Posts by Rick

Quote from AkhkharuXul

Ya, the reactor space thing is an industrial craft issue I think, because it uses a function to determine the size of the reactor [3x6 + 1x6 / reactor chamber]. Or else red power would already work perfectly with it, as tubes avoid full inventories as well. If you're using buildcraft for it, you could just use an obsidian pipe where they land and stuff it back into the filling pipe (using an iron pipe obviously so it'd go the right way.)

I found that a bit annoying as well. I tried to find a way around it, and even looked at the code, but I don't think there is since to use buildcraft and/or redpower to add items to the reactor it can't be 6 chambers, so the reactor could potentially always have more space. If we could pipe into the chambers instead of just the core, then it'd probably work perfectly and we wouldn't have the buckets flying out of the reactor.

The buckets have to keep coming the slightest delay (in this case the time it takes from chest to the reactor) will meltdown the reactor. You cannot wait 10 sec for the buckets to arrive they need to be spammed all the time to prevent delays.

Also lower power generators arent exactly safer. If it bugs then it will explode anyway even with 1 uranium. So to keep it simple:
Cooling system working: No meltdown
Cooling system bugged: Meltdown

Less uranium would only increase the time it takes to meltdown but since you arent babysitting it all the time this is quite neglictable.

No that would make it too easy to make.

Note for mcediting reactors:
When you mcedit these reactors ALL REDPOWER 2 MACHINES will stop working. To fix this you have to replace them ALL. Hope it was clear enough

As for the detector block it just saved my reactor from a metldown. The cooling system stopped and the buckets disapeared (ye another lesson do not stop the cooling system for >5 mins) so it wasnt running even near full capacity but my item detector saved me :). Other ways will not work (ye maybe 1 in 8 times) since with the 640 eu/tick reactor it will take only seconds to meltdown.

Also will update first post for brickedkeyboard

Updating to 1.23 caused unplayable lag for me (so bad i had to use taskmanager to kill the proces) on my save. Also all ic2 stuff was gone including the bc pipes. It worked before fine on 1.15. So now i made a new map...

Reactor containment chamber made from iron lulz?

Make sure you wire it correctly then it will work. Transformers output/input higher voltage from the 3 dots and lower voltage from the 1 dot sides. With redstone power you can change whether it will transform it to higher voltage or to lower voltage.

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Those elemental creepers ignore walls. I was behind a cobblestone wall and all of a sudden a fire creeper explode outside the wall and spread the fire in my freaking house...

You would need 2 6-chamber reactors to match the eu output. 2 filled 6 chamber reactors are alot more expensive than 4 0-chamber reactors that dont even use all slots. This is caused by op external cooling.

Better change the title through i got a really complex generator that makes 640 eu/tick on average.

btw: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…c0=1p10101001501521s1r11r
cheaper

I have been using windgens for quite some time. 36 windgens supply pretty much all the power you would need for your machines and can even run your mass fab at a decent speed.

regardless of that its still a unecesary waste.

Before you get quarries its hard to get and will take some time farming. Only after you got a nice base running you can get the resources pretty fast. Thats why i called it engame generator. Having a working quarry costs like 11 diamonds, some gold etc. That means you pretty much did everything in vanilla minecraft.

Also its completely true that even if you got all resources it will still take time to make it working

450 iron just to get the buckets is alot. Then you only got the buckets and you still need the reactor and all the other stuff.

Upgraded my design again. Now it has a timer connected to the detector block instead of repeaters to turn the pulses to continious. Big advantage of this is that it can run any amount of uranium now. You just have to change the timer next to the detector block (less uranium needs slower timer). Uploading it in a moment.

Screenshot showing some of the wiring:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/155/20111030011131.png/

yes it getting pretty full there

Edit: mcedit schematic uploaded see first post for link

150 buckets = 450 iron thats alot more than 150 :). That are only the buckets nothing else.

Its pretty much the endgame generator setup.

As for breeding i already had a idea of a 4000 heat breeder with each uranium cell being surounded by 4 depleted cells. It would turn 5 uranium ore to 8 uranium cells and requires little to none babysitting. But i really dont know a way to make it 6000 or even 9000 heat without babysitting.

What happened i cant login i get bad login everytime?

Btw this will be freaking expensive to make legitemaly. I mean just looking at the buckets. 2 full chests + all those buckets in the pipes that is over 150 buckets. More cost more reward :).

Modified my reactor to use 2 filters pulling out the buckets and added 2 buffer chests (both with a filter) to keep the buckets flowing. So now its running at 640 eu/tick too.

Edit: First post updated with new reactor planner and mcedit schematic.

Atm my reactor got 3 lamps:
-red lamp for the reactor being off
-orange lamp for the reactor being on but still in the 5 secs heat up phase
-green lamp for the system being fully opperational.

I can imagine something like a tower with a light on it to show whether the reactor is on or off can come in handy (since i do not know yet if the shutdown triggers upon loading/unloading chunks). As for noteblocks they are nice but it would also increase the space my reactor takes. Cant think of a reason other than 'coolness' that you would need them.

Also have to modify my design a bit its still using 1 filter to pull out the buckets. Through its only 50 eu/tick more its still a improvement :). Also changed the first post to be more up to date to current designs.

Shadowclaimer if your system lags your pc to death its the system fault. It should have a overflow system. Just dump the excess items in lava or something. I did that to my cactus farm too (10 cactus per sec can freeze minecraft pretty fast).

Its a waste of tin just like many cell stuff is.

I made a casuc reactor now that doesnt blows up :). We discovered that it was the chunk loading that made it blow up so now we make the entire reactor in 1 chunk. On top of that i use a detector block to stop it if something goes wrong (which works extremely good).