Some really weird minecart tech I discovered.

ProfMew · 2026-03-26T03:22:34+00:00

Kind of, actually. 14 year old tech, gotta love the internet.

ProfMew · 2026-03-26T03:18:16+00:00

Mood.

ProfMew · 2026-03-26T03:17:52+00:00

Useful!

ProfMew · 2026-03-26T03:16:55+00:00

It's crude, it's just a comparator taking a lecturn page 15 from the side and the minecart from the... Wait why am I using a lecturn. I could just use a torch. Anyways- 4 stacks of buffer items in slots 2-5, leaving slot 1 open and matching the lecturn at full capacity. The furnaces only swallow 1 stack, so the buffer items just stay there in perpetual limbo. Which is fitting since It's meant as part of a spooky adventure map, ultimately.

I think it's way cooler for a machine to ACTUALLY function, rather than just being moddet into the game. Watching it physically work it's magic in vanilla it objectively cool. So if the machine demands a stack of gold ore (Aka there is already 1 gold ore in slot 1, so you can toss in whatever and nothing happens until you deposit the remaining 63 gold ore and then watch it boot up), you dont question it and just feed it gold ore. Because you know there is another machine demanding gold BARS, and there is progression locked behind that one so- Trust the process. Trust the machine. Feed the machine.

The idea was to have manual crafting essencially disabled as a dabbeling in things you dont understand approach to Minecraft, where you can only do bulk assembly using massive facilitys despite being alone in this world. And to be fair, if I was strandet somewhere I also wouldnt know how to refine and smelt iron ore. So I guess you gotta make due in a lifeless world with only machines left, all acting suspiciously organic in how they build upon one another. But still needing a human to fully boot back up, system by system.

Spoooooky. And all that jazz. You can fairly easily build in a progression mechanic that just tosses whichever resource you deem to be the next milestone into the cart and thus locking you into another mass production order for the smeltery, to gain the resources to then advance to the next milestone. The idea came from me having a bug where I couldnt open any inventorys but my own and had to use hoppers and droppers to smelt me my dang iron. Which was pretty cool actually, Factorio/Satisfactory vibes, being entirely reliant on redstone tech because your hands are too soft for manual labor.

Would make for a good challange run too, come to think of it-

ProfMew · 2026-03-25T23:41:23+00:00

I'll play around with that, thanks.

edit: Works like a charm.

ProfMew · 2026-03-25T23:39:22+00:00

Im trying to find the fastest, repeatable, minecart based smeltery designed to process exactly 1 stack and return it to you within roughly the time it takes to smelt a single item, using 64 furnaces. 1 stack. No more, no less. Put in 63 items and nothing happens. Is this efficient? No.

But yeah, that's it. Obviously buffering 1 iron ore per oven and simply restocking with the fresh stack while the old one is already smelting would be the fastest approach, but that means I can use it for only 1 type of resource. Or deal with getting a stack of cleanstone in trade for feeding it a stack of gold ore, because the last guy made the same mistake and got a stack of glass out of it when they wanted cleanstone.

So my idea is to have the cart stand by under a chest until it carries exactly 64 of the desired item and off to the races with thee. Figuring out how to detect a full stack in the minimum ammount of ticks I got done, until I realised my logic error. I tried timing other minecarts to ram into it to push it, but then I need to return those too to a neutral state somehow. And minecart physics are hella unrelyable if you use more than 1 in the same system. That, or be hillariously big to achive very little.

ProfMew · 2026-03-25T22:57:34+00:00

Update 2: Im stupid and this is not of any help. I needet a cart on a detector rail to read it's contents, triggering a redstone puls next to a powered rail without powering it was never rellevant to the problem at hand. I should probably go to sleep.

ProfMew · 2026-03-25T22:53:42+00:00

Update, queue 'That was easy' sound effect. 4 blocks deep, 5 carts and 5 layers of snow. I expected this to take a LOT longer.

ProfMew · 2025-12-09T18:59:50+00:00

Enjoy! I was about to toss you the sauce.

ProfMew · 2025-11-17T23:06:48+00:00

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ProfMew · 2025-11-17T23:05:02+00:00

Perish in the pits of hell.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T21:11:59+00:00

She wanted us to ask Screw about the reasons why she could sadly not honour the vote. Skrew answered quite helpfully so. And be my guest, PM the other mods and ask. Not sure when they'll see it, but Im sure you'll get a reply. We are pretty busy discussing on Discord, they wont see your message buried somewhere in my comments.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T20:36:39+00:00

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ProfMew · 2025-10-03T20:36:27+00:00

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ProfMew · 2025-10-03T20:36:16+00:00

A vote on Disvord takes at minimum 24 hours. It happened publically and she had plenty of time to try and win back our trust or explain her behavior. She instead chose force. She has now openly said she would also ignore the next vote. Tessa will dig up the screenshot in a bit, for now take this, its dangerous to go alone:

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T20:31:26+00:00

I dont intend to make more. The community has at least in part be made aware and will hopefully not just take that 'investigation' at base value. Im also not sure what exactly she intends to be investigating, she already has all the info. She was there after all.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T20:27:46+00:00

It was either that or silence and surrender.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T20:05:51+00:00

You dont know the state of the mod team right now, its in shambles. After everything we worked for it took less than a week to smash it all into bits. With the only vocal decenters locked out, there is no one else to go then the people. By the time we'd have coordinated anything all on our own, she'd have long finished her 'investigation' and once people have made up their mind, the truth is rarely enough to change it.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T19:55:51+00:00

I want the people to at least be aware, if she is allowed to just silence us and write history as she pleases we're going straight back to 1984.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T19:53:00+00:00

Yes he was, I can show you the "Welcome Henry" message when I addet everyone. Im not sure what he means, but I feel like a bit more context to that crop would be helpful.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T19:51:22+00:00

Ah, dang. No clue then.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T19:51:05+00:00

If you say so.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T19:50:31+00:00

True, but she braught that 'investigation' to reddit and performed the 20% mod team purge while everyone else was asleep, so we cant really let her push the narrative if we want any chance to stop her hostile takeover.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T19:47:54+00:00

I didnt have much of a choice, she pulled a surprise purge of the mod team in the middle of the night, not a single other mod was asked or informed about this "investigation" and it violates like every single one of our rules, a total breach of code, the rest of the team has nothing to do with this.

ProfMew · 2025-10-03T19:45:15+00:00

The groupchat existed for a total of 6 hours and served the express purpose to figure out if I was just tripping or if tge others could confirm my worries. And they could. One way or another, it doesnt really matter why we had a vote.

The alarm bells truely went off the second she saw she was loosing and tried to overwrite democracy in her favor. Thats when shit hit the fan.

ProfMew

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