🎄 The Christmas Release 🎄 Featuring: TOP revamp, and many new QoL features, balancing changes, performance improvements and bug fixes!

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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!

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Wondering how this will impact your setups and patterns?
Checkout the Recipe Changelog. See the Full Changelog for all changes!

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Major Changes Since 1.7.5

Breaking Changes:

• Change All Extended Crafting Recipes to 'Strict' (#1394) - @IntegerLimit (9425288)
  • Large table recipes (5x5, 7x7, 9x9) now MUST be performed in the table of the exact tier!
  • E.g., you can no longer do Elite recipes in an Ultimate table!

Balancing Changes:

Both Modes:

• Wireless AE2 Rebalance (#1465) - @IntegerLimit (8a01b69)
  • Makes Beam Formers much cheaper; moving them to be just a little more expensive than cables
  • Moves AE2 Stuff Wireless Connectors from mid EV to early HV, acting as a progression point between Beam Formers and Quantum Rings
• Rebalance Netherrack + Endstone Dust Processing (#1384) - @IntegerLimit (e4a3a0e)
  • Adds Lava to Netherrack Dust Centrifuging
  • Adds Enderpearl Dust to Endstone Maceration
  • HM Only Changes Tier of Endstone Dust Centrifuging from EV to IV
• ...and more!

Hard Mode:

• Change Byproduct of Snowchestite from Chalcopyrite to Caesium (#1382) - @IntegerLimit (b205562)
  • Snowchestite line is now caesium positive instead of being a caesium sink!
• Tweak AE2 Early Progression (#1465) - @IntegerLimit (8a01b69)
  • Makes Charger require Black Steel, and moves Crystal Growth Chamber from Blue Steel to Black Steel
  • Moves AE2 a little earlier, and reduces confusion as to how AE2 is gated
• Move AE2 Fluid Storage Components from EV to HV (#1465) - @IntegerLimit (8a01b69)

Performance Improvements:

• Chanced Output Performance Improvements (#1431) - @nomi-ceu-management[bot] (f9a0b6f)
  • Massively improves performance of chanced output calculations at high parallels
• ...and more!

Feature Additions:

Quality of Life:

• Add Universal Circuits (#1431) - @nomi-ceu-management[bot] (f9a0b6f)
  • Adds general circuits representing any circuit of that voltage
  • Automatically prioritized in pattern importing from JEI, as they are extremely useful for AE2 patterning
• Allow skipping non-consumable items when filling patterns from JEI (#1375) - @IntegerLimit (8f2488f)
• ...and more!

Both Modes:

• TOP Improvements (#1431) - @nomi-ceu-management[bot] (f9a0b6f)
  • Adds icons displaying locked and voiding status of various containers
  • Improve display of creative containers
  • Improve consistency of Storage Drawers info
  • Improve consistency of AE2 info
  • Various other polish changes and bugfixes
• AE2 Improvements (#1366, #1387) - @IntegerLimit (f4ccc0a, 5271edc)
  • Craft Overview Sorting: Placing missing items first, then items to craft, then present items
  • Information about connection status of Quantum Link Chambers in TOP
  • Advanced Memory Card mode improvements
    • Add as Input/Output modes now work across P2P types, auto-converting the selected P2P to the bind target's type, and allows binding to unbound P2Ps
    • 'Bind As' modes now guarantee a new seperate P2P network is created
• Add AE2 Crafting Tree (#1356) - @IntegerLimit (aa064e1)
  • Allows for very nice viewing of AE2 crafts
  • Allows for easier debugging of complex crafts
• Allow Airtight Seal on GT Armors (#1431) - @nomi-ceu-management[bot] (f9a0b6f)
• Quantum Storage Improvements (#1431) - @nomi-ceu-management[bot] (f9a0b6f)
  • Allows Quantum Chests to be locked
  • Displays locked status in world rendering and when in inventory
• ...and more!

Bug Fixes:

Both Modes:

• Fix Various AE2 Bugs (#1366) - @IntegerLimit (f4ccc0a)
  • Fixes Cross Dimension Energy P2Ps not functioning properly after world load
  • Fixes Encoded Patterns outputting certain items not rendering correctly
  • Fixes Issues when Right Clicking Adv Memory Card Mode Button
  • Fixes Incorrect Items being allowed in Quantum Link Card slot
• Fix Crystal Seed Pattern Importing (#1370) - @IntegerLimit (943190f)
  • Fixes NBT Issues
  • Adds a JEI Page for Crystal Growth Chamber Recipes
• Fix Crash on Cleanroom 0.3.3+ (#1363) - @IntegerLimit (c83250b)
• ...and more!

Hard Mode:

• Remove Enchanting Books from Airtight Seal Recipes (#1464) - @IntegerLimit (bae6186)

General Changes:

Just Enough Items:

• JEI Updates (#1366, #1431) - @nomi-ceu-management[bot], @IntegerLimit (f9a0b6f, f4ccc0a)
  • Adds many new features, including recipe favouriting, better recipe bookmarks, and batch chain crafting within JEI (autocrafting)
  • Custom ItemStack Count Renderer, improving display of item stacks in JEI above 100
  • General Performance Improvements
• ...and more!

Addon Support Changes:

• Fix Flux Networks' Flux Controller Recipe (#1413) - @MasterKogha (11406c9)
• Fix ZBGT Circuit Assembly and CoAL Recipes (#1385) - @kyoumei-kyouki, @IntegerLimit (c437917, 214d808)
  • Fixed circuit unwrap recipes giving 16 circuit outputs; they take 1 circuit input
  • Fix ULV Cover and Field Generator recipes in CoAL
  • Fix Circuit Assembly Line recipesnot confuse new players)*
• AE2 Fluid Crafting Rebalance (#1352, #1465) - @Mazlaci, @IntegerLimit (c693745, 8a01b69)
  • Gates AE2 Fluid Crafting to HV in Normal Mode, and EV in Hard Mode
  • Thematic Changes to Recipe for Fluid Assembler
  • Rebalanced Extended Fluid Pattern Terminal and Ultimate Encoder, now needs PAuto's Package Recipe Encoder to craft, similar to its vanilla AE2 counterparts
  • Rebalanced Fluid Level Maintainer, now is unlocked similarly to LazyAE2
• ...and more!

See the Full Changelog for more exciting changes!