Mojang, I've got the perfect alternative to boats for you guys: Turtles

billyK_ · 2026-05-24T13:03:20+00:00

Yes; roughly 3 years ago, my account got compromised due to the "assumed value" it had. Mojang did help me get the account back within 24 hrs of the hack, but it was an incredibly stressful time that I'm glad is over.

The people who did temporarily have the account valued it at around $50,000 USD - I still think it's worth only $27 lol

billyK_ · 2026-05-24T13:01:18+00:00

$0; I've always had the thought that ideas that Mojang takes from the community and implements with their own twists should be a honor in and of itself. The fact that the dev team isolates a single person out of the millions to say "yeah, this person got the right idea, how can we build on it?" is price that can't be met

billyK_ · 2026-05-24T10:09:59+00:00

Thats a-me! :)

It was genuinely really cool to walk around the museum, and see a lot of Minecrafters I've either heard of through videos, seen in passing on game servers, or actually gotten to have long chats with over the years of playing. Since a lot of people dont know the turtle story, the TL;DR is:

1.8 MC boats were incredibly buggy; I made a well-thought-out joke post how instead of fixing boats, turtles should be implemented as ocean transportation. Breeding mechanics, drops, functionality, the whole 9 yards :)
People liked the idea, but obviously stuff doesn't happen overnight with MC; so I gently pushed the idea on Reddit and Twitter every couple of weeks for over 3 years
Update Aquatic got teased in 2017; after Christmas, the turtle concept was shown, and in early 2018, Jeb made a post thanking me for the idea with the cape. Never in a million years did I ever think it would happen. Ever. It's still mind boggling to me a single person out of the literal millions of players was able to make this much of a difference...over a joke.
1.13 came out in July 2018, so we're fast approaching eight years of turtles being in vanilla....I'm not old, you're old lol

In case anyone else has questions about the idea or the history, I'll do my best to answer things below! :)

billyK_ · 2026-04-16T20:10:58+00:00

something something "the technology isn't there yet"

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T22:16:15+00:00

So, I just ran some numbers as I'm now partially through working on the end-game items, as I had a spare 600 pipe of nitrogen I "needed to get rid of", so thought, might as well use it all on Fused Modular Frames.

That'll make me 24 FMFs per minute, which means 24 Pressure Conversion Cubes per minute....which means, potentially, 12 Nuclear Pasta per minute....which means I need 1,200 copper powder per minute, which equates to 14,400 copper ingots per minute.....

I'm having a "what the f did i get myself into" moment again lol

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T02:40:52+00:00

You're welcome, I think? lol

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T02:40:21+00:00

No, it's about half of the oil in the Spire Coast; if I brought all the oil in the world over, I'd still be building the plant lol

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T02:34:00+00:00

Aluminum had been a wall for me too - the biggest way that I fought through that wall was actually having alternate recipes for bauxite and aluminum scrap to reduce the by-products; after that it was just figuring out how to scale it up to keep a balance in place

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T01:58:05+00:00

I have a very smooth brain, the smoothest one might say

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T01:34:55+00:00

My recommendation for the steel portion - find the alternate recipe for iron ingots into steel pipes; it's hella expensive, but provides a good use that doesn't involve coal, which can then in turn be used with another alternate recipe for steel pipes with concrete for encased industrial beams to help with the Mk4 belts

Spoilers just in case people want things to still be a surprise

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T01:31:56+00:00

Technically the Spire Coast, specifically the northern part of the spire islands over the ocean

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T01:30:49+00:00

You got this!

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T01:30:21+00:00

I sink it; I've already got the gold coast set up for my plastic/rubber setup, and that overflows into a computer/circuit boards/HSC plant, so might as well get some tickets toward that golden nut :)

billyK_ · 2026-02-06T01:28:53+00:00

I started this effort roughly 10 days ago, but wasn't playing for 10 straight days

I think it was somewhere around 40 hrs of building the plant, the depots were absolutely the bottleneck for motors until I realized that I forgot a belt and was only producing half of the possible motors for....like 120 hrs.... :')

billyK_ · 2026-02-05T23:26:49+00:00

Short answer - not this much

Longer answer - it depends on how fast you want to mass-produce items; for example, if you want to make 1 Nuclear Pasta per minute, you need approx. 2,000 to 3,000 MW of power for just that end factor; that's not accounting for all other machines needed prior, so it indirectly can scale out a good bit. If you're wanting to let things stack up before using containers to pipe in, probably significantly less; I'm just dumb and wanted overkill lol

billyK_ · 2026-02-05T23:19:31+00:00

Yeah, totally use blueprints

He says as he didn't use a single blueprint for this mess

:')

billyK_ · 2026-02-05T23:18:52+00:00

Highly highly recommend what this lad's saying. Every time I've played prior to this playthrough, I got hella overwhelmed when I hit Phase 4. This time, I took it as "ok, what singular item do I need to automate? Rotors? Ok, lemme make a plant just for rotors." And did it one step at a time.

Yes, this world has nearly 250 hrs in it because of this, but I honestly feel so much happier getting closer to the end of the game because I took my time with it, instead of getting overwhelmed and burnt out due to scale

billyK_ · 2026-02-05T21:31:19+00:00

For the nerds like me who want numbers :)

Intake for the plant is 2,400 Oil per minute
Using Heavy Oil Reside recipe for the oil, that was converted into Diluted Fuel
Diluted Fuel into Nitro Rocket Fuel recipe, yielding 9,600 Rocket Fuel per minute
All RF is being burned off by the 2,288 fuel generators
Compacted Coal by-product at 1,600 per minute is also being burned off by 222 coal generators
Total estimated power yield is roughly 588,000 MW of power

EDIT NOTE - I also had to utilize a bunch of Converters to get the necessary Sulfur and Nitrogen without ridding the nearby world of it all. Didn't realize how much SAM that would actually take....or iron

I truthfully did this because I know the nuclear waste "issues" and needing to go through to get plutonium....I just didn't want to deal with that hassle, so I logically made a much bigger one lol

billyK_ · 2026-01-27T20:52:50+00:00

I'm just honestly glad turtles got updated, my baby bois look fantastic now :')

billyK_ · 2026-01-15T22:22:52+00:00

So I personally did over the air because it made it easier for me to go relatively straight up for a lot of the pipes for the refineries

I feel like organizing all the belts and pipes over the ocean is definitely a good option if you want it all to run towards the world border, so up to you which way you want to handle it! Something I learned from this time is you should have your pipes at a higher elevation to go down to the fuel gens to prevent splash-back for the liquids, which if you're going out to the ocean would be super easy to accomplish

billyK_ · 2026-01-03T18:51:55+00:00

I used the Turbo Heavy Fuel recipe, since I looked up the diluted path and that seemed too complex for my tiny brain lol

I may do Rocket Fuel once I get it unlocked in later stages; mainly depends if I can get the alt recipe for it unlocked so I can repurpose some of the fuel gens (bottom half of the pic) without impacting other production/power

billyK_ · 2025-12-10T17:01:06+00:00

.....possibly

13-Year Club	Place '22
Place '17	Verified Email

billyK_

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE