this are test copies but more or less will be the finished versons
we are tweeking them at the moment so they are more streamlined.
once change will be the NEI fix's we apply to the client
as server side is ok just not client side.
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this are test copies but more or less will be the finished versons
we are tweeking them at the moment so they are more streamlined.
once change will be the NEI fix's we apply to the client
as server side is ok just not client side.
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While waiting for the mods to update to 1.3.2 and for the server to get sorted I thought I'd spend today making the craziest machine I could think of in my single player world. Inspired by Direwolf's server play i decided to build a multi directional tunnel boring 9x9 frame machine. Unlike Direwolf I haven't wimped out on the build and mine will go and dig in all 6 directions (forward, backwards, left, right, up and down).
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i'll post more pictures in the morning, i'm too tired to do anything more with it today
So far the entire machine can move in 6 directions thanks to the twelve frame motors crammed underneath the 9x9. Each of the six drill heads moves in 4 directions (which was a bugger to get working) and are controlled by wireless receivers for each direction and digging. The 9x9 room is lit up with redpower lamps on a wireless receiver in the classic Direwolf skylight fashion.
I still need to add a few more frames to the back of each drill head to give them the range of movement needed to dig a big enough hole for the machine to fit through, clear up all the experiments on the floor and get this thing running on a redpower computer. oh, and make it look half decent
I would love to use a ComputerCraft computer but I don't have the mod installed and I don't think they work with redpower IO extenders, which would make life a lot easier with my 38 wireless frequencies to manage
what do you guys think?
(click for full size)
i'll post more pictures in the morning, i'm too tired to do anything more with it today
So far the entire machine can move in 6 directions thanks to the twelve frame motors crammed underneath the 9x9. Each of the six drill heads moves in 4 directions (which was a bugger to get working) and are controlled by wireless receivers for each direction and digging. The 9x9 room is lit up with redpower lamps on a wireless receiver in the classic Direwolf skylight fashion.
I still need to add a few more frames to the back of each drill head to give them the range of movement needed to dig a big enough hole for the machine to fit through, clear up all the experiments on the floor and get this thing running on a redpower computer. oh, and make it look half decent
I would love to use a ComputerCraft computer but I don't have the mod installed and I don't think they work with redpower IO extenders, which would make life a lot easier with my 38 wireless frequencies to manage
what do you guys think?
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For the record it can go in 30 gazillion directions at once but keep that beast away from ma house
the machine is so slow and laggy when its mining that you could probably dismantle your house and build it out of harms way before the behemoth got anywhere near it
I've managed to extend each drill head a lot further than I thought would be possible so now each drill head almost touches all the ones at the side. Once I've got the drill heads enough freedom of movement and wired up a computer I'll take some more screenshots. Having seen direwolf's latest SMP video I'll also add a second batbox and auto charging station
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While waiting for the mods to update to 1.3.2 and for the server to get sorted I thought I'd spend today making the craziest machine I could think of in my single player world. Inspired by Direwolf's server play i decided to build a multi directional tunnel boring 9x9 frame machine. Unlike Direwolf I haven't wimped out on the build and mine will go and dig in all 6 directions (forward, backwards, left, right, up and down).
(click for full size)
i'll post more pictures in the morning, i'm too tired to do anything more with it today
So far the entire machine can move in 6 directions thanks to the twelve frame motors crammed underneath the 9x9. Each of the six drill heads moves in 4 directions (which was a bugger to get working) and are controlled by wireless receivers for each direction and digging. The 9x9 room is lit up with redpower lamps on a wireless receiver in the classic Direwolf skylight fashion.
I still need to add a few more frames to the back of each drill head to give them the range of movement needed to dig a big enough hole for the machine to fit through, clear up all the experiments on the floor and get this thing running on a redpower computer. oh, and make it look half decent
I would love to use a ComputerCraft computer but I don't have the mod installed and I don't think they work with redpower IO extenders, which would make life a lot easier with my 38 wireless frequencies to manage
what do you guys think?
Fantastic! i am working up to it in my SP world having only started out on it last weekend. Thumcraft seems to be taking up most of my time on it. I'm gonna start on the portal gun mod tonight though and try linking between mystcraft worlds with it.
If anyone wants to see a frame quarry I built one near the spawn on the test server its only a basic one but it works well.
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Sorry about DP
NEW LAUNCHER IS UP WITH NEI FIX DOWNLOAD FROM THE LINKTART WEBSITE (just re-download the original link)
it will say server mismatch concerning the NEI but it works and all crafting recipes are back please let me know if you have any problems.
NEW LAUNCHER IS UP WITH NEI FIX DOWNLOAD FROM THE LINKTART WEBSITE (just re-download the original link)
it will say server mismatch concerning the NEI but it works and all crafting recipes are back please let me know if you have any problems.
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Apart from the redpower computer and prettying it up the frame quarry is done. I did my best to get screenshots of stuff but everything is so tightly packed that I cant access a lot of it
Here's the beast. I managed to extend the drill heads a load which should speed up mining dramatically and make it look more like a mobile 60's tower block.
(The screenshots are print-screens because thats the only way to capture the FXAA)
The inside hasn't really been decorated at all, but its got the classic Direwolf skylight (Wirelessly controlled) and torches.
Somewhere in amongst the mess below is the control mechanism for all the frame motors that move the entire machine around, along with a bit of the bottom drill head mechanism.
For each direction a wireless receiver sends a pulse to the driving motor to move the whole machine forwards. It also sends a pulse to a state cell, which acts as a repeater that goes round corners in this case to pulse a second frame motor, which will move the first frame motor back to where it started.
There are 6 of these "inchworm drives" crammed into the bottom few layers of that 9x9 which can move the machine in all 6 directions. This was the best screenshot I could get because its so tightly packed that I physically cant get inside or underneath
Moving this many blocks takes a huge amount of power, so I have two battery supply stations which automatically take fully charged batteries out of an enderchest and into a batbox. A retriever then takes the empty batteries back into the enderchest to be recharged in an external charging station.
This is the more open of the two chargers (the other one is buried in the section with all the motors).
Finally, this is the solution i came up with for moving a drill head in 4 directions. Everything else i tried to get blulectric power and redstone signals to a frame motor needed to have some cabling touching the drill head mechanism. I couldn't just use a cover because frame motors cannot move frames with covers on and they also wont take a frame with a cover with them if the entire frame machine is moving.
the only solution was to use the fact that blulectric machines spread power to adjacent machines and that frame motors themselves will pull other frames if they are being moved. so i have four frame motors in the corners grabbing power from the obsidian jacketed bluwire and spreading its power to the four frame motors on the edge. These frame motors on the edge do all the moving, connected directly to a wireless receiver each
again, sorry for the bad screenie but its the best i can do without building another one
Here's the beast. I managed to extend the drill heads a load which should speed up mining dramatically and make it look more like a mobile 60's tower block.
(The screenshots are print-screens because thats the only way to capture the FXAA)
The inside hasn't really been decorated at all, but its got the classic Direwolf skylight (Wirelessly controlled) and torches.
Somewhere in amongst the mess below is the control mechanism for all the frame motors that move the entire machine around, along with a bit of the bottom drill head mechanism.
For each direction a wireless receiver sends a pulse to the driving motor to move the whole machine forwards. It also sends a pulse to a state cell, which acts as a repeater that goes round corners in this case to pulse a second frame motor, which will move the first frame motor back to where it started.
There are 6 of these "inchworm drives" crammed into the bottom few layers of that 9x9 which can move the machine in all 6 directions. This was the best screenshot I could get because its so tightly packed that I physically cant get inside or underneath
Moving this many blocks takes a huge amount of power, so I have two battery supply stations which automatically take fully charged batteries out of an enderchest and into a batbox. A retriever then takes the empty batteries back into the enderchest to be recharged in an external charging station.
This is the more open of the two chargers (the other one is buried in the section with all the motors).
Finally, this is the solution i came up with for moving a drill head in 4 directions. Everything else i tried to get blulectric power and redstone signals to a frame motor needed to have some cabling touching the drill head mechanism. I couldn't just use a cover because frame motors cannot move frames with covers on and they also wont take a frame with a cover with them if the entire frame machine is moving.
the only solution was to use the fact that blulectric machines spread power to adjacent machines and that frame motors themselves will pull other frames if they are being moved. so i have four frame motors in the corners grabbing power from the obsidian jacketed bluwire and spreading its power to the four frame motors on the edge. These frame motors on the edge do all the moving, connected directly to a wireless receiver each
again, sorry for the bad screenie but its the best i can do without building another one
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wrcbe - nice
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If you like the Chickenbones wireless stuff you'll love what I've done with the behemoth. I've just put a redpower computer inside the 9x9 and wired it up to all 39 wireless frequencies. So that means i needed 39 different colours of redwire connecting to 39 wireless transmitters all attached to the outside of the 9x9 in a position where it wont affect the drill heads. 3 IO expanders and a hell of a lot of cabling later i'm done and there is hardly any room left on the exterior of the 9x9 that isn't covered in wiring.
I dont have any screenies yet because I'm sick of the wiring already, at least I don't have to see any wires on the inside though
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I've just had a major setback while having a quick test of the machine before heading to bed. for some reason bits of wiring are falling off the machine when it moves in one direction. It is always the same pieces that fall off every time and the wires are all on top of panels so there isn't any reason for them to fall off. The first time this happened it coincided with some faulty wiring of the frame motors and fixing the frame motors fixed the wires falling off but i cannot see any problem with my wiring or framework with the problematic set of frame motors. i already have my connection count set to a stupidly high number (5500 instead of the default 1000) so i doubt that this is the problem, especially since the increase from 5000 to 5500 didnt solve the problem caused by the faulty wiring.
can anyone think of any reason why the bits might be falling off, no matter how unlikely?
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i'm using Redpower 2 PR5b2 if it helps (the latest one for 1.2.5 as far as i know)
can anyone think of any reason why the bits might be falling off, no matter how unlikely?
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i'm using Redpower 2 PR5b2 if it helps (the latest one for 1.2.5 as far as i know)
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hey all sorry about outage of test server
seems there is a mod causeing issues.
If anyone placed any advanced machines before it went down
please let me know so i can check if it was the issues
I had to remove the map and make a new because i was unable to get the server to
start. I have let FT know of the outage hopefully it will be back up soon
seems there is a mod causeing issues.
If anyone placed any advanced machines before it went down
please let me know so i can check if it was the issues
I had to remove the map and make a new because i was unable to get the server to
start. I have let FT know of the outage hopefully it will be back up soon
Nice one admins + a bump for others to spot this!