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Ash Rose
Sep 3, 2011

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Hagop posted:

Yah no poo poo, also you fokes need to up your game if I have made it into the top 20 in both of these last two threads.

No kidding, I jumped from 60 to 28 :cmon:

Also, update on my skyden world. I think someone last thread asked about my spawner. I took the design from somewhere (these forums most likely).



Internal shot with some skylights punched in.







Next is my spider pen.



Spiders, and ONLY spider will spawn here since it has a 1 height clearance, glass celling is for appearance, if you make it stone they will spawn all the time, however since they are in the dark they will agro on you as soon as you go near it and that noise can be obnoxious. Stand in the entrance and lure them to the it with a bow, they will run at the 1-wide opening that they cannot enter, kill them how you please and collect your precious spider eyes.



Also, goon opinions needed, which looks better, glass panes or glass covers?



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Ash Rose
Sep 3, 2011

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Fazana posted:

Tekkit chat... I thought I'd try using as much of the MFR mod as I can and started with conveyors to move stuff around and I've hit a snag pretty much right out of the box. Without RedPower, whats the most efficient way to get a redstone pulse to fire an ejector so I can get the stuff onto the conveyors from the mining turtle chest?

I'm about to test out a redstone engine to see if that will work but I'm wondering if there's something buried in a mod there that will let me make the equivalent of a RedPower pulsing timer circuit?

Thanks!

Learn the PRC.

Love the PRC.

Live the PRC.

Ash Rose
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Fazana posted:

Those are both good answers thanks and will be something I'll look into eventually, it's just we are quite early into the world building stage and doing either of those compared to knocking up a single block RP stone circuit is quite an undertaking.

I think for now I'll stick with ye olde piping with a redstone engine and take some time to read up on both those options when I have some free time.

Do note that wood pipes connect to conveners, super convenient.

Ash Rose
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Nothing too complicated going on, they only need 2x2x1 as far as I know.







Unless you make it long as hell, they will not spawn if you are standing next to it since mobs will not spawn within like 16 blocks of you. Spider eyes are not too terribly hard to get a hold of, I just went with this aproach since it is pretty much risk free and kind of neat looking. Ghast tears on the other hand.



:shepicide:

edit: A wide shot of my current set-up for block porn enthusiasts.

Ash Rose fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Aug 4, 2013

Ash Rose
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Vib Rib posted:

Anyone have any thoughts on Tinkers Construct regarding materials for bows and arrows? Apparently different rules apply than on normal weapons, because a metal bow takes forever to draw. I guess that makes sense, of course. But I was wondering if anyone had a bow setup they'd recommend, or any insight.

Green Slime does wonders for me, get a stack of arrows with a ton of quartz slapped on and you will be hitting for about 20 hearts worth of damage.

edit: seems the best arrows are paper of all things, 360 quartz makes it more damaging but slightly less accurate than manyullyn.

Ash Rose fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Aug 7, 2013

Ash Rose
Sep 3, 2011

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Abe Frohman posted:

If anyone is looking for a place to play, we've got a private pack and server. It's kind of a high adventure with tech pack, either send me a PM or hit me up on steam http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198055085731/

We've got room for 4-6 people.

Edit- It's no PvP, pretty chill group of people, sometimes there are events whenever we feel like it.

So far I have hidden from infernal mobs in my pink lake-house and collected an absurd variety of gems, as well as getting lost in a rift in time and space.

Fun times so far.

Ash Rose
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swampface posted:

Is there a way to increase the amount of quartz generated in tekkit? I've adjusted all the other ores upwards using the thermal expansion, but don't see a way to increase quartz.

Should be an option in AE config, though it is a little more vague than the TE options.

Ash Rose
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Wow, look at this tranquil pad!



Welcome to the juice bar.



Check out the rack of juice.



And the wall of gems (truly truly outrageous).



If only I wasn't the only person on server.

Seriously though, kinda digging on underground biomes and gems+, I can see why the bloat would annoy people but running around in jade armor is fun.

Ash Rose
Sep 3, 2011

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Turtlicious posted:

I do not want to make this again, even in creative :smith:

What's the best way to make an automatic power system? Ease wise? I can't chunk load the nether, and I don't want to do anything complicated, I just want a lot of power so I can screw around with power suits and quarries and stuff.

Depends on what pack you are using. With an automatic tree farm and AAs, you can recreate the banks of magmatics with steam engines for half the output.

If you have mechanism, you could always go solar or wind.

Hell, if you have magical crops you can do the magmatics by growing netherack and smelting it into lava at a crucible which is a positive energy loop, get enough going to power your magmatics and you are good to go.

As for needing the power for powersuits, In the world I am in right now I find even just the solar generator module to be plenty to run my shields and full-power jetpack. If you need any more than that get the kinetic generator and learn to manage heat.

Ash Rose
Sep 3, 2011

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All you need is a single part of a tool to be paper in order to get the writable aspect (such as the binding which has no effect on durability), early on it is best to use stone, bone, or flint depending on what you have access too. Unfortunately, since using metal requires using the smeltery you will most likely need a normal iron pick at some point in-between. If you have Artifice, make the jump to steel early since it is durable as hell and will let you get cobalt.

Ash Rose
Sep 3, 2011

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Uggg, Vib Rib your friend's pack has spoiled me, I cannot go back to packs with the old Tinkers Construct build without hammers, as well as the current build of Artifice.

Good thing I just remembered Toast exists :getin:

Ash Rose
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Vib Rib posted:

Wait, which pack are we talking about here?
Please excuse me, I am retarded and confused you with Abe Froman. 60 hour work weeks and whatnot.

Ash Rose
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SugarAddict posted:

To be fair, she did come up with pipes that work differently and are an alternative to buildcraft, mobile Frames, redpower wiring, logic systems, and a whole slew of other stuff.

I remember when frames came out I saw the video and direwolf's first thought was :regd08:.

Now we have all sorts of mods each which copy or improve upon the stuff redpower had.

The frames are a prime example of her lovely coding though, those were legendary for being problematic. RedPower in general had huge lag problems that were more of an issue than just loading a chunk or 2.

Ash Rose
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Lizard Wizard posted:

Uh...I just looked up Redstone Energy Cells, and holy poo poo that's a lot of machines to get what amounts to a Buildcraft version of a Batbox. Are you sure there's not some easier way?

Just start off powering machines individually with steam engines, machines can hold some power in them as it is. Getting to the point where you don't have worry about moving power takes a little bit longer than in say IC2, but the ease of making the machines and how no-nonsense the power transport is when you get it is a nice compromise in my eyes.

Pidmon posted:

Is there any way to revert the technic launcher to be non-beta? I tried putting it in the Beta version so I could play the shaders+ pack and get started on my Fez-in-Minecraft thing, and now I can't even get the launcher to start so my other plans of just loving around in Hexxit have gone down the bloody toilet.

Go into your technic folder, locate the two setting files in the root directory and look for a line in them referring to buildstate. Change from beta to stable.

Ash Rose fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Oct 14, 2013

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Pidmon posted:

I made that mistake too when first getting the texture packs setup how I wanted 'em earlier, before the beta SNAFU. Thanks axelsoar.

Edit: NEvermind, it isn't working. Would reinstalling help at all? What would I have to remove?

Make sure you did not edit the file in word or something that adds metacharacters, I also know one of the instances of beta had parens around it and that needs to be preserved. Make sure you saved etc.

Ash Rose
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Help.



I've changed the settings in the DimDoors config to not have these spread, and to not spawn enderman, but Even after going through this a few times with a rift remover in creative these things keep coming back.

Ash Rose
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It just keeps getting worse.



Every oddly shadowed spot of snow indicates a rift above it.

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Preem Palver posted:

I found this pack with a quick google search. I don't know how faithful it is to the original tronic pack, and it hasn't been updated for 1.7.2, but should work with the 1.6 series of patches.


What's the go-to mod for easy power generation nowadays? I haven't messed around with tech stuff since 1.5, and I always just harnessed the power of hell itself (ie a chunkloaded pump in the Nether feeding TE magmatic engines through liquid tesseracts) to generate power back then. I'm looking for something that is similarly low maintenance; I mostly just need a macerator for AE quartz dusts and something to power some MFR farms. Right now, I'm thinking my best option is probably going to be MFR's biofuel generator with Buildcraft installed just for the pipes.

I use a big ol' reactor via big reactors.

An advanced solar generator from mechanism will power a early base for longer than you'd think as well.

Ash Rose
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Regardless of how I fiddle with it, the version of DimDoors in Toast will always have rifts spreading like mad regardless of the config file.

I keep having to go into the same spot and wave a rift remover around in creative for 10 minutes every so often.

Ash Rose
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Anticheese posted:

It'd be nice if all these mod liquids could be poured out in the world or have more things to do with them other than production and filling up railcraft tanks.

Not everyone can be KL or PC.

Also, every liquid needs straw support.

Ash Rose
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Sir Lucius posted:

I made a road

Yeah? well, I can make pretty stuff too!... kind of.











Of course I am like several hundred blocks north of the road so nobody will ever see it :smith:.

Ash Rose
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Serifina posted:

What server are you guys on, and can people join it?

Taffer posted:

I feel like kind of a jerk for constantly linking this, but people keep asking, so.... Yes. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3583789

Ash Rose
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Rapt0rCharles9231 posted:

Anyone else find the ender IO conduits to be an extreme energy vampire? It almost doesn't even seem right, it eats up my elite energy cube in like 10 minutes without any machines running!

I'm using toast crunchy btw.

Sounds like you have your energy going in a loop, when it enters a conduit there is loss and if it keeps going back in forth it will eventually drain all your power.

edit:

Falcon2001 posted:

One more reason CJ is awful I guess :( I wish there was a proper replacement for railcraft.

This is what I don't get. What are people even using railcraft for anymore. Tanks? because there are tons of alternatives now.

Ash Rose
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Republicanus posted:

RC alternatives.

I have never used RC in packs that use it and have gotten along just fine. It is more trouble than it is worth imho.

Ash Rose
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Are there any PRC wizards in the thread? All I want is to have one that when it gets an input from a pressure plate, it sends a signal for 5 seconds.

edit: Nevermind, Pulse-Lengthener solved my problems.

Ash Rose fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Nov 18, 2013

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taiyoko posted:

So I decided in my SSP world that waiting to make stuff till I'd legitimately gathered supplies was taking too long.

So what I'm wondering, is there a way to use ME crafting with a TE3 induction smelter? Particularly, I want to use sand + 2 bronze dust -> 2 bronze bars with a chance of slag. I have it crafting the dust, but I can't figure out how to get a ME Interface with a pattern to register the pattern as usable.

In the Progess pack, I am able to have a setup like this:

XOX

X= interface, O = induction smelter.

The left interface is input, that side of the induction smelter is set to blue, and the right interface is what takes the output and puts it back in the ME network, and that side of the smelter is set to orange.

The left interface has the patterns in it, with patterns like 1 gold and 1 silver make 2 electrum in it. There should be no need for an item router, this will make things on demand, 1 at a time.

Ash Rose
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Fortis posted:

Does Project: Red have Flax? I know Natura's got cotton and all, but it's a bit of a pain in the rear end compared to flax, which was dead easy. Project: Red's documentation is non-existant, so I know it's a 1:1 recreation of RedPower (but hopefully optimized...) but I don't know if they've gotten to recreating flax yet.

Edit: Also does it do the same bullshit thing where the machines are in the same module as the volcanos and rubber trees?

Just ranch some sheep using MFR, if you have enderIO you can use a SAG furnace to get string out.

Ash Rose
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King Hotpants posted:

I've just started to mess around with MFR's programmable rednet controller. I'm trying to set it up so that a button press gives me a constant-on output signal for 10 minutes, then shuts off again. This way, I can run my mining drill for set periods without draining all my batteries dry. I can't figure it out, though. Can anyone guide me in the right direction (or give me an easier way to do the same thing)?

edited:

OK, after doing some testing the main problem is that pulse lengthener, the program designed for this situation, deals in ticks, which is fine since you can add enough ticks together to approximate 10 minutes, depending on lag, but the constants you can declare only allow values up to 255. You can however, chain analogue addition commands, adding 2 255 constants to output to Var 1, then on program 2 run another addition, adding 255 to Var 1 to make Var 2, etc. until you get the number you want. Expand your PRC memory as needed or chain PRCs together.

Ash Rose fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Dec 10, 2013

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Looking to do something with PRC, I want a to send a signal to the output for a short time when it changes from night to day and vice versa. I'm still figuring out what most of the circuits are on this thing.

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Serifina posted:

Definitely not until much later in the game - that requires silk touching redstone, and pulverizing it. With only like a 5 or 10% chance of getting cinnabar. Unless you have Tinker's Construct or an enchanting mod, Silk Touch is a pain in the rear end to get. And even TiC requires you to sacrifice an emerald for it. (I do it anyway, but it's part of the whole point that this is eating resources.)

Another option, assuming you have nether ores installed, is going to the nether and finding nether redstone, which smelts into 2 redstone ore blocks. No emeralds or enchanting required.

Also, if you have TC4, you can use a fluid transposer with liquid cryotherium on cinnabar ore to get TE cinnabar, in NST atleast.

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Serifina posted:

That last sounds like a custom recipe. I'm pretty sure there's no such recipe on Progress or Wylker's, the two places I play. Both do have nether ores, but to be honest, I don't like them at all - the nether already freaks me the hell out much of the time and having them trigger zombie pigmen to come kill me is just too much. Particularly on Wylker's, where we also have Infernal Mobs so it's crazy scary.

I just checked and it is in Progress.

Ash Rose
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Blue is input, Orange is output, Yellow is none.

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Hey mechaet, I got a minor problem with NST diet. The recipe for making TE hardened glass only takes mechanism obsidian dust and not, you know, TE pulverized obsidian.

Ash Rose
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Speaking of computercraft, I just got into it recently, and it has been a fun intro to lua. However, I spent the better part of 2 hours pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to hook up a monitor to my computer, only through tons of trial and error did I find that I can't connect to the right side of my 2x2 advanced monitor with a wired modem for some undocumented reason. Exact same program (except the name of the monitor changed for the new modem placement) and it only works when I connect to the left side.

Ash Rose
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Sage Grimm posted:

Unless you want distant computers to directly write to the monitor...

That is exactly what I want unfortunately, working on making a base control system that has a monitor in a central location and the computer is hidden away, next I will try to have it work with several monitors, which does not seem to be that hard from what I've seen, wrap each one to a different value of a table and and itterate through it for screen output. The computer will catch monitor_touch events from any number of attached monitors, right?

Ash Rose
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Khorne posted:

Modems take up a peripheral slot.

I...yes?

Not sure what you are getting at, I wrapped it like this
code:
 monitor = peripheral.wrap("monitor_3") 
with the string being whatever the name of the monitor was on the network.

Ash Rose
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:

Is there a smoother process for trying Lua scripts in ComputerCraft inside NST without having to shoehorn the script into its archive file? I see that it chokes up and crashes if you try to insert a newer file in while everything is running, which means having to restart Minecraft every time I have a syntax error.

In my day we edited our programs with vi and we LIKED it!

Ash Rose
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Arrath posted:

Imagine how terrible that would be :v:

Funny thing is, that thing is less functional than vi. I guess being able to click to move the cursor is nice though.

Ash Rose
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Attack of the B-Team trip report.



Why am I a pig?

edit:



Wheeeee, I have stopped caring why I am the things I kill and have learned to love being a bat.

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I am trying to get into attack of the B-team, and I can sorta understand leaving AE out of a pack but what on earth leads someone to think not including treecapitator or inventory tweaks is a good idea.

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