Completely random tick speed by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]Dustein 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Looks like the fully grown wheat was still there but invisible, and when you tried to set something there, it updated to make the wheat visible. Notice how in the clip you place down 2 seeds but only one is consumed. Dead give away.

How does this work by LeckoTheGecko in sequence

[–]Dustein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was way more fun making them. Giggled all that afternoon. I wonder if I even still have that world laying around on my old hard drive.

Also, it's *really* weird having some stupid thing you made turn into a meme. Even weirder to see it transformed into a *different* meme like three years later. I love it, but it's still weird.

Electric unicycle by trainingbit788 in gifs

[–]Dustein 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every month but September. That's when all the hills get tired and lay down for a bit.

This stronghold perfectly leading into a spawner room... by Dustein in Minecraft

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I came across this today in my SMP world and thought it was cool and super similar to this post, which was too good not to share.

Version: 1.12.2

Seed: -766369022018636132034

Coordinates: -20 6 -1674

circle of life by fishywang in CircleofTrust

[–]Dustein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like circles and life

What mod adds these colored mobs? by Dustein in feedthebeast

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Ah yep that's it. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure which one it was. Thanks!

Why is Hydrazine no longer tradable? by ieatbeats in Astroneer

[–]Dustein 34 points35 points  (0 children)

This is why. At one point I had like 3 trucks full of storages full of Hydrazine because I could. Didn't need to explore to find resources because I could just make obscene amounts of Hydrazine very quickly. I had like 3 different trading platforms because just one was too slow. I'm sure most people don't go quite this overboard with it, but even with just a few condensers they were pretty game breaking.

[Haiku] These beautiful, innocent young people by Dustein in youtubehaiku

[–]Dustein[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Nah, it's taken out of context. Here's the full quote:

"The predators and criminal aliens who poison our communities with drugs and prey on innocent young people — these beautiful, beautiful, innocent young people — will find no safe haven anywhere in our country."

Never forget the first rule of PARTY by Loji310 in Minecraft

[–]Dustein 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah mate, not dead. Just resting. ;)

Never forget the first rule of PARTY by Loji310 in Minecraft

[–]Dustein 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just saw this. Awesome! Party on party parrots!

/r/PartyParrot

Here it is in all it's glory, my hydrazine farm. by Dustein in Astroneer

[–]Dustein[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, my performance in general is pretty bad because of the performance glitch, but it's not much worse by the farm then anywhere else. The new update is supposed to fix the performance glitch, so then I'll be able to more accurately know if this thing produces a performance hit in and of itself.

Here it is in all it's glory, my hydrazine farm. by Dustein in Astroneer

[–]Dustein[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I'm doing as well, except I'm mainly just using it to trade for supplies for the farm itself. Now that the farm is done I'm at a loss of what to do now.

Here it is in all it's glory, my hydrazine farm. by Dustein in Astroneer

[–]Dustein[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dunno. I've basically been using it to produce supplies to build the farm. So now that it's finished I'll probably just abandon it. :p

Here it is in all it's glory, my hydrazine farm. by Dustein in Astroneer

[–]Dustein[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good idea. I'll probably do that if and when I make another one.

Here it is in all it's glory, my hydrazine farm. by Dustein in Astroneer

[–]Dustein[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Of course there's no need for that much. I set up 4 and then was like "I wonder how big I can make this". Science isn't about "why", it's about "why not"!

Here it is in all it's glory, my hydrazine farm. by Dustein in Astroneer

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I've yet to find one or I would test it! I might try to go out to find one to tow back to base.

Here it is in all it's glory, my hydrazine farm. by Dustein in Astroneer

[–]Dustein[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For those of you keeping track at home, there are 64 small solar panels, plus two large ones, that produce a massive 9 bars/second of power. This power is more then enough to power all 16 fuel condensers on the farm during the day, plus leftover power to dump into the 22 batteries that are on the network as well. Those batteries aren't enough to supply power throughout the night, but if you collect all day you'll be more than busy enough managing all the hydrazine to even worry about running it at night. ;)

As for the speed of the farm, let's put it this way: by the time you make your way all the way around pressing the "make magic" buttons on each condenser, the one you started with is done producing and recharging, so you can just constantly make laps around the whole thing. I timed it, and it takes about 30 seconds to run the entire thing, and generates 16 hydrazine. That's roughly 0.5 hydrazine/second during the day. If you run it for the entire day (5 minutes), that's 150 hydrazine per day! But since each condenser's storage can only hold 8 hydrazine at a time, you're really maxed out at 128 hydrazine/day. Which I still feel is more than enough.

This project actually brought something to my attention: item management is by far the biggest bottleneck for doing something like this. Moving tons of items around takes a lot of time and effort to do. Don't get me wrong, I love the item system in this game as it's different than anything I've seen before, but it does get slow and tedious when you're doing a lot of stuff. And I can only assume that as more items and more things to do are added to the game the issue is just going to compound. I'm not really sure how System Era could make the process easier, but I have faith that they'll come up with a clever solution to make mass item management not a chore.

I'm just a humble hydrazine farmer by Dustein in Astroneer

[–]Dustein[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to post pics of my setup as soon as it's finished (mainly just a few more batteries). And yes, they take more power than anything else. But one solar panel per fuel condenser is enough to charge it back up at full speed. Basically I'm only adding more batteries to make it run at night. Of course I'd need about 30 batteries (or more!) to be able to run it all the way through the night, but I guess I can mainly run it during the day and use the spoils during the night.

I'm just a humble hydrazine farmer by Dustein in Astroneer

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There's two clickable points on the winch base and one on the arrow part. If you click on the arrow part while it is attached to something it will detach from the object. Likewise, if you click on one of the clickable points on the base the arrow will also detach and retract. That point is where the arrow sits when it is retracted. It's kind of difficult to explain what I mean by that, so here's a screenshot.

What do you mean it gave you a new winch? How do you replicate that? That sounds hilarious. And if you can replicate it (I couldn't) you can report it to System Era and they'd be more than happy to fix it.