So , I have housed myself in a ravine with plenty of resources. I want a way to get up to the surface quickly , but I don't want a boring ladder or some stairs. Is there a way to make an elevator? I'm not as far as Jetpacks and stuff , but I don't really want to use those anyway.
If you can't even make jetpacks yet, I don't think there's a way to build an elevator. Later on, however, you could most preferably use RedPower's brilliant frames and frame motors, or strap on a pair of iron boots and use IC's magnetizer. Or you could jump while placing dirt below you. That works too.
I have a Frame motor and a load of frames. But I'm not sure how to build it. I watched a video and now I know that I have to give it power , but how am I supposed to get power down in my ravine? ( I'm completely new to redpower , sorry. ) Also , to make an elevator , would I have to make another frame motor at the surface with the arrow pointing down to go back down again? And to make it automatic , I'm assuming I have to hook the redstone up to a clock , right?
To give it power down in the ravine, set up some thermophiles surrounded by four water source blocks and one lava source block each. Then wire them up to the motors using bluelectric cable. You can also use solar panels, which is a bit more expensive, but easier to set up and gives more power. They do require a free view to the sky, though. And yes, you have to make two frame motors, one pushing up, one down. Timers, NOT gates and State cells are what I prefer to use when wiring something with frames.
In addition to what Coppersmith said, you'll want to get some batboxes set up to store power, so that way you won't rely on the time of day to power your elevator (assuming you use solar panels). Thermopiles are great for underground blutricity, but solar panels are far better and a lot easier to set up. The only drawback is that you need a minimum of 2 diamonds for a diamond handsaw to cut the silicon boules to get the wafers, which need to be doped with nikolite, which you need a ton of (4 nikolite per wafer cooked to perfection in an alloy furnace).
So , I should make a solar panel setup up on the surface , and then have batboxes feed into eachother all the way down to my Ravine? ( Which is on layer 13~ ) Would it be more cost efficient to use those Thermopiles? Also , another thing I don't really understand is how to make the elevator go up. I was thinking of a pillar , but I can't build much blocks underneath eachother since I'm so low...how am I supposed to do that?
Not a big frames user yet but if you don't have space under, can't you place the motors and mechanisms on the surface and have the elevator pulled up from the bottom of the ravine? It'd save you from having to run blue cabling and bat boxes down that far although you would have to run your red wiring down or use wireless red stone to control it...and it would have frames stick into the sky when you're on the surface.
If you watch Direwolf20's Let's Play series, he does a cool trick on the mining head of his frame quarry with a block breaker and deployer to break and place the frames when they move past the stopping point. That way they won't go up into the sky, but will break and be stored until needed. For power, you'll want to use the solar panels or thermopiles as previously mentioned. I'd reccommend building a battery box array near your power generation, and just run bluetric cables (silver ingots + nikolite in alloy furnace for the blue ingots) where you want to direct power.
So , the block breaker would destroy the blocks , then with pipes ( ? ) I can feed the frames back to the deployer?
If you ask me, using elevator track from railcraft combined with an auto loading and unloading system would be the fastest option. I haven't tried it yet but you could put a block breaker on the last part of the top track, and send the cart back down to the auto loader. Then to get down, you have a tunnel going straight down into a three deep pool of water. Other wise same up stuff for swift wolfs rending game
Yes, it works for all kinds of things. It's going to be redpower tubes, not pipes, but it should work fine. So the frame moves up, gets broken, and sent to the deployer. when the frame moves down, a new frame is placed after the last one.
A while ago I created an elevator myself and never did anything with redstone before so I was in for quite the trip. Well worth it though and very fun to learn. Here's the thread: http://forums.technicpack.net/threads/redstone-rail-elevator-need-some-help.8913/ There are pictures inside for both a button system (click button X to go to floor X) And a more unique system that only uses a 1 lever interface (use the lever X times to go to floor X) Especially the latter one required quite a few extra redstone circuit logic gates because you need to perform many options with just 1 input signal. It works excellent though!
I think I'm gonna go with the Redpower elevator. Thanks for all the replies guys , I finally know how to make one now! (:
