Using UE API

[biggles2206]

Can anyone point me to tutorials for tutorials on the Universal Electricity API to make some custom Machines?

 

Thanks

- Thomas

[Draco18s]

Honestly, I wouldn't both with UE.

 

An opinion I can agree with, due to having looked at UE and gone "why would I want this?"

 

The modding community for Minecraft is pretty rife with illogical design choices, with Universal Electricity being a prime example. Ostensibly, the whole thing was created as an alternative to having multiple different energy networks: modders were to migrate to UE for their power systems as they did to Forge for general mod handling; it would account for all of a player's technical mod needs.

 

In practice, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what happened. In spite of a modpack that is there just to show off the capabilities of the system, almost no one outside of the team behind it mods for it. Most if not all of their mods come off as impractical, seemingly half-finished proof of concept pieces, or both. What takes the cake, though, is that many of these sub-mods, even those made by the creator, have compatibility with the major existing power systems anyway, completely undermining the point of making an all-new energy infrastructure in the first place!

 

So there's the grain of salt that will come with your mod.

[Mazetar]

I second Draco on that.

 

Now that being said, you should be able to take the UE API, put it into the minecraft project or it's own project and just list that project as a build dependency in your run configurations.

 

in your @Mod you need to set dependency="whatever_UE's_ModID_is"

[biggles2206]

Honestly, I wouldn't both with UE.

 

An opinion I can agree with, due to having looked at UE and gone "why would I want this?"

 

The modding community for Minecraft is pretty rife with illogical design choices, with Universal Electricity being a prime example. Ostensibly, the whole thing was created as an alternative to having multiple different energy networks: modders were to migrate to UE for their power systems as they did to Forge for general mod handling; it would account for all of a player's technical mod needs.

 

In practice, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what happened. In spite of a modpack that is there just to show off the capabilities of the system, almost no one outside of the team behind it mods for it. Most if not all of their mods come off as impractical, seemingly half-finished proof of concept pieces, or both. What takes the cake, though, is that many of these sub-mods, even those made by the creator, have compatibility with the major existing power systems anyway, completely undermining the point of making an all-new energy infrastructure in the first place!

 

So there's the grain of salt that will come with your mod.

 

What API would be recomended for basic machines?

[Draco18s]

IC² or BuildCraft.

I know IC² has an API; BC should have one.

[MineMaarten]

Although BuildCraft's power framework is complicated (many parameters you can fiddle with) in comparison to IC2's, BuildCraft's is more popular.

[biggles2206]

IC² or BuildCraft.

I know IC² has an API; BC should have one.

 

is there any 'recomendable' tutorials?