Welcome back ! Bad news: I had a real life electric power outage towards the end of the previous stream, which shut down the PC and corrupted the video file which was being recorded by OBS - so we had lost that episode. It is unfortunate because an interesting thing had happened : we have decided to add a mod called "SE Space Trains", which adds new locomotives + both types of cargo wagons with futuristic graphics going very well with SE. The interesting part was the way their "fuel" works - I will write it down below (we did the setup last time)
- We make Uncharged Power Packs
- We power (charge) them to turn them into Charged Power Packs, which new locomotives use : they are put in passive provider chests and robots deliver them to each train stacker's requester chest
- Train use them and output Uncharged Power Packs, which we take back (also using the global network) to the central location for the recharging
An interesting catch is that charging has 1% chance of failure, where it produces a Destroyed Power Pack : this needs to be Refurbished in a recycling machine (using batteries & sulfuric acid) to become an Uncharged pack once again.
This is it for the summary of what we did last stream (basically discover this mod and replace the trains). Today, we are going to proceed with Astro science, and create a resource delivery setup for it. Towards the end, we install a TODO list mod to help us remember different issues :D
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