Mod Feedback [By Request] RotaryCraft Suggestions
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Relating to that, Is it possible to turn that off using the turn off Capes button? If not, that should be a thing. I was thinking of donating but now all I can think is sometimes I wouldn't wanna have that above my head, I like it but I know at some points in time that I wouldn't want it.
I need to see if my head can shoot death dealing bolts of power now!
It's actually a secret plot to allow Reika to draw the lumens right out of you
It's actually a secret plot to allow Reika to draw the lumens right out of you
That's it! All of the pylons on the server wirelessly draw power from my inflated ego to throw bolts of death! Muahahaha!
I am so glad that I am on a server where the admin has a sense of humour. Really though, I have played on one where the admins were jerks and that was not fun. Seriously, 10000 TNT minecarts because someone annoyed the admin.
Speaking of, all Reika mods updated and we go live tomorrow night! I'm pregenning a new world after I hit a bug between Underground Biomes and CoFH world gen (map was only 20% vanilla stone, so only 20% of ores spawned). Fixed!
Hmm. So you want some sort of un-realistic, magical worm-hole into new dimension, with energy being created out of nothing?
I think ChromaticCraft is adding a new dimension (real soon now), and it has these strange energy sources that provide you with all sorts of things ...
But the rest of what you are asking for seems to be a version of mystcraft more "thematically appropriate" for Reika's mods.
It'd be great if I could turn it off and on ingame so when I want it I have it but when I dont, I dont have to. But if it has to be by config thats fine too, just would be nice to have it the other way.
I get what you are talking about, and I know that machines always need balancing and tweaking all the time. Just putting down a machine in a fabric, and you get continuous power. Rather than that, I was hoping of a danger of world corruption, or portals being created everywhere because the machine runs on the flow of space-time fabric itself. My main opinion is not focused on the new dimension neither, just developing new ways in neuclear energy. If you may ask of which kind, I can sit here all day listing it. For example, a solar generator, not the blue panels that are practically broken on rainy days, a fusion machine that turns hydrogen into helium, helium into lithium, and so on and so forth. An end game machine that needs high requirements for actually working, but gives you huge outputs of energy. I would love seeing a new dimension and whatsoever, but I would love much more variety in choosing power generation.
I might be missing something, but given that grinding canola now generates husks which (as far as NEI will tell me) are only used to centrifuge for additional lube, is there a way to connect lubricant hose to the centrifuge? I tried the top and the sides, and it didn't appear to connect anywhere (turns out Ender IO conduits attach though, so I'm using those currently.)
Did you try the bottom? Haven't tested it myself, but that'd be my next guess.
If that doesn't work, I'd try the pipe made for sucking fluids out of other mods' machines- sandstone, I think?
Bottom is energy input. Sandstone pipes are for fluid pipes, not lube hoses.
Edit: So, ive been holding out on saying this for awhile so that hopefully electricraft would be fleshed out a bit more and because ive actually only played with electricraft once, but ive come up with some ideas that may be useful elsewhere so ill go ahead and say it.
I would also like to mention that my computer has been broken for a few months and i have been waiting for the money/parts to fix it. So if i mention something that has been changed, its probably because i cant download the mod and check.
Anyway, i remember the generator/motor required considerable amount of gold, which i thought it didnt need, but regardless of if thats still true what about changing the motors/generators to a tiered system based on the wire/material used to make them? For example, an aluminium coil would give the generator a 1024 amp limit, and an 8 volt (or some multiplication of this) loss.
Also, i feel that some of the ores added by electricraft could be easily replaced by using secondary ore byproducts. For example, platinium ore could be easily replaced by a platinium byproduct from nickel (which i recall itself not being very useful, at least not in the amounts you got it) and silver could be replaced by tetrahedrite (or, more accurately, freibergite) which can be a primary ore of copper with a secondary silver byproduct.
Edit2: i also recall the superconductor not requiring platinium to be rather strange, and makes the platinium wire seem kinda pointless, considering silver and gold are more abundant.
Or, alternatively, silver ore could be replaced with galena, providing lead and silver. Lead could be combined with sulfuric acid and used as an alternative to the diamond spam recipe for low-tier batteries. Nickel could also have a great use as a low-to-mid tier battery alternative to diamonds as well. Cadmium and lithium (lithium from clay, maybe?) would also be nice diamond replacements for specific tiers as well.
Also, i noticed while researching for the above that molten lead has actually been used as a heat exchange for nuclear reactors, as it has advantages for safety (no explosions) and its a neutron reflector. I feel that this use alone could make replacing reactorcraft silver ore with galena something to consider, with molten lead being advantageous in being much safer then water or sodium, but less efficient and requiring higher operating temperatures.
Additionally, lead is obviously useful for radiation protection (upgraded concrete, maybe? Or just lead blocks. And of course hazmats) and could also be useful as a cheaper but lower pressure/temperature tolerance alternative to HSLA steel piping. And im sure there are other uses. Its actually a surprisingly useful metal.
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Forgot a really obvious use for lead: boolets.
Edit: It can also be used as wire sheathing, to prevent water from getting to insulation. Perhaps replacing some of the wool in the insulated wire recipe? As an alternative recipe, probably.
Also, it would probably make a great flywheel.
Edit: It can also be used as wire sheathing, to prevent water from getting to insulation. Perhaps replacing some of the wool in the insulated wire recipe? As an alternative recipe, probably.
Also, it would probably make a great flywheel.
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I misread your post and thought you were talking about the Grinder. Derp.
And if the sandstone pipes don't connect to lubricant hoses (which they might, although I haven't tested it), I'm at a loss other than recommending use of another mod, as you have done. Sounds like a bug to me.
I wasnt actually the one who posted that, just saying what i knew. And yeah, it does sound like an oversight on Reika's part.
Edit: Also, found a good use for nickel beyond just batteries: use it as a gunpowder alternative for HSLA, which provides additional bonuses but is consumed faster.
On an unrelated note, i just realized that with the buff to wooden gearboxes no longer requiring lube, that means that the only advantage wind turbines had over steam engines (their high speed) has been rendered moot. Wind turbines are now completely useless.
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