Stargate (General)
Stargates are main structure added by this mod. They can teleport you, your items and items thrown at it.
Stargate address consists of:
- 6 main symbols
- 1 cross-dimension symbol
- 1 code override symbol (for switching to and from the universe gate system)
- Point of Origin
The new GUI for the Stargate. For the old one see here.
To open Stargate's GUI just right-click the base block.
The GUI consists of three main parts:
- The upgrade part
- The addressing part
- The power part
In the first part you'll see 4 item slots. The first item you will need to place in any of these slots is one of the the Glyphs crystals (you will need these to view and save the address to a Notebook Page or a Universe Dialer(only works with Universe address tab).
Let's start with the Milky Way one. Once you've inserted said crystal into any of the 4 slots you'll notice a tab appeared on the left-hand side of the GUI. When you click on this tab you will be faced with the Milky Way address tab.
Milky Way address tab.
In this tab there will be an item slot where you can put a Notebook Page to record the address of this gate. Two of the other slots will be used for the other two address types (Universe and Pegasus) and the last of the 4 slots will, of course, be used for the Stargate Glyph Crystal upgrade.
In the tab or tabs Without a Stargate Glyph Upgrade you're going to see 6 symbols. If the upgrade was installed it'll show 8 symbols. The first 7 are required for cross-dimensional travel. The 8th one is used to dial from/to the Universe gate. See DHD page.
You can make screenshot of this screen(like in the good ol' days of Aunis), as you'll need it later to dial that gate. Or use a Notebook Page. Or sketch it, if you're brave enough...
Keep in mind that the event horizon and the unstable vortex a.k.a Kawoosh from 1.6 kills entities and vaporizes blocks. You can see the range of it by enabling one of the config options in the Debug section:
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Render bounding boxes - You can see the effect live.
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Render whole kawoosh bounding box - Forces the whole Kawoosh killing box to diplay. Also, displays which blocks will be vaporized within the gate.
This options are client-side
Currently, there are twothree viable options, The DHD, the OpenComputers, and the Universe Dialer (Only for Universe gates). Here, we'll discuss the first one.
So now, go craft it. Then, place it within 10 block horizontal and 2 block vertical radius around the formed gate's base block (Configurable).
Dialing procedure is described on the DHD page.
When you finally hit this Bright Red Button and the horizon stabilizes itself, you will be ready to explore the unknown.
Kawoosh!
Camouflage!
All blocks except Stargate Base can be buried in another block(i.e. they display the other block's model). To do this, you need to right-click with the block held on the block you want to bury. Slabs and double slabs now working! (1.4-beta)
Giant capacitor?
Indeed.
There are two ways of powering the Stargate:
- Internal gate buffer,
- Cold fusion reactor in the DHD,
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DHD control crystal(as of Aunis 1.9 the control crystal no longer stores energy).
The gate itself can hold as much as 71.28 million RF when fully upgraded with capacitor banks. Without upgrades it can only store only 25% of it. Each upgrade adds 25% of storage capacity. This buffer can be charged by plugging ForgeEnergy-compatible cable at the base block of the Stargate or by the DHD's Cold Fusion Reactor.
Gate capacitors are charged from left to the right. Although the Gate itself comes first.
See here.
If you want to be able to make cross-dimensional dials, you'll need some half-ascended O'Neill's magic. Jk you just need Stargate Glyph Upgrade. Insert it into one of the four upgrade slots in the stargte GUI.
There are 3 of these. You'll need those to see other addressing spaces of the gate. These 3 include:
- Milky Way Glyphs Upgrade
- Pegasus Glyphs Upgrade
- Universe Glyphs Upgrade
to break any gate blocks to get them back you will need to use a diamond pickaxe (or a pickaxe that is able to mine obsidian)