Alblaka, IC2 announcement (2011)

Cite as: Alblaka, IC2 announcement (2011)
Original: https://www.industrial-craft.net/208
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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20251206003607/https://www.industrial-craft.net/208/
Accessed: 2026-10-26
Licence: © Alblaka; quoted briefly for research.
Credit: Alblaka, "I will stop the developement of IC !", Industrial BlaBla, 28 July 2011.
Notes: Announces the end of IC1 development and the start of IC2; the "stop" is the framing for a full recode. Alblaka describes his early Java knowledge and the planned energy-code rework.

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On 28 July 2011 Alblaka announced the IndustrialCraft² rewrite on his blog under a gag headline, "I will stop the developement of IC !", and asked readers aware of the gag not to spoil it on the Minecraft Forum. He wrote that his Java had been basic when he started IC, so he would restructure and recode it, and that a fellow modder had already been reworking the energy code for a few weeks. His list of planned features included APIs for other modders, a new electric current distribution algorithm, and possibly real oil.	`post, 28 July 2011post, list of intended features`	Dev blog
IndustrialCraft² kept IC1's energy units, cables, Generator, Macerator and electric furnace, all on the IC wiki by spring 2011 and all on its 2012 IC2 pages, and rebuilt how energy moves. Announcing IC², Alblaka wrote that a fellow modder was reworking the energy code; in 2018 the IC2 developer Chocohead described IC1's cables as whole blocks that ticked once a second, replaced in IC2 by smaller tiered cables. Tiered cables, packet sizes and transformers appear on the IC wiki's 2012 pages and in none of its 2011 revisions read here.	`post, 28 July 2011`	Wiki