Mechanical Warfare v1.6

Mechanical Warfare is a Mindustry mod adding brand new units, mechs, and turrets. Not for the faintest of engines.

v1.6

This is a huge release thanks to our active contributors, so enjoy this big update!

Addition:

• New items:

  • Aluminum: A light metal
  • Insulator Alloy: A mixture of Surge Alloy and Plastanium
  • Sulfur: A product of processed Oil
  • Scrap Plate: A cheap material
  • Radioactive Spore Pod: A mutated Spore Pod, corrupted by Uranium
  • Alien Spore Pod: A highly radioactive, slimy, and gross substance
  • Contaminated Water: Irradiated water, usually found near Uranium patches
  • Coil: An electric coil

• New core blocks:

  • Core: Sword: A core block mounted with a turret

• New conveyors and item buffers:

  • Iron Conveyor: A conveyor whose speed is between regular and titanium conveyor
  • Aluminum Conveyor: A conveyor whose speed is even faster than titanium, but has lower health
  • Crate: A small, simple item buffer

• New conduits and liquid buffers:

  • Liquid Container: A smaller liquid tank

• New turrets:

  • Lobber: A cheap artillery turret
  • Spectrum: A power turret. Forms a prism that can shoot multiple targets
  • Supernova: Her reign begins
  • Windstorm: A direct upgrade of Blow
  • M.A.R.S: Magnetic Accelerated Railgun System. Extremely powerful. Requires large amount of power and 3 Power Amplifier to work properly

• New drills:

  • Advanced Water Extractor: A small, precise, and more efficient water extractor
  • Crusher Drill: A cheap, small drill

• New crafters:

  • Insulating Compound: Smelts Surge Alloy and Plastanium to make Insulator Alloy
  • Scrap Compactor: Compacts Scrap into Scrap Plate
  • Coil Winder: Winds coil from copper and plastanium
  • Polluter: Dissolves radioactive substance into Water to make Contaminated Water
  • Dissolver: A more efficient Polluter
  • Mutator: Irradiates Spore Pod with Contaminated Water
  • Molecular Dissipator: Separates the radioactive substances in Radioactive Spore Pod

• New power blocks:

  • Liquid Combustion Engine: A power generator that uses liquid flammability to generate power
  • Power Amplifier: Place it besides a building that requires it and said building will work

• New defensive blocks:

  • Frost Aura: Same like Fire Aura but freezes nearby enemies
  • Insulator Wall and Large Insulator Wall: A special type of block that transforms bullet power into energy. Works more efficient when absorbing electric arcs
  • Steel Wall and Large Steel Wall: A strong defensive wall

• New miscellaneous blocks:

  • Slag Bomb: A canister trap filled with slag and explodes on contact
  • Spotlight: A rotatable light source pointing in one direction
  • Magnetic Sieve: A sand sieve equipped with magnet to extract iron
  • Recycler: Consumes Slag, outputs the world

• New unit factories:

  • Demeter Factory: Assembles Demeter
  • Rapier Factory: Assembles Rapier
  • Scrapper Factory: Assembles Scrapper
  • Viper Factory: Assembles Viper

• New units:

  • Apollyon: A Purple-tier boss with 4 pairs of weapons
  • Demeter: A weaponized miner drone with decent self-defense capabilities
  • Project Mil: A small worm-like unit
  • Project Googol: A mechanical worm that can split into segments of smaller worm
  • Seeder Mothership: A cyan-tiered worm carrying payloads of Seeder destroyers
  • Scrapper: A melee ground unit
  • Rapier: A ground unit which shoots a special sword projectile that teleports when collides and targets closest enemy, totally not inspired from Terraria's Influx Waver
  • Dominator: A ground unit which shoots extremely accurate high velocity bullets from a flak, totally not inspired from Terraria's Xenopopper
  • Viper: A Cyan-tier helicopter unit with 3 pairs of weapons

• New maps:

  • Derelict Desert Outpost (attack)
  • Distress Signal (survival)
  • Frozen Lake (attack)
  • Vulcanic Chokepoint

Changes:

• R e s p r i t e d a l l u n i t s , n o w t h e y l o o k l e s s t e r r i b l e
• Renamed Cobblestone to Gravel
• Changed some tech tree placements
• Chemical Station now requires Sulfur and Water to work, and Iron is used to boost the process
• Oil Refinery now also outputs Sulfur
• Separator now doesn't output Iron (reverted to vanilla Separator)
• Aegis now accepts Gravel as ammo
• Recreated Aegis drawing method
• Scatter now accepts Gravel as ammo
• Voltmeter now doesn't have a shootEffect, and the smokeEffect is now producesmoke
• Sabre Factory position in the tech tree is now after Rapier Factory
• Hill Path and Volcano now has Aluminum ores
• Recreated Frozen Valley
• New hitEffect for Quake and Seism
• Resprited Quake and Seism
• internal: Created mathlib.js, currently has lerpThreshold() method
• internal: Created bulletlib.js to shorten some BulletType definition
• internal: Added fillPolygon() method to effectlib.js
• internal: Recreated the whole helicopter drawing method in copter-base.js, allowing more copters to be created easily
• internal: Created multi-weapon-base.js, used to create multi weapon units
• internal: Created tank-base, used to create tank units
• internal: Created worm-base, used to create splitting worm units
• internal: Removed all mp3 sound files to reduce mod file size
• internal: Splitted all unit scripts into individual files

Everyone is welcome to contribute to this mod and join our Discord server for more!

Cheers,
@JerichoFletcher & @GlennFolker