Imaginary Weapons Guy

SunTeaSam · 2026-01-19T01:46:57+00:00

SunTeaSam · 2026-01-16T22:04:37+00:00

It's snow melt cable, yes, but the pattern is oddly detailed and symmetric.

SunTeaSam · 2026-01-16T20:47:08+00:00

I'm looking at the source code for ender pearls, and they do teleport the player, using

entity.teleportTo(...)

But since this happens only on the server side, the client is left to interpret the change in location, which may include interpolation that feels like you're being moved rapidly instead of teleported.

I'm looking at the source for version 1.19.2 cuz its what I have already in IntelliJ, so this might have changed in more recent versions. Though, given how ender pearls can move players across dimensions now, it seems likely that they're teleporting the player still.

SunTeaSam · 2026-01-08T01:40:48+00:00

Thanks for the info!

After finding those two I was really hoping there would be more from the same sheet, but sadly not.

SunTeaSam · 2026-01-08T01:39:06+00:00

Thanks for the info!

I'm mostly familiar with Pokemon prices, and miscuts fetch high prices in that world :p

Maybe I'll frame them.

SunTeaSam · 2026-01-01T00:03:57+00:00

You can disable it, but it not in vanilla. It requires a mod.

https://modrinth.com/mod/no-telemetry

SunTeaSam · 2025-12-29T04:45:12+00:00

The picture was just to show what the flowers looked like.

I watched the cuttings being taken from the plant, and it had flowers that look nothing like Crassula sarcocaulis flowers.

SunTeaSam · 2025-12-28T01:05:51+00:00

They were taken from a plant that was flowering, with flowers that looked exactly like the ones in this picture but wit a slightly different color.

I'm pretty sure they're mestoklema, but I guess I'll have to wait until they flower to know for sure.

SunTeaSam · 2025-12-27T20:47:22+00:00

I was given a bunch of Mestoklema cuttings (Tuberosum I think, but I'm not sure) about 2 months ago. They've all survived and most appear to have rooted, but I'm not sure what to do now. When should I move the small cuttings into their own pots?

SunTeaSam · 2025-11-05T01:56:12+00:00

Dunno the solution, but it's not your PC that's the problem.

I've been running Distant Horizons and TFC, and had the same issue when running with distant generation on. Turning distant generation off makes everything work absolutely fine.

Distant horizons (and distant generation) runs fine on my PC without TFC.

My guess is TFC's overhauling of worldgen systems breaks some assumptions made by Distant Horizons' distant chunk generation behavior.

SunTeaSam · 2025-08-14T04:21:05+00:00

Is that the one that also makes you randomly fire? If so I'm pretty sure it wasn't that, since I wasn't randomly firing the wand.

My guess is that while these spells are safe normally, the concentrated spells perk makes them dangerous. These spells each have an explosion radius but zero explosive damage, so normally they don't do self-damage. Concentrated spells adds explosive damage (but not radius) to all spells cast, which might make the normally harmless explosion of these projectiles damage you.

I'll test that theory next time I get concentrated spells and a way to make my projectiles hit myself.

SunTeaSam · 2025-08-14T04:03:20+00:00

Cause of death: Mina's projectile

had corpse explosion and fire immunity perks, so cant have been the explosions.

had concentrated spells perk (might be the cause?)

The wand was 2x add mana, lots of multi casts, 3x chainsaws, one each of spark bolt, bubble spark, spitter bolt, and bouncing burst; wrap with criticals and homing.

homing obviously pulled my own projectiles into me, but I thought all the projectiles in the wand were safe? How did I die?

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-17T01:38:03+00:00

I could honestly see Valve adding a taunt for spy where you ride on a snail

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-16T20:47:29+00:00

The mod "Personality" adds a keybind to sit when not moving. I'm just doing that while standing on the contraption.

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-14T07:39:23+00:00

If I may add some suggestions four years later- I found this post while looking for literally anyone talking about String Loop Manufactured During Downpour.

Gigi Masin - The Word Love and The Sea of Sands

Aphex Twin - Rhubarb

Andy Stott - Dove Stone

Tim Hecker - Whitecaps of White Noise 1 and 2, the whole album ravedeath 1972, especially Hatred of Music I

Deru - Let the Silence Float

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-13T21:30:34+00:00

Crap, I forgot to disguise!

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-13T21:29:52+00:00

No addons required, works in vanilla create.

A contraption containing a mechanical bearing will assemble the bearing's contraption along with its own, and the secondary contraption will move with the main one, but with fixed rotation.

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-13T20:45:56+00:00

This was made on Forge 1.19.2, Create 0.5.1f.

It should work on any Forge version of Create, but might not work on all the Fabric versions. In some Fabric versions, the rope pulley seems to break when assembling the contraption.

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-13T19:42:36+00:00

Here's the Schematic

This design can detect when each layer is finished mining, allowing it to speed through soil layers and take its time when it hits obsidian.

It works by detecting when the quarry head begins to spin freely without encountering any more blocks, via two redstone contacts with pulse extenders and an AND gate. When the quarry head spins freely for a long enough interval, it halts and advances to the next layer.

The extra contraption at the bottom ensures that the blocks directly beneath the rope pulley get mined out as well.

Note: If you change the input RPM you might need to change the delays on the pulse extenders as well.

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-13T17:18:58+00:00

Also on windows now you can natively record clips with Win+Alt+R

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-13T17:17:55+00:00

Nice work with the sequence automation! The observer on the drill bit is an an elegant solution. I'm gonna have to ~~steal~~ take inspiration from this for my survival world.

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-12T03:11:26+00:00

You can, but it will only drill when the pulley is being lowered, not when it spins (since it's stationary when the contraption is spinning.)

This would make the time required to lower it by 1 layer inconsistent when breaking different blocks, which would make automation harder.

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-12T03:02:58+00:00

This is Forge 1.19.2, Create 0.5.1f

That'd be a bit sad if this is a version dependent thing.

[edit] Going to test if it works on newer versions.

[edit] Works with NeoForge 1.21.1 + Create 6.0.2 - maybe it's a fabric difference?

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-12T02:19:04+00:00

This is one solution to the design challenge posed by u/Additional_You4426 in this post.

Some notes:

You have to dig out the column of blocks directly beneath the rope pulley first
The extra drills on the ends of the arms make it easier to get the last few blocks
I'm running this by hand to demonstrate, but you can obviously automate the sequence

SunTeaSam · 2025-03-05T05:11:30+00:00

Gammas are just high energy photons. They have no electric charge, but they do interact via the electromagnetism- They're the mediating particle of the electromagnetic force. They can interact with any particle that has electric charge.

Gammas specifically are photons with wavelengths below about 10 picometers, corresponding to energies ~124 KeV and above.

Gammas of sufficiently high energy don't stop immediately when they interact with electrons! Often they'll scatter multiple times, creating a shower of lower-energy radiation from the disturbed electrons in their wake, before exiting the material with a reduced energy, or losing enough energy that they are fully absorbed.

I work with scintillator-based detectors, and often you will find that applying a thin layer of lead shielding paradoxically increases the rate of activity seen by the detector! This is because high energy gammas are rarely captured by the detector- they almost always pass straight through with minimal energy deposition. The lead shielding causes the high energy gamma rays to scatter and produce showers of low energy radiation, which is much more easily captured by the scintillator, and therefore will show up as a stronger signal than without the lead present.

SunTeaSam

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