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Posted 30 September 2014 - 04:14 AM
Quadracoptors is a mod that essentially adds pipes to ComputerCraft. The mod adds item-carrying, fluid-carrying, and entity-carrying quadracoptors that can be sent on programmed routes to carry things around your base. The item quadracoptors can carry up to one stack of items, and the fluid quadracoptors can carry up to one bucket (1000 mB) of fluids. The entity quadracoptors can pick up one living entity at a time and are currently creative-only. The quadracoptors will interact with sided inventories only from the top side, as they only interact with things directly below themselves. Quadracoptors are launched from a base station and have unlimited range, though they won't load unloaded chunks. Portal transitions may have detrimental effects on the quadracoptors' internal navigation systems, so be wary of sending them through any teleportation devices.
You can now have your quadracoptors hover at a Waystation! These blocks expose the inventory of any quad hovering above them through the bottom of the block. Use the hover command in your programs to have a Quadracoptor stop at a Waystation.
You can download the mod here (version 0.2.0).
Please note: You cannot safely upgrade worlds from pre-0.2.0 to version 0.2.0. All base stations will be removed if you attempt to do so.
And here's a quadracoptor in action, carrying some cobblestone:
ThatParadox made a mod spotlight video that shows off the quadracoptors:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvf94LlRB1E[/media]
north
south
east
west
up
down
suck
drop
vacuum
hover
return
You must create a table of these instructions to tell the Quadracoptor the route it should fly:
{"north 2", "up", "south", "down"}
If a quadracoptor reaches the end of its program over a base block, it will automatically "land" in the base block if there is room. You can use the "return" command to make it follow its program backwards, which should always end up back at the base block. When a quadracoptor is returning because of that command, it will ignore all suck and drop commands in the program.
The suck command will pull items from an inventory below the quadracoptor, or from items laying on the ground below it. The drop command will drop items from its inventory into the inventory below it, or out into the world if there is no inventory. The drop and suck commands each can take a number as an argument ("suck 3" or "drop 32"). If no argument is provided, the command will attempt to suck or drop an entire stack of items. The suck command will accept positive arguments, representing the number of items to suck. The suck command will not attempt to suck items past the first slot of an inventory, even if that slot doesn't contain the desired number of items. The drop command can accept both positive and negative numbers. A positive number indicates the quantity of items to drop, while a negative number indicates the quantity of items to attempt to keep, dropping the remainder. The vacuum command is used as either "vacuum on" or "vacuum off". While vacuum is on, the quadracoptor will attempt to suck on every tick. The hover command specifies a number of seconds for a quadracoptor to wait at a waystation, if one is present below it when the instruction is reached ("hover 10").
Base stations will queue an event on all attached computers whenever a quadracoptor departs or returns. The events are "quad_departed", <side> and "quad_landed", <side>, where <side> is the peripheral name (left, right, etc.)
Once you have a flight program written, you pass the table of instructions to the peripheral:
local base = peripheral.wrap("right")
local program = {"north 2", "suck", "up", "east 4", "drop", "return"}
base.flyQuad(program)
You can also program a base station with a route and then use redstone pulses to launch the quadracoptors:
local base = peripheral.wrap("right")
local program = {"north 2", "suck", "up", "east 4", "drop", "return"}
base.program(program)
Base stations that have been programmed will not stack with other base stations and will remember their program when broken and placed again. You can re-program them by calling the program peripheral method again with a new program.
Quadracoptor Base:
Waystation:
Convert to Fluid Quadracoptors:
You can now have your quadracoptors hover at a Waystation! These blocks expose the inventory of any quad hovering above them through the bottom of the block. Use the hover command in your programs to have a Quadracoptor stop at a Waystation.
You can download the mod here (version 0.2.0).
Please note: You cannot safely upgrade worlds from pre-0.2.0 to version 0.2.0. All base stations will be removed if you attempt to do so.
And here's a quadracoptor in action, carrying some cobblestone:
ThatParadox made a mod spotlight video that shows off the quadracoptors:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvf94LlRB1E[/media]
Quadracoptor User Guide
Quadracoptors must be given a set of instructions. The available instructions are:north
south
east
west
up
down
suck
drop
vacuum
hover
return
You must create a table of these instructions to tell the Quadracoptor the route it should fly:
{"north 2", "up", "south", "down"}
If a quadracoptor reaches the end of its program over a base block, it will automatically "land" in the base block if there is room. You can use the "return" command to make it follow its program backwards, which should always end up back at the base block. When a quadracoptor is returning because of that command, it will ignore all suck and drop commands in the program.
The suck command will pull items from an inventory below the quadracoptor, or from items laying on the ground below it. The drop command will drop items from its inventory into the inventory below it, or out into the world if there is no inventory. The drop and suck commands each can take a number as an argument ("suck 3" or "drop 32"). If no argument is provided, the command will attempt to suck or drop an entire stack of items. The suck command will accept positive arguments, representing the number of items to suck. The suck command will not attempt to suck items past the first slot of an inventory, even if that slot doesn't contain the desired number of items. The drop command can accept both positive and negative numbers. A positive number indicates the quantity of items to drop, while a negative number indicates the quantity of items to attempt to keep, dropping the remainder. The vacuum command is used as either "vacuum on" or "vacuum off". While vacuum is on, the quadracoptor will attempt to suck on every tick. The hover command specifies a number of seconds for a quadracoptor to wait at a waystation, if one is present below it when the instruction is reached ("hover 10").
Base stations will queue an event on all attached computers whenever a quadracoptor departs or returns. The events are "quad_departed", <side> and "quad_landed", <side>, where <side> is the peripheral name (left, right, etc.)
Once you have a flight program written, you pass the table of instructions to the peripheral:
local base = peripheral.wrap("right")
local program = {"north 2", "suck", "up", "east 4", "drop", "return"}
base.flyQuad(program)
You can also program a base station with a route and then use redstone pulses to launch the quadracoptors:
local base = peripheral.wrap("right")
local program = {"north 2", "suck", "up", "east 4", "drop", "return"}
base.program(program)
Base stations that have been programmed will not stack with other base stations and will remember their program when broken and placed again. You can re-program them by calling the program peripheral method again with a new program.
Crafting Recipes
Quadracoptor:Quadracoptor Base:
Waystation:
Convert to Fluid Quadracoptors:
