Questing Mayhem

Introduction/Backstory of Update

Sometime during the week of June 3rd, Questing Mayhem achieved over 100,000 total downloads. That is an extraordinary number and words cannot express how grateful and thankful I am for over 100,000 people just downloading my little modpack. Thanks a ton. In celebration, I thought it would be appropriate to release a new version of the pack, 0.15.2pre. Some of the changes I have made for 0.15.2pre include, but are not necessarily limited to, changing rewards throughout the HQM questbook, changing quest descriptions, and fixing bugs.

My main focus has been on getting better rewards for the quests. While it is true that many loot bag rewards have now been replaced with HQM reward bags using the loot tables I made for the pre15.1 update, I am still striving to get more unique and arguably better rewards for the pack. Let's say, for instance, one quest had you get a lot of iron to make one item. A possible reward for that quest would be iron. I want something that truly rewards the player for completing a task and is something the player would actually want, instead of just a random item. Now, even with the final version of Questing Mayhem, several quests will have a simple reward bag, chance cube, chance icosohedron reward, but I want there to still be some quests that aren't like that. And I can guarentee when the official release for 0.15 comes out, there will not be a single quest that gives loot bags out as a reward. In fact, I hope that by the official full release of 0.15 I am able to remove the loot bags mod from the pack.

Bugs

Now, it should be said that 0.15.2pre is really in an alpha state. Expect to encounter bugs and inconsistancies, some of which have already been reported, even before 0.15.2pre came out. I will fix all of the bugs by the time 0.15 offcicially comes out, so expect performance in the official release of 0.15 to be smooth sailing like a sail boat that can be toppled over with a slight breeze. :) 0.15.2pre has just what I was able to get done between when Questing Mayhem pre15.1 came out, and when Questing Mayhem hit 100,000 downloads, so about 7 weeks, which segways nicely into the next topic.

Summer

As regulars of the discord are tired of me talking about at this point, the past 9 months of my life have been taken over by school. Essentially, there have been next to 0 hours, minutes, seconds for me to work on Questing Mayhem on the regular. That explains the sparse updates over the past 9 months. However, Friday, June 16th, was my first day of Summer Vacation, which lasts about 11 weeks. Just in the past weekend, with no assignments to do and nothing to worry about, I have had so much free time. It's been great! So expect a lot more updates than you're used to at this point in the coming weeks.

Server Files

As always, server files will be uploaded as an additional file along with this update. Please allow a few minutes to possibly a few hours for the server files to be approved by curseforge. You can find all additional files by scrolling just past the changelog.

Misalaneous

Please do not be afraid to record and upload Questing Mayhem on any platform. I have absolutely no problem with it. I love to watch other people suffer through my recipes. :)

Thanks again for 100,000 downloads. Words cannot express my gratitude towards every single one of you, but hopefully, a new Questing Mayhem version can make it up for you. Now to get to what you've really been reading this for:

Changelog

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*QUESTING MAYHEM CHANGELOG*

-Questbook Changes-
*Removed many exclamation points from many quests
*Fixed typo in Seared Brick quest
*Changed description in Seared Brick quest
*Changed task in Seared Brick quest from crafting to detection
*Changed description in Smeltery Accessories quest
*Changed description in Smeltery Accessories II quest
*Changed task in Smeltery Accessories II quest from crafting to detection
*Changed one of the choice rewards in Smeltery Accessories II
*Added more rewards in Tinkers' Beginning quest
*Changed rewards in all cast quests
*Tweaked barrels quest description
*Tweaked iron quest description
*Tweaked unfired crucible quest description
*Changed crucible quest description
*Tweaked golden apple quest description
*Tweaked notch apple quest description
*Gave information about hardcore modes in vanilla mob killing quests
*Rearranged the furnace quests in the storage questline
*Removed and replaced some tasks in the "computer in a computer" quest
*Replaced every lootbag reward in the HQM book with a reward bag of varied quality
*Replaced, added, and removed rewards throughout the entire HQM book
*Reorganized the entire Farming with Agricraft layout

-Recipe Changes-
*Fixed bug where jeweled apple was not able to be crafted
*Added recipe for corn seeds
*Added conversion recipe for seaweed to seaweed seeds
*Changed recipe for lazuli transport pipe
*Changed recipe for extra utilities paintbrush
*Changed recipe for buildcraft paintbrush
*Changed recipe for openblocks paint brush
*Changed recipe for kinetic dynamo
*Changed recipe for EnderIO Stirling Generator
*Changed recipe for EnderIO Combustion Generator
*Added conversion recipe for diamond to diamond nugget
*Added conversion recipe for paper stack to paper
*Changed conversion recipe for crop sticks to stick
*Added conversion recipe for big button to button
*Changed recipe for pressurized fluid tank
*Added two recipes for blood infuser

-Mod Changes-
*Updated better questing
*Updated better questing standard expansion
*Updated extra planets