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

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I improved allmost every other way of powergen before. Oil became about 2x as powerfull 3 updates ago. The 5.09 switch made large boilers quite efficient. There is biofuel from IC2. Single use batterys are now usable for powergen. Either as byproduct from other processing chains or directly fueled by sulfur.

I will also improve nuclear so that it really fills the step before fusion. Did some prepareations so far, the real power boost will come soon.

The last thing i want, is that people stay all the time at the first tier of boilers and only build more of them. I prepared enough alternatives before this nerv so no one can complain.

Sounds fine to me.

Only one thing: The granite still spawns in the end asteroids.

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Update GT 5.09.16
*Fixed cables acting strange when missing RF api.
*Fixed platinum group processing eating cells.
*Cleanup crop class.
*Crop stats change.
*Graphene recipe more efficient.
*Screwdriver + shiftclick going over 0 fix.
*Screwdriver shiftcklick for covers.
*Fixed Single use batterys stacking.
*Fix ore achievements not respecting changed worldgen config.
*Iridium reinforced recycles incomplete.
*Solar/coal boiler nerv.
*Added Underground biomes stone processing.
*Biomass now needs water, biogas a bit less efficient in destillation tower.
*Pump/conveyors only use energy when transfering.
*Fix bee recipe nerv/change crop processing.
*Fixed end asteroids spawning red granite ores.
*Nuclear control sensor stack should not stack.
*Nuclear control teleporter support.
*Nuclear control display overflow with ultimate batterys fixed.
*Fix dimensional teleporter work only with egg and plasma.
*Seismic prospector now ignores small ores.

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So, any chances for stable 5.09 release before new year? It could be a good gift for christmas

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Coal Steam boilers now do not work anymore with automation, so refueling and removal of ash must be done by hand.

Can Water still be piped in, or do we need to rely on Buckets now?

What about coal boilers accumulating clogged ashes, or perhaps the chimney could slowly fill up with dirtiness as time goes on, impacting efficiency exponentially ? I'm pretty sure you can still ask for golems to do the job for you as of right now, or even OC robots.
PaladinOne : water can still be piped in, and it will stay like this.

Edit : The high pressure coal boilers could rust over time, unless they're galvanized. I mean, it's pure steel, it's been forming inside a bronze blast furnace. Steel used to be resistant to oxidation when it was forged by hand the hard way, but the industrial way of producing it makes it not as resistant to oxidation as it used to be, now they add things into it to make it resistant.

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The solar boiler is slowly calcinating. Starts after 12h, after 24h it is down to 50% efficiency, 48h down to 25% efficiency. To clean/reset the calcination, the solar boiler must be picked up and placed down again. So some work by hand every 24h so they stay efficient.

Looking at the github commit for this, that does not look like what you did. What it looks like is, after 12h (10,000 ticks), Steam output decreases by 1L every 100 ticks, down to a minimum of 50L every 150 ticks (1/3 efficiency) after another 12h (10,000 ticks).

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Looking at the github commit for this, that does not look like what you did. What it looks like is, after 12h (10,000 ticks), Steam output decreases by 1L every 100 ticks, down to a minimum of 50L every 150 ticks (1/3 efficiency) after another 12h (10,000 ticks).

Since when are 12h 10.000 ticks? I thought 1second=20 ticks, so 12h=864.000 ticks

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Since when are 12h 10.000 ticks? I thought 1second=20 ticks, so 12h=864.000 ticks

Solar boiler processes steam every 25 tick, so these 10000 refer to these 25-tick intervals (might call them boiler ticks)

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Solar boiler processes steam every 25 tick, so these 10000 refer to these 25-tick intervals (might call them boiler ticks)

But still, 864.000 / 25 = 34.560

Blood Asp
Good day.
So what your plans about GTE? Will it be ported to the GT5?

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Since when are 12h 10.000 ticks? I thought 1second=20 ticks, so 12h=864.000 ticks

12 Minecraft hours, not 12 real hours. 10,000 ticks comes out to 8 minutes and 20 seconds

Also, now that I'm a little more awake, it seems that the statement of 12 hours is also inaccurate, because a Minecraft day is actually 20 minutes (24,000 ticks).

Double-also, I'm now looking at the code again, and I'm seeing that my original time was wrong by a factor of 25 (because the timer in question only increments once every 25 ticks, when the Boiler produces Steam). New analysis: Boiler output reductions set in after 12,500 seconds (208 minutes 20 seconds), and reach maximum strength after another 208 minutes 20 seconds.

However, this still is not in any way related to 12 hours Minecraft or 12 hours IRL; that's 10.4 Minecraft days / 3.47 hours IRL.

Also incidentally, this does not affect the High Pressure Coal Boiler, only the two Small boilers.

Something that sort of caught my eye is that uranite and pitchblende seem to have the wrong colors (if they are even a different element at all). I believe the name PITCHblende came from the fact that it was black.
Also, if you are going to add some boosts to the reactors, it would be super nice to have some extra processing options for radioactive materials, maybe slightly more realistic, a la reactorcraft for example, using hydrofluoric acid(or some other acid) > mix that with uranium > uranium hexafluoride > centrifuge that, into either usable or unusable isotopes (you could use those for different things). That might be a way to kinda... balance the reactor boost out again.

Is there any way to tell how calcified your solar boilers are?

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Something that sort of caught my eye is that uranite and pitchblende seem to have the wrong colors (if they are even a different element at all). I believe the name PITCHblende came from the fact that it was black.
Also, if you are going to add some boosts to the reactors, it would be super nice to have some extra processing options for radioactive materials, maybe slightly more realistic, a la reactorcraft for example, using hydrofluoric acid(or some other acid) > mix that with uranium > uranium hexafluoride > centrifuge that, into either usable or unusable isotopes (you could use those for different things). That might be a way to kinda... balance the reactor boost out again.

Pitchblende can be black or yellow, but in GT the black one is called uraninite and the yellow one pitchblende.

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Coal Steam boilers now do not work anymore with automation, so refueling and removal of ash must be done by hand. One stack coal coke lasts about 12 hours, so should be fine. The solar boiler is slowly calcinating. Starts after 12h, after 24h it is down to 50% efficiency, 48h down to 25% efficiency. To clean/reset the calcination, the solar boiler must be picked up and placed down again. So some work by hand every 24h so they stay efficient. Setup and forget setups tend to be spammed, so it is against that.

Personally, I don't think the answer should be forbidding the refueling of the small coal boilers in order to stop its spamming. From my point of view, the answer should be adding a diminishing return in the steam production until a fixed value, like diminish the steam production from 100% to 25%, the same as you added to the solar steam boilers. I mean, add a 'calcification' alike penalty from using normal water in that kind of boilers (solar and the small ones) and allowing the use of distilled water in order to bypass that penalty. It would also require a more 'complex way' of making distilled water than the current one, like returning less distilled water from normal water in the distillation tower or the equivalent machinery, like a 25% of loss, or something like that.

With that, people ought to use normal water with the penalty in mind until they have the infrastructure in order to bypass that. At that time of the game, people would be clever enough (or at least I think) to use petroil, the big steam boilers or equivalent methods for energy production instead of just spam everywhere that small boilers.

Or instead of putting what I've said above, put all of this nerf you've created in the config, so players could choose between using the nerf to solar and small coal boilers or not (I don't know if it's in the config because I haven't played Minecraft and GregTech since a while).

Something that is kinda... Problematic is that it's almost impossible to see which ores you can use in a chemical bath.
If you look up the recipes of the chembath, you will almost only see things like: arrows, firesteel stuff. Wouldn't it be a nice idea to, instead of having the ores bathed in the chembath, to have them bathed in the ore washing plant, with mercury/sodium persulphate instead? It would make more sense (seeing that it's an ore washing plant) and the recipes would be easier to find (since they wouldn't be hidden in a 1700 recipe pile, but "just" like... 100 recipes).

If this has been changed already, I am sorry. Our Beyond Reality server had some problems with the more recent version of GT/BR, so we had to roll back until version 2.3.4, which doesn't even have the new GT multiblocks. But our admin plans to try a new version again soon.

Urm why can't I craft scrap with a recycler in 5.08? Checked the configs not seeing exactly why and previously I was able to, I think preGT5u. Also am I missing something with gregtech as far as advancement goes? It takes forever to get a decent set-up and these new nerfs make it very hard to automate much. Does everyone play in creative and just cheat or is masochism a thing? Also looking for a decent server just so I can figure out what other folks use as set-ups.

Can solar boilers be moved with sticky pistons?

And suggestion:
Hard Water Test Strip. Checks calcination level in a machine.