@JeffreyLin Creative, because it's infinite and free once you build them. Redstone engines should run red optimally - they never explode (they once did when they had no load attached, but now they just never explode, but the capacitor is a constant load so no worries either way). However, you'd get better peformance out of the quarry with a culinary generator and some baked potatoes (or steak, if you have it abundant)

And yeah, the quarry arm / frame just stay like that once it's done. That can be advantageous if you intend to use the frame to build on, like if you're doing a series of quarries over an entire ocean.

yeah, redstone engines for power is a bad, bad idea... not only is it terribly inefficient space wise, you'll also likely cause a bunch of lag

The only real use for them is powering extraction pipes. Everything else (pumps, quarries, etc) dimensional transceivers handle quite nicely.

@TimPost And these could be done with a gate in a cleaner way.

and higher tier gates can be much faster as well

Gates are a bit higher tier than redstone engines. Though once you can make them, you totally should.

I mean diamond gates can pull out stacks at the time if all outputs are set to pulse

They also require you to have diamonds, strangely enough.

quite a few diamonds and a bunch of power if you don't want to grow old waiting for the gates to cook

@TimPost Something like this; i.imgur.com/Bdvc9md.jpg

I usually remove them though, 1 good aimed shot with a mininglaser is all what it takes to get rid of an entire row.

@Vandammetje X is where the treasure is hidden?

@Arperum X is where the only bit of land in sight is hidden

Or well, it will be when he finishes

@Vandammetje set it to horizontal mode and you've already fixed one thing to pay attention to =p

@KevinvanderVelden Is he making an underwater base that does not tolerate a seafloor?

@Arperum he's a friend of mine. He's mining ALL THE THINGS

@KevinvanderVelden I should've known. Dutchies and living below sealevel.

@KevinvanderVelden Hey, I need a lot of stuff for my buildings! Well, I haven't been mining for over two weeks now since my efficient miningsetup was kinda overkill, but still.

@Vandammetje HAH, we don't have the mods on this server to make a properly OP setup

I remember my chunk devourer set up, that was fun

I think it ate a few kilometers long 32 wide strip through a mystcraft world before the world was retired

@Arperum unless you want to crash the server, then he just has to look funny

@Arperum true, although I suspect @KevinvanderVelden to build stuff like that because he can, not because he needs it.

@Vandammetje have you seen my latest build? I build because I can

@ratchetfreak Based on the crash statistics, he just looks at @jochem and the whole thing goes up in flame.

@Arperum in my defense, I uh... hm...

@Jochem Smoke isn't really going to help you if you want to prove that you aren't causing fire...

@Arperum hm, good point

@JeffreyLin well, the lag/power ratio isn't that good... mostly because you can't divide by zero

Jeah. 0.08MJ/t per if they're running red

and they can't power wooden kinesis pipes

last I checked at least

Naah, barely noticable probably

But still, get a culinary generator and you'll be set =p

@KevinvanderVelden unless you have a chunk full of them of course

@JeffreyLin Because it's easy to grow potatoes or sompething and it gives a good return?

@JeffreyLin I don't have anything automated yet because I've barely been playing lately. @KevinvanderVelden had golems at some point.

@JeffreyLin EnderIO has a Farming Station which handles potatoes and such very well

it needs a hoe but only uses it for tilling the dirt, after that it's not used anymore.

They are quite power hungry so you might want to limit what they get with a capacitor set to only output 40RF/t

Yeah, EnderIO farming stations are weird powerwise. They use energy per tick, so if you limit them to a small amount of power they work just as well

or you farm with SFM

@ratchetfreak source film maker?

steve's factory manager

Oh

Yeah we don't have that

Think of it this way: you have 32 of them, and you're outputting only 25 RF/t

a single dynamo will be able to cover that

One culinary generator running on potatoes is about double that.

Free energy is 1000% ineffective and not in any way a good idea. Creative, sure, but literally anything else is a better idea.

@Unionhawk I'm doing fine with free energy thanks to mister Sun and the one who invented solarpanel technology. =p

@Vandammetje Okay, solar is different :P

@JeffreyLin Ah, so that was your quarry. You might want to look out, I kinda pissed off the Lich king and for some reason he teleported outside next to your quarry.

@JeffreyLin PermGen space error, that sometimes just happens with a lot of mods

@JeffreyLin Your java-client is probably like "Oh HECK no I ain't going to THAT place again" and rather dies a painfull death than loading @KevinvanderVelden's base for a second time.