Recent content by JohnOC

Pneumaticraft has a fractional distillation multiblock that works on oil and produces IIRC 4 fluid outputs. Not that it wouldn't be cool for RoC to have one, just that there is at least one existing.

A turbocharger? That just basically makes the answer "more steel" for a compressor or requires tungsten for the compound compressor. But maybe that is enough? I'm kind of in agreement with Azzanine that the difference in cost from the gasoline to performance engines (20 steel and 5 gold) seems...

You're right. The setup made 152 mB of lubricant before the gearbox caught fire and was destroyed. That makes about 105 wooden gearboxes per vat of lube, plus or minus a few, on easy. So I guess it is possible to go without a steam engine.. but I'd sure rather just make the frigging steam...

4 DC engines give 4k power minus the losses from the gears that you don't have lube for, meaning you can't run the grinder.

I'm having much better results with 12 pebble bed cores around a single CO2 heat exchanger in a diamond pattern. It runs a single LP turbine at continuous full output, with a slow build-up over time of steam volume in the line from the 3 steam boilers to the steam grate.

As best I can tell, being only beginner/intermediate with Java, the Minecraft difficulty has no effect on Rotarycraft lubricant production or use. Production: It looks like each rotarycraft difficulty level sets a range for a random number generator to produce an integer number of mB of lube...

I'll cop to not remembering precisely what the blueprint does off the top of my head, I may agree.. What is in my head is a wire-frame on the outer block edges of each layer and block type in the hp turbine. If the wires drawn could be shaded or colored slightly differently from each other...

How about a HP turbine blueprint block, like the one for the fusion reactor?

Lava under the blast furnace is working just fine for me in V6f. I think you might be thinking of the steam engine, which will blow up with lava under it and no cooling fin. Fire works fine for that machine. Edit to add: Nitpicking aside, I completely agree with your point about videos...

Opis is a profiling tool that can collect data and show in-game what chunks, areas, blocks, or entities are using up all the server ticks and making things slow. I'd agree someone that needs it and knows they do is likely very capable of adding it to a pack themselves.

And the barrier under discussion for v7 is much lower than the barrier in place currently. Its a step from 'no' all the way past 'maybe' to 'yes, with these conditions.' That is actually a pretty substantial change, and though it doesn't affect my efforts at pack-making at all (personal use...

This is also repeatedly demonstrated false. Its been covered several times in this thread that there are notional adults, some with very respected names, spreading flat-out false information that many others are accepting uncritically and using as a basis to attack both Reika and his mods both...

I wouldn't expect a comprehensive list, like you said that is impossible. I do think something at least covering 'removal of these machines will break progression' and 'making these materials available easier will break gating' and other second-order effects of seemingly simple changes.

In the OP you list several examples of these, do those cover all the really likely or really big cases, or could there be some expansion of that list to maybe cover all the specific technologies used to gate things?

Its a usable approximation of how electricity works. In a series circuit of a resistor and a load the load will get less power than in the same circuit with no resistor. The 'lost' power becomes heat in the resistor. Its less math this way to use a resistor to set the max current a load can...