Best 10x10x10 Energycube layout
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Here\'s my design for 81995 power regen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2bg2scusk10z8u/10xpower_81995.png
I used only L-shapes, starting 10x10, next 9x9, 8x8 and so on, in checkerboard pattern. Afterwards i also tried a very complicated 3-dimensional shape but it fell far behind in power, only 70k.
I used only L-shapes, starting 10x10, next 9x9, 8x8 and so on, in checkerboard pattern. Afterwards i also tried a very complicated 3-dimensional shape but it fell far behind in power, only 70k.
Thanks! If you start with a pair of interlocking 3D L shapes, so it\'s sort of like a cross, but half of the axes offset from each other, it\'s just a case of muddling it out from there really while trying to keep the longer lengths intact.
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You guys realize that this is very inefficient per block right? You can get 97k from a set of 100 block \"lines\" or 152k from a 200 long \"line\". You are using 490 here to get under 90k
If your ship is big enough to need this kind of regen you can save a lot if mass by just running power along the outside/ center
If your ship is big enough to need this kind of regen you can save a lot if mass by just running power along the outside/ center
It was just in response to OP\'s question really. It\'s more about an efficient use of space if you\'re restricted to that size, not about getting the most out of the number of blocks you have.
The highest output of power would be for all blocks to be part of a single entity, so a line, an L shape or 3D L, they\'re all the same. (As demonstrated in the screenshot directly above your post, 490 in a single line gave over 600,000 e/sec.)
Obviously you can\'t have just one grouping in your ship, so you\'d need multiple. As shown above, simply laying out many sticks of X amount long is actually not the best; we tried that, and while it gave a lot, it didn\'t have the best output.
Since your ship is likely not going to be one dimensional, unless you\'re being unconventional, there\'s a better pattern than sticks of power blocks alone.
The highest output of power would be for all blocks to be part of a single entity, so a line, an L shape or 3D L, they\'re all the same. (As demonstrated in the screenshot directly above your post, 490 in a single line gave over 600,000 e/sec.)
Obviously you can\'t have just one grouping in your ship, so you\'d need multiple. As shown above, simply laying out many sticks of X amount long is actually not the best; we tried that, and while it gave a lot, it didn\'t have the best output.
Since your ship is likely not going to be one dimensional, unless you\'re being unconventional, there\'s a better pattern than sticks of power blocks alone.
So, let\'s say I had a ship which was 200 blocks long, 100 wide, 100 tall.
I\'m going to set aside a volume of 150 blocks long, 20 wide, and 8 tall for my power blocks and I\'ll place them on the inside of the bottom part of the hull.
Rather than running parallel sticks of blocks along the bottom, each 150 long, and there being 80 of them, it would be more efficient to use a pattern along the lines of the one used above. Not the same pattern repeated, just an enlarged version.
It is probably way more power regen than you\'d need, and would be a huge amount of hassle though.
In practise you\'re probably going to just snake basic lines along the bottom though, yeah.
I\'m going to set aside a volume of 150 blocks long, 20 wide, and 8 tall for my power blocks and I\'ll place them on the inside of the bottom part of the hull.
Rather than running parallel sticks of blocks along the bottom, each 150 long, and there being 80 of them, it would be more efficient to use a pattern along the lines of the one used above. Not the same pattern repeated, just an enlarged version.
It is probably way more power regen than you\'d need, and would be a huge amount of hassle though.
In practise you\'re probably going to just snake basic lines along the bottom though, yeah.