TechPack Energy 0.2 - BTW/BC addon

[Gilberreke]

Yeah, apparently a mediafire derp. Use this link: http://www.mediafire.com/?4r7e2u2qagzip7d

[MathWizz]

Hey! I just created a method you can use to remove recipe from the CraftingManager class! You may need to call it one tick after all other mods are initialized for it to work properly. It only compares the output of all the recipes to the item id and the item damage but not the quantity. This was just made for prof of concept and you may use it and/or distribute it in any way you want without crediting me.

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public void removeRecipe(ItemStack itemStack)
{
	List recipeList = CraftingManager.getInstance().getRecipeList();
	List remove = new ArrayList();
	for (Object obj : recipeList)
	{
		IRecipe recipe = (IRecipe) obj;
		if (itemStack.itemID == recipe.getRecipeOutput().itemID && itemStack.getItemDamage() == recipe.getRecipeOutput().getItemDamage())
			remove.add(obj);
	}
	
	for (Object obj : remove)
		recipeList.remove(obj);
}

[Gilberreke]

Haha, I wrote the exact same thing yesterday (well not exact, but it does the same). Great minds think alike? As mentioned before, it'll take a while before I tackle balance though.

I decided to make the redstone engine tweak a separate engine for various reasons.

Here's the roadmap for the energy release:
- Mechanical engine for BC (stable, power in between redstone and steam)
- Biofuel refinery (refines wheat and hemp into fuel, can drain and fill up IC² biofuel cans)
- Converter (converts from/into BC power, IC² power, RP2 blutricity)
- Electric engine (takes power from a converter, outputs mechanical)
- Turbine (takes mechanical energy, outputs power to converter)
- Diamond tipped saw (BTW saw that cuts RP microblocks)
- Universal wrench (combination of IC²/BC wrench, RP screwdriver and allows rotation of BTW blocks)

[Ferrus.Manus]

- Universal wrench (combination of IC²/BC wrench, RP screwdriver and allows rotation of BTW blocks)

Multitool would sound better.

[Alexia]

I do like the idea of oil and refineries, at the moment though, oil is too tough to find and in very limited quantities.
Another automated way to make oil, through say growing BTW hemp or similar that could be converted into oil or bio-fuel,
would be neat indeed.....water wheel > Auto Hemp Farm > Hopper > *bio machine?* > Pipes > Refinery > Oil/Fuel. :D

[Gilberreke]

I do like the idea of oil and refineries, at the moment though, oil is too tough to find and in very limited quantities.
Another automated way to make oil, through say growing BTW hemp or similar that could be converted into oil or bio-fuel,
would be neat indeed.....water wheel > Auto Hemp Farm > Hopper > *bio machine?* > Pipes > Refinery > Oil/Fuel. :D

I'll give out some info (already working on it btw).

Bio fuel refinery:
Water Wheel > Auto Hemp Farm > Hopper > Bio Fuel refinery > Fuel

Recipes:
Wheat/Hemp/Flax + sugar + charcoal = fuel
IC² Biofuel cans = fuel

The bio refinery is also able to fill up empty IC² cans.

[harley9699]

Excellent. Will dl as soon as it's 2.96 compatible.

[Gilberreke]

Excellent. Will dl as soon as it's 2.96 compatible. This one, and the other one you're working on. Just great.

Update is coming today or probably tommorow. It's done, just need to upload it. Mechanical engine will now be a new block. For now, it's required I do it this way.

[harley9699]

Excellent. Will dl as soon as it's 2.96 compatible. This one, and the other one you're working on. Just great.

Update is coming today or probably tommorow. It's done, just need to upload it. Mechanical engine will now be a new block. For now, it's required I do it this way.

Great! Can't wait. Too cool.

[Gilberreke]

Alright, finally releasing 0.2.

Updated to BTW 2.96. Mechanical Engine is now a separate block with ID 199. This is still prerelease, so there's a few small bugs to be solved, nothing you will notice. Config file will come in next release.

The special thing is that this is a stable engine. Excellent for timed contraptions, this engine only has two states and no energy buildup. As a consequence, it's not very powerful.

Recipe is the same as redstone engine, but replace BC gears by BTW gearboxes.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3yxikjfmlj933gd

[jorgebonafe]

Cool!

Humm... Question, how much energy it outputs? It should give a little more then a redstone energy on red to be useful, imo

[Magmarashi]

Pretty damn cool! Fun, too!

Though it looks like you are trying to fill that chest with energy for later, XD

[jorgebonafe]

Though it looks like you are trying to fill that chest with energy for later, XD

Lol! Only if the transparent end of the pipe was on the chest XD

[Gilberreke]

Cool!

Humm... Question, how much energy it outputs? It should give a little more then a redstone energy on red to be useful, imo

Well, the mechanics are pretty interesting. It always produces stable energy (this is not a piston engine, but a rotation powered device, the next update will reflect that), the same level as a red redstone engine. The advantage is that you can use these in places where you need stable power (timer-based stuff). The disadvantage is obviously that you need to connect an axle, so you can't chain them or use them in really tight spaces.

In terms of numbers, when on, it always produces 0.8 piston speed (same as red RS engine) and it never explodes.

[walker_boh_65]

just confirming that this is indeed for BC 2.2.0 not 2.2.1, correct?

[Gilberreke]

just confirming that this is indeed for BC 2.2.0 not 2.2.1, correct?

2.2.0, didn't even know there was a 2.2.1. That being said, this mod will probably keep working for any version of BTW or BuildCraft, unless there are major changes.

I looked at the update log and chances are 99% that this still works for 2.2.1. Will confirm later. I can also say that this will always work with any future version of BTW, since it only uses a few classes that haven't been changed since BTW's first release or so.

[gftweek]

Cool!

Humm... Question, how much energy it outputs? It should give a little more then a redstone energy on red to be useful, imo

Well, the mechanics are pretty interesting. It always produces stable energy (this is not a piston engine, but a rotation powered device, the next update will reflect that), the same level as a red redstone engine. The advantage is that you can use these in places where you need stable power (timer-based stuff). The disadvantage is obviously that you need to connect an axle, so you can't chain them or use them in really tight spaces.

In terms of numbers, when on, it always produces 0.8 piston speed (same as red RS engine) and it never explodes.

I imagine you can still total their output using energy pipes even if you can't stack them in a chain.

So they remove the warm up time redstone engines have, but are otherwise equivalent?

Also if you contact SpaceToad, he may feature your mod in his list of BuildCraft mods.

[Gilberreke]

I imagine you can still total their output using energy pipes even if you can't stack them in a chain.

Yep, you can do that.

So they remove the warm up time redstone engines have, but are otherwise equivalent?

Yes, balanced out by the fact you need to run axles to them.

Also if you contact SpaceToad, he may feature your mod in his list of BuildCraft mods.

Will do for v1.0

[Simone]

Ive downloaded the 0.2 mod version several times and i get corrupt archive every time.
Is this just me? (im using winrar, if that matters)

[Gilberreke]

Ive downloaded the 0.2 mod version several times and i get corrupt archive every time.
Is this just me? (im using winrar, if that matters)

You don't need to open the archive, just drop it in the /mods/ folder. That being said, try opening it with the standard Windows archive tool, that one does it just fine and is included with all Windows versions.

I downloaded the archive and I can confirm it's not corrupted.

[Battosay]

Any chance you could read the Gear Box and the Wood texture from the btwterrain01.png man?

[Gilberreke]

Any chance you could read the Gear Box and the Wood texture from the btwterrain01.png man?

Sure, valid suggestion. I'll try to get that into v0.3, together with the updated crafting recipe and a confirmation of 2.2.1 compatibility. Should be released later tonight.

[Battosay]

Cool, I was waiting on the 2.2.1 compatibility to intall and test your baby :)
I love the idea :)

[morvelaira]

Agreed. This is what is making me install Buildcraft when I get home tonight. My server - she will have to wait.

[Simone]

Ive downloaded the 0.2 mod version several times and i get corrupt archive every time.
Is this just me? (im using winrar, if that matters)

You don't need to open the archive, just drop it in the /mods/ folder. That being said, try opening it with the standard Windows archive tool, that one does it just fine and is included with all Windows versions.

I downloaded the archive and I can confirm it's not corrupted.

Silly me.
I got it into my head that you had to put it in to your minecraft.jar :D

Thanks