Is Rotarycraft really useful in Monster?

[Reika]

(though I thought I saw somewhere that they use heat sinks now instead of lubricant...it's possible I imagined that though, I've never used wooden gears.)

This is true, though it likely postdates the story.

 

[KingTriaxx]

Seven Wind turbines plus a worm gear runs the Grinder full speed for me.

Of course you'll want the shaft>belt thingy if you don't want to have to climb a hundred blocks every time to put in the canola.

@Reika: Better to run the Worm Gear before, or after the belt thing?

 

[Reika]

Seven Wind turbines plus a worm gear runs the Grinder full speed for me.

Of course you'll want the shaft>belt thingy if you don't want to have to climb a hundred blocks every time to put in the canola.

@Reika: Better to run the Worm Gear before, or after the belt thing?

Does not matter.

 

[KingTriaxx]

Ah. Good. I'd been putting it before because I know what happens to belts that run from high speed to high friction.

A really nasty smell and then a catastrophic failure.

 

[Reika]

Ah. Good. I'd been putting it before because I know what happens to belts that run from high speed to high friction.

A really nasty smell and then a catastrophic failure.

RC belts have a torque and speed limit, though neither fail (it just wastes extra), and that limit is at 8192x8192.

 

[KingTriaxx]

Ah. I'm not bumping against either of those, so there's no problem then. Awesome.

 

[Azzanine]

??

I suppose I'm sort of confused due to how vanilla (and some mods) follow the wood > stone > other metals progression paradigm.
To use a wooden gearbox properly you need lube with involves you to either build a metal worm gear or extra engines and some junctions to power a grinder. Going in to a gearbox dry just plain old doesn't work even if you get ready with several stacks of gears ready to replace them as they break, you just can't make it work (plus replacing gears in a gearbox while it's running doesn't sound very safe).

Other mods treat materials like teirs, where as you seem to just treat materials like well... materials. But basic Minecraft player intuition will lead people to assume " the modder must want me to use the wood thing first" of course already progressed players will try to skip steps but like using an unlubed gearbox that too does not work.

 

[Reika]

I suppose I'm sort of confused due to how vanilla (and some mods) follow the wood > stone > other metals progression paradigm.
To use a wooden gearbox properly you need lube with involves you to either build a metal worm gear or extra engines and some junctions to power a grinder. Going in to a gearbox dry just plain old doesn't work even if you get ready with several stacks of gears ready to replace them as they break, you just can't make it work (plus replacing gears in a gearbox while it's running doesn't sound very safe).

Other mods treat materials like teirs, where as you seem to just treat materials like well... materials. But basic Minecraft player intuition will lead people to assume " the modder must want me to use the wood thing first" of course already progressed players will try to skip steps but like using an unlubed gearbox that too does not work.

Yes, RotaryCraft is designed rather differently, but a player with some understanding should see that.

 

[ljfa]

I find stone gearboxes to be useful sometimes when working with low powers. But wooden gearboxes or shafts: never really. Stone is cheap enough.

 

[Reika]

I find stone gearboxes to be useful sometimes when working with low powers. But wooden gearboxes or shafts: never really. Stone is cheap enough.

I find use cases, mostly for early game.