Posts by FourFire

Quote from chaos985

if you flatten a large area, and make the top grass/dirt in a snow biome.

Then builld a quarry at level with where the snow spawns, will it break the snow like other blocks as part of its setup.

also, drained large oil deposits are a great place to put your reactors. Far enough away to handle the worst, enough rock between you and it. and enough space to work in.

Yes we could technically use a filler/ builder function for collecting snowballs but the amount of obsidian pipes required would be obsurd

Very nice,
I just prefer 2.5 Efficiency or better having fewer than 6 chambers usually (not always) means that you are not ready for nuclear power

Quote from zeuskabob

Don't believe me, eh? I don't blame you. I am cheating considerably, as I am using a redstone clock to make this reactor work.

3:1 clock (1 on pulse to 4 off pulses) connected to a reactor with 6 chambers and a 2x2 uranium setup in the center (or wherever, coincidentally).

Simple as that! 2x2 square means 2 connections each; 2 connections means 3 pulses each tick, 3 pulses means 30 heat per uranium, that equates to 120 heat/tick when the reactor's on. 120/4 = 30, which is the average heat per tick.

3x3 cube (wait, I'm starting to doubt this, for it makes it such that only 1 block of water is necessary outside of the reactor chambers...) of water surrounding means 3x3x3 cooling, +6 because of additional cooling due to chambers, -2 due to redstone setup (cobble + redstone above). This all evens out to 31 cooling, and therefore the total heat production is -1.

This is an easy setup, as it requires few starting materials, and the only tending one has to perform is on uranium, and of course to cut the power when logging in/out, as the redstone can bug, which could cause catastrophic nuclear meltdown.

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I am sorry but this makes your reactor a Mark III
the definition of a mark I is that it can do a full cycle (of 10 000 seconds) Uninterupted
however it is a nice concept for quarter cycle semi Mark I ism
yes without a clock it becomes a Mark II as has been demonstrated in various threads including my own

Yeah the good thing about cacti farms is they can be both an energy source and a source of scrap
and solar panels are the best method of energy generation (on the surface)

Wow that is pretty cool: I am very excited about what other things may come of this!
I forsee much easier creation of perfect breeders with this
As you may see below I had an idea for a new Item I cant make it myself but I would be very glad if you could do it for me

thanks for this

I would Love this feature to be implemented it would however be massively O.P. allowing you to run a mark V for a full cycle without explosive consequence of any kind

Quote from AvalerionDrake

Well, all the materials are in there right? The point of the map is to craft items from raw components only for testing purposes, in case a new version of IC2 breaks something in the recipes. So sorry, you'll just have to build the machines yourself. :x

Edit: Oh, you mean like a pre-built reactor for power. Hmm, I may consider. Or you could just go ahead and upload it yourself if you like.

I did!
Things are now much easier and simpler for any nuclear engineers who want to do immediate nuclear testing IN Minecraft

you are better off just making a much larger cacti farm which is fully automated and doesnt use iron
you will soon get an overflow of cacti unless you make more generators
cacti farms are really great as you can make them as big as you want and they stack vertically with ease with water flowing at the bottom towards a single obsidian pipe collection point which can then be evenly distributed to many generators

Quote from dezuman

After Thermodynamics threated to send a SWAT team to break AL's computer, he will remove the uran matter recipe.

Yeah I sadly noticed
however I still have EE 4xsuper super coal + 1 slimeball = Uranium YAY

yes i agree with Gorni that reactor is cute
but yes as below just said I would rather use a 2 chamber 2.5 efficiency reactor

I am sad I was looking forward to creating Reactor Automation, Uranium Energy Multiplication for the Minecraftian Nation: That I suppose is your explanation

I am in the works of designing an integrated Uranium production facility
with Mark II - C.A.S.U.C. reactors 300 EU/t (normally Mark V) I will make two versions the other one with Mark III ~36 EU/t (non C.A.S.U.C.) reactors.
I have a feeling that "Constantly Applied Single Use Coolant" Reactor tech will allow great feats of factorization to happen at larger facility and base resource cost.
anyhow here is a sample:

And BTW
Automated cobblestone powered Uranium production facility is currently being designed

1.feed it a crapload of stacks of cobblestone in one end
2.replace uranium cells in the four high powered reactors every <50000 seconds
3.collect more uranium than you just replaced

reactor to be used with a double redpower clock+latch setup: (attached)
it will run on a 2000 tick ON, 4600 tick OFF cycle
but five of the components will melt after the first cycle meaning it is at first a Mark IV thereafter a Mark III
the output is 120 for 2/6.6ths of a cycle or 36.something EU/t

Quote from dezuman

Well, I dunno ... With the (currently?) most efficient breeder you can enrich about 8 depleted cells per nuclear cycle, thus actually run for example my two reactors at a total 70eu/t and use up only a single raw uranium. Given that you get a relative lot of it from both normal and auto-mining, that's REALLY cheap a price for the epic compactness.

Not to mention that you can feed that cycle infinitely by creating your raw uran from generated mass, actually with a pretty huge net energy gain. Troll science FTW

Automated Regenerating uranium production facility running off cobblestone is being designed!

Hello all I have been doing some testing thus weekend Mods used : IC2, BC and EE with IC addon
Here I think an importaint piece of information would be the average pumping speed (item/sec) of a buildcraft pipe with redstone engine throughout a 10000 second reactor cycle

I honestly forgot about the lapis to ice conversion recipe so what I first tried was cooling with water buckets reactor with a double wooden ended pipe:

My first attempt I soon realised that the plating would conduct and melt , it was intended to give the reactor more health for the first few seconds while the pump system was filling with water buckets

this was the correction of the above reactor but it still was a failure

and that was my last attempt at bucket cooling system it proved nearly impossible to synchronize the heating/cooling cycle so that the reactor side pump did not pull out water buckets and afterwards reactor components I tried to use buckets because even without EE it is quite easy to attain automated waterbucket production.

Now to ice cooled reactors:
Personally I think that the new reactor classifacation for these reactor types should be a -CASUC suffix for "Constantly Applied Single Use Coolants"
I tested the buiuldcraft quarry snowball aquisition ability and they do not dig up snow at all but go directly for the block under it I am going to ask if this can be changed so that we may mine snowballs from winter biomes.
Knowing this I cheated and TMIed myself a full AlchChest of 64 stacks of snowballs which I hooked up to to an automated row of eight Compressors powered by an array of 32 solar panels. I tested and found that a compressor will do one compression operation in just over 10 seconds meaning that 8 would produce on rough average just under 8 ice every 10 seconds

My first ice cooled test reactor with an efficiency of ~2.7 I soon saw that the two DCs with 3 cores would overheat before the cycle finished.

My adaption of the above design it has an efficiency of 2.666 and as long as enough ice is constantly added it could run its full cycle with no problems.
after many failures I got sick of rebuilding my reactor containment chamber and since you can currently attain bedrock semilegity i decided on a design and

it is bedrock reinforced with EE Darkmatter blocks (which turn into lava at 85% heat ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) )
and the Reinforced stone part includes door access and the top part is a double five source blocks heated by glowstone blocks the flowing water blocks means that even if a waterblock evaporates it will immediately be replaced and lava will be turned into obsidian.

Thus after wresting with compressor automation mechanics I gave up temporarily and Mcedited in 16 doublechests full of ice all connected to the input pipe in individual pairs to be activated seperately.

Then with this setup but lacking a reliable overflow system I put this reactor (attached) on with 12 of the doublechest pumping simultaneously.
I left it running all night and in the morning i found it blown up, calculating from the produced power It must have run 57% of its full cycle having run out of ice blocks
some maths later I found that it would run fine with an ice flow of ~2.1 pieces per second now that I realized/remembered about lapis > ice I will be doing some stuff.

@ Below : yes you can get snowballs from shoveling but simply put: can you be bothered to constantly shovel snow balls and manually feed them into compressors the entire time your reactor is running? we are talking about Automated CASUC systems here.

Nice matrix , just keep in mind that tin cables are not supposed to be that good and will be nerfed in the next version

Great thoughts,
however I always thought that you would of course use a different power circuit entirely

@ Above Very nice indeed!
I would have done something similar but It seems way too complicated for me XD
anyhow here is a A link: http://www.minecraftforum.net/…equivalent-exchange-v355/
to the mod which allows you to convert cobble into coal, gives you 9x13 sized chests, allows you to turn the rain on and off and many other awesome things at a high energy cost.
I have had an idea about an automated uranium production facility to be used once you have loads of spare resources
using atleast 4 nuclear reactors, a mass generator and a stack worth of recyclers, and 2 stacks worth of solarpanels it would run off of cobblestone XD

Lerg!
(I have to do something to keep this thread read)

why does this thread continually come up as unread?!? please fix it!
it is happening with the electric fishingrod thread too

no they directly change the blocks without breaking them but I would presume that a quarry would collect snowballs (untested)
and all that you would need to do is have a redstone cut off or manual control to turn it off until it snows again