Beta Release for v8

A new build & branch targeting Mindustry v8 beta, courtesy of @SMOLKEYS . This build is as beta as Mindustry itself, so be warned. Fixed many v8 incompatibility issues, mainly crashing Hijack Turrets and Payload Turrets.

From now on, v8 targeted releases will use the major version 2, starting with this build.

• Bugfix release; some bugfixes related to stackoverflow crashing related to units
• Finally no longer crashes due to other mods (thanks, Anuke!)
• Updated gradle

Improvements

• Fixed several bugs with the new crafter drawing system
• Fixed some null crashes and bugs related to version updates
• Now supports release v136 and higher (no longer BE dependent)

Notes

• There are still several known bugs (to be fixed in the future):
  • Anubanks and hijacker turrets crash the game
  • Capacitors are very buggy

Erekir Release(beta)

• Minor bugfixes
• Fixed crash on startup (enableConsole)
• Caution: quite unstable, may have bugs or crashes, please report them!

Erekir Release(beta)

• Now ported to Mindustry BE!
• Identical to v1.08 content-wise
• Caution: quite unstable, may have bugs or crashes, please report them!

Additions

• Added 5 new Hijacker Turrets
• Hijacker turrets use consume ammo and use bullets of linked turrets, and have quirks like additional shots or reload speed
• They are late-game turrets, addition to campaign is planned

Improvements

• Fixed the bug where headless servers would crash after failing to load sound filters
• Fixed animation of source (item)

• Bugfix release; some bugfixes related to the scalar furnace
• Some small tweaks to block costs
• Scalar furnace explosion is now bigger than the nuclear reactor

Additions

• Added 4 more crafters: Fusion chamber, lancer kiln, colloid mixer and scalar furnace
• Added a new liquid: Colloid

Improvements

• Silicondenser no longer has a placeholder sprite
• Buffed & balanced some crafters
• Added Shar-related content to the tech tree
• More Korean translations

Additions

• New WIP moon Shar, cannot be launched to yet
• New crafters for moon Shar (some have placeholder sprites)
• New turrets for moon Shar: Spectrum, Nebula, Sequence, Ray
• Audio filter domes
• Ion thrusters and jets, which propel bullets
• Payload rails and sorters, handy for moving 1x1~2x2 blocks around
• Chests, which can carry inventory blocks (WIP)
• Coffee liquid tiles
• Status effect "star drunk" for siloxol liquid tiles
• New weather: Ion storm
• More note block instruments

Improvements

• More translations for blocks
• Siloxol animated liquid sprite
• Blocks now update in midair when launched by payload cannons
• Lots of bugfixes and minor improvements

Additions

• 2 note blocks, and a sfx block
• Button router, outputs power when an item is received

Improvements

• Many v7 refactors and bugfixes.

Bugfix release, fixes only critical crashes or content bugs.

• Fixed clear pipe crash
• Fixed milky dune being a floor and not a wall
• Fixed teleporters spamming last log

Changes

Additions

• Implemented The Anucoin System with 4 turrets, 3 shops and various related blocks
• Implemented Player Inventory [not available in multiplayer yet]
• Various new environment tiles
• 3 ores; Scalar, vector and tensor
• Drift pads, which make units lose control and drift to the facing direction
• Teleporters and teleport portals, which teleport units
• Pens and related modules
• Cafe, selling various Beverages
• Added the coffee machine, Yutnori and floorpapers, sold by stores
• Graphite walls, which absorb bullet reactions
• 5 cogs that are lesser versions of the spinner, and also spins slower
• Crushers, which damage blocks and can be pushed by pistons
• Astro, a new turret that damages only units [MindBlow port, cost not final]
• 2 new crystals
• Coffee (liquid) and 6 foreign items
• Various status effects including the bane of resolution

Improvements & Balance

• Buffed the spinner, and now it is a late-tier block preceded by cogs
• Vector and tensor crystals have status effects when broken
• Added the touchpad for mobile players, can be turned on in settings
• Ideology's success rate now depends on unit health
• Better boost panel effects
• Spore slimes have special destroy & deconstruct effects
• Many other small improvements

Bugfixes

• Fixed a lot of buggy behavior with clear pipes in multiplayer
• Fixed some status effects crashing in v7
• Fixed payload deconstructor stackoverflowing with specific other mods
• Fixed block rain rendering
• Claws no longer teleport units
• Claws' shootX/Y now returns tile coordinates
• Fixed crystal break effect
• Many other small bugs

Notes

• This will be the last release supporting v6. Further releases will only be compatible with latest versions of v7.
• This version needs further testing, and some content may be unfinished and/or unstable.

Bugfixes

• Fixed pyratite spikes having electric properties
• Fixed claws crashing when trying to grab ground units out of solid blocks
• Fixed payload deconstructor running infinite recursive functions when other mods make unit cycles (e.g. upgrade A -> B -> C -> A)
• Fixed block weather crashing in v7
• Fixed clear pipes connecting to pipes of other teams

Improvements

• Added temporary v7 compatibility for animated items (might be laggy)
• Added destroySound & breakEffect for crystals [v7]
• New nullifier visuals when animated shields is off
• Processors can now sense what the claw is holding

Also

• Definitely did not add a secret WIP new block

Bugfixes

• Fixed pipes/claws/spinners crashing the game in v127~v128
• Fixed overdriven unit ducts warping space and time
• Unit duct's power status now updates correctly
• Clear pipes no longer interact with enemy units
• Fixed missing bar.tension bundle

Improvements

• Better power bar indicator for unit ducts
• Claws do not conduct to adjacent power blocks
• Nullifier now disables shooting of air units too

https://youtu.be/pCkWK9Wrpr0 (see the trailer if you haven't seen it)

Additions

• Fixed spinners, and added inertial spinners
• Added coal cans, campfires and dischargers that can attack enemies when pushed or spun
• Added spikes that damage units
• Added claws and phase claws
• Added glass pipes and unit ducts, a new unit transport system
• Added crystals, serves as a beautiful decoration or semiconductors
• Added nullifier, disables adjacent buildings or buildings on spinners
• Added tier 2 mega fan that can sprinkle liquids as well as push units
• 2 new walls: Cryonite wall and large cryonite wall, which chills attacking enemies and leaves an icy puddle after it breaks
• 3 new turrets: Propaganda, Anchor and Bermuda
• A new item: Cryonite
• 8 new status effects: Cozy, Icy, Glitched, Creative Shock, Ideology, Amnesia, Paused and Dissonance

Improvements & Balancing

• New icon
• Buffed repair turret, and it now accepts scalar as a booster
• Added bundles for most blocks
• Most sprite generating is now done by the multipacker (contributed by @Anuken)
• Presents only are available in the holiday week
• Processor fan now has sound
• Balanced mega driller
• Boost pads no longer fling the unit back to the past
• Nerfed pressure pads significantly
• Better credits; it no longer becomes outdated as I forget to update some bundles
• Fixed the weird tech tree life choices
• Added some hints

Bugfixes

• Fixed spotlights not drawing properly
• Fixed the setting crashing the game in 7.0 (contributed by @Anuken)
• Fixed BlockFilterValue in database crashing in 7.0
• BM now runs on ~~25 million devices~~ even more devices that it has previously been unsupported on (contributed by @Anuken)

Gallery

Notes

After a poll, it is decided that the 1.0 Update is split into 2 parts; The creative update (this) and the campaign update (probably v1.1). Stay tuned!

Minor bugfixes

• Fixed clear pipe related bugs; screen jitters less in mobile and crashes less in the server (hopefully)
• Nerfed icy status effect
• Fixed Omega Rune visibility

• Added bittrium, an animated item. Does not have an use yet
• All sprites are alpha-bleeded, thanks to @GlennFolker

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/58885089/113423181-f4a47580-9408-11eb-9c6b-75c369c24220.mp4

• Added processor coolers!
  • 3 types of processor coolers; each have their own perks
  • Speeds up processor instructions
• Added icons for status effects

• Added fans, a block that pushes units around.
• Added router rain and block rain.

• Added 3 bumpers
• Ported frictionless ice, asphalt and ohno
• Boost panel finalization
• Community server list now only displays BetaMindy community servers (can be disabled in settings)

• Added repair turret
• Added mynamites, which blow up and mine ores
• Added buttons and pressure plates

• Added mega driller sprites
• Tweaked boost pad behavior
• Polished "Stars Blazing" of hopebringer

• Release 124 linkpin quickfix

• Fixed a link pin crash

(From now on, jars are dexed by default; download BetaMindy.java for both platforms!)

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/58885089/106462168-118bfd80-64d9-11eb-9a85-a8a06029be5e.mp4

• Added link pin, which displays all links of a processor and shifts the links when pushed

• Cloners can now look inside payload blocks; this behavior also bypasses its size limit
• Cloners now copy the configuration of the blocks, including sorters, processors and more
• Added Boost Pad (a bit wonky, will be fixed when the speedMultiplier bug is fixed)
• Added WIP Spinner

• Pistons no longer conduct to its facing block
• Now uses Mindustry v123

• Added Infinite Pistons
• Some optimizations and bugfixes

• Minor multiplayer fixes (Non-English users: please update to this version!)

• Added cloner, a block that clones blocks
• Added surge slime, a conductive spore slime

• Cloners can be sensed with processors; @config returns the block it is facing

• Fixed some crashes
• Android support!

• Pistons now push units, if possible
• Pistons now save their state (may break old saves)

• Implemented sided spore blocks
• Fixed the mod doing a genocide run in the mods folder

• Fixed pistons; although they still need polishing, they will now work as intended(hopefully), please report bugs!
• Slime blocks are implemented, sided slime blocks are not.

• Some more progress on pistons (still a huge WIP)
• Added 5 new walls with special perks when launched by a payload cannon or broken
• Added mini driller, a turret that also drills

• Added warehouse, a 5x5 storage block.
• Added team block, which alerts users when broken.

• Added T3 block forge and disassembler.
• 한국어 깨짐 현상 수정

• Added silo, a 4x4 storage block.
• Fixed payload disassemblers' refund items.
• Fixed a crash with the payload bullet.

• New payload cannon sprite, credit to EyeofDarkness!
• Fixed block workshop bug.
• Added WIP payload disassembler.

• Added T2 block payload blocks.
• Added sprite for payload catapult, credits to Rayforce.

• Revamped the graphic effect of the airborne payloads.
• You can revert the payload graphics by turning off the "Top-down Payload View" in the settings!
• Also added the "Animated Slime" setting.
• Added bundles for all blocks, in English and Korean.
• Added T2 payload turret, the payload catapult, waiting for a sprite!
• Fixed block payload bullet rotation graphics.
• Fixed some bugs.

• Payload blocks now take its explosiveness/power/flammability/liquids into consideration.
• Payload cannon now accepts payloads from factories directly.
• Minor present visual fix.

• Fixed major present bugs.
• Presents now show what is inside. Merry Christmas!

• Payload cannon has been added.
• Credit to VozDuh for providing the sprites, which I resprited a little.
• It still has some missing features, like making blocks with explosives explode more violently, and that kind of stuff.
• Known bug: payload must be provided by a payload conveyor and not directly.

• Added slime blocks, directional slime blocks, and accelerator.
• Slime blocks and the directional slime blocks have no functionality yet, as pistons are unfinished.
• Accelerators give off power when moved.
• Exotic matter now swaps the controls of nearby units.
• Radiation has better radiation effects(courtesy of EyeofDarkness).

• Added radiation and exotic matter.
• Radiation can burn you. exotic matter does not have a function yet. Both can be placed in the editor.
• No progress on pistons, sadly.

• Piston can now push a single block.
• Sticky Piston can now pull a single block.

• Adds Pistons, but they do not push yet.