I am confirming this because I thought it would be a neat suggestion for a future machine but, is there a machine/way to make lava?
Machine to make lava
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No for a machine that is specialized on making lava. But i think you can replicate it using UUM.
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There is one, if the latest ic2 changes did not remove water and lava replication using UUM. (See mass fabricator, scanner and replicator)
However, that thing is extremely expensive energy-wise.
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But do you really need a machine for that?
The nether has plenty of lava for you to grab and turn into obsidian later on. -
The IC2 pump works great on draining the nether lava, so you're only problem is taking them from the nether to the overworld. Universal Fluid cells after all stack and can be used to put lava in the world.
BTW, distilled water can be placed in the nether, and that makes obsidian when it hits lava, so you could make it without even needing to move the lava
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Make a stack+ of universal fluid cells, those are like buckets.
Edit: Ninja'd with even better info
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I think in a recent change they changed how far it drains fluids.
Get a universal fluid cell with distilled water and enjoy using it as a bucket in the nether
Distilled water can be easily made with the solar destiller (this is a typo Thunderdark...)
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(this is a typo Thunderdark...)
I posted it on the bug tracker when it was added, and it was meant to be fixed. So I posted it back a few hours ago.And the pump now empties pools at the same level as it's on. So it's actually useful now
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I posted it on the bug tracker when it was added, and it was meant to be fixed. So I posted it back a few hours ago.And the pump now empties pools at the same level as it's on. So it's actually useful now
how doe sthe pump drain .. like the miner? how far of a radius
Also the universal cells are AWESOME!!! they take a bit to make .. but stackable and reusable.. much better then the old tin cans of yore
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how doe sthe pump drain .. like the miner? how far of a radius
Also the universal cells are AWESOME!!! they take a bit to make .. but stackable and reusable.. much better then the old tin cans of yore
Pretty sure the Miner now ignores liquid from what I heard from Thunderdark on Quetzi's stream, but never actually tried putting the 2 next to each other. The radius of the pump is big, but I never determined how big big is.
I still like the old tin cans
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buildcraft pump
bottling plant
hoppers
large supply of universal cells
powered obviously by geotermal generator
nether portal
everything inside quarry chunk loading
dispencerhome area:
nether portal with flush area filled with large amount of hoppers
large tank (or VERY LARGE) (or large area and flood gate)
bottling plant
one more quarry to keep chunks loadedActually i always wanted some machine that can generate lava from stone and energy, but always delayed that for random reasons.
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Actually i always wanted some machine that can generate lava from stone and energy, but always delayed that for random reasons.
i will add a Lava creator (will be a Smelter) use Heat + Stone -> lava ...but it is necessary energy use > 2 * energy gain in Geo Generator to prevent loop
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You mean MUCH more than * 2 of Geo Generator, because it will create too many easy exploits making Lava that way. I bet you there will be at least one Mod that will create exploits with that.
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It just needs a config option so you can balance it around other mod's lava usage. 2*geo gen could just be the default.
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I have planned 2 - 16 times more energy and 8-64 stones to create single lava *bucket* based off steam generator (accept stone dust instead of water and produce lava instead of steam, more heat - less cost, internal tank for lava 1024 buckets, can explode if overheated, "calcify" (and explode) over time, can be decalcified by redstone (that also can be melted into lava - at 2x energy cost but do not calcify).
Actually blast furnace can melt stone into lava just fine without adding one more machine.
If stone present istead of air cells empty cells accepted.exploits by other mods:
ha-ha-ha
There is no way to take into account every single mod in world and this is not reason to reject features.Its just like "we can't do this, this will upset niggers\islamists\vegetarians\someone else"
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You mean MUCH more than * 2 of Geo Generator, because it will create too many easy exploits making Lava that way. I bet you there will be at least one Mod that will create exploits with that.
I know one of those mods, as GregTech allows lava centrifuging for metals
Aside that, make it similar to what rawcode suggested.
Use the blast furnace, where you swap the iron for stone dust (that will up the heat cost from 1 to 50+) and obtain lava fluid in the end.
