A while back we got a 3x3 tunnel bore started at Y11 for diamonds and the like.. as this bore moved along and got us more resources, we added on to it several times, and eventually ended up with a two-head tunnel bore. One 16x4 head at Y11, then a 1-wide arm going up to Y40 for copper with a 5x5 head. This moved along nicely for a while until it got about 5000 blocks out.. the admin and I went to check on it and as we approached the bore, we both crashed and couldn't get back on. Every time we would try to rejoin, we'd get an error about Redpower microblocks.. after rebooting the server and still not getting on, we had to have one of the mods teleport us out as soon as we logged in. We marked that bore off as a net gain on resources and went about our business.
Until a few days later- I decided that I needed another tunnel bore. The first one had gotten us way more resources than we needed at the time, so I went big. 16x4 at the base at Y11, a 4-wide arm all the way up to Y40, and another 16x4 head up there. All told, at least 4 stacks of blockbreakers were involved. I threw on the inchworm drive at the bottom, an autojunking system, a battery recharge system, and a sorting machine to an ender chest for everything we wanted to keep. After applying covers generously for smooth sailing, we let it off with a world anchor to do its thing.
But then it stopped. Weird, I thought, as I had put enough ender pearls to keep it running for at least another day. So I made the long trek to see what was up. A couple thousand blocks out and I caught up to it. The bore was just sitting there.. motors spinning and breakers breaking but no movement whatsoever. I go around for a better inspection of the bore head and what do I see? A chunk of about 16 breakers and a few of the accompanying frames, gone. Right at the top-right of the Y11 head. Creeper, you say? Mob griefing is disabled. Another player? No. I don't know what it was, but I patched it up and set it on its way.
Until it stopped again. A couple thousand more blocks out from the last point.. same deal, just this time near the bottom of the arm going up to Y40. About 8 of them gone. Admin was on at the time and he patched that up for me, and we let it move on.
And then again. Same problem. This time at about Z 16000, another chunk missing, this time only 3. Patched up now and it's currently doing its thing.
Could it be lag? I had to slow down the bore to about 10 seconds between moves so it wouldn't bog the server down. I'm thinking somehow it's moving juuust right such that the blockbreakers glitch out and just disappear. No mob griefing, no immature players. If this isn't something easily explainable, I'll send in a bug report to Eloraam.
tl;dr: Tunnel bore keeps breaking randomly, missing small chunks of breakers occasionally. What gives?
(I realize this is oddly long for such a simple topic but I got carried away..)
Until a few days later- I decided that I needed another tunnel bore. The first one had gotten us way more resources than we needed at the time, so I went big. 16x4 at the base at Y11, a 4-wide arm all the way up to Y40, and another 16x4 head up there. All told, at least 4 stacks of blockbreakers were involved. I threw on the inchworm drive at the bottom, an autojunking system, a battery recharge system, and a sorting machine to an ender chest for everything we wanted to keep. After applying covers generously for smooth sailing, we let it off with a world anchor to do its thing.
But then it stopped. Weird, I thought, as I had put enough ender pearls to keep it running for at least another day. So I made the long trek to see what was up. A couple thousand blocks out and I caught up to it. The bore was just sitting there.. motors spinning and breakers breaking but no movement whatsoever. I go around for a better inspection of the bore head and what do I see? A chunk of about 16 breakers and a few of the accompanying frames, gone. Right at the top-right of the Y11 head. Creeper, you say? Mob griefing is disabled. Another player? No. I don't know what it was, but I patched it up and set it on its way.
Until it stopped again. A couple thousand more blocks out from the last point.. same deal, just this time near the bottom of the arm going up to Y40. About 8 of them gone. Admin was on at the time and he patched that up for me, and we let it move on.
And then again. Same problem. This time at about Z 16000, another chunk missing, this time only 3. Patched up now and it's currently doing its thing.
Could it be lag? I had to slow down the bore to about 10 seconds between moves so it wouldn't bog the server down. I'm thinking somehow it's moving juuust right such that the blockbreakers glitch out and just disappear. No mob griefing, no immature players. If this isn't something easily explainable, I'll send in a bug report to Eloraam.
tl;dr: Tunnel bore keeps breaking randomly, missing small chunks of breakers occasionally. What gives?
(I realize this is oddly long for such a simple topic but I got carried away..)
