[Spoiler]Superfuel

I don't now · Mar 3rd 2012

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.

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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!

pablovansnogger · Mar 3rd 2012

you can put dust into a fuel? cool!

Rick · Mar 3rd 2012

Didnt even know you could put dust in fuelcan.

sirbrandino · Mar 4th 2012

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?)

I don't now · Mar 4th 2012

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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.

sirbrandino · Mar 4th 2012

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

I don't now · Mar 4th 2012

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

Alblaka · Mar 4th 2012

Unburnable in Generator : Bug related to me missusing shorts.

"Too good" fuel will exceede its limit and turn into negative values.

RichardG · Mar 5th 2012

Ahead of you Al, I migrated fuel cans to NBT and the fuel value to an int.

Users: your old (metadata) cans will still be burnable, but new ones will use NBT

Irontygre · Mar 6th 2012

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:

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

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dambalon · Mar 11th 2012

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

Snoochy · Mar 21st 2012

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sweet. time to expand my storage and build a mob grinder + ...?...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?

sirbrandino · Mar 21st 2012

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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?

dude2976 · Mar 22nd 2012

i have finally found a use for all this dam coal lying around * looks at the piles of coal angrily*

Rick · Mar 22nd 2012

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i have finally found a use for all this dam coal lying around * looks at the piles of coal angrily*

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

ff255away · Mar 23rd 2012

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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.

quantumleaf7895 · Mar 24th 2012

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:

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passinglurker · Mar 25th 2012

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

Rick · Mar 29th 2012

I just see coal as a extra source of diamonds.

MagusUnion · Mar 30th 2012

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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...

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