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So you see that wooden pipe into hopper setup? We can do that in one go with 5 iron and a chest in 1.5.1 with the new Vanilla hoppers (no pipes needed)! The footprint is still vertical, but it's even smaller. We even achieve 0 overflow and optimal flow through the system. Watch the video linked...

If you're interested in how to do this in 1.5.1 or without redpower, make a new thread and we can talk about it there. It gets fun. :) For example, that setup you have dramatically shrinks in size and cost. And more complex setups can vary from simple to fiendishly humorous in complexity.

What's confusing is why the bad configs persist. Several things are configured incorrectly and these are low-cost pushes.

You can still do it safely if you just be aware that this can happen. Keep a reserve supply of wood by using level emitters to disable exporters. My next build will buffer boiler fuel into barrels and use ME storage busses, so that I can keep huge supplies of planks onhand w/out fear of storage...

For someone who does not have contempt for people, you certainly are quick to claim their ignorance is a by-product of their negligence. If you feel that you did not mean to imply this, then I heartily suggest you re-read what you wrote with a critical eye.

You need to use an iron pipe. The only reason Dire would say this is if he had a setup where he could control the direction things entered the pipe. Most pipes cannot send objects on a 180deg turn, which is what CAN happen if things go the wrong direction. Iron pipes are required here. I...

We're asking for a screenshot of your setup. Sometimes this helps. Also, sometimes DW20 is just wrong. Help us help you, please?

The trick is to use other ammo to kill the endermen nearby. The seeker tracks to mobs near you with preference. Quickly bunr them down and the the dragon is absolutely swarmed by the bullets. I learned this AS I was fighting the dragon so I got outdamaged by DoctorOr and Poppycocks who had...

I was under the impression that hopper carts did this. I think I even saw it happening? Agreed. Still useful tho. I think this is more an issue of poor communication than a bad feature. "Trapped" chests could be called "signal" chests and they'd make a ton more sense. Yeah well this is...

A state cell is just an RS latch coupled with a timer and an OR and AND gate.

Dead on, and I might note that people vastly underestimate the power of these things for automation. They're actually pretty dang good at moving things around and inserting them. They even have a drop-prevention mechanic.

If you're in 1.4.7 it's pretty trivial to use a state cell to stop them from feathering, but in general it's not a problem TO feather if you're using magmatic engines. Magmatic engines are like Geothermal generators from IC2 in that they don't have any downside to blinking on and off constantly...

The power values are old and the enabled recipes are wrong. You generally have only GT recipes enabled, or IC2 and any others you want, or just vanilla. Having vanilla recipes enabled with any of the others is a weird decision.

Balderdash and humbug, sir. Your one-off anecdotes do little to sway me. Unlike you, I seem to have faith in this community and the idea that people who take the time to actually set up and play modded minecraft actually have a pretty good working understanding of the game compared to the vast...

Why bother ever with those useless things? The only time I'd care is when I have factorization power set up. Then those can get pretty fast.

It's close, but charcoal is basically an emergency/starting measure for torches. It's not even good for making creosote oil. So, I now cringe when people castigate others for not making charcoal. I guess I better peace out on this thread before my face gets stuck this way.

Sadly, any bugs for Minecraft 1.4.7 involving gregtech and mmmPowersuits are very unlikely to be fixed. Some recipes will simply be broken forever. It's been a strong impetus for me to get up into the world of 1.5.1.

I thought even w/out the cumulative heat from 4 planks was nearly the same as the heat from one charcoal, and since charcoal costs heat to make then it means that charcoal was a waste. I am quite certain that planking wood is energy positive over just regular wood. If that is not the case: why...

No seriously, someone correct me if this is wrong... Isn't charcoal a net energy loss that's only used only as a way to make torches when you don't have resin/rubber about?

Not really at all. Thaumcraft spawns more witches than Vanilla ever has for me, by like almost 2 orders of magnitude. And if you stop using a way-outdated biome generator you'll get even more (the BoP Magic Forest: beautiful by day, terrifying by night). My comment was that witches are insanely...