Many thanks for your mod. Your pipes patch a big hole in the buildcraft model, and make railcraft steam elegant.
I also appreciate the Buildcraft builds. Convenience FTW!
Here is a concept I wanted to share with you all for an automated birch-grove harvester. I was looking for something other than a TBM-for-Trees and hit upon using a single frame for the cutting head. This machine harvests from the top-down, plucking out one block at a time. The cutting head is a frame with the sides panneled and the bottom exposed, so when the bottom hits something, it attaches. In operation, the machine moves the cutting head down one step to pick up a block, lifts the block one step to line up with the block-breaker, then moves the head down two steps, up two steps to the breaker, etc until it's harvested the entire trunk (8 loops in all). Then it booms out to the next tree, and repeat. Once a row of trees has been has been harvested, the lower boom extends, sweeping up loose sapplings with with transposers. As the boom retracts, the deployer fires every third step, planting new saplings in it's wake. Then the entire platform moves on to the next row, and repeats.
I suddenly realized how easy it would be to add additional cutting heads, so I did. Now it will harvest two trees at once, and obviously it would be simple to add more heads.
The machine is slow, since it has to do the down-up loop 8 times to harvest an entire tree, so a TBM-for-trees would be more efficient. Still, it was a fun build.
front view of the machine. The big tuning-fork is the cutting head, this is the part the dips into the tree and then retracts upward to bring the harvested blocks in line with the breakers. Each iteration, it dips one step farther into the tree:
Top-down view showing the upper boom and the lower boom. The control area is by the lower set of solar panels.
The lower boom from the front, back in it's start position after planting two rows of saplings. I'll admit this is one of my favorite parts of the machine. The redstone pipes behind it were a fun build, the challenge being to keep everything in a 5x2 profile and not crossing the redstone pipes between the deployer and transposers:
The RPC running Bigfoot's basic. The program shows a menu, and you enter the command you want to execute. Once the operation is complete, you can enter your next command. Here we're harvesting one row of trees with the LOGROW command. The menu is a bit behind the actual implementation, so it's not entirely current, but you get the idea:
The reason people tend not to like forth, is because they don't feel comfortable programming the way Yoda talks, and that is exactly what programming in Forth feels like, also it makes it hard for the average person to understand.
LOL! This comment made my day, Kasdar.
Writing in basic is a nostalgia bomb reaching all the way back to before high school. Writing basic that makes my mining rig move about and crush zombies makes today the best day ever. My thanks to Eloraam for the brilliant work on the Redpower, and my thanks for Bigfoot for the alternate interpreter.
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I also appreciate the Buildcraft builds. Convenience FTW!
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I suddenly realized how easy it would be to add additional cutting heads, so I did. Now it will harvest two trees at once, and obviously it would be simple to add more heads.
The machine is slow, since it has to do the down-up loop 8 times to harvest an entire tree, so a TBM-for-trees would be more efficient. Still, it was a fun build.
front view of the machine. The big tuning-fork is the cutting head, this is the part the dips into the tree and then retracts upward to bring the harvested blocks in line with the breakers. Each iteration, it dips one step farther into the tree:
Top-down view showing the upper boom and the lower boom. The control area is by the lower set of solar panels.
The lower boom from the front, back in it's start position after planting two rows of saplings. I'll admit this is one of my favorite parts of the machine. The redstone pipes behind it were a fun build, the challenge being to keep everything in a 5x2 profile and not crossing the redstone pipes between the deployer and transposers:
The RPC running Bigfoot's basic. The program shows a menu, and you enter the command you want to execute. Once the operation is complete, you can enter your next command. Here we're harvesting one row of trees with the LOGROW command. The menu is a bit behind the actual implementation, so it's not entirely current, but you get the idea:
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LOL! This comment made my day, Kasdar.
Writing in basic is a nostalgia bomb reaching all the way back to before high school. Writing basic that makes my mining rig move about and crush zombies makes today the best day ever. My thanks to Eloraam for the brilliant work on the Redpower, and my thanks for Bigfoot for the alternate interpreter.