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No!

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Total Members Voted: 14

Voting closed: December 25, 2012, 01:15:00 pm

[Girlinhat]

Yes, but it has no way to direct trains to multiple stations.  For instance, if you have a "main line" of track, and then several stops along the way, you can easily orchestrate it to send a power cart down the track to the solar array.  But if you have two beehives, there's no way to tell it which hive to go to.  You can get it to go to the first available one, and for the second cart to go to the second hive, but there's no real way to tell it "fetch me some jungle bees" or "deliver this to the jungle" without manually following it.

[Baneling]

Uhh...

Tell it to go to station X, or Y, or Z. Is that not a thing you can do with railcraft? Alternatively, set up multiple rails. It's expensive, but if you have to...

[Girlinhat]

How would you tell it to do that though?  You can't tell the cart to do anything, it's all done in the rails and on the blocks.  You'd need to arrange the tracks to send the cart somewhere, either manually placing tracks or setting up automatic switches.  But the switches are dumb.  They can accept redstone signal, but that would get extremely messy very fast if you tried to wire up everything to everything, not to mention expensive.  The other choice is detector blocks to check what kind of cart it is.  And that works, but only so far.

Railcraft needs an extension of a smart cart, which can be told "take the green path" or something...

[Vattic]

Also, it is no longer 128 block breakers. It is now 172. I added a second ender chest (with its pair at the processor; it still needs to be hooked up, so get on that) for these, as 128 is probably about the limit you can put in one ender chest and still take things out fast enough.

There isn't really a limit if you use multiple output chests + filters or arrays of retrievers.

[Girlinhat]

Oh yes, do keep in mind that ender chests are shared.  So you could have one chest taking the input of the quarry, and then 3 chests giving the output elsewhere.  This could be useful to have one chest with a filter attached for dirt and cobble, and another for ores, and a third for redstone and nikolite and whatnot.

[forsaken1111]

How would you tell it to do that though?  You can't tell the cart to do anything, it's all done in the rails and on the blocks.  You'd need to arrange the tracks to send the cart somewhere, either manually placing tracks or setting up automatic switches.  But the switches are dumb.  They can accept redstone signal, but that would get extremely messy very fast if you tried to wire up everything to everything, not to mention expensive.  The other choice is detector blocks to check what kind of cart it is.  And that works, but only so far.

Railcraft needs an extension of a smart cart, which can be told "take the green path" or something...

For passenger trains you could have a computer with different words in it which activate different wireless redstone recievers which switch certain tracks so that the path to your chosen destination is active once you input the word. Not easily automated though.

[Girlinhat]

Wireless does change things...  But that still doesn't allow for much multi-train lines.  If you wanted a passenger train to run alongside a bee cargo train, then it'd have to run on separate tracks, or wait for one to arrive before it sent the other one.

It's all possible, but current Minecraft just isn't built to handle using minecarts as primary transportation.

[alway]

Hey forsaken, I wonder if the server lag may be caused by memory leaks similar to those the client gets. It seems to pause for a couple seconds before being normal for a second or two, very similar to when the client memory leaks have filled up all allocated RAM. Perhaps a server reboot would fix things? As it is, the server is pretty much unplayable.

[Girlinhat]

I think rebooting every night or so wouldn't be a bad idea.  Minecraft is known to leak memory.  Having it save everything, shut down, and reboot like once a day would be fine, especially if it happened at like 3am, or the first convenient time when no one is connected.

Although keep in mind that RP computers will reboot.  So any code you're writing needs to be able to run from a fresh boot without worry.  Things like GPS and timers are most affected by this.

[forsaken1111]

I think rebooting every night or so wouldn't be a bad idea.  Minecraft is known to leak memory.  Having it save everything, shut down, and reboot like once a day would be fine, especially if it happened at like 3am, or the first convenient time when no one is connected.

Although keep in mind that RP computers will reboot.  So any code you're writing needs to be able to run from a fresh boot without worry.  Things like GPS and timers are most affected by this.

Right now I have no way to automate this but I'll try to remember to do a reboot before heading to work.

I just did a reboot on it now, hopefully it should be better

[alway]

Yeah; looks like that fixed it; thanks!

[ank]

Trains trains trains...
does anybody remember the hugely complicated track i built on the old TN server?
it had passenger carts, power carts going to the mine, and storage carts coming from the mine.
Running cargo on on top of passenger lines is doable, you just need to detect what kind of cart it is.

my idea for a train system was a long train pushed by power carts running in one big loop(monorail style). then at each station it would stop, make a sound, wait 10 sec, make another sound and then go to the next station.

The other version is a train hub, where you decide the destination.

[alway]

Is there any way around the frame limit? Because it seems to be rather low.

[Girlinhat]

It can be edited in the config files, so that's server-side.  Otherwise, make more frames and orchestrate the timing.

[alway]

It can be edited in the config files, so that's server-side.  Otherwise, make more frames and orchestrate the timing.

Ah, right. Time to make a swarm of wireless controlled quarries!