Post by Zowja on Jun 10, 2017 17:02:33 GMT -5
WELCOME TO NEW FRONTIER CRAFT
A NEW ADVENTURE IN OLD MINECRAFT
Stay a while, stay forever!
Public NFC Discord Chat
IMPORTANT LINKS
A NEW ADVENTURE IN OLD MINECRAFT
Stay a while, stay forever!
Public NFC Discord Chat
IMPORTANT LINKS
NFC Wiki
Official NFC Discord Chat
NFC Minecraft Server
INTRODUCTION
A QUICK GUIDE
FULL OVERVIEW
Miscellaneous:
Version History.
ID's of blocks and items.
FUTURE PLANS
Official NFC Discord Chat
NFC Minecraft Server
INTRODUCTION
Greetings newcomer! I am Zowja, the creator of this mod. This mod is unique in the fact that it is not a mod for the modern game, rather it is a mod for the old version Beta 1.7.3. This is not an old mod laying around from 2011, but something that is active and updated today for Beta!
But... why Beta? If you played Old Minecraft, you know the game felt quite a bit different than it does now. Pre-Alpha, Alpha, and Beta had their own little quirks about them, but all generally had the same feel and atmosphere. At some point along the line, the feel of the game suddenly had a large shift that carries over into how the game feels now. This shift is seen by some people, including myself, as happening in update Beta 1.8, the "Adventure Update". Multiple things may have contributed to this shift, the faster pace of the game from sprinting and a higher focus on fighting, and/or the player base becoming a lot bigger, younger, and edgier, and/or the addition of creative mode suddenly unlocking everything in the game to everyone so then survival lost some of its feels, and/or the looks of the game becoming duller and more orange with the new torch lighting and textures with lower contrast, and/or something else I may have not mentioned. The reason why this mod is built upon Beta 1.7.3 is because of the wanting to recapturing some of the old feeling before all that came around. We like to consider it to be the "last good Old Minecraft update." Whether you used to play these versions back in the day or wish to experience a completely new feeling to Minecraft, we heavily encourage you to try out New Frontier Craft.
Now, originally, New Frontier Craft's intention was to really try and harp on the nostalgia chords, with its original slogan being "New Frontier Craft - The answer for your Nostalgia", but I've since discovered that I am a human being and cannot hit everyone's nostalgia for the old times perfectly. We all had something different about the game that we loved back then. What I can do is freshen up the old times with something new, a new vision for the game - a New Frontier - while keeping to the old roots of the game. This has resulted in something I see as beautiful, something more matured than Beta or modern, something that can bring people who enjoy modern versions back to experience old times, something that retains the ability to play on those feel chords again, something I prefer to play over Beta now - which is really quite something, as I really do love Beta. Hopefully this something I've created can be that something for you too
This mod is considered to be more of an overhaul, or even a new path of development for Minecraft, than a mod - similar to Technic/Tekkit. Technic is such a large modification to the game - modern or Beta - that it has some of its own feels blended with the vanilla atmosphere that it feels like a game of it's own, on the same engine. That is what New Frontier Craft is like, but having a large focus on the old times and polish. I did not merely add new things to the game, but I've completely overhauled pieces of the game like ores and materials. This gives the feeling of being new to the game again, and also really matures how the game plays as I really try to refine the gameplay, yet stay within the framework of Beta to keep that atmosphere alive.
As of now, this project is far from complete. I have big ideas for the game and its future, but I've only completed one of four or five massive updates to the game and its mechanics. If you'd like to know more about development, I recommend you scroll back up the page and join the Discord Server!
But... why Beta? If you played Old Minecraft, you know the game felt quite a bit different than it does now. Pre-Alpha, Alpha, and Beta had their own little quirks about them, but all generally had the same feel and atmosphere. At some point along the line, the feel of the game suddenly had a large shift that carries over into how the game feels now. This shift is seen by some people, including myself, as happening in update Beta 1.8, the "Adventure Update". Multiple things may have contributed to this shift, the faster pace of the game from sprinting and a higher focus on fighting, and/or the player base becoming a lot bigger, younger, and edgier, and/or the addition of creative mode suddenly unlocking everything in the game to everyone so then survival lost some of its feels, and/or the looks of the game becoming duller and more orange with the new torch lighting and textures with lower contrast, and/or something else I may have not mentioned. The reason why this mod is built upon Beta 1.7.3 is because of the wanting to recapturing some of the old feeling before all that came around. We like to consider it to be the "last good Old Minecraft update." Whether you used to play these versions back in the day or wish to experience a completely new feeling to Minecraft, we heavily encourage you to try out New Frontier Craft.
Now, originally, New Frontier Craft's intention was to really try and harp on the nostalgia chords, with its original slogan being "New Frontier Craft - The answer for your Nostalgia", but I've since discovered that I am a human being and cannot hit everyone's nostalgia for the old times perfectly. We all had something different about the game that we loved back then. What I can do is freshen up the old times with something new, a new vision for the game - a New Frontier - while keeping to the old roots of the game. This has resulted in something I see as beautiful, something more matured than Beta or modern, something that can bring people who enjoy modern versions back to experience old times, something that retains the ability to play on those feel chords again, something I prefer to play over Beta now - which is really quite something, as I really do love Beta. Hopefully this something I've created can be that something for you too
This mod is considered to be more of an overhaul, or even a new path of development for Minecraft, than a mod - similar to Technic/Tekkit. Technic is such a large modification to the game - modern or Beta - that it has some of its own feels blended with the vanilla atmosphere that it feels like a game of it's own, on the same engine. That is what New Frontier Craft is like, but having a large focus on the old times and polish. I did not merely add new things to the game, but I've completely overhauled pieces of the game like ores and materials. This gives the feeling of being new to the game again, and also really matures how the game plays as I really try to refine the gameplay, yet stay within the framework of Beta to keep that atmosphere alive.
As of now, this project is far from complete. I have big ideas for the game and its future, but I've only completed one of four or five massive updates to the game and its mechanics. If you'd like to know more about development, I recommend you scroll back up the page and join the Discord Server!
Note: Anything in red means it is an incomplete and hence not linked wiki page.
A QUICK GUIDE
In the future, there will be a nice video here, but for now this will do. Learn to install New Frontier Craft here. If you are used to modern versions and never really played Beta much, you are going to run into a lot of quirks about Beta that they have since changed, like the dumb AI of Beta which can be quite fun, or just general lacks of things like sprinting, or options like the brightness and FOV slider. In Beta, and in New Frontier Craft, survival is a high priority. You can not just turn the brightness up in dark caves and be aware of your surroundings. You are not able to just sprint away from mobs. Outside of the better AI, Beta can be considered a bit harder than modern. New Frontier Craft is harder than Beta, but its definitely not difficult. It gives you a fresh challenge and learning curve for a game you have probably mastered over the years, so put on your armor and get ready for an adventure.
Now let's get into the actual changes from Beta 1.7.3. The first and biggest change that has happened is the ore and metal system. The things you'll need to know to start is this:
Another thing I recommend looking at in the beginning is the list of crafting changes.
- Back in Beta, there were 6 ores you could find in the stone. In modern, that's now 7 with emeralds. In New Frontier Craft, there is 29 (30 if you include oil). Vanilla is a linear four tier progression with Wood -> Stone -> Iron -> Diamond. In New Frontier Craft, there are 6 tiers with multiple metals in each. Just like in vanilla you can't jump from wood to iron, in NFC you cannot jump from tier 1 to 3; you need the immediate preceding tier to mine the ore and progress. The tiers and their metals are: Tier 0: Wood, Stone. Tier 1: Aluminum, Copper, Tin, Zinc, Gold, Bismuth, Lead. Tier 2: Bronze, Brass, Boron, Silver, Platinum, Nickel. Tier 3: Iron, Cobalt, Silicon, Chrome. Tier 4: Steel, Tungsten, Titanium, Gems. Tier 5: Diamond, Osmium. More info on the materials of NFC can be found here newfrontiercraft.net/thread/52/materials
- A very important thing that was added in NFC is the Brick Oven. To make it, you need to craft 8 brick blocks in a square like you would a normal Furnace with cobblestone. This block is a mixture of the crafting table and furnace. Wood-based products are either inefficient or don't work in this furnace. Normal coal and anthracite work far better. This furnace is important because it makes bronze, brass, and steel. Bronze and Brass are alloys and not found in the ground, but they are key to getting to tier 2 because the tier 2 metals that do spawn in the ground are normally uncommon. Bronze is made with 5 Copper and 1 Tin, Brass is made with 3 Copper and 3 Zinc, Steel is made with 7 Iron and 1 Chrome. This oven is also what refines Tungsten and Titanium.
- Another relatively important thing to note in NFC is how slab and stair placement is changed. Like in modern, stairs and slabs can be placed upside-down. However, New Frontier Craft also introduces the ability to place a slab sideways. There is also a wrench item, which helps to get the correct placement, since you can use it to rotate and stair or slab to any orientation, regardless of how it was originally placed.
- Caves have changed in New Frontier Craft. In general, there is an upper and lower cave section. I recommend not digging deeper until you are stable at tier 2. Also, caves like to go on forever. A famous rule of Minecraft is never dig straight down. A new rule in New Frontier Craft is never explore too deep. If you die deep in a cave, you are almost definitely not getting your stuff back. Even if you do not die, good luck finding your way back after going way too far.
- The stats of all of the original ores and materials in vanilla are modified. For example, Wood is 2x worse, yet Diamond is almost 2x better, but Diamond is far rarer in New Frontier Craft.
- After you've gotten comfortable playing for a little while, I suggest looking at the ores to see how the ores generate so then you can find them best.
Another thing I recommend looking at in the beginning is the list of crafting changes.
FULL OVERVIEW
All of this is written from the perspective of having Beta 1.7.3 as the basis.
Additions:
The biggest addition by far is the new ores and metals.
Authentication updated to use the modern servers.
Skins updated to use modern servers. Alex skins are supported.
Books, a mix of modern and my own code.
The Brick Oven.
A server list for connecting to servers, basically taken from older versions of modern.
A static structure generator. Currently this generates a couple rare surface buildings and some new dungeons, but there will be more in the future.
Shears can now harvest long grass and dead bushes.
Secret music discs.
New background and main menu music.
Quite a few new building blocks.
Cooked eggs.
Blue mushrooms.
Dynamite.
Bookshelves can now contain items.
The seed of a world is displayed on the F3 screen.
Old sounds.
Wrenches.
Telescopes.
FOV Slider.
Changes:
There have been quite a few crafting changes from vanilla.
Massive changes to caves. They just keep on going.
Some of the old textures are added back in.
A new, fuller look for grass.
Zombies now uncommonly drop a leather tunic or leather pants.
Mobs spawned from monster spawners do not drop anything.
Plants in general will grow slower, but not by much. I plan to make this slower yet.
Worlds are saved to "NFCSaves" in the Minecraft directory.
Trees cannot generate with just one log block under the leaves, it needs to be at least 2 now.
As mentioned earlier, stairs and slabs can be placed in various orientations.
Known Bugs / Glitches / & Oversights:
Additions:
The biggest addition by far is the new ores and metals.
Authentication updated to use the modern servers.
Skins updated to use modern servers. Alex skins are supported.
Books, a mix of modern and my own code.
The Brick Oven.
A server list for connecting to servers, basically taken from older versions of modern.
A static structure generator. Currently this generates a couple rare surface buildings and some new dungeons, but there will be more in the future.
Shears can now harvest long grass and dead bushes.
Secret music discs.
New background and main menu music.
Quite a few new building blocks.
Cooked eggs.
Blue mushrooms.
Dynamite.
Bookshelves can now contain items.
The seed of a world is displayed on the F3 screen.
Old sounds.
Wrenches.
Telescopes.
FOV Slider.
Changes:
There have been quite a few crafting changes from vanilla.
Massive changes to caves. They just keep on going.
Some of the old textures are added back in.
A new, fuller look for grass.
Zombies now uncommonly drop a leather tunic or leather pants.
Mobs spawned from monster spawners do not drop anything.
Plants in general will grow slower, but not by much. I plan to make this slower yet.
Worlds are saved to "NFCSaves" in the Minecraft directory.
Trees cannot generate with just one log block under the leaves, it needs to be at least 2 now.
As mentioned earlier, stairs and slabs can be placed in various orientations.
Known Bugs / Glitches / & Oversights:
- On some computers, pressing alt freezes the game with no undo
- Trees on servers will sometimes grow server-side, but client side the leaves won't appear in unless interacted with. This can be solved through either ignoring the issue, interacting with where the leaves should be, or re-logging
- Redstone is a bit quirky. Expect strange behavior if you're trying to use it
- On some computers, the Depth Buffer Fix included in NFC does not work
- Minecart & Furnace Cart doesn't push normally Minecarts
- Slab Hardness is wonky and isn't what it should be for most blocks
- Pointless code jankiness has made many Beta 1.7.3 mods incompatible with NFC.
- The majority of bugs in Beta 1.7.3 are still present in NFC (dupe bugs have been patched on the server though)
- Stone Brick stairs are made using the wrong kind of stone bricks (the ones with a smooth pattern rather than the ones that are similar to the Mojang stone brick appearance)
- Fast rendering for grass blocks is disabled in the code and cannot be accessed.
Miscellaneous:
Version History.
ID's of blocks and items.
FUTURE PLANS
Some of the planned future updates for New Frontier Craft are a bugfix update (1.8.7), an industrial update (1.9), a combat update, an adventure update, a heaven or "anti-nether" update, and a final update that will remain undisclosed at the moment. These will be further elaborated on as they are developed and discussed with the community. If you want your idea heard, scroll back up on this page and join the Discord!
ZOWJA'S DEVELOPER NOTES
ZOWJA'S DEVELOPER NOTES
It has taken three years to get New Frontier Craft to a stable and universally liked state. That said, it's finally ready for launch. In older versions of New Frontier Craft, the game was a good bit harder than it is now, making its appeal niche. Now its made to appeal more to everyone, and the way the game plays out feels a lot better and more chill. Nonetheless, it has taken a ton of time out of my life. I predict I have put more than 1,200 hours into developing the game alone, not to mention making and maintaining things like the server and this wiki. That said, the continuation of the game is in question as not only has it taken a lot of time out of my life but taken money out of my wallet too. More on that here.
So far, this mod has taken some influence from TerraFirmaCraft, as well as some QOL updates from the more modern versions. Notably, the planned 1.9 update is in a good amount inspired by Industrial Craft and BuildCraft.
And as a TL;DR for everything on this page; The point of NFC is to be a new continuation of Minecraft starting at Beta 1.7.3, with us taking an alternate route to development than the one Mojang took with the adventure update and Beta 1.8. We hope you'll enjoy our route better than the one Mojang gave us