Silent's Mechanisms

Silent's Mechanisms

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Silent's Mechanisms

A simple technology mod for Minecraft 1.14+. This mod is not intended to be especially complex right now, that may or may not change in the future.

All machines run on Forge Energy (FE) and have proper recipe systems. Recipes can be added with data packs. See the wiki for details on creating recipes.

Downloads/Links

Download the mod only on CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/silents-mechanisms

Blocks

  • Alloy Smelter - A machine that takes up to four inputs and outputs one item. Recipes can be added with data packs.
  • Battery Box - Stores Forge Energy (FE). Capacity increases when extra batteries are installed. The charged batteries can be removed and used elsewhere.
  • Coal Generator - Creates Forge Energy (FE) from furnace fuels.
  • Compressor - A machine that has one input and one output. Can consume more than one of the input item per recipes. Recipes can be added with data packs.
  • Crusher - A machine that has one input and can produce up to four outputs. Outputs can have a probability assigned. The mod includes recipes for doubling common ores. Recipes can be added with data packs.
  • Electric Furnace - A machine that works with both blasting and smelting (regular furnace) recipes. Blasting recipes are given priority.
  • Wires - Used to transfer energy (currently not working properly...)

Making an Add-on

To use Silent's Mechanisms in your project, you need to add dependencies for Silent's Mechanisms, Silent Lib, and silent-utils. Add the following to your build.gradle.

You alse need to generate a GitHub token and add it along with your GitHub username to your personal gradle.properties file in C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\.gradle or ~/.gradle/gradle.properties. This file may not exist, and you would have to create it yourself.

GitHub tokens can be generated here. Click Generate New Token and click the checkmark for read:packages

Example of gradle.properties file in C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\.gradle or ~/.gradle/gradle.properties

//Your GitHub username
gpr.username=SilentChaos512

// Your GitHub generated token (bunch of hex digits) with read permission
gpr.token=paste_your_token_here

Code to add to build.gradle. Note that "silentlib" is not hyphenated. I was following a different naming convention when the repo was created.

I prefer to assign my authentication details to a variable to reduce duplication and make the build file look cleaner.

// Authentication details for GitHub packages
// This can also go in the `repositories` block or you can inline it if you prefer
def gpr_creds = {
    username = property('gpr.username')
    password = property('gpr.token')
}

Add all the necessary repositories...

repositories {
    maven {
        url = uri("https://maven.pkg.github.com/silentchaos512/silents-mechanisms")
        credentials gpr_creds
    }
    maven {
        url = uri("https://maven.pkg.github.com/silentchaos512/silentlib")
        credentials gpr_creds
    }
    maven {
        url = uri("https://maven.pkg.github.com/silentchaos512/silent-utils")
        credentials gpr_creds
    }
}

And finally, add dependencies for Silent's Mechanisms and Silent Lib (which will include silent-utils for you).

dependencies {
    // Replace VERSION with the version you need, in the form of "MC_VERSION-MOD_VERSION"
    // Example: compile fg.deobf("net.silentchaos512:silents-mechanisms:1.16.3-1.+")
    // Available builds can be found here: https://github.com/SilentChaos512/silents-mechanisms/packages
    // The "exclude module" lines will prevent import errors in some cases
    compile fg.deobf("net.silentchaos512:silents-mechanisms:VERSION") {
        exclude module: 'forge'
        exclude module: 'jei-1.16.5'
        exclude module: 'silent-lib-1.16.3'
    }

    // Same as before, VERSION is in the form "MC_VERSION-MOD_VERSION" (eg, 1.16.3-4.+)
    // https://github.com/SilentChaos512/silentlib/packages
    compile fg.deobf("net.silentchaos512:silent-lib:VERSION") {
        exclude module: "forge"
    }
}