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
A NEW ADVENTURE IN OLD MINECRAFT
Stay a while, stay forever!
Public NFC Discord Chat
IMPORTANT LINKS
INTRODUCTION
Greetings newcomer! This is New Frontier Craft, a new mod for Minecraft Beta 1.7.3!
But... why Beta? And why specifically Beta 1.7.3? 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 many people as happening around 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 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.
But... why Beta? And why specifically Beta 1.7.3? 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 many people as happening around 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 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 this is an unrealistic goal as everyone has a different standard as to what is "Nostalgic" to them. We all had something different about the game that we loved back then. What we 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.
We feel this has resulted in something more matured than Beta or modern. Something that can bring people who enjoy modern versions back to experience old times, as well as something that retains the ability to play on those feel chords again. Hopefully this something we've created can be that something for you too 
TL;DR
This mod should be considered as more of an overhaul, or even a new path of development for Minecraft, than just a simple mod. Think of something like TerraFirmaCraft or the Aether. We're completely overhauled pieces of the game like oregen and the tool tier system, and we have huge plans for the future in for expansions we're going to be adding to the game. We're trying to make the game feel new again, yet stay within the feeling of Beta to keep the original atmosphere alive.
A SLIGHTLY MORE IN-DEPTH FEATURE INTRODUCTION
In case you missed the link up above, go here to figure out how to install New Frontier Craft.
One thing that should be immediately noted is that New Frontier Craft is first and foremost built on top of Beta 1.7.3. Adventure mechanics like the hunger system, XP, and bosses are not present, and if they're ever added to the game they won't be anywhere close to the same form they are in modern.
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 8 with emeralds and netherite. In New Frontier Craft, there is 30 (31 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. More info on the materials of NFC can be found here newfrontiercraft.net/thread/52/materials
- Alongside looking up the quality of the materials added by NFC, it's recommended to take a look at the rarity and generation rules of the ores to a get a gist of where you should be looking to get various things within the game newfrontiercraft.net/thread/53/ores
A very important thing that was added in NFC is the Brick Oven. To make it, you need to create 8 Fired Brick blocks, which are created by smelting brick blocks in a furnace.
Once you've done that, these blocks need to be crafted in the same pattern as a furnace in order to create the Brick Oven. 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 for two reasons. Because it facilitates the creation of alloys such as bronze, brass, and steel. And , because it's used for the creation of stained glass, a shapeless recipe requiring 8 glass and one of the given dye that you are trying to apply to the glass.
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. The orientation of the slabs is configurable through a new item added by NFC, the wrench, allowing you to change the direction and placement of the slabs even after the original placement of them. More information on this can be found on this page.
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. It's recommended if you get to this point to tunnel back up to the surface and mark your way back down to get to where you were, as it's unlikely you're ever gonna get back to where you were by going through the cave system again.
Another thing I recommend looking at in the beginning is the list of crafting changes.
Feature Overview
Additions
Known Bugs / Glitches / & Oversights
FUTURE PLANS
- A total rework of the system and the addition of many new ores and metals
- The ability to fuse together resources into one another using the Brick Oven
- Authentication updated to use the modern servers.
- Skins and capes updated to use modern servers, alongside full support for 64x64 skins and Alex models.
- An enhanced server list screen for managing servers
- A new structure generator, which any player can easily make their own structures for
- New background and main menu music.
- Many new building blocks
- Full Custom Language Support
- Shears can now harvest long grass and dead bushes
- Secret music discs
- New background and main menu music
- Cooked eggs
- Blue mushrooms
- Dynamite
- Bookshelves can now contain items
- The seed of a world is displayed on the F3 screen
- Old sounds
- A new wrench item to configure block orientation and state
- Telescopes
- A FOV Slider
- A Cloud Slider
- New mobs and blocks in the Nether
- An optional Creative Mode
- 3D Dropped Items
- Shift Clicking
- Cobblestone Walls
- Creative Mode
- Custom Language Support
- The Blood Moon
Changes
- 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.
- Texturepack loading has been improved, and they can be loaded from unzipped folders as well now in NFC
Wiki
Known Bugs / Glitches / & Oversights
FUTURE PLANS
Some of the planned future updates for New Frontier Craft are a heaven or "anti-nether" update, an industrial update, a combat update, an "adventure" update, and tons of other ideas we've got floating around between the devs that we'd love to see implemented (the specific order and times of which these updates will be released is to be determined).
These updates will be further elaborated on as they are developed and discussed with the community. If you want your ideas heard, scroll back up on this page and join the Discord!
DEVELOPER NOTES
These updates will be further elaborated on as they are developed and discussed with the community. If you want your ideas heard, scroll back up on this page and join the Discord!
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.
So far, this mod has taken some influence from TerraFirmaCraft, as well as some QOL updates from the more modern versions. Notably, the planned v5.0.0 update is in a good amount inspired by a fusion of BetterThanWolves, 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
