Posts by passinglurker

burn netherack for a chance it makes scrap (1 in 16)?

LALALA! I'M NOT LISTENING TO THE ONGOING DEBATE ABOUT LONG DEAD AND BURIED UNPLEASANTNESS!

so snyke care to share what upcoming features you have planned for this addon?

well if its not possible another idea is to have netherack and dirt rarely drop scrap like its buried treasure

added bronze jack hammer to main post and modified the idea to make it less useless.

Quote from FenixR

I think your silver idea went copper.

I'm sure this is really funny but I don't get it care to explain?

EDIT:tapped wikipedia for more realistic ic2 uses and here is what i came up with
combine silver dust with glass panes to make mirrors(mirrors can't be used to see reflections Steve is to ugly) which are used to make solar furnaces solar furnaces that work like regular furnaces but for free if they have a straight shot to the sky (the jobs just take longer)

turns out nuclear control rods are 80% silver so the idea is a control rod item that lets uranium adjacent to it interact and when it melts and breaks the 2 uranium are now separated by an empty space.

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well, theres still no news on IC2 for 1.2.3.... And we'll need IC2 to be updated to that before anything new gets added.

uhhhh http://www.industrial-craft.net/?p=344#comments you do know alblaka has a blog right?

final numbers are best left up to alblaka I chose low odds for the initial idea cause I didn't want people thinking it was a way around having to use a recycler

heck an addon on developer could add it now. ic2 already has the useless silver dust after all. (and silver dust is used in many real life products)

Name: scrap from broken tools

Description: so the idea is when your tool breaks there is a 1 in something chance of getting a piece of scrap this would make it possible to use ic2 in places like skyblock, superflat, or an unlucky desert island seed. with out cheating (it will still take a while to get any where so the first thing you should aim for is a steady supply of power and a recycler)

recipe:
wooden tools= no chance
stone, iron, bronze tools= 1 in 16 chance
diamond, gold tools= 1 in 8 chance

EDIT: actual odds subject to change

tin, gold, and silver are all what are called "white metals" IRL

so how about a white metal crop that can randomly produce tin dust(40% of the time), gold dust(20% of the time), or useless silver dust(the rest of the time)? the crop grows on tin or gold ore. we can always recycle the silver dust.

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Don't you think that a molten coolant cell would heat it up not cool it down. Molten means Hot like molten lava or rocks.

like water the molten metal is used as a heat transfer medium sure its hot but compared to the reactor when it hicks in it is cool by comparison. tin was selected under the assumption that it has a lower melting point

read something else where where alblaka explained how machines are tile entities. long story short i'm dropping the use old melons as building material idea they should disappear when broken

maybe silver and gold can both be crafted in to a more generally termed medium voltage cable? silver and sand to make soul sand? silver wire can be used to bridge fiber and gold wire? use silver in a machine output slot upgrade? use silver in super fuel? [insert silver reactor component here?]? use silver instead if tin in mixed metal ingot to get 3 instead of 2?

I think its been proven several times that real life science doesn't apply in minecraft.
diamonds, coal, and lapiz all also have an ore block but they are not metal. its metal if there is a uum recipe for its ore block.

i'm not saying a silver crop NEEDS an ore block i just want to hear how you will pull it off.

artificial instant coffee? now that sounds industrial

Quote from wasmic

What should silver then be used for?

there is already a recipe for glass fiber cable that is preferred by everyone that uses silver

easy
1. you can't collect the oreblock without magic and this is a tech mod
2. redstone isn't metal
3. cause i'm awesome

all the other metal crops have an ore block under them to grow how do you propose to have a silver plant without an ore block?

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Yes i know, but the name sounds a bit stupid or like that LEGO-Brick i don't want to step on. Whats about Machineplate, Machineingot or Machinecover.

i'm sure who ever does a german translation can come up with an appropriate name (how about "machine slab" since it takes 2 to make a full block?)

I had this new idea in the shower one side of my brain says it makes sense the other says its to much of a stretch so tell me what you think and if its liked ill add it to the OP.

name:bronze jackhammer

description: counterpart to the electric drill the bronze jackhammer is cheaper, cruder, slower, and can either be charged by crafting an empty jackhammer with a piece of coal to make a fully charged bronze jackhammer(doable in 2x2 craft grid) or by an electric source such as a battery, batbox, or chestpiece.

its also can't mine anything a bronze pick can't and has a much shorter battery life than the electric drill

recipe:
the recipe is the same as the electric drill but instead of 5 refined iron ingots, an electric circuit, and a RE battery the ingredients are: 5 bronze ingots, a heating element, and an iron furnace

EDIT: a modified version of this has been added to the main post

you still would need to use another block id for this new melon block (which is something you seem to be a stickler about ) and it can't stack with other melon blocks

EDIT: the thought was melons are like lemon batteries and pumpkins are like potato batteries. maybe if we filled the pumpkin with milk? (only notch knows why)