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The 7.99.12+ versions of Buildcraft for MC 1.12.2 and are early alphas. They are ment for testing but not for survival usage.

A backport to 1.10.2 is not currently planned. The reasons for this are outlined here, here, here, here, here, here and here.. Asking us is unlikely to make us reconsider - however, BuildCraft is open source and you're welcome to do it yourself if you really need a 1.10 version.

Feel free to join our discord if you want to chat/hangout or have an issue with BC: https://discord.gg/v4geqgA

Pipes
The major feature of BuildCraft is the pipes. Pipes are used to transport items, fluids, and mechanical energy between inventories/machines. There are many different types of pipes all with unique functions, including Wooden, Cobblestone, Stone, Sandstone, Iron, Gold, Diamond, Emerald and Obsidian. Pipes can be combined with Pipe Sealant to allow them to make Fluid Pipes that can transport liquids or with Redstone to make Kinesis Pipes to allow them to transport mechanical energy.

BuildCraft 7 is a great BuildCraft release, bringing additions and improvements in almost every area of the mod. Here are some highlights:

Modularization is back, for those pack developers who need a smaller subset of our functionality.
A fresh, new look by CyanideX! (Excluding robots. Those have, sadly, been delayed - due to time issues - but will make it to a later Stable release.)
Optimizations to fillers, builders, pipes, robots and other parts of the mod.
Pipes: round robin sorting in diamond pipes, weighting in diamond fluid pipes, massive stripes pipes powers, improved pipe rendering and colors!
Recipes: more expensive lists, less expensive pipe plugs
Silicon: New Assembly Table and Integration Table, ACT replaced by a CraftPacket-inspired Packager+Stamper system
Factory: Tanks get comparators now!
Robotics: New Zone Planner, improved trigger/action logic, fancy robot animations.
Paintbrushes! For some reason.
Tons of other little improvements and additions that would take up too much space.

BuildCraft 7 has some changes you might want to watch out for:

Generally, your world and map will work fine and upgrade properly bar a few exceptions. However, downgrading is impossible.
If you have any custom config options, the config format and filename changed for both BC and Compat, so look into those.
The Quarry is now in the Builders module, as opposed to BC 3.x and below when it was in the Factory module.
Robots now only pull items and fluids out from wooden or emerald pipes.
Drop Items in Pipe has been combined with Accept Items.
The Crafter robot has been removed as it was deemed to be useless.
Flower harvesting from Robots has been removed due to bugs it caused.
Lava in the Combustion Engine doesn't burn (!?) anymore. Use the Stirling Engine.
The Advanced Crafting Table is deprecated, but not removed yet. You might want to upgrade your setups.
You can no longer put Lists inside Lists. Listception.

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asiekierka
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Posted Apr 10, 2017
Quote from AlexIIL >>

In reply to AEnterprise:

Can you please remove the 7.99 version from here? Its not ready for curse yet unfortunately :/

I think it's too late. However, marking it as Alpha makes it unavailable on the regular Curse frontend and I believe it also doesn't let you use it in packs?

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
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it's marked as alpha so can only manually be downloaded here, mods.curse.com doesn't show the version at all, they only way they will get it into curse modpacks is if they start directly messing with files and i'm not sure if that's even possible still since you export packs directly from the client now

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
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it's marked as alpha so can only manually be downloaded here, mods.curse.com doesn't show the version at all, they only way they will get it into curse modpacks is if they start directly messing with files and i'm not sure if that's even possible still since you export packs directly from the client now

Ah ok, thanks for clarifying :)

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
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That my point, I have a modpack me and a few close friends play with on a private server and we test out mods, post crash logs, report bugs etc. It's fun for us and a good way to help the modders fix stuff. We are an unofficial testing team lol

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
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Really thought that the mod would be complete. Yet that doesn't mean that support won't be added for it when it comes to Sky Resources and my pack. It may be as a placeholder, but I hope that it isn't one for too long. Mainly I at least expected Oil being usable and the engines having crafting recipes in Survival. Not saying anything about the broken names and textures as it's normal when changing versions.

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Mainly I at least expected Oil being usable and the engines having crafting recipes in Survival. Not saying anything about the broken names and textures as it's normal when changing versions.

This is a large-scale rewrite of BuildCraft, not just a straight port; a lot of things are yet to be finished for that reason.

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
i love you BuildCraft dev team, i really appropriate updating BuildCraft to 1.11.2.

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
Just saying thanks for the 1.11.2 updated released. I love this mod.

Yert!

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
I dont understand skipping 1.10.2... all of the big modpacks are at 1.10.2 for the time being. Seems like a really missed opportunity.

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
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we are skipping 1.10.2 because the update isn't even done yet, this is an early alpha build more ment for testing, not for usage in modpacks, by the time we are ready for a full release 1.11 will be the main MC version

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
In reply to kenijey:

not all mods are rubbish nor useless, also don't call mods more professional because they skip 1.10.2 or not, that has nothing to do with that

also how 'proffesional' a mod is doesn't matter, it's not because someone is a proffesional coder that they make better mods

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
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You are just a tester, I was hoping for a response from someone a bit more important. Especially if you are silly enough to have posted the nonsense you did.

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
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Are you f'n serious? Not only should you check mod team profiles before you start spouting off crap like this, but it's damn distrespectful too.

https://minecraft.curseforge.com/members/AEnterprise/projects

Got a problem with there being no 1.10.2 version, go to github, fork it and build it yourself.

https://github.com/BuildCraft/BuildCraft

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
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no i'm not just a tester, there are limited options for roles on curse, they put me in as tester but the info here is outdated, none of the people listed actively work on BC code.

While i'm not an active developer working on BC i am a modder, i help manage the BC project and i can assure you i know what's going on and the reasons why there is no 1.10 version

i also don't apreciate being called silly and please let me know where i've posted nonsense because i'm not aware of the fact that i did

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https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/buildcraft?comment=167

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what do you mean with better mods and 'clearer and better coded'? the quality of the code isn't something you notice ingame, unless the code is bad for performance you won't notice the difference at all if things are implemented in a short general way or with alot of dupicate code

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My apologies on my previous comment. I take full responsibility for its stupidity, and my implication that your roll is unimportant. I misread who wrote the comment about "all 1.10 mods are rubbish"... which as I'm sure you will agree, is in fact a silly thing to say. It was kenijey... I dont know how it pulled your name when I hit reply. This is what happens when I mouth off I guess.

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"Community experience tells me that the community will move on to 1.11.2 (or 1.12, or 1.13, or...) eventually - after all, a similar situation happened for 1.4.7, 1.6.4 and 1.7.10, and the community seems to have abandoned or, at the very least, de-prioritized all of those versions at some point."

I disagree with your logic in that statement. Claiming people will move on to 1.11 is like claiming people moved on to 1.8 after 1.7.10.... sure, a small number of people did... but its not NEARLY as populated as 1.7.10 was, or even still is. MY community expreience tells me that modpack devs choose a major patch every 1-2 years and collectively aim to stay at that patch for a little while, so that packs and mods dont have to update every few months. "That" patch WAS 1.7.10... and right now is 1.10.2... Sure, people played 1.8 and 1.9... just like people will play 1.11.... but that's not where the big name pack makers are stationed.

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"Community experience tells me that the community will move on to 1.11.2 (or 1.12, or 1.13, or...) eventually - after all, a similar situation happened for 1.4.7, 1.6.4 and 1.7.10, and the community seems to have abandoned or, at the very least, de-prioritized all of those versions at some point."

I disagree with your logic in that statement. Claiming people will move on to 1.11 is like claiming people moved on to 1.8 after 1.7.10.... sure, a small number of people did... but its not NEARLY as populated as 1.7.10 was, or even still is. MY community expreience tells me that modpack devs choose a major patch every 1-2 years and collectively aim to stay at that patch for a little while, so that packs and mods dont have to update every few months. "That" patch WAS 1.7.10... and right now is 1.10.2... Sure, people played 1.8 and 1.9... just like people will play 1.11.... but that's not where the big name pack makers are stationed.

Your community experience has clearly not been around for 1.6.4, 1.6.2, 1.5.2, 1.4.7, 1.2.5, 1.2.3 and 1.1, then - ALL of those versions happened in the span between 1.7.10 and 1.10.2 (that is, ~2 years), and ALL of them had major modpacks during their existence. I've personally been playing modded Minecraft since 1.2.3, and from my own personal experience I know that 1.7.10 is the special case here, not all the other versions. This happened primarily because 1.8's adoption had many serious problems which took a long time to take care of, making most modders decide to stay on 1.7.10 until the issues got resolved sometime around 1.9 - but by then, 1.7.10 had already been around for a significant period of time.

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Posted Apr 10, 2017
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I disagree. But hey, does it really matter? If I had statistical analysis of how many people are playing each version, this would be easier to explain... but since I don't, there really is no reason to debate it. You are more than welcome to play whatever patch you want, and I will do the same.

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