Timendainum

Thanks 00Ducky, You've given me some confidence. I will give upgrading the server a shot this weekend and see how crazy things get!

Galacticraft would be really nice to use. It's never been useful at all Restarting is NOT an option for any of my players. We've restarted, I dunno, 5 or 6 times over the past few years. Moving onto new modpacks, or updated ones. Just loosing the reactor builds with atomic science being removed is a big problem. I think at this point I'm just going to call it quits. I don't believe there is a good solution for this for any modpack. Modders are going to burn out, or better mods will always be made that obsoletes old builds. It's the nature of the beast, and it's too bad really. I love minecraft, and I love mods. But, you just don't get any longevity out of them if you want to stay current with minecraft. We even ran into this same issue with Bukkit. Plugins come and go, updates break things. So it is what it is.

I don't suppose this problem is just with Tekkit, but I've had some major issues on my server here lately. This is not a critique in any way of how Tekkit is managed. Just a short bit of backstory. I play minecraft with a group of friends (maybe 10 people all together), we've been playing minecraft since alpha (before multiplayer) and we've run multiple servers and restarted worlds many times. When the "new" Tekkit was release we were very happy, we can get in on the ground floor and stick to a world for some time! Here we are less than a year later and we're now being recommended to restart our worlds to use the new Tekkit. With this announcement everyone who plays on my server has quit in frustration. Every last one of them. Basically everyone is sick an tired of starting cool Minecraft projects on modded servers only to be forced to restart completely when updates are pushed to modpacks in just a few months. How can I keep interest in a modded server when everyone is typically forced to restart multiple times per year?

Please post the code to pastebin. I'll look at it later tonight if you can. Assuming Niverton hasn't solved your issue.

I would try this: Install Tekkit from scratch on the new machine. Get it all working. Then, apply your custom changes. Although really, you could be creating your own mod pack for this sort of thing, which would solve the problem you are running into.

I do not believe so. We have 2 fortresses very close to our spawn nether portal.

But you could wear a space suit under water. NASA does it. http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/13/watch-nasa-test-its-new-pumpkin-spacesuit-in-underwater-lab/

Tekkit is all BuildCraft power, just by looking at the block it is reading volts and amps, which is something that is in Volts. I have not seen this block in Tekkit. Also, the wiring is from Volts, that I am sure of. That block is attached to the wiring so I'm not sure it is from Atomic Science.

That looks like something from Volts not Tekkit.

From what I understand it is impossible to make a stable oil world. You have to make new ones when the old ones collapse. Here is our automated cow farm: http://imgur.com/a/hCtr6

Here is some pics of our combustion power plant. http://imgur.com/a/5QimP

Combustion engines will run forever if you set them up correctly. You need to feed each set of 4 engines with an aqueous accumulator. This will keep them cool and will keep them running at max output indefinitely. You can make easy and scalable early game energy systems with it. With Mystcraft you can get a limitless supply of oil (keeping stability in mind). We keep the engines around as the core supply. We've been using the fission reactor for a high demand supply, like when we're running quarries or the laser drill. So far, with the fission reactor I've got 35 large turbines. The fusion design I'm looking at will need something like 80. We haven't had issues with client lag yet on the 35, but I'm guessing that once we add an additional 80 turbines we will start to feel the bite.

We've redesigned our setup to be a single tower with 10,240 buckets of storage just for oil. We converted our old oil tanks to just fuel, for about 6k buckets of storage. Which gives up approximately 6 days of fuel in the cans, plus 10k oil on reserve, so we should get a little over two weeks supply. One of the things that drove us to the idea for massive storage was changes in Mystcraft here recently that makes oil ocean worlds SUPER unstable. So we were going to try to just grab up a f*ck ton of oil and be done with it for a while. What we did in stead was to disable decay in Mystcraft. We didn't take the decision lightly, as it's pretty easy to create super OP worlds now. But, the decision came down to, do we want things to be "balanced" or do we want our server to run. So we went with the server running. In any case, we're going to build several more storage towers like this for other liquids. Next on the list is to double the size of the combustion engine stacks. Then, I'll start working on a fusion reactor. That combined with our current fission reactor should be enough to run our AE system, auto factories, a set of 4 quarries and 2 laser drills.

I don't think you're giving us enough information here to try to help you. Can you post the actual error message you're getting, and where you are seeing it?

I like this idea a lot. We haven't put much though into alternative power storage design since TE removed the loss in redstone energy conduits. I will have to look at some options here such that I can still hook the cells up as CC peripherals. Tekkit adds the capability of massive scale. I would say this is the 3rd or 4th time we've caused major server issues due to our very large scale projects. We really like to push the limits. If you think this is ridiculous you should have seen our storage system from Tekkit Lite before we discovered AE. It was.... silly.

Jakalth reminded me of another tip. Guys on our server found that the flight controller is much more useful if you set the y-control to 0. This allows you to fly around much more like creative mode where you fly level regardless of your actual orientation. We've found this to be a lot more useful for building than having the ability to ascend and descend by looking up and down. To go up and down in this configuration use space to go up, and Z to go down. Works brilliantly.

I usually bind a key to turn the jetpack on and off together. Your jetpack may be off.

The BC tanks is what we are currently using. Liquid managers are a possibility I didn't think of. I will look for the other thread you mentioned. Thanks!

Well lets do it, post pictures of your cool Tekkit creations. I'll get a gallery together myself this evening, let's see what everyone us up to.

So, We've been working on a massive oil storage area. Our current supply of around 8k buckets wasn't cutting it so we hatched a plan to build a massive tank arrangement involve 125k tanks in a 50x50x50 arrangement. So you set up your AE system to autocraft tanks and set up a set of 20 induction furnaces to cook glass, and 20 pulverizers to make sand from cobble and we fed that directly into a filler to build the "oil cube of doom". Sounds cool eh? 2 million buckets of oil storage potential. Yeah, so it killed our server. The buckets cause server memory usage to spike beyond what our host allows and we started having disconnection problems. So if you want to do this, make sure you have LOTS of server RAM. So tore it down, now I have 80k tanks sitting in AE, and we still can't store 2M buckets of oil. Plan number 2. Put oil into buckets, store buckets in AE. This will work, but now requires 6M iron ingots to get 2M buckets of storage. Which is a lot more than the 50k or so we have in iron right now. Anyone have any brilliant ideas for storing large amounts of liquids?

Yes, ours is on a server. So, we keep the system running 24/7. We don't need huge throughput we just let wood build up over time. I think we eventually capped the raw wood at about 300k blocks for each wood type such that it would fit on a 64k storage disk. But, we're now revamping storage so that all raw materials are stored in deep storage so we won't have to worry again until we hit 2 billion.

I don't believe it's against the rules here, but I don't ever see anyone posting pics of the cool stuff they are making in Tekkit. Also, the tekkit subreddit has very little activity. I love seeing what other people are doing, anyone have any good ideas on how we can get some show off pics posted somewhere?

There is an alternative recipe for making the chipsets that does not involve using the lasers or assembly tables. I believe it involves smelting something. I can't look at our server right now, but if this question is still open I'll look at our system tonight and let you know how we're doing it.

I love complicated solutions. Very nice. We're using AE to do all of our automation. But, we've been diving into computercraft for more interesting projects like power management, and mob farm management. Our base is quite large, so I quickly ran into the wired network limit on CC. So I started diving into rednet. I'm using Lyqyd's Rednet API, which takes a lot of the complexity out of long range networks. It handles all routing, host management/lookup etc. I've been writing server and control programs lately. Check out Lyqyd's API here: http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/1708-lyqydnet-rednet-api/ My Wireless peripheral API here: http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/16135-wireless-peripheral-api-data-serialization-api-for-lyqydnet/ My github repo here where we're pulling it all together. https://github.com/Timendainum/Wintermute Now that we've sucessfully hijacked this thread ;)

badkruka's solution is awesome and easy. But.... If you want a really complicated solution that requires a ton of setup work, coding and won't work across dimensions try wireless rednet and computercraft. You can then transmit over a wireless network. I love computercraft, tons of fun.