If you really don't want to see torches all over the place, you can hide them by putting one belowground, then placing a siding on top of it so it looks like a full block (for a sidewalk, for example). The same trick can work around walls, though obviously the ability to do that depends on your arch...

Just put a handcrank next to the bellows and you can work them by hand just fine.

A friend of mine has this set up at his 'base' A turntable, a saw, and 4 vines. Powered from bellow and above. http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j328/McRawny/2013-01-18_141919_zps064a3508.png I'm quite surprised that works, actually. Pretty sure FC changed it so gearboxes would blow in a setup li...

Only aquaduct I've built so far. Not sure whether it counts as compact though. The windmill is purely decorational, btw, as a waterwheel actually powers the pumps. Can't have my crops going dry when it snows :P

I wonder just how many man-hours of productivity that one logo has cost so far. The world-wide cost must be staggering :P

Easy solution: build your base in the tunnels ;)

Have to hand it to them that they did a great job on those blocks. Now if only they could get that shiny feel to it that the floors in heaven in Diablo 3 had... I'd never build with anything else anymore :P

Just realised something. Walker's simply letting us solve the puzzle for him ;)

Crazylemon64 wrote:Ooh, puzzles!

I got the first 33, I don't want to spend too much time on this though.

My experience with puzzles like these are that all digits MUST be used exactly once, in which case you would have to rethink some of those solutions. 3 would have to be (2^0 - 1) + 3, for example.

Did some thinking on this earlier and you could probably combine the BDs with the sequencer idea to make a fairly compact, randomizable music-generator. A single track as he built it is comparable to one or more BDs activating certain noteblocks at certain times, so a single track can be built far m...

So effectively a "16-block piston-ring in a box". Certainly would be more compact than Disco's setup above, though programming the song might be a bit trickier.

Most "compact" version I've seen that plays non-trivial songs. It's even randomizable as apparently any combination of channels sounds good! mjLDM1AY1-E Could also go for the piston-ring "sheet-music" version, but you'd have to make sure you're far enough away from the piston-rin...

Oh, no offense taken. It just felt like I was the catalyst for this post and I figured I'd at least explain my point of view. Then again, my point of view might be mostly academical as the likelihood of it messing up is probably pretty small. I have sort of trained myself to consider what-ifs for my...

Since this post feels rather squarely aimed at me (me and BlackCat had a discussion on irc about this), I'd like to clarify what I mean by unreliable: On one of my maps I have a wool farm. It works by extending pistons in front of the BDs, which are then activated to suck the wool right off the shee...

I stand corrected. You'd be better off using BlackCat's version as I did miss that particular drawback. Use of the buddy block makes more sense now.

If the cost of the buddy block is an issue, the two designs can be combined into a vertically tilable one at the cost of a tiny chance to jam: http://www.bottledindigo.com/btw/melons.jpg It mostly works the same, but it might get stuck if a melon manages to grow in that brief moment that the piston ...

Sure sounds like Fatburger3's idea, in which case you either stole it from him or, far more likely, you're fatburger3 who made a new account to dodge his ban. Not a good idea...

Hmm... If I had to guess, I'd say the vanilla hopper will likely end up with the name "funnel" in BtW :P I agree with you, Sarudak, that the buddy block always did feel a bit "off" to me (then again, I never used it to begin with, as it's a single-pulse-and-never-a-peep-again sys...

any solid block will do. I only used a gold one there so I would be able to point it out. Using the same line for the on/off state and the turntable was quite the eureka moment for me as well when I first figured that one out. Certainly made the design a lot more compact. Nice to see you're trying t...

Bit more complicated design, but it has the bellows incorporated as well. It's a variation of the hibachi-setup I tend to use in my worlds, though I tend to have the bellows on the side instead of in the back. It might be a teensy bit more compact than my usual setup this way, actually :P http://www...

Love the "because people are stupid" comment :P

Let's see whether I still remember the math for this: One scroll in 15 stacks of iron is 1 scroll per 960 iron, so a chance to drop of 1/960. This translates to a 959/960 chance to not drop a scroll. The odds of a scroll not dropping after 30 stacks of iron is (959/960)^1920 = 0.135, i.e. 13.5%. All...

You know, usually when I hear about bugs, I can make an educated guess on what might've gone wrong, but this one has me quite stumped. The closest thing I can think of is that they had some unintended interaction between their fireworks branch and the render-refactoring branch, but then it just gets...

what I admire is that someone managed to shoot them from the top o.O

Trashing the image then to avoid it causing more misinformation.