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Quote from Hesham123

i really need help, i have NEI BUILDCRAFT and FORESTRY mod in 1.5.2 but i cant find those farming things , im new to this mod so i was checking all the stuff and videos so i saw arboretum in the video and i was searching for it in creative mode inventory, NEI , tried crafting it still i cant get it/find it.. HELP pls

All the older farming blocks (arboretum, peat bog, turbary, etc) have been taken away in favour of the multifarm structure. I would go looking for a video on the multifarms as that is the way that forestry is going.

Direwolf20 did one not that long ago

as did WeAllPlayCast

Kzorith

Quote from tyrindor

Need some help with the bee analyzer turtle. The one he does in the video doesn't work, I then tried the one posted here: http://pastebin.com/qRWXqvJu

However, this one tends to leave bees in the bee analyzer and then get stuck without a princess. It also sometimes returns "analyze:71: attempt to perform arithmetic: __addon on nil and nil"

Anyone? I have no clue how to code. Spent like 6 diamonds on this setup, and the code isnt working.

You could try my code. http://pastebin.com/HLWiAjCP You will have to uncomment the bees you want to breed in the beeTable of course.

The problemsI found with the one from the video is if the drones are of the same type. You can have a stack of two drones, but it only counts as 1 bee when it's pulled into the turtle. My code does take that into account. The other problem was that it didn't clear out the variables between cycles so sometimes you were left with numbers where they weren't supposed to be.

Let me know if this helps.

Kzorith

Quote from Auric245524

It's not that hard to at least read the current or previous page to see if there is already a solution to the problem. People just want the answer presented to them, they don't bother to seek out the answer themselves.

The problem there is that most people dont KNOW what the problem is. All they see is a crash log and dont know what it means.

I know I can sift through lines and lines of code to see what could be wrong, but most cant.

Minecraft does give us a nice feature with the crash logs and dev console but it doesn't always specifically say "Hey this mod caused this crash because of this specific reason" and to the average user trying to compare their crash log with another crash log to see if its the same problem leaves them cross-eyed.

So looking through all the pages in the world means nothing when they just simply dont know what the problem is, or even how to compare it to another problem when all they are given is a crash log.

Could some users be a bit more observant and try a bit harder? Of course, but many people just want to respond with snarky responses and treat them like idiots.

Quote from Greatone123

HAHA, the lack of reading is getting pretty silly here... all I can do is laugh.

(the following is not directed at you or anyone else in particular, just a general observation of the typical responses to people with problems, just a good quote to mess with)

The lack of understanding and empathy is getting pretty silly here... all i can do is shake my head.

I think many of you fail to realize most people are still new to minecraft and mods in general. The OP does not list a recommended forge version. It just says install forge, which to most means the latest version, so many are using whatever the last mod they installed recommends.or what version they happen to have. it also doesn't list ANY of the common issues / known bugs / crashes that spring up. To many people who are new here the crash log looks like nothing but gibberish so they do their best to at least copy / paste it here. If you look at most of their post counts to those with these so called common issues the post count is very low showing they truly have little idea or experience on what could be wrong. You should be thankful that many of them manage to at least post a crash log or provide some kind of basic information.

Also this thread is nearly 700 pages long! The forum search function while it does work, its tricky to find exactly what your looking for unless you KNOW exactly what your looking for. Something the average user does not have enough information or where with all to know. For example the biggest common issue regarding some of the recent forge version and the ore dictionary. The vast majority don't know what a crash log even means, let along how to decipher it into a root problem. Especially when it can be pretty vague and non-descript to someone who doesn't have any kind of background in either coding or modding in general. Its tough to pinpoint an exact cause when looking at what appears to be mostly gibberish.

Making snarky comments or making wrong assumptions that everyone who comes here should know everything about the common issues does not help. Being a snot and elitist doesn't do anything but make you look bad and very little to actually help those who are asking for it.

Quote from Kzorith

Since this seems to be a place to make requests and I don't see a similar request in the forum anywhere, I'll just ask.

Would it be possible to include Blood Magic potions in the list of allowable potions on potion shelves? Or is it just a config thing where the ID would get added to the config in some section?

I freely admit that I didn't go looking for a config option before I thought to ask this question.

Kzorith

There is a config option that let's you do this. You can add a keyword that'll allow more items to be placed in certain blocks. If I remember correctly, blood magic calls them flasks. So all you would have to do is add the word "flask". That might be a good idea for Nuchaz to add that to the default keywords as well

Quote from T33bor

Void Jars do not seem to support the getAspectCount when they are connected to a proxy peripheral.

It might be something to do with them reporting as tilejarvoid when connected to a peripheral proxy.

I think that the issue is both Thaumic Tinkerer and OpenPeripherals can read aspects from things, and both have a method named getAspects(). The normal essentia jars are using the TT getAspects, which returns a string, and then the getAspectCount(aspect) method returns a string quantity of the aspect. The other method on the Void jars, getAspects() returns an array of tables. So there is a table with sequential numeric keys, starting at 1 containing a table with 2 keys, "name" and "quantity" containing the aspect name and aspect quantity for each aspect in the item. Since in this case its a jar, theres only one element in the array.

Here is a modified scanEssentia() function, for Dire's computer program, that handles both types of jars.

function scanEssentia()
  for i,j in pairs(jars) do
	 if peripheral.getType(j) == "tt_aspectContainer" then
	   asp = peripheral.call(j, "getAspects")
	   countasp = peripheral.call(j, "getAspectCount", asp)
	   asp = asp:gsub("^%l", string.upper)
	   essentia[asp] = math.floor(countasp)
	 end
	 if peripheral.getType(j) == "tilejarvoid" then
	   tmp = peripheral.call(j, "getAspects")
	   countasp = tmp[1]["quantity"]
	   asp = tmp[1]["name"]
	   essentia[asp] = math.floor(countasp)
	 end
  end
end

Quote from kirbyking987

So i am using the packager and it has decided that the 2x2 recipe for gold copper and iron is better than the 3x3, is there a smarter way to do it?

Not using the Packager, unfortunately --- it will always use a 2x2 recipe (if it exists) before it tries the 3x3 recipe. (This is how I ended up with a bajillion Gravel Brick instead of Compressed Gravel, grumble).

There are a few options you could use, but none of them are going to be as user-friendly. A Crafty Turtle can be programmed to craft a 3x3 pattern of items whenever it gets at least 9 in its inventory; multiple TE Cyclic Assemblers can be configured to process your metals (requiring power, though); and there's a kinda crazy multiblock barrel-crafting method in Factorization that I completely don't understand yet... I think it's called a Compression Crafter: Basically, you surround 9 barrels with Compression Crafters, and it uses the barrels themselves as "slots" in the crafting grid to mass-produce items using the materials inside the barrels.

Quote from Kzorith

For the past few updates, it seems that I can no longer empty the water out of my quarry in this fashion. The pump is working as I'm accumulating water in my pipes and tank but no source blocks are being destroyed any more.

The FTB team set the configs so that BC Pumps don't destroy water source blocks anymore. To reverse this, open up "...\minecraft\config\buildcraft\main.conf" in a text editor, locate the lines...

# set to true if the Pump should consume water
B:consumeWater=false

... and change that "false" to a "true".

(This will only work if you're playing single-player; if you're playing on a server, you'll have to get your server administrator to make this change on the server-side config.)

I think they made this change so that cooling Combustion Engines with Pumps wouldn't occasionally fail because the Pump sucked up water too fast from an infinite source, destroying too many source blocks before the infinite source had a chance to "replenish" itself.

Personally, I think this is a silly change---there are many alternatives to BC Pumps in the FTB packs for cooling that don't suffer this issue (e.g. Aqueous Accumulators, Liquid Transfer Nodes), so disabling the only easy way to clear out mass quantities of water is a little unnecessary.

Oooh... I wonder how well a Drawbridge filled with OpenBlocks Sponges would work...

Edit:

Quote from Kzorith

Assuming that I didn't run into any other water in that area, I could just remove my four corner blocks and eventually the finished quarry would empty out.

Just as an aside, depending on where you play, this is probably the single most server-intensive thing a player can do: The chain-reaction of flow calculations from emptying out a large quarry of water by removing a single source block is ridiculous. I'm with you in that I hate leaving my quarry holes filled with water, but I've crashed more than one server in my time doing just this

Quote from Kzorith

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You might be better off lobbying Azanor for a new golum core where a golum can be linked to a lake of something (water, sludge, sewage, AM2 magic water, poison, hot springs) and with an appropriate bucket (can't move hot springs with anything other than an amathyst bucket), it'll set about emptying the lake. That would be more in keeping with your desire to only use magic based mods.

Kzorith

There already is a Golem Core for that in TC4. It's one of the later ones and I think is more meant for moving liquids about (as a magical alternative to BC Pipes, etc) but I remember reading the Thaumonomicon entry for it and it clearly mentioned always picking up a full bucket's worth of fluid if targeted on a fluid source.