[Suggestion] More uses for Gold, Silver and Bronze

GregoriusT · Mar 11th 2012

I think everyone knows that Gold, Silver and Bronze are not really used by most of the Players, here are some examples:

Bronze: Crafting of Advanced Alloy and no other good use, except you have Forestry-Mod.
Silver: Only Glassfibrecables and for actually nearby useless RP-Stuff.
Gold: Nothing except decoration or golden Apples.

Yes, there are Armors and Tools but with Nanosuit, Quantumsuit and Electric Tools they are useless.

I suggest some minor changes and additions to make them a bit more usefull:

Bronzeusage in the Pistonrecipe.
Silver instead of Redstone for doubling the output of the normal Circuitrecipe (like with Glassfibrecables).
Silver and Gold instead of Refined Iron for ICredits.
Gold used in the recipe of Advanced Circuits.

With these minor changes are these Materials more used as before.

Something more timeconsuming would be a Bronzemachineblock.
With it you can craft, less fast working, Bronzemachines to safe your Iron. It's only possible to craft basic machines with Bronze, like: Macerator, Canningmachine, Extractor, Compressor, Recycler (crafted out of Bronzecompressor) and the electric Furnace. These machines are not upgradeable and therefor they are having no slots for Upgrades. You can also craft a Generator out of Bronze, which is only upgradeable to one Watergenerator or a less stable Bronze-Windgenerator, which breaks faster.

So, that was another Suggestion by me.

pablovansnogger · Mar 11th 2012

silver is not part of ic^2.

you dont find bronze you craft it so i do not see a problem.

gold does need more uses because right now it is completly usless and people might say make glowstone but why would i do that when mining lazer(exposive) gets me far more and id proably run out of redstone for synthitic.

daytrader · Mar 12th 2012

Bronze is very useful. Bronze can make rail tracks:

http://wiki.industrial-craft.net/index.php?title=Bronze

Gold can make gold cable, which I find extremely useful.

Silver not so much. I think you're right about that. Silver needs a new use.

FenixR · Mar 12th 2012

Silver recipe for glass fiber was just added as a test of the minecraft forge dictionary and al said to heck with it and left it after the testing.

Silver DOESNT naturally spawn with IC2 and i doubt it will ever spawn.

raa1337 · Mar 12th 2012

Gold, replacing Refined Iron, in the circuit recipe as an alternative would be nice.

kazerima · Mar 12th 2012

You do know Gold is used in powered rails right?

GregoriusT · Mar 12th 2012

Oh yes, i forgot Railtracks, but if the Tin->Ironconversion-Cheat is not disabled (not everyone disables Tinbucketrecipe in Config) then is Tin converted to Iron much better then Tin converted to Bronze, because that costs additioal Copper unlike Tin->Ironconversion. I'm not often using Railtracks because the Quantumsuitpants are much faster, except you are using Railcrafts Highspeedrails.

Gold (and/or Silver, or Silver as a possible replacement for Gold) would replace 2 of the Redstone in the advanced Circuits, to give it a bit more uses.

I know, Silver doesn't belongs to IC², but i thought, if it's used in Glassfibrecables, it could also be used in Circuits.

Snoochy · Mar 12th 2012

honostly i think gold cable should be alot better, gold is the most conductive metal on earth with a really high tolerance and is far more effective then that is silver and copper, we just don;t use it as such due to it's rarity, typically we only use it these days for Nano-Cuircut boards. so maybe if we go with the Nano-labratory idea then we could use gold for those. also at the moment gold has plenty of uses, specially if a player is using Buildcraft, since it's used for the only decent Conductive Pipe and used alot in long distance transport lines, so i think using Gold in the Cuircuts is a bad idea, specially for something that is such a high demand item. maybe if you add the next Tier of machines mentioned in a previous thread in regards to making a "Quantum Machine Block" then maybe make the next level of "Nano-Cuircuts" require gold ingots.

pablovansnogger · Mar 12th 2012

we are trying to balance this mod not this mod with others.....

Snoochy · Mar 12th 2012

Quote from pablovansnogger

we are trying to balance this mod not this mod with others.....

ok well even so, Gold Mine tracks, use a significant amount. as do gold cables and making Glowstone

mijnboogje · Mar 12th 2012

agreed, some more uses would be useful but since it can be used to craft glowstone dust... its an bit wel... useles i gues?

wel, more uses would be great. im sure al is working on it

Snoochy · Mar 13th 2012

Quote from mijnboogje

agreed, some more uses would be useful but since it can be used to craft glowstone dust... its an bit wel... useles i gues?

wel, more uses would be great. im sure al is working on it

i actually use most of my gold for glowstone and gold tracks, most of it for glowstone since there isn't a UUM recipe for it and i've already used a mining laser to collect almost all the glowstone in a 1,500 by 1,500 block area in the nether

pablovansnogger · Mar 13th 2012

Quote from Snoochy

i actually use most of my gold for glowstone and gold tracks, most of it for glowstone since there isn't a UUM recipe for it and i've already used a mining laser to collect almost all the glowstone in a 1,500 by 1,500 block area in the nether

how much glowstone you need?

passinglurker · Mar 13th 2012

XUX
UXU
UUU

glowstone recipe

X=empty
U=uum

sky_demon · Mar 13th 2012

ya thats nice. advanced circuits should use gold dust, not glowstone dusts. but no one would implement this idea into the mod because you would give almost no reason to go to nether

RichardG · Mar 13th 2012

Silver dust was a test run for Ore Dictionary, we just kept it due to popular demand.

I've been looking into mods which give more uses for gold like Steve's Carts, but after playing it myself I was convinced it's a GOLD SINK.

MagusUnion · Mar 13th 2012

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Silver and Gold instead of Refined Iron for ICredits.
Gold used in the recipe of Advanced Circuits.

I'd support these changes actually.. no real use for the credit system if it actually wastes more materials than it trades around...

Ranakastrasz · Mar 13th 2012

Actually, The credit system really only works if you disable crafting them, and have a bunch distributed to all players, and possibly a few more every so often.

passinglurker · Mar 14th 2012

coal fired bronzedrill. the mining equivalent to the iron furnace (of course you will need a macerating equivalent to the iron furnace cause bronze can only be made from dust)

Ranakastrasz · Mar 14th 2012

I still have no idea why bronze tools are in the mod.

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