Hello,
For my first mc tech mod experience, I decided to try GT4 + buildcraft + railcraft + some other mods.
For sake of convenience I decided to use the 1.7.10 fork (in 1.7.10 I could use more updated mods from GTNH in my modpack).
However, I found several critical bugs in this GT4 1.7.10 fork. I thought I’d post them here in case someone has already come up with a solution.
All “holo/ghost” items which act like UI elements in gregtech blocks like the electric crafting table, sonictron, etc… will drop as if they’re real items once the machine is picked up or broken in any way. This is obviously a dupe exploit. To solve this I disabled the crafting recipes for all the affected machines such that they can’t be obtained in survival. This is not ideal as it cuts a decent chunk of the content from the mod.
The next issue is that most GT4 machines use the “empty cell #4482” in their crafting recipes or operation, while the “universal fluid cell #4382” is the only fluid cell that is obtainable in survival. I think the GT4 fork uses the legacy #4382 cell due to the code being copied from the 1.6.4 version. This is a big problem because it is impossible to use fluid cells in GT machines in survival, and it is also impossible to craft them. I could solve this by adding a crafting recipe that converts the new cells into legacy cells, but I imagine this would also break some things.
Essentially, in the current state it is impossible to progress to HV in the the 1.7.10 GT4 fork.
I found the tech mods to be very fun to play, but now I’m stuck. I could try to downgrade everything to 1.6.4 to use the original GT4 and start a new world there, (I imagine the other mods in my modpack would be far less polished in this older version, and other bugs would occur). I could attempt to fix the 1.7.10 fork, but I don’t know how to code. Has anyone perhaps fixed these issues already, are there any solutions?