Recently, there has been an ongoing conflict between GregoriusT, the creator of GregTech, and mDiyo, the creator of Tinkers' Construct.
Basically what has been happening is Greg making more and more changes to vanilla recipes, mDiyo reverting some of them if Tinkers' Construct is installed, which in turn angers Greg.
This has eventually resulted in Greg putting code in GregTech that simply makes the game crash if Tinkers' Construct is installed (an ItsNotMyFaultException). This can be classified as malicious code, if not flat out malware...
Now of course, we don't want mods with malicious code in them in our modpack. (This particular code even makes the game unplayable.) If Greg doesn't do anything about this (which says a lot about his attitude against other modders and end users), we'll have to find a solution for this. Some of the things we can do are:
- Completely
remove GregTech from our pack. This would, however, also arguably make it too easy to reach endgame (though that is not the point of Minecraft if you ask me).
- Stay with
an older version of GregTech, until Greg gets rid of his malicious code. If he doesn't get rid of the code, we would have a problem when we update to 1.6, similar to the RedPower problem when updating to 1.5. We would also miss out on new features and bug fixes.
We have even considered coding our own version of GregTech, with only the good and nice stuff in it. However this would take a while, as most of us still need to learn how to code with Minecraft Forge, if not Java itself :I
I have created a poll here to see if GregTech is actually still wanted these days. Greg has been adding more and more changes to vanilla to make it more 'realistic' lately (just more tedious if you ask me), some of which are not even configurable. Even some of us who would always defend GregTech are now losing respect for Greg, as he is clearly going too far at this point.
So what's your opinion on all this? Or do you have another solution to this problem? Please voice it below.
Click here for the (unofficial) changelog of GregTech EDIT: Greg has disabled his crashing code, and TConstruct's disabling of GregTech's vanilla changes is now a config option. Crisis averted. Sorta.