[GregTech-5][1.7.10-FORGE-1355+][Unofficial but approved Port][Stable] Even GT5 Experimental is slowly getting stable.

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Now I'm curious: what other mods carry social stigmas in this forum?

I actually like having mods like BC TE, and extra utilities as long as they're "balanced" to the point of costing much more than their GT counterparts. I don't like multiple blocks that do the same thing except one does it better, faster, for less energy, and less material cost. Everything in a pack should have its place.

Also I've never actually used EnderIO personally but the reason I shy away from it is because from what I've seen it eliminates all routing and plumbing problems. I think those are some key elements in a design and just removing it from the equation isn't as satisfying.

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What witchery is this?
I think I'm pretty happy with my pistons, really.

It's basically this, probably most of you know how to do it:

________________________Boiler controler______
|Piston|Brick|Redstone block|___________|brick|Piston|

It works like this: Tank empty, redstone signal activates a piston that push a redstone block under the boiler control, activating it. When it starts to fill, the piston will retract, but the block stays where it is. Until the Boiler hatch gets full, and sends a signal to another piston, that push the Redstone block back to it's original position, deactivating the boiler. The brick is there only to avoid direct contact with the piston, keeping it active. It's simple, and don't blows my head off
It stays under the boiler too, so It's hidden all the time, not so ugly.

But I'll read this link, maybe is easier than appears...
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I see that you are using a LHE, so Boiler input is also a concern. ATM, I'm using regular boiler and charcoal isn't a problem, so I dont need to check for it. Maybe later I'll do a more complex system, probably using a hidden room underground and attach inputs and outputs to wireless RS transmiters. Like a program fuction

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That's pretty clever. I like that.

For the boiler I was unsatisfied with BC gate's 25% granularity so I actually went with opencomputers. It lets me monitor consumption rate and do clever things like calculate the percentage full to turn on the boilers (assuming the flow rate doesn't change). Every loop check the consumption rate. If I know I can make 48 B/s and it takes me a minute to get there (with a linear increase from 0) I can pick a point where I should turn on so that I will be at 100% when the tank is completely empty. Dat efficiency.

I was using BC before only for the pumps. Now that we have one, I removed from my mods. Just sad that all that oil was gone with it, forgot that was a BC thing...

Speaking about mods, I'm really curious about the "Realistic Fluids Overhaul".
I always wanted to put a pipe with a drain at the bottom of a river to fill my boilers and factory, never used finite water because I couldn't do this. Anyone tried to see if works and the water is compatible?

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For the boiler I was unsatisfied with BC gate's 25% granularity so I actually went with opencomputers. It lets me monitor consumption rate and do clever things like calculate the percentage full to turn on the boilers (assuming the flow rate doesn't change). Every loop check the consumption rate. If I know I can make 48 B/s and it takes me a minute to get there (with a linear increase from 0) I can pick a point where I should turn on so that I will be at 100% when the tank is completely empty. Dat efficiency.

Seems cool, I need to try OpenComputers. But I have so little time to play, that I feel that I'll spend it all programing instead playing. And I'll still have to learn its language;

Fluid canner compressed air cell output go into wrong slot #183

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When inserting an IC2 Compressed Air Cell into a Fluid Canner, fluid:Air output into the fluid input slot instead of one of output slots.

Then, how do you extract Azote (nitrogen) gas from air?

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Fluid canner compressed air cell output go into wrong slot #183

Then, how do you extract Azote (nitrogen) gas from air?

That's not really a bug. See here:

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The peculiarity of the Fluid Canner is that it doesen't have any "input" or "output" slots, but only one single slot where up to 16000L of fluid can be stored. This means that the same fluid can be inputted via pipe and outputted by filling an Cell, and vice versa. In fact, any other machine that has fluid slots can't output the inputted fluid without processing it. To export a fluid, however, an Electric Pump attached to one side is required.

Oh, I just noticed the Brazil flag on SpwnX.
Didn't knew you were from here...

huehuehue ~SpwnX

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I think you can also output from the fluid canner using the auto-output function.

That didn't work a few months ago, but I just checked in creative mode, and apparently it does now. (although maybe I had been using the wrong auto-output button before, since the textures I was using didn't include the tank/crate indicators, and the tooltips hadn't been added)

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I actually like having mods like BC TE, and extra utilities as long as they're "balanced" to the point of costing much more than their GT counterparts. I don't like multiple blocks that do the same thing except one does it better, faster, for less energy, and less material cost. Everything in a pack should have its place.

+1. If one mod does something way better than another and isn't justified via progression or resource costs, nobody will ever use that inferior tech.

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Also I've never actually used EnderIO personally but the reason I shy away from it is because from what I've seen it eliminates all routing and plumbing problems. I think those are some key elements in a design and just removing it from the equation isn't as satisfying.

That it does. I'm pretty torn on this myself. On the one hand, I dislike having the easy EnderIO option for simple logistical problems, but on the other hand, it adds some flexibility for truly deep and convoluted scenarios.

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I do have a batbuffer with 8 Lapotron Crystals, before a Transformer near the EBF, and my turbine actives when the buffer is low, and deactivates when its full.
Usually this is enough, but I finally found a tungstate vein today, and I'm cooking non-stop, so it's being too much for the poor girl.

Well, I let it charge for now, tomorrow I finish batch, time to sleep here. No need to hasty now

Can I ask what do you use to check how full the buffer is? Or/and maybe show the screenshot?
I'd like to do same thing on my plasma turbine.

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Can I ask what do you use to check how full the buffer is? Or/and maybe show the screenshot?
I'd like to do same thing on my plasma turbine.

fwiw, if you're ambitious, you can hunt through the FTB infitech2 thread and find my setup as I do the same thing. A batbox with the energy detector cover on it, triggering on and off via a SR latch (also known as an RS latch although I prefer SR)

Edit: http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/1-7-10…53#post-1323095

Tools of nakvadarium must be radioactive?

in vain did it

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fwiw, if you're ambitious, you can hunt through the FTB infitech2 thread and find my setup as I do the same thing. A batbox with the energy detector cover on it, triggering on and off via a SR latch (also known as an RS latch although I prefer SR)

Edit: http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/1-7-10…53#post-1323095

Thx, that doesn't really help though. I know how to do that with IC2 storage, but I want to set up this:

I have 4 Lapotronic Energy Clusters in my buffer. Is it possible to send a signal when batteries are, say, 95% or less full? This would allow plasma to be sent into the turbine, so that I don't waste plasma and rotor.

How does this energy detector work? I thought it only worked on machine's internal buffer, and not batteries. I found this setting "including batteries" but it didn't seem to work.

Bug: Cannot smelt Black Bronze, thus cannot make Black Steel, Blue Steel, and others. It says it's blasted in a blast furnace but the BF will never start. It won't smelt in any other furnace either.

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Bug: Cannot smelt Black Bronze, thus cannot make Black Steel, Blue Steel, and others. It says it's blasted in a blast furnace but the BF will never start. It won't smelt in any other furnace either.

I smelt ingots

@ AiwendilCiunio
To measure the Battery buffer charge, you can use the energy detector cover. Just ajust with a screwdriver until you find the option that includes the internal bateries, I don't remember which is right now.

@Axle
Black Bronze powder can be mixed on the crafting table, 3 x copper, 1 gold and 1 silver. You don't need to smelt to make black steel...