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

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Wait, an EBF gets faster with better hatches? Cool, i started planning a room with 16 EBFs, i can cut that down quite a bit...

All multiblocks follow the same OC rules. While handy in some cases energy efficiency trumps material efficiency in GT5.

What did not work:

Naquadah Reactor Mark III → ME EU P2P → 51 ME glass cables → ME EU P2P → LuV transformer → 14 x 2x platinum cables → IV energy hatch.

The ME EU P2P could not cope with the LuV 32768 EU and only transmitted 8192EU -5% penalty (Thank you SpwnX who gave me a Head-up via IRC)

The Quad IV Buffer not working was a misplacement of the muffler during my various attempts to diagnose the issue.

I finally replaced the ME P2P with 51 Naquadah cables and the EBF is now perfectly fine.

@BloodAsp, please consider something about long-distance wireless GT EU Transmision.
You mentioned a pole system a while back and while this may be pleasant if you implement something like in magneticraft, I think there may be simpler short term implementations to replace the OP IDSU.
Maybe you could add some wireless EU cover/block with distance loss.
Have two versions/tier same world and interdimensional. Factor distance by world scale so it cost 10x penalty transmitting EU in the Nether (example).

I'd like to centralize energy production and not have a generator at each factory/usage point.

I'm not end game yet, but the Supercondutor Wire wouldn't help?

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I'm not end game yet, but the Supercondutor Wire wouldn't help?

Superconductor wire is only superior to Naquadah cable by accepting MAX voltage.
It is also a required crafting component for Fusion coils.

Other than that:
There are no generator outputing more than LuV 32768 EU/t
There is no point/need to transport higher voltages.
As any wire/cable/pipe, all chunks in the path have to remain loaded and this is a major breaker of central energy production.
And finally, superconductor wires require overly complex sub-component to craft, costly by-products and useless Cerium, Lanthanum, Caesium. Painful 2 LV Pump, costly tungstensteel fluid pipe, painful Nitrogen cell, electronic circuits...

I would not mind using them placed in world to move EU if they did allow no-loss at all as an advantage against more conventional wiring.

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I would not mind using them placed in world to move EU if they did allow no-loss at all as an advantage against more conventional wiring.

0,000000047% loss per block is almost no-loss.
U need to make cable in 1 000 000 000 blocks to have 0.47% loss.

Did I got it right that after forge 1481 everything works right again?

Got an idea about long energy transportation. Special kind of energy network just for long distance transportation.
EDIT: Forgot to mention this is ment to allow energy transport over unloaded chunks without wireless magic. With proper energy lines stretching 1000 blocks.

Requires:
Input transformer
Output transformer
Special cable (can be multiple tiers along with transformers above)
List for each grid (virtual database)

Mechanics:
When placing the Input transformer, it gets assigned an ID number X and acts as a source of power for the grid. It is also written into a List as a powersource.
Then you have to lay the Special cable all the way to your destination with NO FORKS.
The first cable block checks the ID of connected Input transformer and gets the same number.
Next cable block checks the ID of previous cable block and gets the same number too, creating an energy grid with same ID number X. Also, when assigned an ID, the cable block checks other connected cable blocks and if it finds one without assigned ID, it triggers its call for an ID. //So if you connect proper cable to a bunch of orphan cables, they get assigned one by one
Last block is Output transformer, again with the same ID number. It is also written into the List as powerdrain.
Input transformer and Output transformer have to be chunkloaded. Cables do not.

When the grid is completed, you can safely assume it's intact and ready to work.

Broken cable scenario:
When cable block is broken, it marks its neighbour cable blocks with a Flag (creating two cable endings). These 2 Flagged blocks get added to the List above with their coordinates. The grid shuts down.
To repair it, you have to connect cables back to these Flagged blocks. When connecting a new cable block to this Flagged one, it follows the same procedure as above, but the Flag gets moved to this new block (in the List too), because we have a new cable ending.
When two of these Flagged cable blocks meet, the grid knows it has been reconnected, the Flags are removed and everything works again.

Special cases:
Placed cable blocks with no Input transformer or assigned cable blocks around them have no ID assigned and become orphan blocks. They have to wait for assigning avalanche described above.
IF a newly placed cable block finds two neighbours with different ID, a wild explosion of both Input transformes (that you just connected together) is imminent.
IF a newly placed cable block finds two neighbours with same ID but not Flagged, you've connected your fork back to the grid and a short circuit happens. (you can't make forks this way)
IF you try to place a second Output transformer, you add second Powerdrain to the List and the grid shuts down (you have to end one grid and create two new grids to make a fork)
Broken Flagged block is erased from the List.


I have for sure forgotten some special cases that could happen, but right now it seems to me this might work.

Interesting concept, but much easier is to transport charged batteries via quantum ME gate

I still don't understand how the word "easy" would ever be used when talking about GT. Isn't the GT motto getting to end game the hard way?

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0,000000047% loss per block is almost no-loss.
U need to make cable in 1 000 000 000 blocks to have 0.47% loss.

That said, if you move LuV 32768 EU wich is the most EU you get out of any generator, there is absolutely no incentive to use Superconductor wires against Naquadah cables.

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Interesting concept, but much easier is to transport charged batteries via quantum ME gate

For 32768EU, Lapotronic Energy Orb Clusters with Europium are not the kind of item you like to transport as batteries until very late game, and there are no higher tier rechargeable batteries. ZPM is not, No UV Batteries, No Max Batteries. And given price/tech level of LuV Lapotronic Energy Orb Clusters; I can't see anything a player could craft for higher tiers.

The large plasma generator is able to produce more than LuV, so superconductors are usefull...

Well, I'm sorry leagris, but I am far from having your problem yet (too much energy to transport =/ ), so I cannot help.
I didn' understood why the lapotronic clusters are a problem for you, though;
If you have this much energy, what stops you from crafting them?
If you are not in "very late game" yet, I'm afraid of who is...

And sorry @Aka, I can't help you too, only SP here...

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Really long connections with GT cables are not a good idea performance wise.
I have my ideas about long distance energy transfer and the fist but inefficient one will come soon, but a real one able to connect far apart bases with good efficiency will still take some time for me.

The trick of my idea is that once it's set up, the two Transformers act as a wireless transport. They only interact with each other, not the cables. Cables are just sitting there doing absolutely nothing unless broken. So it has zero performance hit over tesseracts.

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For 32768EU, Lapotronic Energy Orb Clusters with Europium are not the kind of item you like to transport as batteries until very late game, and there are no higher tier rechargeable batteries. ZPM is not, No UV Batteries, No Max Batteries. And given price/tech level of LuV Lapotronic Energy Orb Clusters; I can't see anything a player could craft for higher tiers.

there is neutronium battery UV...
http://ftb.gamepedia.com/Ultimate_Batte…5_Unofficial%29

When changing the StorageBlockCrafting and StorageBlockDecrafting sections in recipes.cfg to allow Storage Block creation and break-down in the Crafting Grid, the Storage Blocks always want to break down into 9 dusts instead of 9 ingots. I can't find what config options to change to correct this. What am I missing? How do I get Blocks to break down into 9 ingots instead of 9 dust in the crafting grid?

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The ME EU P2P could not cope with the LuV 32768 EU and only transmitted 8192EU -5% penalty (Thank you SpwnX who gave me a Head-up via IRC)

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I'm still waiting for someone to craft a ultimate battery in legit survival.

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The ME EU P2P could not cope with the LuV 32768 EU and only transmitted 8192EU -5% penalty (Thank you SpwnX who gave me a Head-up via IRC)

You know, p2p uses AE energy equal 5% of transfered energy from AE system, not from transfered energy. So you have to supply AE with ~1638eu/t to transfer 32768ue via p2p

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I'm still waiting for someone to craft a ultimate battery in legit survival.

well i did, its no problem, just a time to craft that fusion and then a week of crafting 8 neutronium. Though, i play gregtech since may 2015 and have decent supply of energy. we had wipe in august(i insisted to install gregtech unofficial), but were allowed to take resources with us, so i took 4 zpm solars and within a 2 months built this battery. if from scratch it would take me like 4 months i guess.

ah, we have extra utilites carriers, which, when supplied with 12keu/t (speed upgrade3) dig a chunk in like 5 minutes

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I'm still waiting for someone to craft a ultimate battery in legit survival.

I made my own hard mode pack and am playing with one other person. I think it's more balanced than the folks playing infinitech but I can say I'm about two weeks from steady fusion. It's a loaded server so I may catch up and pass them quickly. Not that it's a race but it totally is. Whoever has the fullest battery when people stop caring wins.