[Suggestion/Showcase] Buildcraft builder and Construction Foam

This will be one of the projects i will try to do as soon as all the modding tools for 1.2.5 are released (Including buildcraft and Industrialcraft), and i guess i decided to show what im planing to do with it:

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Mod Idea:

Make a better Builder to reduce the amount of CF used in construction:

-Make Vertical Scaffolds and Horizontal Scaffolds. Vertical works like normal scaffolds, Horizontal can extend themselves like roofs or floors in a 10x10 area connected via vertical scaffolds. If anything (Players, Mobs, Blocks and Items) its placed above these scaffolds they will collapse (Other horizontal scaffolds may not make them collapse if they are connected to Vertical Scaffolds)

-Architect Table recognizes Corners and walls as Vertical Scaffolds and Floors and Roofs as Horizontal Scaffolds instead of CF.

-New Builder, works similarly like the Buildcraft one but with special slots to place a Sprayer and CF Capsules. Also can use MJ or EU to work. It will first build the scaffolding, then it will spray Horizontal Scaffolds then Vertical Scaffolds, and lastly it will place everything else. Possibly to place an Extra Upgrade to speed up the Drying of the Construction Foam (This will happen before placing everything else).

-Sprayer Behavior to single out Horizontal and Vertical Scaffolds (CF wont travel to vertical scaffolds if sprayer is used in Horizontal ones and viceversa). Also Sprayer will not return Scaffolds after use.

-Additionally code Different Colors of Construction Foam and CF Capsules, Drying up will give a Colored Wall. Also to Code Sprayer and CFPack to recognize which color of CF they are going to use.

-Additionally change the CF block recipe to give a CF formula instead, this formula can later be colored using a dye, If this formula is used in a compressor it will give a Capsule, if the formula is used in a Extractor it will give 6 CF block and a CF block is used in a furnace it will give a CF Wall.

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It may not be the most hayo-ist or effective way but this is so far a rough sketch of what ill try to do, and it make take a long time to do it but i guess time will tell.

Quote from passinglurker

a cf drying upgrade is simple 1 stack of sand per 64 cf blocks. sand already insta-dries cf manually

I was thinking of a module (Yes i may even place modules in there), that will add an extra step to robot builder, it will look for every CF block and dry it with its lazor. Making the process a little longer consuming more EU/MJ.

So i decided to not make the builder thingy, mostly because im lazy and im not using Buildcraft anymore, if any dev want to change the builder to allow the use of the sprayer and not waste 1k of CF blocks in the construction then fine by me.

Although i may do the colored foam thing somewhere in the future, although i may need the source of the Construction foam class to do it. (And the sprayer and CF Backpack if i want to make them work with the colored CF correctly.)

Anywayyyyy, if the Great DragonLord Alblaka or any other forum mod can lock this little thing (And move it if you want) ill be grateful. Sorry for the Necro!

Quote from GregoriusT

Do you mean one Pellet is worth all 13 shots of a Sprayer or one CFoamblock is worth one placed one?

1 Construction Foam Block per Dryed Construction Foam Wall.

The only thing "Good" i realized from that is that you don't have to wait for the CF to dry. But still, making big buildings can be quite expensive since making 1k CF blocks isn't cheapo. I remember i wanted to make a recipe to Dry the pellet in the furnace and get 6 Walls to make it a little cheaper (I think its on the list)