[Suggestion] Macerating Glowstone Blocks

  • It isn't required per se, but it takes 8x as much energy without it. Again, it's easier to turn "raw" matter into something else than it is to create it from pure energy, though both are scientifically possible.

  • Well, theoretically at least.
    Turning matter into energy is easy - we do it every time we burn something (though the return is poor and there's a lot of waste). Nuclear power is about the most efficient return we've gotten on this, but it still does not yield a 100% return.

    As for turning energy into matter - it's been done in labs, but the amount of matter is minute, and the energy required is again far more than the return. Scientists have also been able to transform some elements into others, again at a very lossy cost in energy.

    But theoretically, yes - matter can be turned into energy and vice versa.

  • This is now in the next version, you will be able to macerate 1 glowstone block into 4 dust.

    Lesson 1: Watch over your crops....

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    In my world, I downloaded the new IC2 version, got up a whole bunch of crossbreeders going, and thought to myself "This is going to take a while. Wasn't there an abandoned mineshaft not far from my workshop?" So I get my tools together, charge into the mineshaft, suffer many close shaves, stayed a bit longer than is probably healthy, but emerge from the experience all the wiser (literally, I gained several levels), and with oodles of melon and pumpkins seeds to boot.

    And come home to find out that weeds have destroyed my entire farm. :cursing: