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 May as well use a Thaumcraft portal.

 I'm running into a few problems with my Technic world. The main one being a relocation of my base away from a desert village to a Redpower volcano. Not a volcano base through, pumping that stuff out and making it a spire with a godtier bed on top, because I am a Lord of Blood.

 ... And also trying to design a more optimal system that looks alright, not a 9x9 with a bunch of tubes leaking out. My senses of base design just can't handle figuring out tubes running through it.

 "Oh god I need to shift this whole device over a few spaces to keep every machine in alignment with my pillars."

 I'm thinking about the usefulness of snipers in this matchup. I don't care much for their direct damage, which is really limited to very controlled situations, I primarily look at them for applying minicrits to everything all the time forever. Removal of damage falloff and an extra 35% damage from everything is incredibly helpful and is worth at least half a player for every player dealing direct damage, so the equivalent of having two or three more dudes shooting at times. Doesn't work on tanks though, and not much damage beyond this support role.

 But minicrits are sorta wacky. If you get a horde of bots with the stuff the game starts lagging for some reason associated with minicrits. It really diminishes the usefulness of the stuff and you may as well just have a scout paint one target at a time for minicrits.

 Fuck it I was making a huge rant on people suggesting incredibly bad ideas because of Realism and how striving for that idea is inherently silly but nobody wants to hear that crap.

 Terrafirmacraft is the only mod I know of that full on departs from Minecraft vanilla gameplay/content to provide the experience it wants to make. There are probably other mods out there that have the term 'realistic' in them, but they generally still run under vanilla Minecraft stuff like punching trees and moving enough stone to build Texas.

 I get the feeling that suddenly they had to wait for the Bukkit team to do something before they could work on behind-the-scenes stuff nobody appreciates the devs for, so they could go crazy on these little features for the first time.

Are there mods to make cave ins happen slightly more realistically?

If by 'more realistically' you mean 'at all' then I can only think of Terrafirmacraft. It's a total conversion mod though, so it may not mesh with what you are looking for.

 I only really had issues with Mannworks. The other maps have been fine.

So, here is the setup.


Pump up there outputs to waterproof pipes that feed into the geothermals. Cables on the sides go 4 down into a transformer, which feeds gold cables into an MFE. There is some redstone under the right half but it shouldn't be affecting the transformer and there is none near the left half. Cable at the top feeds to an electric engine powering the pump.

 The geothermals are not burning through their lava nor are they producing energy. The MFE is empty and should be drawing power from them. I have similar setups testing around there and the only large difference is the weird shared cable to the electric engine and stacked geothermals. Can anyone point out an obvious flaw that is ruining this?