I'm not a regular user of IRC anymore, but i could join for a talk. What is your normal online time there? I will also add short guides to the FTB wiki, once the machines are final, as it is the biggest and most up to date GT wiki.
Hmmmm, since its an official unofficial continuation... I'm not sure how to split up the official from the unofficial content.
I'll talk to the other peeps and figure something out.
Was there ever a GT version of the mining laser? (with different tiers and materials, like GT5 has for drills and chainsaws)
No.
Keep up the good work or else.
For those of you who want to balance the generators such that the ideal setup of 4 generators around a transformer is equal to a single generator of the next tier, here are some efficiencies I calculated.
Diesel/Gas: LV = 0.9000, MV = 0.84706, HV = 0.802139
Steam: LV = 0.66667, MV = 0.62745, HV = 0.60844
Ideal generator: LV = 1.0000, MV = 0.94118, HV = 0.91266
Sorry, I fail to see how that explains the logic behind the limitations. Those are some things I can do to work within (or does it count as around?) those limitations.
I tried using some Minetweaker scripts from https://github.com/Dream-Master/Mods-Get-Gregged in a new instance in MultiMC, and that didn't seem to fix either #2 or #3 from my list of inter-mod oddities, though maybe I did something wrong when setting them up. I saw a lot of Minetweaker errors, though, so I've attached the log file.
The logic behind the limitations is blame Greg. I'm only telling you how to deal with those limitations.
And of course those minetweaker scripts won't work, they reference a ton of items from mods you don't have installed. Instead of just dumping every single script in, you should pick only the recipes that apply to your set of mods.
One other inter-mod oddity I noticed but forgot to mention:
The GT scanner machine can scan Forestry bees, but seems to require fluid honey for that, which I'm not sure is actually obtainable by default (NEI showed me the fluid canning machine recipe for removing it from a cell or adding it to one, but not how to get the fluid honey in the first place).
Forestry changed the internal name of the honey fluid, thus GregTech's scanner is using the old name which is no longer obtainable.
Two problems with that explanation:
1. With Railcraft installed, the GT processing recipes for steel plates actually give Railcraft steel plates, not GT steel plates (I've got NEI integration's "show internal names" option active, so I can tell the difference).
2. Except for the steel tank valves and gauges, which only show recipes for dye-ing them, the devices I listed won't even show me a recipe in NEI (with fairly recent versions of NEI addons and NEI integration installed).
1. GT unificates the output of its own crafting recipes to Railcraft versions if possible by default.
2. That's because GT tries to overwrite the recipes so the old recipe gets removed, but fails at adding the new recipe due to internal name changes in Railcraft that GT didn't have a chance to update to.
Unless Greg is disabling those, they are all connected in that they need steel plates, that I presume isn't ore dictionaried.
Display MoreNow I've gotten to HV tier and have built an IC2 mining laser (though I haven't built HV machines beyond what I needed for that yet), I don't mind the redstone centrifuging so much or wading through NEI to try to find the fastest or most material-efficient way to craft different items, but I've come across some oddities I'd like to mention:
GregTech internal logic issues (maybe somebody can explain these, but at the moment, I don't see the logic behind these details):
1. It takes 10 times as much time and EU to smelt steel dust in an EBF compared to smelting wrought iron to get steel (setting aside the time it takes to prepare the wrought iron and oxygen)
2. It takes almost twice as long and more than twice as much EU to smelt one pile of aluminium dust in an EBF than to smelt three [green] sapphires or three rubies (which will provide enough nuggets for one ingot).
3. With my current set of mods, I can use an MV-tier fluid extractor to get liquid aluminium from 101 different items, and liquid steel from 239 different items, including ingots and plates, but not from the simple dusts (unless I turn off the blast furnace requirements in the config, which also allows me to smelt the dusts in a simple furnace as well, which I'm not certain is appropriate).
Wiki issue:
On the FTB Wiki GregTech 5 Mining and Processing page, near the bottom, it says:
I have to disagree. Even after making plenty of other electric machines, the forge hammer is still useful for the following:
1. Converting crushed ores to impure dusts (faster and lower EU cost than re-macerating the crushed ores)
2. Converting purified ores to purified dusts
3. Getting gems from gem ores (faster and lower EU cost than smelting the ore block, though I think it produces fewer gems per ore block than processing ore blocks to dusts and then autoclaving or implosion-compressing the dusts)
Inter-mod oddities (I presume some of these can be fixed via MineTweaker and/or ModTweaker, but it might be good if someone could edit the FTB wiki page on GregTech mod compatibility to mention them; I hesitate to do so myself):
1. In surface craters from AE2 meteorites, I sometimes find blocks that show as "gt.blockores.0.name" in Waila, and when I mine one, it drops vanilla iron ore. I've had vanilla ore generation disabled in the gregtech configs since the world was created.
2. Many Railcraft devices are apparently not craftable by default when GregTech 5 is installed: the steam oven, the engraving bench, the rock crusher, the feed station, steel tank valves/gauges (though strangely steel tank walls are still craftable), the boiler fireboxes, the void chest, and the metals chest.
3. Buildcraft and Forestry have their own recipes for a few types of gears, which in the early game are cheaper to craft than the GregTech equivalents, and no options in their configs for disabling those recipes.
1. You can electrolyze 50 steel dust to 50 iron dust fairly cheaply and then turn that into wrought iron to make steel again.
2. Uh-huh.
3. Yep. Dust forms are easily interchangeable and solid forms are easily interchangeable, but dust to solid requires the blast furnace. So avoid going back to dust whenever possible.
1. Cool.
2. Cool.
3. Cool.
1. That's due to the way AE2 spawns meteors. It unfortunately disregards tile entities while displacing blocks.
2. Railcraft changed the internal names of a lot of stuff recently and GT5 never had a chance to update to them before GT6 came along. You can fix them with minetweaker.
3. Minetweaker.
Time for some boiler info.
The old GT5 High Pressure Coal Boiler could produce 48,000 L of steam per charcoal.
The new GT6 Burning Box + Boiler can produce 80,000 L of steam per charcoal at max efficiency.
Thank you. Its a shame what wiki have no such info.
That's because until you asked I never cared enough to research that machine since I never used it myself 
What is energy consumption rate for multismelter?
The number of items processed at once is 6 * the coil level.
The time taken is 512 / 2^(tier - 1), so LV is tier 1 which means 512 ticks, MV is 256, HV is 128, and so on.
EU/t is 4 * (2^(tier - 1))^2 * coil so LV is 4, MV is 16, HV is 64, and so on, and multiplied by the coil level, so if you have coil level 1, LV is 4, level 2 is 8 and level 3 is 12.
Display MoreHow much steam is consumed in Steam Turbine?
How much of each liquid fuels … in Diesel Generator
Or more practically:
Ho much GT EU at generator output can I generate from 1L of fluid fuel:
steam
ethanol
diesel/RC fuel
nitro-diesel
hydrogen
CH4 methane, C2H6 ethane, C3H9 propane, C4H12 butane …
Why don't you check the wiki pages for those machines?
http://ftb.gamepedia.com/Gas_Turbine_%28GregTech%29
http://ftb.gamepedia.com/Diesel_Generator
http://ftb.gamepedia.com/Steam_Turbine_%28GregTech%29
GREG
This is not a suggestion. This is a demand.
Granite is on average 14% Alumina and 72% Silica
The Earth's crust is on average 16% Alumina and 60% Silica.
This means that you need to 1. Provide a way to break down stone dust into various components 2. Have different ratios for different kind of stone 3. Let us get our fucking aluminium from stone already 4. Let us get our silicon from stone as well 5. Disable stone -> sand 6. Let us create glass from purified silicon (although you can leave sand -> glass because we assume minecraft sand is quartz sand).
Next implement the Hall–Héroult process and let us create aluminium PROPERLY.
That means melting it and electrolyzing it to separate the oxygen from the alluminium, as well as letting us disolve Alumina in molten cryolite and also adding some Aluminium fluoride to lower the melting point to more reasonable points.
Once you have pure aluminium you don't need no blast furnace, just a hot enough regular furnace.
And you will do all this properly for GregTech 6, or I will bite you repeatedly with my bunny fangs and then force you to do it anyway.
I always clocked it in higher, but that sounds right when you factor in cable loss. Thanks bunny! *Hands his bunny to the bunny. Bunny^2*
Speaking of, I need to get more pics of MIPS
I further updated my post with rates for all the other machines as well.
Furnace is 4 EU/t for 128 ticks.
Microwave is 4 EU/t for 32 ticks.
Unboxing scrap boxes is 1 EU/t for 16 ticks.
Recycler is 1 EU/t for 45 ticks.
Compresser is 2 EU/t for 400 ticks.
Extractor is 2 EU/t for 400 ticks.
Thermal Centrifuge is 48 EU/t for 400 ticks.
Ore Washer uses 16 EU/t for 400 ticks.
Macerator is 2 EU/t for 800 ticks for railcraft recipes, and 400 ticks for IC2 recipes. Priority is GT pulverization > RC rock crusher > IC2 macerator.
Forming press is 8 EU/t for 128 ticks for naming things.
Printer is 2 EU/t for 256 ticks for dyeing 8 things from 1 dye, and 32 ticks for dyeing one thing at a time.
For slowness, instead of using the slowness potion effect, you should control the player's speed yourself so you can have very precise adjustments to it. That way every ounce of weight would matter rather than adding as much weight as possible without crossing the threshold to the next slowness tier which is just gaming the system.
Also totally add servo motor augmentations which assist in moving the legs of your armor to counteract the heavy weight and possibly even go faster than usual.
In fact, you could go beyond regular power armor and make mechs that you have to climb into and will give you amazing strength speed and firepower. Imagine climbing into a drill mech and tearing a massive tunnel through a mountain with minimal effort. Probably would need an internal nuclear reactor core to provide enough energy for that though.
For when you do add the jetpack here are some ideas.
1. Put the jetpack thrust control on a separate button. Having it on jump is really annoying.
2. Make thrust acceleration more realistic. Have it deliver a constant negative vertical acceleration with a short buildup when you first press the thrust button.
3. A way to configure the maximum thrust. Having high level jetpacks immediately shoot me to the moon is just silly.
4. Any sort of advanced behavior like hovering or automatically adjusting the thrust based on your weight should be handled via upgrades.
5. Make the fuel powered jetpack a much more viable and powerful jetpack. To get electric anywhere near as good should require significantly advanced tech and high density batteries.
(semi-serious):how many resources do you need to build every single machine in GT?(both "all and every" and "every type")
Assuming all resources are processed using the most efficient GT machine possible? Or starting from scratch and dealing with the early game losses and inefficiencies?
Uuuuh everything on the wiki says 'script error' in red text... c.c
When you're not signed in you will always see the stable versions of everything, and since there is currently a bug where Modules cannot be reviewed, that means the pages you see will always use an old broken version of the Modules.
An easy solution is to simply be logged in and you'll always see the latest version of any given page.
