Posts by Nonotan

I present: Nono's Engineering Challenge #1!

Specifications: A self-contained apparatus that takes wood input and outputs torches (and byproducts if any).

Requirements:

• Apparatus must supply its own energy. RTG not permitted.
• Apparatus must function at sea level indoors in a plains biome.
• Apparatus must not rely on mods that are not part of the Kirara modpack.
• Apparatus must not rely on configurations that differ from the default on Kirara.

Acceptable concessions:

• Non-player entities may be used as part of the apparatus, as long as the apparatus will indefinitely contain them.
• Fluids that cannot serve as an energy source may be piped in, but must be specified.

Scoring: You begin with a base score of 50.

• Size: A bounding cuboid will be drawn around your device (not counting input/output pipes and chests), and its dimensions are added together. The difference between 48 and the value thus obtained will be added to your score. (For example, if your device measures 10x12x12, you will earn 14 points. If your device measures 20x20x5, you will earn 3 points. If your device measures 16x32x8, you will lose 8 points.
• Output rate: Your device must output at least 1 torch every 5 seconds. Failure to meet this requirement results in a penalty of 10 points. You earn 5 points for each additional torch per 5 seconds your apparatus outputs.
• Efficiency: Your device must output at least 1 torch for each wood block input. You earn a bonus 20 points for exceeding the efficiency threshold of 48 torches per wood.
• Waste: Your device must output as little waste as possible, not counting scrap, UUM, industrially useful byproducts, or excess energy. Excessive waste results in a reduction of points.
• Compliance: If your device requires special operating conditions that do not comply with those specified above (elevation, biome, exposure to sunlight, etc.), 20 points are deducted for each violation.
• Operational lifetime: If your device operates indefinitely without manual intervention, 10 bonus points are earned.
• Cost: Your device will earn bonus points if it is deemed economical to build. The lower the tier of technology, the better. Up to 25 points.
• Technological homogeneity: 10 bonus points are earned if automation is performed without the use of Golems.

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Quote from GregoriusT

What I said was, that your Chickens created a CONSTANT lag on the Server, which was larger than BAs place of laggyness.

You should totally code a Quantum Chicken Farm block so that we can have a lagless chicken farming method.

Screw Eggplants.

Quote from GregoriusT

Ishi had about 50 Chickens in a confined space and it was the worst Chunk on the entire Server, even worse than BAs Lag Monster of a Base.

And killing them did absolutely nothing to alleviate the lag, which is now so bad that you actually time out when a lag spike happens. (like 90% of the time the server is around 0.1TPS, and when it gets back to normal, the moment is fleeting).

Magic Stick of Equal Trade duh

Does anyone have the correct versions of COG and PFAA? I cannot find them on the MCF thread, and using the latest version does not work.

EDIT> Bibliocraft site is also down, apparently.

Noooooo why are there only 24 hours in a day

I must clone myself and play this!

Man as soon as the server gets all the MC celebrities I have no time to play D:

fuuuu-

What? It's not semantic, there are clear definitions.

Quote from MatLaPatate

_notice that glass isn't a solid. You can even see that very old building have their glasses thiner on top and larger at the bottom, because of gravity ...

Not true. That's purely because they couldn't spin flat glass back then, so they put the heavier side down first.

I made the helix fossil into bonemeal. Hail the dome.

Coils are electric, how would a bronze blast use them?

Quote from SirusKing

The Nuclear bomb can use various fuels, of the following:

Uranium 238 (Also known as depleted or unfissile uranium) Very Small Explosion
Block of Uranium (A big lump of Uranium 238) Very Small Explosion

That probably doesn't contribute at all, and the explosion is only going to be caused by the ITNT used.

Quote from TruthOreDare

Nonotan, do you offer tips towards mass production of just about everything GregTech has to offer?

This really depends on the modpack. With just IC2/GT there's the advanced miner for getting resources, crafting is obviously something that you ought to do using AE.

We have D/Q chests though.

JABBA? Wat

I agree with Thaumcraft (since it has great GT integration), but disagree with Electric Magic Tools (TC itself has a mechanism to recharge stuff using EU).

There's already a different server for "hard GT with survival". HO/Harvestcraft are nice mods but incredibly buggy. We also lack MFR/TE/TC and cannot automate them.

We can already do this by recycling for scrap boxes...

Maybe if it took more EU for centrifuging everything than it did to uum the iridium, sure.

Quote from SirusKing

It does extra damage, just not the base vanilla type.

You're wrong, the chainsaw does deal vanilla damage. It just needs to be charged.