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Total Members Voted: 16

[TheDarkStar]

Just found a rather serious issue, and I'm honestly surprised it hasn't come up yet. Boats can't pass each other on the canals. If anyone leaves an empty boat in the canal, it will obstruct movement on all sides, even if it's up against the wall. A manned boat will push it along, and slow down considerably. We will need to incorporate some kind of dock at strategic intervals, or simply widen the canal. Testing in superflat reveals that a 4-wide canal has no such problems, unless the boat is parked in the middle of the canal.

We'll eventually widen the canal when we can move all the temporary stuff out of it.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Just found a rather serious issue, and I'm honestly surprised it hasn't come up yet. Boats can't pass each other on the canals. If anyone leaves an empty boat in the canal, it will obstruct movement on all sides, even if it's up against the wall. A manned boat will push it along, and slow down considerably. We will need to incorporate some kind of dock at strategic intervals, or simply widen the canal. Testing in superflat reveals that a 4-wide canal has no such problems, unless the boat is parked in the middle of the canal.

I did suggest a 5 wide canal, two wide walking passage, for venice-like areas.  Once it goes underground, the canal can slowly widen to that, so the front gate doesn't have to be redone.

[Playergamer]

The system that carries stuff down from the farm to the hopper seems to be broken. When seeds and wheat flow down the two trenches and into the entrance to the hopper, they get stuck there.

[MarcAFK]

Maybe the hopper is clogged? If the chest underneath has all it's slots filled perhaps with mostly empty wheat stacks, and with completely full seed stacks then the hopper will just fill with seeds and stop moving anything else.

[WillowLuman]

The hopper is easily clogged. It requires manual unpacking to make sure everything gets in the chest, though 18 empty stacks of seeds should be enough to catch the seeds produced. Problem is, Hopper only has 5 spaces and deposits pretty slowly. If we had more redstone and some capacitors, we could make it fully automated, via item sorter.

Which reminds me, now that we have an elevator to the farm, and the elevator is (roughly) horizontally aligned to the drop shaft, we can probably move the collection area further up.

[Playergamer]

It's not the hopper itself, it is the drop shaft. Items can't get in there any more.

[WillowLuman]

It's not the hopper itself, it is the drop shaft. Items can't get in there any more.

I just checked. Someone decided to go digging in the collection channel, completely messing it up. They'd dug out a block beneath the central irrigation channel, causing it to flow into the collection one and stopping the flow.

[Foxite]

I found several iron ore and coal veins, do I post the coords here or do I tell somebody ingame?

Just found a rather serious issue, and I'm honestly surprised it hasn't come up yet. Boats can't pass each other on the canals. If anyone leaves an empty boat in the canal, it will obstruct movement on all sides, even if it's up against the wall. A manned boat will push it along, and slow down considerably. We will need to incorporate some kind of dock at strategic intervals, or simply widen the canal. Testing in superflat reveals that a 4-wide canal has no such problems, unless the boat is parked in the middle of the canal.

I've gone ahead and put all boats in one of the chests next to the canal. I think we could add some kind of "courtesy rule" that states that you should put any parked boat you encounter into a nearby chest, but not needing to go on a routine to do that.

[MarcAFK]

Go ahead and take the iron, just don't smelt it, you get better yield in a factory, the coal should be grabbed with a silk touch pick. Gold also is fine to take, you still get the ore for that one too, everything else needs a silk touch.
I might have been the one who screwed up the farm, I recall falling into the channel, but I don't remember breaking any dirt in the channel, I did break a chunk above the channel in order to get out.
I'm going to be working on the rail station now, I'm putting the laketown station in the old farm, then again it would be sooo much more efficient if I put the station at level 11 where the lines are like everyone else does. If so the old farm is a great place to put the entrance. Required would be a drop shaft into water, a landing spot for a cart teleport, or alternatively a water elevator. The top level of the entrance is a good place for a small park/plaza. Then stairs going down to the rail level also, a spiral design is good to ensure the stairs stay in the general area of the elevator. Maybe an open shaft around the elevator, the stairs spiralling around the outside of the shaft, a glass ceiling over the shaft... And for good measure a drop shaft/cart porter hidden off to the side somewhere perhaps the drop shaft hidden under a fountain and the exit of the cart porter landing near landscaping centered around the fountain. For now I'll consider where to put it and dig the rails/drop shaft. The rest can wait until I get the time :p

[TheDarkStar]

We need to get the factory up now, so the room needs to be dug out. Also, where would be a good spot for a wall that lists the inhabitants of Sparkgears?

[WillowLuman]

Poll is 2:1 in favor of double-cone, with 18 votes, so it looks like that's the design. Let's do this!

[Orange Wizard]

We need to get the factory up now, so the room needs to be dug out. Also, where would be a good spot for a wall that lists the inhabitants of Sparkgears?

A written book somewhere.

[TheDarkStar]

The factory room is done for now (although the ceiling should be raised); let's get factories built ASAP.

[WillowLuman]

Hold on, let me come see.

[Playergamer]

Is no one ever online when I join the server, or are people just not responding? I haven't seen any of you guys in days.