I'm afraid you're confusing them with yl_speak_up/npc_talk_edit/npc_talk - which will hopefully very soon be available here on contentdb as well. They offer trading and can craft new things from their inventory if they run out of stock. They also love to talk with players.
The traders here can offer bundles of several items in exchange for bundles of several items. They're a bit more tricky to set up because I'm using the player's inventory for setting up those bundles.
Allows for very intresting space exploration. Trying to fit the jump engine and everything necessary into a small space in order to get a faster small ship is a welcome challenge. And when you're flying around and visiting a good mining spot on the moon or on an asteroid, you might get company by other jumpdrive powered ships by other players.
Assembly of your first ship is also a fun challgenge.
But as someone already mentionned in another review: There is some danger of getting boring cubic ships. But then that can't be helped - not all static houses are great either.
I had great fun building a space station with diffrent ships on the Pandorabox server.
The Xanandu server has/had a sealed-off area which would sometimes be filled with these lucky blocks and then opened to players. It was always a great fun to run through and look what the next lucky block might hold!
But beware: Not all contain useful things. Some may also seriously dammage your health or even kill you. But that's the balance for all the gifts from the lucky blocks.
Mimes are a severe danger to new players who often fall victim to them. Later in game, when your armour is better and you're more experienced, you'll still encounter mimes - and some will put a smile on your face when they fail to cloak perfectly - and thus look funny :-) After a while, every unlocked chest seen in the wild becomes highly suspicious of beeing a mime. They also try to hunt animals and often succeed in doing so.
Mimes will try to mimic almost anything they can, including NPC and other large and small mobs. Sometimes they cloak as plants.
Be prepared to realize that that misplaced block over there on the road wasn't your error - it's just a mime ,-)
The flower and biome cow may look a bit strange when you encounter the first one in your world. But once you see how they plant flowers you'll love them and enjoy future encounters :-)
The NPC from this mod can be tamed and even made to get children when fed with bread. Tamed ones can be ordered to wait somewhere, follow their owner or walk around randomly.
The blimp is a well-known and valued method of travelling together on the YourLand server. Several people will join the ride. It's amazing that all these players can move around on the blimp - even while in flight!
Item frames (and, to a lesser degree pedestrals) are used in many advanced builds. Apart from normal decorative purposes, they sometimes allow for very intresting and unexpected decorative effects. If you've got builders around, offer them item frames.
Balrogs are extremly strong and cause many deaths amongst players. They offer a worthy challenge for those who love fighting, often in a team of two or more players.
Make sure not to let them loose near anything valuable! Their domain are deep, deep caves, not the surface of the world.
Players did make good use of these hiking signs on the Tunnelers' Abyss server. Whole networks of paths were created for the community. It is very enjoyable to follow them.
The crash was caused by a change in the MineTest api. A function that previously returned the information "this node does not exist" (which is important information for a mod that works in very diffrent environments - not all nodes have to to exist in each game) was changed so that it now deliberately crashes the game when a node doesn't exist (motivation: "controlled environment - when a node doesn't exist, it was a typo and is a severe bug").
There is no way to protect any mod from such unexpected api changes.
Anyway - reworking the mod also lead to better wool cover nodes which now take up far less node definitions and offer more colors. And general bugfixing/adjustments.
The mod had issues with some changes done in newer versions of MT. Those ought to be fixed now. Please try the latest version! There are a lot of bugfixes included.
Ethereal, RealTest and MineClone2 are supported. The dependency on default is (now) optional.
If you want to build timber framed houses or farmes, this is a very good mod. Imitating the frames with full blocks is much more tricky and less satisfying. With this mod, you can build in a more realistic size.
At first I wasn't aware what this mod does. Apart from adding cranes which may be a worthy decoration on their own in some places, it allows players to fly withhin the range of the tower crane. This makes building a lot easier without having to hand out fly privs to all players. Very useful mod!
Allows to build houses and other things in decorative colors that make them look more realistic and impressive. Particulary great in combination with the windows and doors from homedecor.
This is very simple: Craft and place a block, and your area is protected. Most players can understand and use that easily. Drawbacks are that you may need a lot of these protection blocks - in places given by the mod and not by the demands of your building - and that there may be places on your server where nobody can protect the land due to overlapping protection.
Use this if you run a server with inexperienced players and/or players who don't plan anything too complex.
Adds a lot of useful shapes (diffrent stairs, slabs, panels, ..) and some decorative blocks which carry building to a new level. Excellent and very useful mod. Allows to build thinner walls, statues etc. and can be an indigrent in quite a lot of intresting, creative structures.
This mod adds a lot of blocks that make your house and garden a lot nicer. It includes a complete bathroom set - no need to use a stair as a toilet anymore!, big fridges to keep your food (and ores :-)) cold, chairs, tables, sofas, TVs and a huge amount of other decorations, down to a wall calendar.
The doors alone are great already and make your house look much better than the boring standard wooden door. Fences and tables can be used in diffrent ways. Realistic shingles make your roofs stand out and shine. There's even a fish tank can be illuminated! And the garden benches make your parks and roads much more inviting.
The only drawbacks may be that some of the blocks are rather specialized and are not as universally usable as e.g. a wooden stair - and that there are a lot of blocks included.
I've seen many players who immensely enjoyed making their homes nice with this modpack. For me, personally, if a server doesn't have this mod installed then there's something important missing.
I'm afraid you're confusing them with yl_speak_up/npc_talk_edit/npc_talk - which will hopefully very soon be available here on contentdb as well. They offer trading and can craft new things from their inventory if they run out of stock. They also love to talk with players.
The traders here can offer bundles of several items in exchange for bundles of several items. They're a bit more tricky to set up because I'm using the player's inventory for setting up those bundles.
They all love trading :-)
Definitely decorative.
Only drawback is that they're sometimes a bit big. An additional smaller variant would be nice.
Allows for very intresting space exploration. Trying to fit the jump engine and everything necessary into a small space in order to get a faster small ship is a welcome challenge. And when you're flying around and visiting a good mining spot on the moon or on an asteroid, you might get company by other jumpdrive powered ships by other players.
Assembly of your first ship is also a fun challgenge.
But as someone already mentionned in another review: There is some danger of getting boring cubic ships. But then that can't be helped - not all static houses are great either.
I had great fun building a space station with diffrent ships on the Pandorabox server.
The Xanandu server has/had a sealed-off area which would sometimes be filled with these lucky blocks and then opened to players. It was always a great fun to run through and look what the next lucky block might hold!
But beware: Not all contain useful things. Some may also seriously dammage your health or even kill you. But that's the balance for all the gifts from the lucky blocks.
Definitely fun, especially on multiplayer.
Mimes are a severe danger to new players who often fall victim to them. Later in game, when your armour is better and you're more experienced, you'll still encounter mimes - and some will put a smile on your face when they fail to cloak perfectly - and thus look funny :-) After a while, every unlocked chest seen in the wild becomes highly suspicious of beeing a mime. They also try to hunt animals and often succeed in doing so.
Mimes will try to mimic almost anything they can, including NPC and other large and small mobs. Sometimes they cloak as plants.
Be prepared to realize that that misplaced block over there on the road wasn't your error - it's just a mime ,-)
The flower and biome cow may look a bit strange when you encounter the first one in your world. But once you see how they plant flowers you'll love them and enjoy future encounters :-)
Homedecor was first. Then my cottages mod came and used some of the textures from homedecor because they were very suitable for roofs.
The NPC from this mod can be tamed and even made to get children when fed with bread. Tamed ones can be ordered to wait somewhere, follow their owner or walk around randomly.
The blimp is a well-known and valued method of travelling together on the YourLand server. Several people will join the ride. It's amazing that all these players can move around on the blimp - even while in flight!
Item frames (and, to a lesser degree pedestrals) are used in many advanced builds. Apart from normal decorative purposes, they sometimes allow for very intresting and unexpected decorative effects. If you've got builders around, offer them item frames.
Expect to die. These mobs are very strong and plentiful. Even when working together with other players, survival is hard to achieve.
And when you think you're safe, the next strange (and intresting!) creature will show up and try to kill you.
Very intresting mobs.
Allows you to start farming before having to start some serious mining. Very useful in games where iron is hard to get.
Balrogs are extremly strong and cause many deaths amongst players. They offer a worthy challenge for those who love fighting, often in a team of two or more players.
Make sure not to let them loose near anything valuable! Their domain are deep, deep caves, not the surface of the world.
Hah! There it is. This is a classical MineTest monster - and IMHO very cute.
Ought to be resident on all servers that have monsters.
Players did make good use of these hiking signs on the Tunnelers' Abyss server. Whole networks of paths were created for the community. It is very enjoyable to follow them.
The hiking signs motivate path/road building.
Definitely a recommendation.
I've played on servers in the past which used the Land Rush mod.
Like all mods that work with a fixed size of protection (i.e. protector mod), it's not always optimal. Protecting roads is a bit challenging.
Other than that, the mod is very easy to use and understand: Walk to an unprotected mapblock, place your block - and it's yours!
It's always protected alongside mapblock borders, so you need not fear that any parts of your map cannot be protected by anyone.
That's right. The mod is the mapgen. It builds the entire world, including the villages.
The crash was caused by a change in the MineTest api. A function that previously returned the information "this node does not exist" (which is important information for a mod that works in very diffrent environments - not all nodes have to to exist in each game) was changed so that it now deliberately crashes the game when a node doesn't exist (motivation: "controlled environment - when a node doesn't exist, it was a typo and is a severe bug").
There is no way to protect any mod from such unexpected api changes.
Anyway - reworking the mod also lead to better wool cover nodes which now take up far less node definitions and offer more colors. And general bugfixing/adjustments.
The mod had issues with some changes done in newer versions of MT. Those ought to be fixed now. Please try the latest version! There are a lot of bugfixes included.
Ethereal, RealTest and MineClone2 are supported. The dependency on default is (now) optional.
If you want to build timber framed houses or farmes, this is a very good mod. Imitating the frames with full blocks is much more tricky and less satisfying. With this mod, you can build in a more realistic size.
At first I wasn't aware what this mod does. Apart from adding cranes which may be a worthy decoration on their own in some places, it allows players to fly withhin the range of the tower crane. This makes building a lot easier without having to hand out fly privs to all players. Very useful mod!
Allows to build houses and other things in decorative colors that make them look more realistic and impressive. Particulary great in combination with the windows and doors from homedecor.
This is very simple: Craft and place a block, and your area is protected. Most players can understand and use that easily. Drawbacks are that you may need a lot of these protection blocks - in places given by the mod and not by the demands of your building - and that there may be places on your server where nobody can protect the land due to overlapping protection. Use this if you run a server with inexperienced players and/or players who don't plan anything too complex.
Adds a lot of useful shapes (diffrent stairs, slabs, panels, ..) and some decorative blocks which carry building to a new level. Excellent and very useful mod. Allows to build thinner walls, statues etc. and can be an indigrent in quite a lot of intresting, creative structures.
Adds decorative nodes that fit well together regarding their textures. An alternative if you can't afford full homedecor.
This mod adds a lot of blocks that make your house and garden a lot nicer. It includes a complete bathroom set - no need to use a stair as a toilet anymore!, big fridges to keep your food (and ores :-)) cold, chairs, tables, sofas, TVs and a huge amount of other decorations, down to a wall calendar.
The doors alone are great already and make your house look much better than the boring standard wooden door. Fences and tables can be used in diffrent ways. Realistic shingles make your roofs stand out and shine. There's even a fish tank can be illuminated! And the garden benches make your parks and roads much more inviting.
The only drawbacks may be that some of the blocks are rather specialized and are not as universally usable as e.g. a wooden stair - and that there are a lot of blocks included.
I've seen many players who immensely enjoyed making their homes nice with this modpack. For me, personally, if a server doesn't have this mod installed then there's something important missing.