Monday, October 22, 2012

Direwolf20's Time Watch by mcwizard111

     Inspired by the Watch of Flowing Time, from EE2, mod maker McWizard made the direwolf20's Time Watch mod.  If you have watched direwolf's season 2 lets play you might remember him trying to change time with the Watch of Flowing Time; however he had issues due to it effect of IC2 machines when he used it.  McWizard was able to take the time changing part of the Watch and turn it into his own mod while adding some awesome features.

     Now if you don't want to read my text and you would rather watch a video go here for an excellent video made by Gizzy Gazza.

So here is a list of the features that the mod adds:
  • Go to the forum post to find the recipe; however I will tell you that it has blaze rods which adds a nice balance to the watch.
  • If you right click with the Time Watch in your hand it will bring up a GUI.  This GUI is the major difference between this mod and EE2's Time Watch. 
  • So this cool screen shows the Time and the Time your watch is Locked at, this is important later.
  • The Set Dawn, Noon, Dusk, and Night buttons work as you might think they would.
  • In order to control time you have to select one of the 4 buttons and that will set your Time Lock.
  • Now in order to freeze time at the Time Lock you have to hit the Lock Time button; however the Watch needs refueling.
  • Now if you went to the forum post you would know how to make Time Dust witch is the fuel this watch requires.
  • Every 100 units of time it'll reset to the Locked Time if you have fuel.
  • Every 500 units it'll consume fuel, displayed by the Time till refuel area.
     This mod is really awesome the only think I can pick at it for is the fact that when you use the Set Dawn/Noon/Dusk/Night buttons it doesn't consume any Time Dust.  So someone could just set it to Noon whenever they want for free.  Sure its more convenient to use the Lock Time mechanic, but for such an awesome mechanic you don't even have to use it.  Maybe if the Set Dawn/Noon/Dusk/Night buttons just set it there for the Time Lock it would be more balanced, but that is minor and doesn't effect the mod to much as a whole.

     This mod is great and isn't very well known.  If you didn't guess it is Forge compatible and is something I defiantly recommend you check out here.  Give McWizard some love and support him while he maintains and makes this awesome mod he has here.

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