Gus_Smedstad Stone Miner

I completed my MV electrolyzer, and I needed only 1 tiny pile of gallium to do it. The way I organized my base, I had a long run between my LV steam turbine bank and my starting electric blast furnace, so I used transformers to up the voltage to 128v…

I’m experimenting in a Creative world. It appears that in .32pre4, the production cycle for an oil rig is 4 seconds, not 8. Production is still 1/2 the stated amount per cycle, but you get the full amount in 8 seconds. For example, in my test world I…

That’s... good to know. I do believe I’ll quit again. I assumed that 0.32 was at least as functional as 0.28, so I never imagined oil would be broken. That pretty much ruins the game for me, for a variety of reasons.

I hate manually mining for fuel.…

In going over the various stages of production, I made a point of noting how much each step limited the eventual power production, in EU/tick. Last time around I didn't pay enough attention to that, and overestimated the value of some fuel production…

So I wasted my day delving into the confusing world of .31+ fuels. I had a pretty good grasp of how combustion fuel production worked in .28, but pretty much everything has changed, and many of the new fuels have recipes that rapidly become confusing if…

Sphalerite isn’t the same as Zinc ore for game balance, because they have different byproducts even if the end result is still Zinc. If straight Zinc ore was getting generated in large veins, the Gallium issue wouldn’t exist, since it has Gallium as…

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I generally don’t do mod packs because they tend to throw more mods than even I want into the game often, with multiple tech packs that give you multiple, somewhat conflicting methods of doing things.

I have a specific goal in…

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Undmodified, it’s actually a HV bootstrapping issue, since you can’t get to the gallium by-products without a HV macerator to processing thermally centrifuges ores. That was a good catch on your part. I’d just prefer to…

I've looked at the Gallium problem, and decided it was better to take an approach that was closer to real life ore processing. Gallium is normally a byproduct of electrolysis of bauxite or sphalerite. So I put together a minetweaker script that added…

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Ugh. I haven't progressed enough to examine what gallium's used for in GT. Doping the new integrated circuits, I'd guess. I'm still at the vacuum tube stage, since ICs and transistors appear to require MV tech. I do notice what you…

I encountered another recipe problem, this one being that there was no way to make biochaff. I was exploring alternatives to steam power, and biochaff is the gregtech method of making ethanol. I figured it was another mod conflict, like the problem with…

I noticed one new feature in .32pre4 which, while not vital, is worth grabbing the update by itself.

Pipes no longer auto-connect to everything adjacent. They’ll auto-connect to the block to which you are pointing, so if you are making a line of pipe…

I fired up my minimal install, which I created primarily to re-balance the food values of Harvestcraft meals, and sure enough, I can create compressed coal balls in a compressor.

I can't imagine what is suppressing it in my main directory. Of the mods…

OK, I fired up 5.09.32pre4. The lathe requires 1 diamond. Compressed coal balls can only be made in the assembler. I’m not running scripts that change either one, and I’m not running a mod pack.

I don’t know how you’re seeing different results.

Found 5.0.9.32pre4 via the “dev versions and old versions” link in the first message. I should probably grab that one to see what changes. While my knee-jerk response is to wait for “official” builds, I ran .28pre for a while because it fixed…

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I’m not playing a mod pack. I’m playing GT5U 5.09.31, plus a grab bag of mods I added for various reasons. I haven’t looked at .32pre4, maybe the recipes are changed, but in 0.31, the lathe requires 1 diamond (industrial or…

I’m grinding my way up to making a LV assembler so I can make industrial diamonds, which are required for a macerator and a lathe (and who knows what else, now).

I’m seriously thinking about shelving it, because I’m feeling somewhat bored. My…

I ended up using Forestry’s Carpenter to convert wood into wood pulp. I feel like that’s a completely reasonable alternative. Making wood pulp should be a relatively easy, low-tech process, unlike ore maceration.

I powered the Carpenter with a windmill…

Against my better judgement, I'm firing up Gregtech 5u again. I'm stuck because it seems near impossible to get out of the steam age now.

Electronic circuits require coated circuit boards. Coated circuit boards require "wood planks" which are not wood…