Planar Exodus 2 Version 1.7.6

Planar Exodus 2 version 1.6 -- The update that spiraled out of control.

Enjoy your force fields, simpler quarries and transmutation. It took a lot to bring all this to you!

====== Mod Additions + Removals ======

(+) Added Buildcraft. A classic, a legend. Somehow missing from Plex 2.
(+) Added ProjectE. What's that rumbling in the distance? A Destruction Catalyst.
(+) Added Modular Force Field Systems (MFFS). This is a crazy unstable 1.7.10 build but surely it's better than Calclavia, right?
(+) Added Thaumcraft Inventory Scanning. Only three years too late.
(+) Added Thaumcraft NEI Plugin. Forgot the details of your favorite infusion? No big deal.
(+) Added ComputerCraft 1.75.
(+) Added FOV Control. Because moving fast shouldn't make you nauseous.
(-) Removed Antique Atlas. Nobody ever made one of these, and it stores a lot of unnecessary data.
(-) Removed OpenComputers. After a terrible lag incident, the community chose to switch back to ComputerCraft.
(*) Apple Core updated from 1.3.9 to 3.1.1.
(*) Biomes O' Plenty updated from 2.1.0.2027 to 2.1.0.2308.
(*) OpenModularTurrets updated from 2.2.11-238 to 2.2.11-245.
(*) Thaumic Energistics updated from 1.0.0.5 to 1.1.3.0.
(-) Removed the MultiMine configuration file from Plex. That mod was removed in Plex 2 v1.0.

====== Exploits ======

(!) Resolved a duplication exploit involving AE2 and the Extra Utilities Ender Collector.
https://bitbucket.org/serakoscoding/plextweaks/issues/9/extra-utilities-ae2-mass-duplication
(!) Resolved a duplication exploit involving the Blood Magic Sigil of Magnetism.
https://bitbucket.org/serakoscoding/plextweaks/issues/13/blood-magic-sigil-of-magnetism-item
(!) Resolved a duplication exploit involving the Portable Hole focus and BiblioCraft.
https://bitbucket.org/serakoscoding/plextweaks/issues/14/thaumcraft-bibliocraft-crafting
(!) Resolved a duplication exploit involving the BiblioCraft Fancy Workbench.
https://bitbucket.org/serakoscoding/plextweaks/issues/18/bibliocraft-fancy-workbench-dupe
(!) Resolved an abusable TileEntity NBT corruption exploit involving Drawbridges.
https://bitbucket.org/serakoscoding/plextweaks/issues/17/tinkers-mechworks-drawbridge-entity

====== Planar Suite ======

(!) Butterflies won't cause crashes. Code was added to prevent them (and other things) from crashing the game.
(!) Despite the above fix, butterflies have been completely removed from Planar Exodus 2. Can't be too sure.

(+) The Axiom framework now supports runtime configuration editing via Forge's in-game GUI! Nothing uses this yet.
(+) Theia features a new boss that can be found wandering the forests.
(+) Theia now adds a line to F3 that shows the current biome's biome types.
(+) PlexTweaks now shows all Ore Dictionary names for an item while you hold Shift. This functionality was copied from OpenComputers, which is open source.
(+) Seasons work server-side now. This will fix oceans being frozen year round.
(*) Ereb's cave digging algorithm now checks block material type instead of block ID, meaning it can dig through dirts and stones added by mods.
(-) Removed PlexTweaks "CustomBeds", which were the very glitchy "cryo pods". Their creator asked for their removal.
(+) Added the CustomFood module, which allows users to change the food values of every food in the game, or make them apply potion effects!
(+) PlexTweaks can now remove furnace recipes.
(+) Planar Armory adds Pulverized Steel -- why did nobody else do this?
(-) Silenced over 40,000 lines of useless log output from ServerTools Permissions. Faster startup!
(+) Added Radios. They can play MP3, OGG and WAV audio files from URL links!
(+) Krios now features a fancy atmosphere shader. It's disabled by default but can be enabled in the config file.
(*) Ender Pearls, Eggs and Snowballs now stack to 64.

====== Blood Magic ======

(!) Significantly adjusted demon invasion behavior. They can't spread anywhere near as far, but can now tunnel through walls and build bridges over open air. They also spread far faster.
(-) Disabled a minor, but severely annoying chat message related to hunger.
(-) Disabled the Blood Magic Ritual of Magnetism and the corresponding Sigil of Magnetism.
(-) Disabled the Blood Magic Teleposer.
(-) Removed recipes for the unused Incense Crucible and associated incense items.
(-) Removed the recipe for the Key of Binding (the item is unfinished).

====== Buildcraft ======

(-) Disabled most Buildcraft features. If there's something important missing, be sure to mention it to the devs.
(-) Disabled Buildcraft's version checker.
(*) Buildcraft blueprints moved inside the "config/buildcraft" folder.
(*) Significantly altered Buildcraft machine recipes. Notably, Tanks are more expensive.
(*) Stone and Diamond Gears are now made of purely stone and diamond respectively.
(-) Disabled all other Buildcraft gears.
(+) Enabled Buildcraft Oil and Fuel being used in the Thermal Expansion Compression Dynamo.
(+) Enabled Buildcraft integration with Applied Energistics 2.
(+) Enabled Buildcraft integration with Extra Cells 2.
(+) Enabled Buildcraft integration with Forestry.
(+) Enabled Buildcraft integration with Voltz Engine.

====== ComputerCraft + OpenComputers ======

(-) Disabled OpenPeripherals + Mystcraft integration. Good. Yes.
(+) Enabled OpenPeripherals + ComputerCraft integration.
(*) Set Applied Energistics 2 + OpenComputers integration to "auto". OpenPeripherals should cover this.
(+) Enabled ExtraCells + OpenComputers integration.
(+) Enabled Project Red + ComputerCraft integration.

(*) Redid all ComputerCraft recipes.
(+) Slightly increased floppy disk and hard disk space.
(-) Disabled ComputerCraft HTTP API. Sorry, but it's a security hole.
(*) Wireless Modems have shorter range at higher altitude, but are now immune to storms.
(-) Turtles now carry much less fuel.

====== Ender IO ======

(-) Ender IO conduits will never output MJ. This prevents conflicts now that Buildcraft is present.
(*) Machine Chassis now requires steel.
(*) Basic Gears are now made of steel and count as "gearSteel" in the Ore Dictionary.
(*) Standardized the recipes for Ender Pearl Dust and changing the dust back into an Ender Pearl.
(+) Permanently turned on durability tooltips for relevant items with durability. Normally you would need to press F3+H to see these tooltips.

(!) Rebalanced Flint and Dark Steel Balls in the SAG Mill and added over a dozen new grinding ball options.
(*) Flint provides a slight power cost reduction instead of boosting output.
(*) Dark Steel Balls' output bonuses are smaller, though still far higher than anything else.
(*) Dark Steel Balls now INCREASE power usage by 50%, but last 8x longer to compensate.

Stats of all SAG Mill grinding balls after balancing:
(*) Ball: Primary Output / Secondary Output / Power Cost / RF Durability
(*) Flint: +0% / +0% / -10% / 24,000
(*) Dark Steel Ball: +25% / +50% / +50% / 800,000
(*) Diamond: +0% / +25% / -25% / 2,000,000
(*) Ruby, Sapphire, Peridot: +0% / +25% / -25% / 500,000
(*) Obsidian Nugget: +10% / +10% / -15% / 9,600
(*) Iron Nugget: +10% / +10% / +0% / 12,000
(*) Bronze Nugget: +10% / +10% / +0% / 15,000
(*) Invar Nugget: +10% / +10% / +0% / 18,000
(*) Steel Nugget: +10% / +10% / +0% / 20,000
(*) Alumite Nugget: +12% / +12% / +0% / 24,000
(*) Cobalt Nugget: +12% / +15% / +0% / 40,000
(*) Ardite Nugget: +15% / +12% / +0% / 36,000
(*) Manyullyn Nugget: +12% / +12% / +0% / 60,000
(*) Fluxed Electrum Nugget: +10% / +10% / -50% / 50,000
(*) Semi-stable Nugget: +25% / +25% / +0% / 1,000,000
(*) Thaumium Nugget: +20% / +20% / -20% / 24,000
(*) Void Metal Nugget: +20% / +20% / -20% / 64,000
(*) Ichorium Nugget: +25% / +25% / -25% / 1,600,000
(*) Steeleaf: +15% / +20% / -20% / 60,000
(*) Armor Shard (Twilight Forest): +10% / +10% / +0% / 24,000

====== Extra Utilities ======

(+) Crafting an Unstable Ingot from Semi-stable Nuggets now nets you a Mobius Ingot.
(+) Re-enabled Bedrockium. This includes the ingot, the block, Bedrockium Drums, and the Hyper Energy Transfer Node. It cannot be used as a TCon material.
(*) Changed the recipe for Bedrockium Ingots.
(-) Bedrockium Blocks can no longer be smelted from Octuple Compressed Cobblestone. They're still craftable from the ingots.
(+) Enabled the Super Watering Can and added a recipe for it.

====== ProjectE ======

(!) Disabled the Lazy EMC Mapper, which provides all basic EMC values akin to those in EE2. We're doing it live!
(!) Manually added EMC values for thousands of items. EMC is pregenerated, which speeds up loading times.

(*) Overhauled almost every single ProjectE recipe.
(*) Dark Matter and the AE2 Singularity can be freely exchanged via shapeless crafting.
(*) Dark Matter items and a few other things are accessible without the Philosopher's Stone.

(-) Disabled Philosopher's Stone smelting. This bloats NEI and isn't really all that useful.
(-) Disabled Philosopher's Stone in-world transmutation. This will be brought back at a later date.
(-) Disabled the Ring of Arcana's ability to craft grass from dirt and ice from water.
(-) Disabled the Zero Ring's ability to craft ice from water.
(-) Disabled the Watch of Flowing Time's ability to actually change the time of day. This would break Theia.
(-) Drastically decreased the "tick speedup" effect of the Watch. Please report any weird behavior immediately.
(-) Drastically decreased the damage of the Red Katar's area of effect attack.
(*) The Red Matter Gem Chestplate can only explode ten times per second instead of theoretically infinite.
(*) All items that fire projectiles can only be fired once per tick.
(*) Adjusted the timing on almost all automatic Pedestal functions to reduce server lag.

====== Project Red + MFFS ======

(*) Renamed Project Red "Red Iron Compound" to "Raw Red Alloy".
(*) Renamed Project Red "Electrotine Iron Compound" to "Raw Electrotine Alloy".
(*) Renamed Project Red "Silicon" to "Fine Silicon".
(*) Completely redid recipes for Project Red crafting components and MFFS.
(*) Significantly rebalanced MFFS. Force fields are more expensive power-wise, but are easier to set up because you will need less machines.

====== Railcraft ======

(-) Explicitly disabled IC2 compatibility carts (BatBox, CESU, MFE, MFSU).
(*) Fixed a typo that caused Personal Anchors to be uncraftable.
(*) Adjusted recipes for the Hobbyist's Steam Engine and Industrial Steam Engine.
(-) Disabled Railcraft's "seasonal" module.
(-) Disabled Railcraft's Saltpeter recipe for Forestry Fertilizer. You'll need to use Apatite now.
(-) Disabled all Railcraft gears for being extraneous.

====== Thaumcraft + Related ======

(!) Research difficulty is now set to EASY instead of NORMAL. Every research can now be bought with research points.
(-) Runic shielding now recharges much more slowly.
(-) Runic shielding takes slightly longer before it begins recharging.
(+) Made Thaumcraft biomes more common (as recommended by the config comments) because Biomes O' Plenty is installed.
(-) Disabled the Thaumic Tinkerer "Bedrock Dimension", not to be confused with Extra Utilities' Deep Dark.
(-) The Portable Hole focus can no longer tunnel through BiblioCraft Armor Stands.

====== Xeno's Reliquary ======

(*) Reliquary's Interdiction Torch and ProjectE's Interdiction Torch can be swapped freely.
(*) Removed the recipe for Reliquary's Interdiction Torch. You can craft ProjectE's instead.
(-) Disabled Reliquary's Destruction Catalyst. Use the real one!
(-) Disabled Reliquary's Rending Gale. Use the real one!
(-) Explicitly disabled the Tome of Alkahest. Finally.
(-) Disabled the Altar of Light. ProjectE's Glowstone Collectors are where it's at.
(-) Disabled the Apothecary's Cauldron and Apothecary's Mortar. These are completely undocumented.
(-) Disabled Condensed Potions and Potion Essence, presumably made with the above Apothecary items.
(+) The Hero's Medallion can now absorb near infinite amounts of experience. Specifically, 2,000 levels.
(+) The Twilight Cloak now provides invisibility unless you are in almost direct sunlight.
(-) Nerfed the food value of Glowing Bread.

====== Version Checkers ======

(-) Disabled Applied Energistics 2's version checker.
(-) Disabled Chicken Chunks' version checker.
(-) Disabled Ender Storage's version checker.
(-) Disabled MrTJPCore's version checker.
(-) Reduced the potency of iChunUtil's version checker. For some reason you can't turn this one off.
(-) Disabled Project Red's version checker.

====== Cross-Mod Integration ======

(-) Disabled Thermal Foundation + EE3 integration. Whoops.
(-) Disabled Thermal Expansion + EE3 integration. Uhhh... yeah.
(-) Disabled Forbidden Magic + EE3 integration. I got nothing.
(-) Disabled Forestry + Magical Crops integration. We've never had Magical Crops. How did I not catch this one?
(-) Disabled Forbidden Magic + Botania integration. I count myself lucky at this point.
(-) Disabled Florbs for Mystcraft Black Ink. A little late, but it didn't cause any crashes!

====== Miscellaneous ======

(-) Stopped Minecraft from making minecart sounds for 30 seconds after you log in. This prevents your ears from being blasted apart by the sound of a thousand minecarts rolling directly into your skull.
(*) Twilight Forest Cicadas are now precisely 15 decibels quieter.

(*) The Applied Energistics 2 Singularity now requires you to condense 309,924 items instead of 256,000.
(-) Disabled CoFHCore's Christmas and April Fools behavior.
(+) You can now create Silicon from Sand in the Thermal Expansion Pulverizer.
(+) You can now place any Flux Capacitor on any TCon tool without any restrictions.
(*) Slightly changed some MFR cable rendering behavior.
(-) Reduced the MFR horizontal tree search range from 512 (absurd) to 32 (reasonable).
(+) Added all MFR RedNet components to the Archimedes Ships blacklist.
(+) Enabled OpenBlocks' "debug graves" option. This should help resolve weird gravestone issues.
(+) OpenBlocks Elevators now center you on them when you use them, preventing accidental momentary suffocation.
(*) Chicken Chunks is now much more aggressive with trying to clean up orphaned chunks.
(*) Reduced the amount of network packets sent by AppleCore's upgraded hunger bar.
(*) The amount of bytes required to store a new type of item in larger ME drives has been reduced to match 1K drives.
(+) Added all forms of Fabric of Reality to the Archimedes Ships blacklist.
(*) Fast rendering is no longer forced on BiblioCraft Potion Shelves and Fancy Signs.
(-) Disabled the BiblioCraft Fancy Workbench and disabled crafting with Recipe Books.
(*) Slightly changed some Big Reactors recipes.
(*) Set Biomes O' Plenty to "behave normally during special events". Probably more Christmas lag.
(-) Removed the level limit from anvils. Technically it's 2,000 levels now instead of 40.
(+) Right clicking HarvestCraft fruits hanging from trees now shows hearts if they are fully grown, like crops.
(-) You can't make minecarts out of bronze or steel anymore. This prevents Smeltery metal conversion.
(-) Disabled Carpenter's Block ownership. This does not affect the Carpenter's Safe.
(+) Re-enabled Forestry villagers.
(-) Reduced the durability of iron and obsidian chisels.
(-) Slightly reduced the health of Hellfish.
(+) TCon Netherrack Brick and Fancy Netherrack Brick now cook into the vanilla Nether Brick item, just like vanilla Netherrack does. That is, the brick that crafts the vanilla Nether Bricks block. This is probably the most confusing changelog entry ever.
(*) Finally changed the recipe for Green Hearts to not require Ichor. Finally...
(+) Added recipes for Moss Stone and Mossy Stone Bricks using vines. Vanilla added these in 1.8.
(+) Added a recipe for the Dragon Egg. While useless, at least it's renewable now!
(+) Saddles are now craftable.
(*) Fixed a minor mistake with the Tinker's Construct "crafting slab" recipe that resulted in infinite crafting tables. Nobody abused this!
(-) Disabled the OpenBlocks Sleeping Bag because it could trap players in crash loops.
(*) Adjusted the recipe for the PortalGun Miniature Black Hole.
(+) The Portal Gun is a bit easier to make now.
(*) Minorly adjusted the way Biomes O' Plenty Bamboo is used in crafting.
(*) Energized Glowstone fluid source blocks no longer float upwards.
(+) Changed or added over a dozen splashes.