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worldspawn

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Can I still use wood and stone materials to build magma screw pumps?
« on: September 23, 2010, 06:45:59 pm »
I know you could in 40d, what about the current version?
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Re: Can I still use wood and stone materials to build magma screw pumps?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2010, 06:49:24 pm »
You can... Wood however will dissolve/burn away after a while, and unless you use a magma-safe stone (of which there are now many more than just bauxite), the stones will melt too.

And I'm not sure you can make a giant stone corkscrew anyways... but i'm probably wrong on that one.
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Re: Can I still use wood and stone materials to build magma screw pumps?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2010, 06:50:44 pm »
A pump using any wood components will almost immediately explode when set to pumping magma in 2010.  I suggest using green glass for all 3 components, it is infinite and 100% magma safe, so even if you have an accident and your pumps get completely submerged, they will survive.
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Re: Can I still use wood and stone materials to build magma screw pumps?
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2010, 06:57:17 pm »
Oh dear, I should have asked this before making 315 marble blocks.
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Re: Can I still use wood and stone materials to build magma screw pumps?
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2010, 07:02:51 pm »
If you must use wood, try nether-caps for Science. Thay have a fixed temp of 10000 U (32 F), and I don't think anyone's tested whether nether-cap pumps can be used to pump magma.
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Re: Can I still use wood and stone materials to build magma screw pumps?
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2010, 09:57:15 pm »
I did a test a few days ago with a nether-cap screw pump, and it actually didn't burst into flames - it ran for a few minutes (I didn't try running it longer), though it only actually pumped a small amount of magma since it was just connected to a short passageway (about 4 tiles long). I would've tested pumping into a large area and using a plain wooden screw pump for comparison, but it was too laggy due to having used reveal and spawning a bunch of HFS.

You may be on to something...
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Re: Can I still use wood and stone materials to build magma screw pumps?
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2010, 11:40:37 pm »
Do perpetually burning coal bins made of lead still work? If they do I want to see what happens when it's a nethercap bin.
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