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McJtyMods / RFToolsPower

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[1.14] Energy cells FE compatibility (pulling/extraction problem) #37

Closed owmii closed 4 years ago

owmii commented 4 years ago

Forge: 28.1.96 mcjtylib-1.14-3.5.16-alpha rftoolsbase-1.14-0.0.12-alpha rftoolspower-1.14-1.2.12-alpha

Energy cells SidedHandler#canExtract returns false even when set to out mode, so this make a compatibility problem when trying to pull energy, and that's what happen with my mod .

McJty commented 4 years ago

That's normal. FE/RF is a push model. It is not supposed to be possible to extract power out of a powercell. Instead the powercell will push power to adjacent blocks. You should not try to pull power out of something. That's not going to work for many generators/powercells and so on

owmii commented 4 years ago

Push model? this make a limited compatibility, or I am wrong? FE should work like it is. BDW , Thank you!

McJty commented 4 years ago

I feel it was a mistake to allow extracting of energy in the API. I never allow it on any of my blocks. For power cells for example it complicates bookkeeping as they are only supposed to emit a certain amount of FE per side every tick. That's easy for me to control when I simply push that amount to adjacent machines every tick (as I'm doing now) but if other machines would be able to extract then I would have to keep track of that so I know how much a machine is still allowed to extract every tick