Thrombo

It was not immediately obvious to me, because there has been quite literally nothing I've encountered in the game thus far the BC wrench has not been usable in place of the CH. That said, the CH does seem to work. In the meantime, I solved this problem with a computercraft/TE engineering turtle. Might swap to using the autonomous activator instead, though, as it avoids potential computercraft nastiness. Thanks for the CH suggestion.

The best way to do this is with a programmable rednet controller getting input from a rednet port for a reactor (assuming big reactors here) and outputting a signal to the port, or with a similar setup using computercraft.

I tried an AA with a wrench (works for a player so I figured should be fine) and it didn't do anything. I'll check it out later with a Crescent Hammer, but I suspect if a wrench didn't work...

Hi all, Curious if anybody knows of a way to automate removal of a TE energy cell. I want to use a steve's cart to move a full energy cell to my quarry, place the energy cell, take the old energy cell, take the stored resources, bring them back, and then swap the battery at the charging station before dropping off the contents of the cart. I have it all figured out except how to remove the full energy cell without losing all the energy contained within. Any thoughts? Thanks!

I find that a modest 'always on' AE setup is a good way to waste energy.

I just wanted to point out that you can start and run a reactor with a "friend" inside it in SMP. Further testing with a turbine is pending. Personblocks do not appear to be a valid coolant, though.

Assuming I'm not using the Extra Utilties fluid extractors and am using BC pumps instead, anybody have any idea how many pumps/coolant ports this configuration would require and how much steam is output?

Can materials other than water be used as the pumped-in coolant? Has anybody experimented with that? I would be curious if GC pumped into the coolant ports in the reactor 'knew' to recondense to steam after egressing the turbine.

Couple things I wanted to add.. 'street' mining is best done with only 1x1 side-shafts. It's most efficient - you're revealing 5 blocks per 1 block mined vs 10 per 3 blocks mined. When a friend and I do this we have one person mine the 2x1 'street' and the one behind covering the 5-deep 1x1 side shafts. Do this at level 12. When a cave or lava pool/sea is revealed, explore it briefly and continue (again just maximum exposure of blocks that can be diamond). Also, I'd really recommend spending your first few diamonds on an enchanting table. Make a sapphire pickaxe (more economical than diamond as sapphire has fewer crafting uses). The sapphire pick has less durability, but you'll be enchanting it. Make a ruby sword when available, and some bookcases, and try to get a level 30 enchant. If you can manage to get fortune in any capacity on your pickaxe, it will greatly enhance your diamond gathering. Even if you don't get fortune, you'll still have a great (fast/durable/both) pickaxe. If you manage to get silk touch, that's great too as you can pulverize diamond ore for twice as much diamond.