Gus_Smedstad Builder

It’s true that I’ve seen things in snippets of code that raise my hackles. I’m thinking specifically of the bit that checks if you’re right-clicking on a machine with a bucket of water, and removes any paint if you are.

Said code creates a new water…

I suspected the pipes as well, given that every pipe segment is constantly updating, and I’ve got an awful lot of pipes. The hand scanner claimed they weren’t causing delays, but I don’t know if I really trust the scanner on this issue.

Minecraft’s…

I think I’m taking a break from Gregtech.

I starting thinking about this because the only projects on my horizon are building an assembly line so I can make a quantum suit, making a high octane gasoline synthesis line, improving my oil refinery to meet…

The Large Heat Exchanger / Turbine setup does not appear to destroy water. The large boiler / turbine setup does, so clearly the problem is purely large boilers. I don’t think it’s a startup problem with the boilers, I think they just consume more…

I've added images to the GT5U / Magneticraft images thread showing my thorium reactor. Also included is a shot of my oil refinery, demonstrating how hairy the plumbing gets, why I find color coded pipes essential, and giving some idea of why I've run out…

Main train station, showing added signals, and two trains. The steam locomotive (yellow, background) is waiting for the electric locomotive (red, foreground), which I've locked in place for this image.



Above ground ore depot for lithium. Note water…

Oil refinery - gives you some idea why I'm feeling like GT5U is a plumbing nightmare. Brown = Heavy fuel or Toluene, Yellow = Light Fuel, Red = Naphtha or Hydrogen, Orange = Sulfuric Acid of Hydrogen Sulfide, Green = Oxygen, Brown / white = Creosote…

Thorium reactor images.

I’m not really that thrilled with the inclusion of a steam buffer in my reactor setup. I just don’t see a better solution.

The way I see it, the problems are:

1. Reactor heat output is somewhat irregular. My thorium reactor produces about 950 HU/sec,…

I had a really bad time with my thorium reactor.

It just wouldn’t work right. The steam reserve kept fluctuating wildly, and the turbines would drift from 100% output to 10% or even stopped seemingly at random.

I fixated for a long time on the steam…

Started up my thorium reactor. It’s apparent that my “steam expansion tank” was ill-conceived, it doesn’t behave at all how I imagined it would. Mainly because for it to work, the expansion tank has to empty really, really fast when the…

Here’s a pretty basic question:

How would the non-technical people out there 1) learn that Linux exists, and 2) obtain a computer with Linux not just installed, but set up so they could easily use it? These are people who, as depressed_pho points out,…

(Quote from GregoriusT)

What alternatives are you imagining? Mac OS? Because Linux doesn’t qualify, nor does any other Unix variant I’m aware of. It’s not remotely user-friendly enough for mass adoption. When you’re talking about “better…

I’m a little fuzzy on the drawbacks of Curse. It tends to be my preferred site to pick up mods because you can easily filter for Minecraft versions. If you’re looking for the version of a mod that works with 1.7.10, that’s helpful.

Definitely. The reactor shell is no big deal, but all the support stuff with heat exchangers and turbines triples the amount of work involved in the block setup. Though there’s an argument to be made that placing all those internal components in the…

“My last couple of fluid reactors blew up” doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in your designs.

Do people actually run reactors in survial without Nuclear Control safety shutoffs? I can see doing it in Creative. I’ve blown stuff up in creative because…

I’m seeing serious water destruction in my boiler -> large turbine loop. I upgraded the rotors the 2x Large Ultimet and 1x Large Vanadium Steel, and the water just started steadily dropping. This isn’t a startup issue, it’s continuous operation.…

I’ve actually got 3 HV blast furnaces, but only 2 of them are set up to transfer hot ingots to a vacuum freezer. #1 is my steel / general purpose furnace (hooked to oxygen), #2 is my titanium furnace (hooked to titanium tetrachloride), and #3 is my…

That’s a lot of reactors. Between the reactors themselves (5x5x5) and turbines, that must have taken up a lot of space. I’m guessing you only needed one heat exchanger even with that many reactors.

My plan is currently to build just one fluid reactor…

Speaking of reactors...

I think I finally have a theoretical understanding of reactor design, rather than just blindly copying internet designs. It helped to actually run a reactor and observe where the heat appeared to be going. A big problem with the…