I hope this wont be looked as shameful bumping. I wish the community could give me some feedback on reactor designs.
Firstly, I would find it distasteful if you simply put a machine block on the ground, add redstone and voila! You're done!
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I believe that people, if there are any ff7-nerds out there, would really want to build an actual reactor. Not just plunk a single machine, but several!
The first design I had in mind is inspired by IC2 water generators
so, the redstone block represents the reactor. And the iron blocks some form of "booster" that strenghtens and speeds the production of power generation and chunk corruption.
People could just build a simple cobble tower wall around this and pretend it's a reactor, no?
Second and third designs are inspired from mDiyo's Tconstruct and Covert's Railcraft. Namely multiblock-structures.
This image is somewhat of a mix from the first design. Redstone again being the "reactor" with booster connecting it and some form of reactor containing blocks covering the structure. Players could build this to a certain height limit. The higher, the stronger
This last one is exactly what Tconstruct is made of. Controller, lava tank and so on...
I'm not sure if I would want a structure containing actual liquid (lifestream). Maybe just a sparkly sprinkly greenlike effect that tells the reactor is filled with mako energy?
Any feedback or ideas are welcomed!
This is still a request. I don't have any code lying around, I'm just pingponging ideas in my head and digesting modding tutorials.
I know what I want the mod to do. I just don't know how it should look like.