Posts by FnordMan2

    Using BC, RP2 and an automatic crafting table and those wonderful power converters you can set up an automatic lava cell refiller in the nether. Obviously, find a lava source. There might be a couple there. Geothermal generator to converter running a BC pump, attached directly to the pump. This will feed it lava directly without needing those messy pipes.<snip>


    except one doesn't really need IC2 power to do that. a BC pump will happily run on 4 redstone engines at a decent speed once they warm up.

    Wow, interesting idea adding structural integrity stuff to minecraft. Very ambitious and i'd hate to imagine porting it to Minecraft.
    Definitely interested in seeing it in action once it's stable enough though. Are you planning on supporting the IC2 concrete blocks? If not than it's going to be interesting making tall structures given the limited load capacity of stone and brick.

    This is true. Being reliant on geothermal power is a lot like surfing; you have to go where the waves are...glowing orange waves, that is. ;) IC 2 doesn't exactly lend itself to being nomadic, either. Generally once I put my machines down, I tend to want to settle in for a while, at a given site. It's just too much bother to have to pick up everything and move every five minutes, not to mention the energy cost with the lossless electric wrench.


    yeah.. even with a Lappack the energy cost is rather nuts for losless mode. Last time I had to move a 128 panel solar array (didn't have compact solars or it's predecessor installed) I drained the thing at least once. Granted I had a full MFSU so energy wasn't too much of an issue, just time sitting around waiting for it to charge up.
    For lava I usually rely on buildcraft pumps and waterproof teleport pipes to drag it into a huge tank. Think "ground level" and built up as needed to the max height. Haven't built one in 1.2.x yet with the new height yet though. Used to be bedrock to max height. Something tells me I won't have to do that anymore. :)
    Course i've got a (bad?) habit of pumping out lava all over the place and then not using it for anything as by the point where I can afford a set of teleport pipes i've already got a nice power grid based on solar or wind. Surface lava lakes are usually exempt from pumping, they just get glassed over (usually with Redpower glass covers) and kept in place unless they're very far from my base.


    intended behavior for the piston thing. You also can't move them with the poral gun in the poral mod.

    I know that it will be some time before it comes out, but I wanted to know how modders view this upcoming feature. maybe they know more than us average people. Eloraam is helping out Jeb on mod API so maybe Al and his IC colleagues know a little more and are willing to share :D


    Outdated info there. Mojang hired 4 bukkit devs, last I heard the API's going to be bukkit related.

    Hey IC dev team!
    The mod API is coming soon, what do you expect of it? Are you Psyched? Do you expect it to make the life easier or harder for yourselves?


    if by "soon" you mean at least a month, if not two. 1.2.5 does NOT bring the mod api to the scene. That's 1.3, even then it's going to be a rather limited API compared to Forge as it'll be around bukkit level.

    Do snowman actually work for for you in 1.2.3?
    They don't seem to spawn ice around them anymore for me, even if i run with a vanilla jar. (and yeah i checked that i'm in the right biome, etc)


    far as I know, snow golems never spawned ice, only snow coverings that you could use block breakers to get snowballs from to shove into a compressor to get ice with.

    yes i love that game but i can nerver land on the mun.......


    at least you can get to the mun, I can't even get there. Can barely get a working if highly eccentric orbit.
    doesn't help that my old rocket of doom design doesn't work with the latest updates either. Don't have the screenshot anymore but I managed 4km/sec or so with stock parts.
    Course I haven't played it since 0.12 or something like that. I've got 0.14 sitting here waiting to be used though.