Unleashed - Building a wall, need help

[iwishiknew]

I'm building a 350X300 square 4 wide, 150 tall wall out of black bricks and it is taking quite a while. I am interested in trying to automate it, but the issue is how the wall is designed. It will be 4 bricks wide, with all bricks touching air being colored brick and the inner bricks being a blast-resistant block such as obsidian (or something stronger, but not invincible). I also don't want to destroy the landscape, instead building it to match the landscape and it's ups and downs.

I thought originally of doing a filler, but that would only do a 64x2x64 long stretch at a time, and I'd still have to destroy some of the blocks if I did the "hollow" command. This would be quicker than doing it by hand, but would be a pain to set up, stock, power, destroy the "inner" row of blocks, tear down, move, reset-up, repeat.

I then though of maybe doing it with turtles, but I don't know the programming language or what they are able to do.

Any suggestions? Suggestions for blocks that are more blast resistant then obsidian, but aren't invulnerable like warded glass?

 

[JunpakuKarasu]

I know turtles can do this but I'm unfortunately no good at programming them either. DX

 

[Malkara]

4 Turtles side by side are probably your best bet, have them detect a block beneath, if air place bricks, repeat 4 times while moving up, move forward one, down 3, repeat.
If it detects !air, move up one and place your block underneath then, repeating that while moving up 3 times.
You'd have to lay out the path of the wall first, making sure it's the same height for every row, but that doesn't seem to time-consuming, you'd likely be able to do that while the turtles are placing blocks behind you

 

[Omegatron]

For the blast resistant blocks, you could try IC2 reinforced stone.

 

[iwishiknew]

Hmm, I didn't think of making the turtles do a line at a time. I might try something to the effect of:

Check X, If X > -3000 and <-3350 then check if +1X is air
If air then move +1 X then deploy block -1X
if block != air then move +1Y

I was actually thinking of maybe doing the 9X compressed cobblestone, but that'd take billions and billions of cobble. It's blast resistant though, right?

 

[casilleroatr]

There is an item from extra utilities called the Builders wand. If you aim it at the side of a wall and click it will extend a large chunk of the wall at once and it gets the items from your inventory. Its not automatic but it is very fast, and you will be there to correct any mistakes. I would recommend trying it out in a creative world for a couple of minutes to get a hang of the controls.

Also, it requires unstable ingots to make. They have an unusual creation method involving the division sigil and an activation ritual that you are supposed to uncover ingame. Division sigils are dungeon loot.

I think concrete from railcraft is also blast resistant.

 

[Runo]

You could do the filler in columns of 1x64x1, 4 times for each wall section. It would automatically roll with the landscape as long as you put the marker at the lowest point per section.

Its relatively easy to deploy once you get used to it. Carry 9 brick, an ME chest, an ME controller, an energy tesseract, two drives pre-filled with your material of choice, an export bus, the filler, and markers. Possibly some cables so you don't have to set up 4 times per section.

That would be 15 deployments per side of the cube with 60 marker sub-deployments per side, totalling at 60 deployments total with 240 marker sub-deployments.

Its more time consuming than a turtle but once you get moving it takes about 2-3 minutes per marker deployment, so we're looking at...8-12 hours of work. Not bad for the size, but it is correct that turtles could do it in less time if you know how to code.

 

[iwishiknew]

I'll check out the builder's wand, as I have the sigil I just need to activate it.

 

[JunpakuKarasu]

I'll check out the builder's wand, as I have the sigil I just need to activate it.

Tip: Do it away from your main area and bring weapons o_o

 

[PoisonWolf]

Why not use the filler + item tesseract + energy tesseract? Just plop it down, wait 10~20 seconds (assuming you have all the blocks ready), then reset it down again. Assuming you have all the materials needed, making the wall with a filler shouldn't take you more than 10~20 minutes.

 

[iwishiknew]

the amount of take down and resets I would have to do would be massive, not to include having to go back and redo all the movement once I get enough of the "filler" blocks

 

[RedBoss]

What are you building this for?

 

[iwishiknew]

All castles require a wall, and that wall should be defendable, and resistant to the weapons of the day, such as TNT cannons.

 

[casilleroatr]

It sounds like its going to be a pretty epic build. Good luck with it.

 

[iwishiknew]

Thanks. I'll be posting some photos of it in the server threat once I get it nice looking.

 

[namiasdf]

The most simple solution off the top of my head:

Filler to make a giant cube, quarry to dig out the inside. This will also allow you the option of digging out rooms of a specific size.

 

[iwishiknew]

It's a wall, there will be no rooms, and the filler would fill up a much to big of a spot if I needed to bring in a quarry to do the digging.

 

[namiasdf]

It is a redundant, but simple solution. It would require the least preparation, but is generally the least efficient energy/time wise. It would also be a preemptive solution as you would need to start off with this, as you will be filling in the interior space with the filler.

 

[iwishiknew]

There is an item from extra utilities called the Builders wand. If you aim it at the side of a wall and click it will extend a large chunk of the wall at once and it gets the items from your inventory. Its not automatic but it is very fast, and you will be there to correct any mistakes. I would recommend trying it out in a creative world for a couple of minutes to get a hang of the controls.

Also, it requires unstable ingots to make. They have an unusual creation method involving the division sigil and an activation ritual that you are supposed to uncover ingame. Division sigils are dungeon loot.

I think concrete from railcraft is also blast resistant.

YOU! HUG! NOW!

Seriously, this thing is freaking awesome! It's cutting my work down by over eleventy billion percent! I am having to find ways to bring enough colored brick with me to make my trips worthwhile now!

 

[casilleroatr]

YOU! HUG! NOW!

Seriously, this thing is freaking awesome! It's cutting my work down by over eleventy billion percent! I am having to find ways to bring enough colored brick with me to make my trips worthwhile now!

Glad its working out for you. FYI there is a creative version (no crafting recipe) that does the same thing although I think it has a greater range and it doesn't need blocks to be in your inventory.