After looking at the new coal gen model i decided to change how i want
to create start up machines. The new design will require a basic steam
generator to be placed bellow a steam user. In this case there will be a
coal fired, and liquid fuel fired steam gen. Then a turbine and a piston
steam consume will be placed above the gen. They will work together to
create power though not as effective as single block version. However,
it will be cheaper to run and require less work to keep running. The
player should only have to added water to the machines every 1000
cycles.
dropped the ideal of using a tile entity as it was not generating with
it correctly. Instead we are going to use metadata to represent the
volume starting at 512 bucks and working down to 10mb.
Turned out that minecraft's ray trace do for blocks was changing my vec
3 coords. I thought this was the case but took me a while to trace down
which part of the code was causing it.
I added the system to do this a while ago but never implemented it fully
in AL. There will be another change like this down the road for
registering all the tileEntities in the blocks
Working on creating an upgraded hopper that has features for control
when the hopper works, what it can handle, sorting, and direct
interaction with some machine. Including a version that has a create
built into it.
Better pistons & frames. Pistons will be an extended version of the
pistons found in minecraft. Frames will be my own take on the redpower
frames, and the solution to creating cranes & quarries. Though they will
be much easier to use then the redpower frames.
