[Addon 1.81]Wireless EU Storage

1st Official Post

    This is a addon that i've been working on this week. It's not that good but well enough to make you satisfied. This is still initial release. Expect bugs!

    News: Update to 1.2.4 is slow due to a major re-write(probably will take a week and maybe released when IC2 for 1.2.5 is released). You'll find it soon.

    Warning: A known bug have reported that it will regenerate the chunk the block it is in if it's full. Please becareful or your house might get incinerated.

    Description:

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    This addon adds only one block. The Wireless MFES Unit. Be sure to break it with a wrench or else you'll lose a lot of things.
    The block looks like this:


    The crafting is like so:

    requires 1 LV-transformer, 1 MV-transformer, 1 HV-transformer, 2 MFSUs, 1 Teleporter, 2 Ender pearls, 1 UU-Matter
    (note: the recipe seems to not want to appear in Craft Guide nor NEI if you don't set enableSecretRecipeHiding=true to false in IC2.cfg but the crafting works)

    The block it self stores 20m EU, accepts up to 2048 EU (EV) and can share energy through out the same block that have the same frequency. It can also be used as a 'teleport cable'

    Once you've open up the GUI you'll see it like this:


    It has three buttons.
    is the button to open up the frequency GUI

    is the button to set the output power (32, 128, 512 EU)

    is the button to open up the redstone behavior screen


    If you clicked the frequency button, It will show a gui like this:

    Here you can set the frequency for the Block. Owner will set be set to your username. Owner is not modifiable.

    Or if you clicked the redstone behavior button, it will show a gui like this:

    Click the arrows to cycle through available redstone behaviors.

    Oh and once the block is full it will became green ;)



    Config:

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    Config is named IC2WirelessMFES.cfg
    contains everything for conflict handling.

    default block ID = 128
    default GUI ID(Redstone Behavior) = 131 (will be removed in the next update)

    default GUI ID(Frequency) = 130 (will be removed in the next update)

    default GUI ID(WMFES) = 129

    next update:
    default item id = 512

    Changelog:

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    1.0.2
    - ported to MC 1.2.3
    - rewrite of some things
    - shrinked the frequency gui
    | SMP is not yet ready. Got a couple of NPEs in the way.

    1.0.1
    - Server initial release (untested yet)
    - Fixed packet being sent when it's not multiplayer
    - Fixed a ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
    - Some changes in GUI opening code to use forge's code.
    - Merged into one zip

    1.0.0
    - Initial release from all of my private testing.


    Please do not use my source unless you gave me credit and ask me for permission. The source contains examples for forge packet handling as well as gui things.

    Before you download USE FORGE 1.4.1.60!

    1. Congratulations on your first ic2 mod

    2. I commend you for not making a 1000m eu storage block

    3. I salute you on making every single Wire useless.

    And thats it, the only bone i have to pick its with the Zero Waits - Zero Efforts energy transfer, but its your mod so who cares about what i say. (That is of course, if i understood completely how it works)

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    1. Congratulations on your first ic2 mod

    2. I commend you for not making a 1000m eu storage block

    3. I salute you on making every single Wire useless.

    And thats it, the only bone i have to pick its with the Zero Waits - Zero Efforts energy transfer, but its your mod so who cares about what i say. (That is of course, if i understood completely how it works)

    It's not my first though(this does not include the Induction Fix). 2 MFSUs = 2mil EU 20Mil EU. Yes it's pretty useless and overpowered.

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    3. I salute you on making every single Wire useless.

    Somehow, I doubt anyone will spend 4 MFSUs + multiple other resources to make a set of these, if they're just going from room to room, or even to other places within the general area... and wires are SOO much easier to build.

    Better uses for these I reckon include major power generation facilities that aren't at-home, or at-project locations. Or you could setup huge generation facilities on smp servers as some sort of large nuclear plant, and share your energy!

    I do agree that there should be some sort of energy loss, or penalty though for using these. High cost alone is not a balancing factor, even though by the time you get 40+ diamonds and stuff spare to make these, 'balance' is kinda moot.

    Great mod idea, no more cross-country wires, not that I ever did that, too lazy :P .

    Thanks for releasing such an amazing mod.

    I was wondering if we could port this to bukkit with your blessings (just the server part of it).


    Also omfg I hope you consider doing more mods in the future I for one have a large SMP Server with massive power stations. One person has over 10,000 Solar Panels to give you an idea and were looking to make a massive city.

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    Wow. first impressions: (haven't tried it yet, i'll wait for the 1.2.3 port)

    1: Epic looking mod
    2: Holy expensive batman. But given there's zero loss it'll have to be expensive as a balance factor.

    [22:54:10] <JoneK> Wireless MFSU NO!
    [22:54:15] <JoneK> BIG no!
    [22:54:36] <JoneK> Unless..
    [22:54:58] <JoneK> You make a big MIcrowave transmitter / Receiver + the loss would be like 90%

    And i'm talking like BIG arrays!

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    [22:54:10] <JoneK> Wireless MFSU NO!
    [22:54:15] <JoneK> BIG no!
    [22:54:36] <JoneK> Unless..
    [22:54:58] <JoneK> You make a big MIcrowave transmitter / Receiver + the loss would be like 90%

    And i'm talking like BIG arrays!

    No one is forcing you to use this ;)

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    Nice one yet again pwned, I miss the old BC-IC crossover that was for IC 1.23 or something, I used those as wireless energy, was nice, teleport pipes, hooked up to that converter hooked up to an mfsu. Was lossy and expensive, but necessary, this will replace that system:D

    Holy Batman! I only have one thing to say for this!


    No, seriously... I've been wanting this since, 1.5 version of Minecraft beta... Nice work!

    Edit: Is this a .jar install or a mods/folder install?


    I'm just going to wait till the 1.2.3 port.. 1.3.4 Forge doesn't like my minecraft for some reason...

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    this isn't about arrogance or ego, I have a block that I put a lot of freaking work into


    Every Mod Author, in existence. And yet, you STILL say otherwise.

    Actually this have his utility, even in a SMP server (and I don´t like SMP because MC hates SMP really), example will be just and admin item, you can save a lot of lag, in a SSP I find useful too because this will reduce (I suppose cause II can´t play MC from a minilaptop) massive tons of lags.

    Nice addon I will implement it in my MC after developers fix the Forge bug !