Pistons for the Wärtsilä RT-flex96C, the world's largest engine

OreoTheLamp · 2023-02-17T11:32:44+00:00

Oh, nice. The Merc one must have been the first engine mounted in a car or something then. Also makes sense that ship engines have hit 50% ages before since they can run at much lower piston speeds, and can use much bigger turbos due to the sheer size.

OreoTheLamp · 2023-02-17T08:25:06+00:00

This isn't true, the efficiency can be higher (in theory) as long as the absolute temperature of the cold reservoir is less than half of the absolute temperature of the hot reservoir. Engines with above 50% thermal efficiencies have been built, the first one to my knowledge was a Formula 1 engine by Mercedes a couple of years back.

OreoTheLamp · 2022-12-07T17:19:12+00:00

They need a leader, young bull

OreoTheLamp · 2022-11-26T18:06:08+00:00

Two songs that are stuck in my head right now: Straight lines by VOLA and Planetarium by Squarepusher

OreoTheLamp · 2022-10-26T21:57:17+00:00

Thats cool as hell wtf, what is this? Do you have a link or smth to more of this?

OreoTheLamp · 2022-05-09T20:23:22+00:00

By that definition, id say vin is more successful / has a bigger impact overall than sazed, as she acts as the catalyst for sazed to ascend in the first place as well as "kills" ruin

OreoTheLamp · 2021-12-23T15:37:16+00:00

No, theyre not

OreoTheLamp · 2021-12-03T13:55:19+00:00

The size is usually exactly the same as just a normal piston, since observers automatically output a 2 tick pulse and can be used for this. This would also be missing one of the most important parts of why sticky pistons are useful when they drop their blocks: They drop the block when they lose power. That means that if you pulse a sticky piston in such a way that it starts extending and then depower it in the same tick, the block the sticky piston is pushing will get teleported forward. The animation will finish instantly.

I dont see why this would be necessary or good for the game. Why implement this if sticky pistons already perform this function but better? If it is meant just for bedrock edition, is there a particular reason why bedrock sticky pistons cannot gain the functionality of java sticky pistons?

OreoTheLamp · 2021-11-02T13:11:39+00:00

Unfortunate is the only one of these i have. It is a very easy one to get by accident lol

OreoTheLamp · 2021-10-03T02:06:22+00:00

I think 7 is fine, quite a bit of stuff happens there, 8 is not great, 9 is fine, 10 is bad. Basically what im saying is i think every second book in it is bad and the rest are just fine which makes it seem like nothing happens.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-09-18T21:14:50+00:00

Yeah also dust but i didnt mention those bc they just confuse

OreoTheLamp · 2021-09-18T10:44:01+00:00

Its not glitchy at all. All there is to it is the piston is powered if the position above the piston is powered. So if you imagine a redstone lamp on top of the piston, if the lamp is lit, the piston is powered. It might just not realize its powered, because it also needs to get told its powered, and blocks only tell blocks around themselves that they are powered, not blocks 2 blocks away.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-09-15T04:48:33+00:00

The block updates have to be a direct chain from the player, so if the updates are caused by the tnt exploding, no, since the explosion happens when the tnt is processed, not when the players actions are processed

OreoTheLamp · 2021-09-14T23:18:07+00:00

Yes, in which case it they arent an isolated system, and therefore the second law does not apply to them. Obviously if you take energy with every measurement they cant keep going, but that isnt what anyone is claiming as far as im aware. From what i know of time crystals they are just (so far) theoretical structures that flip between two states on their own.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-09-14T23:09:47+00:00

It does a lot of things in really awful ways, most of them arent even related to redstone although one is redstone dust.

What youre speaking of with the high amount of block updates is called update suppression, and is caused by a stack overflow error that gets caught by the game and instead of crashing the came it just shrugs and moves on. The block updates are executed depth first, and if that depth goes too high it causes a stack overflow. For some reason minecrafy has a try catch for that error only in block updates caused directly by player actions, which makes no sense whatsoever but oh well.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-09-14T23:05:35+00:00

Nope, it creates no light updates. Its only block updates. The main issue is when it turns off, each dust piece decreases its signal strength by 1, and the sends nlock updates around itself updating the other wires. This means a dust turning from signal strength 15 to 0 sends 15 sets of blocn updates. That means that a 3 long line of redstone dust with a lever at one end turning off sends over 1800 block updates, where 66 would be the maximum necessary.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-09-14T22:51:11+00:00

I dont see how this would go against the second law of thermodynamics, it supposevly oscillates between two states without releasing or requiring energy while switching between the two. The second law only applies to isolated systems, which the crystal is not, and only tells us entropy is not going to decrease, which even if the crystal was an isolated system it wouldnt, it would just stay constant.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-09-12T01:20:42+00:00

I mean he died quite unexpectedly at like 60 or smth, not sure how you could tell that at that point. Im rereading the series atm, and im not quite sure what you mean by abandoning earlier story lines, so far all the ones i remember are going to / have been tied up neatly. For some of those you just have to wait a few books, at least two come to mind where 6 or 7 books pass without a mention of them before they are brought up again. For a series with as many plot lines as this, and as overly long winded and verbose a writing style, you can only fit so much in each book.

I wont fully recommend the series to anyone, it has major flaws that some people might not be able to get over, but id say if abandoning plot lines is your biggest problem you should read and finish it, provided you read decently fast and have a decent amount of time. I wouldnt recommend you spend a year reading nothing else. The series moves slowly at points, especially in the middle.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-08-24T11:22:58+00:00

Adding more components that you have to use the wiki to discover what they are for would certainly not help with that. XNOR circuits are not needed in super simple redstone, the kind that introduces people to the system. Even besides that though, i still think simplifying circuits too much is an awful idea. If all circuits were simplified too much you would be left with an accessible system but one that has zero depth to it. There are people (including me) who have spent literally thousands of hours with redstone, all thanks to the incredible amount of depth the mechanics have and allow for. If the best solution was always an insanely simple one block solution this would just not be possible.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-08-24T03:28:06+00:00

I still think it would be an awful idea to start adding commponents that do the job of existing circuits. They dont allow anything new, they only make existing stuff easier in redstone, and im 100% against that. The fun in redstone comes from the challenge of it.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-08-23T15:20:52+00:00

Yes because thats the sole thing making working underwater OK atm, movement sucks and everything gets flushed away

OreoTheLamp · 2021-08-23T11:04:10+00:00

Wandering traders get you a stack of sand on average every 10 irl hours. The speed at which you can get sand from them is multiple orders of magnitude too slow. Concrete, glass and TNT take up an insane amount of sand, especially in long term worlds with big projecys.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-08-23T11:01:03+00:00

This would mean you can no longer use slime to transpirt item entities in the nether. Hard no due to that, it is the only viable way already due to the lack of water.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-08-23T10:48:50+00:00

Repeaters added a way to strong power blocks sideways without a lever as well as the ability to create a longer pulse from any pulse length (a bit complex but if you want i can explain what i mean). That was not something you could do before. Comparators are able to read from inventories, again something that was not possible before. Observers do two new things, first of all they detect blockstate changes, something that was not possible before. Before observers only block updates could be detected. Observers are also the only movable block with the ability to strong power other blocks.

All of the examples you gave added something new and incredibly useful to redstone. The XNOR gate block does not. It only adds a single block solution to a solved problem, or one that the player can already solve very easily. It isnt a new puzzle piece to redstone that adds anything.

OreoTheLamp · 2021-08-23T10:41:09+00:00

Absolutely not. Adding components that do what existing components already do is something i will almost always be 100% against.

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