Editing Quarry Chunk Load Size For Buildcraft

[Thy_Armageddon]

Hello there, I currently run a single-player map in the MindCrack Modpack and encountered a little setback recently. I was creating a quarry that was roughly 32x56 and when I placed the quarry it gave the message saying it couldn't work with the landmark dimensions, and then stated it will keep a maximum of 4 Chunks loaded. Is there any way I can increase this amount? I've looked around and nobody gives a real clear-cut answer to it from what I've read.

 

[Dravarden]

Maybe try different dimentions? or placing it somewhere else.

 

[Omicron]

A quarry keeps every chunk loaded that a part of itself is in, or which is surrounded by parts of itself.

Because your quarry for some reason did not take the landmark layout you attempted to give it, it instead placed itself with the default 9x9 size, which happened to touch 4 chunks. So those 4 chunks will be kept loaded.

If you successfully set up the landmarks and get the desired size, you will see that the amount of chunks loaded automatically corresponds to that size.

 

[Thy_Armageddon]

Hmmm, alright I have some ideas on how this might work, I'll test them out.

EDIT: Success! Probably should've read more into what the boundary requirements are but my issue was that the boundary lines weren't solid below. Dang water.

 

[b0bst3r]

I don't understand the EDIT: Success! line but since we're getting tons of new players to FTB and modded MC I will explain how to set up a large quarry.

Make 3 landmarks
Place a redstone torch down where you want your quarry box to be
Directly behind (away from you) place the first landmark, if you done this bit right you should see blue lines shooting off in all directions
- Those blue lines measure 64 blocks away from the first landmark and that is the maximum size a quarry can be 64x64
Run to the end of one of the blue lines and place another landmark so it touches the end of the blue line, once done right click this landmark
- When you right click the landmark it should create a red line between the 2 landmarks you placed down.
Run back to the first landmark and then to the other end of the blue line (or run diagonally across)
Place your third landmark at the end of the blue line so it touches, once done right click this landmark
- Now sometimes this draws a complete flat square 64x64 and sometimes it doesn't, if it doesn't run back across diagonally to the 2nd landmark and right click it

What you should have now is a complete red box measuring out 64x64

Go back to the redstone torch and break it and then place the quarry where the redstone torch was.

This should give you a message about the quarry loading something like 24 chunks (don't remember the exact number)

Go pick up your landmarks and you can now setup your power and resource collecting. Oh and if you don't see the quarry frame (which is often the case when you first put it down) relog.

 

[Thy_Armageddon]

I don't understand the EDIT: Success! line but since we're getting tons of new players to FTB and modded MC I will explain how to set up a large quarry.

Make 3 landmarks
Place a redstone torch down where you want your quarry box to be
Directly behind (away from you) place the first landmark, if you done this bit right you should see blue lines shooting off in all directions
- Those blue lines measure 64 blocks away from the first landmark and that is the maximum size a quarry can be 64x64
Run to the end of one of the blue lines and place another landmark so it touches the end of the blue line, once done right click this landmark
- When you right click the landmark it should create a red line between the 2 landmarks you placed down.
Run back to the first landmark and then to the other end of the blue line (or run diagonally across)
Place your third landmark at the end of the blue line so it touches, once done right click this landmark
- Now sometimes this draws a complete flat square 64x64 and sometimes it doesn't, if it doesn't run back across diagonally to the 2nd landmark and right click it

What you should have now is a complete red box measuring out 64x64

Go back to the redstone torch and break it and then place the quarry where the redstone torch was.

This should give you a message about the quarry loading something like 24 chunks (don't remember the exact number)

Go pick up your landmarks and you can now setup your power and resource collecting. Oh and if you don't see the quarry frame (which is often the case when you first put it down) relog.

Oh, the problem, as far as I'm aware, was that the grid the landmarks make didn't have any blocks underneath to support them. I had basically just placed 4 points in a rectangle shape in an ocean. Once I had put dirt underneath the laser grid the landmarks create and placed the quarry, it conformed to the landmarks I had placed. I'm not sure if that should've affected the placing of the quarry, but connecting the blocks below the laser grid seemed to resolve the issue.