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[Mephisto]

Two guys did a test. One used EE and the other used IC². The EE person created an infinite diamond generator AND caught up with everything the IC guy did in 6 hours, which mainly consisted of two machines and a couple of wires.

:/

No offense to that guy, but if it took him six hours to make two machines, he had no clue what he was doing.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Yeah, I usually have UU matter generation set up in 6 hours

[TolyK]

I usually have self-replicating factories in 7 hours
(well, once is usually )

[Briggsy16]

This Ugocraft mod looks incredible. Anyone seen it? Yogscast did a mod spotlight on it, link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGYaQPIiq84

It basically adds smooth sliding blocks, think of it like frames from RP2 but smoother and less complicated.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Spoiler: I Makeded a Torch Factory (click to show/hide)

And it only cost me all the resources ever

[forsaken1111]

Logistics system would be smaller but that is an interesting way to do it. ^^

[The Darkling Wolf]

Hehe, I was mainly seeing the footprint of a Redpower Torch Factory compared to a Buildcraft one. The BC one is absolutely miniscule compared to that one.

[forsaken1111]

Hehe, I was mainly seeing the footprint of a Redpower Torch Factory compared to a Buildcraft one. The BC one is absolutely miniscule compared to that one.

Resource requirement is much lower as well.

I have to admit, redpower quarries are amazing though. I worked one out in my test world, inspired by DW20's video but substantially different as it has two quarry heads and digs out two chunks at once. Everything is autosorted and smelted in an array of 8 rotary macerators/induction furnaces. After 2 cycles I had more than 3000 iron... -twitch-

I upped the limit on the number of frames that can move from one motor so I can build a new version which will dig out 4 chunks at once.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Oh man, that sounds pretty awesome.
I've yet to make anything impressive using frames myself Still playing around getting used to the mods.

[forsaken1111]

Oh man, that sounds pretty awesome.
I've yet to make anything impressive using frames myself Still playing around getting used to the mods.

Its honestly fairly simple once you understand the principle.

I wish there were frames which would move anything 'on top of' them so you could build a house on a frames platform and move it around. Designing a nice looking structure which is fully frames supported isn't easy.

[Vattic]

Spoiler: I Makeded a Torch Factory (click to show/hide)

And it only cost me all the resources ever

With the use of covers you could shrink it quite a bit. You only really need one timer too if you also add a counter and a detector. Here's my current smallest.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

input and output chests are stacked. I like to sink my factories back into a wall so they are flush at the front.

I think I can make a smaller one too.

[Mephisto]

Maybe it's just the steampunk in me talking, but I find the RP2 stuff that you can make to be much more aesthetically pleasing than an equivalent BC construction. That in itself is enough to justify its construction to me.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   RP2 is a lot more aesthetically pleasing overall when compared to BuildCraft. The only thing is if I want tight and compact I go with Logistic Pipes addon for BuildCraft as its chassis pipes are amazing.

[forsaken1111]

   RP2 is a lot more aesthetically pleasing overall when compared to BuildCraft and the base mod is a lot better as well. The only thing is if I want tight and compact I go with Logistic Pipes addon for BuildCraft as its chassis pipes are amazing.

Buildcraft chassis pipes really are amazingly useful, agreed. And as a whole the system is smarter with more automation.

[Skyrunner]

What are the differences between BC and RP2 pipes? Which one is easier to learn? I know how to use BC pipes, but I keep hearing RP2's ones are well-poised to take over everything BC does.

Also, what does the rotary macerator do compared to a regular macerator?

Finally, playing inside a nuclear bunker with everything either automated outside or kept inside is really fun :3 Now that EE is in its unlimited items phase, I don't need much now...