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There's Autarchic Gates for that, and also denoflions DenPipes which has automatic Wood/Emerald pipes that effectively have the 'Autarchic' part built in, so you can provide the pump or extract command to them with any other gate.
It has a few uses in GregTech AFAIK. Helium cells, useful for making Helium Coolant cells without cooling plasma from the Fusion Reactor. Good if you can't be bothered with setting one up.
Do you know if that also applies to the Animated Player mod here (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1768057-152aesthetic-animated-player-fully-pixelized-hats-v120/) as well? Or is it something users of that mod should test for themselves?
On the 1.5 RC Tanks.... you know you don't have to colour them by crafting right? You can use anything like the paint roller things (I forget what they're actually called) on a placed block to recolour them.
I used it before Wrath Lamps, and I can say they both work the same way - by placing invisible light-emitting blocks. They travel 64 blocks in the direction the floodlights point, but they still block quarries, trees, etc.
Wrath Lamp light travels 8 blocks down before it starts to dim, so no it won't go all the way to bedrock
They also conflict with (BC) Quarries because they place invisible light-emitting blocks, which the Quarry then mines.
It is, you can use dirt.
As for Managed, the Managed arboretum will plant saplings in all valid locations - wherever there is dirt in its reach. Only the Manual ones remember where you plant and only replant there, but the Manual one won't cut them down.
You may want to either use dedicated...
The manual farms you only have to plant the initial saplings/seedlings, then if it has to replace them it remembers where you put them and only replants right there.
Most of the manual farms don't seem to harvest right down to the point where they have to replant though.
The page you want for manual arboretums and all other multiblock farm programming is this: http://forestry.sengir.net/wiki.new/doku.php?id=farms:programming
And all you need in-world is a soldering iron, a circuit board and the relevant electron tubes.
However, you should note that the manual...
A friend tried it on a LAN world with me once we got it set up not to conflict. There were a few rather serious bugs - killing certain mobs resulted in a crash, going to Vethea/Icika also crashed, unable to leave Dungeon of Arcana and all dimensions taking absolutely ages to load - but once past...
That's likely based on an older version of IC2, since changes were made that meant that putting ice in the reactor or surrounding it in water no longer have any effect on the reactor's temperature. The only outside design you might need now is some form of blast shield so that if your reactor...