Posts by CiderCraft

Sounds right up my alley. Would this work as a "standard" crafting table (no recipe restrictions) but powered, or more like forestry's carpenter with a limited recipe list? What's your stance on requiring this to actually craft the more advanced IC recipes?

Personally I think everything that can be automated should have a price (beyond the cost of the items used to craft the machine), which is why my energy base is EU, and my buildcraft engines are from bcic2 crossover. I really want to use logistics pipes, but while they're expensive, they're ultimately a "fire and forget" item. Add this to the crafting table's lack of ongoing cost, and they become too cheap for my tastes.

A crafting table that would actually require energy input? Gimme!

Apologies if I rambled a bit, had a few tonight.

Slime + extractor gives water source block? Or slime + bucket = bucket of slime, slimebucket+extractor = water bucket? Not everyone uses man-made infinite water pools.

Lubricate the moving parts to make the tool run more efficiently, probably easier to add 10% eu than make it use 10% less eu/operation.

Got a few random ideas, none great. Throw it in an extractor for fertiliser or grin powder, slimeballs + tfbp to give a "make this (not) a slime chunk" terraformer blueprint, electric tool grease to add 10% eu - only works on tools at 100% normal eu (must be fully charged, can only be used once until tool is recharged).

Correct.

I believe it's actually the pipes spitting the items out, not the machine. Standard buildcraft pipes only test for enough inventory space when the item reaches the end of the pipe, not when it starts moving in that direction.

Try finding the Advanced Buildcraft Objects/Pipes addon, one of them has advanced insertion pipes, which will check if the connected inventory actually has enough space to accept an item. If there is enough room, it will instantly put the item in, and if not it will continue along the next pipe (if there is one). Alternatively, try redpower tubes, they will bounce items that can't enter an inventory back along the tube.

Last solution would be an obsidian pipe close enough to where the items are being dropped, that it can suck them up and send them back into your sorting system.

Single cross-bar for normal, double for reinforced (middle 3 blocks in pic above). Credit to sirbrandino for the awesome top texture.

Done. Save the pic, rename to block_0.png
Open your IC2 jar, then the ic2/sprites folder. Backup and replace your block_0.png with this. First attempt at a texture "pack", hopefully I didn't break anything. Always backup!

Thought it'd be something like that. Second one was just something I noticed while testing them out.

Modloader 1.2.4, MLMP 1.2.4v1, Forge 2.0.0.67, IC2 1.9
Just a couple of things that I would like clarifying, assuming they're bugs unless I hear otherwise.

1: Iron Scaffolds cannot stick to walls without a block underneath. Aside from the look which would have been easily changed via texture pack, the ability to attach them directly to walls without support from below was the main point of the suggestion.
2: Scaffolds of one type cannot be placed above or below the other type, and forcing one onto the other type with a piston will break the moved one.

Please don't take this as "Hey you didn't implement my suggestion exactly how I worded it!" rage, I'm truly grateful that you even listened and put them in.

Direwolf20's mod spotlight 12:40, woohoo! Thanks to everyone for their input, and the IC2 team for getting it in!

Give it whatever flavour you like, the bottom line is beds aren't industrial/futuristic enough, and are begging for a blast of HAYO!

I don't particularly mind either way, but given we only have 16x16 pixels to work with, it's easier to make a good looking diamond plate (which sirbrandino did a great job of) than a grated floor. I'm quite happy to be proven wrong here, so if you have any cool designs keep them coming! For higher res texture packs, it'll be far easier to have good looking holes in it.

Sweet, thanks!

I think myself and Snoochy (not trying to put words in your mouth) are agreed on this, it's an interesting concept. Personally I prefer Snoochy's idea of using foam on vanilla iron bars, but make a thread for it and see what happens. You never know, it might just happen!

Nice job, will give them a go at some point!

I know anything that doesn't exist in the overworld apparently shouldn't exist at all on these forums, but any plans to use cortinar as an alternative to spider eye in brewing poison potions?

67 minutes apparently, sirbrandino to the rescue!

Given that the base IC2 is 16x16 textures, it might be hard to get a grate-like pattern (your second pic on page 1) without looking like it's about to fall apart. For simplicity, Diamondplate works for now and maybe someone can come up with a grate for their highres texture pack?

And let's face it, sirbrandino's top face is just too good not to use (and bonus points for being almost seamless), so we're left with sides and reinforced to go.

Opinions on a single cross-bar for sides?

Perhaps use double crossbars for reinforced?

Right. Kinda forgot it needed textures, and I'm about as artistic as a... um, not particularly artistic... thing.

Edit: Ok here goes, quick and dirty reskin of the wood scaffold. Far from great but it's a start.

MSPaint why do you hate me? White should be transparent.

Indeed.

Because then you'd have a reason to add robots (as if we actually needed a reason) to go cleaning the place up for you!

And you made me do the same damn thing. Any particular reason undo was disabled?

To be honest that sounds like a separate idea, which could probably (wild guess) be implemented by changing the "hit wet foam with sand, become dry foam" code, to also detect "hit wet foam with iron bars, become reinforced foam". Or what Snoochy said, infact his way sounds better since that's how it's done in meatspace. Sneaky bugger.

Not really a fan of a MUCH cheaper reinforced stone of comparable strength though, would render re-stone pretty much useless.

Confirming, see http://forum.industrial-craft.…page=Thread&threadID=5395

Ah, forgot you could do that. Yeah that makes sense.

Heh, I like it!

Last time I tied a battery to a sieve and put it on my head, I didn't grow gills.
Last time I kicked an electric fence with my steel toecapped boots, I couldn't jump over my house.

Can't we just give it the good old "This is not the logic you are looking for. It's IC2! Everything is better when you add power, HAYO!" handwave?

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