Minecraft

Redstone cells are best run in parallel, will see if I can coax a text diagram out of the bbcode settings
This gives you the minimum energy loss for feeding into them and out. This layout will fill one after the other and give you quite the buffer.

I disagree slightly with the above post on how the energy loss works, you lose 5% on each total transaction not each individual part of it, i.e. sending power from a battery into a machine you lose 5% total whether it's going through 2 conduits or 200. That's taken from a quote from the mod dev who posts in the SA MC thread fairly often. Soon it won't lose anything at all (it might have already been removed as this was said a while ago!) as Buildcraft removed it's energy loss mechanism so the TE chap said he would do the same.

One issue with quarries I haven't seen mentioned is I believe they will drain as much power as you shunt to them BUT anything over 50 is wasted so it is probably worth shoving a redstone cell into the wiring towards a quarry and have it set to only output 55MJ at the most.

Next time I start a world I'm going to try for MFR biofuel power instead of the magmatic stuff, once I learned about insertion pipes so I could keep a single stack in a planter filled and send the excess elsewhere I was off to the races with that stuff.

I use Item tesseracts back to my base. Then I typically have deep storage units for materials such as cobble, obsidian, redstone, coal, dirt and sand. Sandstone gets void piped and everything else gets sent to chests or my refining system.

Once AE is up and running everything gets dumped into that system. Eventually the deep storage comes offline and I void pipe the rest. However with the latest AE you can compress all those spare mats and turn them into singularities to allow multiple connected AE systems in different locations or ages.

yeah, as in the post above you can remove your chest/extraction pipe completely and just pipe/conveyor belt away the material to wherever. Item tesseracts are certainly the easiest, can put it right next to the quarry and then stick it at the intake of your home base sorting system. Standard buildcraft pipes will handle however much you put through it, I screenshotted the backend of my intake system a couple of weeks ago and once it is up and running it's pretty much a graphics glitch of it trying to render the sheer amount of stuff a maxxed out quarry will shit out.

If I was to do it again I'd probably stick the cobble/dirt diamond pipe filter into the system at the quarry end and a void pipe into a lava hole to kill the unwanted gazillion tons of junk.

He removed both of those as well as some of his other farming machines in favor of his new multi-block farms that do the same thing.

Yes, Quarries will start at whatever level you place them at, no problem. What I did with my starter quarry this last time was just leave it at it's default size. If powered well enough it'll dig that space out pretty quickly no matter how high up it is.

So I kinda hit a wall on vanilla until I get the motivation to finish my arena on RR. Is there an FTB server I could get whitelisted to to try and check out what people do?

Couple new pics of the latest project in my little town.


I've also recently discovered the Minefactory Reloaded laser drill. I've fallen in love but damn it eats up the power.