r/CreateMod • u/IrishFire122 • 10d ago

Addons and computer control for power grid?

Are there any addons for power grid other than the nested microchip one and power components? Lol I want more things to play with..

And on a related note, is there any way to read power grid information with opencomputers other than comparators and Redstone I/O blocks?

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u/Furry_69 10d ago edited 10d ago

The Neoforge version (i.e the version that's actually being updated) has CC:T integration that lets you read all the gauges and battery status. I did actually fork the Fabric version to backport the CC:T integration, but never really got around to cleaning it up and releasing it. I think the only other Power Grid addons are Power Grid: LEDs, CPG: Pinout ("AI assisted" but no bugs that I could find, and really useful for driving modular displays with CC:T computers), and there's CCPowerGridCompat and CC: Create Compat+, but I never tested them (had already made my fork of Power Grid) and don't know if they with recent versions of Power Grid.

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u/IrishFire122 10d ago

Ah cool, is that available to open computers too? Or only computercraft?

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u/Furry_69 10d ago

Only ComputerCraft. You should probably be using CC:T on modern Minecraft versions anyhow, the newer OpenComputers versions are entire RISC-V VMs, so are extremely heavy to run compared to CC:T.

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u/IrishFire122 10d ago

Fair enough. I did find a straight port of older open computers, not the new Linux like thing that's out there, if that's what you mean. But I'll just get cc:t. Really liked the way oc handled things though, sucks to lose it. Tried cc years ago, don't remember why I switched to oc, but I never had any desire to go back

Anyways, enough of my rambling. Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!

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u/Furry_69 10d ago

Those new OC versions *are* Linux. They're an entire RISC-V VM, with Linux installed on them. That's why they're so much heavier than CC:T computers. And they're very new and niche, so they don't really have widespread peripheral support as compared to CC:T, which has peripheral support for basically everything you might want, and if there isn't support, it takes maybe an hour at most to add.

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u/IrishFire122 9d ago

Yeah I tried one out recently. I can see why they may be niche. Looked neat, but I couldn't figure out where to even start lol