Why's the treealyzer need honey?

[draeath]

This makes no sense to me, especially as you do not require bees to breed trees.

I can certainly understand needing some kind of consumable or power source, but honey makes no sense at all no matter how I try to look at it. It would actually make more sense to me that it would consume fertilizer (in the absence of just requiring a power source, like some of the IC2 tools do it) and fertilizer is added by the very same mod that adds the treealyzer.

 

[Drkevlar]

You can get combs from using a scoop on hives, so no need to breed bees

 

[draeath]

Not really the point

You shouldn't need to.

 

[Drkevlar]

I might have to agree with you, but i still think it adds a bit more of a challenge, either find hives, or breed some bees.
Since you can't really automate tree breeding yet i think it's a good honey sink for the bee keeper.

But if we could automate tree breeding, i think something like fruit should also bee accepted as input for the analyzer.

 

[Bihlbo]

I think it would be better to run it off MJ. Stick it to an engine or conductive pipe and it charges up.

 

[draeath]

I'd say that for the beealyzer too. Honey doesn't "pacify" them (the supposed reason for it) you'd use smoke for that - but we don't have anything for that either.

 

[Drkevlar]

From the change logs I've read I think they are still working on the details.
Fingers crossed we will have some buffs to the analyzers

 

[RedBoss]

You can punch a tree and get logs, you can carry metric tons of metal in your pocket, & angry green penises explode when they get near you.

But putting honey in a machine as a power source makes no sense.

 

[draeath]

Everything you mention is from vanilla. Maybe I don't like those either? I'll take what "realism" I can get.

But my point is - the very same mod adds/uses a power system - so why doesn't it use it in this case? Instead it goes some off-the-wall direction (in this case) with seemingly no real reason to.

 

[RedBoss]

Honey is a forestry fuel actually.

http://forestry.sengir.net/wiki.new/doku.php?id=energy:bronze

It can be used in the biogas engine to produce 1mj/t for 10k ticks. So there's the logic behind using honey to power the analyzers.

 

[draeath]

Ah, ok - that makes sense then. I'd still like to use other means, but at least now it's not completely arbitrary