Powerlines / Powerplants (like simcity)

[sfan5]

Nice!

[mauvebic]

Ive got a bit of chicken and the egg thing going on here -
i need to grow rubber to help make wires, but you cant grow the rubber in hydroponics since the growlamp needs power lol.

The only way i think would be to have wild growing rubber plants.

Apart from that, what other basic components could be made w/ things found in default?
off the type of my head, i thought maybe using sheetmetal from 'Signs' (or making a craft to convert steel blocks to steel rods?), and creating dynamos and interrupts

so... rubber, dynamos, interrupts, and some sort of transformed metal, with four basic components like that one should be able to craft all items from power. ?

next up a natural resources mods to fill in the gaps lol

oh ps ppl will have to be careful with geothermal powerstations, depending how its built flammable things could ignite around it lol

[mauvebic]

It's out: http://minetestmadblocks.blogspot.ca/ recipes and links.

Hydro/thermal generators do work like turbines, there needs to be water/lava flowing down next to it on any side to work - anyways youll know since the unit stays dark when its in the wrong place and you try to punch it to turn on. Anyways i may post an explanatory video if i can get the desktop recording thingy to work

[sfan5]

\o/

[mauvebic]

whats that? lol

[mauvebic]

Heres a quick tutorial on setting up a simple dam and circuit http://youtu.be/cwyudZlLXlU

[VanessaE]

some thoughts: power are usually not insulated at all, while regular low-current household wiring is usually insulated with some form or plastic rather than rubber. That said, why not derive the insulation from those otherwise useless jungle trees instead? Nothing says what kind of "sap" they have or what can be made from it. ;-)

[mauvebic]

jungles have been taken out of the latest git :( so it would only work that way until 4.0 becomes stable

[VanessaE]

I'm sure they'll be re-added, probably as another [part of the] lua 'default' mod.

[mauvebic]

That could take awhile though ~ might as well keep things the way they are for now. Besides i like have different types of bushes around the map :p

[Lelix]

when you want to publish the mod?

[sfan5]

Quote http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=22753#p22753 :

It's out: http://minetestmadblocks.blogspot.ca/ recipes and links.
Hydro/thermal generators do work like turbines, there needs to be water/lava flowing down next to it on any side to work - anyways youll know since the unit stays dark when its in the wrong place and you try to punch it to turn on. Anyways i may post an explanatory video if i can get the desktop recording thingy to work

[mauvebic]

D/L links, youtube tutorials, recipes -> blog (sig) The less i share on here the less ammo for the troll(s).

[ray8888]

can we download it? :)

[mauvebic]

go ahead, i didnt put the blog up solely for my benefit lol

[mauvebic]

do be careful with the geothermal units... mine was in the little black brick building on the right... my castle *still* caught fire, as did my undeground gardens :S lol

[NakedFury]

hilarious.

[mauvebic]

solar lamps

[Jordach]

Q. When can we have this mod?

[Stef]

my minetest says that the madblocksmod not compatible is with my minetestversion
Do you have this too. I find it realy stuppid that this usefull and amazing mod won't work on my version.

[Keegan]

wheres th download link and what other mods do i need for t?

[Spots]

Quote http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=22753#p22753 :

It's out: http://minetestmadblocks.blogspot.ca/ recipes and links.
Hydro/thermal generators do work like turbines, there needs to be water/lava flowing down next to it on any side to work - anyways youll know since the unit stays dark when its in the wrong place and you try to punch it to turn on. Anyways i may post an explanatory video if i can get the desktop recording thingy to work

but yea maybe a good idea to add it to the first post i get bored and "read" things before i post...normally

[mauvebic]

This was released and subsequently removed some time ago now. it proved to be as unstable and unreliable as other similar mods. :-/

[RealBadAngel]

This was released and subsequently removed some time ago now. it proved to be as unstable and unreliable as other similar mods. :-/

hope my way will be better :)

[SegFault22]

meh.
There's so many mods that add what people call ''electricity'' now...let's try not to make minecrafters' mistakes and have a few hundred mods that add on/off signals that all interfere with each other and are all slightly different as to satisfy each person's idea of electricity...
There's really only one mod that actually adds ''realistic'' electricity, but it's still in-dev.

[jojoa1997]

When will you put the mod on the forum?

[Inocudom]

If possible, you could make this mod so that its wires could be an alternate means to transmit energy for the technic, lulzpack, and mesecons mods. Transformers can speed up and slow down transmission speeds.

[Dopium]

I really like the mod but think it should be a part of mesecons, the power lines themselves look really good tho. Would be nice to see parts of this like the wires and technics coal generators put into mesecons along with some new features. I also think it should be possible to produce electricity from creating a reactor using mesecons, maybe adding reactor rods to place underwater connected to wiring. So in other word id like to see this and technic merge into mesecons with a few added features. Having said that i also would like the pipeworks mod to move water so the reactor can cooled with circulating water :). But yeah i know my request is a big ask.

[mauvebic]

I stopped developing this a long time ago for two reasons:
- spent more time hiding circuits in buildings than actually building
- the near-total uselessness of circuits over long ranges

my newer modpack has wireless power with frequencies, along with chat-command + GUI to control those frequencies, along with over a dozen light fixtures :-)