So I'm looking through the Mod List the other night and I come upon Galacticraft. It looks like a really neat little mod that'll let me explore other planets. And I suspect it will be once I get it working. After all, "Earth First! We'll strip mine the other planets later." And now we can.
The problem starts when I skimmed the wiki and discovered that several of the items like oxygen compressor, fuel loader, etc... needed an external power source. A few different mods were listed for these requirements and IC2 was one of them (Connect the collector to a power source, Battery, Coal Generator, or (Buildcraft/Universal Electricity/IC2).) . I haven't typically been a fan of tech mods but figure 'What the heck.'
Several days later I have a cool little industrial empire built up complete with nuclear power plant, automated mining and all the ore I'll ever want. So I figure that it's time to visit the moon and mine some cheese. (sidenote: It's a well-established fact that the moon is made of green cheese. Please correct this oversight in future releases.)
And that's when the trouble began. You can't craft some very basic Galacticraft components, like copper wire or batteries, probably because IC2 already has items with similar names and functions. Worse, the IC2 components don't work for crafting Galacticraft items. IC2 copper cable doesn't work in place of Galacticraft copper wire and IC2 batteries don't work in Galacticraft machines. I'm pretty sure that even if I could craft a Galacticraft battery I wouldn't be able to charge it using an IC2 power supply anyway.
In some cases there obviously has been an attempt made at compatibility. IC2's refined iron substitutes in for steel in the few Galacticraft recipes that I've tried. I suspect there are other substitutions that also work to allow you to craft most of the Galacticraft items from IC2 components but haven't dug into this thoroughly.
Worst of all, the power systems don't connect up. IC2 provides power in EU/tick and Galacticraft wants volts and watts. The IC2 cables won't even connect to the Galacticraft machines. All in all, a very frustrating start to my space program.
Might I suggest that a power converter that takes IC2 power and outputs Galacticraft power would be really helpful for this? And perhaps a few lines of code allowing equivalent items to be used in crafting? The IC2 copper cable is nearly identical to Galacticraft copper wire, differing only in that it's insulated using rubber rather than wool. Seriously, who uses wool to insulate electrical wire?!? I've seen paper-insulated wiring (scary) and once lived in an "apartment" that had magnesium wiring (terrifying) but wool is a new one for me.
Anyway. Off to download Universal Electric in hopes that it isn't one mod too many and can sort out my power problems. Will append the results to this message.
Thanx.
-S
The problem starts when I skimmed the wiki and discovered that several of the items like oxygen compressor, fuel loader, etc... needed an external power source. A few different mods were listed for these requirements and IC2 was one of them (Connect the collector to a power source, Battery, Coal Generator, or (Buildcraft/Universal Electricity/IC2).) . I haven't typically been a fan of tech mods but figure 'What the heck.'
Several days later I have a cool little industrial empire built up complete with nuclear power plant, automated mining and all the ore I'll ever want. So I figure that it's time to visit the moon and mine some cheese. (sidenote: It's a well-established fact that the moon is made of green cheese. Please correct this oversight in future releases.)
And that's when the trouble began. You can't craft some very basic Galacticraft components, like copper wire or batteries, probably because IC2 already has items with similar names and functions. Worse, the IC2 components don't work for crafting Galacticraft items. IC2 copper cable doesn't work in place of Galacticraft copper wire and IC2 batteries don't work in Galacticraft machines. I'm pretty sure that even if I could craft a Galacticraft battery I wouldn't be able to charge it using an IC2 power supply anyway.
In some cases there obviously has been an attempt made at compatibility. IC2's refined iron substitutes in for steel in the few Galacticraft recipes that I've tried. I suspect there are other substitutions that also work to allow you to craft most of the Galacticraft items from IC2 components but haven't dug into this thoroughly.
Worst of all, the power systems don't connect up. IC2 provides power in EU/tick and Galacticraft wants volts and watts. The IC2 cables won't even connect to the Galacticraft machines. All in all, a very frustrating start to my space program.
Might I suggest that a power converter that takes IC2 power and outputs Galacticraft power would be really helpful for this? And perhaps a few lines of code allowing equivalent items to be used in crafting? The IC2 copper cable is nearly identical to Galacticraft copper wire, differing only in that it's insulated using rubber rather than wool. Seriously, who uses wool to insulate electrical wire?!? I've seen paper-insulated wiring (scary) and once lived in an "apartment" that had magnesium wiring (terrifying) but wool is a new one for me.
Anyway. Off to download Universal Electric in hopes that it isn't one mod too many and can sort out my power problems. Will append the results to this message.
Thanx.
-S