Better Than Wolves Forum

I recently was able to successfully raid a jungle temple and from that I netted 3 sticky pistons, 2 dispensers, a repeater, 4 tripwire hoods, 2 levers and 14 redstone dust. I'm still at the growing hemp and non-sustainable food stage. (Pumpkins where fore art thou?) Is there a worthwhile early game use of these items or would I be better off just sitting on them until later? The progression and a lot of tech has changed since I last put in any serious amount of time.

An auto feeder?
Although early game it would be chickens and with the changes autofeeders would be a bit more inefficient but still good

There's always the simple things, like piston doors or convience features in mob traps.

Tripwires don't detect items iirc, so if you want to automate chickens at all you'll need to use the rate that they grow up as a rough clock. It probably easier to do things manually until you have more resources tbh.

I think technically chickens can eat seeds through a siding, and if I’m right then with a little ingenuity you can make an egg farmer that also functions as a 24 hour timer using a wooden pressure plate to detect eggs. That could be used to trigger a three pulse switch to turn on a chicken slaughterer after three days which should be enough growth time.

I have a vague idea in my head f a safe wolf-feeder that (I think) would benefitted greatly from a sticky piston.

I generally use minecarts to keep my wolves manageable

TheGatesofLogic wrote:I generally use minecarts to keep my wolves manageable

I am quite intrigued by this. Might I impose for some info or pics about this? Hell, a sample savefile (even if made in creative?)

As for the topic at hand, I'm willing to move this convo to a different thread and / or to PMs if it develops into any length.

I've used dispensers at this stage to auto feed chickens. 1 Dispenser to create a 5 minute item despawn timer (dirt piles and sawdust) and 1 to feed. It's lossless as long as you have 4 chickens. The egg rate isn't great with this as you'll often alternate between 3 and 4 eggs every morning but it's nice to not have to worry about it. I've done the same with wolves but I've been burnt too many times pre livestock farming trying to feed myself and wolves that I no longer bother with wolves until I have a consistent way of breeding pigs.
For the pistons I've set those up on a couple of reed plants once I have enough iron for a cauldron to use to collect them. Not a huge yield but its enough to seed a larger farm when you need one. I use the same 5 minute despawn timer to power the pistons.

Have a windmill? Don't want it to destroy gearboxes?

I always put a switch at the bottom of my windmills, the switch toggles a piston that disconnects the topmost gearbox from the windmill.

Edit: I think you guys are misunderstanding, this is to prevent a windmill from destroying a gearbox during a storm

Yhetti wrote:Have a windmill? Don't want it to destroy gearboxes?

I always put a switch at the bottom of my windmills, the switch toggles a piston that disconnects the topmost gearbox from the windmill.

Isn't it easier to send the signal to the gearbox directly?

I personally use the pistons for zombie proof doors.

I'm honestly surprised that doesn't break the gearbox given the other behavior in the mod related to that. And it certainly is easier to just send redstone to the gearbox using stacked torches.

dawnraider wrote:And it certainly is easier to just send redstone to the gearbox using stacked torches.

I am using stacked torches. That's how the piston is powered.

I'm confused, so you're saying I should just power the gearbox to turn it off instead of pulling it out of place with a piston. How would this help the windmill from breaking during a storm? I'm pretty sure that just because a gearbox is powered off, doesn't mean it won't break when the windmill gets stormed on.

If the first gearbox powered by the windmill is receiving redstone power it will stop and will not break in a storm.

Yhetti wrote: just because a gearbox is powered off, doesn't mean it won't break when the windmill gets stormed on.

That's exactly how it works. Reasoning FC has stated a long time ago is that it disengages the internal gears, stopping mechanical power, but also letting the input axle turn freely.

I use slabtowers to get the redstone up:



Torch stacks are so slooooow

I used one of the pistons (carefully!) to extend the sidewalls of a nether bridge over a lava sea, then it went into a door.