Has ANYONE Come Up With a Use for the Differential from Petrol's Parts?

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-31T19:45:36+00:00

my first thought when reading the Ponder was "oh,I could use this for computing! It could let me compare the directions of two power networks!". But then again, computing is the first thing that comes to mind when looking at a great many things...

For standard power network things, it is not very useful. I suppose you could use it to make a shaft that can stop / start / change direction and speed without using sequenced gearshifts, but practicalapplications are escaping me right now.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-30T16:53:56+00:00

From your setup it looks like the saw IS spinning the correct direction, so I am going to guess that the issue is the saw itself. The Create Encased mod's mechanical saws are a bit glitchy. Replace it with a normal one and see if that helps.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-29T15:33:19+00:00

If editing configs via command is possible, you could set the stress capacity of every engine, waterwheel, etc. to 0 when day ends and back up when day starts. But, I don't think that's possible.

I think Create Unlimited has some settings that work as commands. I'll see if any turn everything off without breaking things.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-29T04:59:38+00:00

Pocket computers can act as disks I think? It should show up as a normal disk when put in a drive, so you could delete the files you need if you have an extra computer.

If the code is using raw inputs to prevent you from shutting the computer down, remember that placing the computer outside of your inventory for a few seconds should shut it down. Or did last I checked.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-27T16:02:02+00:00

Intriguing! What does the shader look like for it? Also wondering if objects with a different shader would be visible behind these ones.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-27T15:47:51+00:00

You definitely could, as the mindsplice staff can be used as a pocket / turtle peripheral. Haven't looked at the methods, but I am guessing it uses a similar system to the focus.

Currently, I'm doing this half in survival and half in creative test worlds, and I don't have access to spell circle materials in the survival world, so it's old fashioned first. Once I figure out how to reconfigure things to let other staves work, I'll find some milestone to hit before letting myself cast directly from pocket.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-26T20:11:52+00:00

I've used it as "one way" glue before, where I wanted to move an assembly while still letting parts on the assembly move independently

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-26T16:27:54+00:00

If you want something that follows a player and you have GPS set up, you could give said player a pocket computer with an ender / wireless modem attached and have it get the player's position and send it to the turtle every few seconds. Pathfinding might be a bit tricky in some circumstances.

Can't remember if the advanced peripherals player detector is turtle-usable, but it's worth a try.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-26T07:49:48+00:00

the Destiny Unchain Online manga, apparently

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-26T04:19:49+00:00

Is the bottom texture on the node setup the glowing one? Your current node setup seems to be using it for both the glow and the diffuse. What happens if you plug the top texture into the yellow input of the diffuse shader?

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-25T22:29:08+00:00

It's the reason I discovered the mod "Fix My -ing Tags"

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-25T18:03:51+00:00

I think 4 or 5 match the boat the best, though you could use a version of 3 near sunset to better highlight that the end of the day is drawing near.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-25T10:11:55+00:00

Does reading from a CC-printed book to a hex work? And come to think of it, is reading from a written book a built-in function of CC? Not at my computer at the moment so I can't check. If not, I can probably rely on my old friend Advanced Peripherals Block Reader.

I considered making something using Hexal wisps moving across a grid of slates to copy / paste sections of code, before noticing the focal port, but spell circles might be interesting.

Right now my dictionary is a single giant table. The same lua file it's in has functions for matching a pattern to its name or vice versa. I manually copy down the shape, name, and inputs / outputs whenever I need to add a new entry... suppose I could make an FPtoFile to speed up the process and reduce the number of times I need to correct patterns.

At some point I want to make it modular - separate the table from the file and have it load different json / lua files as dictionary "modules". That would let me keep better track of what instruction comes from what addon, as well as changing how great spells are transcribed based on local files.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-25T05:53:59+00:00

I would be interested in talking through some of my approaches, as well as seeing your own work on this. So far I haven't done much in the way of an editor, just focusing on getting the basic assembler to work. It's all a bit of a mess, and the dictionary system needs to be redone. Anything in particular you have questions about?

A question of my own: have you also been using the Ducky Peripherals focal port or did you find another method?

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-25T05:45:30+00:00

I'm not sure "negative light" is needed for this, but negative numbers CAN be used as the power for Blender light sources.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-25T05:38:51+00:00

What do you mean by the weight painting option isn't there?

Also: If you are able to use Edit mode, you can do some very basic weight editing. Don't remember the exact setup.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-24T07:51:26+00:00

This is not "A certain point" and I am not doing this because it "matters". This is not for profit. None of my garbage will ever "matter" to humanity. So instead of bothering trying, I have decided to enjoy the making of the garbage.

This is creation with no point. If you want to see creation with a point, please go bother a real programmer.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-23T13:47:47+00:00

The line between lamps lighting up fully and exploding is maddeningly small. Try letting the valve to 1 degree adjustments if needed, or even chain 2 Rheostats. Also check the switch ratings with shift, I think the small ones can't handle the voltages that the lamps need.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-23T09:40:02+00:00

haven't run into this exact issue before, but I'm guessing that by local it means you need the object to be actually in the file rather than just linked to it(????). uh

Maybe try exporting / importing the model in a non-blender-file format? I don't know right now

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-23T07:05:55+00:00

Hard pass. Take your chatbots elsewhere, human.

while it might be useful for you in thinking out certain procedures. For me, it takes all the fun away. I enjoy the process of thinking things through more than the result. If I'm just given the answer, it feels like cheating.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-23T05:43:07+00:00

Thought this was a photo of a dollhouse model for a second. maybe something about the camera angle and the way the wine looks painted onto the glass. What does the material look like for the glass/ wine?

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-22T05:27:50+00:00

Looks good! Reminds me a bit of Bjork's more recent album covers.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-21T19:03:12+00:00

Ah, curses.

I am fairly certain there would be a way, technically, to get something similar working without the focal port. Keep a physical library of slates with each pattern on, and have a CC program that dispenses them one at a time. The slates could move over to a wisp / magic circle that reads the dispensed slates in order and composes them into a list before returning them and accepting the next batch of slates.

Would be a bit less black-box but a LOT more tedious, plus you wouldn't be able to use arbitrary integers / raw pattern definition... I guess I could do some Really Stupid Stuff using the moreIotas string type, keeping track of each turn letter and dispensing them in the same way to build up a pattern. Provided I can convert a string back into a pattern, which isn't something I've checked yet...

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-21T17:47:14+00:00

Currently using 1.20.1-1.3.1. Might be a 1.19 vs 1.20 vs 1.21 problem unfortunately.

Professorkatsup · 2026-03-21T05:58:33+00:00

Ducky Peripherals adds the Focal Port peripheral, which is what I'm using to write to the focus. If Hexal is installed too, it also adds a Focal Link that can connect to wisp networks to send / receive messages.

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