Aqueducts for Hydrokinetics!

[Softpotatis]

Hello, I thought it would be fun to make the water for my hydrokinetics come from a natural source of water, so I built some simple aqueducts, have a look!

Starting the aqueduct from a small pool of water I found on top of a mountain. I marked where I want the aqueduct to go with stoneslabs as you can see by the sheep.

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Continued the pattern until I reached where I want to start the turn, next up some scaffolding to hold up this thing.

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Liking how the first and second scaffolding are looking , the third is too big though.

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Got rid of the thrid scaffolding, liking it much better. Looks a little like the water is holding up the aqueduct.

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Continued on the lower part, nice and easy.

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Finished thing, I think doing things like this compensate for the immense power the hydrokinetics produce. It's a lot of fun also!

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Extra screeny

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Soon I'll be able to get the upgraded Industrial Coil which will take a little longer before it explode from charging hehe..

 

[pizzawolf14]

That... That is pretty cool! One suggestion, possibly make a stone support beams (like bridges have irl. May look a little more in industrial if that's what you want.

 

[Softpotatis]

That... That is pretty cool! One suggestion, possibly make a stone support beams (like bridges have irl. May look a little more in industrial if that's what you want.

I'm not sure how I would go about pulling that off, but it does sound interesting and I am going for a sort industrial themed Rotarycraft facility. Do you have any examples you could show me?

 

[pizzawolf14]

I'm not sure how I would go about pulling that off, but it does sound interesting and I am going for a sort industrial themed Rotarycraft facility. Do you have any examples you could show me?

Maybe a little something like this:

 

[Softpotatis]

Ah right, yeah that would probably be better, add a little bit of realism to it also since I don't think some wooden fences would hold up the aqueduct + the water. I'll see what I can come up with!

 

[KingTriaxx]

Got Carpenter's? If so, the slopes look awesome turned upside down and disguised as stone. Or perhaps stone brick supports with stone brick wall on top to support the aqueducts themselves.

 

[Softpotatis]

Big thanks for the suggestions, I'll try and implement them to my build later. I have a problem with the hydrokinetics though, I get tons of squid spawning in it, so if I stand down where I'm mining bedrock I can hear squid fall to their death all the time. It's not a really big issue except it does generate a lot of inc saks so I'm worried that the entities will lag me. Any suggestions?

 

[pizzawolf14]

Vacuum hopper at the bottom putting into a barrel