Desolate Planet - A Crash Landing Remake

This update is the largest one yet, including a complete overhaul of every quest in the game and with hundreds of other changes for playability, immersion, optimization, and more! However, it is NOT backwards-compatible with 1.4.X versions. There have been significant changes to the world generation, quests, and mod list, that will cause issues if you play a 1.4.X world on 1.5.X, so BACK UP YOUR SAVE FILES.

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Migration Information:

Upon joining a world created before the update, the following changes will be made, permanently altering the game and breaking most automation from pre-1.5.X. If you want to play with an old world on the new version, BACK UP YOUR WORLD. This is very important!

• All Pipez Pipes and XNet cables will be removed
• All concrete slabs and stairs (used on part of the previous ship design) will be removed. If it is night, this will likely result in mobs being able to get into the ship!
• All chests in visited cities will be removed, newly generated cities will be unaffected
• All zombie jerky, spider eye soup, string armor, and wood armor will be removed, but new versions can still be crafted
• All slab machines will be removed
• All Farmer’s Delight and Thermal Cultivation foods and crops will be removed
• All Item Collectors, Magnets, and Trash cans will be removed

Quest Changes:

Every single quest in the game has been rewritten with consistent styling and they have all been restructured to focus on smooth progression and aesthetics. I tried to strike a balance between not forcing the player to do things in a certain way but still but guiding their progression, as well as avoiding hand-holding too much, but still providing detailed descriptions for new players. There are too many changes to cover here, but an abbreviated recap of the major changes can be found below.

• Introduction:
  • Replaced description text with a in-world description of your situation, from the perspective of your Multipurpose Assistance Terminal.
  • Redesigned quest book (see visual changes below)
  • Added brief descriptions for each quest line
  • Most quest lines now use “Reversed Triggers” for the quests, meaning new quests appear as you play instead of being visible from the start
• Basic Survival:
  • Reorganized entire quest line to progress from left to right and with more aesthetics and less crossing over itself
  • This is arguably the most significant quest line so the following is a detailed breakdown of the changes:
    • Added quests (14):
      • Tinker’s Tools (make a part builder and tinker station)
      • Live to Fight Another Day (make a tinkers sword)
      • Breaking New Ground (make a tinkers mattock)
      • By Hook or By Crook (make a crook)
      • String Theory (acquire silkworms and string)
      • Hammer Time (make a hammer)
      • Bottom of the Barrel (making dirt in a barrel)
      • Fine-Toothed Comb (making an upgraded mesh)
      • Cut and Paste (make paste, an early game slimeball substitute)
      • Sticky Situation (make green/blue slimeballs)
      • 1-Up (shell constructor quest) was moved here from Creating Life
      • Life Insurance (shell storage quest) was added now that shell storage is not essential for syncing
      • Letting it Breath (make string armor for cooling), adapted from the important notes list
      • Power Struggle (make a pitiful generator)
    • Removed quests (16, mostly moved to other branches):
      • All starting informational quests have been folded into other quests
      • Ice Ice Baby (collecting water bottles for snowman)
      • Killing Time (collecting mob parts for a bazooka)
      • Tools of the Trade (split into separate quests for Hammer, Crook, Mattock, and Sword)
      • Power Underwhelming (building a ender generator) is replaced with building a pitiful generator
      • The first half of Blending it Up (making a mill stone, hand crank, and cogs from create) is moved to the Like Clockwork quest chain and split into three quests (Getting a Handle on Things, Gearing Up, and The Daily Grind)
      • The second half of Blending it Up (making invar, electrum, and steel dust and a metallurgic infuser) is moved to Technological Revolution and split into two quests (Stirring Up Trouble and Fuse Box)
      • Desperate Times… (making zombie jerky) is moved to Culinary “Delights”
      • Cooking Utensils (making cooking utensils) is moved to Culinary “Delights” and renamed to Stirring Things Up
      • Stocking Eyes (making spider eye soup) is moved to Culinary “Delights” and renamed to Bugging Out
      • Even more desperate (making cooked silkworms) is removed in favor of other food sources in Culinary “Delights”
      • End of an Era (gaining plastic/PCB) quest is now handled in Under Pressure
      • Smoovin Things Around (making pipes) is moved to Technological Revolution and renamed to Pipe Dreams
      • Oil From the Deep Dust (refining oil) is moved to Under Pressure and renamed to Burning the Midnight Oil
• Culinary “Delights” (new!):
  • New quest chain for food-related quests and featuring custom foods!
  • Includes three short “routes” and 10 quests total
    • Two quests to build Pam’s Harvestcraft cooking tools
    • Four quests guiding the player towards eating monster-based foods (zombie jerky, monster mash, etc.)
    • Four quests guiding the player towards setting up a farm and recommending the most practical early-game food sources
• Like Clockwork (new!):
  • New quest chain for the Create mod! Thanks to IcebergLettuce on discord for writing most of the description text.
  • Includes 5 sections for the different tiers of the mod; andesite (11 quests), iron (7 quests), copper (3 quests), gold (3 quests), and brass (7 quests).
  • There is a choice at the beginning to take an abbreviated route (6 quests) that only requires the essential parts of the mod, all in andesite tier. (Intended for people who don’t like Create or don’t need a guide)
• Under Pressure:
  • Pneumaticcraft quest chain, which went from 13 to 16 quests
  • There are more dedicated quests to guide the player towards building their first PCB
• Salvage Operation:
  • Quest chain for salvaging items from the world, which went from 5 to 15 quests.
  • Dedicated sections for AE2, Bigger Reactors, and Tinkers Construct
• Technological Revolution:
  • Quest chain for machines, mostly from Thermal and Industrial Foregoing, which went from 12 to 27 quests
  • Tree starts with quests to create a machine frame, now used in recipes for all tech mods
  • Left half of the tree is dedicated to Thermal
  • Right half of the tree is dedicated to Industrial Foregoing
• To Infinity and Beyond (new!):
  • Unfinished quest chain that will eventually be fleshed out into an Ad Astra guide, eventually leading to the player escaping the planet
  • For now there is a single WIP quest that informs the player of the current status
• Creating Life (removed):
  • Sync quest was moved to Basic Survival
  • All spawn egg quests were turned into crafting recipes in the Dissolution Chamber
  • All equipment quests were turned into normal shaped crafting recipes

Added Mods:

• EnderIO, with modified functionality:
  • Removed most EnderIO items (removed their recipes and hid them in JEI)
  • All alloy smelter, sag mill, slice n' splice, and soul binder recipes have been removed
  • All EnderIO alloys in recipes have been replaced with Thermal analogs to allow items to be craftable
  • Added some custom recipes to fix remaining conflicts and some uncraftable items
  • View the full list of remaining items in #db6e405
• Added NFM for more Mr. Crayfish-style furniture with a modern theme
• Added Crayfish’s Refurbished Furniture mod for the modern version of CFM
  • Changed furniture in generated structures to use the Refurbished versions
  • All Refurbished Furniture blocks do not dispense free water
  • The television, recycling bin, and all freezing recipes are removed
• Added KubeJS Industrial Foregoing Addon
• Added WorldEdit for development

Removed Mods:

• Removed Pipez, using EnderIO conduits instead (WARNING: All pipes in the entire world will be removed upon joining! This will break most pre-1.5.X automation! Change your pipes to Mekanism ones if you want your automation to continue working!)
• Removed Lootr, there is no need for unique multiplayer loot (WARNING: All chests in loaded cities will be removed upon joining! Cities that you have gone near but not fully explored will no longer have chest loot! Newly generated cities are unaffected.)
• Removed ExtraFoodItems (WARNING: All existing zombie jerky, spider eye soup, string armor, and wood armor will be removed. New string armor, zombie jerky, and spider eye soup [now called bug broth] can be crafted, but existing ones will be removed.)
• Removed SlabMachines (WARNING: All slab machines will be deleted upon joining! Use the vanilla furnace and vanilla or Tinkers crafting table to avoid losing those blocks and and items contained in them!)
• Removed Farmer’s Delight (WARNING: All farmer’s delight foods will be removed upon joining! Make sure you have another food source!)
• Removed Thermal Cultivation (WARNING: All thermal cultivation foods will be removed upon joining! Make sure you have another food source!)
• Removed MekanismGenerators (WARNING: All Mekanism power generation methods will be removed upon joining! Make sure you have another power source available!)
• Removed MoreConcrete (WARNING: All concrete slabs and stairs on the ship will be removed upon joining! This will break parts of pre-1.5.X ship designs!)
• Removed XNet and connected mods (WARNING: All XNet transfer methods will be removed upon joining! Switch to Mekanism pipes before migrating to keep your automations intact!)
• Removed ItemCollectors (WARNING: All item collectors will be removed upon joining! Switch to other mod alternatives.)
• Removed SimpleMagnets (WARNING: All magnets will be removed upon joining! Switch to the Thermal Fluxomagnet or magnetic Tinkers tools instead)
• Removed TrashCans, (WARNING: All trash cans will be removed upon joining! Use the Nullifier from Thermal Expansion if you want automatic trash disposal to continue working.)
• Removed VariableMobHeight

World Changes:

• Increased world depth (example photo), adding more layers underground up to -64. The layers are as follows:
  • Dust until y=1
  • Dust to Sand transition for 3 blocks
  • Sand for 12 blocks
  • Sand to Gravel transition for 3 blocks
  • Gravel for 12 blocks
  • Gravel to Crushed Deepslate transition for 3 blocks
  • Crushed Deepslate for 12 blocks
  • Crushed Deepslate to Obsidian transition for 2 blocks
  • Obsidian for 1 block
  • Obsidian to Crude Oil transition for 10 blocks
  • Crude Oil for 2 blocks
  • Crude Oil to Bedrock transition for 3 blocks
  • Bedrock for 1 block
• Reworked Ship design:
  • Increased width of the ship by 1 block and length by 4 blocks
  • Added an energy cube in the back of the ship
  • Replaced one starting with a small cabinet containing starting items
    • Removed water in starting chests (now in canteens in early quest).
    • Removed starting food from starting chests (now given in easy/hard mode quests, with different food depending on the choice. This change also provides a more reasonable early food supply for multiplayer).
    • Removed lever from starting chests (no longer needed with changes to Sync).
    • Removed chunk loaders from starting chests (no longer needed with changes to Sync).
    • Removed "IMPORTANT" book, disclaimer about sync shells has been integrated into the sync quest, and many of the related bugs have been fixed.
  • Replaced the other starting chest with a bookshelf containing the starting guidebooks
  • Replaced white concrete with light plasteel (see custom items section below)
  • Replaced gray concrete with dark plasteel (see custom items section below)
  • Replaced steel doors with copycat sliding doors with ostrum door blocks (see custom items section below)
  • Replaced edge lights with simple light bulbs (with a few illuminant fixtures on the ship exterior)
  • Replaced tinted glass with tinted clear glass (Tinkers Construct) for connected textures when not using shaders
  • Replaced concrete and framed slabs with copycat slabs
  • Moved starting thermal machines to the same side
  • Patched some holes on the side of the ship that spiders often got stuck on
  • Added a chair at the helm
  • Added a glowing ostrum pillar to the back thruster
  • Allowed terrain to slightly encroach on ship boarders
  • Removed outdated ship structures under the Minecraft namespace
• Added Power Plant structure (Gallery here)
  • The structure consists of multiple modular parts
    • The reactor building, which includes the reactor and some storage rooms
    • The turbine building, which includes the turbine and some offices
    • The loading dock, which has a random assortment of trucks and boxes
    • The cooling tower, which includes components for water distribution
  • Many features of the structure are randomized and the modularity and randomized elements will increase in future versions.
  • The parking lot displayed in the photos does not currently spawn, that will be added to the in-game structure later.
• Re-enabled AE2 Meteorites
  • AE2 Meteorites are enabled again, but with a lower spawn rate
  • They will be partially replaced in a future update when the AE2 structure is complete

Recipe Changes:

• Reworked Ad Astra recipes:
  • Removed recipe disable script to allow Ad Astra recipes to be craftable by default
  • Modified many existing Ad Astra recipes to use Thermal Components, see the full list in #df917c6
  • Removed recipes for 5 redundant machines, see the full list in #df917c6
  • Removed all Ad Astra compressing recipes, Thermal or Create should be used instead
• Added spawn egg crafting recipes using the dissolution chamber, to allow for removal of the spawn egg quests
• Made refinery recipe easier (this means oil can be refined and plastic can be made without visiting the cities because it no longer requires a PCB)
• Sieve recipe tweaks:
  • Increased stone pebble drop chances from dust
  • Increased gold drop chances and allowed gold on earlier tiers
  • Decreased uranium drop chances and removed uranium from earlier tiers
  • Added wheat seeds and cotton seeds to dirt sieving rewards
• Slightly increased complexity of Thermal’s Magma Crucible and Phytogenic Insolator recipes
• Modified cable facade recipe to use EnderIO conduit binder
• Replaced Industrial Foregoing’s latex with molten plastic for all liquid recipes
• Removed Industrial Foregoing simple machine frame from the frame unification script, it is a distinct type again
• Simplified and unified Create Mechanical Extruder and Thermal Igneous Extruder recipes
• Added netherrack to Create Mechanical Extruder and Thermal Igneous Extruder recipes
• Removed shapeless recipes for Thermal’s hardened glass, meaning the require an induction smelter now
• Changed recipe of AE2 controller to work with any smooth sky stone type
• Added recipes for cinder flour using Mekanism and Thermal machines
• Removed duplicate gear/cog recipes, Thermal recipe will be the standard
• Removed netherite boots as they were the only netherite armor piece that was allowed for some reason
• Changed recipes for “beans and rice” and “veggie stir fry” to be simpler
• Added simplified recipes for andesite and granite, they no longer require crafting diorite first
• Reduced flour output from wheat in a pressure chamber
• Added recipe to craft a jeweled apple into a relic apple
• Fixed powdered snow bucket recipe
• Unified wither bones in recipes
• Fixed a number of invalid tags in recipes that were causing errors

Custom Items:

• Added Paste, an early-game substitute for slimeballs
  • Removed existing recipes for dough and replaced them with new ones to allow paste crafting as well
    • Dough is made from 2 flour and 1 unit of water
    • Paste is made from 1 flour and 2 units of water
    • Dough can still be made from splashing water onto flour using a fan
    • Both items can be crafted by mixing
  • Added dough unification across different mods
  • Certain recipes have had the slimeball tag replaced with the adhesive tag, which includes paste as well as slimeballs
    • PneumaticCraft capacitors
    • Vanilla sticky pistons
    • Tinkers Construct alternate book recipe
    • Create stickers and sticky mechanical pistons
    • Create Additions connectors
  • Added water and purified water buckets to the forge:water tag
• Added custom food items to support removing Extra Food Items, and some additional items for a more interesting early game
  • Nutrient Brick (replaces the starting food when taking the Hard Route)
  • Zombie Jerky (replaces Extra Food Items’ Zombie Jerky)
  • Monster Mash (new!)
  • Bug Broth (replaces Extra Food Items’ Spider Eye Soup)
  • Enderios (replaces EnderIO’s Enderios)
• Added a KubeJS version of the String armor set, should be identical but provides slightly less protection
• Added custom Plasteel blocks
  • Light Plasteel is made from iron dust and liquid plastic in a Thermopneumatic Processing Plant
  • Dark Plasteel is made from steel dust and liquid plastic in a Thermopneumatic Processing Plant
  • Most NFM furniture uses Light Plasteel as the base texture and is crafted using Light Plasteel instead of white concrete
  • Dark Plasteel is used as an alternate ingredient for Sync recipes
• Added custom Ostrum Door blocks
  • These are used for the custom door design in the ship

Visual Changes:

• Redesigned Quest Book with a sci-fi aesthetic
  • Quest Book item texture is now a blue tablet
  • Quest Book GUI is now a sci-fi blue screen with a hex overlay instead of a book
  • Quest Book is now called “Multipurpose Assistance Terminal”
• Retextured Steel to use Ad Astra’s color scheme for consistency

Background Structure Changes:

• Restructured and optimized mass recipe removal script
• Fully removed already disabled files for removed scripts

Other Misc Changes:

• Reduced size of the backpacks from Sophisticated Backpacks. This will not affect old save files.
• Reduced compression dynamo RF production from refined oils
• Increased sapling drop chance when breaking leaves or leaf piles with a crook
• Decreased idle hunger loss (from 0.005 per tick to 0.001 per tick)
• Slightly decreased values of more modded foods
• Increased food values of “beans and rice” and “veggie stir fry”
• Changed the tank sizes of Industrial Foregoing machines for consistency and to allow more liquids in dissolution chamber inputs
• Removed legacy items including porcelain purified water buckets and coagulated blood. These were not fully implemented and were not functional.
• Sync changes:
  • Updated Sync to 5.1 to fix a crash with multiple pages of available sync shells (above 8)
  • Reduced shell constructor energy cost
  • Shell constructors now warn you if using them will kill you
• Slightly buffed bronze material stats and nerfed steel material stats for Tinkers Construct tools
• Disabled rusting of iron blocks and bars