Posts by PaladinOne

[Steam] Machines, if insufficiently powered, will continue to operate and waste energy, until they are turned off by right-click with a Soft Hammer. (a Wooden Hammer works)
As for continuing to drain Steam when inactive, [Steam] Machines contain an internal energy buffer that they will fill when inactive. So it's not using energy when inactive, it's refilling its internal buffer for use when you turn it on again.

As for the steam GUIs, they use a clone of the standard machine GUI so there's a few unused slots hidden at the bottom of them (no visible slots show, but if you mouse over, they exist). As for the Steam Boilers, red bar = heat, blue bar = water, grey bar= steam; one set of inventory slots for Water input, one slot for Fuel, one slot for [Dark] Ashes output.

Steam Machines do not store "Steam" internally; when Steam is pushed into them it is cut in half and converted to stored energy. I don't know how that shows up on an energy scanner panel.

If you're going to just drop Railcraft Admin Anchors, you might consider using FTB Utilities in stead, which handles chunk loading through an ingame GUI. No blocks or anything like that, just open the map, click a chunk to claim it, and shift+click (or ctrl+click?) to keep it loaded. Also makes it easy to tell exactly what chunks you have loaded.

Bring a Barrel.

... Or a room full of Barrels.

METALS!

TLDR relevant point: GregTech 5 (and 6) Ores generate semi-rarely, but when you find them you find about 1000-4000 blocks of ore in once place.

Whereas we have NBT-defined items of 50 different shapes, and a total of, what, 5 block IDs?

Something something efficiency and planning...

Quote from robijnvogel

Is this a cheat-prevention option of Gregtech?
Is there any estimation of how much all these ores hiding their true nature slow down the game?

It's not actually a cheat-prevention system by design, nor does it slow down the game at all. It was actually designed as a bandwidth-saving system, because all GregTech ore blocks are actually non-ticking TileEntities, and so to save on packets, while the server knows what ore blocks are, clients don't find out what a GT ore block is until it becomes visible to the world.

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OS: Windows 8.1 (amd64) version 6.3

Well There's Your Problem [/s]

The errors about Thermal Expansion and Thaumcraft are just other mods looking for the Thaumcraft API and finding the mod not present. Those can probably be ignored.

As for why the world hangs... How much RAM are you giving Minecraft? I never got Resurrection to load on less than 3GB... and I don't think Resurrection ever really worked right anyway.

Another idea: Do you still have Railcraft installed? If so, try this: Open the Railcraft .jar file, and delete the thaumcraft folder from it. Because that might be doing something it's not supposed to, particularly because you don't have Thaumcraft actually installed.

Energy Hatches do matter; their voltages are added together (so LV+MV = 160EU/t > 128EU/t = machine thinks it's HV tier = most recipes won't work because you can't give it enough power from those 2 hatches)

However, for everything except Energy or Dynamo hatches, the level of casing used to make them only determines the number of item slots or fluid capacity, and mixing different ones doesn't matter.

Quote from Bjarne_1

Which page in the thaumonomicon are they on though? I'm having trouble finding them..

I believe it's hidden at the bottom of Artifice; you need a bit of research to unlock them though.

Quote from Avaritia Description

Do you love GregTech, but wish it weren't so short?

Quote from MauveCloud

True, and that's only considering vanilla Minecraft. Even ignoring backpack-type mods, with GT5u, it's theoretically possible to push that even further by making him carry 36x64 cubic meters of neutronium (though ofc it would take absurdly long to produce that much in survival...), and AE2 allows one to make singularities, which might qualify as a type of black hole.

And then there's the items within Avaritia...

Well, Steve? has already demonstrated that he can walk around with roughly the same density as a black hole [carry 36x64 m^3 gold in a 2x1 meter space], so what's to stop us from gaining energy from high-mass fusion?

Quote from Muramasa

IIRC, things such as the cofh clearblocks commands wont update the GT ore blocks properly which is why they don't have their assigned texture or localized name.

GT Ore Blocks are very simple non-ticking TileEntities that don't actually know what Ore they contain until they are block updated (i.e. made visible by mining the adjacent block) or generate with at least one uncovered side. Console commands like that wouldn't trigger those visibility updates. However, given that you're finding Palladium/Platinum there, that's a Sheldonite vein, not a Naquadah vein, so you'll need to look around some more.

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Naquadah ore should be enabled to spawn, but ore mixes have a weight so veins like Naquadah which can only spawn on the end island(I think?), might not necessarily spawn. It's intended that your main source of Naquadah should be from Fusion.

-However, if you have Naquadah Ore generation enabled, it is reasonable to expect to get a haul of it at some point. The difficulty with finding any ores in The End is that the main island is finite size, and Asteroids aren't all that common. It's perfectly legit to find Naq. in asteroids though, if the Asteroids generate at the right altitude. (It's not restricted to the island, it's just dimension and height restricted as with other ores.) Getting Naq. from Fusion is the intended source if you have generation disabled, but if you choose to have it you should have it.

Quote from Madotsuki

Blood, are going to make natural PFFA oils distillation compatible?

Aren't they already? Pretty sure that's what the Light/Heavy Oil recipes are for, and there's another recipe somewhere that turns PFAA Natural Gas into GT Methane

Unless you're talking about for the Distillation Tower?

Tbh + will probably always be the most efficient way to find GT ore veins...

Quote from Cocolumbo

Have fun in your new world then ;)You might find it helpful to mark every vein you come accroos on your map...
I cant count how many times I needed one specific mineral and couldnt find the vein again ';(

Ohhhyeah. Bring a minimap mod, and Waypoint every ore vein you find. You'll want to go back to them at some point when you need that one random material... or when you need your next stack of Iron Ore. or Tin

• Tech Reborn is functionally GregTech 2 / GregTech 3, re-created for 1.7.10 (and made natively RF-compatible...), so if you liked the days of 1.4.7 FTB Ultimate that's the mod to bring it back. (No Steam/Bronze age though, that was GT4.)
• [UNLESS BLOOD ASP HAS REWRITTEN IT this is what I knew from GT4]The Advanced Pump is really weird for one specific reason: it does not trigger Block Updates. And therefore, while it may be operating and may output fluid, you will not visually see any fluids removed from the world unless you re-load the chunk.
  Which will mess with your head.

Quote from walkerjonny

Well, now you just need to extend it with a auto crafting table that crafts something not blacklisted and you have the same automation again...
Not really a solution to that issue.

All pure Cobblestone (and Sand, and Gravel) derivatives are also blacklisted. No good.

Pretty sure there's some NEI addon that lets you see the Recycler Blacklist (via the developer lists display; hit L while in inventory)

Quote from HumpheryJAN

Ok thanks a lot I fixed the problem after installing Forestry 4 and gregtech 5.09.21

I feel like this should be put in the main post somewhere; GT 5.08 requires Forestry 3; GT 5.09 requires Forestry 4 (or requires manually disabling compatibility for Forestry 3)