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Minecraft: Mods: Buildcraft
Hello my name is Derek and today I am going to
be doing a review on a mod on Minecraft called Buildcraft. If you
haven't looked at my regular Minecraft review I suggest you do now.
Buildcraft was made by a person with the Minecraft name of Space Toad.
Space Toad made and is still managing Buildcraft today. But, lets get
started on what Buildcraft is really about. The goal of Buildcraft is to
mine, collect, and build with automated systems. So, anyways lets get
started.
Transport Pipes and Engines
In build craft the first thing your going to
make is pipes. Pipes are used to transport items, liquids, and power. I
am going to talk about the item transport pipes first: There are a few
item transport pipes. The first one is the wooden pipe, the wooden pipe
will extract items out of a inventory. You can extract items out of
chests and furnaces. But, if you place the pipe it won't do anything.
Thats because you need to power the pipe with something called a engine.
There are 3 tiers of engines, the first one is the redstone engine. The
redstone engine only needs a redstone pulse to operate. A down side is a
redstone engine can explode, it will explode if it isn't powering
anything but if it is powering the pipe it can't explode. The redstone
engine has 4 stages. Blue, when a engine is blue it is at its coolest
stage it is 0% full of power to 24% full of power when it is blue. The
next stage is green, at green the engine is at 25% power and up to 49%
power. The stage after that is the orange stage, at this stage it is
from 50% power to 74% power. The last stage is switching form orange to
red, this is 75% power to 99% power. At 100% power the engine explodes
so you have to make sure the engine is properly powering the pipe. To
connect the engine to the wooden pipe, connect the engine directly next
to the engine, then it will put itself in the direction of the pipe. The
next pipe is the cobblestone pipe. This pipe is the regular pipe used
to transport items. If you make pipes connect to a chest it will pt the
items in the chest. The next pipe is the iron pipe. This pipe is used
for making items go one way in a intersection. For example if you wanted
4 chest's items to go into one chest the items will hit the
intersection and go in random directions. The iron pipe makes the items
all go in one direction. The next pipe is the gold pipe, this pipe, when
powered by redstone will boost any items going through it as if it were
a boost rail. The next pipe is the stone pipe, this pipe will make
items go faster, longer when going through a gold pipe.The next pipe is
the diamond pipe which will act like a filter. It has 6 colors for 6
sides and you can make it so that certain items going through it will
only go in certain directions. The next and last transport pipe is the
obsidian pipe. This pipe will suck up any items and put it in any pipes
connected to it, and when powered by a engine it will suck up items that
are farther away the higher tier the engine the farther the pipe can
suck in items. Thats all about transport pipes and the redstone engine
next I'll be telling you about putting items in other inventories.
Putting Items in Other Inventories
So, I talked about the transport pipes and the
redstone engine, next I'm going to talk about putting items in other
inventories. You can put items in a furnace with pipes. To do this you
put the pipe facing in the bottom of the furnace, to put it in the fuel
slot at the bottom, and you put the ores in the top of the furnace where
they'll be put in the furnace's top slot. To output the ingots just put
down a wooden pipe with a engine on any of the the remaining sides.
There is another item added in Buildcraft: the automatic crafting table.
This is good for when your crafting and you forgot some ingredients
because, unlike the regular crafting table the automatic one keeps item
in its inventory. It is also used for using pipes to craft items. To do
this you put any recipe in the crafting table, connect a pipe to it that
is feeding it the required items, and when it gets 2 of every item in
its inventory it will, if a wooden pipe is connected, output the item
crafted! Thats all about automated crafting and smelting, next I am
going to be talking about basic liquid transportation.
Basic Liquid Transportation
I told you about automated crafting and smelting
next I am going to be telling you about Basic Liquid Transportation.
First you all you need a pump, you use this to to extract liquids from
water or lava deposits. The most engines you can put on a pump is 4.
Since the pump needs more power you need all 4 sides covered by redstone
engines for it to barely run. This isn't very efficient, so you should
use the next tier engine. This engine is the steam engine. This will
gain and output more power while also pumping faster than the redstone
engine. But, it does take a redstone pulse and a fueling source. Now,
how do you output the liquid out of the pump? You have to make a new
pipe. This pipe is the cobblestone liquid transport pipe. This is the
basic pipe for transporting liquids. Since the the pump has no inventory
to hold liquid it will automatically output liquid. But, how do you
store liquid? Its simple all you need to do is place a tank. How a tank
works is one tank holds 10 buckets of any liquid, you can put 10 buckets
in and out of the tank. You can also increase the storage of a tank by
putting another tank on top of a already placed one. Thats all about
Basic liquid transportation, next I will talk about the mining well and
the refinery.
Mining Well and Advanced Power
So, I talked about basic liquid transportation, next I will be talking
about the mining well and advanced power. The mining well will mine
straight down and output items out of its top. The mining well needs at
least steam engine power and if it doesn't have output pipes it will
throw items up in the air. The mining well has no inventory so you don't
need to use a wooden pipe to output items. Next I will talk about
advanced power. There are new pipes along with advanced power, they are
the power pipes. The wooden power pipes can run off of any engines you
simply connect the wooden power pipe to the engine, power it and if
anything needs power it will get power to it. You can use redstone
engines to get power but to power a advanced machine you need about 250
redstone engines! You should use steam engines and up. Thats all about
the mining well and advanced power, next I will talk about the refinery
and the combustion engine.
Refinery and Combustion Engines
So, I told you about the mining well and
advanced power, next I will tell you about the refinery and combustion
engines. First I will talk about the combustion engine. The combustion
engine is the tier 3 engine. To run it you need a liquid fuel and a
coolant. The easiest fuel to find to power the combustion engine is
lava, the coolant is water. Combustion engines over heat very easily you
would need constant water, lava, and a redstone pulse to keep it
running without it overheating. Now lets talk about the refinery. The
refinery can refine a new liquid added by Buildcraft called oil. Oil is
very hard to find, it is very rare, but it usually generates on the
surface and goes deep underground. Oil can also be a more efficient
fueling source for combustion engines. But, you can also refine it. To
do that you need a lot of power put into the refinery and oil. Thats all
about the refinery and combustion engines, next I'll be talking about
the quarry, builder and filter.
Quarry, Builder, Filler
So, I talked about the refinery and the
combustion engine, now I'm going to be talking about the quarry,
builder, and the filler. The quarry is a a great machine, it is like a
mining well but it mines a bigger area. The quarry has a default mining
area but you can make it bigger or smaller with land marks. The quarry
will take a large amount of power and mine out a huge area until it hits
lava or bedrock. The next item is the builder. In exchange for power
and blocks the builder will build a variety of different forms, with one
material, one is the cube. The last item is the filler which call clear
or fill in an area in exchange for power and blocks. That is all for
the quarry, builder, and filler. Next I'll be talking about templates,
blueprints and trail building.
Templates, Blueprints, and Trail Building
So, I talked about the quarry, builder, and
filler. Next I will be talking about templates, blueprints, and trail
building. Templates are great items that save what blocks looked like in
a area and build it in any one material you like. Blueprints are like a
advanced version of templates, they can record a area, tell you all
the blocks its made out of, and you can copy it with all the correct
blocks unlike templates. Trail markers are items that let you make a
trail out of a recorded area. Thats all about templates, blueprints, and
trail building. Next I'll talk about the assembly table and lasers.
Assembly Table and Lasers
I talked about templates, blueprints, and trail
building, next I'll talk about the assembly table and lasers. When you
power lasers they will power the nearest assembly table so you can have a
lot of lasers increasing the speed of a assembly table. The assembly
table is used to make gates. I am not talking about wooden gates, I'm
talking about not gates and, and gates. These gates can be placed on any
pipe or machine. If you place it on a transport pipe you can make it so
that a redstone signal will be pulsed if the pipe has a item going
through it. Or you can place a gate on a tank and make it so that if the
tank is full the gate will emit a redstone pulse. Thats all for my
Buildcraft mod review next I will say my rating.
Conclusion
I talked about most of the things in Buildcraft
and now I am going to say my rating:8/10. Buildcraft is a great mod so I
rate it a 8 out of 10. Thank you for reading and have a great day.
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