help with mining platform

[gumballhead]

i have made a mining platform for dw20 1.7.10 using funky locomotion blocks to push mining wells, but when i am not near it the block pusher does not work, i tried to chunk load it but that did not fix it, any ideas?


also it works just fine when i stand near it

 

[darkeshrine]

Using a Chunk Loader or Spot loader? Only the Chunk loader will work as the spot loader only loads the chunk it's in, so the second it crosses a chunk boundry part of the platform isn't loaded.

You can change a Chunk Loader's settings to Linear and have it load the chunk in front of the platform, with the platform, and behind the platform.

 

[gumballhead]

i used a chunk loader, but since i have it dropping a block and pushing the platform further away from the pusher the platform itself does not need to be chunk loaded only the pusher. but it does not work unless i am standing next to it

 

[darkeshrine]

i used a chunk loader, but since i have it dropping a block and pushing the platform further away from the pusher the platform itself does not need to be chunk loaded only the pusher. but it does not work unless i am standing next to it

Are you not using the inchworm drive setup?

 

[gumballhead]

i dont know what that is, i have a block placer placking the frame block and a piston pushing it infront of a block pusher, then the block pusher pushed the rig forward and the process repeats.

 

[darkeshrine]

The Inchworm drive was a frame moving design used with Redpower. Basically, it allows a frame quarry to move on its own. Little outdated but the actual inchworm explaination is still valid:

 

[gumballhead]

that would be better then what i am doing, going to try to set something like that up