Category: Mystcraft

As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve rewritten parts of the grammar system and rebalanced its rules.

I’ve also tweaked generation and fixed a large number of bugs.

As with the previous release, keep in mind that you need link panels to make books! This is for both descriptive and linking books.

To recap: there is only one download (found at the bottom of this post); This file is the universal install for client and server; it no longer goes in the jar.
Mystcraft goes in the mods folder.

If you are still lost on the 0.10 series, check out Direwolf20’s Mod Spotlight! Direwolf20’s Mod Spotlight for 0.10.4.00
Hopefully I will be able to work with Dire to produce a tutorial video for writing for you in the near future. 🙂

Download: [1.5.2] Mystcraft Universal 0.10.5.00
Check the Mystcraft Forums for updates and the change log.

Enjoy!

I’ve been fixing bugs off the tracker and working to balance the grammar system better. It’s an ongoing process, and will require more feedback from you all, but this release should be better.

This release also has at least one new symbol, as well as better balance on a number of generation effects.

I also rewrote most of the parsing for the grammar, so it better understands what you’ve written. This should fix some more advanced issues that could occur with add-ons and will allow me to use more advanced rules in my balancing efforts.
Primarily I’ve been balancing the grammar’s generation rate of a number of things, especially how many things like caves and tendrils appear in ages and the issue with it always adding biomes for the sized biomes.

I’m trying to get a release up as soon as I can. Just getting final checks for stability.

I’m well aware that some people are having issues both with using and understanding the new systems. Sorry it’s a bit confusing; hopefully with time it will get clearer as more resources become available.
The new system uses a Context Free Grammar tree based system to try to expand and elaborate on ages when you first visit them. It uses a rule based system that basically writes the age much like you do, only it’s more clever and has access to all the symbols. 😉
There are some balancing issues with the rules at the moment. This means it is sometimes a bit overzealous when adding symbols in some places, like phases, periods, colors, and terrain modifiers (it gets too many caves, ravines, and tendrils). These are balancing issues, not bugs. I really needed a big team of testers to evaluate the latest changes, but didn’t have that. Instead, it’s a balance-as-we-go thing. It’s a huge, free mod, what did you expect? 😛

What I really need from the community is some patience, understanding, and general feedback on how the elaboration system feels. What needs to be tweaked? What is too common? Are there some features which the grammar system doesn’t seem to add many of? In your random travels, what has been very frequent? What have you barely seen at all?

Thanks for your understanding of this on-going balancing project. 🙂 Remember that Mystcraft isn’t version 1 yet. 😉

Cheers!

This is a major release for 1.5.2!

This release adds the advanced age generation systems so that ages now get more things you didn’t write. It also adds the ink mixing mechanics to allow you to craft link panels with special properties. Books are now crafted using link panels.

There were some changes that might require a bit of work to update existing saves or will cause other minor changes. Primarily you’ll need to update your configs and you’ll see some changes in height on some terrain gen. I recommend looking at the change log for exact information.

To recap: there is only one download (found at the bottom of this post); This file is the universal install for client and server; it no longer goes in the jar.
Mystcraft goes in the mods folder.

If you are still lost on the 0.10 series, check out Direwolf20’s Mod Spotlight! Direwolf20’s Mod Spotlight for 0.10.4.00

Download: [1.5.2] Mystcraft Universal 0.10.4.00
Check the Mystcraft Forums for updates and the change log.

Enjoy!

Sorry for my long, general absence. I’ve been busy with University for the past several months, as I’m sure most of you are aware.

I’ve finally got some real free time, and have been working on Mystcraft more the past couple weeks. I even managed to stream recently. 🙂 It’s nice to be back.

I’m almost done with the current release of Mystcraft; just need to do some more balance work. The ink mixing system is fully functional, I’m just still changing and adding the “recipes”. I’m also still adjusting the rule weighting for the new generation system, which expands the description of an age before it is built. Once those rules feel right and the ink mixing is good then the release can go public. 🙂 This will hopefully happen in the next few days.

Cheers!

This is a bugfix release for 0.10.2.00.

This only fixes one bug: Playing following linking sounds in SMP was causing players to be kicked from the game.

To recap: there is only one download (found at the bottom of this post); This file is the universal install for client and server; it no longer goes in the jar.
Mystcraft goes in the mods folder.

If you are still lost after 0.10, check out Direwolf20’s Mod Spotlight!

Download: [1.5.1] Mystcraft Universal 0.10.3.00
Check the Mystcraft Forums for updates and the change log.

Enjoy!

Mystcraft 0.10.2 is up and ready! 🙂 This updates Mystcraft to work on Minecraft 1.5.1.
There are a number of updated features, some bug fixes, and a couple changes.
Comparators should work with Mystcraft inventories and crystal blocks, I made my commands work with command blocks, and hoppers work with my stuff, etc.
I also made it so that not writing in suns/moons or lighting controllers won’t add instability directly. This won’t affect existing ages.

Lots of other things were changed and fixed. See the change log (link below) for more info.

To recap: there is only one download (found at the bottom of this post); This file is the universal install for client and server; it no longer goes in the jar.
Mystcraft goes in the mods folder.

If you are still lost after 0.10, check out Direwolf20’s Mod Spotlight!

Download: [1.5.1] Mystcraft Universal 0.10.2.00
Check the Mystcraft Forums for updates and the change log.

Enjoy!

This is the bugfix release for 0.10. Thank you for your patience, I had a lot of things to tend to. 🙂

To recap: there is only one download (found at the bottom of this post); This file is the universal install for client and server; it no longer goes in the jar.
Mystcraft goes in the mods folder.

If you are still lost after 0.10, check out Direwolf20’s Mod Spotlight!

Download: [1.4.7] Mystcraft Universal 0.10.1.00
Check the Mystcraft Forums for updates and the change log.

Enjoy!

ScottKillen has announced today that he is resigning from Minecraft modding. I will certainly miss his positive outlook and helpful nature. He’s been one of the best of us.

Go give him well wishes on his twitter feed. Let him know that no matter where he goes, we appreciate the hard work he did for us. 🙂

Finally, the release that everyone has been waiting for!

This release contains the new page system, makes pages collectable, changes writing mechanics, adds celestial mechanics, adds the modifiers system, and contains several bug fixes. Check out the change log for a more complete list.

It’s taken a long time to get this to a deliverable state, and I thank you for your patience. This development arc was very large and I eventually had to break it apart just to get this out.
From now on I will be defining my arcs better and making sure they are smaller, so you will get content updates more often. 🙂

To recap: there is only one download (found at the bottom of this post); This file is the universal install for client and server; it no longer goes in the jar.
Mystcraft goes in the mods folder.

EDIT: Info from changelog:

IMPORTANT NOTE: Flags and properties on existing books have been cleared (books will work fine, but lose link properties). The properties will have to be reapplied.
Also, existing Notebooks in desks may end up in funny slots, but this shouldn’t cause major issues. Just move ’em. 😉

EDIT: Direwolf20’s Mod Spotlight!

Download: [1.4.7] Mystcraft Universal 0.10.0.00
Check the Mystcraft Forums for updates and the change log.

Enjoy!