Sawmill

I like the idea of IC2 being a far less daunting GT (funny how that works out with GT still being an addon), smaller, yet with most of the functionality. This would mean more machines and ways to transport items, and such. I agree with Choco and the sawmill... but it would be nice if it were a multiblock- not just any boring prism multiblock but a unique mill-like multiblock. Or a process that requires many machines, so users make their own multiblock essentially.

Rather than adding a sawmill machine, why not just add a wood cutting recipe to the Block Cutting Machine?

It would also justify the addition of sawdust and plywood. Which would be interesting.

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If added I'd like to have it be powered by kU, also some basic kU transmission system.

I had an idea for kU transportation: Metal rods and gearboxes, similar to the axles from Better Than Wolves. Maybe the metal rods could just be those almost useless iron fences, and they change shape when connected to a gear box

There are already Iron Shafts (Extruding Block of Iron) which are used for some kinetic machines. It would be interesting if one could place them and place other kinetic machines in the same row. like I have 2 sets of double turbines and i connect them with iron shafts and then i connect all that to one kinetic generator.

Like this:

With cables being iron shafts and wind mills being steam turbines

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I had an idea for kU transportation: Metal rods and gearboxes, similar to the axles from Better Than Wolves. Maybe the metal rods could just be those almost useless iron fences, and they change shape when connected to a gear box

Um , RotaryCraft anyone?

RoC already has the shaft power idea very fleshed out AND quite
a lot of converters for other energy systems.

My idea was to have only one axis and everything would have to be in line with that. so multiple turbines and then one kinetic generator in one line connected by something like iron shafts

Instead of axels and gearboxes, we could do hydraulics or pneumatics, though they aren't original either. They are simpler though.

let's stick to the mechanics that already are in IC2 exp. they added heat and kU, i think they won't add another system for power transport. having a line of turbines is realistic so that would make sense and it would be easy to implement compared to several new items, blocks and a now API

I like the idea to add a sawmill it is really helpful if you want to build your base with wood

why kU? it makes more sense for EU and just say its an elec motor as it would be IRL.
unless you go back to steam powered saw mills, then it'd be kU. belt transmission btw.

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why kU? it makes more sense for EU and just say its an elec motor as it would be IRL.
unless you go back to steam powered saw mills, then it'd be kU. belt transmission btw.

Or allow both?

And a standard furnace (not blast) that runs on hU would be cool too.

Macerators running on kU would make sense too.

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Letting the iron furnace accept heat would actually be really cool, since very few people actually make it other than when making generators. It would be a bit like Factorization's furnace heater letting you use it's power to run vanilla furnaces.
If we had kinetic macerators, we'd really need hand cranks to power them, so you could end up with slow, yet early game maceration.

Or we could use a similar concept to Sync and get animals to do it for you.