While The Powder Toy is in many ways just a generic falling sand game, albeit with a very large selection of diverse materials, a significant part of its community is very technical and has even gone so far as to create fully functioning, and even fast, computers in TPT (I'm looking at you, LBPHacker). The Powder Toy also has a Minecraft server for those TPT players who enjoy Minecraft. As such, I feel it would be fitting if The Powder Toy started a second Minecraft server with the OpenComputers mod as well as some possible addon-mods (e.g. computronics) which brings computers to Minecraft which can be freely programmed with Lua and have limited resources similar to the computers of the 70s and 80s. The mod comes with its own Lua based OS you can install in the computers, but you can modify it as you wish or even create your own. The mod also has enough capabilites to do such things as play music (you will have to program it to do that though, it has no native music abilities, only primitive sound functions), interact with the worldwide web over TCP, and even create a model version of the internet.

jacob1 has said he would not make such a server as there would be too little interest in it. However, I believe a few technically oriented TPT players would be more than happy to dedicate a lot of time to playing on such a server. As such, I am creating this thread to act as a poll to see what the community thinks of the idea. Please vote down below on whether or not TPT should have an OpenComputers Minecraft server, and feel free to discuss and modify the idea as you wish. If any you would like to host it in place of jacob1, please do.

jacob1 already said he doesn't want to host it, so a member of the community hosting it will probably be the next best thing unless jacob1 changes his mind.

Well, I suppose it depends on what you want to do with OpenComputers. If you want to make your own OS with a graphical environment, custom BIOS, custom filesystem on an unmanaged drive, music capabilities and primitive web browsing abilities and distribute it over an in-game internet formed with OpenComputers computers, that seems like there's enough there to keep someone busy for absolute ages. But if that's not your cup of tea, I completely understand. The world of computation is a big one, and maybe OS building or internet recreation isn't your preffered spot in it. Still, I'm sure some people will like it. I'm personally eyeing that music playing potential.

Excellent question! I am currently undecided, but it could be both. The current TPT server has both creative and survival worlds which players can jump between via a command. This could pose an issue with regards to OpenComputers networking as there is no way to network between servers, but they could be bridged by an external TCP relay server or something. Basically, both servers connect to the relay over TCP and then when both are connected, anything that is sent to the relay over one connection will be sent back to the server across the other connection. But this isn't really at all necessary, and can be added at any time down the road.

I think the server should stay focused on OpenComputers. Addon mods like computronics and auxiliary mods for things like grief protection are welcome, but something like galacticraft or NTM seems off focus. If we wanted a server for general modded Minecraft fun, we have plenty of premade modpacks to choose from. Also, NTM has way too much griefing potential unless we disable its explosives. Even a grief protection mod isn't very useful if anyone has the capability to make the entire landscape around your base cease to exist.