Rotarycraft/Reactorcraft Power Progression

[Padfoote]

I just rotated the junction, and still neither is getting power. The only way the green boxes appear is on merge mode, on split they remain red, thus not transferring anything.

Going off of memory here, but red is where power is being output to. So you would want green on the steam engine, and red on both grinders.

 

[Pyure]

Test by putting shafts exiting the shaft junction (temporarily remove your grinders). See if they spin.

Use an angular transducer to right click your shaft junction; it should tell you how much power its receiving.

Note that if you try to split 1nm of torque, it won't work.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

Test by putting shafts exiting the shaft junction (temporarily remove your grinders). See if they spin.

Use an angular transducer to right click your shaft junction; it should tell you how much power its receiving.

Note that if you try to split 1nm of torque, it won't work.

This is my test world. On the left, I have a jet engine, a junction box next to it, and 2 gear thingies to test output. The junction box is set to split mode, and it says "error" in the tooltip. The green side is on the engine, and the two red sides are on both gear shafts. They do not spin, despite the transudcer showing that they're receiving power.

On the right is a simple steam engine, and the junction shafts set the same way. It also won't move. I think if I can get over this hiccup that I can get the power to traverse the long distances, when and if I need it.

 

[Pyure]

• Just to confirm, those junctions are in "split" mode?
• Are you using a recent version? shaft junctions sometimes behave oddly in old versions. You can work around it by opening the gui (I think you shift-click a shaft junction or something, I forget), and then click "Even 1:1".
  
• Just an fyi: i hope you aren't emotionally attached to the stone shafts on the left, as they will break once you fix this

 

[Brian Cherrick]

• Just to confirm, those junctions are in "split" mode?
• Are you using a recent version? shaft junctions sometimes behave oddly in old versions. You can work around it by opening the gui (I think you shift-click a shaft junction or something, I forget), and then click "Even 1:1".
  
• Just an fyi: i hope you aren't emotionally attached to the stone shafts on the left, as they will break once you fix this

They are in split mode yes.
Not the most recent version. Hitting even 1:1 in the gui worked, so now I can run 2 grinders off 1 engine.
Not emotionally attached by any stretch of the imagination, lol. Was just trying to test it.

In regards to the grinders, does feeding them more power/torque grind canola faster, thus getting lubricant quicker? Can you transport it using fluiducts, or do lubricant hoses need to be used? Once in a reservoir, how do you get it back out?

 

[Wagon153]

They are in split mode yes.
Not the most recent version. Hitting even 1:1 in the gui worked, so now I can run 2 grinders off 1 engine.
Not emotionally attached by any stretch of the imagination, lol. Was just trying to test it.

In regards to the grinders, does feeding them more power/torque grind canola faster, thus getting lubricant quicker? Can you transport it using fluiducts, or do lubricant hoses need to be used? Once in a reservoir, how do you get it back out?

You get it out of the reservoir with a lubricant hose on the bottom or fluiducts, and they only work faster with more speed(Rad/s)

 

[Pyure]

You get it out of the reservoir with a lubricant hose on the bottom or fluiducts, and they only work {+potentially much much much much} faster with more speed(Rad/s)

You can grind literally stacks of the stuff in seconds at maximum input (Brian Cherrick: test with that gas turbine to see what I mean. Use a gearbox or CVT to increase speed.)

 

[Brian Cherrick]

I will look into those things. Progression wise, what would be next few engines I could use after the steam. I got hydrokinetics set up, but don't quite got enough lubricant to run them for more than a few minutes. Nor do I have the power to run a fractionator and make jet fuel.

 

[Padfoote]

Gasoline engines, AC Electric Engines.

 

[Pyure]

What Padfoote said. I'm a fan of Performance engines, if you have a lot of redstone, glowstone or, um, blaze powder I think, to make it produce twice as much as a gasoline engine.

Also, you can do yourself and always keep an industrial coil or two charged.

For instance, you can charge the entry level industrial coil via a few weak steam engines while you're off mining. Then use it for a good burst of output (1MW) when you want to do some quicker work with the Extractor or something.

Just be careful as they explode when they go over their max limit. A comparator can be used to monitor it and cut off the power supply (clutch) when it reaches 90%.

 

[jokermatt999]

Honestly, I think people are too cautious when it comes to using gasoline engines and lubricant. Both will last far longer than you'd think, even with manual processing (except in hydrokinetics). Once you get the most basic setup for either, you can really use them without worrying.

 

[Reika]

A week for a fusion reactor? How cute.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

A week for a fusion reactor? How cute.

Think it'd be longer? I thought a week was being conservative.[DOUBLEPOST=1401468856][/DOUBLEPOST]

What Padfoote said. I'm a fan of Performance engines, if you have a lot of redstone, glowstone or, um, blaze powder I think, to make it produce twice as much as a gasoline engine.

Also, you can do yourself and always keep an industrial coil or two charged.

For instance, you can charge the entry level industrial coil via a few weak steam engines while you're off mining. Then use it for a good burst of output (1MW) when you want to do some quicker work with the Extractor or something.

Just be careful as they explode when they go over their max limit. A comparator can be used to monitor it and cut off the power supply (clutch) when it reaches 90%.

I'd have to role with the gasoline at least for now as I don't have a sufficient amount of any of those additives.

 

[Wagon153]

Think it'd be longer? I thought a week was being conservative.[DOUBLEPOST=1401468856][/DOUBLEPOST]

I'd have to role with the gasoline at least for now as I don't have a sufficient amount of any of those additives.

Lets just say it's meant to be a server community project.

 

[Reika]

Think it'd be longer? I thought a week was being conservative.

Try two or more months unless you either spend many, many hours a day.

 

[lucariomaster2]

Try two or more months unless you either spend many, many hours a day.

To add to this, I've been playing with RotaryCraft for about 3 or 4 weeks now, and all I have so far in terms of ReactorCraft is a single uranium processor which I haven't set up yet.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

In regards to the bedrock gears. I know how the dust and such is gotten, but I have a tiny problem. The bedrock on my server is at level 1 (break it, and there is the void). Is there a way to adjust the config for mystcraft, so that bedrock is generated above Y level 1 so I can go after some dust. My only other alternative is to cheat some in unless there is another way to get it.

Try two or more months unless you either spend many, many hours a day.

Is there that much to craft for it? While it is a really big build, it seems once ya got a quarry or two going that it would just be a matter of the combines. Less I am really under-estimating things, which apparently I am.

 

[Pyure]

Honestly, resources are only half the problem. Many of the tools you're going to become familiar with have their own learning curves and some of them are just outright quirky.

Rather than outright dispute you on the matter, though, I'm genuinely interested in keeping an eye on how you're doing with the project. Hope you keep posting.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

Honestly, resources are only half the problem. Many of the tools you're going to become familiar with have their own learning curves and some of them are just outright quirky.

Rather than outright dispute you on the matter, though, I'm genuinely interested in keeping an eye on how you're doing with the project. Hope you keep posting.

Definitely will, whether it be in this thread, or another entirely, I'm not sure yet. Trying to work on the bedrock issue first.

 

[Padfoote]

In regards to the bedrock gears. I know how the dust and such is gotten, but I have a tiny problem. The bedrock on my server is at level 1 (break it, and there is the void). Is there a way to adjust the config for mystcraft, so that bedrock is generated above Y level 1 so I can go after some dust. My only other alternative is to cheat some in unless there is another way to get it.

The Nether ceiling.