More uses for forged tech
Fabizocker456 opened this issue · 4 comments
Feature description
Please add more items/blocks/mobs(?) to the forge. Ideas would be rf/fe chargers for thermal cells, furnaces that run with thermal charge and tiers of cells. Also, maybe add creatures (robots?) to the structure that drop material (scrap, plates, bolts) that can be used to craft the forged blocks, similar to ocean monuments.
How it improves the player experience
Currently, there are four uses for the ancient structure: gathering bolts for tools and the holosphere, using thermal energy to make an obsidian hammer, looking for artifacts like the stonecutter and breaking forged blocks for decoration and loot. This more or less feels like a waste, since you expect so much from it and get basically nothing.
Tetra synergies
This would deepen the mod.
That's the plan. Unless you can provide more concrete suggestions I'm afraid I'll have to close this issue though.
Electric heater - fills the thermal cell using fe, when given a redstone signal ejects the cell to the chest below, a comparator can be used to measure the charge of the cell. Forge furnace - a furnace that runs on thermal cells. When the cell is empty, it gets ejected into the slot on the right. Custom cell - a cell can be placed into the workbench to upgrade it, it has 1 slot, a redstone dust can upgrade the capacity, an emerald the charging speed, a lapis the chance to not consume charge when used. Welder - a crafter powered by thermal energy, can craft forged blocks with bolts, plates and forged scrap (new item). Robots - an entity with laser attacks, spawns in ancient structure, on forged blocks with blocks above, drop scrap, bolts, plates and rarely energy cells, looks like mekanisms robit
The electric heater is a terrible idea, allowing a unique energy with a unique gathering system to simply be converted from FE is something that could ruin this part of the mod. Turning thermal energy into FE would be interesting, as alternatives to large reactors are always cool even if they’re less efficient.