v1.27.0-alpha (2024-1-10)

Mods changes

🟢 Added Mods

Icon	Summary
	Fairy Lights ^{_{fairylights-2.2.0-1.12.2.jar}} This mod adds decorative string lights.
	Lilliputian ^{_{lilliputian-1.0.jar}} Configurable mob sizes
	NoExpensive ^{_{NE-1.12.2-Forge-1.1.1.jar}} The anvil has no expensive restrictions
	Malek's Infinity Gauntlet ^{_{maleksinfinitygauntlet.jar}} Remove items, blocks, mobs, from registry to increase load times, decrease ram, and remove duplicate things from mods
	Villager Market - NBT Fix ^{_{villager-market-nbt-fix-1.12.2-1.0.4.jar}} A Villager trading hub.
	Industrial Wires Plus ^{_{IndustrialWires-2.0-02.jar}} A modified version of original Industrial Wires, with more electric stuff.
	ZenRecipeReload ^{_{zenrecipereloading-1.2.1.jar}} Reload recipes for CraftTweaker 1.12.2
	Omniwand ^{_{omniwand-1.12.2-1.0.1.jar}} One wand to rule them all.
	Just Enough Magiculture ^{_{justenoughmagiculture-1.12.2-1.1.0.jar}} This mod adds a large number of Just Enough Resources integrations.

🔴 Removed Mods

Icon	Summary
	Morph-o-Tool ^{_{Morph-o-Tool-1.2-21.jar}} The Wrench to end all Wrenches.
	Villager Market ^{_{villager-market-1.12.2-1.0.2.jar}} Villager Market block that shows the trades for all the villagers around
	BiomeTweakerCore ^{_{BiomeTweakerCore-1.12.2-1.0.39.jar}} Core mod that enables some features in BiomeTweaker
	Converting Industrial Wires ^{_{IndustrialWires-1.7-39.jar}} Industrial Wires but with energy conversion
	[FORGE/FABRIC] Armor Curve ^{_{armorcurve-1.2.9.jar}} Adjust the armor scaling and degradation formulae for mobs and players.
	Kiro's Basic Blocks ^{_{kirosblocks-1.2.2.jar}} An block texture addon for LittleTiles
	Better P2P ^{_{betterp2p-1.12.2-1.2.3-extended_life.jar}} Better P2P and memory card for Applied Energistics 2
	Twilight Tweaks ^{_{twilighttweaks-1.12.2-v1.0.2.jar.jar}} Adds a very configurable final boss among other config options.

🟡 Updated Mods

Icon	Summary	Old / New
	CraftTweaker	CraftTweaker2-1.12-4.1.20.695 CraftTweaker2-1.12-4.1.20.698
	LittleTiles	LittleTiles_v1.5.84_mc1.12.2 LittleTiles_v1.5.85_mc1.12.2
	Village Names	VillageNames-1.12.2-4.4.6 VillageNames-1.12.2-4.4.7
	Xaero's Minimap	Xaeros_Minimap_23.9.0_Forge_1.12 Xaeros_Minimap_23.9.1_Forge_1.12
	CraftPresence	CraftPresence-2.2.5+1.12.2 CraftPresence-2.2.6+1.12.2
	Xaero's World Map	XaerosWorldMap_1.37.0_Forge_1.12 XaerosWorldMap_1.37.1_Forge_1.12
	QMD	QMD-1.3-beta2-1.12.2 QMD-1.3-1.12.2
	Tinkers' Evolution	tconevo-1.12.2-1.0.48 tconevo-1.12.2-1.0.49
	Zen Utils	zenutils-1.15.2 zenutils-1.16.3
	Precision Mining	PrecisionMining-1.12.2-5.0-all PrecisionMining-1.12.2-5.2
	IC2 Patcher	ic2patcher-2.0.5 ic2patcher-2.0.7
	AE2 Unofficial Extended Life	appliedenergistics2-rv6-stable-7-extended_life-v0.55.27 appliedenergistics2-rv6-stable-7-extended_life-v0.55.29
	ModularUI	modularui-2.3.1 modularui-2.4.2
	Roughly Enough IDs	RoughlyEnoughIDs-2.0.6 RoughlyEnoughIDs-2.0.7
	Inventory Bogo Sorter	bogosorter-1.4.5 bogosorter-1.4.6
	Universal Tweaks	UniversalTweaks-1.12.2-1.8.0 UniversalTweaks-1.12.2-1.9.0
	Startup Timer	startuptimer-1.0.1 startuptimer-1.1.0
	VintageFix	vintagefix-0.3.3 vintagefix-0.4.0
	Alfheim Lighting Engine	Alfheim-1.1.1 Alfheim-1.2

⚡ Performance Improvements

This update introduce lot of performance improvments. Most of them just 1-10 seconds, but together they could improve your modpack load time to 20% faster.

🖇⚡Disable HEI Search mode for Tooltips (prefix: #)

This allow game load 20-40 seconds faster 🤯

Tooltip seach mode heavy CPU consuming. Lets hope Had Enough Items dev will one day add Tooltip caching so we could enable this setting by default again.

You can turn this option back in HEI Search Options
🖇⚡Remove unused OpenComputers libraries

This change will make modpack load 5-10 seconds faster and consume less RAM.

Since Lua 5.2 and Lua 5.4 wasnt used in modpack, it probably safe to remove binary libraries for those lua versions. By default OpenComputers will run on version 5.3.
🖇⚡Remove unused 300+ items/blocks from game

This will improve loading time and JEI performance. All those blocks was already disabled, uncraftable or useless. Now they would not added to game registry.

List of all removed items: config\malekremoveregistries.txt
🖇⚡Remove entries for All fluids <=> All Tanks recipes

Reduce modpack load time in 5-10 seconds.

Technical note:
This patch was made by changing bytecode of .class file by removing instructions that iterated over all fluids and all tanks in game.
ThermalDynamics license is ARR, but additional commentaries to license on GitHub allows changes of code like this.
🖇⚡Disable generation of removed recipes

This will speed up game load on 3-6 seconds.

Before this patch, Mekanism Sawmill automatically generated all possible Wood Log => Plank recipes, that was removed later by zenscript.
🖇⚡ => recipe not require Rat Nuggets anymore

This true for all Rocky Chunks / Chunks.
This would improve game loading performance for about 1 second (lol 😆).
Also it make Chunk recipe slightly cheaper and open recipes for ores that doesnt have Rat Nuggets.
🖇⚡Disable Hammer Core Smooth Vanilla Guis and Register Connected Blocks options

Seems like this would slightly improve loading speed. I cant see any changes in game from this disables.
🖇⚡Improve performance of Geese 🦆 again

The fix remove overhead caused by calling slow getter entity.definition, called even if no Geese present in game.
Current fix would make servers runs about 1% faster.
🖇⚡Remove generation of Avaritia recipes

This would save 3-6 seconds on game load.

Before patch, Avaritia generated many kinds of its 9x9 crafting table recipes. Since in E2E-E Avaritia crafting table disabled, there no neet to waste this time.
🖇⚡Remove hidden JEI category

Before this change, this category was created but then hidden, what made it worthless.
🖇⚡Remove JEI categories for MCTSmelteryIO and ThermalDynamics covers

This change will improve modpack loading time to 3-6 seconds. This categories previously was just hidden, but still consumed CPU time and RAM.

✨ New Features

🖇🌆Add new screenshots to main meny
- 2 screens by thefool_
- 3 by Artpoke
- Also remove two old ones
🖇🦯 improvments
Contributed by TabakaSIM

✨New features:
- Added augment scalling (based on number of matching colors) - only simple colors:
  
  Black, White, Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, Pink
- Added one seal aspects combination
- Added visual only shimmering effect on scythe
- Added entry in thaumonomicon about every aspect effect on scythe
- Metallum effect now effects replaceable block (like snow layer)
🐛Fixes:
- Nerfed sensus range (it will not target now random mobs underground)
- Fixed error if players don't have any thaumcraft knowledge and uses praecantatio augment
- Fixed error if scythe hit entity with no definition
- Fixed rare error if players takes out scythe too fast from crafting slot while augmenting

JEI

🖇📝Add Enchanted descriptions

Contributed by icemoss

Add tooltip descriptions to most enchantments.

Quest

🖇🌌Add Skyblock Chapter
Contributed by LisonaZ
- Move all skyblock quests into their own chapter
- Add more quests to help skyblock progression
- Add meaningful reward to some skyblock quests

Recipes

🖇☮️🌌Add Peaceful Skyblock mob heads recipes

Added Myrmex Trades for 4 heads:
🖇✏️ change charge formula
- Now you MUST provide different burn time items to craft it
- Now, instead of static x10 bonus, you get exponential bonus - more burn time in input, more bonus for output
- Now Charge Bonus localized
The bonus could reach up to x60 times or even more.
So now, cafting Burn Singularity from high-burn time items way more rewarding rather than from sticks and slabs.
🖇✏️Add in
🖇✏️Add recipe in from Mek Oxygen
🖇✏️added recipe from most kinds of modded fires

This recipe actually have no usages, just WIP of an idea.
🖇✏️Omniwand - configure and add many tools

Server

🖇💽New server installation guide

Skyblock

🖇🌌Add ability to TP into dimension 3 (skyblock world)

You need to hold Enigmatica Patchouli book to being teleported
To access the Skyblock dimension, hold Enigmatica Patchouli Book in your hand and ascend to a height of 257 blocks.

🐛 Fixes

🖇🌎Change dim3 skyblock Name and suffix

Dont know if this would break something. Should not.
🖇🌎Tweak some OTG Skyblock / Alien Jungle config

Change spawn point and other changes
🖇🧤Fix handling items between players message in chat
🖇🧾Add Chinese localisation to IC2 Fruits
🖇🧾Add some Russian translations for custom lables
🖇Remove glass block from skyblock

Contributed by git-confused

Bugs

🖇🐛Fix world not loaded after usage

After teleporting to Spectre dimension player was hanging in non-loaded world for a minute or so.

Seems like it was caused by MaxPlayerSpeed configs of Random Patches
🖇🦈Fix sharks teleport players on bite

Seems like BetterAnimalsPlusPlus math was wrong, and now i make player just centered to shark when bitten

Configs

🖇🧩Disable Quarks inventory buttons for RFTools storages
🖇🧩Make XTones chiselable

Docs

🖇📜Remove Gas Turbine tooltip since we have JEI tab for that

Gear

🖇🪓Elementium axe buff mining level

Now can break Livingwood

Hotkeys

🖇🎹Remove default hotkey for /grid

No more What is this blue squares and how to get rid of them.

Mods

🖇✂Remove EndReborn unused items by another mod

Previously, items such as Wolfram Armor was hidden by CraftTweaker script. Now items not registered.

This may cause some problems so need more tests.
🖇🔵Disable Get Bogod! message and shuffle inventory in chat
🖇🔵Remove ArmorCurve mod and move it to UniversalTweaker

This could change armor formulas in game. Be aware you suddenly could die with old armor 🤷‍♂️

Portal_spread

🖇⛑️add transform recipe
🖇⛑️Fix help message on /portal_spread command
🖇⛑️Fix exception when right-click portal on server
🖇⛑️Fix RU and other translations not working

I just discovered, that all players who wasnt used en_us or zh_cn language saw lang codes instead of real messages (like portal_spread.created in chat).

This fix will add fix messages with portal creating, breaking and all other for RU and other languages.

Technical info:
CraftTweaker's function game.setLocalization() can't fallback to en_us language.
That means, that if you have non-localized language that wasnt explicitely defined with game.setLocalization(), message wouldnt translated to English by default.
This is different behaviour from Resource Loader mod, that working with .lang files.