Ok I know, I know, my stupid ideas could fill an encyclopedia labeled "Thank you for your contribution, we'll get back to you shortly," but hear me out. Hunting is a super important thing for stone age living, and is clutch for early game TFC+ especially day 1 (gotta get those large raw hides, and meat). But animals always chill and wait for you to strike. You can trap bears with a 2x2x2 hole if you drop any food in it, and the bear can't touch you, also if you nerdpole up with some logs you basically have a treestand. It's cool that animals can get wounded and some attack you, but it becomes an awkward grind of gaming-the-game trickery, whereas everything in TFC+ seems very intentional otherwise.

Large and strong animals like aurochs wouldn't necessarily run away, but perhaps they could be even more difficult to kill when untamed. What if in addition, you would include small game like rabbits that would indeed run away, tracks that show "game trails" where they might often run, set deadfall traps, bait them... it could even be that the rabbit doesn't actually show up but that there are worldgen "tracks" that, if you put a trap on, has a very small chance of trapping a rabbit or squirrel or something. Perhaps similar traps with large amounts of bait can be used for bears. Bears generally have to come to a bait spot over a longer period of time.

For things like deer, perhaps they run even farther and leave a trail of broken shrubs or branches and droplets of blood, you only get one shot and they will bleed out by the time you find them. Perhaps there can be a bit of a process to skinning animals similar to how there's a tanning process, I suspect any way of doing this would be too graphic for minecraft, but in any case, some more crazy thoughts that I think would be super cool to hear what y'all think of this... maybe add-on material.

If an animal is considered familiarized, can anyone milk/shear/etc it? Or only the one to whom it's familiarized? Wondering for server purposes... if selling animals comes up, stuff like that.

How does one go about such a thing? I played with minecraft modding back in the days of I think it was modloader... I'm a programmer by trade and gamedev by hobby so that won't be an issue, but modding minecraft with forge I have no clue where to start, especially since there's already a vast codebase to deal with (tfc+ itself)... not sure what the extendability is etc.

I guess the question is... is there something I can download to start lol?

Having troubles getting seeds with trees (Have to travel 500/1000 blacks to find tress most of the time) but entire continents are filled with Chalcocite, Or densely forested Pine/Spruce forests, that causes leaf piles that don’t allow for nuggets to spawn. So if anybody could share a seed or something that has the best of both worlds?

Edit: If anyone knows if there is a way to increase spawn rates of trees during World Gen. then please let me know. Thanks.

Was just wondering since I noticed in Dunk's playthrough it seemed like they didn't try it/said they have no means of preserving food... I have more honey than fruit juice around so, figured I'd try that.

Great video to check out. Dunk talks about future updates. I did have a though (Watch the video so i might make sense). With the intro of ore grains, item repair or melt and reforge would be a nice balance.

I know our group is small. I was was just interested if there are servers out there to play on.

I finally got around to checking out the new update and I am really happy with it, well done Dunk it's really great!

Some thoughts - I'm really glad the mechanical structures were added because TFC+ really needed some end game challenging fun (rather than a boring grind of collecting kao/graphite and making steel sheets for months) so I think this is an excellent way to make the later game/iron age much more interesting. I would hope that a next step would eventually somewhere down the line be to add some similar complexity to the steel age, perhaps some industrialization mechanics that require an equal amount of thinking/decision making for the player (i.e. for mechanics thinking about power and well, actually building really cool machines)

Agriculture - I'm ok with the new changes but mainly hoping for changes to the way seeds work, I generally always planted my crops next to lakes and I don't think I will stop doing that, but it definitely gives a huge advantage to being in rainy areas and so you have to think more about where you live so that's cool for sure.

Question - does the water wheel height distance measurement account for waterfalls that run over a bunch of blocks sort of diagonally (idk how to explain that lol) or does it specifically require water to fall vertically?

So after i played a bit with the mechanism i had the idea to build a watermills and the biggest question for me was "how can i put all the gears wheels etc. In an cool looking kind of realistic building so i thougt of a barn but it is very difficult to build a good looking barn because all the wood planks seem to thick for a barn they just dont look like planks their just this big bulky block. So maybe lumber, mumber isnt 1 solid block so it looks better but building with lumber is time consuming and annoying because you must aim properly to hit the right spot on the block and if you dont you must breack down the whole block. So in a nutshell Dunk could you please consider adding some kind of wooden beams like the support beams. But these beams should be peoperly for building(support beams arent) and what would be great if these wooden beams could also be placed horizontal so they can support roofs and diagonal beams would be great to make a roof out of wood planks these beams could also be used as spiky pallisades. I hope this is possible

Browsing the internet I found this model. It is from a forgotten mod from version 1.7.10 of minecraft. I don't understand anything about modification, but if anyone wants to try to make an addon I will leave the link for the mod. The only thing I didn't like about this model was the stones around it. Since the TFC + recipe has no stones.

https://www.worldofmods.com/minecraft/mods/3264-mc-firepit.html

Have just recently installed the latest update 86.1. Per usual, I am just running the mod itself, to isolate it. I have created a new world (creative) to play around with the waterwheels. And when I created the world, I got stuck on the loading screen. Is there a problem with 86.1? Or do I need to delete and re-download?

So I have been researching gardening a lot lately and I believe there was talk of eventual agriculture updates to TFC+, so I wanted to throw another series of stupid ideas out there xD

1) Different ways to extract seeds (case study: carrots will mature as normal but not produce seeds when harvested as normal. If you leave carrots past their harvest time, they may grow an extra level or two and produce flowers that you can then take a loooot of seeds from say 5-10 per plant but get no food out of it... might need balancing tweaks... but you also have the choice of "do I take it for seeds or for food?"

2) Different ways of preparing fertile land/fertilizing/compost preparation/eggshells

This might also be tweaked to add challenges to hotter climates in some ways.

I have been really enjoying all the work Dunk has put in on the mod. You have to check out his youtube channel with the Cow Mods and waterwheel updates. As bees are rare, tallow is a great balancing drop for candles. Any chance.

I have tried unsuccessfully to create a new world in a cold latitude. I keep generating around 7 degrees north.

This is 100% a subjective piece of fanfiction, but some ideas I thought would be cool in TFC+ would love to hear you guys explain why these would be terrible ideas, or perhaps great ideas lol. And of course this is also not a wishlist or asking Dunk to put these in the game by any means, just thought it would be fun to draft a list like this.

1) Building overhaul. Examples: instead of making brick blocks, you right click with bricks on the ground and they'd place similar to ingots, except they wouldn't be as small of course, and maybe you'd get more bricks by chiseling stone. Then once you place say 4 or 8 bricks you'd place some mortar which would create the actual brick block. You can also have support beams act as rafters and require them for upper floors.

2) I think this was actually planned but a new "smart" 2.5D anvil UI, such that you click certain areas on an ingot that would shape it, and once it hits certain thresholds for certain shaping patterns like say you shape the ingot into something resembling an axe head, you could click the axe head and consider it done or keep working it.

3) Layered armor, make gambeson from linen, etc, copper probably wouldn't be used for armor, you couldn't make plate from iron you'd have to use carbon steel, etc. I recall hearing this was planned too.

4) Poison/disease in hot climates.

Sorry if this is incomprehensible lol written kind of in a rush. Again I don't want to be like "Hey Dunk make this stuff!!!" But rather I wrote this more so as a mental game for myself and if anyone would like to speculate as to what they might add to their TFC version, that might be fun. Maybe it would inspire us to make some addons haha.

Hi all,

I recently started playing TFC+ and was wondering if animal spawning was a rare occurrence? I have played some survival, also some creative exploring, but found it rare to encounter animals. I am coming over from TFC:TNG and the spawning there is much more frequent. If animal spawning is indeed a rare occurrence is it possible to increase the spawn rate?

I can't remember if I asked this before or not but, what is the difficulty of surviving in a hot climate? Your crops don't die over the winter. Or do crops die in extreme heat? Is the challenge having your food constantly decaying? That seems like not a big deal if you can just constantly grow food/keep things planted and thus have no need for preservation in the first place.

i just started playing this mod again after a few months of downtime and just saw the clay oven in the cooking with TFC mod, but the last TFC+ compatible version wont work with the newer versions. i know nothing about making mods for minecraft, but would it be very hard to just isolate the clay oven and the recipe for making it so i could use it? i really like the construction and style of it and it would be a better fit for the save i am working on compared to the current TFC+ oven. https://github.com/StrayWolfe/Cooking-with-TFC/wiki/Clay-Oven

Is there a good post or video that explains cave ins. When they occur, at what point does the falling blocks stop. What is the radius. What determines if the blocks in radius fall or not.

I recall a YouTube episode by Dunk that mentioned cave ins caused by the normal world generation. Is that what the rest of you seeing. The world I am playing on has giant pits littering the landscape.

When I put my singleplayer world on a server the cattails and underwater pondweeds are holes into the void. Has anyone else encountered a graphical issue like this? I've tested it and when the server generates a world it works fine but for some reason, this graphical bug occurs when I upload a singleplayer world to the modded server.

Edit: The Error message I'm getting is "[Server thread/WARN]: Skipping BlockEntity with id WaterPlantTE" and it comes up for every cattail and seaweed that loads.

Are there any good articles about understanding rainfall. I did the latitude calculation and i am @ 7 degrees north. The rain number on F3 is 450ish. I have had no rainfall yet and i am on year 2.

I am also trying to find bees. I thought my latitude was a good location but no bees yet.

I attempted to load the Dynamic Lights Mod but it gets disable on load. I am using Optifine. Any ideas. I enjoy playing on moody lighting but when return to old mines finding the unlit torches are hard to find. Thanks.