Posts by willis936

Were any new ores or progression necessary worldgen added in 5.09.28-31? I migrated a base from .28 to .31 using the same seed but noticed that ores didn't spawn in the same locations and I had already spent hours finding good veins so I'm currently just playing in my .28 genned world. I'm not far enough along to see what implications this has for ores or oil. Will I have to migrate to a newly generated world?

Edit 1: To answer my own question: it does not seem like the default ore generation configuration has changed at all so no new ores were added. I haven't experimented with oil yet.

The issue of gallium being difficult to obtain pre HV remains valid though. The only source of it is small zinc ore. It would be nice if it could be rebalanced. Something like adding it as a rare earth byproduct seems reasonable. I'll probably do this myself with GTTweaker.

Edit 2: Hmm well I tested this and it does work if rare earth is not the ingredient (I used neutronium dust to test). However GTTweaker's centrifuge class does not have a method for recipe removal. The documentation says the machine classes do but the source code says otherwise.

import mods.gregtech.Centrifuge;

// gregtech:gt.metaitem.01:2891
val RareEarthDust      = <ore:dustRareEarth>;
// ore:dustSmallNeodynium
val NeodyniumSmallDust = <gregtech:gt.metaitem.01:1067>;
// ore:dustSmallYttrium
val YttriumSmallDust   = <gregtech:gt.metaitem.01:1045>;
// ore:dustSmallGallium
val GalliumSmallDust   = <gregtech:gt.metaitem.01:1037>;
// ore:dustSmallCerium
val CeriumSmallDust    = <gregtech:gt.metaitem.01:1065>;
// ore:dustSmallCadium
val CadiumSmallDust    = <gregtech:gt.metaitem.01:1055>;
// ore:dustSmallCaesium
val CaesiumSmallDust   = <gregtech:gt.metaitem.01:1062>;

// rebalance gallium
Centrifuge.addRecipe([
NeodyniumSmallDust, YttriumSmallDust, GalliumSmallDust,
CeriumSmallDust,    CadiumSmallDust,  CaesiumSmallDust],
null, RareEarthDust, null, null, [2500, 2500, 2500, 2500, 2500, 2500], 80, 20);

Edit 3: And the final hack to get this working is here.

Change config/Gregtech/Recipes.cfg line 16933

from

I:dustRareEarth_64=64

to

I:dustRareEarth_64=0

For reference the processing time was increased from 64 to 80. This is close multiplying by 6/5. This seems fair since a 6th output is being added. Also in case anyone has issue with Gallium not being classified as a rare earth metal: in real life I don't see europium being made exclusively from fusion as opposed to rare earth processing. I also don't see pockets of plutonium in our perfectly flat crust. From a balance standpoint this makes sense since the best source of rare earth is monazite. That only takes a single MV machine to process so it’s easy to move into it. If you don’t have small ores enabled you can still get first gallium from thermal centrifuging many ores.

Finally a better change would to make it a bauxite mix byproduct since that is where we get it from in reality and a player will be processing aluminium ore when they’ll be needing gallium.

I (and I'm sure others have before and after me) posted in this thread with the realization that adding mods with fluids messes up the forge fluid registry. I also (somewhere in this thread 2 years ago) posted a fix using nbtedit.

I made a fresh world recently and noticed a fluid (oxygen I think) with no texture. In the past this was from a registry conflict (gregtech and galacticraft). Since this is a new world the fix I used in the past doesn't work (just deleting the fluid registry and letting it be rebuilt).

I haven't done further investigation yet.

Also if it is easy to say: What was the rare fusion reactor bug fixed in 5.09.27?

I found two in a single jungle in a recent world. I nerfed it by making the LuV transformer require a europium plate

Even pockets of molten plutonium?

afaik any GT5 generator will put out 1A at a fixed voltage every tick. If the fuel supply is not steady it may not put out that 1A every tick and may be eratic. Adding generators together results in adding amps. You can overvolt or overcurrent wires. You can overvolt machines. You cannot over current machines. Battery buffers are good for controlling available current to sets of machines. With two generators and three batteries in a battery buffer you could run three machines for a short period of time. Trying that without the battery buffer would result in at least one of the machines choking. Also the thermal centrifuge pulls 2A. I'm not sure what other blocks do.

To answer how it's possible to make a crop and rubber farm with opencomputers: the geolyzer can see adjacent block metadata. OC is really quite a powerful mod.

I always play with forgeessentials running that keeps hourly backups for a day, daily backups for a week, and weekly backups for 2 months.

I also prefer keeping bases chunkloaded to avoid issues like that. It's also fun to design systems that survive unattended steady state operation. Multiblocks should never cross chunk boundaries regardless of how clever the dev is.

Well he did. I'll take a look at the code tomorrow.

Also the only type of tree worth farming is spruce.

Well on my last server my partner made a fully functional tree farm, vanilla crop farm, and rubber farm using them. A charcoal pit matron wouldn't be hard since the only blocks you'd see are wood, dirt, brick, and the igniter. You can have it compare adjacent placed blocks with blocks in the inventory to identify surroundings. Figuring out a pathing algorithm is where most of the fun is.

I love suggesting opencomputers. I removed all tree farms from my mod pack. As balancing I made computer stuff slightly cheaper with the idea that the time investment to obtain powerful solutions is there but it's spent designing rather than obtaining materials and crafting.

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Hmm, is it normal that 3 Large Gas Turbine do not burn out a basic Platinum Cable? (2A - 8192V)

How much power are you getting out of the turbines? If you have 3 IV dynamo hatches you aren't necessarily sending an amp from each dynamo hatch every tick. There's some randomness there and you may or may not ever have a tick where all three output an amp at the same time. I would wire it such that two of them are on a 2x cable and the third is on a separate 1x or you combine it and go to 4x.

Make what needs making next. You'll need an extractor to make any LV machines and I think a compressor. I made a hammer to save on materials.

Not a waste. It can be used in crafting and saves some bronze.

I noticed lead wrenches couldn't break even a charcoal pile igniter. Bronze wrenches are necessary investments in the early game.

As an intermediate step you can use IC2 liquid heat exhangers and stirling generators to get the benefits of fluid mode without having to make a large scale setup.

edit: It'd be helpful if I read posts before posting. :p

On fission: it's my understanding that this is unchanged and just IC2 nuclear power. The biggest recent change I can think of is the fluid mode that increases EU output per heat unit by (I think) 50%. It costs more and is more realistic but is worth it for a long term setup. GT adds the Large Heat Exchanger (LHE) which is a titanium multiblock that gives you a ton of steam for the heat units and is the best way to get EU out of your radioactive materials.

There's been a lot of changes over time to this so whatever you find make sure it says it's for the experimental branch if IC2 (which has been where new releases have been coming out of).

http://wiki.industrial-craft.n…php?title=Nuclear_Reactor

I assume you mean the mechanics and design methodology for placing the components in the reactor. You can try an existing design you can find on youtube ir something but imo it's best to understand all of the components and experiment in creative mode.

Something I've been curious about for a while is thaumcraft gregtech oregen. Of all the mods I play with thaumcraft is the only ine that isn't handled in entirety (I think) by gregtech. Amber ore gets generated but the elemental shards don't. Those are the only non GT oregen I leave in. I saw that there's an ore in the config for it but I don't think I got it to work. Has anyone gotten this to work?

Quote from Gus_Smedstad

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Shutters every segment will have the same effect as pumps every segment, or pumps every other segment. Pumps are never faster than shutters every segment. A pipe with one-way shutters every segment will move fluid at the pipe's rated capacity, or the supply rate, whichever is less. Pumps don't change that.

Not that you really need either one, except perhaps at the start of the pipe to avoid the overflow-via-slosh case you mentioned. As the amount of fluid you're moving approaches the pipe capacity, the actual flow rate will approach the pipe's maximum rating, even without shutters or pumps.

The value of pumps as covers is not to improve fluid flow, but to extract fluid that can't otherwise be extracted. For example, if a machine produces both items and fluid, and only has one output side, you must use either a conveyor or a pump to remove the other output. Pumps can also extract fluid from a generator, if you want to move the generator and don't want to lose the contents.

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This contradicts experiments I did a few years ago. I could not reach a pipe's rated throughput, even when it was a single pipe block, without using 1 shutter per pipe block.

Also I believe in a partially filled series of pipes each pipe does not transfer the entirety of their contents to adjacent pipes. Pumps can be used to force a high rate with little fluid.

Pumps do increase the flow rate when the pipe internal tanks aren't full. They're not a useless cover. In a system where output hatches void because of full pipes then yes shutters are enough.

It's not the pipe blocks that void fluid. Output hatches do though. I think I ran into it when there was the sloshing on a near full set of pipes and every once in a while the fluid in the output hatch wouldn't have any place to go.