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Grinder tweak request..

Getting 100% gunpower from flint is fun but well, I only need so much TNT….

Flint in the grinder should be closer to:
60% sand
39% clay
1% gunpowder

I’ve got one, why not superconductor cables that have an expensive-recipe but give you a lot of them and they have 100% efficiency and can handle unlimited (or an excesively large amount) of power, it would probably only be a gap filler between now and when your advanced energy transport system is up though.

@Narathena ya its been fixed im not sure if i was gunna include that in the next release or not as SDK Gun Mod already grinds flint down to gunpowder but i could add your suggestions in and it would fix the issue

If this mod is still going I have a few suggestions. For the laser power grid have it so 1 laser can go to infinite receiver and in order to turn it so the receiver has to be turn on by redstone. Add a build craft battery to

3 words… Perendev Magnet Motor.
Okay, this is somewhat still dubious to many due to provide free energy. Well yes it does provide free energy, just doesn’t seem to be powerful as many of the industrial engines out there. But, since this is minecraft… let us imagine a bit.

As for materials needed, can be anything between wooden, stone, iron, gold and diamond motor. Each state requires more material (aside from wood, stone, iron, gold or diamond) to make the necessary strong magnets which is the driving force of this motor. Now there can be easy way or the hard way of making such magnet… easy way would be to to combine 1 gold, 1 iron and 1 redstone to make 4-8 simple magnets. It by itself has no use (yet). However placing these magnets in right location, it could create a very basic magnet motor. I figured, 4 magnets place just like making gears it would create 1 quarter of the motor wheel, so you need 4 of them to make a full wheel. Now you need more magnets around the wheel so 8 magnets placed in all slots except center and 1 block of wood in middle, creates the housing for it. Now just need the magnet wheel, magnet motor housing, 1 iron bar (for drive shaft), 1 redstone.. voala wooden perendev magnet motor.

For Iron, Gold, Diamond Perendev Magnet Motor, you will require stronger magnets, since you have the wooden one, you can then move on making coils which can be used to magnetize new metals. For example if i want to create magnets for diamond PMM, then I need to use few golden PMM and superior coils to create such industrial strength magnets.

Of course the PMM is just a motion motor. Does not create any form of … electric or pulse energy. For that you need the PM generators. This ones are designed similar to PMM, however instead of magnets it uses coils or redstones and few magnets to create BC energy. PMG also goes through same efficiency as PMM.. Wood, iron, gold, diamond…etc.

Power output: Wood PMM/PMG would be between wooden engine and steam (coal) engine. Iron would be equivalent to steam engine, gold between steam and combustion, diamond equivalent to combustion engine or higher.

Diminishing return: Nothing lasts forever. So to make things somewhat more interesting yet not totally free. The magnets will eventually lose its strength (true fact) after long period of time. So add a UI to each of the engine to allow users to replace these magnets after certain time. How fast will these magnets become just junk metals? Good question, I would say each magnet would last about a week (game time) for wooden PMM version and about a month (game time) for diamond version. So in a sense its not always “free” but mostly free. You will still need to rely on coal, lava, oil or fuel to run vanilla BC engines because what happens when you don’t pay attention and all magnets have lost their strength… oops.

PMM vs BC vanilla engines
- Both are easy to make.
- PMM is slightly more expensive
- PMM requires PMG to create BC energy
- BCv only needs basic resources (coal, lava, oil, fuel) to keep it running.
- PMM requires bit more complex magnetization of metals to keep it running. But requires almost no fuel of any sort.
- Easier to create and maintain huge power plant with BCv
- PMM is more difficult to maintain since you have to manually maintain each motor.

So… at the end comes down to fuel consuming easy to maintain BC engine vs “somewhat free” energy fuel free harder to maintain PMM.

Just like solar panels rely on sun, wind turbine rely on wind power, fusion reactor on water/hydrogen, PMM relies on strong magnet strength…. Nothing is ever free

For those interested for real one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxF29DzXcRo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=S2D7SkzbVDs

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• This reply was modified 285 days ago by  Adosan.

That is already part of the plan for wind turbines (see here: http://www.mod-buildcraft.com/forums/topic/aps-suggestions-thread/page/5/#post-11976).

Basically, depending on biome there’s an optimum altitude at/above which the turbine produces maximum power (for example, in desert and ocean biomes, the optimum altitude would be near sea level, but in hilly and mountainous areas it would be higher), also the fact that these turbines would be quite large (5x10x5 blocks) makes them an odd choice for underground power generation.

As the fusion generator gives enough power to play with I have a few requests:

Railguns: 2 rails and armature made of nonferrious conductive materials + a large amount of stored electricity = a way to vastly accelerate a object.

1) would be a block connected to a pipe system and would accelerate (with the help of BC power) blocks moving through the pipe at speeds greater than 20 gold pipe stacked end to end. Total acceleration would be based off the amount of power available.

2) would be a true railgun firing graphite, gold or diamond covered projectials to a max range of 64 blocks.

Both versions would require rails made from graphite, gold or diamond made like so:

graphite would be coal or charcoal
c x c
c x c
c x c

Gold would be gold nuggets
g x g
g x g
g x g

diamond would be made from diamonds
d x d
d x d
d x d

graphite and gold rails would burn up over time and require replacement, diamond rails would not need to be replaced and would require less power than graphite or gold rails.

The accelerator pipe would be made of 2 stone blocks, a energy store, 2 pipes (stone?) 2 gates (iron?) and a slab like this:

Gate | Empty | Gate
Pipe | Slab | Pipe
Stone |E Store| Stone

Once the rails were added it would take in power and fire blocks through the pipe as they entered. No rails or power would make the block act like a stone pipe.

The railgun would be made of a obsidian pipe a gold pipe a half slab a energy store a stone block and a chest like this:

Empty | Empty | Empty
O Pipe|G Pipe | Slab
Chest | Stone |E Store

To work the railgun you add rails and ammo and add a redstone current, anything not made of or wrapped gold/graphite/diamond falls out the end in the case of iron objects the projectial would only go 1/2 as far as diamond etc.