Suggestion: Item Assembler (Aka. Electric Crafting Table)

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    So, i came here to suggest the item assembler, that works this way:

    • Power Item assembler (LV),
    • Place raw materials [that doesnt need any further processing {smelting, macerating, compressing...}, ONLY CRAFTING STEPS] inside left chest or internal storage if available,
    • Place Final item recipe,
    • Wait 5 seconds,
    • Final item will be crafted , and sent to right chest if available
    • Energy cost can be defined later for balance reasons.


    • Secondary GUI shows the Third purple square items as raw materials for circuit recipe. [As it is the one which has the most raw materials]
    • This make crafting (very) complicated stuff (like MFSU) much easier.
    • MFSU for example have loads of crafting steps, which would consume LOADS of energy to craft.
    • This is for (lazy) people who doesnt like to make lots of steps to craft something. Although it can be used to autocraft stuff.
    • Crafting time can be highly increased if needed.
    • More Crafting steps = More crafting time = More energy used.
    • Overclocker reduce crafting time but drastically increases energy use.

    You still need to make the final item first before you can mass produce it so meh.


    Also practically an autocrafting table for the lazy bastards. Do not want, Stop being so lazy ic2 isn't for automation.


    You had something good there, but you had to screw it up with autocrafting shet. Son i am dissapoint.

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    Okay, add a button which leads to a second gui which has all items produced into this table and memorizes it. [I can edit pic if you want]
    Autocrafting could be disabled by config if you want. [Pipes and adjacent chests wont work?]
    Crafting something complicated like a mfsu would take about 1 to 2 minutes?


    Making loads of copper cables [insulated], batteries, circuits and other basic stuff makes my finger hurt sometimes because i have to click alot. [even with shiftclick]
    This could be the best crafting table ever, better than RP and BC ones together :D


    You said IC is not for automation, but it is for processing. Crafting is a processing part which has no machines to do it. [Without RP\BC you cant automate this table FYI]
    External chests part can also not be implemented if you want to make automation harder/impossible.


    So, you are not going to take this down so easily! :Nano Saber:MinecraftChar

    >Add New Upgrade Module "Crafting Memory", The more Crafting Memory the machine have, the more complicated the items it can make
    >Remove a good chunk of item recipe so they can't be made on the regular craft table.
    >Slap a Tier to the removed items, Good items like the nuclear reactor will be a higher tier than regular stuff like solar gens and the like; The Higher the Tier the More "Crafting Memory" the machine needs to produce that item.
    >Slap a EU cost to each item.
    >-Optional- Increase CraftGrid Space if you want to.
    >-Optional- Place a Internal Storage in the machine for input items, possible to make it work like the Project Table of Redpower. For each redstone pulse it will produce an item if there are enough materials to do so, the recipe must be already placed inside.
    >-Optional- If possible make the machine to take more than 1 Block of space in the world to make it look cooler
    >-Optional- The machine can have more than one grid to craft more than one item.
    >-Optional- A different machine/block will be able to make "Plans" or "Blueprints" or whatever you want to call it, These blueprints will be for the complicated items like nuclear reactor where it will list the materials needed for its construction, you can place these Blueprints in the New Crafting machine and will make the item automatically if it have enough EU and Raw Materials, The blueprint its consumed when the item its finished/Item construction starts (Cannot be Stopped in that case).


    Dunno what else.


    You are wasting so much potential just to be a lazy ass with lazy ass automation, once again, son i am disappoint.

    here is a thought lets say the initial assembler block does nothing it just has a power buffer and an internal storage, but this internal storage isn't for for normal items its for special machine tool items that each does a different crafting or processing job allowing you to make custom crafting machines like you make a nuclear reactor
    spwnx how did you whip up that gui cause there is no way i'm going to succeed in explaining this with words

    true balance is impossible in video games the best one can hope for is to make it really hard to guess which of 2 choices are better.
    and remember kids "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF JOKES!"

    Paint is your friend, and for the love of alblaka don't suggest a 3 in 1 machine (Craft+Compressor+Extractor) otherwise i will personally kick yer ass.


    @Above, if you read i decided to give the automation a go, ONLY if its isn't so simple as you suggested, you still have to work for it.

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    Quote from passinglurker

    here is a thought lets say the initial assembler block does nothing it just has a power buffer and an internal storage, but this internal storage isn't for for normal items its for special machine tool items that each does a different crafting or processing job allowing you to make custom crafting machines like you make a nuclear reactor
    spwnx how did you whip up that gui cause there is no way i'm going to succeed in explaining this with words

    Multiple pictures + Basic paint knowledge = Project table\large chest\Batbox\MFSU\Electric Furnace GUI's Mixed together. YAY!

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    @Above, if you read i decided to give the automation a go, ONLY if its isn't so simple as you suggested, you still have to work for it.

    You mean like Buildcraft Template/Builder which needs to set something before automation? I wouldn't care about adding this step before automation. Actually i don't care how many steps you add before automation

    Quote from FenixR

    Paint is your friend, and for the love of alblaka don't suggest a 3 in 1 machine (Craft+Compressor+Extractor) otherwise i will personally kick yer ass.

    I was planing on avoiding that. think something like each machine-tool item represents a recipe, and they execute the recipe by pulling items from adjacent inventory slots.


    so to automatically make sticks you would need an item in the assembler inventory that represents the stick recipe like a lathe. following that logic planks would need a band-saw, and picks would need a pneumatic hammer.


    recipes for a 3x3 crafting grid is where things get complicated because there isn't 9 slots available around the recipe item so some recipe items will need to occupy more than 1 inventory slots to get the needed number of inputs.


    note:in case its not clear this is all happening inside the assemblers inventory

    true balance is impossible in video games the best one can hope for is to make it really hard to guess which of 2 choices are better.
    and remember kids "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF JOKES!"

    Quote from FenixR

    Honestly Lurker, im not understanding Jackshit of what you are saying O.o

    like i said i need to whip up some pictures

    true balance is impossible in video games the best one can hope for is to make it really hard to guess which of 2 choices are better.
    and remember kids "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF JOKES!"

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    Please, use THESE : . , [Enter]
    It will help us alot to understand what you want to say.


    Edit: The problem is that the longer a sentence is, the harder it is to understand.

    Ps: BC autocrafting tables are annoying because they need Redstone Engines [which are sloooooow], RP ones are good but it doesnt have a way to automate.
    IC could have both together + some special features. [Like overclocking and "crafting memory"]

    Quote from SpwnX

    Please, use THESE : . , [Enter]
    It will help us alot to understand what you want to say.

    ok i tried some of this grammar stuff you 2 speak so highly of ;)

    true balance is impossible in video games the best one can hope for is to make it really hard to guess which of 2 choices are better.
    and remember kids "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF JOKES!"