Author: Bart

Thinking through energy transition with Mekanism

April 10, 2025

A major theme of the Gaia’s Riddle SMP is energy transition and sustainability.  We are running the SMP on our custom solar powered server after all.  Vanilla Minecraft has no energy system as such. Yes, redstone has always figured as a kind of energy source… perhaps like electricity or magnetism. In vanilla we use redstone…
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What is SunBlock One?

November 12, 2024

Sunblock One is a prototype solar powered Minecraft server.  There is nothing exceptional about this technologically; we can manage this with inexpensive consumer grade DIY components. We have a 100watt solar panel, a MPPT solar controller, a 12V50ah Lithium battery connected to a miniPC with a 10th gen i7, integrated graphics and 32GB of RAM…
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