Breakable Ice
Note: This is a server only mod. Clients do not need to subscribe to this mod in order to gain benefit from a server running it.
Mod Notes:
Pond ice is now breakable during winter.
Ice will crystallize as the temperature gets colder and will melt as the temperature warms up.
Ice will endlessly crystallize during winter.
Fires will prevent ice from crystallizing as it keeps the temperature of the water above the crystallization point.
Ice can be destroyed or melted by the following methods:
Pickaxes will slowly break ice when worked.
Fires will slowly melt ice while lit.
Gunpowder will cause massive chunks of ice to break when used near ponds.
Estimation:
A single pond frozen for 7 days requires roughly 1 full day of a stage 4 fire in order to melt.
25 Picks with any mining tool will remove the ice.
Recommendations:
I recommend using a combination of methods above to reduce the amount of effort it requires to break the ice.
Update Nov 2016:
Fixes:
– The "thickness" of ice was not reduced correctly, so mods like "ShowMe" always shown the max thickness, instead of the current.
– Melting ice with fire was undone when hitting with pickaxe. (So if you melted it with fire from 25 to 10 and then did one pickaxe hit, the thickness was 24 again)
New Features:
– Now you can set the max thickness in settings. I personally prefer a thickness of 100 (equals 100 pickaxe hits), because it should not be too easy to get fish in winter.
– When hitting with pickaxe, every 4th hit will drop one ice now.
