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#Terrarcraft (Minecraft/Terraria and such)
astral rose
sullen moat
Anybody able to hop on and check out something I made?
I am making a Create tutorial world
ruby robin
I have been working on my singleplayer all of create aeronautics modpack. I think i got some power to play with
cerulean cargo
If I could find a good Create modpack that adds some direction to Minecraft I might just play it again
ruby robin
Im absolutely loving Create. Played vanilla for the most part since beta 1.5
bold hazel
I like Reclamation a lot. Although I'd call it less "a Create modpack that adds direction" and more "a quest pack that has Create".
bold hazel
I really want to play minecraft with someone but I have nobody to play minecraft with. And I especially want to play Reclamation with someone but that's a quest pack so you can't easily do a one-off thing...
ruby robin
finally got an elevator for my mineshaft using the elevator pulley
safe oracle
hell yeah
ruby robin
I havent even gotten into the physics stuff that aeronautics adds
astral rose
wise owl
a proper feast
ruby robin
woh
wise owl
on an AIRSHIP
wise owl
Oh hell yeah
light hound
so I've been watching a lot of minecraft horror mod content
there are some genuinely good ideas and even outright good mods out there
but also so much of it is pure slop
odd gate
Such is the case with horror in general tbh
ruby robin
The farm too good. It filled up the chest
shrewd leaf
ruby robin
shrewd leaf
i have had to airlift multiple people's contraptions stuck in the void today
dropped my buddy's p38 in the pond because my heli doesnt have the rotor power to lift it all the way back up
also had to lift the car back up when i immediately drove it off the island at full speed
this shit isnt even minecraft anymore we're doing stormworks type motion now
airlifted an entire sheep pen to a player who didnt have any animals on their island
i definitely gotta add some stuff to make the helicopter better suited to skycrane shit, the rope points i have on it now were kinda just afterthoughts
shrewd leaf
shitty gooba helicopter number 2
this one is a testbed for realistic-ish cyclic control using computercraft
create: avionics gives u a bunch of computercraft compats that let you interact with the aeronautics blocks, including changing the target vector of the gyroscopic propellor to whatever u want
so it takes input from a mouse-controlled joystick, does some math (really stupid addition/subtraction because I can't be bothered to learn how to change vectors into angles) and sends that output to the rotor to pitch or roll, with a gyroscope on the bottom to give it a bit of stability/return-to-center
safe oracle
huh.... interesting
ruby robin
The andesite factory
austere wren
ngl i'm kinda considering downloading some kind of modpack with create aeronautics in it to try it out
seems quite fun
shrewd leaf
yeah im kinda knee-deep in it
the computercraft compatability addon was the thing that really made my autism go wild
because it unlocks so much more potential
austere wren
i'm kind of eh on Create as a whole mostly cause i find setting up automation to be kind of tedious but i think i could go in for it with create aeronautics being in the mix
what does the computercraft compatibility addon do?
shrewd leaf
yeah i find the initial create process kinda tedious too
austere wren
getting everything set up is like
the least fun part
ngl every time i've done it i've just
said fuck it to automation and built everything by hand
one time i actually tried to set up automation the modpack i was playing had like
complicated the recipes more
shrewd leaf
what does the computercraft compatibility addon do?
it's a lua library that lets you add the different aeronautics parts as peripherals to a computer and interact with them directly via lua code
austere wren
so the automation i tried to do just did not work which sucked
shrewd leaf
so like, the vanilla behavior of the gyroscopic propeller is that it can swivel around and always points upwards, to make helicopters easier
austere wren
it's a lua library that lets you add the different aeronautics parts as peripher...
ahh i see, don't think that's something i could really do much with without going knee deep in a bunch of youtube tutorials
shrewd leaf
with the computercraft compat you can hook it up to a pc and pass in your own swivel position, to mimic something like a helicopter cyclic control
austere wren
seems really cool tho
shrewd leaf
yeah it's definitely not like the simplest thing
im a programmer though so i just sorta like, do this stuff lol
austere wren
i just don't have the prerequisite knowledge to make use of that kinda stuff
austere wren
im a programmer though so i just sorta like, do this stuff lol
yeah that makes sense
i can see why a mod like that would really be of interest
shrewd leaf
the script actually isnt that long
create aero has a lot of cool stuff you can do with normal redstone too, like, sensors that put out redstone signal based on orientation or speed or altitude. I just sorta tried that and then got fed up with doing redstone logic gates and jumped straight to lua lol
austere wren
yeah i mean
if you can do the coding
and there's the addon for it
you know
fuck trying to make logic gates with redstone
shrewd leaf
ive seen people use like the tiny redstone mod to make super complex analog flight computers, those are dope
there's also just all this stuff
the steam locomotive running gear absolutely blew my mind
shrewd leaf
i like aeronautics because it sorta adds a thing to do with create stuff that isnt just factories
austere wren
yeah
ngl the main reason i don't fw create is that it's just like
automate building stuff
so you can automate more automation
shrewd leaf
yeeeeah
shrewd leaf
like you only need so much automation to trivialize survival minecraft, and then after that it's sorta just for its own sake
austere wren
genuinely the least interesting mod on its own that i've ever played with
it has a fuck ton of cool addons and complementary mods though
which is where things actually get interesting
shrewd leaf
yeah
austere wren
like with Create: Aeronautics
but yeah idk i kinda wanna hop back into minecraft now
though i think i'd probably not play for too long without others
shrewd leaf
yeah singleplayer minecraft is something i havent done in actual decades
or. an actual decade
austere wren
i kinda try it every once in a while but it doesn't really stick
still wish i'd gotten the map file from a server i played ages ago, i almost ended up finishing quite a cool build on it
candid dock
the two main reasons i try to use create as little as possible are
- almost everything base create does tends to be something another mod in whatever pack i'm running already does but better/faster/simpler/with less tangential investment
- for a while (possibly ongoing) there was a trend of every thing i saw about create outside this server was acting like every new create addon was doing something revolutionary that had never been seen before despite other mods doing the same thing for years
but aeronautics mostly breaks this pattern and its tempting me
shrewd leaf
yeah a lot of the stuff create does, other mods do better. One thing that I really like about create is that it has a really like... physical/kinetic feel that makes things very intuitive. Routing around rotational force with cogs and shafts is just a really cool concept compared to routing stuff with different wires.
i like to use addons and other mods to supplement create in a pack, and yeah aeronautics introduces something that isn't like, completely new, but is really cool
we've had airship/moving constructable mods forever, and even the movecraft plugin let you do it kinda jankily in vanilla minecraft, but the level of physics simulation and control you have in aeronautics is kinda insane
candid dock
Ye, and like create is a perfectly fine mod it's just the amount of like overhype it got and mod pack makers shoehorning it into everything kinda made me resent it a bit
Also quick side bar, are all the other current map mods still worse than xaeros?
ancient estuary
yeah a lot of the stuff create does, other mods do better. One thing that I real...
that's the secret sauce for sure. Create automation may or may not be a more interesting puzzle than other modes, but the aesthetic is very strong compared to the umpteenth tech mode where you just plug generic cubes into tubes
candid dock
Draconic evolution had some nice fancyness with its fusion crafting and various orbs but fell flat in a lot of other ways
austere wren
mhm
candid dock
Need more high tech mods with fancy animated multiblocks
Also another tangent, is it just me or is there a kind of giant imbalance in high tech mods in terms of ways to make energy and useful things to spend it on?
safe oracle
so you can automate more automation
see this is kind of part of the appeal of create to us. we like factory-builders.
candid dock
I do too but for me it's too easy to hit the end of create without doing much if any automation so my brain refuses to classify it as a factory builder mod
safe oracle
it's mostly there for scaling operations
personally? not a super big fan of mining
so a cobblestone generator for iron production is helpful to us
candid dock
The curse of being s tech tree climber, I rarely end up scaling up that much
ruby robin
I like the create blocks
lapis parcel
I tend to see Create as either something for small dips for a few QoL things, or good for builder support when you need to churn out a bunch of a given block. I feel like for a lot of tech mods, automation of random items is less of a concern (though still possible, sometimes.) But like... does Oritech for example have an automated stonecutter?
pseudo juniper
wise owl
YES EXACTLY THAT
wise owl
oh wait you sent the gif det
shrewd leaf
keyboard-controlled digital fly-by-wire with a full glass cockpit babeyyy
the flight control part i did 90% myself but the UI is like entirely vibe-coded
the red dot moves around the graph to signify the position of the cyclic, and the bar on the right is the collective thrust. The green words on the bottom are statuses of various flight modes
so like when BLND is green the yaw control is blended with the cyclic roll command
and you can toggle it with the B key