Looks like we have a replacement for Xycraft Fabricators

[KirinDave]

Hopefully it won't be like the first major extinction event where the planet is bombarded by hard radiation. Then again, we have a stronger atmosphere currently than we did back then.

It won't be. We're 800 light years away and we're pretty sure we're off the dangerous axis. Type II Supernovae are not quite so scary at this distance.

After all, we don't have a convenient tractor beam technology, or any kind of anti-gravity really, to hand-wave that little problem. We're talking about a *lot* of mass here. You wouldn't want it slipping its leash.

If we can build a decent space manufacturing facility then it's easy, actually. Gravity is a great tether and you don't need much mass to tug things around if they can produce impulse. It's sort of shocking how easy it is to influence even large objects when you do the math (and the math for 2 body problems is not that hard).

We already have plans to do this for earth-destroying asteroids.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

If we can build a decent space manufacturing facility then it's easy, actually. Gravity is a great tether and you don't need much mass to tug things around if they can produce impulse. It's sort of shocking how easy it is to influence even large objects when you do the math (and the math for 2 body problems is not that hard).

Yes and no. Gravity is a great tether, but we really haven't figured out how to harness it properly yet. A decaying orbit might work, but will take for blinkin' ever to get to a decent place, and by the time it has gotten there, it'll have a whole lot more momentum than we will be able to deal with. Remember, mass times speed squared? Some of those asteroids have as much mass as our moon. The other option will simply take even longer by having an accel measured in meters per month.

We already have plans to do this for earth-destroying asteroids.

It doesn't take a whole lot for a Heinlein Maneuver, just a couple of tons would crater a major city if it was protected from burning up in reentry (or would that simply be entry since it never left?). The problem, really, is how to *NOT* crater the planet by letting the asteroid slip its leash. Getting it here is simple. Stopping it once it has accumulated all that inertia... is a far more complex problem. Which means you want a sine-curve of inertia... starting slow, building up, then flipping around at mid-point. Which means some sort of propulsion unit either applied to the asteroid or to a ship which can affect the asteroid's inertia by that much without fracturing it.

 

[Greyed]

You might wanna consider Mekanism as a valid replacement.

I have, thing is I don't like having multiple sources of power and too much of what I want to keep is MJ based.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I have, thing is I don't like having multiple sources of power and too much of what I want to keep is MJ based.

Mekanism Energy Cubes directly output MJ to Redstone Energy Conduits/Cubes. So Generator(s) -> Energy Cube -> MJ. It's really quite seamless.

 

[Greyed]

Mekanism Energy Cubes directly output MJ to Redstone Energy Conduits/Cubes. So Generator(s) -> Energy Cube -> MJ. It's really quite seamless.

Any world gen for it?

 

[Technician]

Any world gen for it?

Osmium is it, I believe. Which is why I like it

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Any world gen for it?

Yea, Osmium is the only worldgen, and you will need like half a stack to a stack or so before you can get much accomplished. It's about as common as Iron, so it's not that hard, but yea... worldgen. Also, it isn't compatible with the AE grinder, so you'll need a Pulverizer to get your doubled ore output from it.

 

[Greyed]

Rats, don't want to restart my world.

 

[Technician]

Just make a mystrealm or travel slightly farther or oldfashioned 'nilla nether port then link with dimdoors

 

[Greyed]

No Mystcraft (another mod that shall never touch my worlds again) nor dimensional doors.

 

[GPuzzle]

No Mystcraft (another mod that shall never touch my worlds again) nor dimensional doors.

Then you're going UNDERGROUND NETHER RAILWAY SYSTEM this time.

 

[Greyed]

Psh. Worldgen generally means a restart for me.

 

[whizzball1]

Yeah, we really need our No Topic Thread back.
LAWBROKEN!
PLEASE!
I'M DYING HERE!

 

[GPuzzle]

Psh. Worldgen generally means a restart for me.

Do you SC2 or Railcraft the actual RAIL part?
Then you can do it in automated means (read: tunnel bore/drill cart).
So you're won't have to restart, you'll just have to travel a lot. For example, you move 8 blocks on the Overworld for every nether block. Every 2, new chunk.
If you just dig 20 blocks away, you'll have gone 10 chunks.
In 100 blocks of distance (considering you'll dig in 2 by 3, 600 blocks - or slightly over an iron pick) you'll be 50 chunks away from home. That is a lot of chunks, to be honest.

 

[GPuzzle]

Yeah, we really need our No Topic Thread back.
LAWBROKEN!
PLEASE!
I'M DYING HERE!

We REALLY need our No Topic Thread back.
Seriously, I got a giant post count/like count per day hit after its end.

Wait a second...
Isn't that like the same with people who do drugs?
Like, you take drugs from them and they NEED that back...

HOLY SHIT.
WE ARE ADDICTED TO THE NO TOPIC THREAD.

 

[whizzball1]

We REALLY need our No Topic Thread back.
Seriously, I got a giant post count/like count per day hit after its end.

Wait a second...
Isn't that like the same with people who do drugs?
Like, you take drugs from them and they NEED that back...

HOLY SHIT.
WE ARE ADDICTED TO THE NO TOPIC THREAD.

Well we can't really talk about everything on the other threads.
But then again, because of our lack of the No Topic Thread, we keep derailing other threads.
I KNOW!
WE WILL CREATE A NO TOPIC TEAMSPEAK!
Brb

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Do you SC2 or Railcraft the actual RAIL part?
Then you can do it in automated means (read: tunnel bore/drill cart).
So you're won't have to restart, you'll just have to travel a lot. For example, you move 8 blocks on the Overworld for every nether block. Every 2, new chunk.
If you just dig 20 blocks away, you'll have gone 10 chunks.
In 100 blocks of distance (considering you'll dig in 2 by 3, 600 blocks - or slightly over an iron pick) you'll be 50 chunks away from home. That is a lot of chunks, to be honest.

If you are doing a nether build, you're going to want to use the Reinforced Rails from Railcraft. Explosion resistant as well as going a bit faster for top speed when compared to regular rails (nothing compared to high speed rails, but those are too finicky to build in the Nether).

 

[Greyed]

Do you SC2 or Railcraft the actual RAIL part?

Nope. No SC and I've turned off most of RC aside from tanks and boilers.

For example, you move 8 blocks on the Overworld for every nether block. Every 2, new chunk.

I know about the Nether. I just don't like travelling for new worldgen because I have no clue what I've generated before, no idea if I'm going to find what I am looking for in the current chunk or absolutely nothing. I travel a LOT in my worlds. It's a preference thing, there's not arguing it.

 

[Poppycocks]

No, you don't need a no topic thread, you need a bloody chatroom.

 

[Technician]

Nether Railways are cooler than DimDoors.

How boring is getting in a door then BOOM there.