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Are pumps able to pull water to a "full" destination? I'm trying to determine if I need an atom smasher in my water tank to drain this ocean region.

Currently, it pumps water into a small tank, and it *seems* to be stopping when the tank is full. I'm not sure though, because I missed a hole in my **** at first and was draining the exterior of my region

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I was afraid I'd have to do that...it doesn't help that I'm having really annoying chunk update lag, so every time I break/place a block it freezes for 0.5 seconds.

Just for curiosity: how big is your surprise structure? The method above works nicely when you have long and thin ones, like an auto-harvester.

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It will stop pumping if the destination's full, unfortunately. I suggest using the water for a cobblestone generator (with a design that eats the water), and then just pumping the item drops (harvested via Block Breaker) back into the lava used in the generator. Basically an atom smasher, just a little less complicated .

Not possible, lava flow is disabled on this server to prevent cobble farms and rampant pump lag. Atom smasher didn't take long to put together, though

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Well...umm...hehe...it fills a chunk and a half XZ-wise and it's like 8 blocks tall so far. It'll get bigger once I get it moving :P.

It's large-ish, debugging that WILL be a pain... I know that feel, bro.

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Not possible, lava flow is disabled on this server to prevent cobble farms and rampant pump lag. Atom smasher didn't take long to put together, though

A piston and a timer would do the trick - the piston expands, water magically disappear, piston retracts, the pump fills the hole. Just make sure the piston isn't touching the bottom, else the game will regenerate another source block there.

Is there a possibility of Marble and Granite stairs, slabs etc ever coming into the mod? I love building with those materials but not having some of the more detailed blocks is debilitating.

Sorry if this has been suggested before. I don't have time to look through 1524 pages

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Is there a possibility of Marble and Granite stairs, slabs etc ever coming into the mod? I love building with those materials but not having some of the more detailed blocks is debilitating.

Sorry if this has been suggested before. I don't have time to look through 1524 pages

there are slabs, and half slabs. make your own damn stairs

Hey guys, I am working on a sorting machine and I can't quite decide on a design, which of these would you guys use?

#1
#2
#3
#4

For demostration purposes, green represents the input, and blue represents the output.

Would appreciate any feedback, thanks.

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Hey guys, I am working on a sorting machine and I can't quite decide on a design, which of these would you guys use?

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For demostration purposes, green represents the input, and blue represents the output.

Would appreciate any feedback, thanks.

I used to use that type of system for sorting until i found the second last setting in the sorting machine. it behaves just like the first, except it only lets items through that it CAN sort. so I just have one sorting machine at the end with the default (red, in your case) final setting mode on, and the rest of the sorting machines come before it in the tube network. It's just like setting up filters except theyre sorting machines, so they have more space and can do more than one colour .

If you want to keep you're designs though, I think #4, even though its big, it looks nicer and is easier to follow, so if you come back to it in a month and want to add on, you won't be lost

#3 comes second for me because of the space saving.

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it shouldn't conflict, to my knowledge there are no recipes for a 3x3 of tin, copper, brass, bronze or silver, the closest is the sturdy machine in forestry which is 3x3 of bronze with the centre left empty.

IC2 already has a bronze block FYI, and yeah, RP doesnt have bronze, it has brass.

your main point is valid, but the concern is "what if" the other mods were to add blocks too. incase someone wanted to play with JUST IC or JUST forestry, you'd need some sort of recipe merging system.

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Well, it seems that only the counter and timer are affected, where the straight red line turns into broken weirdness.
Maybe I dislike any attempt on round corners in sharp cornered world. (So I also hate the 1.3.1 creative inventory. Why OH Why??)
And because the wafers are twice smelted cobblestone, I don't agree they should be cracked.
(Unless the smooth stone is cracked in the pack as well)

It is. You would probably hate the pack, I left because it didn't seem sharp enough.

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Smooth stone afaik is cracked also there are no curves in the pack all geometric shapes like pentagons and octagons and squares look at it closesly there are no curves on that spritesheet

Yep. Just looked at my world. Smoothstone is cracked. Cobble is even MORE cracked, though; while smoothstone just seems to have crack lines cutting across the surface, cobble literally looks like loose stones smashed into a cube, kind of.

Okay, uhh, apparently I can't make cover plates in Creative. And redstone tubes also won't work in Creative.

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Okay, uhh, apparently I can't make cover plates in Creative. And redstone tubes also won't work in Creative.

¿Más información, por favor? It's a little hard to help with only, "I can't make," and, "don't work," to go on.

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I meant brass of course, simple mistake.

In the case where mods want to add recipes that do the exact same thing as other mods, perhaps Forge should be made to handle that gracefully.

Adding gold blocks and gem blocks but not silver and brass seems stupid to me. Other Forge mods add emerald/ruby/sapphire tools and weapons, what about conflicting recipes with those mods?

You're gaining on my ignore list!!!
Why except it makes you pretty do you need more armor? NOTHING will ever match or outlast Diamond's longevity, unless Ms E suddenly stops following the natural order of things... I don't see that happening!

I have a question on /MOD and / in Control's implementation of Forth. I noticed while I was experimenting on Tekkit (after migrating over to Ubuntu 12.04 from Windows, which may be significant), that the "/" word was doing modulus operations. I went over to a fresh installation of minecraft to see if it was a tekkit bug, and it appears not to have been. The /MOD is doing division, and / is doing modulus.

I'm assuming that this is an Ubuntu-related problem, and I'm wondering whether I can somehow fix it.