Triple-posting in my own thread (I'm a rebel!), I've just uploaded version 0.6, now with Forestry integration! Read the OP for mentions of Forestry if you're curious how far it goes, but suffice it to say it's enough to automate liquid UU making and extraction at this point.
Posts by narc
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Can anyone spot the odd one out in this cropped screenshot?
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That's the one!
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Sounds like you're going to enjoy Xycraft a lot, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to show up in IC2.
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Mhm, it was a good summary! I think the packet thing is hugely important for everyone to understand, though, since so many newcomers tend to run into problems with them.
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DZCreeper, allow me to correct your numbers on power drains. It turns out that, in the current version, the electric furnace consumes 3 EU/t and the macerator, compressor, and extractor all use 2 EU/t each.
I believe your other numbers are correct, however it may be worth noting that cables actually care about packet size rather than EU/t -- as long as no packets try to travel through that are larger than the cable capacity, you may send an infinite number of them. Thus, tin cables can actually be used to hook up, e.g., 120 solar panels safely, as none of the solars will ever output packets larger than 1 EU.
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Yessir, absolutely. And fairly soon, at that (but don't ask me when fairly soon will be, I don't really know).
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I think something like using the forestry squeezer (If forestry is installed) as the only way to get the liquid would be incredible, really make the mod feel like it is integrated into other mods.
Hmm... I actually considered that for the initial release, but decided it was better to have something to play with immediately than wait to figure out integration. I'd still want to keep the current method when Forestry is unavailable, of course. But otherwise, yes, that sounds reasonable to me.
Have you thought about liquid UU as a means to replicate all other types of liquid ingame using a custom machine?
Yes... but I'm not convinced I need a custom machine. I'm binding very tightly against Buildcraft, so I can rely on the Refinery always being available. I may end up making a custom machine, though, due to that Buildcraft bug I linked in the OP.
You know you are going to have to add either a machine to accept UU-Matter to create items, or integration with Greg Tech's UU Assembler
That's another neat add-on I haven't played with at all. However, allow me to point out that you can get solid UU back out of a liquid tank, and that just about any kind of auto-crafting table can handle making stuff out of that, so I'm not likely to make any UU assembler a priority. I'll keep it in mind, though.
Either way, this is very neat. Nice work!
Hey, thanks! It was great fun working with Forge, especially with FunnyMan's help.
Now that I think of it, though, I might look into a bottler/unbottler. I know Forestry has the bottler already, but nothing comes to mind that could easily do the reverse operation (well, Railcraft iron tanks might). Plus, it would give me a chance to play in the IC2 powernet.
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I thought the miner already did that.
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[ExtraBees] adds in just liquids. there are three new liquids. Acid, Poison and Glacial Water. As far as new capsules, the only mod im aware of was Vis Bees, which i hope updates for 1.4.2
M'kay, I'll have a look at that, then, along with maybe UU-filled glass bottles. Thanks for the info!
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Kind of, but the point of it is more along the lines of performing an operation instantly at massive EU cost -- sort of like an impossibly large array of overclockers (actual overclockers can't do it, there is a minimum operation time for the electric machines).
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Yes i meant it as an generator witch uses uum as Fuel. [...]But it was only a suggestion
You said that you are searching for purposes I don't want you to think I didn't like the suggestion, I just don't think I want to write that. In my mind, making UUM is pretty much one-directional as far as energy is concerned -- you could use it to create something that could be burned for EUs, but it should be really inefficient to do so.
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Maybe you could provide an UUM Generator? 1 uum = 120 k Eu [...]
I might be missing the point of this, but don't we already have a UUM generator called "Mass Fabricator"?
Wait, wait, I think I get it -- you'd like to see a generator that uses UUM to make EUs again. I'm not interested in writing that, but if you get someone else to do it (or do it yourself), feel free to make a pull request on github.
FunnyMan3595 suggests turning electrolyzed water into a liquid, storable in tanks. This may be a better solution to your problem, since that's actually designed to be energy storage.
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[...]I definetly think you should make this compatible with forestry (with Extra Bees please).
You know, I've never used the ExtraBees addon, does it add new liquid containers? Or new liquids? I'll look into it either way, but if you could give me some more specific idea of what you'd like me to do there, I'd appreciate it.
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I'll just leave this here.
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DZCreeper: Okay, that's one vote for Forestry liquids, I'll be looking into it.
Now, as to our discussion on using fractions of UU for insta-processing, we looked at current processing costs, which are 390 EU (over 130 ticks) for smelting, and 800 EU (over 400 ticks). This is more than double for a macerator compared to a furnace, and seems like a fairly strong difference. Our idea has morphed to trying to use UUM proportional to these costs, and after some number-crunching* came to values like 5 millibuckets per smelt (in the electric furnace) and 32 millibuckets per maceration/compression/extraction.
We also have some presentation ideas: the machine that actually does the work is a separate block that needs to be placed next to whichever machine normally does the operation, and requires that that machine (e.g. the furnace) have an upgrade inside it "to connect to it". The new machine has an internal storage for liquid UU, as well as one input and one output slot for the items that actually get produced. It is important to note that the operation itself does not cost energy from the IC2 energy net -- the energy is supplied by the UU-Matter. The machine that's supposedly doing it can be just unpowered and buried in a wall, out of sight.
* The number-crunching previously mentioned: take the amount of EU for one operation, multiply by number of ticks for the same operation, then divide by 10,000. It's all a bit arbitrary, but can be applied to other machines, as well.
For the electric furnace, we get: 390 (EU for one operation) * 130 (ticks per operation) = 50,700 EU, divided by 10,000 = 5.07. We can round that to 5 millibuckets per operation, or 200 operations per piece of UU.
For the macerator (or compressor, or extractor), we get: 800 * 400 = 320,000, which gives us exactly 32 millibuckets per operation, or almost 32 operations per piece of UU.
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Notice: this mod is officially retired! Explanations have been made in the official README, as well as on the project page on my website. If someone else wishes to take over, they should start a new thread (and maybe link this one, for historical reference).
Original post follows:
For fun and as an exercise in getting started in modding Minecraft, I have implemented Liquid UU-Matter. As I had expected (and stated in that thread), I couldn't really think of anything useful to do with liquid UUM, but it turned out kind of pretty so it could just sit around in a tank all day... but I wasn't really satisfied with that, and then FunnyMan3595 came up with excellent ideas!
The first idea was using the Buildcraft refinery (with its two liquid inputs) to duplicate liquids at the cost of some UUM. Recipes for that are below:
- 3 UU + 1 oil = 2 oil
- 5 UU + 1 fuel = 2 fuel
- 5 UU + 1 biofuel = 4 biofuel
- 3 UU + 1 biomass = 13 biomass
- 3 UU + 1 apple juice = 9 apple juice
- 3 UU + 1 liquid honey = 9 liquid honey
- 5 UU + 1 seed oil = 21 seed oil
- 5 UU + 1 creosote oil = 31 creosote oil
- 5 UU + 1 lava = 31 lava
- 1 UU + 1 crushed ice = 2 crushed ice
- 1 UU + 1 IC2 coolant = 3 IC2 coolant
These recipes, and their energy costs, are mostly configurable -- the default MJ cost is 5 * UU-cost, and the recipes fall under three broad categories: burnable liquids that can be further processed, burnable liquids that cannot be further processed, and non-fuel liquids. The rationale for how these numbers were reached is publicly available, and I welcome comments and suggestions to further tweak them. I also have a personal request, for my own curiosity: if you change the conversion ratios, let me know what you changed and why. That's useful data.Please note that LiquidUU 0.7.10 and below had much less balanced conversion ratios. They are saved, for posterity, in the spoiler below:
Getting UUM into a tank is extremely simple, just right-click the tank with a piece of UUM in your hand. Getting it back out again is the same process, but using empty cells. Note that you will lose the cell in doing so, but that was ultimately considered a trivial cost, well in line with the other uses of cells in IC2. You may also use the Forestry squeezer and bottler for these operations, if Forestry is available. Similarly, you can use Forestry cans (but *not* wax capsules of either kind) if you want to carry the liquid UU around.New in version 0.7, and the second excellent idea, is the Accelerator. This is a new machine, crafted like so:
In case you can't see it very well (or don't recognize them), the items are a Buildcraft tank and hopper on the top row, a stone waterproof pipe and advanced circuit directly below them on the middle row, and a wooden transport pipe at the bottom, under the circuit.The accelerator is a highly advanced piece of machinery that will allow you to instantly smelt, macerate, extract, or compress, at the cost of a little bit of liquid UU-matter. The liquid UU can be inserted by Buildcraft liquid pipe (only UU will be accepted), or you can throw solid UUM or cans of UUM into the slot at the top-right of the UI (click image for fullscreen original):
Here's an example setup of a small logistics pipe auto-crafting system capable of extracting rubber, compressing netherrack to nether bricks, and macerating iron ore and smelting the resulting iron dusts (again, click the image for the fullscreen original):
All of these functions were briefly tested and seem to work just fine, but do report any problems you run into, I'm interested.
Warning: there is currently (as of v0.7.12b, probably earlier versions, as well) a known item loss bug associated with using the keyboard shortcuts for moving things directly from your hotbar to another inventory slot -- specifically when used with the accelerator's UUM input slot.
Please note that the accelerator texture is purely temporary, and the only matter considered important in making it was that you should be able to tell the face (that must face a machine) from the other sides. Further note that the accelerator does not consume EUs directly, rather it is capable of powering itself from the same process that allows liquid UUM to instantly produce two dusts out of an iron ore block.
When you place the accelerator, it will be facing away from you -- which should help you integrate them easily with pre-placed machines. Also, it responds correctly to the IC2 wrenches, so if you place it and it's not quite looking the right way, just shift-right-click on the face opposite the machine, and it will turn to face that.
But wait, there's more: if you're a modder and would like your machine to work with the accelerator, take a look at ro.narc.liquiduu.InstantRecipe and .IAcceleratorFriend -- with these two classes you can control everything the accelerator can do with your machine, and even have your machine get notified when an operation is taking place so you can consume whatever resources you may require as part of normal operation! We won't be throwing in those Ginsu knives free of charge, though.
Downloads
- LiquidUU v0.7.12b (universal) (MC 1.4.7, Forge 499, IC2 1.112.192-lf and Buildcraft 3.4; optional: Forestry 1.7.0.5, NEI 1.4.5.1, Railcraft 6.14, Thermal Expansion 2.1.7.3).
- Older versions and change log (starting at MC 1.3.2, IC2 1.106).
License
This mod is open-source under the MMPL -- source is included in the .zip, and available at the LiquidUU github. Anyone wanting to use it for any purpose may do so, including mod packs or whatever, as long the source, or links to the source, are also provided -- the zip itself will do that for you, but linking to this thread or the github would probably be best. Speaking personally, I'd also appreciate being notified, but other than that, it's all yours.Parts of this mod (namely, the Liquid Electrolyzer face textures) were provided by Zerrens (and we are all profoundly grateful not to be subjected to my lack of artistic skill). LiquidUU art assets are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
What's this "Liquid Electrolyzer" thingy that doesn't have a crafting recipe?
The next version of LiquidUU -- v0.8 -- will finalize this machine: it has basically the same function as the standard IC2 Electrolyzer, but will work on liquid water and liquid electrolyzed water provided in adjacent tanks. Liquid electrolyzed water is already available, but the machine doesn't have a working GUI yet, nor does it actually operate. It was just too much unnecessary effort to remove it from the 0.7.12 release.Something to test, for those of you who like that: play with the wrench on the liquid electrolyzer, and try to make it turn in such a way that the faces don't quite follow your wrench. This shouldn't be possible, and I haven't been able to manage it, but if lots of us try, someone might find the way (and tell me how they did it). I also have a report that in one setup it's possible to obtain a full stack of 64 LEs when using the wrench on it -- I really want to know if anyone can reproduce that, and how. I can't do it.
There's also a configuration change in v0.7.11: the config key "accelerator" in the block section has been replaced with a key named "machine". When LiquidUU reads a config with the old key present, it should mark it as obsolete -- please make sure that happens. Note that LiquidUU will not remove the obsolete key from your configuration, it'll just ignore it when the new key is present. This should provide maximum backwards compatibility, but if something goes wrong, I'll want to know what happened.
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This doesn't work for 1.108?
Entirely correct. We haven't updated our build environment for MC 1.4.2 yet, though I suspect it won't be a massive jump. We're still getting the bugs out of the current system. Please be patient, and read the updates to find out when a 1.108-compatible version shows up.
At a guess, I would expect it this week, unless the great god Murphy decides otherwise.
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^ We've been using that on our test server, so I'd say yes, you can.
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Aha! Sounds like something changed a bit between Forge 318 and 351. We'll have to build a new version for that. Thanks for the report, Altaree.
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There are still differences between running on the local server and running over TCP/IP. For one, the local server talks to its client via shared memory.
Sorry, I have no ideas for fixing the issue being reported; it looks like regular old tin to me. Maybe the server and client have different block IDs? Kind of my only thought here.
