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Yeah, although the best quarry programs I have seen actually don't strip the world. They actually dig 1/3 of all noise blocks looking for work.

Mining is the easiest case. The "goHome()" generator is a generator that given the current location computes a direction to go to reach ome, or "none". You can then just loop on the output of the generator. Coroutines make simple code cleaner, and complicated code more approachable. They are not...

Creative mode experiments ahead.

Sure you do. The consumer is the action loop selecting from one of a variety of actions based on the current state of the turtle. If it's full or low on fuel, take an action from the "goHome" generator. Coroutines are a great way to capture stepwise execution of a process best described as a...

Fwiw Steampunk Magitech (using buildcraft, thaumcraft, redpower and optionally computercraft) is superior in pretty much every way for infrastructure to what IC2 can offer in v5.0.*. And the toys are insanely cool now, although it's very difficult to compare to the Quantum Suit and Grav engines...

Lua is awkward, but has some nice features. I'm more saying that this is the state of the community; basically everyone is doing with turtles on minecraft what I did with turtles on an Apple ][ and that makes me sad. I tried to find a single library that even thought of using a corotuine-based...

Actually, their they're (ed., curse you, Android tablet completion!) carefully balanced to set my brain on fire and make my eyes leak rage lava. I googled around for a popular turtle quarry program to see what CC Lua looked like. I found this and wept blood. I punched the wall and cried about...

True, but so is using a powered furnace. Minium stones not only break now (and man do I burn through them fast), but they involve a resource that can ONLY be obtained from lots of mob hunting. Odds are you already have lots of ender pearls if you have enough minium shards. I had 27 lying around...

RP2 sorta beat you to the punch on this. Even without EE3, Athames made farming ender pearls very easy. EE3 is hardly the culprit here. And the idea that tesseracts are (or should be) end game seems a bit suspect to me.

I of course meant to imply generating flux, not consuming it. Sorry. In a similar vein I've been spinning up ore processing via an Infernal Furnace and I really like the balance of that device. I wish I could make steam with it too.

Just pressing "like" doesn't really adequately express how much I appreciate this sentiment. Occasionally we see people post their large scale power plants here, but they seldom include a "why". I wish they would. It seems to me like aside from nonstop quarry output there just aren't that many...

I'm sort of curious how steam systems deal with inefficiency though... it seems like if you don't have constant power draw you're in a world of hurt, particularly if your spawn is short on lead... And even in the optimal case, you're often just wasting power. Also, I really hope that...

It sounds like it's minecraft fluid mechanics? It's entirely possible to be a Java Reflection Hero with the Sword of Devious Classloading (+5 vs Debug-ability), but the more core mechanics are modified by mods, the harder it is to track across minecraft updates.

The solution is to make energy-efficient ways of making lava. As I learn more about the balance work TE has done on this front, I like it more and more. You can quarry the hell out of the nether forever, generate your lava there, and pump it via tesseracts back to your home dimension (or keep...

Really? It is fertile ground for copper and tin as well, isn't it? These machines seem really good to me for some reason. I can't wait to build them (been working on my TC lab first). I really can't figure out why people are so fired up and angry about them.

It does seem like certain recipes are prioritized over others. Anyone who has gotten past golemancy in the most recent version proooobably knows what I'm talking about and had an equally irritating experience. "FINE. I GUESS I DON'T WANT MORE GOLEMS, THAUMCRAFT. I GUESS I DO WANT THAT OTHER...

Is this then the preferred server-friendly way to build a lava powerplant? Find a big netherrack-rich region and quarry it to Nether and back, resulting in such an excess of lava that no number of hours could possibly consume it? Just pumping lava is simpler and safer, but this has a certain...

It must be really fun for people avoiding spoilers to see this thread.

On this, the addition of the furnace to the line is not hard. New content spoiler ahoy, though. [spoiler] You might want to shunt any natural ____ clusters to the furnace. My testing hasn't been exhaustive yet, but last night in a sp creative it seemed like the nugget output chance is tied to...

I am so glad to hear this. I live in perpetual fear of CC turtle's creeping influence as the answer to everything. Not only are they way too cheap, but they're such a bushleague programming environment. Way too easy. Turtles should use RP2's forth interpreter. :D Maybe I missed this idea or...