• Disable NuclearCraft Fission Reactor Meltdowns (#1191) - @IntegerLimit (967cecf)
• Misc The One Probe Improvements (#1182) - @IntegerLimit, @Mireole (678c914, 6830743)
  • Improved Display of Fluids
    • Removed Duplicate Textual Display
    • Improved Compactness and Readability
  • Added Display of GT Machine Recipe Outputs
    • Originally from GregicProbeCEu, but changes were made:
      • Improved Compactness
      • Merging of Item and Fluid Outputs into One Display
      • Removed Display for Generators
      • Fixed Fluid Localization
  • Improved Ordering
    • Consistent Grouping of Items and Fluid Information
    • Moves Energy Information to Bottom
• Improvements to Advanced Memory Card (#1169) - @IntegerLimit (39a30e6)
  • Improved Mouse and Keyboard Interactions
  • Improved Renaming Interactions
  • Display of Distance for Listed P2Ps
  • Improved Default Sorting
  • Sort Modes and Sort Direction
  • Filtering by Distance
  • Selected P2P Blinks instead of being Outlined in Green
• Update Nomi Labs to v0.14.0 (#1242) - @IntegerLimit (a8d9f66)
  • Allows for Links and Copyable Parts in Quest Descriptions
  • Validates Dedicated Servers and Clients have Same Mode
  • Disables Muffler Hatch Ash Production, improving performance for High Parallel Multiblocks with Mufflers
  • Displays y-levels in Prospector, and waypoints set respect Ore y-levels
  • Defaults Prospector to Dark Mode, improving visibility of (most) Ores
  • Displays a 'Welcome Message' on server start, to clarify server is ready
• Adds a Tooltip Showing Contents of Drawers (#1252) - @IntegerLimit (8d52755)
• Update AE2 to v0.56.6 (#1242) - @IntegerLimit (a8d9f66)
  • Makes items inserted into Interfaces skip the buffer, and go straight to storage
  • Whilst this release had major issues, they have been patched out with Nomi Labs
• Add Seperate Icons and Titles for Expert Mode (#1219) - @IntegerLimit (2b864cc)
• ZBGT Addon Script Compat (#1203) - @D-Alessian (7995b18)
  • Only activated if ZBGT is manually installed!
  • Rebalances recipes for Mega Multiblocks
  • Adds recipes for most ZBGT Creative Items
• ...and more!

Quest Book Changes:

See the Full Changelog for changes, but major changes include:

• Improved Guidance
  • Revamped Genesis Chapter
  • Revamped Nuclear Fission Section
  • Cleaned up Dependencies, Removal of 'Unobtainable' Quests
• Adding Quests to Highlight Important Features or Changes
• Many, Many Typo Fixes
• ...and more!

Bug Fixes:

Both Modes:

• Update Nomi Labs to v0.14.0 (#1242) - @IntegerLimit (a8d9f66)
  • Fixes Prospector and Ore Drills not working with Dilithium and Black Quartz Ore
  • Removes Armor Plus Fragment Drops
  • (Addon) Fixes NAE2 Upgrade Cards not working in AE2 Fluid Crafting Interfaces
• Update Nomi-Labs to v0.11.0 (#1126) - @IntegerLimit (37bbdfe)
  • Fixes ME Stocking Hatch/Bus Duplication Glitch
  • Fixes Edge Case Cleanroom Crash
  • Fixes Edge Case Effortless Building Crash
• ...and more!

Normal Mode:

• Fixes DME Sim Chamber Not Working with New Data Models (#1252) - @IntegerLimit (8d52755)

Hard Mode:

• Fixes Incorrect Xenic Acid Breakdown (#1216) - @IntegerLimit (136d2d0)

See the Full Changelog for more exciting changes!