Spacetoad – It would be great if these could be added into the buildcraft mod -
However, even if you choose not to add these in, great mod!

Bug Fixes -
1. Fix Fillers – I have found that fillers will not remove dirt that has grass growing ontopo of itself.

More Parameters -
1. Furnace Active / Not Active – This would help integrated automatic furnaces into the production line and 3.X Buildcraft more readily. *Figured out how to get around this, i.e. Space Toad already thought of this – Good Job Spacetoad!

2. Plant Grown / Not Grown – this would be nice to work with the new stripes pipes and would help spur on some really great farming complexes.

3. Detect Item Quantities – This would be a really great feature that could be included in gates. The pipes should be able to detect the amount of a certain item as well as the specific item type (pre-empt: I know that the pipes can detect items thats not the new feature) This can also be applied similarly to energy and fluids e.g. detecting the amount of energy or fluid that has passed.

Feature Changes -
1. Quarry deconstructs frames when completed / removed – This seems kind of a no brainer, there really isn’t a need for the frame to remain.

2. Wooden Pipes can be Activated by Power Pipes – Have wooden pipes powered by power pipes in addition to the redstone and every other engine along with the various amounts of items extracted respective to the power levels. This would be helpful in the context of a production line.

3. Golden Pipes Can be powered by Redstone AND Engines – Golden pipes should continue to be powered by redstone, however, the buildcraft engines should also be able to power them as well, providing speed boosts respective to the engines energy input. I.e. redstone would produce a speed boost of 20 SU (Speed Units) redstone engines would produce a boost of 40 SU, Stone engines would produce a boost of 80 SU and so on.

4. Basic Gates should recognize all wires – It seems kind of silly that you need to have diamond gates to be able to use all the colors of wires. In advanced factories this really isn’t practical economically to get to this feature.

5. On the issue of gates: Iron pipes should treat a redstone signal produced by a gate the same as any other redstone input. Currently, they do not.

6. Also, Diamond pipes should allow items to be stacked within the pipes while still retaining the ability to influence the probability of an item going one way or another. Also it would be cool if you could integrate Krapt’s system of “fake” items in the GUI as it would reduce the strain of going and looking for / creating the items for the pipes.

7. Dynamic Pipe interactions – Stuff like water and lava produce obsidian if they come in contact with each other. Basically, this would balance out the system for those who think that Buildcraft might bee a little overpowered and hopefully increase the user base.

[Assembly Table Updates]
Priority System – Basically, you can set certain tables to receive more beams than others. Ex: on a production line (if you haven’t caught on most of these updates are geared towards production lines) you may have multiple tables running some producing more basic items such as wires which require less beams to produce faster and more complex diamond gates or chipsets which require more. The assembly tables should be able to request more beams than others.

New Features
[Production Table]
Buildcraft’s existing autocrafting tables have a few shortfalls. There are not parameters tuned to integrate them into the 3.X version. Thus there are several features that could be added to eliminate these.
~Additionally, there are no gate parameters that recognize whether an automatic crafting table is ready to craft or not, thus hampering the ability to have engines automatically turn on and off on a production line.

[Computers]
It would be amazing if computers were introduced into Buildcraft and a lot of cool features could spawn from such an update. It would also provide a great opportunity to further integrate lasers and the assembly table. Some of the features of computers could include:
~ Pipe Sequencing – With a computer attached to a pipe network with “computer pipes” in the network one could program how a pipe should treat an object once certain amounts of an item have accumulated at a given destination or send it to a destination like a automatic crafting table that is inactive.
~Advanced Pipe Features – Computers could spawn a variety of features including priority 1, priority 2, etc routes. Additionally, computers could also advance wooden pipes so they would only extract specific resources.
~Advanced Engine Features – Computers would also allow for the introduction of advancements into engines such as in the case of the iron engine: computer chips could be added into the engine via a crafting recipe and it would turn into a more advanced engine such as an “fuel-injector engine”
~Filler Presets – Through a computer you could also add in filler “presets” that would specify certain patterns that the filler would modify.

[Filter Pipes]
As the name suggests, a pipe that could filter liquids in a manner similar to diamond transport pipes would make the construction of off shore pumps for oil more worthwhile. I found alot of the time, water will get stuck in the pipes and it is very hard to get the pump back to pumping oil. Or you could even take it a step further and have programs within the pump to pump out different fluids.

[Exchange Pipe]
Exchange Pipes as the name suggests exchange items. This item would basically be used in applications such as trading items that would legitimize building things like a market with people being able to attach an exchange pipe to a network and set what item they would like to receive off the network and what they would be willing to exchange. This would also be really useful on production lines because if you took an item out it would trigger the system to create the item.

[Coolant]
Basically fuel except instead of providing power it would cool the engine down more efficiently and further integrate the the refineries into the Buildcraft and energy systems.

[Capacitors]
Essentially, batteries. I’m going to assume you all know what batteries do.

["Smart" Pipes and Gates]
Smart pipes and gates are part of my quest to generate ideas that make build craft more amazing and further integrate the Silicon (C) subcomponent part of Buildcraft into the rest of the mod.
- Item Destinations – Pipes should be a able to send items to specific destinations if the destination requests / needs the item. Additionally, another cool possible feature that stems from this would be sending items to specific destinations depending on which direction the item / fluid came from.
-Assigned IDs – A feature should be implemented into gates that allows gates to assign themselves a particular ID. This feature would be designed to work in conjunction with the feature above.
-Conditions Pipe – Basically, a pipe that will not allow an item to pass unless a certain amount of the item accumulates. The pipe would also have a small built in storage or chest to contain the items to prevent them from disappearing and ensure it would work in multiplayer. However, to best integrate this pipe into the the silicon component of Buildcraft it would also have a redstone override that would allow the items to bypass the system. This pipes would be applicable in production lines triggering machines based on whether it needs to be activated.
-Recall Pipe – This is a pipe that would learn from the items that passes through it and the signals that are sent to it. The pipe would record the # of items that passes through it as well as the type of items that passes through it and would distribute the items based on the acquired statistics.
- Switch Gates – These are gates that have the same parameters as the rest of the gates except these will retain the state that the item set them in until it is switched off: example a item passes through a pipe with parameter toggle state if item passes through. the item exits except the signal still stays on, then when a second item passes through the signal switches back off.
-Advanced Extraction Pipes – These are the same as wooden pipes except you can set them to extract only specific items.

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