Mystcraft + Quarry story
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Makes sense. I personally don't like plains because of the tall grass, and make a separate age for animals, to transfer over when I get crystals, but to each their own.
Running costs now... Although I use a modified DW20 pack at the moment, so it's a moot point.
Don't kill the villagers - send them through a portal to your main base. Some of the trades can be good, especially with GT (although I personally don't run with GT, and let's not get into the discussion about it here, please.)
You don't need tracks or any of that stuff, not even portals. You are playing in beta so all you need coming off your quarry machine is 1 stone pipe straight into an ender chest. In your factory you have another ender chest with the same colour coding and then a wood pipe with 2x electric engines pulling out. Gold pipe on the wood pipe then split your stuff with diamond pipes to your recycler, macerator and oven etc.
ahh, you beat me to the Enderchest!!
Although I'd recommend using tubes instead of pipes, unless you plan on redirecting items, although a sorter could do this for you too by colour coding the tubes. But the tubes will full all available slots in your chests before moving on, so you don't have small stacks of different items in each chest, they move items faster and won't pull items out if there's no space to place it.
Easiest way to switch between pipes and tubes is to push items into a chest and then pull them out with a filter or wooden pipe + engine.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, it's current recommended to avoid moving items/entities through Mystcraft portals as it can cause your game/server to crash.
Although I'd recommend using tubes instead of pipes, unless you plan on redirecting items, although a sorter could do this for you too by colour coding the tubes. But the tubes will full all available slots in your chests before moving on, so you don't have small stacks of different items in each chest, they move items faster and won't pull items out if there's no space to place it.
Easiest way to switch between pipes and tubes is to push items into a chest and then pull them out with a filter or wooden pipe + engine.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, it's current recommended to avoid moving items/entities through Mystcraft portals as it can cause your game/server to crash.
He doesn't have tubes as he's using the Beta pack like myself (no redpower) so we're generally stuck with BC pipes or RC loaders/unloaders for moving items about.
I crunched the numbers, and windmills in an age with consistent weather are better than an advanced solar panel in pretty much everything except for iron/eu/t, and have the advantage of not using any uranium or glowstone. Unfortunately, iron is the thing I tend to be short on.
It depends entirely on what game you want to play. In Vanilla minecraft a lot of the game is focused on the actual resource gathering (mining, chopping wood, etc). Almost all of the mods in the FTB packs are designed to move you beyond that core activity into other activities. Many are designed to make the resource gathering trivial so that you can get on with building cool structures or machines, or explore totally new modes of play like bee breeding or dungeoneering in twilight forest.
So yes... if you're playing FTB and comparing it to vanilla then the mods definitely seem overpowered. FTB is a different game altogether though.
there is no IC2 power mechanic worse than wind power... I'd rather use standard generators... :/
Good story, Results are that you are playing way too much FTB and probably have no real job.
Also the server your playing must have good up times as the few I have played on always seem to lose 2 or 3 days a week to some crazy FTB/server issues.
they're sooooo unstable lol... to get them at max efficiency you put them way up high, too high and they might explode (I think 180 is the highest you can put them without risk of explosion) so the 1x1 wire going all the way there is ugly as hell, the EU output is jumping all over the place, oh, and that output isn't all that high anyway. At least with regular generators you can automate something to burn (steve carts tree farm, tier 5 blaze spawner farm, forestry tree farm etc)
LOL @ No job, "in this economy...." . As for the server, we had a map before the one we are on now that kept dieing. After a little research via web and what not, it was discovered the electric jetpack was causing most of the crashes. An easy "do not use" was put in place, new map seed, and tadaa, pretty good uptime nowGood story, Results are that you are playing way too much FTB and probably have no real job.
Also the server your playing must have good up times as the few I have played on always seem to lose 2 or 3 days a week to some crazy FTB/server issues.
I understand these mods are meant to reach passed the "punch wood" game play that is vanilla minecraft, but then again, I think with the mistcraft mod, the pace of the industrialization is too fast. This is why I like most of what gregtech does, it slows the pace so there's something to do/work towards.
Agreed, if by "unstable" you mean that they put out an inconsistent amount of EU.
Agreed.
Turbines don't explode... They do drop blades, however. Also, You're forgetting about obstructions in the area - my normal wind tower design has the top wind turbine way above that, but with enough obstructions that they won't shed blades. Also, in a Mystcraft age with consistent weather you can get more EU out on average, as you don't need to worry about thunderstorms.
2.49EU/t average per wind turbine in a Mystcraft age with consistent weather (or lack thereof). Much higher than a standard solar panel, at least.
Agreed. It's nice to be able to setup something that doesn't require much time to get resources for and setup though - blaze spawner shards requires one to go mess around in the nether, steves carts require (major, in some cases) time to assemble + build, forestry tree farm is fiddly to get self-sustaining, etc.
I void'ed Cobble, dirt, & flint, for the first quarry in my mistcraft age, and still filled a silver chest a few times. Though now that I have been reminded of enderchests, I've altered my operation a bitActually, if you just void the cobble, dirt, sand and gravel coming out of the quarry and shove the rest in an enderchest, you can get an entire 64x quarry output in about 1 iron chest. But hey, if you're short on cobble