Confessions of a Mod/Modpack Dev
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Some times it feels like I am hammering a square peg into a round hole when writing Minecraft mods. 
Running Red's mod list was basically copy/pasted from the original Phoenixcraft pack, which was in turn mostly copy/pasted from Resonant Rise. So, in a convoluted way, Running Red's mod list was mostly Resonant Rise mods.
crapAs long as it hurts no one, it's all good
Here's a fine one: I made one of the worst modpacks ever and no one cared
I also annoy my collaborators/teammates when they're tired/have too much work to do (although I made up for it)
I spend too much time "meta coding", trying to find a different (sometimes better, sometimes just weird) way of doing things instead of just getting it done the tried and true way.
Half the reason I went with a 'less is more' theme for ShneekeyCraft is because smaller packs are MUCH easier to maintain. I can crank out a pack update in an hour or less. Not only does it mean less mods that are potentially needing to maintain, but also fewer cross-mod incompatibilities with version updates to have to deal with (which quite literally increase geometrically with every additional mod you add).
Keeping it small, clean, and tight not only lets me provide a better experience for my gamers, it also significantly reduces the amount of time I have to devote to the task of actually updating, which gives me more time to beta-test any upcoming potential changes in the mod list, and pre-test any changes to existing mods before release.
Oh, also, Config files tend to be set-and-forget unless there was a really big update and changed the config file format.
Keeping it small, clean, and tight not only lets me provide a better experience for my gamers, it also significantly reduces the amount of time I have to devote to the task of actually updating, which gives me more time to beta-test any upcoming potential changes in the mod list, and pre-test any changes to existing mods before release.
Oh, also, Config files tend to be set-and-forget unless there was a really big update and changed the config file format.
Back when I was a bad programmer I...
made pretty much all of my commits have the commit message "Commit".
commit without testing
commit without testing and any time I would be turning my computer off or leaving, in fear of having to deal with merge conflicts
never used branches (man has this one made my current development fun)
That's all I can think of right now.
made pretty much all of my commits have the commit message "Commit".
commit without testing
commit without testing and any time I would be turning my computer off or leaving, in fear of having to deal with merge conflicts
never used branches (man has this one made my current development fun)
That's all I can think of right now.
... yeah I kind of probably caught the brunt of that.
I couldn't use the nether for 4 weeks on one of my packs because of some dimension world gen problem relating to Professor Flaxbeards dimension ore toying with dimension handling.
Couldn't tell tha FSP was causing the problem as it gave no error message or crash. Non overworld dimensions just vanished after 20 or so seconds.
Luckily it got fixed.
I think may have only just picked up a build that had the bug as there was nothing comeing up in google.
One of the most frustrating experiences I have had with pack troubleshooting. Had to dismantle my pack bit by bit to find the culprit and when I found it was FSP many melons where scratched that day.
Id have preferred a crash.
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how is this masterpiece bad programming
ps i currently sometimes do similar stuff
i mean i'm probably the person with the biggest post number:stupidity ratio on the forums
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I was going to use GOTO in my joke contribution to the thread :\
i once tried to use const in java but it didn't work (it's still registered as a keyword) so i was angry for a few hours about that
The problem was that it depended and expected there to be something in the extraDims config option, and couldn't handle it if it was empty (NumberFornatException)
So the chunks unloaded when it started to gen your ores? Funny thing is it prevented metallurgy and nether ores from generating too. Also world gen was acting odd. There was AE2 metiors in the nether and a lot of ChromatiCraft pylons strewn about. TC4's Outerlands dungeon structure didn't gen at all.
Luckily it's been fixed for a good long while. I think it was around march.
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