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Ladders!

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Moezso

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Ladders, pistons, elevators, turtles, minecarts, tnt, arcane things, how do you go up and down in your base? I'd prefer something fit into a 1x1 shaft but I can make it bigger for cool ideas. Lookin for both short 1 floor hops and bedrock-to-sky speed systems.
 
Portal spawners: I always seem to run into dungeons full of them.

Otherwise, a fat spiral staircase for looks with a 3x3 central pillar containing a 1x1 shaft, which gets arcane levitators put in once I've researched them.

For sheer speed, which I rarely need in my FTB worlds, I do a minecart ladder. Bedrock to sky in seconds.
 
Poppycocks said:
Jetpacks, big fancy stairways. Which I mostly don't use. Cause of jetpacks.
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Yea, I mostly won't use it either, cause of jetpacks. It's mostly for show/coolness factor and maybe guests.

QuantumPugilist said:
Portal spawners: I always seem to run into dungeons full of them.

Otherwise, a fat spiral staircase for looks with a 3x3 central pillar containing a 1x1 shaft, which gets arcane levitators put in once I've researched them.
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I like the hollow spiral stairs idea, I have a ginormous round tower a turtle built for me this will be perfect for.
 
I hate ladders so much. I design my bases to work with stairs or to be 1 story. Even my mines have stairs. Even when I did use arcane levitators, i positioned them in a stair like arrangement. lol
 
I currently have mfr elevators in one base, a redpower frame lift in another base and arcane levitators in another base and 2 mage towers.

can provide pics or vids of elevator or lift if anyone wants to see.
 
chronos_qc said:
What mfr elevator are you talking about?
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conveyor belts, left is up, right is down.
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I have everything ground level, usually. In separate buildings. I'm thinking about using a cart system though. Or the Skyhook thing that one guy's working on.
 
A pair of arcane levitators with a pressure plate (and some wiring/logic) in front of the bottom one makes a perfect hands-free elevator. Walk int the bottom of the tube and you zoom up, walk into the top and it gently lowers you down. Bliss.

I really dislike the trudge from all the way to the surface to bedrock and back. I wish there was an early game fix for that but I can't think of anything reasonable. Stupid trudge.
 
Rhodan said:
A pair of arcane levitators with a pressure plate (and some wiring/logic) in front of the bottom one makes a perfect hands-free elevator. Walk int the bottom of the tube and you zoom up, walk into the top and it gently lowers you down. Bliss.

I really dislike the trudge from all the way to the surface to bedrock and back. I wish there was an early game fix for that but I can't think of anything reasonable. Stupid trudge.
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For going down, there's always the water break. If you have IC power somewhere near, you can use a magnetizer to go up at the cost of some redstone and a stack or so of iron for the pole.
 
Rhodan said:
I really dislike the trudge from all the way to the surface to bedrock and back. I wish there was an early game fix for that but I can't think of anything reasonable. Stupid trudge.
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not so much on a server but if your in single player just make a boat-elevator. Look up and click your way to the top in secounds.

and a server you can make an old school water evelator too.
 
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