Feed The Beast Revelation Server (Minecraft)

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**Absolutionis**

If you're looking for energy conversion, EnderIO Energy Conduits and ThermalExpansion Energy Conduits freely transfer between MJ and RF.

**Melissia**

Yeah, I need MJ and EU more than I need RF, so that's useful.

**Absolutionis**

RF freely converts to and from MJ using Energy Conduits from EnderIO or ThermalExpansion.

To convert to and from EU, use the "Power Converters" mod stuff.

http://ftbwiki.org/Power_Converters

RF Source --> RF Consumer --> Energy Bridge --> EV (HV/MV/LV) Producer --> EU Destination

**Melissia**

That's so painfully awkward. I hate RF :/

Ah well. The Big Reactors themselves seem easy enough.

**Absolutionis**

It's just as difficult as converting between MJ and EU.

As Tikka said, it'd be cool if the server was on the 1.1.1 version. The big reactor could be set to output steam. Then you could just shove it into whatever you want to produce EU, MJ, RF, or even Factorization "Charge" if that's what you're into.

**Melissia**

Yeah, that'd be nice :/ Ah well. Still need a new project, and this seems to be it.

**Minx**

Melissia wrote:
That's so painfully awkward. I hate RF :/

Ah well. The Big Reactors themselves seem easy enough.

Emasher / Engineer's Toolbox converter is just a single block that accepts 2048 RF per tick and outputs 512 EU / t:

Spoiler:

Those ten adapters are enough to power a few overclocked IC2 machines:

Spoiler:

Edit: Big Reactors offer a computercraft interface to control or monitor various parameters, e.g. reactor temperature (~ fuel consumption) or internal RF storage and setting the control rods to adjust the RF output and fuel input according to demand. All of that can be done manually and perhaps with the redstone interface as well. In addition the internal reactor itself can be built in a variety of ways including most of the exotic thermal expansion fluids or solid blocks as moderator / cooling in between fuel rods.
In short, plenty of things to toy around with even though the basic setup is simpler than other mod's nuclear reactor interpretations.

**Minx**

I've built a machine to spawn and kill a wither every few seconds. For testing purposes i'd like to let it run for an hour or two. Unfortunately it's emitting annoying sounds across all dimensions and i would like to apologize for the inconvenience in advance.

Ultimately i would like to only start the process if there is no one on the server. Is there a way to detect if a player is online?

**Melissia**

Sure, hold down tab.

Or do you mean while you're not on?

**Minx**

Melissia wrote:
Sure, hold down tab.

Or do you mean while you're not on?

Preferably the machine should detect the presence of players without user input and pause the wither assembly until everyone is gone again.

**Melissia**

That would need to be done with the assistance of Dark, I think (using the admin block).

**Minx**

Melissia wrote:
That would need to be done with the assistance of Dark, I think (using the admin block).

That could work. I'll have to ask him (or come up with something else).

The server map webpage already shows logged on players. Maybe i could poll that page and parse the relevant data with a computercraft script; although i am afraid that could be rather wasteful resource-wise. Do we have another simpler webpage that shows the online player status of dark's server?

Edit: The problem solved itself in a way. I've apparently increased the spawning rate too much and the wither somehow glitched out of the containment field and destroyed my machine.
Back to the drawing board

**Absolutionis**

This may be the closest thing:

http://randomthingsminecraftmod.wikispaces.com/Online+Detector

You have to name specific people, though, and it emits a redstone signal if they're online.

You can name specific people that are commonly on the sever and scare the gak out of anyone new.

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EDIT: Found a post where someone made exactly what you're looking for. Unfortunately, they used an external Python script to get a list of all online players and output to a .txt file. http://www.reddit.com/r/feedthebeast/comments/1agxg3/ultimate_automatic_wither_killing_apparatus_that/

**Anvildude**

I think there's a block that's a "Player Detector" in one of the various mods- Antvenom uses one in his B-Team series, and though B-Team is a different modpack, many of the core utility mods are the same.

**Absolutionis**

Anvildude wrote:
I think there's a block that's a "Player Detector" in one of the various mods- Antvenom uses one in his B-Team series, and though B-Team is a different modpack, many of the core utility mods are the same.

Player Detector only detects players within a certain radius of the block.

There's another that detects who right-clicked the block and outputs it to a computer.

The Wither sound can be heard at any distance across dimensions.

**Minx**

Absolutionis wrote:
This may be the closest thing:

http://randomthingsminecraftmod.wikispaces.com/Online+Detector

You have to name specific people, though, and it emits a redstone signal if they're online.

You can name specific people that are commonly on the sever and scare the gak out of anyone new.

Thank you, i'll try that detector after construction of a failsafe containment and kill zone for FrankenWither mk II. At least i had the foresight to place something like a dead man's switch in the explosion radius of the escaped withers. Otherwise i would still hunt down rogue withers as the spawning mechanism is still operational, just switched off.

**matapata98**

you could just get the whitelist off dark and then put all the names on that into it

**Absolutionis**

matapata98 wrote:
you could just get the whitelist off dark and then put all the names on that into it

The list is really long: http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamembers.php

And new people are being added all the time.

**Minx**

Absolutionis wrote:
matapata98 wrote:
you could just get the whitelist off dark and then put all the names on that into it
The list is really long: http://www.darkinnit.com/dakkamembers.php

And new people are being added all the time.

In principle the Online Detector block works but i would need a separate block per player and additional blocks to combine the result. For now i will just activate the farm on demand (and perhaps try the http api of computercraft just for fun to get the list of currently logged on players from darkinnit's map).

**4oursword**

I have my grand plan for the next world boxed off. It involves the 32 Steam Locomotives I've just crafted and dyed

**cptprice0330**

Server borked?

**4oursword**

Looks that way to me.

**Absolutionis**

Borked even after reset?

:-(

**cptprice0330**

Yarp compleatly borked

**4oursword**

Aye :(

**darkinnit**

Looks to be something wrong with an Advanced Genetics DNA Encoder. Anyone done anything with one of those recently and have coords that would help me locate it quicker?

**cptprice0330**

*whistles* Sorry

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At the bottom of my base in this volcano
http://www.darkinnit.com/monstermap/?worldname=Monster&mapname=surface&zoom=6&x=118.42359325375014&y=64&z=3783.358040143625

**4oursword**

It always seems to be you, price

**cptprice0330**

im guessing automating them wasn't the best idea

**darkinnit**

I don't have time tonight to download the world, explore a volcano lair and find a DNA encoder, so instead I just enabled the server config option that deletes erroring blocks.

You probably have plenty of resources to make a new one

Server is working again.