So some of you might and some of you might never heard of the mod called Boats and Ships.
For those of you who know the mod, I can completely understand you are sad it is not being maintained anymore even though this mod showed great potentional of a great modder... I don't like it either
For those who o not know the mod however here is a quick summary.
The mod allows you to build ANY kind of ship you want. Any kind? YES! You completely build the boat of your dreams block by block within a specially designated area, marked by Shipyard blocks. These 'modular' ships are compatible with most items and those include mod items. You have an oil spawn all across the ocean? No problem! Build a long, high ship and put some Railcraft or Buildcraft tanks on them. When the ship is docked, quickly construct some of the piping and activate the engines to get the liquid either in or out of the tanks.
What about setting up a base across the ocean or what about making an island? That is not a problem either. If you put a chest (any chest, incl. modded ones) you can put items in it, transport it across the miles of water to happily unload at the second location.
But it doesn't stop there. You have cannons which can shoot and be shot by providing them a redstone signal. You can also power it with RP2 Redstone signals! Lamps and other machines work fine too.
Now if that doesn't do it for you, wait for this. You can use special engines you put on those ships and you can then turn them on to either create an Airship or a Submarine!
So all great and dandy, but the modder is not able to keep his mod updated anymore and is looking for an experience programmer to help him out and take the lead over the mod.
I would do it, but I am a horrible programmer. That bad a programmer that the Turtles from Computercraft laugh at my dumb mistakes...
I wanted to get the word out here, where I think quite some great modders will look and hopefully give this mod a try and restore/port it to the next level.
I have used it only a couple of times in 1.2.5 (had tons of mods installed and I was too stupid to get it to work without overwriting used block ID's etc.). It is a great mod and shows a great deal of potential and I would be very dissappointed if it just dies and falls into the abbyss of the Minecraft forums...
If you know someone who might be a good candidate for helping out or taking charge, or maybe youself are that person, please contact the author of the mod.
You can find the mod here:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic...e-lead-developing-this-mod-see-the-main-post/
Please pass on the word and get this mod known. This mod shows that things some of us thought to be impossible are possible. If we get lucky, we will have another great mod to add to the FTB modpack.
For those of you who know the mod, I can completely understand you are sad it is not being maintained anymore even though this mod showed great potentional of a great modder... I don't like it either
For those who o not know the mod however here is a quick summary.
The mod allows you to build ANY kind of ship you want. Any kind? YES! You completely build the boat of your dreams block by block within a specially designated area, marked by Shipyard blocks. These 'modular' ships are compatible with most items and those include mod items. You have an oil spawn all across the ocean? No problem! Build a long, high ship and put some Railcraft or Buildcraft tanks on them. When the ship is docked, quickly construct some of the piping and activate the engines to get the liquid either in or out of the tanks.
What about setting up a base across the ocean or what about making an island? That is not a problem either. If you put a chest (any chest, incl. modded ones) you can put items in it, transport it across the miles of water to happily unload at the second location.
But it doesn't stop there. You have cannons which can shoot and be shot by providing them a redstone signal. You can also power it with RP2 Redstone signals! Lamps and other machines work fine too.
Now if that doesn't do it for you, wait for this. You can use special engines you put on those ships and you can then turn them on to either create an Airship or a Submarine!
So all great and dandy, but the modder is not able to keep his mod updated anymore and is looking for an experience programmer to help him out and take the lead over the mod.
I would do it, but I am a horrible programmer. That bad a programmer that the Turtles from Computercraft laugh at my dumb mistakes...
I wanted to get the word out here, where I think quite some great modders will look and hopefully give this mod a try and restore/port it to the next level.
I have used it only a couple of times in 1.2.5 (had tons of mods installed and I was too stupid to get it to work without overwriting used block ID's etc.). It is a great mod and shows a great deal of potential and I would be very dissappointed if it just dies and falls into the abbyss of the Minecraft forums...
If you know someone who might be a good candidate for helping out or taking charge, or maybe youself are that person, please contact the author of the mod.
You can find the mod here:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic...e-lead-developing-this-mod-see-the-main-post/
Please pass on the word and get this mod known. This mod shows that things some of us thought to be impossible are possible. If we get lucky, we will have another great mod to add to the FTB modpack.
