[Spoiler]Superfuel

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    Did you ever wonder what happened to the "secret" superfuel from IC? Well, I did. Developers of IC² already mentioned "adulterated fuel". Alblaka stated that you could put other things than Fuelcells into Fuelcans with the canning machine. Well, I did some experiments to find out more about it. To not ruin your fun about finding out things about superfuel, I'll put the stuff I found out in spoilers.


    Please excuse and tell me any mistakes you find here, I will correct them. Please tell me if this was posted already, I didn't find something like this by searching.
    Thanks for reading!

    The forum won't let me specify my gender accurately, so I'll just use my signature to say that I go by they/them pronouns.

    you can put dust into a fuel? cool!

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    Mmm, I had discovered this a while back, just by putting in a coal fuel cell in the canner then just tossing in all the dusts I could think of. I found that using the ingredients from IC1 super fuel worked quite nicely. However, I could not burn it in a generator (has something to do with it not being in NBT tags?)

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    Quote from sirbrandino

    However, I could not burn it in a generator

    That's strange... I had no problems with burning it. By the way, could you use other dusts than the IC1-superfuel-dusts? At the moment I can't test it.

    The forum won't let me specify my gender accurately, so I'll just use my signature to say that I go by they/them pronouns.

    AFAIK, only redstone, gunpowder, and glowstone work. However, I haven't tried coal dust.

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    It doesn't work. I tried the metal dusts, coal dust, hydrated coal dust, scrap, UUM and a few vanilla dusts.

    The forum won't let me specify my gender accurately, so I'll just use my signature to say that I go by they/them pronouns.

    I did a bit of research and reverse engineered the fuel recipe formula after burning a forest worth of saplings and killing a small nation worth of creepers (etc.).


    The TL;DR Ultimate Fuels List:



    For those of you who want to know the exact formula:


    sweet. time to expand my storage and build a mob grinder MinecraftCreeper + :Coal Cell: ...?...profit!

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    Quote from dambalon

    sweet. time to expand my storage and build a mob grinder MinecraftCreeper + :Coal Cell: ...?...profit!


    acording to the IC2 Wiki, the best superfuel recipe will give 120,000EUs, i have yet to discover this, have you happened to find it?

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    Quote from Snoochy

    acording to the IC2 Wiki, the best superfuel recipe will give 120,000EUs, i have yet to discover this, have you happened to find it?


    Old Ic1 information still in the wiki?

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    Quote from Rick

    Ehm there always was a use for coal be it in generators or making diamonds with them.

    It always felt like a waste just burning it once nuclear energy became available, and turning it into diamonds really, really eats away at your coal reserves. Mine is usually turned into carbon plates, or left as coal until needed for another project. Having the super fuel makes it a very viable fuel source right up until you have multiple mkII generators constantly running.

    So what, now to maximize my EU yield I have to mix gunpowder with the coalfuel? That's going to make my automatic Coal Fuel plant a heck of a lot more complicated. To the lab!


    Edit: My gut instinct about the two flavors of 'optimum' superfuel is that:

    i don't like deep mining all my coal goes to diamonds if i can help it

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    Quote from Rick

    I just see coal as a extra source of diamonds.

    I see Coal as my ONLY source of Diamonds until I get to end game... and even then, the coal is still cheaper to farm...

    Would anyone like to try a Slowpoke Tail?! Only 1 Million Yen!


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