Screwdriver replacement / improvement
As I was unhappy with the intuitiveness and ease of use of the screwdriver for rotating nodes,
I created an alternative tool: the wrench. (not to be confused with the technic wrench,
which looks totally different, and serves a different purpose)
It comes in a wooden, steel, copper and gold version. The wooden version is disabled by default.
Quick links: Manual, Download zip, Github repository, Changelog
News
12 Mar 2015: version 1.2:
- Add optional ability to restrict wrench usage using a privilege.
- Improvements to the manual
- Rotate a node 90° in any direction
- Rotate a node to an absolute world orientation (north/south/east/west)
- Rotate a node to an orientation relative to the player
- Optionally, restrict usage using a privilege
- API to create wrenches of other materials
Example for the copper wrench:
The steel and gold wrenches use steel and gold ingots instead. The wooden wrench
(if enabled) uses sticks.
Usage
The wrench has three major modes:
- Rotating mode
- Relative positioning mode
- Absolute positioning mode
- Craft a wrench (see above). Initially, it will be a rotating wrench, and its rotation
direction will not be set - Right-click any node. The rotation direction will cycle: clockwise, counter-clockwise, etc.
- Punch a node, and it will rotate according to the current rotation direction
- Start with a rotating wrench (previously used, or not)
- Place it in the craft grid, and craft it to a relative positioning wrench
- Right-click any node to configure the wrench to that node's relative orientation
- Punch a node. It will now be oriented exactly as the original, with respect to the
punched side (and player position if needed).
and that is where the front side will be.
Absolute positioning wrench:
- Start with a relative positioning wrench (previously used, or not)
- Place it in the craft grid, and craft it to an absolute positioning wrench
- Right-click any node to configure the wrench to that node's absolute orientation
- Punch a node. It will now be oriented exactly as the original, with respect to the
world.
Then punch any other chest on any side. Now, that chest's front side will also be
towards the east.
To complete the crafting circle, an absolute positioning wrench can be crafted back to a
rotating wrench.
Screenshot
Other features
- API for other mods to define their own wrenches.
Details and downloading
More information (manual)
Changelog
Download zip (latest)
Download v1.2
Download v1.1
Download v1.0
After unzipping, rename the directory to 'rotate' and place it in your mods folder.
Github repository
License: LGPLv2.1 (images: CC BY-SA 3.0)
Dependencies: default (optional; if you can do without the crafting recipe)