A way to block cobblestone farms without banning block breacker?

[Octo]

As the title says,

my players apreciate the block breacker and it's mandatory if you want to keep your nuclear reactors cooled by farming snow, but the possibility to create cobble farms literally gives them unlimited EMC, and that's not good for an economy based server.

So any way to avoid this without baning the entire block breacker?

I thouhgt about limiting it to 1 blokbreacker per player, but i'm not sure if they'll still be getting too much free EMC

[b0bst3r]

TBH there's loads of different methods to make unlimited EMC with blockbreakers besides breaking cobblestone, so you ban that you need to ban them all. A typical second choice (as it requires power to run the compressor) is to break the snow under a snow golem and compress it into ice, then pipe that back to the condenser (this is also a great way to cool a reactor). You can also do it with milk and a number of other items.

[DoctorSLO]

Go to your redpower folder and open "redpower.cfg".

Find the line with "blockbreaker.blacklist" and add item IDs.

I'm not sure if this works, because I have banned block breaker on my server.

Example:

blockbreaker.blacklist="1,2,3,4,5,6,7,150,150:1,150:2,150:3,150:4,150:5,150:6,150:7,150:8,150:9,150:10,150:11,150:12,150:13,194:1,27592,130,169,7,26522,126:4,27579,27576,7303,27550,126:10,126:11,4095,194:4,214,179,27531,27530,27593,27580,27533,27538,27584,27532,27594,27574,4296,4298,4299,4300,4301,4302,4303,4304,4305,4306,4307,4308,4309,4310,4311,4312,4313,4314,4315,4316,4317,4318,4319,4320,4322,4324"

[Octo]

Go to your redpower folder and open "redpower.cfg".

Find the line with "blockbreaker.blacklist" and add item IDs.

I'm not sure if this works, because I have banned block breaker on my server.

Example:

blockbreaker.blacklist="1,2,3,4,5,6,7,150,150:1,150:2,150:3,150:4,150:5,150:6,150:7,150:8,150:9,150:10,150:11,150:12,150:13,194:1,27592,130,169,7,26522,126:4,27579,27576,7303,27550,126:10,126:11,4095,194:4,214,179,27531,27530,27593,27580,27533,27538,27584,27532,27594,27574,4296,4298,4299,4300,4301,4302,4303,4304,4305,4306,4307,4308,4309,4310,4311,4312,4313,4314,4315,4316,4317,4318,4319,4320,4322,4324"

Thanks guys!

@Doctor all those items would not be broken by the block breacker?

if yes, what use could it have then if it cant breack anything?

I'll try that later (at job now), thanks

@bobster, what you say is what i tried to describe, it's the cooling method that our engineer uses for the nuclear reactors, so if i ban the use of block breackers with snow then we'll have a big problem with reactors, i dont see another way to create ICE ...

[b0bst3r]

Yeah was simply pointing out if you ban cobblestone then they can use alternate methods to do the same thing (more or less).

[Octo]

is there another effective and safe way to cool down the reactors other than using the sow golem+block breacker to create snow>ice? I'm considering baning it completely if i find an alternative

[TheBard]

How can you have both an economy based server AND Equivalent Exchange at the same time?

Or do you have all EE collectors disabled as well?

Edit:

http://technicpack.wikia.com/wiki/Compressor

Note: As of v1.337 a pump with a infinite water source under it and a compressor placed directly next to it will pump and compress water into snowballs without the need for cells.

So Pump next to a Compressor = Snowballs, then back into a Compressor again for Ice.

No Blockbreakers required.

[BuccaneerRex]

There are many ways to multiply EMC. You'd have to remove all of them. Blaze rod macerators, flax capacitors, darkrooms, cobble gens, Soup generators, Auto-milkers, Slab triplers, &c. Better to use something without EMC value as currency on your server. Any server with EE installed will have massive inflation.

Try removing the crafting permissions for IC2 credits, and spawning them in for players to use as physical currency. Since they don't have EMC value, they can't be duplicated, and will thus be a better economic basis.