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1) put down a chest, we'll call it inputchest. 2) put all your halfbroken swords inside 3) create a crafty turtle (craft a turtle with crafting table) 4) add the following program (not tested, just made up) while true do if turtle.getItemCount(1) == 1 and turtle.getItemCount(2) == 1 then-- if...

Since you already use turtles in your build, why not use one for the damaged items? A crafty turtle with an appropriate program should be able to combine items and drop fully repaired ones in an output chest.

I've recently talked to CovertJaguar on IRC to find out how the heating of the boiler happens and he even posted a pastebin of the programming behind it. The basic gist is as following: Each game tick (20 ticks to a second), the game checks the current percent of max heat. Depending on the...

When using high speed tracks, what's a good distance to put booster rails so the carts don't slow down? I know it's 1 in 38 for vanilla tracks, but I guess it's different for Railcraft?

IC2 usually has a pattern of top input, side output. If it has different places for different inputs, the bottom seems commonly used for a second input. For the centrifuge it's top for the center input, bottom for cells and sides for all 4 outputs. The electrolyzer seems to work the same, top...

I've been looking into making a factory myself. You can create a lot of ressources with energy alone (lots of energy that is) using the Industrial Centrifuge and Electrolyzer. Assuming an regenerative energy source, this gives you unlimited ressources. The process will start slow, but can be...

For a quick checklist, you'll need the following items to get started with turtle mining: 7 Cobblestone (smelt them into Smoothstone) 6 Sand (smelt them into glass and make glasspanes) 1 Redstone 3 Logs (make a chest and 2 sticks out of it) 7 Iron Ore (smelt them into Iron Bars) 3 Diamonds (make...

That's exactly my point. With an iron pipe, you will potentially amass an infinite amount of items in that loop. With a diamond pipe you have the option to set up a way for overflowing items to go (overflow chest, voidpipe, lava pit etc) and even use a gate to detect that overflow is happening.

TBH, i wouldn't recommend any kind of piping that either places an item in the right container or loops / bounces them around. Whether you have a large amount of items lying around on the floor or bouncing through pipes is probably not much of a difference in terms of induced lag. For my current...

There is a vanilla mechanic that keeps a certain amount of chunks around the original spawn of a map loaded. I think Etho mentioned (and intends to use) it in his build of an arena-map, although I have not managed to find any hard evidence of this feature.

If you're low on tin but have a lot of iron, you can build a setup around Thermal Expansion, Railcraft and the Industrial Centrifuge. Basically you generate Lava with TE (Igneous Extruder & Magma Crucible), feed it via a TE Liquid Transposer into a Railcraft Steam Boiler. This will provide...