There are a large number of ways to clear large areas very quickly in the Technic Pack, such as auto miners, quarries, and the various abilities of Red Matter tools. However, I cannot seem to find any way to automate or speed up building.
Are there any techniques or tools that can accelerate building in the Technic Pack? Prefereably, I'd like it to work on Tekkit, which has a smaller set of mods.
Best Answer
Both Technic Pack and Tekkit include ComputerCraft, which gives you access to Turtles, one of the most wonderful automation tools.
A Turtle is a programmable block just like a computer, but it has an inventory and is capable of movement, digging (when upgraded to be a Mining Turtle), block placing, and sensing its environment and inspecting the contents of its inventory. You might already be familiar with the Mining Turtle's use with macro commands –
excavateandtunnelbeing popular – but since it's a full-fledged a CC computer block you can program it with Lua directly. Giving it a program with a combination of looping, movement, and block placement commands, you can have a Turtle build arbitrarily complex structures.If you're really ambitious, you could build Wireless Turtles and coordinate them via Rednet from a single program running on a central computer.
(As with most automation, Turtles don't like being unloaded as part of a distant chunk. The usual solution of World Anchors or Teleport Tethers can be useful for long-running construction programs.)