Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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What's wrong with yellow? Clearly you are mistaking me for some other person and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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OK. I've never used such a thing, so a link to whatever everyone else is using would be appreciated.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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How comfortable do people feel with the old push-downhill-and-jump-in technique for getting into carts? Powered tracks only boost carts already in motion. They won't do anything if you're sitting motionless. So, when planning stations or substations, we may need to account for building launchers.
And automated launchers are not small. I've been trying to build a compact, sealed (to keep mobs and accidental miners out) launcher this evening, and here's what I've been able to produce so far. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwmFZ9ewxGU FWIW, "diagonal" tracks ride fast and smooth and are not jerky as you might suspect. Also, tracks are a PITA to configure right. There are some pretty obnoxious alignment issues, at least when I've been trying in SMP. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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How are you playing in 1.5? Different machines?
Would you mind building a short diagonal track so we could see how viewing angle is affected? |
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Same machine. I keep backups of each release's minecraft.jar and swap out for testing.
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The cart actually runs diagonally instead of flip-flopping at right angles. That only works for 45-degree angle stretches, though. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Oh, well it was so smooth I didn't realize it, so, awesome!
@Bryson: I understand the concept of cart boosters, but I will never use them. They are a dark magick. Much like the mob trap retrofit - which I feel like I should fully understand, but I don't. So it goes. |
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Lovable Bastard
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston-ish
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Actually I would prefer blue in the north as well, if only because it is closer to me
Unless someone down south despises yellow as well... Also, @709: You spend more time over there than me so I'll adjust the white line as you suggest. Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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Is my beach in the north or the south, or what? What will be the closest station to my little outpost?
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Lovable Bastard
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston-ish
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Within
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South line: besides the possible junction with the green line in Bryson's SE area, I think the only southerners that would be affected are me and bobsky. I'm not really fond of yellow either, but I don't care which color goes down there.
Only thing is, let's save this line for last / not bother with it for a while (or stop it towards the W end of the Skyranch). The current diagram intersects over Anchorage Island, where I wanted to build a lighthouse. Moving the tracks all the way to the south coast of Anchorage lake seems a bit longwinded, but I don't think I want anything in the air around Furronia either, at least in the south. At worst the line could go down into the moat at the SE corner and come back up in the SW to go on out to the sand mine with a stop at Furronia in between... I'll figure something out for this area. |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Actually, try placing the rail like this: [Dirt/Cobble/Whatever][Powered Rail][Powered Rail] Basically if a minecart is sitting on a powered rail, and there's a block obstructing it's path in one direction, when the rail is turned on it WILL move the opposite direction of the solid block. You basically need to tell the track that there's only one direction the cart can travel. This would be much easier to explain if I was on my own computer now.. If this doesn't make sense, I'll upload screenshots later. |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Yes. I've read that between 2-4 rails are necessary (*shakes fist at wiki*), but it's possible to jump into a cart and push a button to power the rails for launch.
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Within
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What about always-on powered rails (or rails with a delay before turning off), a few normal rails before those powered rails, placing cart on the normal rails, push, jump in before powered rails?
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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My friend let me jump on his laptop and his copy of Minecraft so I could get this screenshot for y'all:
I 100% guarantee this works in SSP, and I'm sure it will in SMP too. Place a cart on the rails adjacent to the dirt block, hop in, hit the button, and off you go (no redstone wires required!) |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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I just noticed in Brad's vid that there are diagonals now.
When did that happen? The 1.5 update? |
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Ice Arrow Sniper
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I think that's the texture pack, 709.
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Ohhhh. That's evil.
On a side note: is it weird to be grilling brats for breakfast? Because that's what I'm doing. They were so fucking good last night that I woke up with a craving. So it goes. |
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That's an epic breakfast, then.
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Corn on the cob too! Potato salad and slaw! BBQ chips!
This day is going to be a strange one. I can feel it. I may start a thread with a poll! So it goes. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Worth noting on diagonal tracks: Powered rails don't do diagonals, so you need a straight stretch every 25 blocks to maintain speed.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWN20dxA1eI I figured it was appropriate to share this given the context of the contention for the space. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Nice work Brad! I'm looking forward to getting a ride in that thing.
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Lovable Bastard
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston-ish
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Man, I was sure you were gonna win until you hit that gap.
That said, I think I am going to incorporate some kind of cart racing into the casino. I'll probably set it up so there is X amount of track with lots of curves in a rough circle, and too few boosters to make it around. I'll make two identical copies of the track on top of each other. It will then be up to the racers to put the boosters where they think they will work the most efficiently. Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end. |
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