I wonder how many others have stories like this one, a project which started small and soon came to snowball out of control.
It all began with my dislike of two common features of automatic mining: that the auto-mining systems I knew at the time couldn't mine with Silk Touch or Fortune (the one that could (Arcane Bore) was extremely complicated to automate and used up tools too fast) and that my quarries churned up the landscape.
So, I thought, let's go to the Deep Dark. There I can mine without destroying anything that looks nice. I'll think about automating the Arcane Bore later. Now how to find that damned Division Sigil. OK, RotaryCraft has a cave scanner, and it sounds interesting so let's install that... and while I'm at it, with my long-term plans it might be good to install ReactorCraft on top.
(Some time later): wow, this is cool stuff (explores some more RoC), maybe the bedrock tools can even help me with the problem with the Arcane Bore. I could use the RoC Miner which actually does what I want but I don't like its style.
Drat, those machines need lubricant (sets up a canola farm with Thaumcraft golems). Hmm...not enough space in my fluid storage room. I wanted to rebuild that anyway and use better tanks (goes on to (re)build half a dozen 2KB Railcraft steel tanks and rewires the LP system to use them). While I'm at it, just add a tank for the mob essence I'm going to need somewhen I'm sure.
OOOhhh K. Between the extractor I'm going to use for ore processing as soon as the next mining operation starts and the bedrock breaker, I need more energy (goes on to build a 5MW solar tower). And Tesseracts. I'm going to need more of those and they're complicated to make, so I'm going to automate their production.
(some time later) Well, that tower works nicely, but it's not so nice that it doesn't produce much during the night. So...what about a Mystcraft age with eternal daylight?
(A few explored ages later) Hmm, finding those pages takes more time than I anticipated, but I've found some cool worlds. Let's create age #9. Oh....I'm out of....ink sacs? Didn't I have two stacks not so long ago? Never thought I'd have to create an ink farm. Unfortunately, no "ink block" page either and I don't recall having seen a black ProjectRed tree ever in my world.
So now I'm going to automate ink production. Fortunately I already have a solid-block enclosure with a MFR rancher (the sheep and chicken kept escaping the fences so used one layer of cobble and one layer of Paving Stones of Warding). I have 2000+ wool in my ME network so the sheep can take a vacation. Hopefully, I just need to add water and squids. Sometimes I remind myself why I started doing all this, and can only shake my head.
If others have similar stories, I'd love to hear them.
It all began with my dislike of two common features of automatic mining: that the auto-mining systems I knew at the time couldn't mine with Silk Touch or Fortune (the one that could (Arcane Bore) was extremely complicated to automate and used up tools too fast) and that my quarries churned up the landscape.
So, I thought, let's go to the Deep Dark. There I can mine without destroying anything that looks nice. I'll think about automating the Arcane Bore later. Now how to find that damned Division Sigil. OK, RotaryCraft has a cave scanner, and it sounds interesting so let's install that... and while I'm at it, with my long-term plans it might be good to install ReactorCraft on top.
(Some time later): wow, this is cool stuff (explores some more RoC), maybe the bedrock tools can even help me with the problem with the Arcane Bore. I could use the RoC Miner which actually does what I want but I don't like its style.
Drat, those machines need lubricant (sets up a canola farm with Thaumcraft golems). Hmm...not enough space in my fluid storage room. I wanted to rebuild that anyway and use better tanks (goes on to (re)build half a dozen 2KB Railcraft steel tanks and rewires the LP system to use them). While I'm at it, just add a tank for the mob essence I'm going to need somewhen I'm sure.
OOOhhh K. Between the extractor I'm going to use for ore processing as soon as the next mining operation starts and the bedrock breaker, I need more energy (goes on to build a 5MW solar tower). And Tesseracts. I'm going to need more of those and they're complicated to make, so I'm going to automate their production.
(some time later) Well, that tower works nicely, but it's not so nice that it doesn't produce much during the night. So...what about a Mystcraft age with eternal daylight?
(A few explored ages later) Hmm, finding those pages takes more time than I anticipated, but I've found some cool worlds. Let's create age #9. Oh....I'm out of....ink sacs? Didn't I have two stacks not so long ago? Never thought I'd have to create an ink farm. Unfortunately, no "ink block" page either and I don't recall having seen a black ProjectRed tree ever in my world.
So now I'm going to automate ink production. Fortunately I already have a solid-block enclosure with a MFR rancher (the sheep and chicken kept escaping the fences so used one layer of cobble and one layer of Paving Stones of Warding). I have 2000+ wool in my ME network so the sheep can take a vacation. Hopefully, I just need to add water and squids. Sometimes I remind myself why I started doing all this, and can only shake my head.
If others have similar stories, I'd love to hear them.
