Posts by immibis

57.1.1:

• Fixed DeFence IDs not being added to config file.

57.3.1:

• Fixed crash if IC2's sound limit is reached and an advanced machine tries to play a sound.
• Default idle power for thermal washers increased to 6 EU/t (was previously 1).
  Will not affect anyone who had the mod installed before, since it's a config setting.
• Fixed array stuff being half-disabled by default.

A bigger problem is that you can make a wall of them in someone else's base.

57.3.0:

• Added Array Controllers, Array Solar/Wind/Water generators, and Array Cables.

This lets you make low-lag renewable power arrays. See the OP for more details.

57.2.1:

• Fixed sounds not looping.

57.2.0:

• Added sounds to the compressor, extractor, macerator and recycler.

Edit: You might be amused to know that I spend two hours trying to figure out why the sounds didn't work, and then I realised Minecraft wasn't saving my volume and was resetting it to 0 each time I started the game.

57.1.0:

• Absorbed the old mod DeFence. As a result:
  
  
  • Added chain link fences.
  • Added barbed wire fences.
  • Added code doors, which are doors locked by a 4-digit PIN.
    Only breakable by the owner or in creative or when open.
    This might change, as it could be used for griefing.

  
  

Fences are unbreakable normally, but break instantly when left-clicked with cutters.

Electric fences could not be added because the IC2 energy net does not support that at the moment.

Chain link fence:

Barbed wire: (shapeless)

Code door:

Code door, alternate:

And yes, these are only Basic Repulsion Systems, not very Advanced.

Quote from Furious1964

What can I use to replace the Reactor Coolant Injectors or how can I get them back? Using FTB Unleashed Pack for 1.5.2 (not yet updated and waiting for Monster Pack to be officially released).

This is not a mod about controlling nuclear reactors; it is a mod about base defense. I will not be adding Reactor Coolant Injectors back, so you are probably stuck with the built-in IC2 reactor components unless another mod adds them.

Quote from CaerMaster

I think I missed this addition. What's the difference between an Advanced Machines thermal washer and an IC2 ore washer?

What is the difference between an Advanced Machines rotary macerator and an IC2 macerator?

57.1.2:

• Added shift-click support to vacuum canners and thermal washers. Note: you cannot shift-click items into a vacuum canner.
• Added option to use ore dictionary "plateIron" instead of iron plate item.

Perhaps the recycler chance is affected by the version of IC2 you have - so:

57.1.1:

• Compacting recyclers don't use the IC2 recipe API.

Quote from 4rz0

I noticed that I can stick items into the Compacting Recycler's bottom slot.
Items that are not batteries.

Is that a problem?

Quote from 4rz0

I did a quick test and it indeed yields scrap with a 100% chance.
Also, Is it supposed to reach 90k gibbl?
Even at only 40k gibbl, it takes merely 5 seconds to scrap a whole stack.

Yes. At 90k gibbl, it will recycle one item every tick (3.2 seconds per stack).

It's not supposed to be 100%...

I mostly finished those new machines, then went away for a while and completely forgot about them. Sorry!

57.1.0:

• Added vacuum canner.
• Added thermal washer.
• Added compacting recycler.
• Changed redstone behaviour back. Machines require a redstone signal, or work, to heat up.
• Machines heat up 1/4 as fast as before. Previously they heated up much faster than induction furnaces.
• Machines cool down 1/2 as fast as before - twice as fast as they heat up.
• Added configs for heat-up and cool-down rate. (Heat-up cannot be nerfed more, as it is now 1)
• Changed rotary macerator recipe. It now takes 56 flint.
• All machines are now sideless, except for vacuum canners. Battery slots are now inaccessible to automation.

Edit: The reason for the new Rotary Macerator recipe is that IC2 is moving away from refined iron, and it may not exist in the future. It's not just for the sake of nerfing.

The new system is basically the same as the old, except:

• Cable loss isn't implemented yet.
• When it is, it will be proportional to the capacity, therefore glass fibre will be the most lossy - but with the highest capacity.
• Cable explosions aren't implemented yet.
• Packets merge instead of being sent separately <- This is the biggest change.

In the old system, this would be equivalent to only being able to send one packet/tick over any connection.
The new system has several consequences:

• You will need a lot more transformers.
• Transformers in step-up mode seem to be useless - they would make explosions more likely.
• With some types of generators, explosions are unpredictable.
• You can't make arbitrarily big clusters of generators or storage units.

Quote from hoho

Uhh, that's pretty much exactly how the current experimental IC2 e-net works.

Machines explode if they receive too much EU/tick. Packets don't exist.

Who should I ask to get more permissions on the wiki? Specifically, I want to replace some of the really outdated images.

Quote from Chocohead

Not necessarily strictly true, ID conflicts let you have it

So did /give - not the point.

Now we might have a 0.1% chance of someone somewhere using a cable that's not glass fibre.

Why is this a suggestion?

Also, if you put dependencies="after:IC2" in your @Mod annotation, it will force you to load after IC2, if IC2 is installed (and if IC2 isn't installed it'll do nothing). Not sure why you don't want to do that.

Quote from Kye_Duo

maybe the behavior should be configurable between the two methods. Though I prefer sideless so I don't have to put stuff in the top all the time.

Configurable everything = "hey i have a great idea, instead of designing a mod, let's make the users design it for us!"
Except that 99.999999999% of users won't even notice it's a config option. And you still need a default (which that 99.999999999% will use).

Inserting from the top *does* make sense...