Is there a way to create a custom machine?

[ecaep42]

I've been pondering where to ask, so general chat must be the best place.

I've been playing on FTB:Unleashed for a while, and never really enjoyed gregtech, but I really wanted to get the AESU from gregtech. I want to make the machine for unleashed, but I don't want to get gregtech and re-arrange the item ids if there would be conflict, and I don't really enjoy its recipe tampering. I have little forge modding experience (Made my first mod, and now I see how hard it can be.), and since unleashed uses forge, is there a way I can create my own machine, like the aesu from gregtech? I mean, I know it'd be hard, but I would learn how to do it...

 

[Tristam Izumi]

First, have knowledge of Java.

Next, download the IC2 Exp API and a couple of IC2 addon mods that are open source. Study the API and those mods to familiarize yourself with how IC2 machines are coded.

Next, program a new IC2 addon mod that adds the machines you want. Test it to ensure that it works properly.

Congratulations! You now have created a custom machine for IC2!

 

[ecaep42]

First, have knowledge of Java.

Next, download the IC2 Exp API and a couple of IC2 addon mods that are open source. Study the API and those mods to familiarize yourself with how IC2 machines are coded.

Next, program a new IC2 addon mod that adds the machines you want. Test it to ensure that it works properly.

Congratulations! You now have created a custom machine for IC2!

You could've just said to get the api and addon sources instead of doing all of that.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Personally I've always used the poor man's AESU. (A Railcraft tank can hold a lot of liquid Eu/MJ.)

Learning to code is a valuable skill, I wish you best of luck with your mods.

(GregTech isn't as formidable as it first seems- All the harder recipes can be turned off, tin cells are buffed to non-destructible/stackable buckets, and bronze crafting was only removed to prevent exploits. I know Greg isn't everyones cup of tea- but the Tech side of it is incredibly well designed.)
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