How to go About Doing This?

[JPandaGamer]

A while back I got the idea for a FTB LP, and I've assembled a gaming computer, so now I can record and everything. One idea I had though was to make a house that resembled Howl's Moving Castle in the way of functionality, so that I have 1 main base that can send me to multiple outposts with just the shell of an empty house that would have a mechanism to send me back to any other of my outposts or back to my main base (what I mean by that is that the main base will likely be the only actual "house", while the other outposts will serve other functions but have a shell of a house, similar to Howl's Moving Castle, that would bring me back to the main base). Now that I can actually play the game properly (woo, new comp ), I can finally test my ideas. My problem came when I was trying to find a way to cycle books automatically into mystcraft portals; I just can't find a way to do it.

My current solution is to use a redstone mechanism to instead cycle wool into a slot near the door to indicate where I am to go. I can try to make the machine send wireless signals to pistons in a mystcraft world based off the different colored wools (also, can turtles figure out to id of the block in front of them? because that could simplify this by a lot... or over complicate things, depending how crapily I code xD). Then when I walk through the door of the house, I fall into a portal, land onto an aerial faith plate and keep getting launched until I hit the block pushed by the activated piston and go through the desired portal. I have a setup for the portals and a rough idea on how to make the wool cycling mechanism, but I was looking to see if anyone had any better ideas on how to do something like this.

TL;DR: What's a good system to either automatically cycle books through mystcraft portals or to create an automatic hub of sorts with the mystcraft portals

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Redpower 2 is your solution, my good man. You can go back and check out Direwolf20's Season... I'm wanting to say SSP S4 was the one with the nexus with the crystal portal that had the RP2 setup? Basically, tubes and transposers. If it gets big enough, you'll want to use insulated red alloy wire and a Computer. to regulate it.

If you're wanting the castle itself to move around, that would be a much more difficult proposition... requiring a LOT of frames and frame motors, and even then it wouldn't get the walking thing

 

[JPandaGamer]

Redpower 2 is your solution, my good man. You can go back and check out Direwolf20's Season... I'm wanting to say SSP S4 was the one with the nexus with the crystal portal that had the RP2 setup? Basically, tubes and transposers. If it gets big enough, you'll want to use insulated red alloy wire and a Computer. to regulate it.

If you're wanting the castle itself to move around, that would be a much more difficult proposition... requiring a LOT of frames and frame motors, and even then it wouldn't get the walking thing

I'll be sure to check that out, thanks

 

[Someone Else 37]

In the Direwolf20 setup Shneekey seems to be referring to, he stored individual books in bookstands (handy, because only one book will fit in each one, so Redpower will automatically put the book back where it belongs), used a computer-controlled transposer (via bundled cable, insulated wires) for each to pull the book out, tubes to stuff it in the book receptacle, and another transposer connected to a laser-based tripwire (you could instead use a vanilla tripwire for this, as that Laser Mod isn't in any of the up-to-date FTB packs, if I'm not mistaken) to pull the book out of the receptacle and return it to its stand a few seconds after he left.

In short: Bookstands > transposers > book receptacle > transposer > bookstands. Pneumatic tubes won't put a book into a stand with a book in it, so your book should wind up back in the same place every time.

Also, if you're not doing trans-dimensional travels, portal spawners and wireless redstone would probably be cheaper than a link modifier (to mark books for intra-age linking, although since you already seem to be using the Mystcraft setup, this is probably irrelevant). Triggering the wireless redstone could be done in the same way as the transposers in the above Mystcraft setup- by computer, or by an array of buttons.