@immibis: You drew a nice picture of how you can take a simple system and complicate it as if it is difficult to do…..for me, I just sent all my items from the farms to a central location, then distributed those items into various crafts and back out to the farms evenly. This didn’t require any LPs, and was as easy as using LPs when I changed to those. At one point I had a single pipe connecting each farm to the factory, and the factory combined these connections into a single pipe inward and worked bi-directionally as well…..which, to ME, had the exact same feel as using LPs, so my “feeling of accomplishment” was exactly the same.

Can we move on from the fact that I am not like most humans on this planet? Thanks, moving on.

> “And once I’m satisfied that it works, I give it a satisfied smile, log out and delete the world”

That’s funny because I’ve gone through 7 worlds so far in the past month pretty much with the same feeling of “I’m done with this, I want to design something different.” My next task is to create a loop of massive amounts of sand and glass creation through EE and furnaces that will convert it to diamond (1 glass turns to 3 sand, and excess sand can be upconverted), just for the heck of it.

Personally, I would have loved if Alb had made IC have pipes, where water can be circulated, heated by furnaces and cooled while producing power instead of an all-in-one-block style (with multiple blocks it gives you the ability to create your own massive sized nuclear power plant rather than that 3x3x3 block GUI screen…ug). That’s another story altogether though.

@Mason11987 You find your answer in the version number of the thread name. (Tip: It’s 1.0.0)

Is it possible to do these things? If not, please make it possible.

1) I have a cobblestone generator. I don’t want to run it 24/7, because of lag. Instead, I want it to run, only when something in a Network requests cobblestone.

2) I have a reed farm. But I want to harvest it only when something in the Network requests reeds (again, to avoid unnecessary lag).

3) I have an automatic transmuter (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/927912-block-transmuter/) and I want Network to use it as a crafting pipe.

@DiEvAl:

1. Cobblestone generator, like most any machine run by redstone, cannot be triggered by BC+LP by itself. However, if you get additional pipes, it comes with a redstone pipe which activates when an item goes through it. You can set up a loop from a chest that provides 64 pieces of sand inside it along with cobblestone (or any single item) and on the same chest have a craft pipe that is set up to turn “1 sand -> X cobblestone”. The loop contains a redstone pipe that activates your cobblestone factory for X seconds whenever it is triggered, and the cobblestone can be piped to the chest. Whenever your system needs cobblestone, it will let the craft pipe loop the sand item through the detector which activates the farm, and it will pull the cobblestone out of the chest.

2. same thing as above

3. Using a glitch in the game is not recommended, you never know how long the glitch will last in updates. Regardless, this ability is not viable in BC because pipes cannot expel liquids properly for that setup.

@BobbyKraft: 3.x is being supported….there’s an entire topic for it.

@sabriath:
1,2) Ok, I’ll use that.
3) You don’t need to expel liquids with BC. You can just use piston connected to a redstone pipe. I’ll try something similar to 1 and 2.

[quote]Using a glitch in the game is not recommended, you never know how long the glitch will last in updates[/quote]
Minecart boosters worked in infdev. And they still work…