As for the quarry in the OP, I liked it for 10 seconds, then I thought about it and decided I'ed rather there be a benefit of hand mining over quarrying.
Why in Minecraft would a mod based on gears add a pully to a device that looks like it has no room for one, I CAN see them giving you the option to pre build the scaffolding (not frames, that's RP2) into custom sized.
Tho with the general usage of buildcraft... I can't really see them adding multi-block structures. Not saying I wouldn't love the idea, I do miss my TBMs type machines. Now that I stop to think about it they are multi-block already, assuming you don't use Tesseracts, you need to set up the power production, which includes engines, pumps (if you use combustion engines), gates if you want more control, pipes and/or railcart. Just because it's only one block, does not mean it's not multi-block.
Carts are the realm of Railcraft and somehow I don't see CovertJaguar doing that.... Some people use them already with world carts, or mystcraft protals
Drills are the realm of IC2, I can't see BC relying on or copying other mods.
I would LOVE for them to add a pump to the quarry however.
If BuildCraft ever is to change the Quarry it's hopefully going to make things harder and not easier to use. Multiblock structures with frames, pulleys, carts, drill, more flexibility, more fun.
Why in Minecraft would a mod based on gears add a pully to a device that looks like it has no room for one, I CAN see them giving you the option to pre build the scaffolding (not frames, that's RP2) into custom sized.
Tho with the general usage of buildcraft... I can't really see them adding multi-block structures. Not saying I wouldn't love the idea, I do miss my TBMs type machines. Now that I stop to think about it they are multi-block already, assuming you don't use Tesseracts, you need to set up the power production, which includes engines, pumps (if you use combustion engines), gates if you want more control, pipes and/or railcart. Just because it's only one block, does not mean it's not multi-block.
Carts are the realm of Railcraft and somehow I don't see CovertJaguar doing that.... Some people use them already with world carts, or mystcraft protals
Drills are the realm of IC2, I can't see BC relying on or copying other mods.
I would LOVE for them to add a pump to the quarry however.