You can make them with Buildcraft as well. Using an on/off switch. Had a great one on Industrial Rage. It used a filler to harvest the trees and a builder template to plant the saplings. Simple water transport and obsidian pipe to collect, then wood sorted to chests and sapling re-sent to the builder.
Finally, a simple redstone circuit to power them.
Can't remember who made it (think it was Superzip), but it was very clever.
This is why I love IC²+BC.
The only thing that I can say is build vertical, not horizontal.
Its not all that great, but if you have a 63 deep minable area, you can have 31 walkable levels, multiply that by 81(9 by 9 chunk area right?), its still far more than enough.
Either way, MSFUs are still somewhat realistic if you consider transformer substations in real life.
Its not too bad, especially if you are willing to build a small solar plant by every MSFu to power it in absence of your main power plant.
I'm more of an outdoorsey type :). The idea to supplement the grid with small sub-plants is pretty good. I suppose these problems are not going to be as huge on SMP due to more chunks being loaded...
I mean, what would happen if we make a cable of 100 blocks long with half of it made of glass cable and the other half with gold cable for example. Does the resistance values reset in the "cut" (when one cable connects to the next)?? If it resets in the intersection, could we have a 100 meters long cable made of copper and HV cable alternately with 0 EU lost?
I think the resistance is a tile-value, whereas the resistance-free zone is something thats calculated from a different part of the code. So you'd merely have a funky looking cable causing (R1+R2)/2 losses.
I've been using TMI for a while without issues.
I have not used the armor or anything except for the nuclear reactor items.
It wouldnt cause problems with your gameplay but introduces bugs into IC² that people report, much to the forums dismay.
and then your 70% safe reactor just Happens to blow up FOUR ENTIRE chunks and your chest room NTM the reactor itself and wiring/power storage devices
Thus is the crux of the nuclear age.
Interesting, but... Well, efficiency 3 is good, but... What cooldown period you need to restart this reactor? I mean, if you running MK.I reactor - all you have to do is replace the uranium cells, when they are depleted, and still have the constant energy flow. With this reactor, you wold gain more energy per uranium cell, BUT less energy per second, because of the cooldown...
If you are only an erratic energy user this might be what you want, you can store the energy in MFSUs.
You may want to put the recipe up for the things that you craft, I looked it up on the wiki, while that's not an issue, it does make it easier to read through when becoming acquainted with industrialcraft2
seconded. Looking at the IC1 beginners guide might be good help here. (Apart from quality of language...)
It is kinda of weird when you think about it for a second though. You can create the machine from its base metals yet you are not skilled enough to demount it without breaking it using a special tool that is specifically designed to demount them?
If youve ever taken something apart and then put it back together you'll know that building something is much much easier than taking something apart in a manner that makes it possible to reconstruct it.
even as you say that its not very easy for me to see in sentences i see in move fingers make words if it means it wont be added because of my poor grammar then i guess thats how its gonna be
Welcome to the world, to implement an idea in a project run by a community you need to either convince a) the leader of the community or b) a large part of the community. This usually requires good communication. I kind of understand what you're getting at and would like to see more elaboration.
Display MoreSummation: An alternative recipe to make sticky pistons by using IC^2's sticky resin in place of a Slimeball.
Because some of us have bad luck with finding slimes.
(If someone posted this already please disregard, I looked though the list of suggestions on this folder and searched for 'sticky', no relevant results found.)
Might be imba but makes sense. Maybe make it cost a bit more resin, i.e. make a craftable resin-ball made up of 9 resin.
Well basically I'm looking to store the power.... but the batbox will not "fuel" the other batbox. I can't show you a screenshot yet because im not home.
so your system is solar -> BB -> BB -> machines?
if installed correctly the second batbox should start filling up (when machines are unactivated and solar power is less than 32 EUt). Are you applying redstone anywhere?
Same as above but use a sticky piston that would redirect unused cactus to lava when overflow occurs
could use a chest storage prior to generator and obsidian pipe recovery system around the chest for overload. obs pipes drop the overload in lava. instant win.
Display MoreI am having issues with the same sort of setup...
I have 16 panels plugged into 1 bat box. This bat box then transmits energy down off the roof to another batbox underground... Right now I don't give a hoot about efficiency I just want to get it to work...
My problem is that the batbox receives full power and gets completely filled up in about half a day but has no outgoing energy. I've checked with the EU reader and its got 0 EU/t going out but up to 12 going in. And yes the dot is facing the outbound lanes...
There usually wont be any power flowing if nothings is pulling it, are you running your machines? Also how far away are your machines? batbox wont emit power if no power would reach the target.
Name: Shocking effect!
Description: was shocked by some low voltage cables, and notice it was kinda boring. you just start losing health. so i was thinking, and i would think it would be cool if the shocked player got the "power armor" and a effect across the screen while being shocked! you could also put power armor around un insulated hi-volt cables! it would be awesome to see a creeper shocked to death! you could also make it so you can run power through iron fences! and put power armor around them too!
No recipe
power armor?
1. Makes sense. Problem is, without the water I'll have to figure out some way to even out the heat, because with that design, you can't do it with cooling cells alone. I'll have to think on that one.
2. Perhaps, although I have no problem doing a quick bucket swap with a cooling cell though, so it's only a minor concern. Those few ticks that the reactor gets 1 less cooling are not going to send it into meltdown.
By the way, how much heat does a bucket of lava add to the reactor? Trying to heat this thing up becomes a problem when the heat gets evened out across all the cooling cells.
you could disconnect your external heat from your internal heat. Avoid using HDs and just use plating to disperse heat within your reactor, that way any heat you add to the reactor via lava is independent of your reactors operations.
a) check suggestion thread
b) use batbox/MFE/MFSU
I take it as a challenge to build an efficient well-timed factory. Also if you use binary splitting with BC pipes you'll get approximately even splits starting at about 10-15 items per output. So you can split a 64 stack evenly into 4 macerators quite nicely. Or you can just have an obsidian pipe recovery system which would redistribute surplus input from one machine to other machines which have stack space open.
In my experience, it's not an IC2 game without at least one nuclear crater.
...of course that might just be me... grumble grumble walk away from it for ten minutes...
I always make mine a tourist site, with fencing, viewing platforms and informative signs 
I'm pretty sure that once the wrinkles between IC2 and Buildcraft are smoothed out, an Electric engine will be worked on.
obvious searchbar is obvious. It is being worked on.
There are ways to containing nuclear explosions, the water cubes must be considerably larger though (tested were 9x9 and 11x11) this can be improved by multiple layers of reinforced stone (some of which might get eroded). But Iridium reinforced stuff might be a nice way to upgrade your containment. Idea seconded.
