Difference between revisions of "Future Plans"
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[[User:radfast|radfast]] has advised this: | [[User:radfast|radfast]] has advised this: | ||
| − | >For now, I think you should set up a solar panel power plant in orbit or on the Moon, and have a system of cargo rockets + launch controllers to bring charged batteries to the Asteroids dimension. Launch controllers act as chunk loaders, so keep the solar panels + wires in the same chunk as the Launch Controller and you should be golden. | + | >For now, I think you should set up a solar panel power plant in orbit or on the Moon, and have a system of [[Cargo Rocket|cargo rockets]] + [[Launch Controller|launch controllers]] to bring charged batteries to the Asteroids dimension. Launch controllers act as chunk loaders, so keep the solar panels + wires in the same chunk as the Launch Controller and you should be golden. |
| − | + | But, we don't like the idea of players only having one option to do something. In the short term, we will be looking at: | |
| − | * charcoal in Coal Generators - | + | * charcoal in [[Coal Generator|Coal Generators]] - charcoal is just a different form of coal in vanilla Minecraft (look at the item IDs, its the same), so we should make it so that the generator accepts it |
* adding a higher capacity "Tier 2" battery or other energy storage system which Cargo Rockets can carry | * adding a higher capacity "Tier 2" battery or other energy storage system which Cargo Rockets can carry | ||
Revision as of 19:11, 29 April 2015
This page will cover future plans for Galacticraft announced by micdoodle8 and co-developers.
Suggestions for how the mod can be improved are welcomed on the suggestions area of the forum. Don't forget to check the list of Frequently Suggested Ideas to see if your idea was already posted.
Power systems in the Asteroids dimension
Now that the Astro Miner is available, players are going to need a decent source of power in the Asteroids dimension. That is currently difficult, because solar panels do not generate there, and there is no coal in the Asteroids dimension. (Coal comes originally from organic matter and huge geological pressure, and neither of those things exists in the Asteroids.)
radfast has advised this:
>For now, I think you should set up a solar panel power plant in orbit or on the Moon, and have a system of cargo rockets + launch controllers to bring charged batteries to the Asteroids dimension. Launch controllers act as chunk loaders, so keep the solar panels + wires in the same chunk as the Launch Controller and you should be golden.
But, we don't like the idea of players only having one option to do something. In the short term, we will be looking at:
- charcoal in Coal Generators - charcoal is just a different form of coal in vanilla Minecraft (look at the item IDs, its the same), so we should make it so that the generator accepts it
- adding a higher capacity "Tier 2" battery or other energy storage system which Cargo Rockets can carry
- adding back some generating power for Solar Panels in the Asteroids dimension, indeed in all dimensions based on existing in-game data which gives the distance from the sun - solar panels in the Asteroids should actually be a good source of power because, like the Overworld orbit, they have constant sunlight and no weather or atmosphere to get in the way.
In the longer term, we will look at:
- some form of nuclear power generator in a block, likely to be long life + low power (but a rich player can have lots of these blocks)
- a special "space" version of solar panels, also for use on space stations - probably not until Galacticraft 4.
- possibly, an inter-dimensional power beaming system, but definitely not until Galacticraft 4
It is not likely that we will ever have, in Galacticraft, systems for complex nuclear reactors, or for burning biofuels. There are other mods for that. And burning chemical fuel of any kind is not a good idea in a space environment where oxygen comes from tanks or has to be made. Maybe in Galacticraft 5/6/7 whatever we will have things like antimatter or power generated from black holes etc, but don't expect anything like that any time soon, the science of Galacticraft is not so advanced!