Posts by passinglurker

  • Suggestion: More reactor components!!!

    integrated freezer unit
    an active eu sucking cooling unit'


    to craft
    not sure how to arrange this one but the ingredients are a compressor, pieces of integrated reactor plating, and cooling cells


    what does it do?
    each integrated freezer unit draws 2eu/t and are 3 times more effective than normal cooling cells, but if there is an excess of cooling the freezer will freeze the external water cooling and any normal cooling cells in the reactor breaking them and replacing them with ice blocks


    whats so spacial about that?
    the machine must be balanced or it runs the risk of crippling part of its cooling system or it must depend heavily on freezers and as a result cut its eff even more

  • Suggestion: More reactor components!!!

    molten cooling cells
    uses molten metal to conduct heat away


    to craft
    a tin block surrounded by 4 iridium ores


    whats it do?
    absolutely nothing until the hull reaches 75% heat these kick in and start acting like cooling cells but are 5 times more effective and will continue to cool the reactor till it reaches 50% heat then the metal solidifies and the molten cooling cells shut down


    whats so special about that?
    iridium upgrade need i say more?

  • [suggestion] More batteries

    Quote from Snoochy

    first of you did ok on presenting your idea, however gunpowder does not seem like a good idea. sounds more like your trying to make "Metal-Storm" ammunition then a battery, lol. also 1 gunpowder it equal to 1 coal dust and 1.25 redstone dust. which would make it alittle more expensive in the end.


    using gunpowder for batteries should be slightly more expensive the advantage is you can harvest creepers for power and also have access to power in more redstone starved places(like in a cave with no crafting table your looking for redstone but your on layer 30 and all you can find is copper and creepers)


    Quote from Snoochy

    also a "lemon battery"? first off how are you "growing" iron and gold? if your refering to harvesting via Mob drops then it's faster just to go dig for gold or use UUM to make gold. also you cannot harvest Melon Blocks cause when you destroy them you get melon slices, unless maybe you use silk touch, not sure about that one. also their used to be Lemon Batteries LONG LONG ago like in ancient egypt using Lemon juice and a copper tube and some other stuff, but the basic concept was the copper used the acidity and high PH to create energy from the reactive hydrogen in the lemon juice, this produced about as much as a AA battery in real life for every 20 "1 gallon" lemon batteries. so it seems alittle over exaggerated if you could even harvest the melon blocks in the first place.

    ic2 agriculture can grow iron and gold dusts. you can make melon blocks in the crafting grid out of 9 melon slices. the out put rate is irrelevant I chose 5eu/t for lag reasons. I assume eu is not the same as real world electricity so my logic behind melons is that the seeds are found below ground in mine shafts and they are colored red on the inside maybe they have trace amounts of redstone in them.


    Quote from Snoochy


    the only alternative is basically you place an uninsulated Copper Cable ontop of a grown Melon and it would turn into a Melon Battery, like how you make snow golems, that would instantly and basically contain 10,000EUs at .25EU/t for a small instant "renewable" resource that you can use for small amount of power near the start of the game. maybe this could be inplimented into the Crop Analyzer system to make and grow more acidic Melon's for stronger batteries, like one that would contain 2million EUs and output at 32eu/t?

    not a bad idea with the golem style construction but you still need to go spelunking for the seeds or breed some melons with agriculture so its not exactly a day one option it would be easier to make a gunpowder battery on your first day.

  • [suggestion] More batteries

    ok so the idea is a new recipe for an existing battery and a new kind of battery.


    first is making single use batteries from copper wire and gunpowder. the logic being gunpowder is made from the same ingredients as the dry single use battery recipe it would work out to 1 gunpowder equals 5-10 single use batteries


    second is the melon battery. a shapeless recipe that uses a melon block a gold cable and a hv cable. why iron and gold? cause unlike copper and tin you can grow iron and gold. to be used the melon battery would have to be placed like a block and connected to the EUnet (output on all sides). it would generate 5000 to 10000 eu at 5eu/t as the power is used up the block would turn grayer breaking it or hitting it with a wrench will destroy it with no drops. or the melon battery can be thrown in a crop analyzer where it will have just enough energy to process a seed bag all the way through.EDIT: now thinking crafting the melon battery by placing a wire on top of a melon block like you were crafting a golem


    note: all numbers are subject to change with constructive criticism


    p.s. can some one direct me to a good way to display recipes on the forum?

  • Suggestion: Minecart Chain

    there was a bukkit plugin that let you form trains with vanilla carts. perhaps they should add cheaper eu powered copper booster rails? or they can breakdown and solve linking trains, Or they can ignore us