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Turns out one of the ways that a glider can hit a xWSS diverges significantly from regular Life when B8 is added, and this difference allows for bizarre helix segments with a burning front faster than c/2 forwards. In this example (which may not be the most optimal cleanup) the burning front travels...

I found some more crawler reactions that might be usable for building spaceships. There's probably still more out there, and I'm probably going to continue to prioritize 28c/83 over them in regards to research, but I figured it's worth a shot looking for some more for future reference. I haven't bot...

I've now found a spacer for the 28c/83 reaction, giving the ability to choose not to fire a glider. You can also burn the output blocks instead, which I haven't looked into as much since they don't immediately produce more easy to use fuel inside of the debris line. x = 2637, y = 100, rule = B38/S23...

There's a wick in standard Life which burns at 28c/83 orthogonally, but since the reaction involves an R pentomino stage, its exhaust aggressively blows up out of control. However, in Pedestrian Life, Rs are much better behaved, and so the reaction settles down nicely. The reaction is quite versatil...

R pentominoes seem to like spawning more R pentominoes in this rule. In addition to the known RF190R from suppressing a snipe by the eventual FNG, I managed to find some new R conduits that spew out R outputs: x = 133, y = 80, rule = B38S23History 70.2A$69.A.A$69.A$67.2A.A4.A$66.A.A.A2.3A9.2A$66.ABA...

So, I might've posted a bit prematurely, because I've found a working H->LOM->G conduit. If analyzed as a pure H->G it's NW4T282, which appears to be a new lane again. But for me the more exciting bit is the fact that it's a H->LOM (the constituents of which are shown here in white) followed by a LO...

I've found a couple new H-to-G conduits with the new glider to pre-TL catalyst Kazyan found earlier this month. I feel like there's more potential out there with this, but I personally haven't found anything else after a few days so I'm just going to post what my own investigations have found. I'm g...

This is sort of a response to my other post over in Oscillator Discussion, so if you're the type who likes riddles and wants to try and figure out the oscillator's "special property" for yourself, you might want to take a look there first. Anyway, for everyone who just wants to know what's up, here'...

I realized while messing around with it that the LOM-producing Bandersnatch has a really cool and exciting property! Unfortunately* I've only been able to get a p143 oscillator from it: x = 64, y = 56, rule = B3/S23 24bo$23bobo$23bobo7b2o$21b3ob2o6b2o$20bo19b2o$21b3ob2o13b2o$23bob2o4$ 36bo$35bobo$34...

Here's an interesting start to a possible E heptomino conduit which *is* compatible with the known H-to-E conduit. The boat doesn't have to be a boat, but something needs to be there in order to make the transparent block re-coalesce and prevent the nearby eater from being destroyed. If we can resto...

Psuedo p30 LWSS gun using 4 queen bees*: x = 49, y = 43, rule = B3/S23 29b2o$29b2o6$28b3o$27b2ob2o$27b2ob2o$27b5o$26b2o3b2o3$13bo2bo$12bo14b 4o$12bo3bo10bo3bo$12b4o11bo$2b2o24bo$bobo28bo$bo23b2ob3o7b2o$2o16b2o4b 6o7bobo$16bo3bo5b2ob2o5bo6b2o$15bo5bo14bo2bo2bo2bob2o$10b2o2b2obo3bo 14bo6b2o2b2o$10b2o3...

If the "non-Gosper gun" shows up instead of a proper GGG, I will still cheerfully admit defeat, of course. That's a 3QB, so I feel pretty safe. Well, Tropylium's second p30 gun in that thread does have an advantage over the regular GGG in that it can be built up one component at a time, allowing a ...

That reaction is missing one of the key components a fuse needs to have to be used in a ship: It needs to recreate the input to the fuse as (part of) its output so that it can be burned again in the same direction. This (13,4)c/41 fuse may burn gliders and output gliders, but the output gliders are ...

Here's a new conduit, HL82R (not to be confused with the almost identically named HL83R), along with an example Lx169 built from it: x = 75, y = 62, rule = LifeHistory 65.B2A$63.2BA2BAB$63.3B2A3B$61.12B$60.14B$61.13B$61.14B$60.15B$60.14B $60.13B$60.B3D4B.3B$60.2BD4B$60.2B3D2B$60.6B$59.7B$58.8B$57.8B...

I think the concept is good - and being able to have fully p1 logic is quite nice. However, the fact that signals take up space and cannot be cleanly (let alone selectively) deleted in-line seems like a considerable disadvantage to me - it's like the circuit has memory leaks everywhere that can't be...

I know it's been a while, but I've been taking a bit of a look into some methods of building the front end recently. But before I get to that, I'd like to clarify that the design I proposed previously, with a "glider sponge" off to the side the side and other strange elements other than just standar...

Final steps for xs17_08p78b5z321 using a hat->loop converter (probably unoptimal, unsure of the glider cost but I think it's less than 17): x = 52, y = 17, rule = B3/S23 11bo$11bobo$11b2o$2b2ob2o8bo26b2ob2o$3bobo8bo28bobo$3bobo8b3o26bo2bo$b 2obo36b2ob2o$2bo39bo$obo37bobo7b2o$2o38b2o8b2o$11bo$10b2o$1...

Here's a few other ways of cleaning up a climber's stabilized debris with a single incoming ship: x = 68, y = 295, rule = B3/S23 9b2o$9b2o26$15b2o$15b2o7$13bo$12bobo18bo$12bobo16bo3bo$13bo16bo$30bo4b o$30b5o8$14b2o$14b2o8$obobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobob obobo11$23b2o$23b2o12$31b2o$3...

A for awesome wrote:Sorry to spoil the fun, but I found it about a year and a half ago.

No worries; the reaction is pretty straightforward and the eater was already known, so I initially figured somebody had found it previously.

Reburnable fuse which does not work in standard Life, velocity (8,3)c/66, p132: x = 270, y = 95, rule = B3/S238 268bo$267b2o$241b2o23bo2bo$240bo2bo23b2o$241b2o4$225b2o$224bo2bo$225b 2o4$209b2o$208bo2bo$209b2o4$193b2o$192bo2bo$193b2o4$177b2o$176bo2bo$ 177b2o4$161b2o$160bo2bo$161b2o4$145b2o$144bo2bo$1...

p14 oscillator formed by a known eater chomping on a recovering copy of itself, back and forth: x = 18, y = 13, rule = B3/S23 7b2o3b2o$6bobo3bobo$2b2o2bo7bo$2bobob2o5b2ob2o$4bo3bo5bobo$4bob2o3b3o 2bo$2b2o2b2o2bo3b2o$bo2b2o4b2obo$bobo9bo$2obo6b2obobo$3bo7bo2b2o$3bobo 3bobo$4b2o3b2o! Discussion in the...

Since this ship will travel slower than c/4 orthogonally, it actually might not be necessary to make a self-sustaining helix - it should be possible to throw forward gliders at a forwards stream of spaceships, sending back forward gliders and sideways xWSSs to build the start of the tracks. However,...

Here's a sketch for a potential (34,7)c/156 spaceship design plan: (34,7)c156 Spaceship Sketch.png The goal here is to exploit the fact that the climber is both a bit messy, and also able to burn gliders in addition to blocks. (It turns out it can also burn boats too, so there's 3 potential input fu...

90 degree block signal reflector, repeat time 17: x = 55, y = 60, rule = B2-ac3aei4ae6i8/S23-ejq8 40bo$38bo2bo$37bo2bobo2$36bobo2bo$37bo2bo$38bo2$33b2o$33b2o4$28b2o$28b 2o$27bo$25b2o$25b2o3$21b2o17b2o$21b2o17b2o2$38b4o$17b2o19bo3b2o2b2o$ 17b2o20bo4b2obo$38b2o$31b2o$4b2o7b2o16bo$4bo8b2o17bo9b2o$5bo26...

I haven't seen this transparent block before: x = 27, y = 39, rule = LifeHistory 5$17.A$6.2A7.3A$7.A6.A$7.A.AB3.2A$8.2AB.4B$10.4B$11.5B$9.8B$8.12B$7. 13B$6.15B$5.8B3A5B$4.8BA3BAB2DB$3.8BA5BA2DB$2.2B2A5BA5BA4B$2.2B2A5BA 5BA5B$3.9BA3BAB2.4B$6.7B3A5.3B$7.11B4.2B$7.7B2.2A5.B$7.7B2.A$8.5B4.3A $8.5B2A4.A$...