[WIP][Gregtech][Addon] Food Industry

I would be willing to offer some textures, if you'd like.

I also have some ideas for fermenting, if you don't already have an idea planned.

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More ideas to be implemented:
Replace Iron Furnace with Gas Furnace (same cooking speed, but with gas fuels instead of solid ones), add more fuel gases and their production chain.
Gas Furnace fuel values:

• methane - 110 items
• town gas - 73 items
• enriched water gas - 44 items requires crude oil cracking, idea killed by the lack of crude oil.
• hydrogen - 36 items
• water gas - 30 items

To get some town gas you'll need a coke oven (not RC one, much better):
Hollow multiblock structure 3x3 4 blocks tall made of firebricks (cook vanilla brick again to get one) includes coke oven hopper on top (call it material input hatch), fuel gas input hatch on bottom (yes, it can be self-sustaining if you want), and firebox in front. Produced gas is auto-ejected into pipes connected to any block of 2 middle layers. Firebox acts like RC solid-fueled firebox producing heat depending on fuel fed into it. After the oven is hot enough, gas production starts (the hotter the oven, the better result you get). You put coal dust into the hopper and get 1 coke coal and 10-25 (depending on heat) gas per 4 dusts. Hydrated coal dust produces blue water gas instead of coal gas, lignite produces ashes instead of coke.
Crude coal gas proceeds into condenser (optional, yields tar which can be distilled into creosote or used for asphalt pavement for faster movement) and purifier (hollow multiblock made of lead-plated bricks) to become useful town gas. Purifier can be fed with lime dust if available.
Blue water gas can be centrifuged into hydrogen and carbon dioxide (4:2:1).
Town gas can be centrifuged into hydrogen, methane and nitrogen (20:10:5:2), some byproducts are wasted).

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reminds me of some GT suggestion ... I know it's extremly long, but if you want Ideas, take a look at the GT thread (even the TO DO list, given Greg isn't implementing those ^^). There are tons of stuff Oil-related missing in IC².

Wow I thought this would eventually happen, a modding the mod that is being modded by another mod :P.
Nonetheless sounds awesome and can't wait to see it!

P.S. I f you need any help you can just ask me. I am familiar with the IC2 API.

Here's an idea for the Industrial Fermenter, which I suggested for Gregtech earlier:

Quote from abculatter_2

Something I've been meaning to suggest for a long time, but never got around to it:

What about, when you implement your own fermentation device, adding a system of inoculents somewhat similar to Forestry's bees?

Inoculants would be created either in petri dishes in a special, unpowered breeder machine, and stored in refrigerated storage closets, or you can simply plop the inoculant's source straight into the fermentation device and let it grow. These inoculant would have specific stats associated with them, such as species, what that species gives, yield modifier, temperature tolerance, resistance, virility (which would change based on how well you take care of the innoculant) etc. Combining innoculents will cause the two to begin competing with eachother, with the winner being determined by a combination of virility and resistance. However, there is a change (dependent on the species) that the losing side will randomly innoculate the other with one of its traits.
You would be able to scan a petri dish in the computer cube or with a special tool to be able to see its traits.
There should also be a way to multiply an innoculant onto multiple petri dishes, possibly at the cost of virility.
You would get innoculents from specific items marked as harboring a specific type of bacteria or fungi or whatever, such as rotten flesh or dirt or grass or mycelium or leaves, basically anything that could potentially harbor something microbial. Even netherrack and end stone. These all need not have a unique species associated with them, but there should be enough variety as to give the player actual choices, and things to breed.
Perhaps there could also be a way to make innoculants mutate, such as randomly over time when specific criteria are met or with a special machine?

Also, the fermentation device itself could have a temperature control you could adjust, which would affect the innoculent currently in it at the cost of more EU being pumped into it, dependant on how much you deviate from the biome's ambient temperature. (Also, perhaps if the fermentation device detects an opaque block above it or no sunlight hitting it, then it would go to a default cold 'underground' temperature) Putting the temperature higher is basically always better for yield, as the increase in energy speeds up microbial respiration. However, putting it too high will cause your innoculant to slowly (or not so slowly, if you really crank it up) loose virility, and if virility reaches 0, it dies and the device is considered sterilized. Also, making the temperature higher will generally cost more EU then putting it lower. However, putting the temperature lower can, depending on the species, have one of two effects. Either the innoculant will slowly die, like with heat, or the species will go into dormancy, and not produce anything but still remain alive.

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Been there, done that. Those suggestions can be divided into two large groups: poorly described and supreme advanced tech involving for the sake of supreme advanced tech.

For what I remember of mine, some weren't in those 2 groups ... Like the Oil-related stuff I suggested myriads of time especially.

Quote from malcanteth

- no ideas for population control, you'll get unlimited source of useless bacteria liquid (yes, bacteria colony is liquid in my vision).
- no ideas for reactions except realistic ones I put into OP.

1. You could make population growth a bell-curve function instead of a linear one, that way once the population reaches a certain threshold growth will stagnate until the population goes down again. This also have the benefit of being kinda sorta realistic. It also still allows the player to pump out the bacteria, if they so choose, but also doesn't force them to.

2. My pleasure.

- Dirt gives some of the most versatile but also inefficient bacteria, capable of consuming almost anything with even a silver of organic matter in it and turning it into biomass. This includes: Wood, dirt, (leaves behind sand as a byproduct) all foods and crops, seeds, saplings, leaves, meat, scrap, etc. They also take a LOT of negligence to kill accidentally, as they go into a dormant state when not fed rather then starving. They'll still loose most of the population, but enough will remain that they can spring back qiuickly and easily. Basically, these are great if you essentially want an alternative to the recycler for organic things, but if you want to power your base with bacteria you should probably look elsewhere.
A few example mutations these could have would be yielding clay as a byproduct from dirt, or consuming sand and organic matter and turning it into dirt.

- Grass gives bacteria which are better for specialized, efficient energy production from plant matter. These have high biomass yields, especially once you start to specialize them to a specific food type, but are fragile, with high sensitivity to starvation, temperature fluctuations, competition, basically everything.
A few example mutations would be higher yields from specific plants, such as only oak saplings or spruce wood logs, as well as some by products from specific plants which are applicable, such as water from cacti.

- Netherrack gives access to bacterial strains which consume netherrack and/or less efficiently sulfer, and produce lava. These could also have some special requirement conditions, such as requiring the player to turn the fermenter's temperature up to 11, thus making it require more power or they might only be capable of surviving in the nether.
There could also be specialist/mutation-only strains which produce certain nether-specific resources either in addition to lava, or as a replacement. Some examples: a strain that consumes redstone or gold + sulfer/netherrack, and produces glowstone. A strain which produces mercury as a by-product from netherrack, at the cost of less lava. Or strains which distil coal, gold, or redstone from netherrack more efficiently then a centrifuge, but at the cost of less or none of the other resources.
There could also be species which consume lava instead, and produce resources from it, such as the centrifuge products more energy-efficiently or with higher yield, or they could produce netherrack.

- Ores could have a very low chance of giving bacteria whose unique biology makes them need that ore's products to live. This makes them very efficient at extracting metals from ores, which can be used to your advantage to increase ore yields by centrifuging/electrolyzing the metal out of the bacteria after letting them do their work, though it does take time and you loose any byproducts that the ore might have given in the Industrial Grinder. These bacteria also have the advantage of being very well adapted to long periods of stavation, making them almost completely unaffected by starvation but they are also slow to multiply, making them easily out-competed.
These could almost be considered mutations unto themselves, but some mutations they could have are allowing extraction of metals from stone/cobblestone, or specialists in yielding more of the ore's byproducts, at the cost of primary metal yield.

I could continue, if you'd like. There's still Endstone.

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He means giving more byproducts (for example, gold from copper ore) by reducing the main metal output (copper in this case).

Actually, both of you are right. I was thinking that the bacteria could receive mutations which either allow byproducts to be made, or which allow greater main metal yields. (But not both at the same time.)

These mutations could be selected for by feeding the bacteria different things, such as, in the case of copper ore bacteria, copper dust to select for more copper yield, or gold dust for gold.

Do you have any plans for forestry-like multifarms? I am thinking of adding them to my mod, and I don't want to trip on your feet