psusi Copper Miner

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So it's just bad luck so far? OK. I only sheared the wild one I found that didn't already have a resin hole, and I chopped down another one or two that didn't and got no sapplings.

What's the deal with GT rubber trees? The wild ones I found had a resin hole I could manually harvest from, but they don't seem to drop sappings naturally so I made a shears to cut the leaves and get sapplings and have grown 3 more near my base, and…

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That doesn't tell me anything. I just saw Bear grab the sticky stuff from a sap bag, so what? Is it optional? Either you can harvest with hand or the sap bag will auto harvest?

Hey, what's the deal with GT rubber trees? I thought the idea was that instead of using a tree tap to collect rubber from spots on the tree, you were supposed to drill into the tree and attach a sap bag that would slowly collect rubber? But it looks…

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Wait, you disabled drains? So no infinite water from a river or ocean biome? Not even from rain? Man, that's crazy.

Why would anyone want to use sulfuric acid + sugar to make carbon? At first I thought that it would be easier to get to than using an electrolyzer since making a dynamo and electrolyzer require a stainless steel bathing pot to galvanize the steel, and…

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Easy yes, but volume is low given that you need 9 VPO to get one vanadium, and you only have a 10% chance of getting one from black sand, which itself isn't as common as magnetite used to be.

Also this sucks: you now require a T2…

Hey, where do you get vanadium since magnetite veins were removed? It looks like you can centrifuge a tiny amount via vanadium pentaoxide out of black sand, but there has to be a better way?

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Ahh, yea, it seems to just be the coal dust that still says it is C2 and charcoal says that it is C. Which is odd, because if it is C, then you should be able to use it to make steel or purify it into plain carbon.

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Ohh, yea... the C2 seems to now be gone from the dark ashes as well.

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*Dark* ashes. The normal ashes I get nerfing; that made getting carbon way too easy. But dark ashes say they are C2 chemically, and you can use them to reduce iron... yet centrifuging them just gives normal, useless ashes.

I've…

Why do dark ashes centrifuge into two piles of normal ashes rather than carbon? I get not having a renewable way ( charcoal or sugar ) to make carbon without some investment ( and it appears the easier way is sugar since it doesn't strictly require…

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Argh... no.. I'm talking about the "letter to MEPs from big film industry associations and sports leagues" that the article leads off with. The rights holder's say they don't like this because it somehow gives youtube et al more…

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I read the actual text of the letter from the trade association linked to from that article and they appear to be arguing the opposite; they claim that this would give youtube more protection than it has now, and that is why they…

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Let me see if I understand these assholes correctly. The law would require youtube to run content-id to auto block copyrighted content, but when it misses some, it is up to the copyright holder to notice and demand that they take…

NEI says that a refined cassetirite smelts in the crucible for 4 tin chunks, or 1 tin, but it appears to give a little more than that. I keep ending up with some extra after combining one with 3 copper. I guess it is less than 1/9th of a unit because…

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I don't see anything about fixing small springs in either the blog post or the changelog. I did notice that there is a small anvil recipe for a bar that makes a ring, so I guess that was the conflict? How about hammering the…

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If what is the case? The overlap, or the fact that you now can't make a crusher ( well, the engine to power it ) until after making a roll bender? I'm pretty sure that you can and should put back the 1 bar large anvil -> small…

On Bear's stream you said there are only 4 bits of data to work with for the positions of the bars, but why isn't that enough? 4 bits = 16 possible positions. You only need 6.

So you nerfed zirconium? Why? I'm pretty sure that besides diamonds, that was the only gem that you could embed into a steel pick that actually made it better.