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The past couple of weeks/months I've been working on designing a rather big facility in Minecraft to be used with the latest recommended version of the Technic mod pack. After numerous setbacks with block ID's changing and WorldEdit/MCedit not cooperating with micro-blocks (thus basically having to rebuild everything twice), I'm glad to say it's now finally finished and available for download! o/
The goal of the project was simple: Skip the step where you first have to gather a truckload of resources while inside a shitty cave, to finally build your first real home. I have found that the limited resources and time constraints, also often limit your imagination and thus the end result.
The Horizon facility has a fully designed in- and exterior and comes equiped with a functional sorting machine, Industrial Craft processing room, a 6 story high elevator and a metric ton of space available to build your own things and explore all the wonderful mods in the Technic pack.
(Different angle: here)
Imagine you start a fresh world and just bought a new house and are about to move in. Apart from what has already been build, you start out with nothing in your inventory and have to chop down your first tree just as usual.
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Tour around the facility:
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When you first enter the building you'll get into the main lobby:
From here you can enter the elevator:
It uses just 1 lever to handle all the floor selections.
The circuitry of it is located in the "Logic Gate Bunker" down below. It can be seen: here
This doesn't use any wireless transmitters. All redstone wiring, IndustrialCraft and Blutricity cables run behind the elevator, and through the entire length of the Horizon facility connecting every building. (There is a crawlspace between each floor and ceiling)
Flip the elevator lever 4 times and you'll reach the 4th floor:
This floor connects you to the most important rooms in the Horizon facility. We'll first take the left side and go to the Processing Room.
At the entrance of the Processing Room is the sorting and storage frame elevator:
It has a total of 24 chests and can sort 320 different items. No giant warehouse needed filled with chests, with the frame elevator it's all accessible through the 6 block wide window you see in the picture.
(Circuitry how the floor select works: here)
On the right you see the train track:
This leads you to the back of the Processing Room. The chest cart travels with you and is the one and only input chest for the sorting machine. It automatically unloads via the 'Advanced Item Unloader' of the Railcraft mod.
Using the train you arrive here:
There's a total of 5 workbenches that have room for 10 different kind of machinery. The Redpower 'sorting machines' below the chests sends the items 1 floor down below into theMachine Room. Here they are evenly divided among 4 (you can expand if you want) machines that are automatically emptied by the 'retriever'.
Want to smelt 54 stacks of cobblestone/iron ore/.. all at once? Just put it in the chest, flip the switch and everything is done automatically.
While we're at it, let's take a look inside the Machine Room down below:
The 3 machine blocks on the left are the same where the top tube is the input and the one in the middle the output. The Canning machine has an extra input slot (cans *and* food) thus requires an extra tube, painted orange here.
Next to it is the generator setup which accepts any kind of burnable fuel and stores it in the connected battery-boxes.
Panning the camera to the right...
...reveals the frame elevator connected to the actual sorting machine in the center. (Perfectly optimized and 4 side-symmetrical for extra nerd points) The blue and red wire are respectively blutricity power and redstone signals. When the frame moves, it reconnects to the main line automatically.
The small circuitry board to the left is for the lever upstairs. It controls 4 things: the ceiling lights, it powers the train booster tracks, activates the sorting machine (with auto shutdown feature after 5 minutes) and closes the chest viewing window when the power is down.
Alright, enough about the machines, time for some capital M magic!
On the other side of the 3rd floor lobby is the Thaumcraft building.
A dark and mysterious place where energy rich crystals and aura's are twisted to suit the needs of the wizard that dares to harness this power.
When you enter on the middle floor you'll travel across a small skybridge that has access to both the upper and lower level.
Taking the stairs up reveals the Thaumic command center that will have the all important crucible to transform ordinary matter into pure Vis and Taint.
These two types of energy are send separately into the holding tanks all the way down to the Thaumic basement which can be seen here:
Having explored 2/3rd of the buildings so far, the one that's left is the -for lack of a better name- "House". To access it you'll first have to take a quick stroll across the outside terrace:
The terrace platform is suspended into the air, supported by beams connected to the buildings on the sides:
The view after entering the house and going up the main stairway looks like this:
There are several other rooms (conservatory/kitchen/bedroom/living room/etc..) in the House that you can make your own. They are semi-decorated but have to be filled in with your own furniture/features.
To reach the attic you'll need to take the frame elevator as seen in the left of the previous picture. Which after exiting it looks like this:
As mentioned before, there are a lot of open spaces to be utilized. I personally plan on making this attic into a Mystcraft portal room that has a computerized automatic portal selection (if you've seen Direwolf20 video's, something like that), with a high speed railcart traveling 88 mph through it.
And on that note, I think this will be a good wrapping up point..
Hope you've enjoyed the tour.
The original thread can be found on the Technic forum as well:
http://forums.technicpack.net/threads/project-horizon-a-world-map-for-technic-7-2-rec.20230/
A mirror for the world map can be found: Here
Using the Sphax texture pack is recommended as everything is designed with that in mind.
I'd like to hear your comments, feedback, even criticism.
Find a bug in the system/a way to improve the circuitry/etc..? Please do share! If you decide to play the map and have finished a cool build then feel free to post your pictures in this thread as I'd love to see your designs.
PS: I wonder who'll find the hidden easter egg first...
The past couple of weeks/months I've been working on designing a rather big facility in Minecraft to be used with the latest recommended version of the Technic mod pack. After numerous setbacks with block ID's changing and WorldEdit/MCedit not cooperating with micro-blocks (thus basically having to rebuild everything twice), I'm glad to say it's now finally finished and available for download! o/
The goal of the project was simple: Skip the step where you first have to gather a truckload of resources while inside a shitty cave, to finally build your first real home. I have found that the limited resources and time constraints, also often limit your imagination and thus the end result.
The Horizon facility has a fully designed in- and exterior and comes equiped with a functional sorting machine, Industrial Craft processing room, a 6 story high elevator and a metric ton of space available to build your own things and explore all the wonderful mods in the Technic pack.
(Different angle: here)
Imagine you start a fresh world and just bought a new house and are about to move in. Apart from what has already been build, you start out with nothing in your inventory and have to chop down your first tree just as usual.
______________________________________________________________________
Tour around the facility:
______________________________________________________________________
When you first enter the building you'll get into the main lobby:
From here you can enter the elevator:
It uses just 1 lever to handle all the floor selections.
The circuitry of it is located in the "Logic Gate Bunker" down below. It can be seen: here
This doesn't use any wireless transmitters. All redstone wiring, IndustrialCraft and Blutricity cables run behind the elevator, and through the entire length of the Horizon facility connecting every building. (There is a crawlspace between each floor and ceiling)
Flip the elevator lever 4 times and you'll reach the 4th floor:
This floor connects you to the most important rooms in the Horizon facility. We'll first take the left side and go to the Processing Room.
At the entrance of the Processing Room is the sorting and storage frame elevator:
It has a total of 24 chests and can sort 320 different items. No giant warehouse needed filled with chests, with the frame elevator it's all accessible through the 6 block wide window you see in the picture.
(Circuitry how the floor select works: here)
On the right you see the train track:
This leads you to the back of the Processing Room. The chest cart travels with you and is the one and only input chest for the sorting machine. It automatically unloads via the 'Advanced Item Unloader' of the Railcraft mod.
Using the train you arrive here:
There's a total of 5 workbenches that have room for 10 different kind of machinery. The Redpower 'sorting machines' below the chests sends the items 1 floor down below into theMachine Room. Here they are evenly divided among 4 (you can expand if you want) machines that are automatically emptied by the 'retriever'.
Want to smelt 54 stacks of cobblestone/iron ore/.. all at once? Just put it in the chest, flip the switch and everything is done automatically.
While we're at it, let's take a look inside the Machine Room down below:
The 3 machine blocks on the left are the same where the top tube is the input and the one in the middle the output. The Canning machine has an extra input slot (cans *and* food) thus requires an extra tube, painted orange here.
Next to it is the generator setup which accepts any kind of burnable fuel and stores it in the connected battery-boxes.
Panning the camera to the right...
...reveals the frame elevator connected to the actual sorting machine in the center. (Perfectly optimized and 4 side-symmetrical for extra nerd points) The blue and red wire are respectively blutricity power and redstone signals. When the frame moves, it reconnects to the main line automatically.
The small circuitry board to the left is for the lever upstairs. It controls 4 things: the ceiling lights, it powers the train booster tracks, activates the sorting machine (with auto shutdown feature after 5 minutes) and closes the chest viewing window when the power is down.
Alright, enough about the machines, time for some capital M magic!
On the other side of the 3rd floor lobby is the Thaumcraft building.
A dark and mysterious place where energy rich crystals and aura's are twisted to suit the needs of the wizard that dares to harness this power.
When you enter on the middle floor you'll travel across a small skybridge that has access to both the upper and lower level.
Taking the stairs up reveals the Thaumic command center that will have the all important crucible to transform ordinary matter into pure Vis and Taint.
These two types of energy are send separately into the holding tanks all the way down to the Thaumic basement which can be seen here:
Having explored 2/3rd of the buildings so far, the one that's left is the -for lack of a better name- "House". To access it you'll first have to take a quick stroll across the outside terrace:
The terrace platform is suspended into the air, supported by beams connected to the buildings on the sides:
The view after entering the house and going up the main stairway looks like this:
There are several other rooms (conservatory/kitchen/bedroom/living room/etc..) in the House that you can make your own. They are semi-decorated but have to be filled in with your own furniture/features.
To reach the attic you'll need to take the frame elevator as seen in the left of the previous picture. Which after exiting it looks like this:
As mentioned before, there are a lot of open spaces to be utilized. I personally plan on making this attic into a Mystcraft portal room that has a computerized automatic portal selection (if you've seen Direwolf20 video's, something like that), with a high speed railcart traveling 88 mph through it.
And on that note, I think this will be a good wrapping up point..
Hope you've enjoyed the tour.
The original thread can be found on the Technic forum as well:
http://forums.technicpack.net/threads/project-horizon-a-world-map-for-technic-7-2-rec.20230/
A mirror for the world map can be found: Here
Using the Sphax texture pack is recommended as everything is designed with that in mind.
I'd like to hear your comments, feedback, even criticism.
Find a bug in the system/a way to improve the circuitry/etc..? Please do share! If you decide to play the map and have finished a cool build then feel free to post your pictures in this thread as I'd love to see your designs.
PS: I wonder who'll find the hidden easter egg first...
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The graphic style fits Minecraft really well imo. Plus the other texture packs don't have support for all the mods in Technic which makes some blocks really stand out.
Either that or the underground mining complex very close underneath the Horizon facility itself. It's full of resources/crystals and you're able to reach bedrock without digging down yourself. Was quite a pleasant surprise.