im just never gonna be able to understand how to do anything in create

@OrangeCatCatBoys wdym? up until today you were the create understander tbh

@coolbeans its almost like we're far past the point of anything ive done or could understand

@OrangeCatCatBoys no not really,

you already pointed out how to make the final thing needed for producing more power than i know how to use, we just have to figure out getting lava from the nether into the overworld and even for that we have a workable concept that just needs a little bit of work (big train)

beyond this, its just spending more time and resources to optimise the machines we already built to make them faster and easier to use (which at a later point can also be automated further until we are at a point where we would probably just need to flip a switch to run whatever machine we need in that moment)

@OrangeCatCatBoys with only a few new mechanics we havent explored like gantries and rotating contraptions, which which i doubt are going to be that hard, just have to read up on them a little since they’re not quite as intuitive as just… yea cogwheels

@coolbeans it wasnt on purpose. i was just trying to make it spin faster.

@coolbeans i dont even fucking get how cogwheels work

@OrangeCatCatBoys no, no, not that, though that was still really cool

i mean the fuel source, filling buckets with lava using spouts, then putting them into a mechanical arm which puts them into the blaze burners to heat up the boiler to a much greater degree than we can currently do (leading to 64x improvement at least)

@OrangeCatCatBoys like, thanks to you pointing out we can just do that, our power needs have literally just been solved, i forgot about that feature, but you remembered and helped out immensely

@OrangeCatCatBoys they take a bit to understand

large cogs cannot be placed right next to eachother, they have to be connected with small cogs, however they can be placed facing different directions and still connect, this mechanic makes them… about as useful as a gearbox while taking up 3 times the space (though slightly more resource efficient to build)

small cogs can only be placed right next to eachother and its not possible to change where they face without involving large cogs or a gearbox

all cogs connected directly to eachother will invert the direction in which they spin (though this is harder to observe with large cogs)

a large cog powering a small cog doubles the rpm but it also doubles the amount of torque required to power your machines, and vice versa (though, as per last rule, it also inverts spin direction so either keep that in mind or make some extra gearboxes)

so yea, you really just have to memorise the building rules and like 2 mechanics, and really its fine to forget any one of these, trial and error will get you there eventually

hehe silly string