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Sprinklers, fertilizers, and fans. Those are by far the best tools you can have to make an insane amount of canola in a short amount of time. Especially when you factor in cross mod effects, such as apatite and bees, setting up the initial farm is, in my opinion, a necessary part of the tech...

I imagine adding a "low power" mode to the fireball launcher that would do this.

Started thinking about your finite water situation. Now, I'm not entirely familiar with turbines or engines that actually exist, but could there be a block that you'd place at the bottom of the ocean that uses the pressure at that depth to generate power? Similar functions already exist with...

I apologize, wasn't trying to start anything. I'm in the middle of writing my own mod, and I've asked myself a lot of the same questions. That being said, I don't actually use hydros myself either. I think they're one of the less commonly used engines, it feels like.

Problem is if you just check once, how does it shut off if you remove the water block? Does it just always run? Does it update when it detects a block update nearby? It's programmatically not hard to check all blocks in an area, sure, but there's a lot more to consider than that. Plus, if you...

From a coding and server standpoint, wouldn't the creation of source blocks and updating the flowing blocks cause some issues? If you were keeping to a realistic volume of water as you were saying, then you'd either need to have water that expands in volume as it falls, or create enough source...

Two-dimensional water... The water isn't consumed though, just the water with the higher potential energy is consumed, and you can created closed systems similar to what you describe. The energy just needs to come from somewhere though. Aren't the hydros balanced by the amount of lubrication...

I'll expand on my analogy a bit more, because it's a great example the more I think about it. Imagine Reika made a painting and publicly displays it for anyone to enjoy who wants to. This is making the mod and sharing it. Now, Reika says please don't copy my work, but you can take a picture of...

I think you're thinking of this wrong. It's not that a modder is someone who is creating a painting and giving it to people.. It's more like the modder is creating a painting and sharing it with the public to view and enjoy. What's going on here is that someone is taking a photo of the painting...

You know how I know a conversation is going too far? It's when we start debating whether or not someone should quit modding.

No it isn't. It really feels like it goes one way. People are fighting to say "Well, you gave me this mod, you need to let me do whatever I want with it and you can't tell me what to do." If this is true, why isn't the reverse? You have every right to do whatever you want as well. Whether or...

This isn't so much as a mineCraft mod as it is a rotarycraft mod. yeah, they both use the same medium though, and that's part of the difficulty to approach something like this. Again though, the solutions presented are modifying RCs code, not limiting what other people can make. If they really...

I'm starting to think you're arguing about something completely different. I just went to go read the first post, and it says nothing about forcing people not to install it or what mods RC can run with our without. In fact, the options were "Resolve diplomatically" or "change code so this can't...

That line in the EULA doesn't mean that you have no rights. That means if you make a mod, don't go complaining to Mojang if something or anything happens. They're just waiving responsibility (as they should) and covering themselves. Nowhere does it say that your intellectual property rights are...

I'm more talking about a mod that is intended to drastically alter a very specific mod to short circuit its mechanics. I feel like this would eventually happen, just this one happened to be the first. It might have happened before, but I cannot think of any. This conversation is pretty...

I think you're misunderstanding this a bit. The fact that this thread exists means that Reika would want to handle this in a good way rather than just blocking the mod from working. To me, it sounds like he went "wait, is this even within my rights to do anything to stop or change this mod?"...

Thing is, it's bypassing a huge amount of work. Take Thaumcraft for example; this would be the equivalent of giving you all the research and spawning a few nodes for you just by using a machine that takes some RF to run. If a mod comes out that changes all RC machines to plug and play RF, you...

See, I feel like mods extend beyond just the blocks and machines that it adds. Mechanics are just as important, and circumventing them destroys the spirit of the mod. This mod negates an entire part of the mod, whether intentional or not I cannot say. I guess the main issue that I have with it...

Careful, next thing you know you're going to have a giant lizard trying to destroy your nuclear reactor.

Actually working on learning how to mod. Thinking of something of "unique effect" jewelcrafting mod. And no, I'm not talking emerald pickaxe level stuff. I need to start fleshing out everything..