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  1. PhilHibbs

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    I'm trying to automate the placement of Liquid Essence next to a Neutral Nexus. No BC so no Floodgate.
  2. PhilHibbs

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    How do you tell the difference between "empty block filled with fluid" and "fluid block removed" update? If the update gets out of sync (for instance, my Arcane Lamp places a light particle next to the BUD), then it will stop. I suppose I could try out the Steve's Factory Manager block detector...
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    Yes, I had the duct connected to the... er... blue side... that's input, isn't it? not output? D'oh! Let's try that again... ok it's working now. I can't believe I did that - I do know what the colours mean, I just had a senior moment I think. Now, the problem is that it is overwriting the...
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    Is it possible to use a pair of Autonomous Activators to move liquid from a tank into the world? I've tried using ducts & servos to whitelist-extract a full bucket at the tank end and an empty bucket at the output end, I thought that that would pass the bucket back and forth but it doesn't. The...
  5. PhilHibbs

    Moving large amounts of power?

    AE P2P tunnels.
  6. PhilHibbs

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    I fixed it by putting a ring of conveyor belts all around the edge of the pen, with one in the middle of each side pointing inwards. That seemed to stop them from ever getting into the fence blocks.
  7. PhilHibbs

    ELORAAM

    Maybe it used to in some earlier version, but not in 1.4.7 it didn't. None of the redstone logic components ever changed lighting (they emit constant light like a redstone torch, but at level 8 instead of 6, and never change lighting levels). Here's my take on what Eloraam has said. I interpret...
  8. PhilHibbs

    ELORAAM

    Citation needed (that RP2 redstone ever caused lighting updates). Citation needed (that she actually said that).
  9. PhilHibbs

    ELORAAM

    Losing PR would not cause the loss of all microblocks, most* pipe systems, the only** logic gate system, and the only truly awesome computers***. Also - am I misunderstanding you? How many post-1.5.2 worlds suffered due to the removal of RP2? Surely that's "zero"? *Not sure if RP tubes had a...
  10. PhilHibbs

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    I must admit I never noticed that. I always just click "update". So by the time I realised there was a problem, there was no way for me to investigate via the changelog.
  11. PhilHibbs

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    I can't seem to find it. There's nothing in the Modpack and Launcher News section, I did check there... where else might it be... Ooh, there's some "weekly" news!
  12. PhilHibbs

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    I just updated the launcher, and Magic Farm 2 is no longer listed! Have I done something wrong? *Edit* Found it, there's a separate "3rd Party Packs" tab. D'oh!
  13. PhilHibbs

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    You would only find dead trees when you found a biome that had them. And it's a while since I've seen one but I seem to recall that some of them were fairly sparse even on the dead trees. Basically, the tree spawning is determined by the biome, so you need to find a mod that adds some biomes...
  14. PhilHibbs

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    If you use BoP you could just choose the biomes that you want, there are plenty of barren and hostile wastelands biomes. Some of them have dead trees, so you would have a limited supply of wood but no saplings.
  15. PhilHibbs

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    I tried snagging one in a Safari Net and it didn't work.
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    ELORAAM

    It looks like she's going for a full port, microblocks and all, so there will be both options available.
  17. PhilHibbs

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    Is there a way to cause lightning strikes? I need Lightning Seeds for PneumaticCraft, and I can't find any. All I know is that lightning strikes have a chance to create seeds. I've tried covering an area with Dark Cloud from Natura, no luck so far. I could try making Twilight Forest portals, as...
  18. PhilHibbs

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    I had a stack of hoppers feeding a router feeding a 3x5 bank of machines in my 1.5 world. No Routers in Magic Farm 2, which my world is based on (heavily expanded), but I might add FZ at some point. You could alternate hopper, chest, hopper, chest for a larger capacity in the processing queue.
  19. PhilHibbs

    Mana bean recycler

    Good idea - if you have a limited supply of beans and want some Vitium or Auram or other rare aspect then you could set the ducts to sort the ones you don't want back round the loop. I have about 20 stacks of each bean type, so I don't really need this system any more.
  20. PhilHibbs

    Mana bean recycler

    The six primary aspects are considerably more common than the compound aspects. If you want to even out the mana beans that you are getting from your farm, or if you want to exchange all your Lux beans because torches are just as good, here is a system to do it using Steve's Factory Manager...