ChatFuel

Generates energy (RF and EU) from things said in chat (ingame and IRC). Fully configurable.

Installation

This mod requires Minecraft Forge. Put ChatFuel in the mods folder in your .minecraft folder.

You’ll also want Buildcraft, Thermal Expansion or Industrial Craft 2.

ChatFuel will most likely not conflict with other IRC mods although, since ChatFuel uses its own IRC connection you will probably need different IRC accounts for the mods you’re using.

Getting started

First start Minecraft and let ChatFuel generate it’s configuration file. Then close Minecraft and open up ChatFuel.cfg in your favorite text editor. You’ll want to look at the category “patterns” and setup your patterns.

If you want to connect ChatFuel to IRC, then set “enabledIRC” in the “general” category to true and fill in the connection details in the “irc” category.

Load up the game again and get yourself either the RF Box or the EU Box and try out your patterns. You can right-click the Box and it’ll tell you how much energy is stored in it. The amount of energy is shared over all boxes of the same type and even across dimensions.

Troubleshooting

In the initialization phase of mod loading ChatFuel loads the patterns. You can check the logs for “Successfully compiled x patterns”. In the same place errors are logged if there are any.

The IRC connection gets established once you join a world and ChatFuel quits IRC once you return to the main menu. Or start/stop your server.

Patterns

A pattern describes what expression ChatFuel should listen to and what amount of energy is created when somebody says that expression in chat. The format of patterns is explained in the configuration file. In short: <identifier>;<amount>;<username>;<regex> where <identifier> is either “rf” or “eu” (without the quotes), <amount> is the amount of power, <username> is the case-insensitive username (use * for everybody) and <regex> is the regular expression ChatFuel listens to.

File Output

If you enable “fileOutput” in the configuration file, ChatFuel will create text files in .minecraft/ChatFuel:

• euGain.txt
• euStorage.txt
• rfGain.txt
• rfStorage.txt

These files contain the values the filenames suggest. The files get created when Minecraft loads. If you are not in a world, the files are empty.

Example: The Kappa Generator

In this example I want to get 1000 RF everytime somebody says Kappa in my twitch chat.

1. I set the config value “enabledIRC” to true.
2. In the category “irc” I set the following:

   ircServer=irc.twitch.tv

   ircNickname=abecderic

   ircPassword=<the twitch oauth token>

   ircChannel=#abecderic

3. Finally I set the pattern:

   rf;1000;*;Kappa

Other ideas you might want to try

• Generate energy when your emotes are used.
• Make ChatFuel listen to your loyalty bot. Your bot might say something along the lines of “abecderic used !energy to give 1000 RF” when somebody uses their points, so just listen for that.

Feel free to let me know in the comments or on twitter @abecderic what you’re using ChatFuel for. 🙂

Modpack Policy

You can use ChatFuel in your modpack, but monetization is not allowed.