RP2 release- thoughts after watching DW coverage.

[Golrith]

Yep. I love that Elo made a use for Flax. You didn't need much string normally. Spider kills were usually enough.

I'll be building some anyway. I'm all for natural energy, and you just got to love the look of them and all the new blocks.

 

[WTFFFS]

Yep. I love that Elo made a use for Flax. You didn't need much string normally. Spider kills were usually enough.

I'll be building some anyway. I'm all for natural energy, and you just got to love the look of them and all the new blocks.

I always needed a lot of string since I'm a lazy bugger and couldn't be stuffed chasing sheep. Flax was wonderful (meant I didn't have to find and set up a cave spider spawner farm). Though now with increased usage I may have to farm sheepies frame shearing machine here I come.

 

[Omicron]

Forestry wheat farms should be able to handle flax - and one of these left running around the clock should give you more string than you can ever use up

 

[WTFFFS]

Forestry wheat farms should be able to handle flax - and one of these left running around the clock should give you more string than you can ever use up

True but it might be fun to build a stupidly complex overengineered frame machine just to shear sheep

 

[Omicron]

Those poor sheep, when they see that thing inchworming towards them...

 

[RavynousHunter]

True but it might be fun to build a stupidly complex overengineered frame machine just to shear sheep

Okay, I love that one...easily the funniest thing I've read all day, lol.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Managers are quite useful, basically they can function like Supplier Pipes. Say you want your Fermentor kept supplied with saplings and compost... a Manager can handle that. Tell it to keep a stack of saplings and a stack of compost in inventory at all times, and it'll pull from available inventories to do so, and divert saplings coming from your arboretum and logger to keep it topped off. The only thing it can't do is order the system to run more combines of something on demand, so you'll have to make and keep in stock the aforementioned compost.

 

[Freakscar]

Question: How many thermopiles would one need in order to keep two sorting machines and two retrievers running? I'm using a stacked pile of TPs (thus only 3/4 output). And its a HIGH tower at that. But neither are the battery boxes charging up, nor does the blue alloy wire get enough power to my sorters. Long story short: HALP. I'm new to RP3 and utterly confuzzled. Any pointer what I can do to get more bang for my thermopile bucks?

 

[tedyhere]

How long have they been running and how long is your wire? Also, you have water and lava around the Thermopiles yes? A few screenshots go a long way too

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Question: How many thermopiles would one need in order to keep two sorting machines and two retrievers running? I'm using a stacked pile of TPs (thus only 3/4 output). And its a HIGH tower at that. But neither are the battery boxes charging up, nor does the blue alloy wire get enough power to my sorters. Long story short: HALP. I'm new to RP3 and utterly confuzzled. Any pointer what I can do to get more bang for my thermopile bucks?

Thermopiles do very poorly in 'piles'. It requires one lava block and three water blocks adjacent to it. Usually, they have the lava underneath them, so it is easier. This means you want a sprawl horizontally rather than vertically. Use a checkerboard pattern, with blacks as thermopiles and whites as water, and lava underneath each thermopile. Then use bluetric cabling and Jacketed Bluetric Cabling to connect them all. That should work much better.

 

[Freakscar]

Thank you, it was indeed the shape causing problems. =)[DOUBLEPOST=1356887818][/DOUBLEPOST]

How long have they been running and how long is your wire? Also, you have water and lava around the Thermopiles yes? A few screenshots go a long way too

Just to go into a tad bit more detail:
Its the TPs connected with about 3 block length of cable to batboxes (the RP ones, not the IC ones, ofc^^). Then its quite some length of cable to feed three sorting machines and two retrievers. I thought about the "length" as a cause, too, but this eliminated itself as the sorting machine which is furthest away is fully powered, whereas the retriever that is nearest to the boxes, is not. I *think* I rearranged some of my cables and had it working afterwards. Could it be that the rp2-machines do not accept power from any angle? As in, I tried it from below (wall mounted cable) and had no power - once I rerouted the cables to even ground and 'plugged' them into the retriever that way, it got powered.

So all in all it was a mixture of me drooling over a more space-convenient thermopile (stacking them and loosing way too much power that way) and again me using the powercables the wrong way.

Your thoughts are much appreciated, thanks.
(Again, its solved now)
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