Suggetion: Tar

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    Make Cool Roads Using Tar
    Crafting Recipe:
    You need Stone dust: Grinding Stone in Maceraters
    [code=c] s[code=c]
    [] [w] [] = [T]
    [code=c]s [code=c]
    Key
    c= Coal Dust
    s= Stone Dust
    w= Water Bucket
    T= Tar Bucket
    []= nothing
    This is like concrete in Better than Wolves Mod.
    It will expand and cool down into blacktop.
    However it won't sound like ghasts.
    It will expand for 30 seconds then solidify.
    During those 30 seconds the tar can burn you if you touch it.
    Though if you apply redstone to the source block of where you poured it it will stay in "wet" state
    Thanks for the amazing mod Alblaka.

    We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

    Quote from Alblaka

    Now, admittedly i wanted to eventually copy scaffolding & cement from MeC, as it gained wide approval ^^'
    Will think about how to properly implement this.

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    We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

    Have it require Gravel instead then... and add a black 'tar' block to the list of IC2 blocks so that it 'freezes' into this block, instead of just smooth stone...


    Or allow smooth stone to be 'dyed' with rubber to create Tar Block...


    where:
    _|r
    _|S


    r = rubber
    S = Smooth stone


    Edit: Better yet, let the recipe use rubber instead of coal, so that it becomes


    r|g|r
    _|w|_
    r|g|r


    r = rubber
    g = gravel
    w = water bucket

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    this isn't about arrogance or ego, I have a block that I put a lot of freaking work into


    Every Mod Author, in existence. And yet, you STILL say otherwise.

    Okay so what you're basically suggesting is asphalt concrete or, through common use, asphalt or blacktop. Real world asphalt concrete requires aggregate and some sort of tar product. As far as nomenclature is concerned there are many names for these products and they don't fall under a specific word, but what they have in common is that they are all highly viscous polymerized carbon molecules produced by heating carbonaceous material in the absence of oxygen. This can be done in the earth (petroleum and coal deposits buried in rock) or by heating biomass in and enclosed vessel.


    Now as far as Industrialcraft is concerned, we have a short list of things that can produce this kind of material.


    Coal
    Charcoal
    Wood
    Rubber tree wood
    Rubber


    Now currently, putting regular wood and rubber tree wood in a furnace produces charcoal and regular wood respectively. I don't think that should change. Currently there is little use for charcoal other than making torches, and saving your coal for more important things like diamonds. Perhaps combining it with rubber or resin to produce some sort of polymer matrix and compressing or extracting it could make something akin to tar, or just putting wood in a compressor could produce it, assuming the compressor compresses AND heats objects in it.


    Coal tar is made by heating coal in a closed vessel until certain hydrocarbons evaporate out of it, then are distilled in a way similar to petroleum products. Perhaps putting coal in a furnace top (heating coal up not burning it outright) could produce tar as well.


    The bulk of concrete asphalt is aggregate. So crafting it should take 1 tar vs a bulk of gravel, and since we need to pour it, a bucket.


    So something like this:
    G:Gravel T:Tar B:Bucket


    GGG
    GTG
    GBG