Recent content by Braidedheadman

^This "PC nonsense"? As in "politically correct" nonsense? Friend, I'm not sure that you know what these words mean or how to use them correctly, at the very least. There's never been anything "politically correct" about April Fools, which is rather the whole point of most jokes. It's harmless...

Just to add to that, vanilla minecraft's hydrated farmland tiles from a nearby water source are not enough on their own to meet the full hydration per tile requirements needed for a plot of canola farmland. Without giving away too much of the thrill or process of discovery for you (and because...

Generating thrust isn't the goal in RotC, however.

Because the player(s) had no hand in its creation.

I'm not being hostile toward anybody nor am I suggesting that Reika is either. However, what you've done is issue an ultimatum: "Fix your mod [(reading between the lines): in a manner that I deem suitable] or I won't update." You'll find that won't get you very far is all that I'm saying. Peace.

There's a place of, er... "honor" reserved for comments like that. :P

1.) What biome and what Y-level are you setting up in? Perhaps the ambient temperature is interacting with your PJF to help bump it over the 900C threshold needed to process iron >> HSLA steel where the biome I was set up in did not. 2.) What is your maximum operating temperature? Oxygen...

The oxygen does make a difference in the heat, at least it used to and I can't imagine why that would change. In my experience with the machine, adding oxygen accelerant to the PJF caused its temperature to increase faster than even multiple cooling fins could dissipate, even with fans attached...

Alright then, that confirms that you need to run it without water in order to achieve the higher temperatures necessary to increase productivity with oxygen. You can see where this becomes risky.

Believe me, it's no where near that simple. Using oxygen as an additive in the pulse jet furnace causes it to overheat in exchange for greatly increased productivity and doubling your HSLA steel production. The thing is, whereas water keeps the PJF at a stable albeit relatively slow operating...

This isn't reason enough? Actually, it presents one of RotC's more interesting challenges: governing your pulse jet furnace's duty cycle while using oxygen without blowing everything up! :D

Engines running on neat, or straight, ethanol fuel aren't so far fetched (pure ethanol fuel; E100). Brazil has been running them in their vehicles since the 70's and, in fact, one among the first vehicles capable of using neat ethanol was Ford Model T starting in 1908. I can't imagine that Reika...

Efficiency. I haven't tinkered with it much yet personally, but afaik, ElC converts back and forth between shaft power and electric power losslessly (with the right wiring). Converting RF (or other outside sources) on the other hand back into shaft power is not lossless, amounting to up to a 50%...

It sounds to me like Rigworm is suggesting that it be possible to take an inline array of belt/chain hubs arranged so that they accept and merge power input on one end and output (or split) power on the other as an alternative to the shaft junction. Say, for example, merging the power from four...

If you haven't worked out the problem yet, could you maybe provide us with a screenshot of your set up? I can see no reason why you'd need or want to detect any block updates for this or any other machine. I can only think of a handful of places where that's even useful, most of which involve...