Incresing Minecraft's Block Id's

[Matthewacon]

I myself am a modpack maker and my latest modpack SkeloCraft, has over 201 mods. Now the only problem with that is the item and block id issues, and with 201+ mods the amount of blocks go way past limit of 4096. Now i've found a way to optimize the block id's, but it breaks crafting recipes and textures. I am also a mod developer myself but all my attempts to increasing the amount of block id's in the game have currently all failed. If someone could create a mod that could increase the amount of block id's that the game allows, and I had permission to use it in my modpack I would give that person tons of credit.

Also I was wondering, in one of the earlier posts I read that MCForge increased the block limit from 256 to 4096. Does anyone know how they did it?? Because it might help on figuring out how to increase the limit.

 

[Zexks]

I believe in 1.7 they are removing block ID's all together.

 

[immibis]

Mojang increased the block ID limit to 4096 blocks from 256.
Forge fixed the bugs in Mojang's increase.
Here's how you can fix your modpack:

• Find which mod is using a ton of IDs.
• Remove that mod.
• Repeat until under 4096 IDs.

 

[Hambeau]

I believe in 1.7 they are removing block ID's all together.

If I've been reading correctly, numeric block IDs aren't actually going away so much as being shimmed with a human-friendly "interface".

Block references will go from numeric values to text descriptors in the form [MOD]:[BLOCK]. such as "Minecraft:Stone". The numeric IDs will still be there in a lookup table that is dynamically filled as blocks are loaded. While the "Minecraft" portion is optional at this time it should be used so that "Minecraft:Stone" is different from "ModX:Stone".

I think of it this way, probably from years as a Network Admin...

1). The Numeric IDs will soon be akin to a DHCP IP address pool. When a mod loads it's blocks are assigned the next ID in sequence. This allows Mod devs to assign names instead of maybe duplicating a numeric reference.

2). The Text descriptors will operate in a manner akin to DNS, which makes it possible for us to remember a URL instead of the IP address of every website we want to access.

To answer the question, I think the current limit is, as stated above, 4096 blocks. More could be added, but it may be too much of a change to do concurrently with all the other core rewrites happening now.