Differences From Classic

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The current purpose of TNG is not to revise Classic, only to get a working version of the game in 1.12. However, rewriting TFC from scratch presents an opportunity to streamline or modify parts of the old gameplay that don't make sense six years after 1.7 was released. What follows is an incomplete list of these differences.

Stone Age

Food

• Taste system is gone.
• The Food Oz system is gone.
• Decay works very differently. Every piece of food has creation and expiration dates. Combining food in the crafting grid meshes the decay dates, so foods can stack.

Vessels

• Both small and large vessels preserve food.
• See the Forge section for additional uses of small vessels.

Clay

Various plant items that indicate a clay deposit

• Clay dirt now has gravity.
• Clay now has 7 Indicator plants instead of one.

• Plants in order from the above images, Note that each plant has multiple states!
  • Athyrium Fern (spawns in temperate regions, which is where the player initially spawns)
  • Canna Lily
  • Goldenrod
  • Pampas Grass
  • Russian Sage
  • Rose
  • Water Canna

Note: Flowers do not bloom all year, so searching for flowers may be frustrating if its not the summer.

Fire

• Firestarters are now right click and hold until the action succeeds or fails, You don't need to release it.
• Placing items in a Pit Kiln now uses V. You can also now place anything inside of a Pit Kiln, Not just pottery!
• Firepits take 3 sticks, one log, and optionally 1-5 pieces of Tinder (straw, paper, etc.) all in the same block space to light. Tinder increases the chance of the Firestarter working by 10% per piece.

Bronze Age

Metalworking

• Empty ceramic molds hold heat even after the metal is removed, and will cool down at the usual rate. This will prevent them from stacking immediately.

Forge

• Side slots only hold one item each and they must be something that holds liquid and can be heated. Small Vessels and Molds are the only options within base TFC.
• Tool Molds placed in the side slots will be filled if a Metal Tier of I or II tool Metals melt in the Forge.
• Small Vessels will catch melted liquids from the Forge, up to 4000 units per Small Vessel.
• Small Vessels can be heated in the forge, and will Alloy their contents at Brilliant White.
• Anything that can normally be fired in a Pit Kiln can be fired in a forge, by letting it heat up to Brilliant White.
• Metal Armor and Weapons can be melted in the Forge.
• Food can be cooked in the Forge, although it will burn up if left unattended.

Anvil

• Welding is done outside of the GUI now but it still still needs Flux in the Anvil, Use ⇧ Shift + Right Click on the anvil with a Hammer in hand if everything is ready for welding.
• Items can be placed inside of the Anvil with ⇧ Shift + Right Click while holding them.
• Worked Ingots will have their original plan selected when they are placed back into the anvil.
• Rose Gold anvils where removed.

Crucible

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• Input slot on the Crucible only holds one item.
  • To avoid long waits between adding individual Ingots or Ore pieces to the Crucible, either pre-heat them in a forge, or melt them in/into a small vessel.
  • Individual metal items in the input slot will melt at once, while molten metal will drain from containers at the rate of 1 unit every 5 ticks, or an ingot's worth every 25 seconds. Exact amounts can be poured from vessels, but it requires careful attention.
• Crucibles and alloys in general have a tolerance of 0.05%. If a few units of some other metal are added by mistake, alloy recipes may not be completely ruined. Note that as valid alloy fluid is removed, the percentage of the extra metal will increase until it interferes with the alloy. This usually happens only with the last ingot.

3x3 Crafting

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• The 3x3 crafting table is not part of the players inventory GUI anymore. It also can be configured 3 ways, Disabled, Push C to open, Push C while holding a workbench to open.

Quern

• Quern base recipe is 3 smooth Stone above 3 stone of any kind, raw or smoothed.
• Quern handstone recipe is 3 stone of any kind with a stick handle.
• Quern model and output display have been updated.

Chiseling & Micro-Blocks

• Lumber isn't place-able anymore.
• Chisels can be used in-world to smooth stone and carve out stairs or slabs. Hold a Hammer in the offhand for this to work. Press M to change modes.
• In-world chiseling of bits was removed.

Sluices & Panning

• Sluices can be put down into any level of flowing water.
• Sluices are filled by floating sand or gravel into it.
• Sluices when filled, have a 5% chance of producing a nugget and a 5% chance of a gem every 5 seconds.
• Sluices Cannot be filled with a Gold Pan.
• Filled Gold Pans can be used with right click held at a water source block to pan for platinum, silver, gold, or copper nuggets. This is more productive than Classic.

Containers

• Barrels only can hold fluids, trying to move a Barrel with items will result in it being dropped.
• Barrel recipes use the quantity of items in the input slot as the minimum. If the recipe is valid, any excess non-converted fluid will be destroyed.
• A full Barrel of Alcohol requires 20 flour/sugar/apples. Souring that Alcohol into Vinegar requires 40 Fruit.
• Red/Blue steel buckets can be crafted into a vanilla bucket.
• Wooden buckets are crafted like the vanilla iron bucket but use 3 lumber instead. The Classic recipe used 5 lumber.

The Player

• The back slot for barrels, anvils, large vessels, or quivers is gone. More than one anvil, sealed barrel or vessel in your inventory will result in extreme slowness and fatigue.

• Prospecting skill increases only when the Prospector's Pick is clicked on ore blocks at least 192 blocks apart.
• The three smithing skills have been merged into one - however there are still different categories internally, so you do have to smith different types of objects to attain full skill.

• Experience does not affect player health. Nutrition values still do.
• Instead of the food pyramid groups (dairy, vegetable, fruit, protein, and grain), nutrition comes from the actual food content of carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins, and minerals. Milk is a great source of minerals, but they also come from some other items (soybeans, eggs, elderberries). Note: If a non-TFC food item isn't explicitly configured, it will have a nutrition value of 1 carbohydrate.

World Generation

Classic average temperature (blue) vs TNG average temperatures (purple)

Big Picture

• Primordial Forest covers most of the world. Trees may get more or less dense along with other vegetation, but almost all area around spawn will be forested.
• World spawn point is no longer affected by TFC. The vanilla location will be roughly within 250 blocks of x=0, z=0.
• z=0 is now in the temperate zone, so the range of temperature at spawn will include all four seasons.
• By default, the temperature gets warmer in the positive-z (south) direction for 20 k blocks, and then gets colder again, and the reverse for negative-z.

• Temperature can also be affected regionally, by up to ±3 C. This means moving east / west can see temperature changes, although not as drastic as moving north / south.

Environment

• Many more flowers and plants generate in the world, depending on temperature and rainfall. They appear different through the seasons. Tree leaves do not change colors according to the season.

• Many tree models are updated, and may be different sizes than before (e.g. White Cedar). Tree species vary by rainfall and temperature. See this Desmos graph and this Google spreadsheet for details.

• Fruit trees are placed as a sapling and either grow naturally or with bonemeal to the first log.
• Surface nuggets are created from ore bodies at or above 35 blocks below the lowest surface level of the chunk, spreading to a 3x3 chunk radius from that.

Unimplemented / Unused

Since this project is in beta, there are several things which are not yet implemented, and some that won't be returning from Classic. For an accurate and up-to-date to-do list, see github.