Lapotron BatPack seems to be bugged. Diamond Drill isn't draining any power out of it, it just drains the power from itself.
read the rest of the thread. Known bug that'll be fixed in the next version. (which may be a while given what the author posted recently)
Gonna fix in the next version
Woot! thanks for this by the way. I was pondering what to do in a couple places as I only have room for single chests yet needed more storage space for BC input/output stuff.
This solves the problem rather nicely.
Quick, possibly silly question:
I see the recipes for the various engines but how much power do they need to run at full efficiency?
Saw mention of a large electric engine for a quarry but does that need 128 to really power it? Just trying to get a bit of a comparison against the other methods, which take about 8 solar panels to run a quarry at full speed.
I like the idea of direct electric engines a little better as they can run wooden extraction pipes but just trying to get an idea of what sorta power i'll need.
This is assuming I can scrape up enough Block IDs to install this. (hmm... maybe if I make the teleportation system i've been meaning to do and rip out the Portal mod)
Just updated to 0.9.1
Added new texture (both animated and non-animated version)
Added animation! Now it looks like the minecraft chest by default, with a shiny metal look.
Added config to disable animation (makes it look like a normal block)
Works great (after the semi-obligatory find a new Block ID Dance) but there's a small problem with the non-animated version. Namely it still plays the chest open/close sounds.
That would screw up with Minecraft's default maximum, which results in weird gui...
Hmmm now that i think about it, I might be able to add a new GUI with triple size...
I'll think about it.
Meanwhile, I'm working on making it a chest-like (with animation and new texture) block.
ugh, no animation please. Either that or make it toggle-able via a config or something. Hate the 1.8+ chest animation.
Still, good idea, it might be able to finally enable me to get rid of Equivalent Exchange if it were triple size. I basically don't use it for anything but the chests anymore... that mod is *way* broken.
you could make a chestpiece that is a combination of a lapotron batpack and a quantum suit chestpiece.
Personally i'd almost rather have a enhanced Bat-Pack + Electro backpack combo.
Much belayed edit: meant to say electro jetpack there...
yeah right... private property concept on internets. me lulz much
edit: anyways, i'm tired of clicking this forum's bookmark, i'm gonna take a break from reading/posting activities
Good riddance to a moron troll I say.
and if you ever do read this then I suggest reading up on law some. This is Alblaka's server (at least i'll assume such) so he can kick you off for any reason whatsoever, you have *no* "right" to free speech here.
I didn't know it was on a sever and yes its not updated yet.
Actually it has been updated, just not by the original author. Anyway, look here
i never used it , and dont shut up me sir, i have the right to speak whatever i like
Not on someone else's server you don't. "Free Speech" doesn't work on private property
now shut up already. You don't like it? fine. Just don't complain about it all the time.
Display MoreI recently installed the 1.23 version of IC2 and put in a mass fab. I use buidlcraft for the pipes and found that you can only extract UU-matter from mass fabricators by piping from the bottom of the machine.
The sides and the top just remove any scrap that is currently in the machine.
I don't mind the current setup as I can still do what I need, but it is just different from every other machine letting you extract items produced from the sides.
Great mod, it has outlasted EE for me. I uninstalled it :).
Hmm... that explains why my (current very slow) diamond factory broke.
I'll have to re-pipe the thing now.
as to EE, i've mainly been keeping it around for one reason: Alchemical Chests. Lots of storage in a little space. The rest of the mod could go away for all I care.. it's horribly unbalanced.
posting this here.. posted something similar elsewhere but the post just vanished without a trace.
I *hate* the new way that the new quantum suit running is handles. I get much more control over where i'm going when running with the control key.
Would it be possible to get a config file option to change it back to the old way?
I present: The pointless machine: images here
Made in a fit of boredom in a test world with TMI and SSP commands for flying. (way to expensive to do legit for no real reason at all) Took a bit over an hour to fo.
primed the MFE with a energy crystal and it sucked out a bit under 9k energy getting the whole thing started but after that it was stable. (no net energy gain or loss)
in case you can't make it out, that's a motor powering the dynamo grid. The dynamo grid power a bat-box per 2 rows and the 4 bat-boxes feed a MFE which powers the motor.
So, Miners are pretty power hungry, even with just an OD scanner. With an OV scanner they become quite a bit more power hungry.
Unless I'm wrong they only accept LV input (32EU/t max).
How do you guys wire them up to keep them juiced up while mining away, be it with an OD or OV scanner? As it is I'm ending up having to play hotswap with batteries.
haven't built a miner since 1.0 and the will mine bedrock bug.
Lately i've been using BC quarries, sure it makes a huge hole and mines a lot of useless cobble but that's just more fodder for the recyclers 
any ores get dumped into a chest. Haven't ran a quarry since I built the processing station to handle nearly everything I need to do. (two chests and a few teleport pipes under my shack to somewhere ~40 blocks away underground near my power source)
Yeah, I was afraid of that.
I WISH there was a better way to fill lava cells, because I have some massive lava lakes near my base. Neither buildcraft nor IC2 pumps do much with lava, unfortunately. You can move a few bucketfuls at a time, not nearly enough.
aroo? the three lava likes i've drained with BC (v2.2.2) pumps disagree with you. Sure they missed a some source blocks here and there but i've got quite the tower of lava in a tank now. Haven't gotten around to it yet but I was going to try a ravine w/ lava floor I found next. (need to expand the tank)
Haven't actually built one for real yet (just in a test world with water) but the bucket filler addon works a treat for taking lava from a tank to fill buckets and then make cells out of.
Incidentally you can use that to dump buckets into a water mill but even then a water mill is quite pointless.
Display MoreThe only thing I could see ice useful for would be the minimize cooldown times on high heat high eu/t reactors or to turn a lowish heat mark 3 into a (barely) mark 2.
That being said, ice is irritating to make without using TMI or having some crazy BC+EE factory set up(which would change the game on reactors anyway) Using a stack to extend my meltdown a few extra minutes isn't worth it currently.
It might be usefull to generate more eu over a longer period of time if we used ice to shorten cooldown times on mark 2's, or even get us higher efficiency by turning mark 3's into safer mark 2-suc reactors.
Ice might have practical uses, I hate making it, so im not an expert on ice cooled reactors at all.
Don't need EE to make Ice, you do need BC to automate the whole thing though.
Anyway, water cell -> snowball -> ice via 3 trips to the compressor.
you can automatically fill the buckets with water with BC and the Bucket Filler addon. (optionally the advanced wooden pipe from the BC additional pipes will make the bucket thing *much* easier)
Obviously for speed you'll want the IC2 singularity compressor addon.
U can put Water Cells in the extractor or the compresser, i forgot it. then u get snow, which u compress and get ice!
Compressor. Water Cell -> Snowball -> Ice
you can automate the whole thing with BuildCraft and the Bucket Filler addon.
Just have a pump above a infinite spring pumping water to the Bucket Filler and feed the bucket of water to a small factory.
You may need Zeldo's additional pipes and the advaned wooden pipe to make it work smoothly though (aka: recycling the buckets)
so yeah... constant supply if ice, just add tin for the empty cells.
Not necessary. You can wire a simple redstone dust trail up to a reactor chamber. That's how mine is set up now.
That's what i'm doing right now.
I haven't tried it yet but you may be able to keep a 100% enclosed reactor (for the truly paranoid) with the wireless redstone mod and a receiver inside the reactor chamber.
solar panels are free infinite energy. you just pay to build it and after that it provides free infinite energy forever. hook a mass fabricator up to it and you can make everything else in the game, for free. this is not exactly 'new'. cactus farm will make free cactus forever which can be used to make energy or recycle into scrap boxes for free diamonds. cobblestone generators can make cobblestone out of thin air which again can be recycled for free diamonds. those machine can be powered by solar panels for a factory that essentially make stuff out of nothing. why are people keep freaking out that EE allows them to get 'free' stuffs? vanilla minecraft allows this, IC2 allows this, BC makes this REALLY easy, EE makes a LOT of stuff from other stuff. it's a video game. it's okay.
not to mention EE is on the whole horribly broken.
So far i've been avoiding doing the transformations of stuff as those are basically broken for anything other than EE
I will confess to having 4 glowstone aggregators running once in a while but only to feed the destruction catalyst I use to mine with.
On the whole I don't use EE much but do keep it around because I *love* the alchemical chests.
anyway, on cobble generators. Cobble generator + buildcraft == lots of scrap boxes, just add time. Don't even need to use fuel to power the quarry. You can power it (the quarry) with a 6x6 grid of redstone engines and the new power pipes. (provided you've got a 2 wide cobble generation area)
And you're right. The difference is that HV cable costs three refined iron (and nine rubber if you're feeling fancy) for twelve pieces, whereas glass fiber costs a whole diamond for every six pieces. Throwing down 16 diamonds for a 96-block long cable is a hell of a lot more expensive than 24 iron.
eh.. once you get to a certain point diamond isn't super expensive. I can leave the game running overnight and get 15 diamond or so out of the mass fab. (i'm pulling the uu matter out with Buildcraft stuff and running it to a auto crafting table)
