A primitive jungle friend pays a visit to Ben and Maqt’s technological headquarters (aka hole). They also bring a pipeline to the pumpkin farm to retrieve Pumpfrey’s harvest.
I’ve been excited to upload this episode, as it’s the first one that shows off one of my favorite parts of Tekkit, the ComputerCraft mod.
I get the basics of the code written for Pumpfrey to handle our pumpkin farming automatically. Also I talk briefly about some equipment I’m in the process of upgrading to make better quality videos.
All my work has finally paid off! The auto-farm is completed, and it works flawlessly! Too bad the same can’t be said for my laptop. I expected some lag to crop up but things were a bit ridiculous for a while.
Also my apologies for the audio balancing, I messed up the volume settings. But it only impacts a short part of the video so I’ll take it as a lesson for next time.
Hope you enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed making it! I definitely will be doing more in the future.
Just saw another tidbit about the upcoming Minecraft 1.7 patch! Jens (@jeb_) posted a video demoing how the pistons work on his twitter feed. Video below:
A few things are different than the piston mod that the idea came from, but the biggest difference seems to be that they wont launch things into the air. I’m good with that, as it’s a fairly niche use anyway. I’m just excited that I’ll be finally finishing up my auto-farm! I have to do a video on the farm once it is complete, and I’ve got to start saving up redstone for all the wiring that will be required.
I’m completely excited about this update, as I have been with the last several patches. And all this before anyone even knows what’s coming in the Adventure portion of it! Looking forward to it all, but I hope we get a release date soonish.
Well the update has been out for… like 24 hours. A quick tip about the update before I get into anything else!
*TIP* – When you have a chest open, “shift + right click” on anything in your inventory moves it into the chest, and vice versa. This is an amazing add, and will make dealing with an inventory full of cobble (or wheat in my case) infinitely easier!!
I’ve quite enjoyed everything about the update, except for the achievements. Now it’s not that I don’t like achievements, most of the time I’m quite happy to spend a bit of time grinding away just to get a cool achievement. In this case, it’s due to the saving system. At the outset, the 1.5 update wasn’t entirely stable (of course) and so at some point the client crashed on me. I didn’t realize it right away but when it crashed, I lost all of the achievements I had. This put me back to the point of making wooden tools on the achievement tree. I am not amused.
In other events, I’ve completely planted the greenhouse with a gigantic amount of wheat.
Well this weekend’s project ended up being a redesign of the farm. Beats another 4 days in a cave anyway.
If you’d been watching the world maps I post you’ve probably noticed my fenced-off and creeper-pocked wheat farm near the airstrip. It’s quite large, and never been fully planted due to the size and me getting bored of tilling and planting. Recently I saw a video of an auto-harvesting wheat farm that looked pretty awesome, and I’d rather have that. The one thing that has always turned me off from the auto-farms has been the lack of seeds from the wheat. Of course this tweet changed everthing, and so planning and construction began.
