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Zefram
706e880f05 Manual sections on miscellaneous powered machines 2014-08-28 15:13:04 +02:00
Zefram
7c85726e9a Fix a stray British spelling in manual 2014-08-28 15:05:26 +02:00
Zefram
8cec4180af Manual section on processing machines 2014-08-28 15:02:02 +02:00
Zefram
04e911f94b Start of manual chapter on powered machines 2014-08-28 15:01:13 +02:00
Zefram
3b1abaaa56 Manual section on concrete 2014-08-28 14:37:36 +02:00
ShadowNinja
ec069aa43e Change chainsaw cutting algorithm back to old one
The new algorithm caused horizontal sections of trees to be left, with the
sections above and below them removed.
2014-08-22 20:57:30 -04:00
ShadowNinja
16302cffce Fix chainsaw placing drops and playing sounds at tops of trees 2014-08-22 20:01:15 -04:00
Zefram
78646b2d89 Make tree tap respect item_drop 2014-08-22 14:20:13 +01:00
Zefram
0cf4133b97 Make wrench available in creative mode only
The wrench is far too powerful to be available to survival-mode players
via a cheap recipe.
2014-08-22 01:07:38 +01:00
Zefram
7ab3f9bed2 Update wrench's metadata for technic machines
The changes that this covers are that the alloy furnaces now have one
"src" inventory instead of a "src" and "src2"; that the tool workshop
is now MV; and the existence of MV compressor, extractor, and centrifuge.
2014-08-22 01:01:44 +01:00
Zefram
2912e2da78 Rebalance radiation shielding
Squeeze the range of material shielding values.  The strongest shielding
materials get weaker, and weaker shielding materials, especially low-end
ones such as dirt, get stronger.  The radioactivity of the active
reactor core is increased so that the standard shielding is (still)
only narrowly sufficient.
2014-08-20 20:09:41 +01:00
Zefram
7a9d2ffe5f Finer gradations of radioactivity
Make the "radioactive" group value be the safe distance in millimeters
rather than meters, to allow for intermediate values.  Use such
intermediate values for the uranium blocks, using the existing formula
with this finer quantisation.  All other radioactive nodes retain their
existing radioactivity exactly.
2014-08-20 19:14:03 +01:00
Zefram
7d610b7c80 Tube capability for tool workshop
Tool workshop can now accept tools to repair via tube.  It has upgrade
slots.  Battery upgrade reduces its power consumption.  Tube upgrade
makes it eject fully-repaired (or unrepairable) items via tube.
2014-08-18 17:09:37 +01:00
Zefram
814646b542 Smoother link of processing cycles to ABM cycles
Make the generic processing machine code willing to complete more than
one processing cycle in one ABM cycle, and more generally to carry
over leftover processing effort after completing a processing cycle.
The src_time meta item now represents accumulated processing effort
(time multiplied by speed) in a scaled form (to retain fractions),
rather than just time in integral seconds.  This affects the MV furnace,
with speed 4 and most recipe times being 3 s, and will be essential for
faster furnaces.
2014-08-18 15:14:15 +01:00
Zefram
d0efa15b98 In quarry, skip past undiggable nodes
The quarry used to get stuck when it encountered an undiggable node.
Change it to skip past that node, digging whatever later stuff it can.
Necessarily, the current digging position becomes semantically-significant
state: it is no longer sufficient to search the quarry cuboid from the top
on each iteration.  The current digging height is reported in the quarry's
interaction form, and can be reset to the top using a button on the form.

Where there is a non-air node within the quarry directly above the
next node to dig, it blocks the quarry's access to that node, even if
everything involved is diggable.  Thus an undiggable node casts a shadow
of undug nodes below it.  Resolving undiggability of a node is a major
reason to use the restart button.
2014-08-18 15:14:15 +01:00
Novatux
390ade6e54 Change oregen to a non-uniform distribution. 2014-08-17 17:08:11 +02:00
Zefram
d0001a20c9 Fix visible cable connection for irregular items
The switching station and supply converter only semantically connect to
cables in particular directions.  Make them visually connect only in
the matching directions.  This is done by special-casing in the cable
update logic.  If more irregular items arise in the future, or the
existing items start to need facedir logic, this should be generalised
into something like the connect_sides system for pneumatic tubes.
2014-08-17 13:43:39 +01:00
Novatux
35b10adb40 Fix items sending 2014-08-16 13:42:17 +02:00
Zefram
849526cd76 Fix forcefield power demand when disabled 2014-08-15 12:25:47 +01:00
Zefram
830de45936 Option for forcefield to be cubical 2014-08-15 12:25:46 +01:00
Zefram
6cc471e986 Simplify music player interface
Having a track selected now implies playing it, rather than
playing/stopped being a hidden state separate from track selection.
2014-08-15 12:25:46 +01:00
Zefram
1d0687556a Fix music player's sound management
If an operating music player was disconnected from the electrical network
or destroyed, it used to leave the music playing forever.  There was
also a glitch upon starting playing, as the music was started by the
form handler but then stopped when the run function realised it wasn't
receiving any power, because it hadn't demanded any yet.
2014-08-15 12:25:46 +01:00
Zefram
049129d9b8 Handle both pipeworks APIs
The new API function is now renamed to pipeworks.tube_inject_item(),
so use it under that name.  If it is not available, synthesise the new
API in terms of the old one.
2014-08-15 13:23:41 +02:00
Vanessa Ezekowitz
772c21cb04 don't put anchor in creative inv 2014-08-14 21:56:05 -04:00
Novatux
baf7f61665 Compatibility with latest pipeworks 2014-08-14 21:29:56 +02:00
Zefram
3b16a2858f Revise rules for regenerating latex
To ensure that only rubber tree trunk nodes that are part of trees
regenerate, rather than those that are used as building blocks, check
that they are sufficiently close to rubber tree leaves.  This replaces the
older rule that naturally-grown trunks regenerate (regardless of leaves)
and manually-placed trunks don't (even though manually building a tree
otherwise works).  The detection of manually-placed trunks was in any
case broken for users of moretrees, because that mod fails to set the
flag signalling manual placement.

Incidentally also fix a bug that caused rubber tree branches (horizontal
trunk nodes) to turn vertical when regenerating latex.  Rather than set
the complete node structure, only switch the type name, as does the tree
tap when emptying the node.
2014-08-13 23:13:52 +01:00
Zefram
b001a67979 Administrative world anchor 2014-08-13 19:07:53 +01:00
Zefram
38e85e9775 Manual section on uranium enrichment 2014-08-13 02:45:44 +01:00
Zefram
df7bf8c713 Manual sectioning
Expand list of sections yet to be written.  Arrange sections both written
and unwritten into a two-level structure, with a bit of consequential
reordering.
2014-08-13 00:25:15 +01:00
Zefram
7112e742f4 More manual
Added section on chests.  Fixed another stray British spelling.
Backslashed literal underscores to avoid them being interpreted as
emphasis markup.
2014-08-11 13:04:53 +01:00
Zefram
5692c29a45 More manual
Sections on rubber and electrical power.
2014-08-09 13:59:46 +01:00
Zefram
eed803349c More manual
Added sections on the technic-specific kinds of item processing, and on
generic metal mechanics, and the specific trickery around iron (merging
in notes_on_iron).
2014-08-08 23:22:36 +01:00
Zefram
ddb522d4cc Fix stray British spellings in manual 2014-08-08 19:36:43 +01:00
Zefram
e3b44be6ec Change "altitude" to "elevation" in manual
Vanessa finds "altitude" to carry too much of an aviation connotation.
Zefram finds "elevation" to carry insufficient connotation of being
relative to sea level, so also adds a clarifying note.  Beware of changing
this terminology without negotiation, as it aroused surprisingly strong
opinions.
2014-08-08 17:40:28 +01:00
Zefram
488070c1ee Start on user manual 2014-08-08 16:41:31 +01:00
Kevin Zheng
7cfb3874a3 Evenly distribute charge across multiple batteries 2014-08-06 12:08:48 -05:00
ShadowNinja
ab567e21ca Remove non-functional tetris machine 2014-08-04 13:43:57 -04:00
Zefram
4996d1824c Make nuclear reactor core harder to break
With breaking an active reactor core now causing instant meltdown, having
it breakable by hand is too hazardous.  Change it to match steel block,
which constitutes the main part of the rest of the reactor structure.
2014-08-04 12:54:47 -04:00
Zefram
a2d1fefe14 Realistic range of radioactivity of uranium blocks
Fully-depleted uranium doesn't lack noticeable radioactivity.  The
radioactivity of enriched uranium is dominated by the U-234 fraction,
not U-235.
2014-08-04 17:03:56 +01:00
Zefram
fc87eca4cd Fix technic_run declaration for hydro generator 2014-08-04 14:58:38 +01:00
Zefram
8275091347 Improve injector interface
Make the injector's mode button lag-resistant.  Display the mode on
the button, as is done with other machines' toggle buttons.  Describe
the modes using the same words that are now used to distinguish the
corresponding pipeworks objects.  Expand name to "self-contained
injector", now that the pipeworks objects are also called "injector".
Show injector item image along with the item name at the head of the form.
2014-08-01 18:25:20 +01:00
Zefram
daa6135211 Update alloying craft guide to match machine
The alloy furnaces have been changed to lay out the input slots
horizontally.  The craft guide should match that, for mnemonic value.
2014-08-01 17:56:32 +01:00
Zefram
beb480bec2 Redescribe alloying in craft guide
Change "Alloy cooking" to "Alloying", for consistency with the
descriptions of other recipe types.
2014-08-01 17:50:40 +01:00
Zefram
0003ec6a79 Make carbon steel alloying quicker
Taking the same time per alloying cycle as other alloys meant that carbon
steel was being produced painfully slowly, becuase it processes much less
material per cycle than other alloys.  This change halves the cycle time,
which leaves it still processing less material per second than other
alloying processes, but by a less drastic margin.
2014-08-01 17:40:35 +01:00
Zefram
2a7ee141eb Fix behaviour on decabling a forcefield emitter 2014-08-01 17:30:21 +01:00
Vanessa Ezekowitz
88bdac62e3 Merge remote-tracking branch 'zefram/zefram/centrifuge' 2014-07-30 15:36:27 -04:00
Zefram
12d0c6522b Correct breakability of sandstone CNC nodes
default:sandstone has cracky=3, but the CNC nodes had cracky=2.
2014-07-30 20:28:30 +01:00
Zefram
0dfac3f484 Make granite harder than regular stone
In real life granite is renowned for its hardness.
2014-07-30 20:25:35 +01:00
Zefram
60bc80692b Remove a noisy debugging print 2014-07-28 13:29:39 +01:00
Zefram
b0faa70873 Uranium enrichment via centrifuge
Replacing the extractor-based system, uranium to be used as reactor fuel
must now be enriched in stages using the centrifuge.  Uranium metal can
exist at 36 levels of fissile content, from 0.0% to 3.5% in steps of 0.1%.
One round of centrifuging splits two dust of a particular grade in to one
dust each of the two neighbouring grades.  Uranium of each grade can exist
as dust, ingot, and block, with all the regular metal processes to convert
between them.  Uranium from ore exists in lump form, and is 0.7% fissle.
The blocks are radioactive to a degree dependent on fissile content.
Thus the chemical refinement and processing of uranium now follows the
standard pattern for metals, and is orthogonal to isotopic enrichment.
Each form of uranium (dust, ingot, block) intentionally looks identical
regardless of fissile grade.

If technic_worldgen is used alone, it defines only one grade of uranium
(as before), but defines it in the regular metal pattern, with lump, ingot
produced by cooking lump, and block crafted from ingots.  It identifies
the metal only as "uranium".  The multiple grades of uranium are defined
by the technic mod, which identifies each grade as "N.N%-fissile
uranium".  The single grade that was registered by technic_worldgen
is redefined to be described specifically as "0.7%-fissile uranium".
For the redefinition to work, technic_worldgen must load before technic,
so technic now declares a dependency on technic_worldgen.

Each fuel rod is made from five 3.5%-fissile ingots, each of which in
turn requires one to start with five 0.7%-fissile dust, so each fuel rod
is now derived from 12.5 uranium lumps (or 25 if the lumps were first
cooked rather than being ground).  This replaces the 20 lumps required
by the former recipes.  After setting up and priming the centrifuge
cascade, enriching a full set of fuel for the reactor (six fuel rods)
takes 14700 centrifuge operations.  It's intended to be a practical
necessity to automate the centrifuge.  In the absence of EU upgrades
for the centrifuges, these operations consume 5.88e8 EU, about 0.97%
of the 6.048e10 EU that the fuel set will produce in the reactor.
The intent is that, in this respect as in others, operating a reactor
should carry a very high up-front cost, but ultimately be very profitable.
2014-07-28 13:18:51 +01:00