The 1.8.6 Update!

Tested on internal dedicated server, and seems to work

Additions:

• Tube Man (the fabric-material guy that always looks happy and says 'hey come here!', axes can rotate it, shift right click to inflate and deflate)
• Another toilet variant, commonly placed in a row, two styles (axes/wrenches and shears are how it can be changed)
• Grab Bar (used for safety and required in some areas, horizontally expandable)

Changes and Fixes:

• Anything that used isClientSide uses the method version instead for future use
• More tags added for compatibility with other mods Other small changes

The 1.8.5 Update is here! Tested on dedicated server and seems to work

Additions and Improvements:

• White Shelves (cube and sectioned variants, displays items stored inside)
• Decorational Bucket (tries to display fluids inserted from buckets)
• More Long Distance Phone Reflectors
• Cell Tower Amplifier
• Rubber Duck
• Deluxe Cat Tree
• Deluxe Arcade Machine
• Fancy Gas Pump
• Air Station
• Safe
• Cake Display Case (right click cake on block to show it)
• Easel (blank)
• Daunting Statue (copper-base, does not weather)
• "The Mansion" (a 5x4 painting variant)
• Ultra HD TV now has channels; right click TV to change the channel

Changes:

• Some item and blocks got new textures and/or models
• The car wash brushes, tire scrubber, and mitter curtains got updated models, but they are static

1.8.5 Update - New thingamajigs and fancier models Tested on dedicated server and seems to work

Additions and Improvements:

• White Shelves (cube and sectioned variants, displays items stored inside)
• Decorational Bucket (tries to display fluids inserted from buckets)
• More Long Distance Phone Reflectors
• Cell Tower Amplifier
• Rubber Duck
• Deluxe Cat Tree
• Deluxe Arcade Machine
• Fancy Gas Pump
• Air Station
• Safe
• Cake Display Case (right click cake on block to show it)
• Easel (blank)
• Daunting Statue (copper)
• "The Mansion" (a 5x4 painting variant)
• Weight Scale now displays item weight in inventory if shift-right clicked
• Ultra HD TV now has channels; right click TV to change the channel
• Panoramic Camera (creative OPs only, makes a panorama-ready set of images in your screenshots directory based on your current position and rotation)

Changes:

• Many items and blocks renamed or given a new texture
• Some dynamic models now use degrees to convert to radians instead of directly using radians, so when changing the y_angle, use degrees (0-359)
• Some dynamic models are better centered on their block position
• Ceiling fan, car wash brushes, mitter curtain, and car tire brush received new dynamic models (they use block model parts positioned together in a renderer)
• Ceiling fan direction can be reversed if a wrench or lever is used on it
• Rubber Leaves become snowy if snow lands on top of them (powdered, layer or full block)
• Soda Machine, Gumball Machine, Rubber Door, Rubber Trapdoor, Ball Pit and more textures changed
• Claw Machine and some other models changed
• Updated the Thingamajigs Treatise

Thingamajigs for NeoForge 1.8.4!

Tested to work on 1.21 dedicated server connected as a 1.21.1 client with 2 other mods installed on both sides. Should work in most scenarios. It is recommended to play this mod on 1.21.1 instead of 1.21.

Additions and Improvements:

All features from classic Thingamajigs 1.8.0-1.8.4 added, which includes:

• Animated Ice Rink (shift right click to toggle)
• Animated Deer (use axes to change mode, or use the Reindeer Head to toggle antlers)
• Snow Machine (shift right click to toggle)
• More Decorative Statues
• Ball Pit (healthy plastic spheres to jump in)
• Newspaper Dispenser
• Restaurant Trash Can
• 3 New Custom Plant types that spawn in various biomes
• Football Goal (American Football)
• Round Clothes Rack
• Sphere Rolling Into Rings Arcade Game
• "3D" Pizza
• Plunger
• Tire
• Food Cooler (with storage using Key item)
• Cardboard Box (with storage using Key item)
• More Rare Game Consoles (rare types)
• Towel Stack
• Pool Table (2 variants)
• All BlockEntity-based item forms of blocks have a 3d model in hand and inventory now
• Furious Statue (Redstone Block Statue)
• Sorrow Statue (Lapis Block Statue)
• Soccer Ball (known as the football in most areas)
• Basketball
• Tennis Ball (stackable by clicking more tennis balls onto existing piles)
• Tennis Net (vertically and horizontally stackable)
• Tennis Racket
• Crossbar Switch (old telephone copper wire network device)
• Ingame Config Screen
• Stainless Washer
• Weight Scale
• Axis Switches and their associated relays (old telephone copper wire network devices)
• Paintbrush item model updated to use handheld instead of generic one

New Features from this version:

• Creative Mode Tab Themes (red, orange, green, blue and purple, client-side only, effects background and scrollbar, but not the tab sprites, toggleable with ingame config)
• Mixins for creative tab theme feature
• Split common config into client and server config, and split client and server code into two places

Additions:

• Asphalt Layers (places like snow layers, 4 ages)
• Sidewalk Layers (places like snow layers, 3 variants)
• Furious Statue (Redstone Block Statue)
• Sorrow Statue (Lapis Block Statue)
• Soccer Ball (known as the football in most areas)
• Basketball
• Tennis Ball (stackable by clicking more tennis balls onto existing piles)
• Tennis Net (vertically and horizontally stackable)
• Tennis Racket
• Thingamajig Painting (painting placer for thingmajigs paintings)
• Crossbar Switch (for classic phone offices)
• Config Screen (ingame configuration)
• Phones can now call numbers (built-in ones, with error checking and feedback tones/messages)
• Paintbrushes can be right-clicked in the inventory to change their 'length' which when the paintbrush is used places directionally more road markings in a row behind and in front of the placement position, up to the configurable maximum
• Stainless Washer (a more sleek, metallic version of the washer)
• Weight Scale
• Axis Switches (old phone system xy switches)
• Axis Switch Relays (old phone system xy switch relays)

Changes and Improvements:

• Animated Deer item has in-world model now
• Animated Deer BE should now properly show setting changes without a manual block update
• Bowling Pins only get knocked down by items that are bowling ball tagged (the item entity itself has to have a 'bowling ball' item)
• Paintbrushes' models are handheld instead of a generic item model now
• Reworked some logic here and there
• Purifying Water textures remade (flowing and still)
• Disabled blue creative background as it is being retired after ~3-5 years of service
• Legacy code marked as 'for removal' due to not being used at all, excluding methods used by some items (if you are making addons, do not use these marked pieces of code)
• Paintbrushes and Torch-like blocks have had some minor performance boosts and otherwise cleanup to their code, including deprecating and removing ancient code
• Added mixins for Painting so that the Thingamajig Painting item can be dropped from a Thingamajigs Variant Painting (will drop vanilla item normally even if the modded item cannot drop)
• Changed name of Phone Switcher to "Step Switcher (Phone)" to better reflect what it actually is
• Moved incompatible code from both sidedness to client and server split sidedness
• Added ThingamajigsDecorationBlock and ToggledStateBlock blockstate gen for easier decoration blockstate file making (this means addons can use the blockstate gen to make properly formatted files that use Thingamajigs' block classes and decorations can be made faster)
• Changed some paintings' designs or remastered them
• Some phone sound effects changed to reflect their new uses and added more
• Thingamajigs' Treatise updates

New Late Fall Update! 1.8.3!

Additions and Changes:

• Football Goal (American Football)
• Round Clothes Rack
• Sphere Rolling Into Rings Arcade Game (uses 2 block parts)
• "3D" Pizza
• Plunger
• Tire
• Food Cooler (with storage using Key item)
• Cardboard Box (with storage using Key item)
• More Rare Game Consoles (including an unreleased prototype)
• Towel Stack
• Pool Table (2 variants)
• All BlockEntity-based item forms of blocks have a 3d model in hand and inventory now
• Various other small changes

We skipped some version numbers on purpose. Tested to work on dedicated servers.

Additions and Improvements:

• Dental Cup
• Wall TV
• Notable Game Consoles and a Rare variant
• Barber Shop Pole, chair and hair dryer
• Cash Register Hitbox/model updated
• Air Fryer
• Cat Tree
• Clever Blackboard
• Umbrellas with 16 colors using dyes
• Chimney
• Animated Ice Rink (shift right click to toggle)
• Animated Deer (use axes to change mode, or use the Reindeer Head to toggle antlers)
• Snow Machine (shift right click to toggle, and watch the flakes fly)
• More Decorative Statues (some need certain tool types to break, so be careful)
• Ball Pit (certain places can have the totally healthy and clean plastic spheres, woohoo!)
• Resin Filled Block (it's seemingly useless here...)
• Newspaper Dispenser
• Restaurant Trash Can
• 3 New Custom Plant types that spawn in various biomes
• And much, much more!

Changes:

• Lots of changes to side-issues and subtle things
• Removed some unused classes and cleaned up other parts of code
• Particular Statue has subtitle of 'Walking Abroad' to match other new statues now
• New biome tags that mods can use so custom plants can spawn there
• Painting tags have been removed for now (regarding Thingamajigs paintings being placable in survival) as a hotfix to a strange bug.

Thingamajigs 1.8.1 Update!

This is the final update for 1.21.4!

Tested on internal dedicated server, and seems to be working.

Additions and Improvements:

• Inficart is back! (you can ride it now, start it up with green blocks above, or red blocks to stop below, or manually give it resins to boost it to your desired speed, and shift right click resin to slow it down again, by default, the cart uses fun physics introduced with experiments, have fun :D ;) )
• More statues (4 new statues with unique artistic styles)
• Snow Machine (shift-right click to toggle; it endlessly fires little snow pieces, with a satisfying poof)
• Ball Pit (old feature recreated, with fun plastic spheres flying about as you run through them, and sounds too)
• Resin Filled Block (uninteresting at day, but wait till nightfall)
• Animated Deer (2 modes changed with an axe or wrench, and antlers can be toggled with a Reindeer Head)
• 3 new plants that generate in various biomes (go explore to collect them all, and bring shears)
• Lots of little changes for various features that cannot be put into words here

Changes and Fixes:

• More future proofing and internal code changes, including removal of old classes that are not referenced at all