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Guys, guys! Calm down! This is all a misunderstanding! Steve Ballmer just wanted to try out playing Minecraft and told his secretary to go "buy Minecraft", and an nearby journalist with an overactive imagination happened to hear the wrong half of that sentence... :P In all seriousness though...

Potential infinite fuel exploit in v25z, unsure if still present in v1c: 1.) insert 1 ethanol crystal into gasoline engine 2.) use bucket to retrieve 1000 mB liquid ethanol from engine 3.) input bucketful of ethanol into liquid crystallizer 4.) receive 10 ethanol crystals 5.) GOTO 1.) Can be...

The piston animation is purely clientside on Buildcraft engines as well, but they do run an internal timer and logic that starts at the same time that the engine animation does, and that governs the energy output. It's just a constant loop of "get current buffer status -> determine ticks to wait...

Considering the largest part of any mod is its textures and sounds, which the server would have to supply, I highly doubt it. The Forge server might send a single "mod block placeholder" texture to a connecting vanilla client via a mandatory server resource pack, to display for every single...

Buildcraft is not "shifting to RF" in the sense that it will use the same energy system Thermal Expansion's baseline implementation currently uses. Instead it will use the RF API to re-implement MJ with all of its current behavior. The idea is to deprecate the Buildcraft power API which has been...

The new Sponge server project that the modding community has scrounged together during the past weekend sounds like fantastic news for 1.8. Imagine a fully featured Forge-modded server that allows vanilla and modded clients to connect and play together*, has the stellar performance of...

Correct. I never claimed that the explosion I experienced was the fault of anyone or anything but my own. ;) I'll be weeping when I spend all that steel and sintered tungsten on a new turbine, but I should have (at minimum) monitored my setup more carefully. However it was kind if a "straw that...

The only thing that "tends to" with Buildcraft is the fact that players tend to do it wrong, and then blame their personal inability on the mod. It has always irked me and will continue to irk me to see stuff like that parroted on by people (not you specifically, just in general) who probably...

Air Compressor Part 2: Rotarycraft provides a number of options for converting shaft power into power usable by other mods. The air compressor is one of them, and then there's the rotational dynamo and the electric generator. Since these other power systems are all distinct and different, it's...

I also have a "negative review" to make, in this case about Rotarycraft's air compressor. The fact that it tore a hole into my base is tolerable (it was my own fault and it's recoverable), but no matter how I try to use that block, it just strikes me as not thought through in so many ways. It...

Yeah, I figured that part out late last night. It was difficult to see, but on close examination the blast crater wasn't actually centered on the turbine. It was the air compressor that blew up, the turbine was in fact innocent. I then tested the parameters. It actually doesn't matter at all...

It was on an engine control unit throttling it to 6.25% for initial startup. It was connected to a steel shaft which fed into an air compressor. There was a single block of air in front of the turbine, then a wall. I had also built iron bars around the space in front to prevent people from...

v25z, which is the last 1.6.4 release. Unfortunately I wasn't pointing my cursor at it :s And I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary. Just the startup sound, and then the regular operation noise. And then a few moments after that, kaboom. it literally took only half a minute from the...

Can you tell me all the reasons a RoC gas turbine has for exploding? Because according to the ingame handbook it can explode when damaged from sucking in entities. However, mine just exploded within 30 seconds of turning it on - while I was watching it, and there were no entities to be sucked...

For a weapon, RotaryCraft's gravel gun is ridiculous. It's a fairly cheap, early accessible item which scales up in power quite excessively as you get deeper into the mod. Rapid firing, practically infinite shots off of a single charge, cheap and plentiful ammo (literally just gravel), unlimited...

I'm not sure a different video card would have created much different results here, considering my Radeon was half asleep while testing. It's possible that Minecraft favors the Nvidia driver, causing less CPU overhead, but I'm not sure that would even run in the same thread. Perhaps Minecraft...

Maybe we should get back on topic of Rotarycraft suggestions though.

It also completely requires the ability to do prospecting. If you can't just dig and find what you're looking for, then you need tools to help you make informed decisions about where to dig. Terrafirmacraft really has this down to an art. It has rare, giant veins of a multitude of different...

That probably happened because the gate was adjacent to something else with an inventory. And then the conditional will only swap when all adjacent inventories no longer have space. Example: Steam oven next to steam boiler. Steam boiler autopulls one stack from the steam oven, leaving 3 slots...

My extractor sits on a 3-speed manual transmission, run by a fuel powered engine (consumes Buildcraft fuel, 262 kW). Both levers off runs stages 1 and 4, left lever on runs stages 2 and 3, and the right lever finally runs stage 4 alone but faster. I added this extra gear because stage 4 is the...