How do you light your base?

[Airship]

I use square grid (every 64 blocks) of magnum torches at level 45 around my main areas, which allows me not to worry too much about lighting up to level 90 and make really efficient mob farms. It could be cheaper in a triangle grid, but I would probably mess it up.

What is the range on those magnum torches exactly? is it a radius of 64, making the diameter of the no-spawn zone 128 ish, or is it a 64x64 area around the torch?

Also, what about the shape? is it square? There are so little information about this thing...

 

[Zjarek_S]

What is the range on those magnum torches exactly? is it a radius of 64, making the diameter of the no-spawn zone 128 ish, or is it a 64x64 area around the torch?

Also, what about the shape? is it square? There are so little information about this thing...

It is sphere with radius of 64 blocks, so a square grid every 64 blocks prevents spawning in every block which is closer on Y axis then sqrt(2)*32 = 45 blocks from it.

 

[Airship]

huh, that is quite useful. Thanks!

 

[Dmyster]

I really enjoy wraith lamps !! They may not be the best in terms of lag and invisible block lag but I like the look of them and the range they have! Besides they have a cool effect inside!

 

[Freakscar]

I really enjoy wraith lamps !! They may not be the best in terms of lag and invisible block lag but I like the look of them and the range they have! Besides they have a cool effect inside!

Just watch out when you want to build tanks and have the same area lit by WLs already. Its invisible lightblocks can cause problems with the "Am I a working multiblock structure, yet?" functions of RailCraft/XyCraft tanks.

 

[FMan_0000]

I light up my base with netherrack. Too bad my base is made out of wood

 

[Someguy]

I miss the RP2 inverted lamps. They were smooth, had a tech-y look to them, and you could have any colour you wanted. I'm surprised no other mod has anything comparable... Anyone know of anything like that?

As for the IC2 illuminators, the one time I tried them, which was a few months ago, they flickered constantly... drove me nuts and I got rid of them. Either I was doing something wrong, or it was a problem that has since been fixed. Maybe I'll retry.

As for the floodlights from Gregs lighting, do those suffer from the same problem as wrath lamps, ie: invisible air blocks that mess with Xycraft tanks, crops, and who knows what else?

 

[apemanzilla]

I miss the RP2 inverted lamps. They were smooth, had a tech-y look to them, and you could have any colour you wanted. I'm surprised no other mod has anything comparable... Anyone know of anything like that?

As for the IC2 illuminators, the one time I tried them, which was a few months ago, they flickered constantly... drove me nuts and I got rid of them. Either I was doing something wrong, or it was a problem that has since been fixed. Maybe I'll retry.

As for the floodlights from Gregs lighting, do those suffer from the same problem as wrath lamps, ie: invisible air blocks that mess with Xycraft tanks, crops, and who knows what else?

You probably needed more power, maybe the energy loss was too high.

 

[Siro]

With fusion and lux capacitors of course!

 

[Zelfana]

I made all the ceilings in my base out of glowstone bricks. They have the maximum light level and they look nice. Pretty easy to make, used quite a bit of glowstone, though.

 

[zilvarwolf]

Lux capacitors for transient lighting, and the TC illuminators for stuff I want to look decent.

 

[Lohengrin]

I want my RP2 lights back. Someone get on that.

 

[Poppycocks]

I want my RP2 lights back. Someone get on that.

Yes sir, right away sir.

 

[apemanzilla]

I want my RP2 lights back. Someone get on that.

Use Project Red, it has lamps that are literally exactly the same.
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[FMan_0000]

I feel retard for not using lux capacitors. Why they're so awesome? They're just squares of light