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We actually have OpenCCSensors, which gives even better ways to detect nearby players. This is some serious reactor science. Note that steam output will be buffed by the variable-height reactors in the next drop of Atomic Science. I've been playing with it, and you can basically burn your...

The entire notion of machines blowing up is silly and not-minecraft-ish. I did notice that Mekanism has a novel approach: machines that are overvolted operate but discard a ton of power they can't use. So they suddenly become epic consumers on the network, frequently breaking my power grid...

I had this happen with a Steve's Cart, which is even more pernicious.

It should be, like any good piece of entertainment, internally consistent. When internal consistency is broken, it should be in a plausible way. I guess that's why we're cool with pulverization/maceration magically turning dead mass into useful mass. Or Steve not needing to dig a latrine.

It is never on by default. It represents a huge security risk to servers.

The lack of documentation is indeed a real problem.

I am not sure if it's related, but ME systems caused me major framerate issues prior to the most recent rv11a release. Now I do not have those issues.

I believe with your co-developer we decided it was actually a specialized liquid void pipe. It is super terrible. You are actually better smashing your computer with a hammer. Or just bite the bullet and upgrade to 1.5, where it actually makes sense. There it only burns one type of fuel...

Thanks! Not my finest hour, though :D. That first steel machine worked, but wow was it a monstrosity.

Episode 18 is out. On time this time. I tackle... The Riddle Of Steel™©®. Basically I derp around then correct myself later. But hey, Mekanism's steel process is pretty cool.

1.5.* doesn't have pumps that place liquid in the world, does it? And energized glowstone blocks migrate. The build I posted from ImArtsify is an actual variant of this. Way Of Time has been doing crazy epic glowstone curtains around his base on our server for awhile. The problem is that it...

Well, I thought his build was exactly right. It was multi-mod, used computercraft for exactly what it excels at, and was not an over-investment of effort for a portal system. I'll probably try and recreate it with improvements. So for me, the lighting and portal builds have been the first good...

I knew you'd be mad. I watched and said, "He'll be mad." But there is literally no other way to do it, so write a mod to actually provide slotwise inventory management or continue to rage impotently. There is no other build in that modpack.

Well, we do have new stuff because of Thaumic Tinkerer. So that's drawing me onward in Thaumcraft research. But I think even Azinor agrees (at least according to MachineMuse) the research system is "no fun" after the first few playthroughs. Which is a shame, because Thaumcraft is one of those...

My next episode, episode 17 is up. I posted here late but technically I did post on a Tuesday. I won't be late with Thursday's episode, I promise. I hope you enjoy processing farm outputs in a dank cave. Cuz that's what we're doing!

You don't have any recourse. Sorry. You might try using turtles and chests as a bridge for your pipes. May I suggest testing things in test worlds before using huge sums of resources?

Want me to rig it for you such that it only runs when you or your friends are around? I'm about to do this for my base too. It's a trivial thing and costs almost no resources. I could even hook up dark cables to regional proximity detectors. You can keep your processing cores online. What's...

It works on a server. End of discussion.

The thing that is not infinite is my time to play the game. Progression mechanics need to be handled delicately in Minecraft so that they give me a sense of value without giving me a sense of tedium. Gregtech fails at this more than any other mod. I have a day job. I have a family I love. I...