3.0.0: The 1.17 Update a.k.a. the Liquid Update
The largest™ update ever to Mechanization has arrived! Featuring new progression, an expanded early game, a completely rework Gadgets module, and a bunch of cool new automation options!
Highlights include:
- Entirely new manual, with better graphics, layouts, and usability
- Reworked Energy Storage mechanics, including new Capacitors
- Completely removed all use of 'stacked crafting' by adding new Rods, Plates, and Gears as crafting items
- Added Liquid Support! Including Pipes, Tanks, and a bunch of new machines to interact with liquids.
- Added Liquid Pipes: awesome looking blocks that automatically move liquids between machines
- Added Vial: a special 'bucket' that can hold gasses, and can hold any amount of a liquid (can hold 0.1 buckets instead of exactly 1 bucket)
- Added 3 tier of Liquid Tanks that can progressively higher amounts and more types of liquids
- Added Arc Furnace, for melting resources into molten forms
- Added Casting Basin, for converting molten resources back into ingots, blocks, gears, etc.
- Added Liquid Accumulator for automatically collecting liquids from the world, cauldrons, and entities
- Added Thermoelectric Generator: generates power by mixing hot and cold liquids
- New Lightning Generator produces infinite power from lightning
- New Electric Lamp that produces light at double the distance of glowstone
- New (patent pending) Extreme Plasma Annihilator Cannon (EPAC) for obliterating your enemies- now with shotgun support
- New Energy Saber, with is definitely not a copyrighted object
- New Drill: a powerful multitool that can mine almost any block
- New Pneumatic Tubing, for all your item relocation needs
Changes from Prerelease 3:
- Balancing Changes, including a huge buff to the Thermoelectric Generator
- Updated advancements and added a bunch of new ones!
- Liquid Pipes extracting liquid can now be disabled with redstone
- Pneumatic Entry-Points can now be disabled with redstone
- Added config options, including an option to change ore gen to use 1.18 world height, and a speed setting for the Quarry
- Added deepslate versions of ores
- Fixed recipes to craft Mechanical Manual not working
- Rephrased some passages in the manual, and added some pages (I'm using a generator now which makes this easy :D )
- Some API updates
- Added warning when using an 'unlock all recipes' datapack
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixes
- Almost forgot to mention there were some bug fixes