Posts by passinglurker

redstone lamps (or redpower lamps) and detector cables should get you the effect you are looking for you just need something to draw power to drive the detector cables i personally recommend a mass fab. and you don't want to use luminators cause if the flicker they could lag you out and crash your game with the lighting updates.

as much as I love portal references this won't happen because according to alblaka space being the secret project is just part of alblaka's april fools prank. so sorry maybe the mars mod will like the idea.

how about turning the dynomote in to a dynamite dispenser like the cf sprayer?

can you recycle dye? cause i'm always open to new ways to get recycle fodder besides the old cobble gen (of course i could just recycle the wool)

there is something called the aluminium-air battery and they are one one of the most energy dense battery's we use today.
the way it works (via wikipedia) is (dumbed down look it up if you want the technical stuff) you get power from aluminum slowly turning in to aluminum oxide. and then you recycle the aluminum oxide to make more aluminum. as long as the battery doesn't make more power than it takes to recycle an aluminum-air battery could make a nice alternative to the electrolyzed watercell something like less efficient but could be used in normal machines like a battery if some one wanted to, or cut out the ability to recycle it and make it a new way to make single use batteries.

I don't think there is much to abuse this is dye we are talking about its not used for much more than coloring things. plus sheep only regen wool when they eat so to make a farm you need some bonemeal to grow some tall grass and wait for a sheep to actually eat it and then the energy for the machine and in the end you get... pink dye what game breaking crime can i commit with pink dye?

he could be trying to shake off the modders so every one gives up and starts from scratch with the new api (i can't imagine why but conspiracies are fun)

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This. PLEASE. As a resident pyro, nothing is more satisfying that watching something go "kaboom."

to quote a guy on the front page COMBUSTABLE LEMONS!

WELCOME TO THE FORUMS!
apparently we are in he middle of a no party so NO!
and this is what happens when you don't search for previous suggestions before posting.
simply put given water's infinite nature using pipes would be to overpowered what I do to overcome this plothole is just imagine that the watermill actually runs off the flow of time
if it makes you feel better alblaka recently enabled water cells for watermills

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Maybe yes, even if so then i can make a building moving on the Ground and that is definetly possible and Eloraam can do nothing against that (except not releasing Frames).

Where was the thread?... Ahh there.

huh?

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A simple Blockteleporter would be great for hiding Bases, but with the Forcefieldaddon or even pistons i can get it too. Teleporting whole chunkloads of Blocks is maybe a good way to move the base, but that would be really to OP and making every Transportationmethod (like Rails to the Base) completely useless and i like making logistic stuff in MC.

end game supposed to be powerful. this idea has basically evolved into an extra function of the forcefield when(or some long time after) it gets implemented. you can't make rails to floating bases(with out them looking like crap) i like floating bases

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Before i forget to mention here are some declarations:
Teleporting = changes the Space-Coordinate of you (nothing to do with Beaming).
Beaming = dematerializing and rematerializing (so it theoretically copies, kills and pastes you in that order).
Warpdrive = changes the Coordinategrid of the Space around you.
Hyperdrive = moving through another Dimension called Subspace.
FTL-drive = compilation of anything that makes faster than Lightspeed.

this isn't nasa or the set of startrek so what you call it is meaning less
personally this is where I'm leaning right now
1.you enter some target coordinates into your "moving-drive"(or what every you want to call it)
2.you start your "moving-drive"
3.everything inside the force field your drive is attached to moves into an alternate dimension(referred to from this point as limbo) power is consumed to do this
4.you sit in limbo until either a. you feed the drive enough power to reach your destination (note: solars and wind shouldn't work in limbo) b. the rate of feed drops below a certain threshold and the drive spits you out somewhere between where you started and your destination
5.the drive will always spits you out 16 blocks away from anything you could have collided with including the ground to prevent griefing

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So i can swap my entire Mainbase (exactly in a chunk on your Server) to your City, lol. But beaming a whole building is OP and could be the ultimate Grief. what about making it of Frames (waiting for it since November 2011) an the move it simply.

Oh and altering chunks is very easy, just swap two pointers and make Blockupdates on all the sideblocks of them.

there are ways to prevent grief both of stealing a building and beaming said building through the spawn point it would be no worse than the nuke which server admins seem to handle pretty well. frames don't make spaceships. and how would this be OP this seems more like endgame fun and farting around to me

why not do both the simple block teleporter could be an advancement of the normal teleporter and the warp drive could be an advancement of the block teleporter.

maybe the warp drive could be part of the force field device when it is added that would solve all the complexities figuring out what to move and what not to move. also to justify it using less power some limitations could be placed on it like...
1. the drive will never take you exactly where you want to go it will drop out of warp before it lets you materialize in the middle of or touching some thing (balance: not as reliable as the teleporter)
2. or the drive only works if the destination is above layer 128 (balance: make you spend energy and resources going up and down)
3. the drive makes you spend time in a limbo space where if you go to long not feeding the drive energy it drops you out of warp prematurely (balance: it now has the same power requirements as the teleporter but the power is fed over time the slower you feed it the longer you spend floating in limbo)

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why not a lightning rod?

here is what the all mighty dragon lord and head dev alblaka posted in a previous lightning rod thread

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It's time...
*grabs sunglasses*
FOR TOASTING THAT GODDAMN LIGHTNINGROD SUGGESTING HUNTING ME SINCE INTRODUCTION OF WEATHER TO MC!
*grabs shotgun*
BAM. DIE, STALKER!
...
Nothing to see here, please proceed.

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first WELCOME TO THE FORUMS! (huh second time i said that in 5min(and about iridium to. do you know a user with the username of zak?))

second the quantum accelerator has already been proposed and generally rejected due to the buggyness associated with screwing with world time

third the mass fab is the big end game machine and is second only to the quantum suit so it is very powerful as such adding an even more powerful version will get probably get a very polarized reaction you have been warned (in a good way not like i'm scolding you or anything)

WELCOME TO THE FORUMS!

I belive things are the way they are for 3 reasons
1.its supposed to be annoying
2.so we don't turn underground rainbow with ores
3.it would be so rare an occurrence your better off using uumatter so there is no point in the devs even bothering (this also applies to lightning rods if you take anything away from this post it should be NEVER SUGGEST A LIGHTNING ROD)

and if it uses less how is that bad

energy is why it can't be done not why making the warp drive use less to move the same mass is a game breaker

alternatly a warp-drive could just consume the blocks its supposed to transport to meet its energy needs basically make yourself a big cobble stone fuel tank before you leave and the teleporter will just convert it into energy(thats what it already does to move stuff other wise we could use teleporters to dupe matter)

I can see it now a new form of raceing where people ride minimalistic auto-cobblegen powered warp drives. watch the pistons push the fuel tower out to 13 blocks long and then poof it hops another 64 blocks
never mind it was a bad idea. what was the idea rick had about using a bunch of small pads instead? would it be able to tp multiple blocks that are in the direction its facing? sounds like though it can't make my spaceship dreams come true it would fill the practical problem of moving ones base to a new location(something that was previously done with storage minecarts ad lots of rail)

ok since this isn't a "is it possible" issue how is this unbalanced? what game breaking exploit could people possibly do with this?

i did the searching for you if you actually read the the threads you will find they are exactly what you are looking for in every possible way that you have posted. either that or use the irc if you don't want to wait here forever

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The only reason why a stack of 64 Cobblestone consumes the same amount of energy as a Single Uranium Cell its because of lazyness.

Since the warp drive works with the actual placed blocks (2 of which that are basically the size of steve), lazyness isnt going to cut it in make the energy requirement a lot less than the regular teleporter, mostly because of a little something called balance.

the patent excuse seems pretty industrial to me and besides what would be wrong if the teleporter's power requirements were dropped to match? also remember this is a teleporter in name only warp drives are supposed to cheat the laws of physics by keeping you stationary and bringing your destination to you(or something like that its all techno-babble in the end) my point is saying it doesn't work cause of how teleporters work is equivalent to as you put it "talking out of your ass" cause if your wrap it in enough techno-babble people will accept it. you also said nothing of making the warp drive its own tier5 internal power storage.

oh and sneaky there with the colored spoiler text

your realism is easy to solve

iridium+[insert underutilized magical vanilla item here]= unobtainium
them just mix with construction foam to make it on subject and TADA! you have a thin walled nuke proof house

edit: idea make the reinforced CF work with the magnitizer!