Mining the twilight forest

[Larmonade]

So I've managed to pinpoint a few very nice and very large hollow hills in the twilight forest. I want the stuff in them. However, I also know that the quarry and chunk loaders and ender chests and tesseracts and all that...well, I saw some complaints of chunk resets, lost quarries, etc..

So, in unleashed 1.1.3, is there an agreed upon configuration that has minimal risk of resets? I was thinking to use some mining turtles (maybe chunk-loader mining turtles) and either an ender chest (if that's safe) or just some sort of setup with tesseracts. But are chunk loading turtles okay with a tesseract? Should I instead use an ender chest? Or non-chunk-loader turtles and just a chicken-chunks-loader?

If anyone has had success (or disaster) I'd like to hear what version you were using and what kind if setup worked (or didn't work) for you. Thanks in advance!

 

[rhn]

I'm a bit scared of the TF tbh. Lots of nasty things have happened to me before. Is it really worth it? Make a flat desert mystcraft world and set up some quarries. Sure the concentration of goodies isn't as good, but its a lot easier to set up and manage.

 

[Saice]

To be honest I just dig in, spam torches, kill everything, and then just hand mine them.

 

[Larmonade]

Yeah, I was thinking about that too - I've got the MPS tool thing that places those blue torch guys for basically free, plus a mining laser. Just load up a lappack, switch the laser to burst mode, and let 'er rip.

I suppose, though, for practicality's sake, I still want to know how I should be doing my auto-mining. Turtles or quarries? Tesseracts or ender chests? Chunk loaders? I wanna avoid chunk resets and other weird problems regardless of whether I'm in the twilight forest, a mystcraft age, or just the overworld.

 

[DREVL]

I usually put down a quarry, power, item tesseract , no chunk loader or anything because the quarry itself a chunk loader, and do either a chunk or 64x64 anywhere in the tf and have never had any problems at all. I do single player though.

 

[Adonis0]

Yeah, I was thinking about that too - I've got the MPS tool thing that places those blue torch guys for basically free, plus a mining laser. Just load up a lappack, switch the laser to burst mode, and let 'er rip.

I suppose, though, for practicality's sake, I still want to know how I should be doing my auto-mining. Turtles or quarries? Tesseracts or ender chests? Chunk loaders? I wanna avoid chunk resets and other weird problems regardless of whether I'm in the twilight forest, a mystcraft age, or just the overworld.

The only event of chunk resets outside of the twilight forest that I've heard of is to do with an ender tank + chunk loader
As far as I know that bug has been fixed though

 

[Niels Henriksen]

I attacked a labyrinth with a mining laser (http://feed-the-beast.wikia.com/wiki/Mining_Laser) on scatter and powersuit... Now THAT was fun

 

[zorn]

Quarries and Tesseracts work fine for me. Chunk loading turtles and ender chests caused chunk resets though.

 

[Hoff]

The only thing I've seen cause a reset since 1.5 started was a chunkloader(chickenchunks). Very repeatably so but that seems to be the only thing. I would suggest a quarry but make sure to set it on the chunk boundaries as such that you can fit the rest of your setup in the chunk that the quarry is in. Tesseracts/ender chests shouldn't matter.

 

[zorn]

http://www.reddit.com/r/feedthebeast/comments/17zyb4/vanishing_quarry/

This is one of the pages I found when I lost turtles in TF. Player lost a quarry and ender chest, the chests are the issue, combined with chunkloaders. Chunkloaders alone cause no issues that I have seen.

Use Tesseracts not ender chests and you have no issues.

 

[Hoff]

http://www.reddit.com/r/feedthebeast/comments/17zyb4/vanishing_quarry/

This is one of the pages I found when I lost turtles in TF. Player lost a quarry and ender chest, the chests are the issue, combined with chunkloaders. Chunkloaders alone cause no issues that I have seen.

Use Tesseracts not ender chests and you have no issues.

That's from 9 months ago. That is likely from ultimate which was on 1.4.7. Since then the issue has been fixed with enderchests but lone chunkloaders can still cause a chunk reset every time you place one in the twilight.

 

[Larmonade]

My experience with chunk loaders involved an ender thermic in the nether, liquid tesseracts, and a chicken chunks loader at my base. Two bases lost that way

That's part of why I'm paranoid about this and asking here. Also, the chunk resets were in 1.1.4 and 1.1.6 unleashed, but I've since rolled back to the seemingly more stable 1.1.3 (recommended) to maybe avoid future problems. Anybody know anything about fixes/problems in specific versions?

 

[Hoff]

Was your base in the overworld?

 

[Larmonade]

Was your base in the overworld?

Yeah - base was overworld. The chunk that got reset in both cases had the tesseract pumping into a railcraft tank. The adjacent chunk with the chunk loader was not affected, nor were any chunks in the nether.

 

[Hoff]

Yeah - base was overworld. The chunk that got reset in both cases had the tesseract pumping into a railcraft tank. The adjacent chunk with the chunk loader was not affected, nor were any chunks in the nether.

That's a really weird reset. The tesseracts shouldn't have been the cause but... Idk man.

 

[Larmonade]

That's a really weird reset. The tesseracts shouldn't have been the cause but... Idk man.

The crash log, the second time it happened, seemed to happen as a result of the railcraft tank...but it was basically chopped in half by the chunk reset, so I'm wondering if the crash and subsequent report were simply caused by the chunk reset, rather than directly related. I dunno. I guess I should just bite the bullet and build some quarries/tesseracts/ender chests/ turtle quarries and see what happens. But no more nether lava pumps. I'm still wary of that business.

 

[Tzukasa]

Yeah, I was thinking about that too - I've got the MPS tool thing that places those blue torch guys for basically free, plus a mining laser. Just load up a lappack, switch the laser to burst mode, and let 'er rip.

I suppose, though, for practicality's sake, I still want to know how I should be doing my auto-mining. Turtles or quarries? Tesseracts or ender chests? Chunk loaders? I wanna avoid chunk resets and other weird problems regardless of whether I'm in the twilight forest, a mystcraft age, or just the overworld.

How do you change modes with the mining laser now? Use to be hold M and right click or something but that's not working in Unleashed 1.1.7 for me.

 

[Larmonade]

Check your key bindings, it should be listed there...or else something else will be bound to it and causing you problems.

 

[rhn]

How do you change modes with the mining laser now? Use to be hold M and right click or something but that's not working in Unleashed 1.1.7 for me.

Yes by default there is something else mapped for "M" as well, which prevents you from changing mode of all the different IC2/gravisuite tools. Just change either of them to something else.
A good practice btw is to always set your mining laser back to low power mode when you are done. Blown up a few bases when forgetting to change it back from scatter mode.

 

[Tzukasa]

Yes by default there is something else mapped for "M" as well, which prevents you from changing mode of all the different IC2/gravisuite tools. Just change either of them to something else.
A good practice btw is to always set your mining laser back to low power mode when you are done. Blown up a few bases when forgetting to change it back from scatter mode.

I got it fixed by rebinding it to insert. Ty!