Just an overview of my small town in the making. I decided to go with oak wood so I can abuse fences. Things always get out of hand if I try and make anything out of micro-blocks. So I wanted to keep the structures simple. Yes, the nearest rubber tree I could find was 200m away from my original hole in the mountain house.
I started by building the barn, and powering it with milk! I have since added significantly more engines. I started with 4 and worked my way up to the 44 I have now. I have refit the barn with conduits, and plan to add a few more Redstone Energy Cells to the stack in the middle in the near future.
Next I build a building to house my pulverizer and furnace (I already had them running on a magmatic engine in the hole in the wall before, but I wanted something at least halfway serious). The magma crucible and transposer are for redstone. The power all comes in the barn and is split among the machines using the conduits. I still craft bronze and electrum bars by hand, as I couldn't get the diamond pipe to do a ratio of sorts and just kind of did whatever it wanted.
I set up a really ghetto sorting systems using barrels and tubes to handle the sheer quantity of stuff my turtles were pumping into my ender chest. Yes, I sleep in the basement and I still move the ores to be handled by hand.
After setting that up, I was tired of chopping trees for all those barrels. I looked into tree farm designs and one used gates from buildcraft, so I set up an assembly table for the first time. This is around the point where I upgraded to 22 engines in the barn. I left it open for expansion in the future, using some black xychorium to fill the gaps in the meantime. I've finalized a design using redpower managers instead of buildcraft gates that I will be implementing in the near future. This table might see some use later.
I knew that I wanted to move into IC2 and Gregtech, now that I had my self situated, but I am still to this day scared shitless in the nether. I first entered when it was bugged on our SMP server when the nether first came out (like 2 years ago) and we had like 80 ghasts all around the nether spawn. So, to this day I still cobblestone tunnel everything in the nether. I opted for the casual friendly lazy mode lava generation, through Thermal Expansion! I'm storing it all in a railcraft tank. You don't need near that many Igneous Extruders, but hell they are pretty much free to make.
I read about Redpower frame quarry's being the most overpowered method of destroying the terrain, I mean mining. So I decided I better get an electric furnace sometime in the near future. Although this project is way down on my list of things to do.
A quick and dirty map of my village so far. Future goals include a RedPower Manager/Forestry tree farm that I've mapped out in creative to put in the northeast of my village and an IC2 production line in the southwest to process items by hand as I build up into the higher tiers of IC2.I wan't to get the sewers under the road a little more finished and with a sense of unity, but first I need to get some IC2 power lines. A real source of street/building lighting is in order, as well as some more variety, perhaps I will use some of those Thaumcraft trees instead of the oaks in my village.
I really love looking through the different approaches everyone takes.
