Recent content by Servillo

I figured I'd be getting a lot of junk books, I'm just concerned that I'm always getting the same junk books, in almost perfectly the same order every time. Yeah, there's some variation, but not much. That's my main concern, is that something in the way the Exp Turtle works means I really won't...

I've built a very simple experience farm using Melee and Exp/Anvil turtles along with a Tier V Skeleton spawner. I've got books in a chest above the turtle all spaced out, and it will automatically pull a book from above when it reaches level 30, enchant it, and drop it in a chest below it. It...

That's...odd, I thought the advantage of liquiducts was not needing a signal. Maybe that's just because I was only using them on the boiler, which let me just place them on without any redstone signal powering them. Clearly I misread something somewhere. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm not sure if I'm using liquducts exactly right, but they don't seem to work with Forestry or Extra Bees machines for me. I'd rather use them over waterproof pipes and gates to control flow, but nothing I do seems to work for them. They worked just fine attaching them between my steam boiler...

I've read that the sawmill for planks is better than charcoal, but I only read that today. My only issue is storing all of that, and getting the planks fast enough. Sure, they're more efficient heat-wise, but I'd have to make sure my turtles can keep up. Charcoal is more compact. Maybe I'll set...

Well my main concern is if I'm pulling power for several machines at once. I know most machines outside the Extra Bees machines aren't too energy intensive, but lots of machines at once, especially ones I'm running for a long period of time (Igneous Extruder, Magma Crucible for Obsidian...

I'm going the Buildcraft route for a lot of my power in my base, since I'm doing some Forestry and Extra Bees stuff, and I'm somewhat concerned that I'm not going to be going about this the right way. Currently, I have one 36 HP boiler just sitting in my base, haven't even put one bit of fuel...

Abdiel, thank you very much for that code. Like I said, I know very little about LUA and the various API's (especially the OS API, which I've pretty much never used), so this helps a lot. I think that may give me a good idea on how to use it elsewhere as well.

I'm going to preface this topic with letting you know that I am a complete novice when it comes to programming. I've taken one class of C++, which thankfully translates fairly well to LUA. However, that means the extend of my knowledge with programming with turtles basically extends to loops...

Okay, so apparently I completely missed Applied Energistics. I cannot believe no one on my server has used this, either; it looks way more useful than Redpower. About the only problem I'm going to have is integrating it into my base. It's going to be...complicated, to say the least, considering...

Aw crap, forgot to mention that I'm using Direwolf, so no AE for me. :( And what do you define as a lot of boilers? I've only got one set up so far (can get more later, but I'm not in a huge rush, plus I'd have to set up a few more of my charcoal producing turtles), and I don't want to set up...

So I have some questions about automating item allocation with pipes, if I may. 1) What are the best pipes to use to minimize lag? I only know of buildcraft pipes and pneumatic tubes. Similar question for when I get a sorting system set up; should I just use diamond pipes to sort, or use...

Pretty much this. The last time my group's server reset, I basically didn't play for weeks because I didn't want to go through the tedium of making everything all over again. About the only thing that's gotten me going this time around is I started bee breeding and exploring Buildcraft some...

Surely someone here knows. I guess if nothing else, my guess would be getting a tree with the traits I want, and then breeding those backwards through the breeding chain to get what I want.

So I know how to combine trees to get new species, planting trees next to each other and having bees pollinate. One thing I'm not sure about is how to move traits from one tree to another successfully, while controlling which sapling I'm getting. I'm assuming it's like breeding bees without any...