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bleh do download industrialcraft mod I have to download 2 other mods and do a bunch of technical stuff, too troublesome.

Fool! We are PC Gamers! It is our true path in life to do overly complicated things in order to play games! Rejoice in your downloading of multiple mods for compatibility requirements! Rejoice in your setting up of emulators! Rejoice in your downloading of drivers and fan made patches! Rejoice in your having to read a 200 page manual and an entire wiki in order to play your games!

For we are PC Gamers, and it is in our hobby's complexity that we derive enjoyment from what simpler men cannot.


Because it's too complex for simpler men, and stuff.

Ok, I cheated to do my test and replicated a few MFEs and cable, and enough to make a nuke... but no more!

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Now, we can only do a single thickness because of the 3 connection wire deal... but this is how it charged:

B, then C, then D... Now A was slowly filling up from the solar panels, and I technically added that after the Nuke was charging B, so I can't tell if that first one has a huge impact.  After A was filled, it stopped filling up MFEs ... I don't know if it was because I flubbed the order or what.  One odd thing I noticed is that U (the one all the way at the end) was filling up, 16 EU per tick the whole time.

I put a redstone torch next to one down the line (let's say M) and all the ones further down stopped (as expected) while it filled up with trickle charges.  There is a small amount of juice flowing to each one, but it's not consistent.  I placed a miner at the end and it slowly putted along as it got it's dose of 16 EU every now and then.  Placing a torch by it, letting it fill up a few thousand and breaking the torch made it suck all the juice out and go back to sputters.

It's consistent in that it fills up from the power station side first but it doesn't release it's energy on demand.

I'm almost certain the odd behavior is from a combination of feedback loops and the current being split repeatedly. I played around with some cheated items on a new map and here's the densest working horizontal battery I've tested so far.

The strangest part is that there's over 300 current coming in on that line and they refuse to explode. I was actually trying to explode it before I started making battery arrays. There's 16 nuclear reactors hooked straight into that thing.

I tested hooking a HV converter to a MFE at another place and had to split the wire to below 100 current to get that one to not explode yet hooked straight to the generators they seem to do fine. Just tried hooking this generator into a crystal charger and that works too.

Gentlemen, Behold! My new generator setup!

They're thumbnails, click for better view.

The generator itself consists of 2 Switch Cables with 4 generators hooked to each. This gives a 40EU/s output when all are operating.



If I fill them all with charcoal I get 2,048,000 EU. I wanted to be able to be able to store at least as much energy as this thing could produce while full so I made this.


It's 15 MFE Transmitters hooked together. Spirals seem to be more space efficient than linear battery stacks. A smaller battery could be used by only partly filling the generator but I wanted a little overkill to test the design.

Now that I have this thing I don't know what to actually do with it though. Maybe I'll get lucky and he'll add an energy-matter converter or something.

Tested it and adding more power doesn't make the Macerator work faster, I assume it's the same for all machines. I guess no Tim Taylor Tech for me.

I havn't experimented with nuclear reactors but I'd think their explosion would be rendered inert by putting them under water.

I decided I'd had enough of lions attacking me while I try to tame horses. I now have a Gatling gun and 416 rounds of ammunition.

There will be no survivors.

I just hunted bears, lions, and birdies with a flamethrower while listening to Bohemian Rhapsody. This is why I play videogames.