How to make energy crystal in the experimental build(257)?
surrounding a diamond with redstone isn't the path 
Energy cristals
- techmago
- Closed
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Do you have GregTech installed? If you do the diamond energy crystal recipe is disable, and you must use the ruby recipe, the same is true for lapotron crystals in that you have to use sapphires.
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Have you tried actually making it in a crafting table? If not, are you sure you have installed it correctly? Can you craft everything else?
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Recipe recently changed from diamond surrounded by redstone. Now you have to craft energium dust like this:
Code[R ] [DD] [R ] [DD] [R ] [DD] [R ] [DD] [R ] R - Redstone DD - Diamond Dust (macerated diamond)and then compress it to Energy Crystal.
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Thus, one energy crystal costs 4 diamonds now instead of one? Looks like one piece of glassfiber cable costs one full diamond now as well.
I am not sure if i like the path this goes, even considering that power storage got boosted and glass cables are not that important anymore.
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diamond to diamond dust shoud convert 1 to 4 not 1 to 1, maybe devs will fix this one day...
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RawCode, the Energy Dust Recipe would just need to output 4 Dusts instead of 1. Diamond->Diamond Dust is a 1->1 Operation, because of the OreDictionary.
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Besides, since the actual Energy crystal/lapatron storage capacity + the storage blocks got buffed, its a given that the recipe should be nerfed.
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Besides, since the actual Energy crystal/lapatron storage capacity + the storage blocks got buffed, its a given that the recipe should be nerfed.
Like said, i am fully aware of that. Still this "balancing" boost the requirements for a MFE to 16 Diamonds, which is quite a lot for tier 3, while tier 4 comes pretty cheap. And glass cables became the most expensive power cables in all mods, even beating diamond pipes from BC nobody ever uses.
I would suggest lesser diamonds for energium dust, but more for lapotron crystals.
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uhhm, Tier 4 REQUIRES an MFE and is therefor definetly more expensive.
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40 diamonds for an mfsu really isn't much... Go mining for like an hour or two, especially with a fortune pick.
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game shoud not force you to mine for a hour just to reach t4.
also luck enchant long to get, it require mobfarm, cow farm, reed farm and 11 diamonds by itself.
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Yes, it should (besides, 1 hour is only 3 in game days) ;p T4 Is end game, so of course it should take a large amount of time to get there. Besides, if you want diamonds, just set up a few miners. With the Advanced scanner, they tend to get around 4 diamonds per run.
The Fortune enchant can be a pain to get if you are unlucky, but go out at night with a good sword, slay a bunch of mobs and you are level 30. Enchant, and you may be lucky enough to get one.
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RawCode, you just admitted that mining enough Diamonds to get to Tier 4 needs only one Hour. One Hour is not much, as in, it's almost nothing. I don't always play Minecraft, but when I do, I play far longer than just one Hour.
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40 diamonds for 40 million EU is a diamond per million EU. Seems legit to me
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40 diamonds for 40 million EU is a diamond per million EU. Seems legit to me
IC2_lf had 1 diamond = 1 lapotron crystal = 1 million EU. -
IC2_lf had 1 diamond = 1 lapotron crystal = 1 million EU.
The Energy storage got buffed, so 1 diamonds = .25 million in energy crystal, in lapotron, it would be 1 diamond = 2.5 Million -
when you play minecraft you can run around for multiple hours without issue, but, forcing player to do specific task is not good game design, currently you can't advance tier by killing mobs or just building, you forced to mine diamonds at bedrock level...
miners are not fun, basically there is no fun in building ic2 specific stuff without something like assembly bench (especially if unstackable items involved), since most recipes take multiple boring steps to complete (and hurge amount of mouse clicks), probably i will compile addon that will allow to assemble ic2 items directly by consuming ingots without need to actually "craft" anything by hand. (like crafting coil will cost 2 copper and 1 iron directly, without converting copper into wires first)
some alternative ore\drop\something\low tier massfab\crystalizer tech\something that can be used to get some diamonds and other stuff without leaving your base will be good addition (but this belong more to addons than to vanilla).
iridium also notable sample of bad design, i looted 5 nether fortresses and got no sample, this boring and frustrating (especially if you dont want to cheat), i cannot be forced, soo i just abandoned entire iridium part of gameplay.
i checked few mmorpg's with donate system, IC2e very close to such games, artifical limits, that can be lifted for real money...
