I just built my first wand of equal exchange. Reading about it I was like 'meh lame', so I never built one. Using it... WOW!! I used that thing up in ~1 hour and saved myself at least a good 8 hours of work!! I even fixed up my cactus farm in less than 5 minutes, a project I'd written off as not worth the effort (2-3 hours work there alone)
Favorite and most hated machines?
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I just built my first wand of equal exchange. Reading about it I was like 'meh lame', so I never built one. Using it... WOW!! I used that thing up in ~1 hour and saved myself at least a good 8 hours of work!! I even fixed up my cactus farm in less than 5 minutes, a project I'd written off as not worth the effort (2-3 hours work there alone)
If there has to be a favorite, it'd have to be frames. Nothing else even comes close to what you can pull off with them. Try a 150 block tall (width irrelevant) tunnel bore skimming bedrock. All the other options I won't even touch. 
I have no hated machines. They all have their uses if you value them only for what they're intended for, outdone by other variations or not.
I have no hated machines. They all have their uses if you value them only for what they're intended for, outdone by other variations or not.
I'm definitely a CC turtle whore. I use those bastards for everything.
As the admin of my small server, i have to admit i hate quarries., and to a lesser extent, buildcraft pipes.
Theyre better now, but they used to be so laggy, and the pipes have lagged out my server on no fewer than five occasions because they stacked up 7 thousand items.
As the admin of my small server, i have to admit i hate quarries., and to a lesser extent, buildcraft pipes.
Theyre better now, but they used to be so laggy, and the pipes have lagged out my server on no fewer than five occasions because they stacked up 7 thousand items.
Favourite: Not technically a machine, but a combination of them. Ladies, gentlemen and assorted entities. I give you, the Redpower 2 Frame Quarry (in vertical or horizontal bore arrangement).
Most hated: Again, more a combination of machines. It is... The Redpower 2 Frame Quarry. I hate setting them up and have yet to get one to work properly right off the bat. I'll admit, it'd be easier if I took the time to learn to program in Forth.
Most hated: Again, more a combination of machines. It is... The Redpower 2 Frame Quarry. I hate setting them up and have yet to get one to work properly right off the bat. I'll admit, it'd be easier if I took the time to learn to program in Forth.
Favorite is the induction smelter. Once you get an automated production of sand that is. Faster or about as fast as a rotary macerator and induction furnace fully upgraded with overclockers, and a hell of a lot less of a power hog.
Least favorite is Industrial Centrifuge. Too damn slow. Waiting almost an hour for some things at least it's not in the DW20 pack.
Least favorite is Industrial Centrifuge. Too damn slow. Waiting almost an hour for some things
at least it's not in the DW20 pack.That's what corners are for.
Or build 4 of them and put them in a 5x5 configuration
Gotta admit it looks cool with a crucible+ansibles in the middle.Or build 4 of them and put them in a 5x5 configuration
Or use even nurmber base lay outs instead of odd?
A current favourite is the liquid transposer, because it's just so handy!
An unfavourite is the factorization solar turbine: not so much because of what it is, but because the only way to power stuff in Factorization is to make one and surround it with mirrors. I already need three separate power systems, so why do I need a fourth, especially one that requires so much space to set up. (And making wires out of lead just seems unhealthy)
An unfavourite is the factorization solar turbine: not so much because of what it is, but because the only way to power stuff in Factorization is to make one and surround it with mirrors. I already need three separate power systems, so why do I need a fourth, especially one that requires so much space to set up. (And making wires out of lead just seems unhealthy
)Redstone engines were changed to not work with conductive pipes, they can still power machines directly but not via pipes.
Would that be to prevent people from chaining a large number of redstone engines together to produce a large amount of energy for 'free'?
Favorite: Tied between Hopper and Turtle.
Dislike: Implosion Compressor. My TNT cannon has no TNT. Also, factory disaster from having Industrial TNT on my hotbar.
Dislike: Implosion Compressor. My TNT cannon has no TNT
. Also, factory disaster from having Industrial TNT on my hotbar.You mean powering an engine with another one? That only shortens the time it takes the engine to reach it's maximum efficiency and that still works like it has.
It does prevent the "free" (the generated energy was way too small to be worth the work imo) energy being made in worthwhile quantities because the most you can do now is put 5 redstone engines on one machine which will make 0.2MJ/t. You can't do 6 because then you couldn't interact with the machine.
You can feed one engine into another making a long chain of them. They will pass the power to the next engine in line.
but there is also a limit to this I just do not know it.
Yes, it passes the power on to the next engine but it doesn't increase the maximum output of that engine and it will eventually overheat because it will keep accumulating more power than it can output. This mechanic is there to make it possible to heat up engines to their full speed faster if they would take long time to warm up otherwise.
I am fairly sure when I was chaining engines I was pulling more out then I could ever get one just one engine in line. I had a set up with two max configed eletrical engines pumping out if I recall something like 40 or 50 MJ a tick. The same as if I had them side by side but I had them chained one into the other for space resaons.
Yeah, I was meaning that previously you could attach a large number of redstone engines onto redstone pipes, getting past the 5 limit.
Max configured Electrical Engine is 10MJ per tick. Heating the engines up to orange/red will decrease the time between each stroke, I'm not sure if energy per stroke is decreased or not when this happens.
not sure. I just know I had a chip with 3 boosters (2 of 1 and 1 over another type) on two engines and side by side with piping to my machines was getting the same power as one into the other in chain and since this was tiltable I was able to cram mulitples of these set ups side by side.
But that was a long time ago. My current world I'm advoiding the infi-lava and free eletrical systems and going with more complex and difficult setups.