Posts by Shadowclaimer

Quote from Alblaka

It's as followed:

1 ID can contain anything possible
16 Blocks via Meta can contain quite different things, but must all share some basic attributes stored via ID
Inf. Blocks via TE can contain slight changes, but are severly limited by the metadata.

The problem is, most stuff is hardcoded to ID's. Otherwise you could effectively meta-store every block.

Reinforced things share all the same attributes, except for rendering. Rendering can be made meta-using, thus it's possible to code all Reinforced Blocks (cept doors) into a single block. I can do it, Eloraam can do it, probably SpaceToad as well, etc.
It just takes time and debugging though ^^'

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I would love you forever if you manage to do it, the concept of reinforced stairs, slabs, and such would be amazing. I've built some epic reactors from solely the reinforced blocks, would be a nice touch to edit and add onto them using stairs/slabs.

Produce the weaponry to cause a nuclear holocaust on an area. Stash more warheads than the former soviet union in a GIANT underground explosionproof bunker that's three armor thick and put a vault door using pistons on the front.

I really like this idea, moving from IC to IC^2 my biggest fear is blowing up my machinery, I don't fully understand the new systems yet and I'd love to have some sort of failsafe that could keep me from detonating everything.

Quote from agentwindbreaker

maybe different tiers of solar panels? like i know theres already an advanced solar panel addon but if this idea went forward it would be nice to be able to generate nice amounts green goodness energy without having to make fields of solar panels

Higher tier ones would be nice, since the loss would be the same over the distance you could build flowers out of them (or a mix of types) and lose less power.

Saving from page 4.

Any other feedback or ideas? Maybe other Solar-based utility devices that could help this idea out?

Quote from Alblaka

Possible, but there's a slight flaw: When do you even need wood for the planks? Afaik 90% of all chopped wood is used for charcoal either way. And i don't think one would create a machine for the few pieces of wood he wants to craft into planks...

There must be a real, unique use for some sort of sawmill machine, otherwise it's too pointless to implement.

From wiki on Pyrolysis

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Charcoal

Pyrolysis has been used since ancient times for turning wood into charcoal on an industrial scale. Besides wood, the process can also use sawdust and other wood waste products.

Charcoal is obtained by heating wood until its complete pyrolysis (carbonization) occurs, leaving only carbon and inorganic ash. In many parts of the world, charcoal is still produced semi-industrially, by burning a pile of wood that has been mostly covered with mud or bricks. The heat generated by burning part of the wood and the volatile byproducts pyrolyzes the rest of the pile. The limited supply of oxygen prevents the charcoal from burning. A more modern alternative is to heat the wood in an airtight metal vessel, which is much less polluting and allows the volatile products to be condensed.

The original vascular structure of the wood and the pores created by escaping gases combine to produce a light and porous material. By starting with a dense wood-like material, such as nutshells or peach stones, one obtains a form of charcoal with particularly fine pores (and hence a much larger pore surface area), called activated carbon, which is used as an adsorbent for a wide range of chemical substances.

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A Pyrolysis Chamber could use electricity to burn wood-based items and make charcoal, so Planks, Logs, whatever could be turned into a larger output of Charcoal than basic burning of logs in a furnace. I'm not sure if 2x rate would be too high versus a traditional furnace, but any increased output works.

I actually agree with this, some sort of Sawmill device that would use power to turn a Log into extra boards would be awesome.

Quote from ruyan

I like the cloning idea, but it would rather fit in MineFactory Reloaded than IC.

All of these (and a lot more) ideas are included in MineFactory Reloaded btw

Oh and it's a Forge mod as well... runs perfectly fine on our IC²/BC server!

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I'm not one to stand by the concept of 'if its in another mod we won't do it', Buildcraft is so commonly paired with IC^2 that I can slide on those, but for other mods.. eh.

Quote from Alblaka

I somehow like the idea of cloning animals or mobs from items which are drobbed by said animals/mobs. Would need loads of energy and would spawn XY. Kinda a home-made mob/animal spawner :3

Or homemade lol device when your buddy comes home to a base full of sheep..

or Creepers..

Quote from nathan

Great idea but I could see a mob blowing the cover by wondering through the hologram.

Leave it in, that'd be a feature.

I think a huge series of tweakable variables in general for servers would be nice.

Quote from RichardErickson

One thing that seems to be somewhat absent from industrial craft is industrial farming. The real world industrial revolution heavily involved turning labor intensive farming into a machine driven production. In game terms there is a lot of fun tech that could be applied to and fit well within industrial crafts theme. I apologize for not having full ideas for recipes.

A high tech farming option would be cloning, cloned sheep used to be the talk of all things science. It would use advanced circuits and probably glass for tubes and such. you'd click on an animal you want run your cloner and it would spawn pigs, sheep, or even creepers provided it was fed large amounts of energy.

More mundane then that would be a simple cow milker something that has a 100% success rate and is battery driven (could be stationary with the intent that cows would walk into it). It would use rubber/resin basic circuits and require empty buckets that it would fill.

Although farming in minecraft is pretty easy it would be interesting see other ideas for industrially improved farming.

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I really like how well you've thought this out, massive kudos.

Here's some machine concepts I considered along those lines.
-Electric Plow (Would plow all land within so many tiles when powered)
-Harvesters (Would harvest grain within so many blocks and eject or deposit it in a chest as well as the seeds)
-Sower (Would plant seeds in open ground within so many blocks, would use stash in a chest)
-Butcher (Would kill any animal that runs into it and eject or place the dropped items into a nearby chest)
-Breeder (Would use a cloning device as an ingredient, but would be a block that duplicates an animal standing on it while powered)

Also we need Flax already, so we can create massive production for the creation of cloth! Which serves no purpose really in Minecraft but for decent colored carpet and flags!

Nets for placement in water that when powered would eject fish or place them in chests would be nice as well. Kinda like as was said above me.

Quote from run1235

so how would i go about using these sprites?

When I get around to finishing the set they will be available for download and implementation =P

Basically I work on the tileset during the week when I'm at work, I've got a lot to do on a lot of projects and IRL has gotten heavy so I can't give a proper window of release.

Quote from darenton2k7

the most rediculas suggestion ive seen so far congrats to you

You've obviously never laid your eyes upon Austrailium..

Stories tell of men magically transformed just by holding the stuff.. their shirts become too binding for their rippling muscles, and they grow chest hair in the shape of their favorite state/nation.

Quote from techmago

What? orbital stuff!?

It was posted in a discussion about having blocks that fire a straight laser beam for mining, he said he was going to do an orbital cannon like that.

Its still not an automated defense turret.

Quote from Talonius

Here's two files:

IC2 Retexture is a texture pack. If you want to add this to an existing pack, you'll have to copy the ic2 folder within this file and put it into the existing texture pack.

mod_IC2ReTex A quick mod placed into the mods folder that tells IC2 to use the new textures, the source code is in there too.

Thanks a ton man =D

I just finished tweaking them all to the new standard of sides/back being the same, and finished the Miner/Pump.

Quote from Talonius

If you're refering to the sprites array then the numbers don't all represent individual faces, the order is:
- Inactive bottom
- Inactive top
- Inactive sides/back
- Inactive front
- Active bottom
- Active top
- Active sides/back
- Active front

The value for these can be changed without overwriting IC's class files, howeverto seperate the back and side textures would probably need you mod IC's file directly.

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Oh really? That's awesome, I could deal with the same texture on Front/Back for most I figure.

How would I go about setting the sprite array for each individual machine?

Quote from Talonius

I've been testing way of getting custom textures into IC2 and so far I've found two possible limitations:

1. The sides and back all use the same texture.
2. The top and bottom textures no not rotate to face the front of the machine.

I'll be trying to see how to get these textures into the game and if it turns out sucessful I'll post how I did it in detail.

Thank you, the second point I was afraid of, however I can just rotate the tile appropriately.

As for #1, in the source code itself you can set all 6 sides of a block's textures, hence the issue I'm hitting where I'll have to make a tileset that's just the base tileset amped up, and a "mod for a mod" version that is recompiled source with my modified changes.

As someone who doesn't use BC, I kinda wish some of the features would end up here, voiding a feature because its already in IC^2 kinda hurts.. I play Industrialcraft!

Quote from Serosaken

All you had to say was "This idea has already been suggested, Ablaka said no."

Didn't see it posted, so I figured I'd try.

Maybe this time he'll say yes because we said pretty please?

I can see the complications but.. its laser turrets.. its the dream of anyone to have a technological nuclear powered base guarded by frikkin' lasers.